Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-28
SUNDAY breaches
PATRIOTIC SERMON
Great Evangelist Gives Cincinnati
Lesson in True Americanism
in Mems Meeting

/ Cincinnati, O., MHrCh ZS.-B1lly
Sunday covered multitude OF
subjects-all related, more or less
and linked together in further
ance of program of pure patri-
otism and Americanism-in his
widely heralded iecture-sermon
ion "Americanism," or "Uncle
Sam, Our Meal Ticket" before an
audience composed exclusively of
men. at the tabernacle Sunday af-
iternOOn.
Socialists, Bolshevists, |. W.
/ W.ism, capital, labor, immigra-
ton, social evils. religion-all
came in for their share of atten-
ton, as Mr.. Sunday, hopping nim-
! bly, from one to the other, upheld
the United States as the greatest
nation in the world and praised
! Cincinnati as the most patriotic
! city he has yet been in.
! Before his audience-7,OOO men,
youths and boys-Mr. Sunday
raped those things which he be
! llieved to be detrimental to the
proper upbuilding of the country,
SlOrified the cause of American
isrr and urged that capital and la
Dor get together and shake hands
las solution of the greatest ques-
tion of all just now, so that
America could see the greatest
prosperity that she has ever
! nOWn.
The lecture. for it vas lecture
more than sermon, brought $50
men and youths down the saw
dust trail, a rccord-breaking re-
sponSe for the revival meetings.
Great waves of cheering burst
forth fromthe audience as Mr.
Sunday made his comments on
current topics and on internation-
al affairs, with frequent joke to
illustrate his points. A veritable
pandemonium broke forth early
in the lecture. when he quoted
Theodore Roosevelt on America !:
"This country is large enough for
only one flag. and that is the
American flag"
!, Another burst of applause greet
ed his reference to the recent
developments in the case of Gu
gene Y. Debs. convicted Socialist.
who recently went to Washington
alone to confer with government
officials about his release from
the Atlanta penitentiary where he
Is serving sentence for violation
Of the espionage laws.
IF the reports are true about
what Debs said after the trip, L
have nothing to take back and
nothing to recant,' Mr. Sunday
declared, then, by the Eternal. he
ought to stay behind the prison
bars
Another wave of Cheerin" fol-
lowed his condemnation of the
League of Nations, his criticisms
OF pacifl.ts and conscientious OBJ
jectors. and his bitter inveCtive OF
Bolshevism and other ism l.
dirty pups he called them-tl1at
would not build up but that woult
destroy.
| Mr.. Sundays sermon Sunday
night was built around the story
of Christ and Plate. the latter a
machine politician working for
his own interests in bringing
about the death of Christ, Mr.
Sunday said.
i Plate was pictured as power
Of evil, man who usurped the
power imposed in him by the peo-
pie. You never heard of n kid
named Plate. did you?" he asked
i''Nobody wants to name his chill
dren after a man like that
H. G.. Wells, Sir Oliver Lodge
and Sir A. Conon Doyle came in
for share of criticism because OF
some of their statements.
II. G.. Wells is a good writer
of ne will keep away from relig-
ion Mr.. Sunday declared. "He's
big fool when it come, to writing
about religion. If you want to
find out something about Russia
read his book. but if you want to
find about religion he's a fool on
that subject. Then there is Sir
Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan
Doyle, with their views Of spirit
Iualism and such bunk. They are
big fools"
! Jesus Christ was pictured by
Mr.. Sunday as the grandest char
acter in history, not "the highes,
TYPE of man." as that term goes
but "the Son of God" and the "Sa
viour Of the world" He reached
the climax of his oratorical pow
ers in portraying Christ that his
audience might see him as he did