The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-06
Greatest Service of the Entire
Campaign Was Held Last
Night When Gospel Shed
Proved Inadequate.
EVOLUTION THEORY HIT
Unless It Admits Of God, the
Evangelist Believes; When
it Doesn't, He Calls 1t
Heresy.

NItCHOaHCc yesterday IOpOoo
Approximate total attendance. So 900
More than ten thousand persons
heard Evangelist Scoville in three
great tabernacle services yesterday.
A total OF 400 persons walked the re-
vivalist's "glory trail during the day
making a total of 1857 men, women
and children who have taken him by
the hand in seven invitations.
The Christian church was packed in
the afternoon to hear Dr.. Thomas
Penn Ullom, assistant evangelist,
speak on 1.-THE Twentieth Century
Woman" At the same hour Dr.. Sco-
Vile was preaching to nearly 5000
men at the tabernacle.
The tabernacle was nearly filed at
the morning service and 223 persons
walked through the shavings in the
exhortation service. Many were young
men. t
Greatest Service Of Campaign.
The greatest service of the day
and the greatest Of the campaign. thus
far, was last night when the building
was too small by nearly 1000 persons
back of the tabernacle six Deep They
were three deep along each side wall
and scores of boys and girls sat on
the platforms, along the edges Of rows
Of seats, and in the choir loft. One
hundred and ten persons hit the trail
| in the invitation
The crowd was estimated at 4,50o.
The tabernacle was filed at 8:45
O'Clock. At 7 O'Clock, when the
evangelist and members Of his COM
pany reached the worship shed, they
found difficulty in getting through to
the platform. Two policemen were on
duty at the Twelfth street doors, as
sisting the army OF ushers in handling
the throngs.
The choir loft was packed with
singers and ushers had extreme diff
Guilty in keeping others, who made no
pretense at vocal attainment-from
stampeding the loft before the singers
had arrived.
breaches Great Sermon.
Scoville's subject was "Infldelity,"
and he made the most Of it for forty
five minutes. He attacked atheism,
denounced evolution without God in
it) as a failure and told his auditors
that they were fools If they do not
believe in God" He asserted that he
can mail any old cabbage head to the
wall on the infidelity proposition as
long as he made him stick to the first
cause.
"You can't get something from moth
ing" he said. "Something exists-we
all admit that Then something camc
from something And that something.
we find back in the first book and the
first chapter and the first verse OF the
Bible-In the beginning-God.'
ss0,t, ,;sxt H.
that away back in the beginning there
was little speck and that 1t grew and
grew and broke apart and formed
worlds and so on. All right. Grant
him all that-but where did he get his
speck?
'T'll leave it to any woman in the
house." he shouted derisively, "you
can't have a fly-speck without fly"
The crowd roared.
Scoville denounced the doctrine of
agnosticism as "a suicide Of our ra-
tional natures" 1.-THE agnostic says
he doesn't know" he said. He doesn't
know that we are in O. tabernacle
here; he doesn't know we have cleo
trio lights in this building; he doesn't
know I've got my hand on this pulpit
"If I was fool enough to say there Is
no God. I'd at least have sense enough
TO Keep 1t 10 myself ana not gao
around and tell everybody about It.
Non-Believer Gets His.
Scoville hopned onto the man who
says he doesn't believe because he can
not understand the Dietv. HE can't
understand how sheep eats grass
and It grows out wool and how a hog
eats the same kind OF grass and It
grows out bristles." he said. HE can't
understand his own body, how he
breathes or hears or tastes.
cts Just as impossible for a rotten