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Show It WHAT THE MISTER j SIW n A CROWDED 'J STREET Last night at the Methodist churrh TtiR Jim" Kramer was more than ever .ible to hold his audience with the" jronderful and gripping message whlcS lifff ne Savc iro,n ,no following then ' What I Saw at Third and Market. I -.wi Franr isco His telling hits tor real iraerlcan-ism iraerlcan-ism were though-provoking. He said that it is equally important to Ai m j ranize the foreigner as it is to Chris-tianize Chris-tianize him.' Ancl when he said, l' that the panacea for all our social and political ills would be not to Rive the franchise to any man, white or black, until he is able to read a section of the constitution, as well as to write the same," there were hearty amens i all over the church. "Sometimes I think," said the evangelist, evan-gelist, "that if heaven over opens on la earth, with all due respect to Utah, it will be in California where all nature gathers at its holy shrine for worship. If I ever Ret to heaven I want to shake hands with the saint who drove the first stake in California. There Is no City in the world like San Francisco and there is no corner on earth where so many people pass as Third anil Market streets As I looked at the vast throngs go by I was impressed with the thought that we must Amor1-canize Amor1-canize the foreigners. We issued the invitation to all humanity to come and rest beneath the shade of liberty trees and in response the caravan moved westward to blotch and poison this beauteous Father Land. We must Americanize the foreigner or they will foreicnize us I never believed thnt our fathers meant for this country to be a dumping ground for the old world's filth The founding of this nation na-tion was an appeal to God and so must its salvation b' We have driven the last nail in the coffin of the Divine right of kings and the leaven of oir democracy will soon send to oblivion every Prussianized throne. And must see that all Kaiser Bills go to hell croaking "The Watch on the Rhine ' "As I 6aw the great crowds go by I said to myself, a crowd doesn t amount to much after all David mad a great mistake when he. numbered Israel and worshipped the God Oi -tistics. I prefer one royal man to all the vulgar multitude. The Belk-ia - exposed the weakness of numbers. Japan slapped the face of great China, and the small Moravian church nas put us all to shame Numerical Mronsth is a boomeninK. "A9 1 stood there, it seemed to me that all the people were In a furious hurry A mile a minute will not satisfy satis-fy us now. The great disease now is 'Amerleanltii ' The largest crowd 1 ever saw gathered in one place was not there to cheer a man on his way to work With a dinner pail on his hand, to sing the praises of a boy or clrl graduating, to applaud the man I who overcomes a temptation, to give a hurrah for the mother who brines a baby into the world, or to g. .e tne man who Is converted a boost, but ! there to see automobile speed-demons I co at the rate of better than a milo la minute. Nervous prostration is the road most traveled now The confusion con-fusion at the tower of Babel, the world's first skyscraper was a protest pro-test ugainsi hurry. "As I stood there I saw hundreds of j successful faces but few happy faces. I The human face has a universal language lan-guage All understood the lancuape of a tear, the symbolism of a smile, i the meaning of a frown and the shrug of a shoulder Behind the face I slumbering all the qualities of the soul.l I Most of us are round-shouldered and hump backed from carrying the world 'upon our shoulders. One of the sad-i dest pages is kept by the reeord of men who have been damned by their successes. David never foroi his kinsllness until he became a kins, and then he played the fool. Many a man cries, 'If I only had a million ' I know what h would do. He would trj his best to get another million Sometimes Some-times ou wish you were the other fellow, but If you could be lifted rat of your environment into his and he into yours, and changing places von would imagine that you had ehan d worlds 1 had rath r trust the small' est planet that swings In its orbit than ten comets shootlns ever way in: periling the life of the world. "As I stood there. I learned (he greatest of all lessons, one that bas changed my outlook altogether that God is no respecter of persons, he be-:n- the (iod oi the good as well as the iod of the bad. The gun sends as plud a ray of light Into the hovel as it sends into the brown stone front and sloritic the same spectacle for every ye M. -thinks that If God has a rhnst'li ennl iinnn ,.,w-tU it c k i. "i"-"' w.im ii in nn.- nu:ii" of humble poverty Every man h.is a devil. He also has an angel Every man is a divinity in disgulal and a God trailing in the dust Just as th deformed child has the largest place in the heart of Its mother, Jusi so G I 1 would bankrupt heaven to help his erring er-ring child I crae no higher honor anad warn no greater compensation than to live in the house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.' Rev. Christian It Garver san? a ;olo. "The Old Rugged Cross " A full ehorus 'hoir made the sung srviee most helpful. Tomorrow night the evangelist promises that at the conclusion con-clusion of the sermon there will be a burial service of all hammers. Evry ! one left the room last night with a smile. |
