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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1915)
THK ItKh: OMAHA. W'KDNKSDAY, OCTOHKIt 13, 1015. 3 KANSAS CITY IS ' AFTERJ. SUNDAY Delegation Hundred Strong Come to Tell Evangelist They Must Hare a Campaign There. MAY WIN . OUT THEIR POINT Kansas City Invaded Billy" Sun day headquarters 100 strong Tuesday morning and made so strong an argu ment for a Sunday campaign there. starting May 1, 1916, that machln ery was put in motion Immediately looking to shifting the Louisville, Ky., date so as to accommodate Kan sas City. Mrs. Sunday left Tues day evening for Louisville to confer with the folks there on this subject. Several of the Kansas City folks ex pect to go to Louisville for this pur pose also. The dleatlon ramie things lively in the lohby of the Loyal hotel. Each man wore a badge Inscribed. "Kinai City Wants Billy Sunday," and each carried a cane with a Kansas City pennant at tached. They secured audience with Mr. and Mns. Sunday early and laid the situation before them. A "wet" and "dry" election is to come up In Kansas City, and they believe that 'Billy" can Insure success for the "drys." At the last elec tion the "drys" lost by only l.X votes). Want I.oaUTlll to Shift. Louisville has been holding out' for a campaign to start not later than April ltf. Mr. Sunday recently notified them that he poltvely could not be there before My 1. This little difference Is the polr.t on which It is expected that Louisville can be induced to shirt Its date In favor of Kaneas City, exactly as Omaha last spring shifted lis dates In favor of rater son, N. J. If Louisville should still re main obdurate It Is expected that It will be dropped altogether. The Kansas City delegation Is the larg est, most representative and most "militant" of the delegations that have ever come to invite Mr. Sunday, rtepre sentatives are in It from nearly every lin of business and professional life. with only one or two ministers. It bring a united call from all the churches and from a population aggregating 400,000. Beveral of the delegates are from sur rounding towns. The three dally news papers of the city sent men with the delegation. Ex-Mayor Beardsley and Judge Russell are here and some of the men are millionaires. Those of the delegation who did not leave last night for .Louisville remained for the Tabernacle service and took a night train for Kansas City. The Kansas Citjr delegation came over the Burlington In five special Pulmans. They were accompanied by H. E. Heller, general agent of the Burlington at Kan sas City. The party took breakfast at Hotel Fontenclla. noon. What forT I mean the diamond wearing bunch; the automobile gang; the silk gowned that's the tunrh. She can tska, home a dinky cream pitcher, a whisk broom or a pair of silk stockings. I have more respect for the professional gambler than I have for the church mem ber who plays cards. The one ' oien!y a gambler, the other Is a gambler and pretends to be decent. Tou will never know what a good time In until you become an out and out Christian. If every man will walk out of the church and line up, you could close every saloon In town tomorrow. I believe they should be recreative, and net destructive. ;od Forbids It. The church of God forbids It. The greatest and inot sptrltunl chunrches forbid It and are SKalnxt It. Catholic. Tresbyterlan, Conrregntlonal. the t'nlted I'resbyterlan and the Christians are all against It. The Methodist church waa raised up for the very purpose of discountenancing the dance In the church. Uod called Wesley and Whitfield to purify the Episcopal church, and that movement which rryetslllsod In the The dance la the dry rot. the tinder. Methodist church was th ehuke which box of society: I always thought it was (Jod BBV(,. from that day until this the big nuisance to gaiiop a mne or two; cnr,.h hu. iri.l sermons against theso Amusements" of Society Roundly Scored by 'Billy9 Sunday in Sermon "Billy" Sunday preached yesterday aft ernoon on "Amusements," and last night preached the same sermon, aa follows: Galattans vi.;7: "Be not deceived (that is, don't let the oevll deceive you). God la not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." That would be true If It were not In the Bible. It has always been true In nature. It would be unnatural to expect to plant a turnip seed and get apples. It would be unnatural to plant an apple seed and expect to get oranges. You reap what you aow in nature, and in works, either material or spiritual. ' "Whatsoever a man soweth that ahall he also reap." , If you sow saloons' you will reap drunkards. If you aow cards you will reap gamblers. If you aow dance halls you will reap shame. You ought to. If you vote for the dirty, rotten saloon your boy ought to be a orunkard. You ought to be paid In your own coin. I