The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-15

rest of us an eighteenth century hell, full of red flames and sulphur, and a smell of kippered sinners frying on grid.
 His sensationalisW is all confined to his personal performafces with the result that, in his attitude toward sociological matters, he is a profound conservative Or, to make the comparison more con- crete, I would say that, in his oratory, he is Ollie James democrat but in his policies he is a Henry Cabot Lodge, old line republican. No worlxingman will ever come away from a Sunday meeting with socialistic yearnings a-simmer in his heart. Be content on this earth with the station unto which you have been called; obey your masters and crave not for more than they, in their superior judgment are pleased to grant you. Your reward therefor shall be crown in the eternal kingdom-that as l interpret it. is the Rev. Sundays attitude with regard to the material things of this life Which may or may not explain why, in New York, he has the unanimous moral sup port and the enthusiastic financial back ing of considerable number of those captains of American industry who have been able to combine business and religion in such a way as mot seriously to inter- fere with the business
 HIS GRACE OF MOVEMENT
 He impressed me as being an excellent actor. His famous tricks appeared to be carefully rehearsed. Certainly they were mounted with a nice sense of dramatic values. When he dashed from side to side of the green covered platform; when he wound up like a pitcher delivering ball and yelled out Take that you mGtst!' as he often did; when he leaped ak. J,.. l. ing under him, or mounted to the top of the stout, wooden stand whereon his notes rested when he squatted and pounded the floor with his clinched fist until the hollow space beneath the planking rumbled like drum; when he flung him. self down prone upon his face, there was a sort of grotesque grace and abandon in each movement and each was timed so that the action matched the spoken word. Newspaper men about me who hao reported other Sunday ,revivals in other cities could tell a minute or two in ad- vance just when each bit of eccentric posturing would come.
 They even knew when he would give his exceedingly realistic imitation of a man with an affliction clearing his throat, or when he would pretend to wipe his nose with his finger or when he would loudly and emphatically spit. Nearly all the characters of whom he told homely anecdotes were addicted to the splitting habit, it would seem and most of them, by his telling, lived in the state of Iowa. Two words constantly occurred and recurred in the sermon which I heard. One was 'Iowa," the other was sPentacost." Nearly every thing dated from Pentecost and nearly everything happened in Iowa.
 The loudest applause followed his de- who, he said, had raised corruption fund with which to fight him; almost al hearty though was the paltering outbreak Of hand clappng after he had paid his respects in somewhat unexpurgated Ian guage to those church members, of what soever denomination who opposed revival campaigns. p. 4
 The loudest and biggest laughs were two in number. One came when he shouted to the ushers as they started through the crowd with their tin col lection canisters:
 This town is lousy with money. You fellows go get some of it!''
 The other came when. in advising the women present to forego their spring housekeeping in order to attend his serv- Ices. he said;
 "The bugs have been there all winter; let em stay awhile longer.
 TREMENDOUS EARNESTNESS
 But behind all this clowning, this de- liberate broadness of speech, this employ ment of the argot of the gutter and the