The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-24

said, "yOur arms will be 80 stiff you
couldn't reach into them anyway. You
needn't bother about not being able
! to take silver and gold along with
you; It would melt anyway"
No Double standard.
The audience roared again. And
again he checked its mirth. this time
by preaching against different stand
ards Of morality for men and women.
Later he plunged headlong into an
excoriation of the liquor traffic and
the men behind it.
Men of Baltimore he shouted,
I'm preach harder, preach longer, I'll
reach up higher and reach down lower
to save man from hell than all that
damnable, God-forsaken bunch put to-
gether."
The tabernacle broke into an ova-
ton Of applause and hats and hand
kerchiefs were waved. while the
enemies of liquor shouted until their
faces were red.
He approached the end of his SER
mon by recounting the story of his
own conversion. following his decision
one night on,a Chicago street that the
time had come for him to ''live
straight" At the time he was drunk.
he said, and with him was a "side-
kick" of the Old White Stockings team
Frank Flint Then he told Of Flint's
continuance in life of drunkenness
and of the deathbed scene when the
umpire called him out"
Day One OF Results.
The day was one of results, and the
total of trail-hitters was second only
to last Sunday. twenty-five converts
were listed at meeting for women
held in the Lyric by Miss Frances MIL
Ter AT St JOINTS Emmanuel Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South there
were three trail-hitters when the Rev.
DR.. James E. Walker spoke in the
afternoon. DR. Walker was the speak
er at Roland Park Methodist Episco-
pal Church at night, where there were
IL reconsecrations. counted as trail
hitters, and at this church in the FORE
noon 25 new members were enrolled,
four of them having previously hit the
tabernacle trail. Five persons hit the
trail at st. Johns Methodist Protest.
ant Church. where the speaker was
the Rev Alfred Sheldrick, manager OF
the tabernacle bookroom.
Grand Total 1911.
Outside of the tabernacle meetings
the largest number of trail-hitters were
reported by Miss Alice Miriam Gamlin.
At two union meetings, afternoon and
evening, at Calvary Presbyterian
Church, she prevailed upon So persons.
% of them being children, to pledge
their lives to Christianity. In the
morning Miss Gamlin had conducted
meeting at the Mount Royal Avenue
Methodist Protestant Church. She
has charge of the boys and girls work
of the Sunday organization.
This brought the grand total of trail
hitters for the day, in all services con-
Quoted by or under the auspices of the
Sunday organization, to 1,011.
The throng which first heard the
Devils Boomerang" sermon consisted
of men and youths, who had arrived at
the tabernacle by noon and waited
patiently considerably more than an
hour for the afternoon activities to
begin.
This congregation was fully as much
impressed by the testimony of Repre-
sentative John T. Cooper, Of Ohio, as
by the sermon. He told how he had
been converted by Sunday seven years
ago, how he had thereafter risen from
the humble position of locomotive
engineer to become Congressman from
Ohio, and who gave nearly all Of the
credit for his success to Sunday. IT
was the testimony of Representative
Cooper which helped bring the 295
men to the platform up the sawdust
trail.