know of no more suitable text in the Bible for the topic that 1 have In hand, and by the presence of such a vast audience and by the expectant look upon your faces, I am sure that you won't ex pect me to utter one word in defense of the amusement proposition. And yet if there la no harm in It I should be the champion of It and not the bitter, enemy of It. Not all are bad. I wouldn't say that, but most of them are. You know how few are good, and so do I. Skill of the Dvll. But the energetic skill of the devil has defied the truth of such masterly power that If it is to be defeated there Is but one or two alternatives oven to the man ' who assaults the hell-soaked Institutions . with jtrit And-courage. One. ot two alter natives. He can consume his energy and Itself In other wys. It Is on a matter of amusement, and that of the trifling kind. The day Is. long past when any number of serlous-mlnded cltisens look to the theater for Inspiration or Instruction. The legitimate drama can't live. ,A Shakes pearean show can't last for a, month. The people will not attend It, but let a God forsaken leg show start-acrtss the street anfi H will be packed to the roofs. It's tho spectacular that appeals today. Take the leg show and the 8eclacular from the stage and the theater would go to rot You go to see a musical comeoy and you will see girls that haven't enough clothes on t) flag a handcar and thn they try lo hide behind art. That's why tho managers say the public Is to blame. If you want to be dirty and go V thexe places It's up to you. But It's because of Ihese I'm Jut.tlfled in preaching the ser n.cn that I am. Borah Bernhardt went away from Amer ica with 1274,000 at the end of a nine month's tour, but when a preacher makes a little money they call him a "grafter." Cyrus Townser.d Brady found only eight out of twenty-one p'.ays that he would endcrce. The only good I can see you do with tho theater la to turn it Into some thing olse. If the church would refuse to patronise the theater, the theater would be com pelled to sweep Its filth from the stage. Booth and Garrlck, two of the greatest tragedians, would not allow tnelr own children to go to the theater. Macready. ono of the famous English tragedians. would not allow his wife or children to see a play unless he had first read or seen It and passed upon it, as to whether or not it was fit to see. Those were men who nad some char acter to them aud left honor and high just to get a hug or two. A dancing church member Is never a soul winning church member. Some of you girls say: "Good-bye. Lord, I have to go to tho dance with this dude; I'm sorry." There is nothing so tame as to ask a fellow to play cards for the fun of It when he Is used to a sky limit. It does not make any difference whether It In a penny ante or sky limit. So we ; have progressive euchre, and lots of 1 church members in Omaha have cards on i their table as often as food. I hear some churches have been hav ing more card parties than prayer meet ings. If you have a Bible and a deck of cards la your home, either throw the cards In the furnace and keep the Blhle, or throw the bible into the garbage can and keep the cards. , Don't let them both stay under your roof all night. i If you keep boose in the cellar get out of the church. In a town where I was preaching they had' parties early to' get them off their hands before I came. They had a big affair and tho prise was a. $30 cut glass dish, and a society woman worked and sweat, and lied and cheated and took progressions which she didn't win and then lost the dish by two points. She went home and was sick In bed for two days. She had a son named Harold, 17 years of age. He had a head like an eggplant, face life a horse, eyes like poached eggs, ears like the sails on a catboat, a regular Clydesdale fellow; and she came down one morning In her crushed geranium tea gown with ele phant's breath ribbons, with red slippers that turned up like sled runners, and her son came In and said: "Here, ma. don't worry about that cut glass dish you didn't win; here's a 20 gold piece and you can go and buy one Just like it from the Jeweler." Won It at Cards. "Why, where did you get it?" she asked. f "I won it at Richardson," (that's the gambling hell of the town), and she said, "Why, dear, do you think I would take $20 you won at gambling?" "Why not?" he asked. "Where's the difference between winning a prise that cost $20 and winning the $30 and buying the prise?" The woman said to me afterwards when she came down and took her stand for Christ, she would never play cards again. She Is one ot the most active workers and most Christian women of the church today. I used to play cards. I could lie and cheat like the rest of them. But I'm after the devil now; I don't care where he shows his head. One of the Gideons. While they were there