Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-01-11
BILLY SUNDAY LAMBASTS THE
KAISER.

BILLY SUNDAY LAMBASTS THE
KAISER.
Rev. William Sunday, the famous
evangelist, opened II campaign in the
National capitol last Sunday. The
greater part of his Sunday sermons
were devoted to the war, Among
other things he said:
we were peaceful people. All
our paths were peaceful until that
God-forsaken, wiener -wursting, sauer
krauting, miserable gang Of"
The rest of the words were lost in
roar of laughter, and cries of ap-
proval that broke out in the audience.
1.-THE weasel-eyed, hog jowled, beet
le-browed, liberty-hating, crew will go
down to inglorious defeat before our
arms" he declared "Just rs this gov
ernment, using the powers vested in
it by the people, declared war on that
most vile. damnable, rapacious car
cass of blood-thirsty Imperialism, so
today, here in Washington, in the
shadow of the Capitol, declare war
against hell and all its emissares and
all its cohorts"
Taking moments breath, he clapp-
ed his hands and then shook his fist
at an imaginary enemy:
"You can't shoot your cursed kul-
tur and your damnable Hohenzoller-
nism down our thoats," he said. "You
can't spit on the Stars and Stripes,
you can't erase star from that pure
field. We're not quarrelsome bunch.
Oh-h-h no, but woe betide anybody
who gets us started"
Then he truned his attention to
conservation of religion. He drew MS
parallel the conservation of the ma
tion's resources to the cause of the
war.
"When Mr.. McAdoo says we've got
to move the freight he said, 1--WE
cut out the passenger traffic. When
our factories are needed we take con-
troll of their output When Hoover
says w've got to save the food, we
'chaw' one loaf of bread instead of
two. How about God, then? We've
got to consecrate ourselves to Him
just that way.
In the afternoon he again vigor-
ously attacked the kaiser. His topic
was "The Grenadiers," n military SER
mon. He started out by having the
soldiers in the khaki reservation stand
up, and the big audience gave them
an ovation that lasted nearly five
minutes. Then, when Rodeheaver
asked these men in the service what
hymn they would like to have there
was unanimous call for brighten
Up the Corner Where You Are" one
of Sundays best known tunes.
Stop your darn knocking" said
Sunday in his sermon. 81 have been
to the cantonments and / have seen
machine gun crews who have never
seen machine guns. l have seen ar
tlllerymen who have never laid their
hands on n cannon. have seen avia-
tors who never saw an airplane.
have seen infantrymen who don't
know how to load or carry rifle. We
can't do everything at once. Give
them time. Well have machine guns
and cannon, and airplanes and rifles
for every last man of them, but you
can't do everything on the instant.
What business man wouldn't be
swamped if his trade increased fif-
teen or twenty thousand per cent in
a year? Well, that's what happened
to our army and navy. Their bust
ness has increased from fifteen to
twenty thousand per cent. Give them
chance and stop your darn knock
ing.
"Down, say, with the slackers
and down with this God-forsaken
crew of 1. w. WIS. What have they
ever done, I want to know? I'll be
darned if some of them wouldn't face
firing squad at sunrise if was run
ming things.
After a brief interval he continued:
"All the blashphemy against God
Almighty, all the sneering at Je-
sus Christ, all this high-brow, rotten
loathsome so-called higher criticism,
wriggled its dirty, filthy carcass out
of beer mug in Leipzig and Heidel-
berg.
"God and His Spirit are with our
men. That's the spirit that old Kaiser
Bill and his hot-dog gang have got
to fight"