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Show HYPOCRISY DECRIED BY DfiJIMLF Revivalist Criticises People for Not Living Up to Their Religion. CALLS CITY CORRUPT i " Asserts That Too Little Interest In-terest Is Taken in Mission of the Church. I " Tsuis" UQ1 all manner of what he I termed "new forms of gospt'l" came in I for denunciation from the lips of Kvan- I pells t V. E. BieuVrwolf in a service in j the big tabernacle on tho Auerbach lot last night, during which he flcorfid church-goers who fail to live up to ! what they pretend to be. I Afore than two thousand people at- i tended the nervier, and while Dr. Bic- ! derwolf declared that the congregation j would be considerably larger it' church j members in general would exhibit the 6mo amount of enthusiasm in religious matters as they do in politics and amuticrnents, he expressed him.-elf sat-ibfiod sat-ibfiod with the number who had turned out to hear hw discourse. The Kev. B. V. Bronson opened the service with a prayer and tho National Male quartet and numbers by the choir , lent viu-tety to thu service. A feature of the evangelistic campaign is tho inauguration in-auguration ot a nursery servico in the l-'irst Methodist Episcopal church, where parents may leave infants and young children while attending the revivals. This ufternoon at 3 o'clock, the tabernacle taber-nacle will be tho scone of a gathering of women to hear Mrs. Brake Fuller women 'a worker with the Biederwoli party, discuss topics of iutereat to the sex. Some Pointed Shots. "I ask, therefore, with what intent you have sent for me, 1 ' was Dr. Bie-derwolf's Bie-derwolf's theme, and ho followed the idea through an address that demanded to know whether the members of the allied churches that are supporting the revivals intended to reinforce the evangelist evan-gelist to the utmost of their power in Jiis campaign for the moral uplift of bait Lake. ! Dr. Biederwolf interspersed his ad- I dress with humorous anecdotes em.pb.a- ' sizing tho various points be wished es pecially to bring out, and on several occasions oc-casions took the sting out of pointed ehots at inactive church members by concluding with a quip. He Bcored church folk who opposed , the revival idea and classed them, to uwo his own words, "with the boozers, blacklegs and others who also oppose the services. ' ' "Perhaps you think that I am going go-ing to preaoh some new kiud of gospel," gos-pel," he said. "Well I am not. There are too many forms of new gospel in the world now. Too many people are occupying pulpits today who give the world a stone when bread is sought. The world does not need any new gospels. gos-pels. "It i3 wonderful what these latter-day latter-day vripo ones find out in the matter of religion. The world is full of "isms,'- and other folderols that servo only to lead people away from God. Severe in Criticism. "There is Airs. Eddy. Or rather there was Mrs. Eddy. There are many others. There are Hindus with their Yogiism among us and tbere are 45,-000 45,-000 people in these United States who will rise tomorrow morning to worship the suu. Point Lonia has its Theoso-phiBts, Theoso-phiBts, with their belief that people in this world with eat-like propensities were here before the transmigration of their souls in the form of a back-fence v feline. "There is all manner of iniquity right here. Salt Lake has its saloons, its vice( its gambling run so wide open that bet tine on the elections iB carried on in full view of the street. "If people would get the same enthusiasm enthu-siasm in the service of God that they show in politics and profligate pleasure these things would long since have v eased to exist. I may sav a few things in the course of these revivals which will smart. But if I can say anything that will make the boozer give up booze, tbo gambler lay aside his cards, or put a deadlock on the lips of gossip, I am going- to ear it. ''The churches of today do not need jw members half as badly as they need to have their old members made over. "You have more regard for some jFOcial function than von have for the "Wednesday evening church meetings. 1 am not- knocking the dance, the theater, the whist party or other pleasure now, but I ask. you why you do not live up to your religion. W"hV are you not what von profess to be? People Responsible. "Yon are surprised that the world is Hot coming to .ioin the church. Did you rvor stop to think that the reason is that the church is joining the world. A woman cannot lead her husband to Hod when she does the same thiugs, indulges in the same pleasures that he does. "Yon complain that your pastor is not successful when you make your churches a sort of cold storage proposition. proposi-tion. You lock your preacher up in an ice-box and then denounce him because he does not sweat. J Dr. Biderwobf concluded with a quotation quo-tation from "The Ancient Mariner," relating to dead sailors manning a ship. iVad sailors stotvod at the wheel, he wiid, and iu the churches of todav, he declared, there are too manv dead people in the choir, in the congregation and, too often, in the pulpit. Friday afternoon a special service will be held in the tabernacle immediately after school for children between the ages of 33 and 19, and Sunday afternoon nr 3 o'clock a service for men only will be conducted in the tahemarle by Dr. Biederwolf, while Mrs. Kuller will conduct con-duct a meeting for women only in the J'i r? t M- K. o h ii re h . Following the service Saturdav evening eve-ning the congregation wil be asked to form a parade and march to some prominent promi-nent downtown corner, where a fifteen minute service will be held. A feature of tonight's taberuat-le service ser-vice will be the proence in the choir of a number of English and Welsh singvr? from Pleasant Green. |