the man's old washerwoman came down and pled with him to accept Christ. He told her he would do it for her and went up in front and took his stand. He was one of things until It Is a generally accepted tru ism that men and women that don't preach against these things are too much of coward to pose as spiritual leaders, or they are too ignorant to teach Ood's people. I know that there are some churches that tolerate It they don't encourage It sor In Oakland, Cel., and he made $l,0tt) a month out ot his classes, and he told me that out of one claa there were eight girls who became outcasts as a direct result of the dance, and he quit It because he raw what the dance was do ing right In Oakland, and out of $n0 girls taken at random there were 1J who were there through darning, twenty through drinking, ten from wilful choKe and seven because poverty and abuse had drlvfn idem to It. I do not believe that poverty will make a girl go wrong It her heart Is right. Oh, but you say: "I go to the private dances. I don't go to the alums or free-for-alls." The slums and free-for-alls have you beat a mile. Why? Because they wear more clothes than you do. Jean Cowles, who has charge of the work of fallen girls, declared before the Chicago coiimilmen that his Inventory shows that SO per cent of the fallun girls fall because ot the dance. Vpon her statement, which opened the eyes of the authorities, dance hall licenses were re- any church that encourages It Is too low! 'ued- down to deserve the name of church. I will give you a quotation from a let ter from tlie bishops and archbishops of the Catholic church which says: "In this connection we consider it our raver New Metked, But you say: "Can't a fvllow dance with his own wife?" "His who?" "Hie own wife?" Why you would Just as soon husk corn all night by moonlight as danc The Quality and Distinctive Style of the Bedroom Furniture Offered at These Low Prices Will Surprise You Genuine Mahogany Poster Suite) to match the Dresser illustrated 4 pieces ; .$123 duty to warn our members against this, with your own wife. Its not your wife amusement, which may become to them j you want to dance with. Its some other an occasion of sin, especially the fash-! fellow'a wife or some other fellow's sister. ' time talking about the minor usages of ! stamp after thorn. , the possible limits one might go, or he! H,-dn said thU only the genius of can nee! i he bark m wav and show the ' Shakespeare saved the stage from the thing full of worm holes and run the risk of losing his fair reputation. I want to say that I have willingly and deliberately, and with malaoe afore thought, chosen ' the latter course. I have never preached this sermon or lec ture, as you call it, but that I always feel myself like a dentun placed there contempt of all. An actress said tilt: "After years on the stage I am convinced that the theatrical business Is tho most corrupt In the world." It is corrupting educationally, commercially and morally. Mark of Deemdenee. It is upon thj charred souls of women that most of the men who are a power In Sv society to take revenge for the - things , tUeatrtca, world naVe climbed to their society liaeit naa maae pussrvio una i ssary. I'm not responsible for them. I Thfl reform thMw , you ana you Know u. x were u iometntnf else. l3rae, ZanK. kg these things I wouldn't have the ;. jlacity to preach against them. I don't piay cards and attend theaters. It 1 did you would condemn me, and justly, too. But I don't and you can't come to me and say, "Physician, -ileal yourself." I have a message which burns Its way into your aoul and to my heart. My words may be strong, but if they are, you must remember they are blood red with conviction. With the cry of lost souls ringing In my ears I cannot remain still. If I can save one from going to hell, I consider myself well paid for all the vituperation and malediction that you can hurl agalnBt me because I rub it into your pet tin. Judged in the court ot human desire. I might be condemned by everybody that I wants to do It. but Judged in the court of human conscience and need, I will re ceive a universal verdict of approval. For Moral Iecency, 1 am actuated by no other motive than moral decency and if you are ready to aid in moral uplift you will listen and give me your thanks. We always associate in our minds cer will rays that the playwrfeht gets up his production to satisfy the lust ot the ago. and not for what good it will do the Glennon said that to go night after night to the theater Is a merle of decadence. You avoid the pent house and leper hospital and yet night after night you'll rush to the theater to enjoy the procession of moral lepers ex posed on the stage for the plaudits of the people. The theater and the church have nothing in common. Tho church i gives the people what they need. The theater