Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

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and white through which faces
mingled. 1t was an inspiring
sight, with the tune of the old
hymn ringing out from 1000 en-
thusiastic throats.
Huge Crowd at Night.
An audience which completely
filled all seats on the level space
and behind the pulpit, besides
crOwding the inner space around
the walls and all doors and win
dows, was the setting at the even
ing meeting. In all. nearly nine
thousand persons must have heard
the sermon upon the text from
Luke GAG. why Call Te Me Lord.
Lord. and Do Not the Things
Say?"
BILLY" followed up this state
ment with cryptic remarks in the
same vein. why call yourself a
Democrat and then vote the Repub-
lican Ticket? why profess to be a
Christian and then belle it by your
daily actions?" were some OF them.
Before the sermon, Rev. A.
Frank Houser of Calvary Baptist
church, Davenport. led the prayer.
During the song service Mr.. Rode
HEAVIER sang My Wonderful
Dream" in a very pleasing man
ner. He took upon the platform a
wee boy, Jimmie Smith, the son of
a missionary and who is soon to go
back to Burma. The child had re
Quested the singer to render this
selection before he departed, Mr.
RodeheaVer said. In fact, though
overcome with a strange sensation
of being the center for thousands
of pairs of eyes, the little fellow
asked for that song even while up
on the rOstrum.
MIR. Rodeheaver also told of a
former acquaintanceship with sew
eral tri-city people. He said he
had met Rev. J. L. Vance and other
men in France, and had known DR..
Cole on a previous visit to this
place. He and Mrs. William Ash
err beautifully rendered In the
Garden" a lovely hymn. This ac-
compartment. like all others as
we'll as that for the choral music,
was played by Mr. Matthews.
Love Worlds Remedy.
I've got the remedy for all ills
Of the world" said the evangelist
in the opening sentences of his |
sermon. Its love" That will /
cure all difficulties, and is the true |
and only specific, for the masses. /
he classes, capital, and labor" He |
proceeded to show how spiritual !
owe is the factor upon which the |
world is built, and backed up his /
statements with illustrations. /
Within the next 10 minutes he (
brew hot shots into many of the
wills of today. Among them was
hat of divorce.
THE only ground for remarriage
Ifter divorce is adultery. The
hing is done upon the ground that ?
t is legally right. Granted. But
ome things that are legally right
re morally rotten. That's one of
hem. I've never yet married a
oupIe one of whom had been di-
-orced, and 1 never will as long as
m an ordained minister of God.
THE liquor traffic is alive today,
reported dead. l want
o tell you that the saloon is o. X.
n it's place, but that place is in
ell The dirty bunch that run it
5 still active and working. If it
admit been for some of you God
orsaken church members they'd
II been in hell long ago.
Hits at Tobacco Use.
81 don't say a man cant be a
hristian and use tobacco. But I
ay he'd be a lot better one if he !
idn't use it. On the level, don't
on respect me more because can {
ONE up here without" he seized {
pitcher of water from beneath
lie pulpit and washed out his
louth. drenching the carpet of the I
latform with the supposedly pol c
tied residue. Il won't stick up !
IT the action of the Y or the X. c., /
: any of the rest of them in send
e tobacco and Cigarets across to l
IT boys. 1t wasn't needed, and
s got a lot of them newly into
lie damnable habit. :
Il am against bolshevism in any :
I'm or in any way. whether in the :
W underground dumps, on the =
,rners from the mouths of soap 7
TX orators, or in the par1ors of So ;
ETY. in the minds of siIken hair .
aimed sissies and boobs in Prince a
Iberts." He then began describ- h
g conditions in Russia. accord u
g to press reports and other in 2
rmation. ultimately speaking of h
e so-caIled free love" bureaus.
which the virtue of women was {,
ade a thing of naught. At one K