The rogue and scoundrelism and man’s infidelity form the groundwork of most plays. The day is long past when any number of serious-minded citizens look to the theater for inspiration or instruction. If it were not for the leg shows the theater would go bankrupt. Booth and Garrick would not allow their own children to go to the theater. Smiling religion—that’s what we want. The devil can’t laugh—poor devil. God enjoys a little fun. He made the parrot, donkey, monkey and some of you folks. The Lord wants the best; why can’t he have it? Some men are so rotten and vile they ought to be disinfected and take a bath in carbolic acid and formaldehyde every five minutes. To see some people you would think that the essentials of Christianity is to have a face so long you could eat oatmeal out of a gas pipe. Religion is not cramp colic. I want to lift the burden tonight from the heads of unoffending womanhood and hurl it at the heads of offending manhood. Some people have just enough religion to give them goosepimples. Get in the game. Some of you have just enough religion to get to the edge of life but not faith enough to plunge in. Don’t find fault with your physician until after you have tried his remedy; don’t find fault with God until you have tried him. I know some fellows here who are afraid to come to the Tabernacle and do one thing decent before going to Hell. I despise a religious coward. Society takes no notice of sin at first; it waits for the mute evidences of that sin. BILLY PUTS TABOO ON WEDDING KNOTS. Although an ordained minister, in all of his twenty-seven years’ experience as an evangelist, Mr. Sunday has united but one couple in marriage. And that, he declares, he did very reluctantly. In nearly every city where Billy has a campaign, he is besieged by young men and young women who want him to marry them. But Billy states that there is absolutely nothing doing in that line. He has performed his first and last marriage ceremony, and says he will stick to plain evangelism, and leave the marrying part to other ministers. EVERY PALACE IS NOT A HOME.