Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
JEWS PRAISED
BY EVANGELIST
AS PURE RACE
advises Husbands To Treat Wives
As AngeIs-"G Her Flowers
NOW,7 He Urges.
BY MALCOLM H. EDDY.

the purest blooded nation on the
face of the earth today. They have
outiasted innumerable dynasties
of Europe and the orient and will
be as they are, 5000 years from
today" Such was a part of the
many praises directed to that peo-
pie by Billy Sunday in the open
ing utterances of his evening ser
mon on Jacob" when he took as
his text the 28th verse of the 32nd
chapter of CENSUS: "As a prince
thou hast power with God and with
men, and hast prevailed"
His praise of the Jews was only
one feature of the powerful adj
dress of last night, delivered to an
audience of 1000. The crowd
4 seemed to have gagged the capac-
Y ity of the tabernacle precisely, for
+ while the auditorium seats were
filled down to the end places on
the last bench, there were but few
listeners standing.
Laying for the Gang"
Again last night he promised to
deal strenuously with the black
hearted, dirty gang of cutthroats"
who have been at work spreading
AAEo 4AC4C do at OLhCl pAclCCo ~ 11C4 z
his campaigns have been held. Il
serve notice on that bunch right
now. I'll challenge any man and
pay his carfare to any city in the
country to find anything in my
life not according to the teaching
of the bible during the 81 years
I've been preaching. Now come on,
you black-hearted degenerates. A
striking feature of the evening was
his denunciation of this gang"
and his refutation of a charge that
he had let his brother die in a poor
house. All who heard him learned
the satisfactory explanation of
this accusation and heard "the
bunch" again reviIed for fixing
plots to get fake evidence for use
in their campaigns against him.
At length he dropped this subject
TO plunge once more into his SER
mon.
"POwer With God and Man."
Gods no respector of persons.
He will hear the prayer of black as
soon as of white, of the man on
the section as soon as of the pres
ident of the railroad. And you
will have power with God when He
sees you reach an extremity. You
will have power with men when
you make your name worth some
thing"
Later. speaking of the evils of
liquor, he said: Il was asked II
man can be a Christian and drink
booze. Not on your tintype- Chris
tianity and red whisky don't stay
in the same skin together. A man
that walks with God can't fill his
old hide up with rotten whisky.
Sunday told of one time in his
early life when he was janitoF of
a school, where he had to make II
fires in as many stoves at 2 O'Clock
every morning. For this he re
ceived S25 per month. Nobody
called me a CRATER then" he said
laHghingly.
Must Be Awakened.
According to the evangelist,
America is both going to the dogs
fast and is capable OF staging the
biggest recovery ever seen in the
next few years. It can be accom-
!. plished by true cooperation and
consideration between all classes.
Capital and labor must shake
hands and other similar opposing
forces must take the other side
into consideration as we'll as their
own. yet it isn't surprising that
things are as they are. Gosh.
wonder the Lords doing as we'll
as he is with the bunch he's got to
work with. Graft and spOils and
speculative interests have
strangle hold on our country and
our community. Our churches are
full of sour-faced religious crab
appIes that are trying to hand God
a lemon. Say, church OF God IN
the tri-cities. you spend the night
in prayer and you'll rewrite your
history in this section OF the ceun-
try"
His advice to husbands was a
telling blow with the feminine sec
ton of the audience especially.
Owe Much To Woman.
IF we only could realize how
much we owe to woman!" he said.
There's one of them made for
each of US. and if you haven't got
yours it's not her fault. Eight di-
yorces out of II in this country is
too much, my friends, and much
too often they are caused by the
husband. Woman can make
heaven of a small home, if you'll
Just let her try. Brutality isn't
lettering her try. Try praising
your wife even if it frightens her
at first. If you want your wife to
be like an angel treat her like an
angel Show her you love her.
You shouldn't have married her if
YOU didn't. Love is a great mira
cle-worker. Woman is always in
the forefront of something that's
good. She's kept the pillars of the
church from falling, and she's &C
compIished more of the big things
in the world. which contribute to-
ward its happiness, than man gives
her credit for
@If a woman had the handling
OF the money in most homes, the
devil would be in the hospital with
both his eyes out within two
weeks. Give your wife little
money a week, and when you're
down and out she'll be ready to
loan you some at 6 per cent Let
her know something about your
business, too. so that after the