Show OLIVER TALKS TO MEN Evangelist Delivers a Sermon at the New Grand Theater Evangelist Oliver spoke at tho New Grand at 3 i oclock yesterday afternoon to an audience of men only taking for his text Psalms IxvII 1 Lot God arise let his enemies be scattered He began by saying that the enemies of God for the most part work through agencies chief among which are the liquor traffic gambling and libertinism I Gambling Is an enemy to God he said because It filches from many a poor man hard earned money needed by his family I Is robbery Men will do things for money with which to gamble that they would not do to get money to buy bread with Your law on this matter Is all right but you dont enforce It The town Is not right It fs too much divided and If It dont reform It will surely be rebuked The libertine Is an enemy of God There are men who think that If they can ruin from Nix to ten girls a year that It Is a testimonial of their genius Such a one who goes about seeking whom he may devour is not n man he slinks worse than a pole cat A mans life is no better than n girls purity and the seducer deserves the gallows or electric chair A man that will visit a bawdy house Is mean enough to do anything ChiC I Is the part of manhood to help the fallen and not to put them lower down I your sister was In 1 house of Ill fame you would not say Let her go My denunciations do not Interfere with personal liberty and It la I my business to so speak for It relates to morals I Is my business to declare aloud and spare not A mans personal liberty rights stop Just before he curtails the liberty of another You have too many oily slippery sermons here talks that only angels could understand aided by heavens dictionary I I want to speak today to men so that they can understand me Some men are lrc like brook trout that run from 0 hook they want sermonettes and avoid real sermons Others are like fish that have to be harpooned and some are like lko those that require dynamite and that Is the class of men I am after today r a young man is shocked by my sermons you parents want to look out for him If he calls on your daughters he cant be trusted Some of his Illustrations were of a character that forbids their publication At Illff church last night before beginning be-ginning his sermon Evangelist Oliver referred to the fact that 0 young man in an Intoxicated condition had asked for prayers at the afternoon meeting and was afterward started home In charge of two friends He was arrested upon reaching the street by a policeman police-man who refused the request of Mr Oliver to let the young man bo taken home by his friends saying that he could not be allowed to go staggering llnsscrlnr along the street The evangelist told the policeman that he should arrest the party who had nojd the liquor He wished to enter C public rebuke against such n course He then spoke from John L xiv as to the mysteries and miracles of Christ as revealed In I time llcsh |