The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-12

lIsO~ -. IdOSTNdCiSy everybody
Dr.. Scoville.
500 p. m. TabernacIe, men only, Dr.
Scoviiie, subject, "Booze."
500 p. m. Westminster Presbyterian
church, women only, DR..
UIlom.
7:15 p. m. Tabernacle, everybody, Dr..
SooviIIe.
At o'clock this afternoon Evange.
list Charles Reign Scoville will deliver
to men only the sermon which has
done more. perhaps. to make him fam.
GUS than any other sermon he breaches.
The subject is Booze" .....
Scoyfile has held campaigns in some
Of the "wettest" cities in America He
has fayed the saloon and denounced
liquor and the liquor traffic In cities
when he brought down the wrath OF
the liquor dealers upon his head so
forcibly that 1t was necessary to furn-
tsll him police protection.
He has seen many a city go dry" as
. result of this sermon-preached
many times to men and women alike
I'm not going to preach for votes
here tomorrow" he said last night.
Il don't need to. am going to preach
tor SOULS"
Hundreds From Other Towns.
Hundreds OF men from surrounding
towns are expected to be here for tho
address. Window cards announcing
the service have been spread abroad,
both in Keokuk and in towns along tho
Illinois side Of the river.
Numerous requests are pouring in to
the Scoville home for the revivalist to
deliver his discourse against liquor in
1aUoro1 Illinois hof in, "a
throes of local option fights just now.
Among the towns after him are War
saw, Hamilton and Nauvoo.
This morning the Sunday schools
will attend the services in delegations.
Tonight the evangelist will preach to
everybody.
A band will play on the street this
afternoon just before the tabernacle
mems service begins. The musicians,
according to present plans, will march
out Main street to the worship shed
and assist Mr.. Stewart and the male
chorus in the song service.
A feature Of the preliminary services
will be Mrs. Scoville's temperance
solos and duet by the evangelist's
wife and Mr.. Stewart.
seo~itie III Friday Night.
Despite the fact that he was suf-
fering severely from a slight case Of
Dtomaine poisoning which had attack
cd him two hours before at the dinner
table, Evangelist scoville Friday night
held the attention OF more than 5000
persons with his sermon on THE I'm
pardonable Sim. Sixty-nine persons
hit the trail at the close Of the dis
course.
Scovfl1e was SO dfSSy that he could
hardly stand as he faced the crowd to
begin his address. He explained that
he had eaten something at dinner
which had not agreed with him and
that he might have to turn the service
over to his assistant before he had
finished. He went through the service,
however, preaching with remarkable
energy. although his face was pale and
trife drawn.
home and attended by physician who
diagnosed the case as a slight attack
of intestinal poisoning and not serious
What the Sin Is.
Scoville explained the unpardonabl
sin as the sin against the Holy Ghost.
God tried to make the people hear.
and they would not Then God sent
Christ and they crucif1ed Him. Now
he has sent the Holy Ghost. II You
refuse to hear the Holy Spirit, its all
UP with you.
There is no line you can cross
which you cannot recross and come
back to Cod" he said, FOR the Bible
says. whatsoever will may come Take
that out of the Bible and you have no
Bible. But there Is a line across
which you never will come back to
God
''Nobody's tears could reach you.
There are people here tonight" he de-
clared. who have said no to every
sermon you've ever heard and you're
going to say no to this one. It isn't
because you can't come back, it's be
cause you won't"