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BILLY SUNDAY
IN ACTION
BEING CHAPTER TWO
OF
“HOGAN AND HOGAN”
Revised Edition
BY
CHARLES A. MCALPINE
The Briggs Press
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COPYRIGHT 1914
BY CHARLES A. MCALPINE
COPYRIGHT 1915
BY CHARLES A. MCALPINE
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FOREWORD
The following pages are reprinted
from "Hogan and Hogan" and form one
of the chapters in that book.
For obvious reasons it has seemed wise
to print this chapter in a separate form.
Mr. Sunday's work is an outstanding
phenomenon in the religious world and
discussion of that work is universal. Any-
thing which can help to a more adequate
estimate of it is timely. It will be readily
seen that this treatment of Mr. Sunday
and his work is sympathetic and appre-
ciative and if it helps to give a better
understanding of the man its appearance
will be justified.
The author recognizes the fact that for
many people the reading of dialect is not
altogether easy. He has therefore some-
times sacrificed technical accuracy and
even consistency in expression in the in-
terest of the reader's ease and pleasure.,
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCING HOGAN AND HOGAN
A
LTHOUGH Mary McCarthy
was pronounced by Father Ryan
to be the lawfully wedded wife of
Matthew Hogan more than twenty years
ago, an assertive personality housed in a
somewhat imposing physique has kept
her from becoming so far a subject of
benevolent assimilation as to be known as
the conventional Mrs. Hogan or as "Mat
Hogan's ole woman.” From the first the
neighborhood insisted that the new part-
nership was not Mr. and Mrs. Hogan,
but Hogan and Hogan,—a combination
that committed the speaker to no partisan-
ship as to the headship of the house and
left the hearer free to understand whether
the first named was Matthew or Mary,
according to his judgment as to the fitness
of things. So that if an agent selling
washboards or patent mops asks "Who
lives in Number 5?” it is always “Hogan
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and Hogan.” “There goes Hogan and
Hogan” is the frequent comment on the
passing of the couple on a Sunday after-
noon stroll down Arcady Place.
It must not be supposed, however, that
Mary Hogan is a shrew or a vixen or an
athletic Tartar. She is in truth a good
housekeeper, and a cheerful companion,
is possessed of a wholesome philosophy of
life, and is just the kind of a wife Matthew
Hogan needs and is fortunate to have se-
cured. What if she does occasionally
give "the ole man" a tongue lashing that
makes him "fale loike the worrum he is,"
when he has suffered another lapse at Jim
Flanigan's Place around the corner?
Doesn't he deserve it and hasn't Mary
scrubbed floors and windows sixteen
hours a day for a month a dozen times to
pay back Alderman Quinn what she bor-
rowed—borrowed indeed to pay Mat's
fine so he wouldn't have to go to jail after
she had had him arrested for beating her
up when he was full of bad whiskey?
And if you should try to intermeddle with
:
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their family discussion of a Saturday eve-
ning when Mat has left too large a part
of the contents of his pay envelope in the
saloon, you would find it expedient to
beat a hasty retreat before Mary empha-
sized her information that they were hav-
ing their "own swate scrap" all to them-
selves with a flat iron aimed at your head.
As for Matthew, the Vulcan Bridge
Works never had a better ironworker.
He was made for better things, was Mat-
thew, and had it not been for the weak-
ness that too often leads him into Jim
Flanigan's Place, he would today be
owner of the bridge works, not an em-
ployee. For Matthew has a keen mind,
a genial disposition, and a judgment of
men and their motives which is quite re-
markable. His philosophizings on the
ways of God and men still reveal some-
thing of the man that might have been.
Frequent trips away from home in the
building of new bridges here and there
give him abundant opportunity for ob-
servation, and for conversation with vari-
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ous travelers. And being of a rather talk-
ative temperament himself, he has many
matters of great interest to report to Mary
and the children on his return-or as
sometimes happens, to his friend Flani-
gan, if he happens to go home on the
wrong side of the street.
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CHAPTER II
BILLY SUNDAY IN ACTION
“Hogan” says Mr. Flanigan during a
lull in trade one warm spring afternoon,
"Where is Wilke's barr?"
“Who's barr?' 'asks Matthew.
“Mr. Wilke's” replies Flanigan. "Oi
niver heard of him befurre, but some wan
says this marnin' that Billy Sunday has
been raisin' the divil wid the liquor busi-
ness since he got round Wilke's barr.”
"Oh,” says Matthew, "yez mane
Wilkez-Barry
That ain't a saloon,
Flanigan, it's a town down in Pennsyl-
vany, among the coal moines. They say
there's enough coal under the town to run
the worruld a hundred years an' enough
rum sold in the town to run hell fer a
hundhred thousand years.
