The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-13
SCOVILLE'S SERMON on BOOZE


ives to its readers the sermon on
sspooze" as delivered by Evangelist
ccoville at the tabernacle yesterday
ssternoon. With the exception of q
saw paragraphs, the address is printed
: copyright, 1914
am delighted to see this taber-
nacle packed with big, strong, manly
mon to hear this address which I
have been advertised to deliver to
Won on the subject of booze. NV first
mint is that Jesus Is against booze
ind bad business" If you will turn
n Matt. 21:9-13, you will find how the
Master following his great triumphal
entry into Jerusalem, as soon as he
alighted from the back Of the humble
beast, entered the temple porch and
at once dashed the money exchangers
from the temple. saying, my house
is called a house Of prayer, but We
have made it den of robbers. !"
Booze considers no place sacred.
Booze and bad business considers not
the interest of any home or holy
Mace. The evil spirits of booze have
no consideration for the fact that
Christ said, your body is the temple
Of the Holy Spirit" 1t is not a ques-
ton of right or wrong with the booze
people, the only question with that
gang is how can we save the booze
business?
These men, whose tables Jesus
overturned, undoubtedly furnished the
thirty pieces Of silver to get Judas
Iscariot to betray the Christ. Booze
is the Judas Iscariot of the twen-
tieth century, and the minute you
license this nefarious. Illicit. brain
picking, stomach tanning, bowel rot
ting, character wrecking, soul de-
stroying, hell in solution, booze bust
ness, that moment you and your state
becomes Judas Iscariot. You have
put consideration upon your vote
and upon your state and your citi-
zenship. You have sold out to the
joints for a price, for a considera-
which you call license money. You
league with hell.
This bunch like the booze bunch
saw that II the gospel Of Christ, as
presented at the hands of Paul sue.
ceeded, that their business was at
stake and Demetrius shouted to his
companions, "By this business we
have our wealth." and every one of
the Goddess gang or Christless clique,
who are in the whiskey business are
shouting the same thing. They make
no other plea. They do not consider
what buns and thugs, harlots and
whoremongers are ground out as
grist of the unspeakable mill. Does
some woman say, What about my
husband?" They will say as they did
say to wife and mother at Corners
vile, Indiana, ITO hell with your
husband" and this is about as near
as they ever come to representing the
real truth concerning the fruits of
their business. Demetrlus said, mot
only is there danger that this our
trade come in disrepute, but also the
temple Of the great goddess Diana be
made Of no account" Isn't that the
cry of the whiskey ring in the state
right now, and has not their most
trade already come into
disrepute and isn't it the truth that
their temples which are the head
quarters Of iniquity, the hot-bed Of
infamy, the mother of harlots, that
they are not only of mo account,
but are the plague spoteof our civil1-
cation, the curse of our country, the
shout, Down with the red rag, and
up with the old flag"
10 Whiskey League.
They call themselves~the Business
Mems Home Rule league, but do not
be deceived. 1t is the Whiskey Busi-
ness Mems Home Mis-rule league, in
league with everything that is low,
beastial, and devilish, in league with
all that will rot and corrode, wreck
and ruin, mildew and damn men and
morals for time and eternity. They
are wise as serpents and harmful to
gulls. They are insinuating that all
people fighting the whiskey business
are backed up by Rockefeller. OF
course this is a lie, and they have
only done this to get the eyes Of the
unsuspecting off Of the most damn
able. hypocritical, disreputable dis
play made at the Busch funeral in
ST. Louis, where multiplied millions Of
dollars were wasted over the corpse
of one whose wealth was gained by
the poverty Of his patrons, whose
joys were purchased by the sorrows
of his subjects, whose pearls and
gems were the distilled tears from sad
eyes and sobbing hearts, ruined and
wrecked in body and in soul for time
and for eternity by the curse of
booze.
Matt. 8:2S-S4, we have another IL
lustration Of Jesus against booze and
bad business. The Master met two
men possessed with demons and
Christ is always for men. In His
name we are here and in the man
making, misunderstanding, soul-say-
ing business. Jesus commanded the
demons to come out of these men
and these demons requested that they
might enter herd of swine, and for
once the Master listened to the pet-
tion Of demons and permitted them
to go. When the devils ran into the
swine, the swine ran into the sea,