The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-08
They VIII Say Good-by Tomorrow Night
WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT INSIDE
. CHURCH FOLD TOLD At TAB

unkind. Yet you hang back worse
than they do.
The God that took Ed Card OF a
hog train and put him On pullman
10 come 10 Keokuk. viii save him
some day cried ScoYills. and. If
we never look on his face again. We
Will see IL there some day 1t VIII
b 2 glory face, for sure, then too, .
he asserted as the audience ap
pIauded-
Are You Sure Of Hesven7
Are you trying TO MAKE sure OF
heaTea?" he asked later a lot Of
you are making sure OF he'll III tell
vou that And there Is q he'll don't
forget that II there isn't he'll there
isn't heaven And any 6inE little
cuss who gets up n pulpit and
SAYS there isn't he'll is . Liar and
has no business drawing z saIav
paid BIZ christian, God-fsartng people
sSow." ne chidsd- don't some old
lady punch her husband and say
here's going 70 be sermon for you
You just hold o. Sister Sue, It's q
sermon for you too Eou'u looG
around and say. I wonder If Sister
Black or Sister Green Or Sister Brown
Il here tonight Here's going 10 be
sermon they need Well you need
il 100, SISSY.
a man said 10 me today he said
later. that ne hoped a certain man
who had hit the trail woulu pay hin
now what he owes him Are you z
christian yourseIfr asked MIN He
admitted that he was not Well that
man had better pay his own debt
The debt he owes to Jesus Christ
Aren't Ready. First Excuse.
One of the first excuses given the
evangelist was that people aren't
ready TO become christians when a
personal worker visits them. INC"
said Scoville. you're not ready to
love your wife, but you'u love that
old bag. You can't love your hts-
band. but you'll love that man who
would throw your body into the Mis-
the public would find ii out The
man who will damn your souls
Hypocrisy is another excuse" he
admitted. We'll, you've got hypo-
critics in your wife s family and in
your husbands family, haven't you?
You don't 20 off and act fool about
that. II there's weak man in the
church, get in and help him The
hypocrites are not ali in the church,
you bet your life, or you'd be In there,
yourself"
Wants City Cleaned Up.
At this juncture ScovIlle referred
to his idea of the bootleggers that are
in the city, as well as other certain
alleged immoral characters. Il hope
the new mayor and police will drive
out every man who has the nerve to
walk down the street with his pockets
fun of whiskey. he shouted, and the
applause was tremendous. The new
officials haven't bed of roses. Their
job is a real one. But IL I was the
mayor and the council and the police,
I'll bet I'd get every bootlegger and
old bag and solicitor in this town or
the ants could carry my carcass
through the keyhole.
"As for you old boozers, you geez-
era who haven't been men for years,
II you are men, you will say tonight,
AS for me, will see that my wife
and family. from this time on, get the
money that has been going to the
cursed bootlegger.'
THE Bible says that there is JOY
in the presence of the angels when a
soul comes out for God" he said, in
answering the excuse that there is
TOO much excitement" in revival
and you must be like the devils in
hell IL you sit back there and grunt
excitement when some man steps
out on Gods side. It's about time
come Of you old geezers were getting
excited about som ething.