The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-14


oliver a. one " the meetings on
taturday.
The subject Of Biily's sermon
Wednesday night was jacob" but
he preacher did not stick close 10
IL subject. After briefly sketchins
he life OF Jacob and other members
4 the family. In which he took oc'
asion 10 pay a glowing tribute 10
he Jews AS a race, he made the his
Org of Jacob and others apply 10
( modern life.
Sunday. with equal frsnmess
raised and blamed Detroit people
ie stinted neither his praise nor his
lame.
II think you Detroit people are
bout the dandiest bunch l ever met
% far a. appreciation and good will
toes, but you look ~ II you ate too
much and slept too much and took
hinge too easy" he said. so don't
hink II Is going TO be easy for you
get down on your knees and pray.
tut that is what you've got TO do
md that il what the country has
rot TO do or II will so straight 10
hell. Graft Is on the increase and
70 In crime OF oil kinds. America
eads In crime and the way TO stop
4 and make this sane and safe
place 10 live In 10 make IL Chris
ian"
In announcing his sermon for
Thursday night as a special address
IN Home" the evangelist appealed
.or an especially large collection
This IL a tabernacle" he said.
and not a taber.nickel. so please
put In more than q nickel II you can
aiford II. II gets my goat to see
people going TO church and dead
beat their way. They come 10 the
tabernacle and pay nothing, then 20
away and srowl about 1t. Cheats in
religion are like the grocer tha,
pitts his choicest apples on top and
the worm-eaten racs on the bottom
or the huckstcr that covers has.
ket OF peaches with red mosquito
netting so that the fruit looks ripe
and luscious. when you could XIII
q man at 30 yards with one OF the
peaches"
In his appeal for more religion
Sunday criticized those who attend
ed church and prayed in a perfume
tory sort OF a way without giving
their whole thought and attention 10
the subject.
why he cried. you can't 20
TO leg show and see a woman with
out enough clothes TO make legsings
for a hummins bird and then re,
down and pray. Thy Kingdom
Come. One cannot ill himself with
booze and pray, Thy Kingdom
Come Red whisky and religion
will not stay together In one skin.
Booze and graft are the two agen-
cies that are doing 80 much 10 de-
xtroy religion and morals. Unless
you can stop the graf, which is
IN public life. You VIII
have to pull down the proud Stars
and Stripes and run up the sinking
red Dag Of anarchy.
"People will tell you that four
fifths OF the crime liz due 10 por
erty and not TO whisky. Well. I'll
say that nearly all the poverty IL
caused by booze and therefore booze
Ii responsible for the crime ss well
as the poverty. The men in that
whisky business are the dirty thugs
that I'm after.
"Just let your city officials and
political leaders OF Detroit spend a
single day and night in praying and
fasting and the moral history OF old
Detroit will have TO be rewritten"
In his appeal 10 his hearers TO
live their religion instead OF just
using II on Sundays, he suggested
that the husband should go home
and try being pleasant with his wife
instead OF growing at her.
Try praising her once" he said
at might brighten her AZ first and
SIZE might think you are sick. but
~ won't hurt. Treat her as you did
when you were strolling with her