“That man Sunday youze heard about"
continues Hogan, "is phwat they caal an
evangelis', an' they do say that whin the
whiskey payple hear that he's comin' to
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town they begin to have the shaakin?
palsy an' show a sudden an' wonderful in-
terest in rayligion. They become verry
much concerned about the spiritual loife
av the town an' are afraid that the payple
will be corrupted by assoshiatin' wid sich
a man as an evangelis'. An' the way they
thry to pull the wool over the eyes av the
onsuspectin' ministers an' befuddle the
payple's moinds by caalin' him a grafter
an' vulgar an' mercenary an' aal, it is to
laugh, Jim. They must be runnin' a press
bureau an' spendin' a lot av gude money
they'd betther save fer the rainy day that's
comin' to thim. They ayven ask the min-
isters to hold a conference wid thim to
consider the moral character of this man
Sunday. The praychers at Wilkez Barry
rayplied that they didn't care to confer
wid brooers on the moral character av a
minister. Koind av a swaat in the solar
plexus for thim, wan't it?
"That feller Sunday, Jim, is better'n a
dozen prohybishun laaws. He puts pro-
hybishun right under a man's shirrut
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el
F
Will
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WHERE IT HURTS.
"He gits a man to say 'Heaven fer moine, to
hell wid rum'; an' next Saturday noight he brings
home a full pay invelope. That's what hurruts
yer liquor business, Flanigan."
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where he lives, instid av on the statute
books where he don't live. He gits a man
to say 'Hivin fur mine, to hell wid rum'
an’nixt Saturday noight he brings home a
full pay invelope. That's whaat hurrts
yer liquor business, Flanigan.
"Glory be," exclaims Flanigan. “I
hope he won't show up in Arcady Place."
“You're roight, man” replies Matthew.
"Oi heard that the brooers said 'twud
have paid thim to have spint fifty thou-
sand dollars to kept him away from
Wilkez Barry. But nothin'cud stop him,
whin wance he got goin', not ayven buyin'
up the movin' pickshure shows an' givin’
the tickets away.
"Yez know oi met up agin wid me min-
ister frind on the train the other day an'
he persuaded me to sthop over Sunday in
Wilkez Barry, instid of goin' on to Noo
Yorruk. He got me a ticket inter the
meetin' so's oi cud see the whole show."
"Phwat koind av a show, Hogan?” asks
Flanigan. "Phwat is an evangelis' anny-
way?”
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"An evangelis', Flanigan, is a Ray-
voival Man" answers Mat. "An' this
here Billy Sunday is the king pin av the
whole bunch. He goes into a city an' gits
a big tabernacle built that'll hold about
tin thousand payple. An' whin the crowd
gits togither he delivers himself av a few
gentle raymarruks to somethin' loike this
chune: 'This is the beatenist place oi ever
sthruck' he says. "Phwat's the matter wid
youze payple in this little burrug anny-
way? Oi ain't seen such a gang av dirty,
low-down, ongodly, whiskey-soaked, bull
necked, foul-mouthed, hog jowled, weasel
eyed, peanut brained, rat hole bums sence
oi was visitin' the jail across the river,
he says. “Why the Lord don't strike
youze
dead' he says 'an' fertilize the fields wid
yer carcasses to raise cabbiges that'll do
some gude in the worruld, oi don't know
he says. “Why' he says 'The only things a
man can see whin he comes inter this here
sinkhole of iniquity ar-re a big coal
breaker whare little boys chew coal dust
an' terbaccer all day, an' a God-defyin',
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man-destroyin', divil supportin' brooery
whare they make the crime brewing swill
min guzzle an' waller in all noight.
Sodom an' Gomorra ain't got nothin' on
youze,' he says.
“Yer churruches are a rayfrigerator
instid ay an incubator' he says. An'
youze ministers must be a bunch av ossi-
fied, petrified, dyed-in-the-wool, stamped-
on-the-cork, blown-in-the-bottle, pin
headed, standpat, free lunch, pie counter
politicians wid heads full av sawdust an
bulk oysters. If oi was as near zero as
some av youze are oi'd go down to the
river an' stand on the bridge, grab holt
av me nose an' say “Here goes nothin',”
an 'then oi'd see how big a dent oi cud
make in the water.'
"Phwat does he do it fur," asks Flan-
igan. "Who's he mad at?"
"Phwat fur, mad at, Flanigan?” replies
Hogan, getting somewhat warmed up to
his subject. “Mad at, man? He's mad
at the divil an'aal his worruks. He seems
to think the auld feller ain't got no right
.
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Un
14/!!
HIS ADVICE TO IDLERS.
"Oi'd go down to the bridge
av me nose, an' say 'Here goes nothin' an' see
how big a dent oi cud make in the wather."
grab holt
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in the worruld, annyway, an' he's goin'
to thry to put him out av the game. He's
agin him wid every tooth, nail, piece av
skin, hair follicle, muscular molecule,
articulation joint, dhrop av blood, ounce
av energy, breath av lung, an' even wid
his vermiforrum appendix.
