New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
Scoring Atrocities, Evan
eelist Makes Hymn OF
Hate Seem Pale
1000 French Present
Sermon Wildly Cheered as
Tricolor Is Waved in
Tabernacle

Billy Sunday last night denounced
German atrocities. The result was
decidedly unfrendly attack on the
Kaiser and vituperative indictment OF
Prussianism which made the Hymn oil
Hate" seem pale and colorless.
Billy's emotions were stirred by the
nresence in the Tabernacle OF 1,OOO
Frenchmen, women and children. he
heard them sing LA Marseillaise' and
saw the trcolor Tapping in the yellow
glare of the Tabernacle incandescents,
far from the pulpit on which he sat.
Billy stared down at the green velvet
CARPET which covers the pulpit as the
$4,000 persons in the Tabernacle
cheered the French delegation. Then
he arose, put his head down and
charged:
Atrocities Unbelievable"
ooh. people, If you only knew! If
YOU only knew" lie was looking at
the French people now, talking directly
noble men and women of La Belle
France. You have suffered. Your
heart is bleeding. You are the salt OF
the earth
Presentation started from Sundays
brow and he worked himself into
frenzied excitement. His voice, strI-'
dent and tense, was meant for every
soul in the Tabernacle now; II reached
those far back from him on the back
rows in the wooden she'd
Wait till the veil is lifted! Wait
till the veil is lifted! Then you'll sec
the horrors and tortures Prussianism
is putting across on the other side.
Then You'll hate more than ever. ! met
woman the other day who told me
She had lust drawn her money out OF
the bank and was going back to Eng
land. | asked her why. She said:
Nv brothers was captured by Germans
recently. An exchange was arranged
and as the Boches neared the English
lines they asked him which he wanted
most, his eyes or his arms. He an
swered his eyes. SO they chopped of
his arms
Bitterly Attacks Kaiser
"What do you think of that? And
the Kaiser? The rottenest, vilest,
dirtiest, most vicious, corrupt, inhu.
man. beastly. devilish. triple extract OF
hell degenerate in the world is the En-
peror of Germany.
"What are you going to do? Are
you going 70 take your orders from
Washington or Berlin? Do you want
to doff your caps TO Woodrow Wilson
or to that wienerwurst, sauerkraut de
generate, Kaise! Wilhelm? Coosel
It's UP to you. If you are Americans
back up the Stars and Stripes in every
thing. Buy Liberty bonds and fight
and farm" .,
The audience cheered and applauded
in a patriotic frenzy. Then, as the
outburst quoted down, Billy continued,
once more speaking TO the French men
and women:
"Do you know one of my favorite
characters in history is a Frenchman ,"
he asked them. Napoleon is his name.
And I've taken for my motto in fight
ing the devil the same motto Neville
used at Verdun: They shall not pass. D"
Talks on Solomon
Sundays sermon was on Solomon:
32d Degree Sport" He said:
"Old Sol came into the world with a
golden spoon in his mouth. He drank
the we'll of knowledge dry, turned off
the faucet and pulled out the pump.
He was some boy, was Old Solomon.
He was a heller for sure. He had so
many wives he made Brigham Young
look like a bush Lacquer.
"Do not try to initiate Solomon. He
went down the line, and when things
came to a showdown he was all in. He
said it was all bunk. He realized that
there was no happiness except in God.
what chance do you have against
him, you little piker with a beer sal
airy? He had 700 wives. You only
ought to have one. The only happi-