The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-17

him. ""'eheu
u hlteen minutes Billy kent
-0 adins and the choir singing, and
t.''e oy little the front benches
niieu up Finally, when only a
single straggler took the main SAL
ZION course, Billy climbed out of
the platform pocket and gave the
sl3n to the secretaries to gather in
the names and addresses of the con.
scIence-stricken company Tbev
counted 109, only about eighteen of
them being children.
Still the thousands fingered, even
'nose In the seats far back in the
Shed' and they felt fully repaid for
"arihg' when, while later. the
ahseilst got the trail-hitting clan
standing. after him they repeated
the pledge; q accept Jesus Christ
as my Saviour"
Ha, ha. ha.' laughed Billy. 81
Nho"' devil, that chorus makes you
ieel SICK. ldon't wonder you turn
pale You can see by by this what s
gong to happen to you before we're
through spreading God truth in old
Trenton"
similar scenes were enacted to-
night when a second call to sinners
wlhsed Its way through the big tim
Der temple. This time PAP persons
made the journey forward in re-
spouse to the appeal contained in
blllys sermon on the Ten Command d.
/ menfs, making total of 351 trail
hltters for the day.
Big, honest-faced men of toll la
bored up the yellow alleys, shoulder
TO shoulder with slight, dapper chaps
who clerk for a living. Men stamp
ed from crown to sole with the un-
mlstakable marks of lifelong indis-
cretions and designations trod along
beside gentle old women and frag-
rant girlhood. Creatures of all ages,
colors, creeds and conditions faced
toward the right.
In reality, Billy preached ten SER
mons in one, for he made of each of
the scriptural edicts the text of a
message complete in itself He rail-
ed against divirce until the rafters
hummed, branding it nothing more
than selective polygamy. Gossips
and scandal mongers, too, he jabbed
without mercy.
Economic injustices were subject
to his singing volleys as we'll, and
in doing so he unquestionably won
for himself the friendship of many
who heretofore had been lukewarm
in their attitude toward him. This,
for example, is sample of what
tickled EN-:
THE men who jumps in front of
me and pots gun under my nose is
no more of thief than the man or
combination of men who gain con-
troll of a nations food or fuel supply
and then boost the prices so that a
poor working man cannot afford to
buy the very things God meant he
should have free"
So, too, under Billy's precepts, the
employers thieves, who failed to
give their work fair return for
work rendered. Likewise he brands
as crook the man who soldiers on
the job and thereby denies his en-
ployer the service he is paying for.
Billy called EN- both crooks on the
way to hell.
Billy rumbled like Niagara when
he referred to certain persons prone
to discredit rivals He reminded
that old Henry J. Beelzebub led the
list of such himself, and that any
who dared lift his or her voice
against these tabernacle meetings
was Just like his or her old daddy.
BY daddy" he means Henry j., Of
course.
They say I'm sensational" he
shouted once. "All right, | am SEN
sational. Sensation is life, stagna-
ton Is damnation. And, say, bud,
nothing would be more sensational
than for you to be decent. The
trouble is with some people that
they regard sin as cream puff in
stead of a rattlesnake."
Indolent, wishy-washy preachers,
also came in for a share of his Bit
ing rebukes.
He called 'em lot of woodpeck-
ers and stormily belittled their
lack of grit when it came to assert
ing their belief in hell. In fact,
much of Bills sermon had to do with
the horrors of that neither region,
and not a few of the 5000 listening
at times were i'll at ease.