" "The churruch is sick' he says. “Some
av our churruches ain't got loife aynuff
to spit over their chins an' youze preach-
ers are just pastin' on a little salve an'
thryin' to hellup thim to enjoy poor
health.
“ 'But have a hearrut, Billy' the preach-
ers beg. 'Go it koinder easy loike. Don't
be too harrud on our payple. They ain't
no worse than others.'
“ 'Nothin' doin'? rayplies Billy. 'Oi
ain't no pink tea sissy pourin' cologne on
a cancer instid av cuttin' it out. Half av
yer papyle wud go to hell if they died
out av Lent. Oi use the knoife' he says.
An' oi gits down where the blood flows,
so look out ;oi ain't got to live wid these
payple year in an' year out so oi can do
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some av this surgical worruk fer youze
fiellers. Youze just stand by an' hold the
scalpel an' forceps an' the other instru-
ments an' don't run a knoife into my back
whoile oi'm cuttin' away the rotten bone
an' the decayed tissue.' ”
"But don't he belayve in the churruch?”
asks Flanigan.
“Shure he do, Jim, that's phwat he says.
He wants the churruch to git well. If
yer kid had appendicytis ye'd use a
knoife instid av dopin' him wid mor-
phine to ease the pain, wudn't yez?”
“Yes av coorse; but don't he give thim
no ether or choloroform whoile he's cut-
tin' av thim up, Mat?" Flanigan ven-
tures.
"Well oi suppose yez moight say he
does. He gives thim some laughin' gas;
but he don't let thim get so far gone they
don't know nothin's happenin'. He's a
comical duck, Billy is. His boomp av
humor is purty well developed fer a man
that takes loife so serious. He's got a
smoile now that ought to make the divil
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himself throw up his hands an' surrender
widout a foight. Can't nothin' git by that
smoile. He thinks God loikes a joke an’
that's mebbe why he made monkeys an’
some other payple.
“ 'Look at that big, fat lobster over
thare in the middle of the room,' he says.
'Prob’ly he's wan of thim sleek, oily,
mushy palaverin' hypocrites oi git afther
iverywhere oi goes,' he says.
«'Why, he says, 'skinin' hypocrites is
my long suit' he says. “Oi kin take their
hide off, rub in saalt an' hang the skin up
on the barrun door to dry, while youze
fellers are puckerin' up yer lips to spit
on the whetstone to sharpen yer knife to
begin.'
"Waal, sir, befurre he gits through wid
thim fellers a polecat wud smell as swate
as a babe compared wid thim.”
“Am I a soldier av the Cross? youze
sing' he says. 'No, youze ain't, youze jist
pikers,' he says, 'Lazy, no count drivel-
lers, sojerin on the job. Say he lays inter
thim fur fair. An' whin he gits aal his
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Je t',
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are
HIS SPECIALTY.
'Skinin' hypocrites is my long suit he says."
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surgical worruk done, aal the deadly can-
cerous growths cut out, an' the wounds aal
treated an' washed an' bound up, he says
‘Now come on fellers,' he says. “Ain't it
great how gude the Lorrud is? He'll
take annybody that'll be honest an' turrn
from his sin an' foller his banner. Come
on buys,' he says. 'Git inter the game, '
he says-he used to be a ball player his-
self, big league man, Flanigan.
"Well, when he says to thim to come
on, Jim, they got to come. Can't help
it. Man, they can't wait some noights till
he gits through, to hit the trail an' take
his hand, an' say 'Oi'im wid yez ole man.'
“It's phwat ye'd caal convershun by
the wholesale, Flanigan. In Columbus
iverybody was converted most, but
Waashington Gladden. Hundhreds iviry
maytin'-eighteen thousand in Columbus
and sixteen thousand in Wilkez Barry.
"Listen, Jim Flanigan, did yez iver
hear av a sheriff bein' suspected av bein'
a Sunday School man? Well, down in
Wilkez Barry the sheriff he comes right
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out square an' jines the army av the
Lorrud an' goes out an' rounds up a lot
av other min to sarve the Lorrud instid
of juggin' 'em. An' the mayor he sinds a
letter to Billy sayin':
Dear Billy:
Ye've done us gude. Come again!
Here's a check fer yez.
Yer honorable frind,
The Mayor.
"That man Sunday, is phwat ye'd call
a Captain av Church Industry. Sich an'
organization, Flanigan. The way they
do handle those crowds, man, wud excite
the admirashun av the Coney Oisland
Police.
