The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-27
D0CIORSLASHED
BY FRED B. SMITH
lNF|NAL ADDRESS
Certain Class Denounced For
Offering To- Effect Cures
That Cannot Be Effected
GAMBLING IS CALLED
HiGH-T0NED STEALING
Says Man Who Stakes Money on
Game of Chance Would Be-
come Thief If In Trouble

NprN"tl VI AlouOtuiu uoSiOTS CHfne III
for a lnshing at the hands of Fred B
Smith when the evangelist delivered
his final address here last night at tn,
Bijou Thenter.
Worse than the qnack lawyer, and
worse than the quuck preacher, the most
deadly quaek Of all,' the speaker dc
rclared, sis the quack DOCTOR And he
added that in this connection that Ho
nolulu was in need Of housekeeping
He denied claims made by the class Of
doctors he referred to. With all thu
emphasis he could throw into the wore
he called them liars.
The final address was made to 2
great audience Of men only, and the
majority of those. in the gathering wef
in khaki. The broadside directed
the doctors came as the speaker wa
touching on those ailments that follow
in the wake of the sin of impurity.
He said that cures these men claimed
to be able to effect were impossible
and were SO recognized by reputable
physicians the world over.
Sin Destroys Nations c.. 4.
Though the subject Of the address
was supposed to have to do with 1.-THE
war, the speaker made little reference
to the actual conflict. The fall of al
the great nations Of the past, he told
his hearers, was directly attributable t.
sin. The United States would never be
defeated by the Germans, he went on
1t would never fall before foreign
foe or after clash of arms. If the Stars
and Stripes eyer were to disappear from
the earth, he said, the cause would be
found in one of the three great sins
that in the past have brought about
the fall of great nations. These three
sins we're incompetence, gambling and
impurity. RI g #ta s&.,g ,.t.2- &
Little of the address was devoted To
gambling and less to intemperance. The
speaker held that the case of whiskey
was proven. With the evidence that
the past years have brought, he could
not see why temperance lecturers were
needed any more, Any man not foo
. today knows enough, he said, to lei
whiskey alone.
Calls Gambling Stealing =
Gambling the speaker characterized
as '"high.toned stealing and he un
dertook to show how fully convinced
he himself is that gambling is merely
stealing, by an assertion of particular
force, .. .
q" Any man, "he declared, "who stake,
his money in game of chance would
steal your pocketbook in dark room
if he had a chance and he was il
trouble -r., d,
The great bulk of crimes of embez
Element, he declared, is committed b,
men who had become gamblers befor,
they had become thieves. 80. IL. :
"If you want to become high
toned thief,'' he said, =" don't star
out with jimmy and q gun. That >
the wrong course. If you want to b.
thief, Just begin to gamble"
Three Causes
On the subject of the sin of impur
ity his talk fell into three sections
causes, results and tho remedy, o.
the subject of}causes he intimated tina
youths who fell into, evil ways did s,
innocently and ignorantly. They werl
permitted to grow up without the wore
Of warning and the information par
ents might supply that would haV,
saved them. g., ...'...
It was in dealing with the effects o.
transgressions of this character tina
he turned his guns on the doctors.
In speaking of the remedy Smith de
clared he placed little faith in resolu
tions. Men make resolutions and re
make them, he declared, and he re
lated incidents of his own life to prov,
that however sincerely the sinner nigh
resolve to mend his ways, il was no
enough, y -, 49,. g..s.E q.
The remedy he held out was for mel
to accept Christ in their own hearts
and to rely on the power of Christ t.
save,