The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
HUNDREDS ARE CONVERTED
Grand Results Of Tabernacle Meetings Seen On Every
Hand---Final Days Joyous Ones to
Christians Of City.

Ten Commandments and all had
better idea of their duty to live by
them after hearing the evangelist s
talk. A few of the striking para
praghs were as follows:
"The first commandment says,
"Thou shalt have no other God but
me. +" A man s God is what he thinks
the most about. Many men adopt
money as their God, they sacrifice
everything for it. They might just
as well erect gold cat in their home
and worship it, instead of God. They
would be doing no worse than they
are doing.
"Many women worship social
amusements. When society demands
one thing and God another, they slap
the churches in the face and comply
with society's demand. In some
churches we find 20 women praying
for the millennium, and 200 playing
progressive euchre for prizes. If
these same women were in Heaven,
Ithey would be gambling for each 9TH
er's crowns"
He declared that America is a ma
tion of swearers and that, it is the
most profane nation on the face Of
the earth. The person who swears,
he asserted, lacks just that much of
being a gentleman. Speaking of the
prevalence of profanity, he declared
that the railroads have their dining
ears, smoking ears and sleeping cars,
and that they ought to have profanity
cars so that decent people could travel
without listening to profanity from
the foul mouths of its users.
"There is no sin that God so rails
at as profanity declared the speak
(er.i "The man is awfully low on the
moral ladder who can swear and not
wish for better life. Why must
man curse and damn the God who
made him?"
DR.. Honeywell's discussion of the
fourth commandment, Remember
the Sabbath, to keep it holy" was
bitter denunciation of the desecration
of the Sabbath. He declared that he
was unequivocably against anything
that would dare to trample the Sab
bath under foot. He held up San
Francisco as the most wicked city in
the world and declared that if he
owned that city and hell, he would
col nIfU md IN,
hell. "The only difference is that
San Francisco has more water around
it," he declared. "It is the most
sin-ridden city in the world. Only
one out of every so of it's 100000
population is a member Of a Protes-
tant church. -
The fifth commandment, "Honor
thy father and thy mother that your
days on this earth may be long"
brought out condemnation by the
evangelist of the young men and
young women who show disrespect
for their parents, and the assertion
that many young people think they
know more than their father and
mother.
"Show me the young man or the
young woman who shows disrespect
for his or her father and mother and
| will show young man or woman
who will never amount to much, he
asserted. "But show me the young
man or woman who has succeeded and
| will show you IA young man or wo-
man who has been respectful to their
parents.
81 would he surprised if there was
not someone in this audience tonight
who has violated the sixth command
ment, 'Thou shalt not kill, asserted
DR.. Honeywell. "There are other
ways of killing besides with the bull
let and the dagger There are men
here tonight who are killing their
wives inch by inch by their cruelty
and neglect, or by their unfaithful-
ness. There are many women now in
their graves, sent there by their hus-
bands cruelty. Many Of you young
men are killing your mothers by your
sin. You think you are having good
time, but you are killing your poor
old mother The revolver or the dirk
would be merciful compared with
what some of you are doing"
Regarding the seventh command
ment, "Thou shalt not commit adul-
try" DIR. Honeywell declared that he
could not discuss it fully in a mixed
audience. 81 know there is a lot of
mock modesty in this world, but /
can s discuss this commandment here
tonight, he said. "But ! want to
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