“Wud yez belayve it, there was payple
waitin' at half past foive the last Sunday
mornin' outside the tabernacle fer to git
a seat fer the meetin' that didn't begin till
half past ten. An' whin foive hundhred
min hit the trail fer to enlist in the arrmy
av the Lorrud, they git thim aal saved
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an' enlisted an' sint out to see whither
they mane it or not, in twinty minutes.
“Do they stay saved, Matthew?" asks
Flanigan.
"Oi dunno, man, about that," is the
reply. "Ye'll have to ask the saloon
kapers in Youngstown an' Noo Castle an'
other places whare he's been befurre,
about that. I notice that whin the saloon
payple hear he's comin' they don't ask to
be put on the Raycepshun Committee.
If min didn't stay saved, I guess yer pals
in the whiskey business wudn't be much
concarned about his antics.
"They say he has wan booze sarmon,
an' befurre he gits through praychin' it,
his collar an' necktie an' coat an' vest and
cuffs are lyin' round on the platforrm,
he's broke a chair to payces an' has
knocked the rum business over the ropes
as sure as that nigger Johnson pasted Jef-
fries into a has ben. It takes him about
two hours to spake his piece, an' ye'd
think he'd taken a turkish bath befurre he
gits half through, he do sweat that awful.
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But hivins above! Flanigan, how the
whiskey min do sweat nixt elicshun day.
'Whiskey payple,' Billy says, 'ain't afraid
av resolutions,' he says 'but when they see
some resolution, thin's whin they begin to
spring their model license gag,' he says.
Now youze fellers git out an' clane up
this rotten town', he says, 'an' make it a
place whar a straight young man or a
pure young woman can go along an'
mind their own business widout gittin' so
near to hell that they smell the brimstone
fumes av the divil's kitchen iviry toime
they go down strate for an innocent little
waalk.'"
"An’ when he gits on the rampage why
me sweet woife Mary cudn't bate him
herself, he dooes go it that strong. A
thrashin' machine wud look loike a fun-
eral besoides him.
"He don't seem to allow there's anny
middle ground fer a man to stand on.
Youze are either fer God or agin' him an?
he's puttin' it up to men to come out in
the open an' give God a square deal. To
:
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.
hear him talk yez wud belayve there was
a hell even if Pastor Russel said the fires
went out long toime ago an' didn't charge
yez nothin' fer the information but threw
in a movin' picshure show av Creation
an' the Day av Judgment taken by the
Pastor himself. An', oi guess, too, if
this pious lookin' ole pastor don't think
there's anny hell he'd prob’ly think there
oughtter be wan fer some av the men who
pay him their disrespecks in the pulpit.
What they seem to think av him an his
worruks wudn't be rale consolin' as a
funeral sermon at his obsequies. An'
Sister Mary Baker G. X. Y. Z. Eddy
she dont seem to be a pertickler friend
either. Seems she's ben deceivin' too
manny av the elect wid Science an
Health wid Key to the Holy Scriptures
at three dollars a volume.
“He sits down purty harrud on manny
payple oi'm afraid. Oi think he
Oi think he may be
koinder onfair to some av thim. Perhaps
it's aal rioght fer him to sit in judgment
on Unitarians an' evolutionists an' higher
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lii
impre
WALI
BILLY SUNDAY IN ACTION.
"A thrashing-machine wud look loike a funeral
besoide him."
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!
critics an' such loike, an' give thim a
ticket to hell, but seems to me its too much
av a job to put onto wan man to ask him
to bring so manny to God an' to send so
manny to perdition. Besoides it takes so
much av his toime if he's goin' to know
just phwat these payple raley do belayve
an' how they do live."
"Suppose he shud make a mistake,
Mat?” suggests Jim.
"That's so Jim, he moight now bein'
human, especially if somewan had said
something oncomplimentary about him.
But me proivate suspicions are that the
Lorrud don't do as Billy says so much
in condemnin payple as in savin' thim.
But don't yez know, Jim, payple don't
moind a man bein' intolerant an extrava-
gant and cockshure he's roight. They
loike a man to know a whole lot ayven if
it ain't so.
"Sometoimes oi think he gits purty
familiar wid the Lorrud. Mebbe he
knows him better'n most men, but to hear
... .....
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Billy taalk to him yer'd think they used
to be on the same baseball team tergither.
Bein' used to holy water an' crossin' me-
self an' aal that, it do seem koinder
shockin' to hear him say loike he was
taalkin' to Pop Anson, 'Well Lorrud oi've
most praeched me head off today an' if
yez don't git onto the job now this whole
thing'll fall through!' An' then he tells
the Lorrud where to go down this aisle
to that shyster lawyer that skinned a poor
man outen half the money he squeezed
from the coal company, an' over that wan
to that booze heister that's ben makin' a
hog av himself an' to that ole geeser on
the front seat sportin' the red nose and
the diamond shirrut stud, and bring thim
aal back home tonight to the Fayther's
house."