gives them what they want. We shall reap what we sow. Sow cards, teap gamblers. Sjw the dance and reap brothels aud outcasts. Sow the saloon and reap drunkards, just as naturally as tho water runs down hill. I deTy anyone to contradict what I eay about the mat ter. You say: "What is the matter with this preacher, doesn't he believe in amuse ments?" There is not a man in Omaha who be lieves more in amusements than I do. But I believe that they should be recre ative and harmless and not destructive lonahle dance, which Is disgusting and demoralising. "The enormities of the theater and the dance would not be tolerated another minute if the mothers woulJ Only set their faces against them." Bishop Vlncennes quotes from his rec ords that the waits would not be toler ated If Christian mothers would only set their faces against It and remove their daughters from this contamination. Alas! that women rrofesslng to follow Christ should not rally for the honor of our daughters and drive these thing from society. Church Bars Lon, The bars of the church are so low now that my old hog can come and root and crawl in. Any old lobster with two or three suits of clothes and a bank ac count can break Into most any church. If one preacher gets a little too warm on these subjects he gets called for It; and If any one leaves the church because of It another preacher will tako 'em In. Instead he should stand by the other minister and say, "Go to It!" , The trouble Is now the church of God has become the clearing house for the world. I have as good a risht to expect good of you as I have of my wife and she has of me. The dancing church member never was a soul winner. The dance Is simply a hugging match set to music. The crusade against the dance Is for everybody, not merely for the preacher or the old man or woman who couldn't dance if they wanted to, but for every body Interested In morals, whether In the church or out of the church Dance la Immoral. The dance is Immoral. Every man and woman carries a breast full of passions, the same as are possessed by the bad. and those passions become a tinder box to consume morals whenever brought Into contact with the temptress. The dance Is conducive to Immorality. In the dance and on the ballroom floor you allow lib erties to men that you never allow them elsewhere. You grant men liberties on the ballroom floor that If a man other than your husband would attempt in your the five men who founded the little band home and your nuaband would flnd Ar flmsiAeijn ml a T-r I - I of Gideon Charley Kltterege. There was a time in America when the stately cotillon seemed to satisfy America, but It is too slow for the hot blood of the twentieth century. They must have something that will chase hurdles through their veins. There is nothing so insipid for the devotee of the waits as to dance a quadrille. I am asked to give a reason to the saved why they should not danoe. Your love for those things keep you out of the church. v I believe that moat of the girls sold as white slaves are enlisted from the ball rooms. The dance Is the rottenest, most hellish, vice-producing institution that ever wriggled from the "depths of perdi tion. Certainly, I believe In amusements, but at it, he would have no trouble in secur ing a divorce and if he shot the man no Jury In the world would convict him of it. Doesn't the swing of the dance around the corners throw men and women In positions that are not tolerated else where? Fathers and brothers you don't seem to realise when your daughters and sis ters go to these dances they meet strange men and associate with older women and learn to smoke and drink; and you can bet that when a girl gets so low that sho will smoke and drink that she la on the toboggan slide and going to hell fast. It does no harm to keep your daughter away from dances. She runs a big risk In going. In God's name play the safe side. Prof. Faulkner waa a dancing profes- You let him hug your wife for the privilege of hugging his. I want to see the color ot the buck's hair that dares to put his arms around Nell. You say you need the exercise of dane- Ing. Passion Is the basis ef the popularity of the dance. Let women dance with women and the men dance with men. Make men dance by themselves and women by themselves and I'll kill the dance In a month. I believe that passion Is the basts of the dance popularity to day. Men drink and gamble and they go to raoet racks and they bet all ot this they do without their wives. Why, then, can't they dance without their wives, or other people's wives, If exercise Is the thing they want. The dance brings vice and virtue Into such close contact that virtue is well nigh helpless and powerless. Hid they dance In Bible times? Yes, but they danced by themselves. They danced then for religious exercise. But dancing In the twentieth century la