New Britain herald., 1922-03-13
MINISTER SCORES
 INDECENT LANGUAGE
Says Smutty Stories Are Soiling
 Souls of Children

X straight from the shoulder, sledg, hammer sermon was delivered b. ,Rcv. John l.. Davis to the Every mans Bible class yesterday when thu minister took occasion to hurl some oratorical thunder at the anti-prohi bitionsts and men who tell sugges 1 tive stories.
 | Would Cut Out Profanity Rev. MT. Davis began by telling oi some of the suggestive songs heard on the streets today and asking the men to make an effort to stamp out the condition. There arc a good many jokes and good many stories we can tell, and no one appreciates a good joke better than l do, without going into the vileness and filth of the of the filthy, rotten mouths on tho street" he said.
 "Tho fellow who will sit and laugh at the smutty story, is as bad as the dirty mouthed fellow who tells it. What these men are doing is soiling the souls of children.
 Nothing Between The Ears There is power in the bible, which has an ingrafted word to save your soul, but if any man be a nearer of the word and not a doer, he is like man looking in q mirror, he goes straightway away and forgets what he looks like. Sermons make no more imprc ssion on people of that kind than water on a ducks back, They so in one ear and out the other.
 Philosophy or Grant
 When one Of the other officers in West Point went into General Grants s tent and said, There are no ladies here, l want to tell you a good story, Grant replied, No, but there are gen. tlemen here, you'd better keep your story to yourself"
 Spotting The Domincc First
 Tt is what you believe and think you are and what you do, that makes you what you are, was the general theme of the discourse. You can generally tell a minister by his dress" :" he said, adding that sometimes this was unfortunate for the minister
 Tn Scotland, when l was there, the ministers always wore those funny lit- tie flat black hats. You could sec them three blocks away It always gave people a chance to be prepared by the time the minister got therc and he never suw his people on their human side.
 Human lciclcs
 He spoke Of the cmotionalism such as is seen in southern camp meetings and revivals, Billy Sunday campaigns, etc, where people throw themselves full length on the floor. thrashing about in a frenzy of religious emo ton. It's so long since many Of you men had a religious emotion that you wouldn't recognize one coming down the street." he thundered. New England people clothe themselves in asbestos so no preacher can come llong and set them on fire. l don't want any of that religion that's so cold and informal there is no happi ness in it; that all you do is from q sense of duty
 The laws of restraint and the laws Of liberty came in for a discussion, Whatever you do from your own inner feeling, which the law tells you lou should do. is a law of liberty. IT man has been giving way to his natural inclination and driving his car too fast and the law stops him, that is the law of restraint.
 The Prohibition Law
 ITO many men the prohibition law is law of restraint but to most of us it is law of liberty. get all I want to drink and l drink all l get. But I don't get any and I don't want any and l don't drink any.
 Stil On The Bottle
 America is in its infancy and lot Of our men haven't been wcaned rom the bottle yet. TO every decent nan, prohibition is q law of liberty out to every old soak, it's law Of restraint A man who is listening to mo now, said to me ono day last week, John l., if prohibition contin- lo, it will be sober.
 What Prohibition Does
 Before we had prohibition. there were 20, ,000,000 drinkers in the United states. Now there are only 2,500, ,O0G Then they tell mo prohibition do sn't prohibit. Whom they get 17,b00.00N people to stop drinking in two vears. "
 P. N. Wilson's Report
 In speaking of q recent com ersa tion with P. Whitcwell Wilson, Of tho l London Times. who was sent to this throughout tho United States in re- gard 70 prohibition, he said that after tra,cling all over the country and in