"An' does the Lorrud do it?” Flanigan
breaks in
"That's the funny parrut av it aal, Jim.
He does it. Just loike Him an' Bill was
on intimate terrums an' he'd do annything
the kid ast Him to."
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?
"Yez don't say now,
say now, Mat Hogan. An'
how d’yez figger that out?”
"Some things oi can't figger out. Oi
guess
oi ain't ben livin' the koind av a
loife that hellups a man to understhan' it.
But near as oi cud dope it out he thinks
that God manes phwat he says when he
says he's Father an' loves his children just
as much as yez loved yer little Danny.”
"Stop, Mat, stop,” pleads Jim Flani-
gan,
the old wound in his heart opened up
afresh by Matthew's reference to the loss
of little Danny, now many years ago.
"Excuse me, Jim, oi didn't think yud
moind it that much," Mat apologizes.
After the couple had sat a moment or two
in silence Mat continued :
“But oi was sayin' he acts just as if he
was on gude terms wid the Lorrud an'
wan't embarrassed when he met him. Oi
think meself that he moight be a little
more reverent, bein' that God is God an?
Billy's only a man—so far. But probly
God don't moind irreverence half so
much as indifference, an' that's why Billy
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"'
has such a drag wid him. He learned
manny years ago to take his coat an' col-
lar off he perspires so sthrong, but he
ain't never learned to put off his shoes
from his fate because he's standin' on holy
ground.
"Yes he ayven sasses the divil himself,
tells him he'll put him in the hospital be-
fore he gits through an gives him the
horse laugh tellin' him he's got him beat
to a frazzle already. He goes Michael
wan betther."
"Moike who?" Flanigan seeks infor-
mation.
“Don't yez git irrivirent too, Jim.
'Tain't Moike. It's Michael--the arch-
angel. Guess yez fergot yer Bible ain't
yez? Don't yez raymimber when
Michael the archangel was wrastlin' wid
Satan about the body av Moses?”
"Phwat was they wrastlin' about that
fer?" Flanigan wants to know.
"Oi dunno, Jim, onless it was that the
devil had found out where Moses was
buried an’ wanted to dig his bones up an'
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:
distribute thim around to different cathe-
drals so's payple wud make pilgramages
to git healed av rheumatiz by touchin'
his big toe-at wan hundhred dollars a
touch. But annyway Michael he dassent
cuss the ole enemy, but said to him “The
Lorrud rebuke thee." But Billy ain't
goin' to miss that fun fer himself so he
don't leave that job undone fer fear the
Lorrud shudn't do it to suit his taste.'
"But don't the Bible say 'Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread?' ” says Jim.
“Oi don't think that's in the Douay
Bible, Jim, but mebbe it's in the Protest-
ant wan. It's true anny way, an' oi wudn't
wonder if Billy betther not monkey too
much wid that pertickler buzz saw.”
"Is he a great praycher, Mat?” Flani-
gan pushes his inquiry.
“Well that depends on phwat yez mane
by great, Jim. Yes, oi think he is. He
ain't got no voice to speak av, more'n a
sick hen, an' he don't claim to be the first
discoverer av truth. But he knows
phwat's gude an’ where to git it an' how
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to use it, an' sometoimes how to make it
better. He knows human nature loike a
book, an' it's just loike he was a whole
congregation rolled up into wan man.
He's phwat yu'd caal a Cosmopolite, or a
typical American D'yez git memoi
can't say it just the way oi mane it?”
“Yes oi think oi git yez. Yez mane he's
got somethin' av everybody to him—aal
classes, ain't it? Yez mane he appeals to
the high brows as well as the mutts, don't
yez?"
“That's it, Jim. He can taalk to a
boonch av college buys or society swells
or a gang av gutter bums an' make thim
aal fale how bad they are an' how much
they nade God.
"He has the eloquence av sincerity, not
av rhetoric alone, Jim. It looks loike he
had hearrud God sayin':
'Spake the spache oi pray yez
As oi pronounce it to yez.
An' he's afraid he won't pronounce it wid
God's accent gittin' in all the pity an' love
an’ sympathy an' appeal an' warnin' an
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entreaty av the gude Fayther's heart. But
he's thryin' wid aal his moight to spake
two worruds so men wud hear God spak-
in' to thim."
"What two worruds, Mat?” Jim asks.
"Lost an' Eternity. An' to hear him
taalk about the judgment an' the eternity
av memory and the awfulness av remorse
an' the harvest av sin an' the chickens
comin' home to roost, yud think he was
a dyin' man taalkin' to dyin' men. Yes
he's a great praycher, a great praycher,
Jim.
"That old place has ben worrukin' at
rayligion more the last month than ever.
before, an' it bates aal phwat can be done
when payple really git onto the job, an'
worruk at rayligion an not just look at it.
