New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-28

Geciamatory finger on the Au,terirs
pulse of goddess New York" 70,
seven weeks. advised the following
prescription in his Tabernacle sssus.
to $4,000 persons last night:
"Mix into your daily lives. Nsy
Workers, a little more manhood al
less money; more smiles, less ss,sw
more loving. less losthing; IN
truth. less lies; more faitb, lsss
cynicism; more virtue, less vice; mere
prayer, less pride; more Of the srses
OF God, less Of the wiles OF the dsvil--
The compound, he urged, should bs
taken as many times day a. pss.
sible, before meals and after meals--
every waking hour, in fact The
spiritual health OF the city. he said
further, would be enhanced il its girl.
hood would undertake to live. % girls
lived when the country was young and
Broadway was a pasture.
EuIogizes Oldtime Mothers
Tears started from many eyes %
he proceeded to eulogy Of "old-
fashioned mothers" who, il they could
be brought back from the silence Of
the tomb and set in New York would
not know how to act in company with
modern mothers, painted, powdered.
frizzled and almost withou. UNDER
clothes"
THE old-fashioned mothers. yours
end mine," he said. knew nothing
about morning receptions. box parties,
joy rides and week ends. But they
knew more of Jesus Christ than the
mothers of to-day
lie expanded upon his picture OF
"the mothers of a generation ago
until the Tabernacle was fecked with
the white Of handserchiefs. wet with
the tears of revived memories, ana
when 1,l59 out of the throng went
forward to shake his hand and pledgs
faith to his "old-fashioned Cod they
carried his picture in their minds.
Girls, dressed in the abbrevissed
fashion that he so strongly condemns.
wept as he fayed the vanities Of the
times, and approached the "sawdus!
trail" with powdered cheeks stained
with tears.
Tells What New York Needs
"Whet New York and every other
American city wants is girls who thinf
more of decency than dress he too
them. "Girls who think more abees
cradles than cards; girls who can ~
bread as well as fudge, and csa CIV
out dress as well as they can CT
figure on the ballroom floor. We vans
girls who can smile at home as well -
on the street. and can play with pesy
as we'll as with piano.
"Oh. girls" he shouted as he reaches
the cre5cendo of his climax. you vsa'
crate your mothers and grandmother;
give up the sham and cling 20 the Gce
they clung TO and prayed to for yos
Don't forget saloon license gives !
mortgage on every cradle under hs
Stars and Stripes-the saloonkeeper u
the scourge of humanity"
The "call to the trail" was the quiet
est. most seductive and sympathstll
sounded in New York. A picture o.
the "old fashioned mother" lulling tn
child that's grown 10 be you" as tns
evening chimes sounded from TN
church steeple was supplemented at tn
proper moment by simulated ehimei
played on the two pianos with ful
effect. As the simple chord
resounded through the timber structurs
Sunday called for converts 70 get y
harmony with the evening chimes o.
life"
Preaching Warning from Saul
The sermon from Samuel K. 22-"be'
hold, he had hid himself among N,
stuff" was an account OF the fall o.
Saul. The spirit that actuated Saul q
hide himself from God. Sunday ssio
held thousands in its thrall in AmerIca
to-day.
Pm trying TO describe how Ssu'
struck out" he said. 80 that whe1
you're up you may be able to put th'
ball over the fence. Ny hope IS tha'
some mothers and fathers who are hef'
tonight will not live long enough q
sec the headlines telling them OF ~
fall to He'll Of their sons and dsugS'
ters.
81 want TO warn you. II Washingto'
had hid like Saul and refused to lead
the Continental army we'd be slng'nl
God Save the King tonight insteae
Of the Stars and Stripes, and W
wouldn't be able to hold our osF
against Bill Hohenzollern or snybod'
else"
Odd Tribute to Sunday
Five thousand men heard Sunday tei
"How To Be Less than . Man IN hs
afternoon. Women were not sdnfitteo
but as many as could gathered Of tns
windows and doors Of the Tsbernscls
and listened to parts Of the sermon
There was nothing in IL TO shock fem''
nine ears, however. Daniel O'Neili, ~,
troduced as County Commissioner o.
paid = pulling tribute
Sunday before the sermon by declarnSS
that after years Of acquaintance WIZ
the evangelist he was assured that "hsn
the lies told about Billy Sunday o.:
not true" The trad hitters rumbsrs'
SIS.
The morning service, for both sexes
was attended by 1000. The congree..'
tons Of two Episcopal churches ss
Nichaels and ST. Georges. ATTENDED en-
The sermon WAS from Luke SA'''
"a. the subject. "Gethsemsne.' =.
Sunday spoke briefly last n,sh, ~ -
the Hippodrome on behalf Of the LIZ
erty Fund Fair. Tonight he Will pr'
ia. ana aneak Al n missionary golly u