God never meant anybody to offer up a prayer that was measured in square miles. Some people here are so busy singing about the streets of glory that they forget to sweep the snow off their own streets. Talk about non-church goers—it makes me sick. Why don’t you talk about the non-going church? The proof of the pudding is not found in smelling the bag or chewing the strings. There are lots of church members who only smell the bag and chew the rag. Christianity must be a good thing or why would they try to counterfeit it. You never heard of a counterfeit infidel. The man who refuses to be a Christian because there are hypocrites in the church is a fool. You can find about everything in the ordinary church from a humming bird to a turkey buzzard. I could no more shock some of you fellows than I could pour something on a skunk and make him smell good. The inconsistency you talk about is in your life, not in the Bible. Talk to people on business and they’ll talk sense; talk to them on religion and they’ll talk nonsense. Christianity is the one thing that allows the angel to take hold of you and strangle the animal in you. HOT SHOTS ON CARDS AND GAMBLING. If you have a deck of cards and a Bible in your home, throw the deck in the alley. Either throw the cards out and keep the Bible, or throw out the Bible and keep the cards. What’s the difference between a game of cards and a game of checkers? Just as much difference as between heaven and hell. It is said nine-tenths of the gamblers are taught in their homes by their mothers, and 80 per cent by Christian people. I believe that cards and dancing are doing more to damn the spiritual life of the church than the grog-shops, though you can’t accuse me of being a friend of that stinking, dirty, rotten, hell-soaked business. I believe more people backslide on account of the social side than on account of the saloon. Lots of church members have cards on their tables as often as food. A billiard table is the first cousin to a saloon. The saloonkeepers and gamblers laugh every time they read the announcement of a euchre or card party in the newspapers, for they know it will only be a question of time until they get the players. You have no right to find fault with the city officials because they don’t suppress gambling when it is carried on right in your home. [Illustration: WAITING FOR THE OPENING OF THE TABERNACLE.] EVANGELIST PUTS TABOO ON THEATER. The theater, as conducted today, is one of the rottenest institutions outside of hell. It is upon the charred souls of women that most of the men who are a power in the theatrical world have climbed to their height. The theater is corrupting, educationally, commercially and morally. It is almost impossible to find in the theater decency and purity. The church and the theater have nothing in common. The only way to reform the theater is to turn it into something else.