“Yez see, the way this aal happened
was loike this. A feller was tellin' me
over there. Some av the churruches got
tergither an' says to thimsilves, 'Let's git
busy fer God an' see phwat'll happen.'
"(How'll we do it?' says wan.
“ 'Let's git tergither firrust, and fergit
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our
our tomfool differences an' have some
meetin's,' says another.
“Aal right, come over to our churruch
an' hold them,' pipes up someone else.
"'Oi tell yez phwat let's do,' says a man
wid a long head an' a big hearrut, 'let's
build a noo churruch an' git Billy Sun-
day to come an' preach to us.'
"A noo churruch,' puts in another.
'Phwat's chewin'
chewin' yez? Ain't
churruches gude enough an' ain't we got
enough preachers layin' round to convert
the whole county?'
Shure, they're too gude,' says he.
'Let's git a buildin' we ain't afraid to use
an' perhaps when we get used to
worrukin’in a rale rayligion shop we can
come back an' make our noice buildin's
useful as well as ornamental. An' when
our preachers gits a chance to worruk ter-
gither an' has the payple worrukin' wid
thim they will convert the county, youze
watch out now an' see.'
"Well, the upshot av the whole thing
was that they daycided to build this here
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tabernacle an'' they've ben holdin'
meetin's in it now noight after noight wid
tin thousand payple goin' to churruch
that didn't go before. An' Baptists an'
Presbyterians and Methodists have aal
ben so mixed up in a bunch that yez
couldn't tell wan from the other an' they
most fergot thimselves which they was.
Some av thim will have to ask their pas-
tors which they are an' why, when they
git back. An' oi'm kinder sorry now that
the meetin's is over that they've got to ray-
mimber what they are an' go back an' be
three instead av wan. An' it do seem a
sin to see them go back an' not stay ter-
gither roight along. But oi guess they've
found they was so near tergither annyway
that it ain't much but history and brick
walls an' pinhead jealousies that kape
thim apart. An' they know each other so
much better now that they won't think a
man is goin' to destruction if he joins
some other churruch. No sir, this here
champagne-campaign, oi mane—this
campaign has shure put some folks woise
.
!
:
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No. 40. Brighten the Gorner Where You Are.
Ina Duley Ogdoa.
COPYRIGHT. 1913. BY CHAS. H. GABRIEL
HOMER A RODEHEAVER. OWNER
Chas. H. Gabriel.
1. Do not wait un - til some deed of great-ness you may do, Do not
2. Just & - bove are cloud-ed skies that you may help to clear, Let not
3. Here for all your ta-lent you may euro •
need, Here for
ly find
8
wait to shed your light 8 - far, To the m8 - Dy du-ties ev-er near you
row self your way de- bar, Tho' in - to one heart a-lone may fall your
flect the bright and morning star, E-ved from your humble hand the bread of
Dar
REFRAIN.
QOW be true, Brighten the comer where you are.
song of cheer, Brighten the corner where you are. Bright-en the corner
lite
may feed, Brightep the corner where you are.
ht
where you
arol Brighten the corner where you arel Some one far from
Sbia. for JosQs whoro yoo arol
bar • bor you may guide a-cross the bar, Bright-en the cor-ner where you are.
From "Songs for Service," published by the Rodeheaver Co.,
Chicago. Ubed by permission.
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to phwat matters an' phwat ain't no ac-
count. An' they've ben gettin' to see that
the most important thing fer the churruch
to do is to do the thing she was made fer.
An' ministers an payple did git onto the
job, too. Let me tell yez.
"Yez see, the noight oi happens in to
the meetin' afther the doin's was aal over
oi stayed round, same's oi seen siveral
hundhred other payple doin'. Looks
loike yu'd have to droive the payple
home wid a shot gun or a collection some
noights, they do hate to go away that bad.
Well, as oi was sayin', oi hung round see-
in' the payple looked rayle sociable loike
an' got to taalkin' wid a bunch av men.
Oi thought they was just honest men loike
meself so oi butts in the conversation an'
may the saints praysarve us, they was a
gang av ministers. When oi dischovered
their breed oi says to them very humble
loike, says oi, 'Excuse me, yer rivirinces,
oi didn't know youze were the clergy. Oi
ain't fit to mix wid youze. If yu'd only
had
yer collar on backside foremost oi'd
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а.
known youze were gude men, but how
can oi tell youze was anny betther than oi
am by yer looks?' says oi.
