The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-11-26
COURT THEATRE rs PACKED ATT
ERNOON AND EVENJNG-CHCRCH
SERMONS INTGR ESEIEG. =
VIII Speak at FIRST Christian Church
This Afternoon md Evening
Again

Addresses that packed and janm"d
the srca, Court theatre for two meet
inES and filled the FIRST Christian
church in tie morning; and the Fourth
Street NJ. l.. church III the evening.
greeted Or. J. Asphalt McCuaiS her"
yesterday. 1t WAS Il great day for tue
New York evangelist and lie carried his
audience away into tearland and brought
them back again 10 the realms Of inuSh-
ter with his emotional sermons on clean
living and good envor"lmcntShlp. The
sermon In the afternoon WAS great
patriotic address. and Prof. Elmer G..
EO.lXic. community choir director. mad.
Il great hit with his chorus and also his
vocal selections. His rendition Of the
great song. The Trumpct"r." With Miss
hit Of the afternoon.
Conditions about the big soldier can
Comment camps Of the United States
army were portrayed in n picturesque
"Iupucnco q: words at the evening
sery ices by The doctor. pr. Claude ror-
ter Terry. pastor If the First rrcSGy-
terrain church presided ut the Afternoon
meeting. and Ur. Clarence y. Allen Of
fcrrd prayer. Dr. Jacob Nottingham.
pastor Of the !'nurt Street Nj. Il. church,
presided.
Universal peace. with the stars and
stripes floating side by SIDE with these
Of r.n::land. Austria Hungary. Turkey,
England and France in thu brotherhood
Of world peace. WAS pictured Ivy the
speaker, who said IN part:
DIT. McCunig's Address.
Men and women. citizens o. Wkncl-
INK. in addressing you this afternoon
upon the subject have chosen for this
hours dclivcrancc--"Am America on tho
Battle Front Of tnc WorId"-I FIST Of
all congratulate you that 10 you it is
rivcn--tu you men and women Of this
day. Americans of l9l7-to You It is
gwen To iiv, in the most illustriuuS year
in the history Of your bcln"cd country.
~ rev months ago you celebrated
! for the hundred and CoriIcth time the
bran Of Il great nation. II was III" an
nlvrrSIry al Nainn'S birth IT, free
DOM From tn" tim" Of your childhnud
the Fourth "f July has been a great dry
IN YOUR lives. TN. past has been glUrl-
"us. !iut Ia y"u has Il been given, n
This year Of all years. In greet with
h"W"d nrad th- most significant and pc
tcntlhl Fourth "r July the generations
har,. ever kn"W;--.'t day when The worlu
ll&"lf waS III TIA" thr""S Of u rrcai birth.
:; day when tho guns uf free AmurICa
w'r" already IN ~" mounting on the
battle front cf Europe 10 thunder for i
worlds freedom. e lay when the great
Is: irrr bern nation tt the earth stood
pledged. 70 us las, dol Alr and its last
man. ~ IN" rars" niifrcchon.
For All Peoples and for All Time.
"hUd not only ter this reason is this
year great. but Ter another reason: for
on tins great natal day Of 1917, for the
first TIM" M history did the sun Of n
I Fourth uf July ri.' upon he stars and
stripes ul America embracing in love
the union jack Of Great Britain. ~! i'll
every street of tins free born r"puhlc
III" once hated flag Of England kissed
| AMI fonhi"d and EMBODIED with the
heaven born cmhi"m -: freedom. while
the SONS Of th"s" mighty standards
J stood side by sid" on ihr baltic front
in conquest for world liberty or death.
"And SO. as ] congratulate" you on
this great dny when America stands
with harness unlonScd on the hnttln
frnli Of the world. | would d'Cinr" Ia
ynu that above all things else. he emil
of this great day Ia you is call To
v!si0n---h call 10 every son and dauGh-
tor Of America. that both the mind and
tn" eyes Of III" soul BE- opened To see
You arc called to n vision of tho
glorious end thai lies FOUNDER In the
dstancc-yund"r beyond the din and the
smoke and ,hn he'll Of battle. Who Of
tn" fathers -! tn" revolution III their
day could have dreamed ut that which
has come 10 pass ~ TIN" when ms three
iauEhtcvs ui on" blood. Cnlnnlhin and
Bri'aunia and France, standing together,
iifi hl,;h ihr torch OF liberty over war
tIarkcnrd world:
For Eternal Peace.
Il ask, MhU If III" fathers had vision
10 $50. III tho diSIan"" this day: Yet this
&ny calls ynuI Ia stand nn the peak Of
is greatness and look ynndrr TO Il dny
whrm tn r,d. wh.I" and hlack or Ger
in:ny. at tn" In'.IIl."n Of whIrh now The
world ..huI%:rra. shall float side hy side
with The r'!. whit" and blue Of ATncri-
lc,t and ErItaiu AID France in all ctCT-