not for re ligious experience. David danced before the ark of God and Saul's daughter looked on In envy. But he danced by himself. Dancing weakens you morally. There Isn't a reforming Influence in it. You say "It doesn't hurt you," but you know It does. If It hasn't, hurt you so far, I will congratulate you and warn you In time. There are plenty of graceful exerclsee and cheerful amusements which have none of . the objections that lie against dancing connected with them. As everything a Christian does should be done 'Tnto the Lord." I feel that to Indulge in dancing would be more of an Insult than an honor to Him. So I shall abstain from It altogether. In Rome there stands the great St. Peter's cathedral. It required $37 years to build It; fifteen architects were required. There are 758 columns and 121 swinging lights are always burning before the altar. A man traveling In Europe came to the cathedral and went in. He had only gotten a short distanoe whan there came the cry of "hats off, the pope Is com ing," and as they stand in respectful silence, the Swiss guards coma down the aisle carrying a chair bearing the pale, then, emaciated Ieo XIII. ' He dismounts from the chair and creeps to the foot of the statue ot the lowly fisherman of -Galilee and kisses the joot of the figure and returns to his chair. Peter, the fisherman of God. What would I not give If I could live a life tftat would leave behind me a monument such as thatl What would you not give? Peter gave up all and followed Christ. Grest God, is It too great a sacrifice for you to atop cards, theaters and balls? Stop it! (Copyright, William A. Sunday.) 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In my opinion the theater is of such douotful character that it has been relegated to the class of forbidden amusements. You know that the theater had Ha beginning with the handmaid ot religion. It produced so much fuss and trouble that they were compelled to drop . It. Unless the theater Is redeemed it will fall We Its own vileness. We are flooded with vile drama that mocks and scoffs at the sacredness of marriage. Theater Not Teacher. The theater is not a teacher. It Is not Intended to be educational, but it is in tended for entertainment. Efforts have been made to reform the stage, but it has blways gone downward, and, like water, seeks Its own level. There have been spasmodic revivals, but today the majority of theaters allow any show that will bring money to be played at the theaters. We could shut up the theaters and you wouldn't miss them In forty-eight hours. You wouldn't stand up and defend a thing because there's lots of money In it, would 'you? They began to cut new exits in Chi cago theaters after the Iroquois theater fire so people could ge( out easier, but no dreadful things came to pass such as hsd been predicted by a leading actor. Th put lie has a caiacity ot amusing body believes riore in amusements than Play Good Games. What games do I play? Well, play base bail, or used to; I'm slowed up now. And I play lawn tennis; don't like It so well, though. It's too "girlificd,'' and golf, and croquet and checkers and chess. You say, v hat's the difference between a same of cards and a game of checkers? Curds never hclpod aiytady. Cards wtre invented to amuse an Idiotic king, and until tris day they have not done any better. Just as much difference as between heaven and hell. If you can Imagine thnt; as between vice and virtue, If you can Imagine that. There are hundreds of games which we can Indulge In that are not detrimental to us as cards are. Ever since the days that cards were Invented to satisfy the whims of an idiot king, down to today, they have been the tool of the gambler. A gambler knows the cards like the Jew eler knows the watch, or an auto repair man knows an auto. Many a boy is Inveigled into a gam bling room and listens to the roulette wheel, the faro bank and the keno. and listens to the ribaldry and the Jests and the blasphemy, and he is reminded of home. What a wonderful heritage to bequeath to a boy if he has to go Into a hell hole like that and have it remind him of home and the fact that that lie was taught at home. Men who have been spending their funds and lives to ferret those things out tell us that nine-tenths of the gamblers are taught in their homes by their mothers and M) per cek by Christian people. r (Gambling fa riambllasT. ' A seemingly estimsble woint'i will tesrl and snoose and pout through an after- Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the U. S. 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NOW, if YOU have vacant rooms, whether it bo one or a dozen, why don't you take the hint and advertise them to people who are too busy to go searching for rooms t Use a BEK WANT AD it costs little though it brings you much. BEE WANT ADS BRING RESULTS 31 II