"'Fergit it' says wan av thim. 'We
ain't no better 'n yez are ayther. An' then
aal put out their hands an' says, 'Put it
roight
there, friend, aare yez
Christian?' "
"At that yez cud av knocked me down
wid a feather. A minister wearin' a
gentlemin's collar an' usin' slang an
askin' a feller if he was a Christian. (Yes,
sir, they're learned how to ask a man that
now), well that got my goat. An' oi don't
know just phwat oi did say, but firrust
thing oi know wan av thim was tellin' me
about how God loves a poor feller that
can't pass a saloon widout goin' in an’
makin' a swill bucket outen himself an
how He wud hellup a guy that wants to
break away, an' how if he'd make Jesus
King he cud live a loife that wud be clane
an' happy an' make it betther at home an'
how he cud be the koind av a man God
meant him to be. An' before I got away
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that noight we'd ben down in the sawdust
on our knees askin' God fer hellup an' for-
giveness. It did seem kinder strange not
ter be prayin' to the Virgin an askin' her
to relay the message fer us, but I guess
it must have ben all roight, fer the gude
God has helluped, so He must have heard,
an’ I ain't tasted a dhrop av anything
stronger than coffee sence that noight, an
'
it's God's done it."
“An' that singer chap, Rodenheever,
too, he's some punkins, belayve me. Talk
about yer William Howard Taft an' the
smoile that won't come off. Put a mous-
tache on Mr. Sloide Trombone an' he'd
git the job av bein' prisident just as quick
as me friend William ever will agin. An'
oi guess this here Rody cud do his little
stunt tippin' the hay scales at a couple
hundhred or so in his stockin' feet, too.
An' to see him pump up an' down that
platform an' swaller his horn an spit it
up agin an' jolly the Commercial Travel-
ers an' the Masons and the Odd Fellers
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le
1
MR. SLOIDE TROMBONE.
"Put a moustache on Mr. Sloide Trombone an'
he'd git the job av bein' prisident as quick as me
frind William Howard Taft iver will agin."
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1
an' kape the crowd gude natured it's
worruth the price av admission.
“An' yez shud hear that choir sing too,
Jim. They sing 'Hold the Fort' loike all
Germany an' Roosia an' England put ter-
gether cudn't make thim quit. An' 'Hail
Emmanuel' just loike they meant to make
Him King an' 'Sail On' sames they was
goin' to sail in and on foriver and iver.
Then there's wan piece they sing that if
it gits into their hearruts wud shure make
the best clane-up week a city cud have.
They call it 'Broighten the corner where
'Tain't no spring house
cleanin' stunt nor advertisement fer Ole
Dutch Cleanser or Sapolio, but just a
straight tip to have a cheerful hearrut an'
let payple know about it so's they can fale
gude when the sun ain't shinin'.
“How can he boss such a big crowd?
Will they do phwat he tells them to do?”
"Jim Flanigan, ain't yez seen the
crowds phwat follow the circus an' yell
thimsilves dumb over a home run, an'
don't
yez
know that a crowd av payple is
youze are.
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a bunch av idiots an' will do anything the
man they loike tells thim to do whether
its sing a hymn or lynch a nigger? Billy
belayves in enlistin' the crowd spirit in
the service av the Lorrud an' if he can
give thim a push toward heaven whoile
they're in a crowd that's phwat he's in the
business fer an' he don't care where or
how he gits thim so long as he gits thim.
'Tain't so important how they was made
Christians as phwat koind av Christians
they are after they are made.”
“Phwat koind do they make, Mat, anny
gude?"
“Lemme tell yez Jim. Over in Colum-
bus they say some av the employers got
rayligion an' raised the wages av the men
widout bein' asked. Ain't that rayligion?
Billy says to them ‘Does yer milkman
know yez are a Christian? An'
yer
ice
man? An' cud yez get into heaven on the
testimony av yer stenographer or yer
dressmaker?' Thim's koind av acid tests,
ain't they? An' men don't hear him talk
long before they catch on that bein' a
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Christian means they've got to live
straight. Cut out the old loifle an' live
roight, that's phwat they have to do.
“They call this toime they've ben
havin' a campaign. Sounds loike a war
or a political excitement an' election,
don't it? Well it is a war, so they say,
a war agin sin and the devil an' laziness
an' selfishness an' booze an' everything
that's wrong. It looks loike a war too.
It ain't just wan battle, but a well planned
out campaign of battles an' everywan wid
his own little job to attend to. An' oi
think that must be why they win their
campaigns. The way oi figgered it out
from phwat oi seen at Wilkez Barry it's
loike this. It ain't the preachin' alto-
gether, though that's gude, an' it ain't the
music foine as that is. But it's the organ-
ization av the worruk that counts, just
loike in anny concern that's doin' big
business today. There are scores av pay-
ple at worruk around in the congregation
an' hundhreds in the homes every day
tryin' to git men to make a start an' hit
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the trail. An' the whole thing is laid out
in districts so that every parrut av the
worruk is looked after an' the churruches
themselves are on the job, not leavin' it
fer the evangelis' to do alone. That's it,
Jim, all the churruches workin' together
just loike they was Catholics, all at
worruk in a new place an' doin' new
things, talkin' rayligion an' tryin' to do
the worruk the church has ben built fer,
not just givin' fairs an' suppers an such
stunts fer to kape the doors open. Oi
wonder phwat wud happen if all the
churruches did set out to do the thing they
was made fer. Oi'd loike to see thim try
it a whoile.
