The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-22
sWATs THE GosSIPERs
Worst of Amy Place He Has
. Been He Says-Odd Eel :
lows and Rebekahs At
tend Services. E.
Trail hitters last night .......... 60
Total trail hitters, to date 49,. 2,4a7
Attendance last night ......... $500
Total estimated attendance 118, 500

you've got lot Of big, fat, lazy,
Stalled christians here in Keokuk.
They sit around in church, in pews
they paid for in advance out Of which
thew have kicked some poor person,
dressed in their silks and satins. the
crocodile tears running down their
cheeks and singing Rescue the Per
ishing.' They haven't got as much
religion as an alligator or a society
woman and God knows they neither
one have any"
Charles Reign ScovilIe turned loose
of the foregoing at his tabernacle last
night in expressing to the crowd that
filled the shed his opinion of the local
church members who have mot turned
a lick toward assisting him in his
campaign here. God forgive them!"
he cried. Their religion is not the
religion of Jesus Christ"
Their Religion IL Selfish.
Their religion is that brand that
says, oh God! save me and my wife
and my son John and his wife, and no
more God will take that gang some
day and throw 1t over the dam. And,
later, over lot worse dam than the
Mississippi has across 1t.
''The bunch that sits back and harps
about its pedigree, isn't getting any
where" he volleyed. You can have
a horse with pedigree that goes back
to the Mayflower but what good is the
pedigree II the horse is dead?"
Scoville's sermon last night was d.
rected to some 200 members of the
Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges who
attended the service in delegation,
headed by a brass band.
Uses Modern Setting to Parable.
1.-THE Good Samaritan" was the SUBJ
1ect. He drew the picture of the man
who made the eventful trip toward
Jericho, with q modern background.
He referred to the bunch Of thieves"
who attacked the wayfarer as "a gang
from over here at Warsaw or from
down in Missouri" Then he scanned
the pages of his Bible in mock study
and declared that he believed, really
the thieves were from right here in
Keokuk.'
When the good man from Samaria
came along and Dathed the fellows
wounds" he said, "he set him on his
beast and started for the Hotel Iowa
or for the Grand hotel He didn't haul
him in an automobile, either" he
vouschafed. ut was jackomobi1e.,
Then the preacher digressed long
enough to advance the opinion that
God probably never made more
homlier piece of animal machinery
than mule. 1T he's good one. he's
fine" he said, but if he's mean and
stubborn, he's just like a lot OF peo-
ple-church members"
ca religion" declared Scoville, chat
doesn't help the other fellow, is no
religion at all. I wouldn't give rap
for religion that sends a man along
the street singing praises to God and
overlooking his neighbor."
Liars and GossIps Here.
In beginning his sermon, Scoville
declared that Keokuk Is infested with
some real, unauthorized and alto
gether goddess gossips and liars. Il
may have been in other towns as bad
for gossip as this he said obviously.
Il can't remember just when, but l
suppose / have been. But these lies
they are telling around here aren't
hurting me. Let 'em go to it. ia
like to advise you real christians, how
ever" he said, Ito just go ahead and
keep your mouths shut" The aud
fence applauded.
Sixty persons hit the trail last night.