Evening star., 1918-01-30
therefore, with James Barkley, for
that was the sailors name.
Sarcastic Over Small Collections.


that was the sailors name.
Sarcastic Over Small Collections.
At the afternoon service yesterday
Sunday was sarcastic about the paucity
of the collections taken here SO far.
Gifts to the church are proportion
ately pusillanimous." he announced.
You Nave your jitney ready when you
board car; your 81 when You enter
the theater; when you avail yourself of
the church of God. nothing. Here I
am entering on my fourth week of
preaching and We are weeping. plead
ing, wiping our eyes over a paltry $12,-
900 to $4,000. In the same period the
theaters would have raked in 100000,
you canbet.
Speaking of lukewarm and cold
church members. he said: If every
member of every Christian church had
voted against the saloon they could
have put it entirely out of business
fifty years ago. But they didn't. The
same membership today by the with
holding OF their patronage could in
short order make the theater either
clean itself up or close it's DOORS" A
slam at German cussedness came from
a new angle, as follows: Speaking of
the higher criticism" and other
"isms" that have hampered Christian
ity, he said:
Attacks Higher Criticism.
That very higher criticism my
friends. first wriggled it's way out of
the beer mugs of Heidelberg. and was
simply a unique form of insidious Ger
man propaganda whereby. through the
weakening of Christianity. German
world domination might be hastened.
Here's one that got good laugh!
Billy was mentioning some of the ad-
vantages of sensationalism. He said:
You could change the conduct of
your church SO some old money-bags
gets mad, ties up his purse strings and
gets out. All right. you lose him.
But fifty more would come to see and
hear how you did il. and you'd be
forty mine to the good"
Other Meetings Are Held.
Miss Kinney, director of students
work. is holding meeting for the girls
OF Technical and Business High Schools
Church, eth and streets, at o'clock
this afternoon.
Mrs Asher's first meeting was at
1910 this afternoon: her second, at
4:45, is the western government center
meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A, and her
Washington Hospital.
Miss Gamlin, boys and girls work.
will hold a meeting at 3:15 in Eastern
Presbyterian Church for the pupils of
the Hilton, Peabody. Carbery and Ed
wards schools. and at s pm. will be
in charge of a parents meeting.
Business Women Invited.
Miss Saxe's Bible class gathered on
the Tabernacle platform at pm, and
at O'Clock this evening she will hold
another at the home of Rev. James T.
Marshall, pastor of West Street Pres
byterian Church, 1921 2 street north
west. Friday at $50 she will begin
a series of classes at the Y. w. G. A.
18th and G streets 1t is open to all
women, and business women are par
ticularly invited.
The First Congregational Church.
10th and G streets northwest, will be
kept open for the business .womens
meetings of the campaign. Miss Fran
ces Miller will hold her noon meetings
there on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday from 1 to 2. For the convent
ence of the girls attending. Il ten-cent
lunch will be served these days.
A ten-cent supper will be served
Wednesday nights to those girls who
come to the 4:45 meeting held in the
church. Also tomorrow night the coun-
ell girls supper and meeting will be
held as usual.
From twenty or thirty to hundred
or more tired soldiers sleep in the
heated Tabernacle every night The can
vas cots are placed in the corridors near
Buse. Tabernacle postmaster, the cot
supply was insufficient, and a crowd of
tired doughboys with full equipment
were glad to unsling their packs, un-
roll their blankets and sIeep in the
layer of sawdust.