The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-27
Monster Parade to Tabernacle Tuesday Evening
|CHR|ST'S WORDS WEREb|TTER
AGAINST Sin, SC0v|LLE SAYS

say that to some of you society bunch
or you business bunch or you rich or
poor bunch, you'd howl your heads
off,
Some Names He Hasn't Used.
| He went on with his Biblical quo
tations. Listen to this" he shouted,
| hammering the pulpit and stamping
upon the carpeted platform. John
the Baptist said, we generation of
| viper snake yet?" he asked, and
leaned into the crowd.
NO" answered the man in the
audience, mot yet" and the audience
laughed and applauded Scoville
| grinned. WELL" he said, 81 admit I've
called 'em about everything else,
skunks, lizards, turkey-buzards and a
few, other things"
"I'll tell you right now, ladies and
| gentlemen cried the evangelist,
they stoned Stephen to death in his
day and they would like to stone me
to death right in this town today.
There are plenty of them who would
| do it if they could do SO and get away
, with it. They crucified Jesus Christ.
| If He would come back to the world
today, using the same strong invec-
tives, hurting the same bitter, fear
less words that he used then, they
would cruelty him again right here in
! the United States of America"
Lands on Prize Fight.
Scoville landed hard on the Willard
Moran bout. 1--WE laugh at Mexico
and make fun of Mexico" he said,
oh v>,.i1 fchJn "a
laugh at her because she has cock
| fights-puts two ROSTERS out and let's
F, them fight till one is dead. I'll tell
you right now" and he beat the pull
pit until it cracked. "The fight that
was pulled off in Madison Square
| Garden last night, that the people
paid $4,000 to see and that let one
man carry away $4,000 was just as
disgraceful and hellish, in my estima-
ton, as any bull fight that ever was
staged in Old Mexico!" The crowd
broke out in storm of applause.
Scovile bent low and hurled his
sermon into the teeth Of the crowd.
ooh you go to New York" he rasped,
with her Coney Island and her
fights and her dens of infamy; you
go to Chicago and Philadelphia where
the churches are empty and the dens
of vice are filled; where the saloons
are open, front doors, side doors, back
doors, day and night and where the
girls are being shot into he'll through
| the dance halls, and you'll see that
either America, this land Of the free
and home of the brave; this land of
| the government of, by and for the
people-either is going to stop and
straighten up or go to hell!
you've made my house den Of
| thieves accused Christ. Yet you'll
kick at my words. I'll tell you right
now there never was time when
| men ought to stand up and preach
the gospel straight out more than
they ought to now .
Christ Used Invectives.
Christ" Scoville insisted, FUSED
| the most whitening invectives man
could use. Never has magistrate or
statesman or orator hit more tiercely
and fearlessly at sin. l dare you to
20 back and read the books of Isaiah
or jeremiah Yet they howl here
that I'm knocking your town. I'm
knocking the dew. in your town.
| When come here and preach against
the rotten, damnable sin that blights
and corrupts and corrodes and mil
dews and wrecks and destroys, I'm not
knocking the town. Don't get that
into your heads for a minute.
''You let me come in here and tell
you people-you churches that
you're running around all over Iowa
picking up proselytes and that every
time you make one you make him
threefold more a child Of the devil
than he was before, and you would
have At That's what Christ told
'em. Christ said. you have unclean
lips Let me tell man that in keo-
, kuk. He'll run home and say, L don't
want to hear that Sure he doesn't.
Christ said" Scoville continued,
you're the bunch that's so finilky that
you gag at a gnat and swallow
camel. Now" he asked, did you
ever think Of a camel as a swallow
ing proposition?' The crowd laughed.
''Well, let me tell you this he
cried. ut would be thousand times
easier for camel to get through the
eve of a needle than it will for some
of you church members to get into
heaven. s
Pull Together for Devil.
THE world pulls together--shoul-
der to shoulder-for the devil" he de-
clared. as he neared the conclusion
Of his sermon. you go down here
to your dance hall or your pool hall
or your saloon and you'll see Cath
olic. protestant Jew and gentle to-
gether. They won't worship God to-
eether and work for good together,
hut the most fanatical Jew, and the
most fanatical protestant, and the