"Ye see, phwat this here koind av a
campaign does is to put rayligion on the
front page where it is just as important
as T. R. an' the River av Doubt or the
latest dribble from the Thaw spout, an' it
gits everybody talkin' about it an' not
ashamed to own up that they have a soul
an' ought to pay some attention to it.
Most av us payple need to have some com-
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1
pany when we do things. We ain't much
on the go-ahead-alone idea. We need the
shove an' the push that other payple gives
us an' if a thousand folks are doin' the
same thing we someway feel more sure we
are doin' phwat we ought to do. 'Tain't
no use talkin' talkin' to most av us about
we ought to do our dooty whether anny-
wan else does theirn or not. The fact is
we won't do it in some things till we have
company. An' these rayvoival meetin's
gets together quoite a company fer to go
tergether. Oi guess most payple git more
inspiration singin' 'We're marchin' to
Zion' all goin' in a bunch, than singin'
'Oi'm a pilgrim,' goin along all alone.
"The way oi got it doped out, these
rayvioval campaigns are loike political
campaigns an' elecshun day. Afther elec-
shun day comes the distributin' av jobs
an' redaymin' the promises av gude
worruk fer the counthree, an' it's always
aysier to elect than to redayme. So the
praychers av Wilkez Barry have got a
man's job now to kape these payple saved
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an' train thim to be some use in the
worruld.
“When it comes to the praychin' part
oi must say, Jim, that fer meself oi
guess oi'm a little ole fashioned an oi
loike to see a man stand on his feet an'
worruk his head. But if me neighbor
prefers to see the preacher stand on his
head an' worruk his feet oi'm willin' he
shud have that satisfaction part av the
toime. Some payple's understandin' is in
wan end an' some payples in the other. Oi
say let's try both ends an' then we won't
miss annywan. Oi'll bet most payple
know more about Balaam's ass than about
ole Balaam himself. An'anny other fel-
ler can have the same distinction if he
makes a big enough ass av himself.
"How much did yez have to pay to
git inter the show, Hogan?” asks Mr.
Flanigan.
"Oh it's a free blow out, Jim, if ye're
lucky enough to squayze in an hour or
two befurre the maytin' begins," replies
Matthew
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"The way they pay fer the doin's is by
havin' ivirybody chip in what they want
ter. They take up their collections in
two quart tin pans, an' the sound av the
money goin' in is not as inconspickuous
as it might be wid a velvet loined basket.
A collar button drapped in wud be aisly
spotted an' the drapper aisly spotted an
collared an' butted outer the door.
“Thin the last day the payple bring
their money to give to Billy Sunday his-
self. Befurre that it's aal to pay fer the
buildin' an' loight an' heat an' advertisin'
an sich loike, but the last day the money's
aal his'n."
"How much did they give him?" in-
quires Mr. Flanigan.
"At Wilkez Barry they gave him
twinty-three thousand dollars, Jim.
"Twinty-three thousand dollars,
Crazy, ye mane twinty-three dollars,"
says the incredulous Flanigan "How
long was he there?"
"Sivin wakes, Flanigan-three thou-
sand dollars a wake," replies Hogan.
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“D'ye mane it was all his'n, Hogan?”
persists Flanigan.
"What was
the
graft?"
"Sure it was all his'n,” says Matthew.
"Av course he had to pay some av his
helpers, but oi guess he had twinty thou-
sand left all roight.”
"Begorra it pays better to foight rum
than to sell it, don't it? Oi guess oi'll
try that game meself,” says Flanigan.
"Well, aal roight, Jim, oi wish yez
wud. Yez wudn't git yer twinty thou-
sand onless yez daylivered the gudes, ole
man, but ye'd git a moighty soight more
livin' out'er loife if yez quit yer booze
business, whither yez prayched to a
crowd or picked coal in the moines.
"Ye see, whin fifteen thousand payple
have been reskooed from the grip av rum
an' gamblin' an' licenshusness an' aal
koinds av sin, how yez goin' ter kape thim
from makin' up a pretty purse fer the
man that threw in the rope? D’yez think
that if yer woife hadn't seen yer pay en-
velope fer twinty-sivin years an' yez be-
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1
gan bringin' it home regular, she'd be
contint to give nawthin' to the man who
helped ye?
"D'ye think that if yer boy was trav-
elin' the pace that kills an' yer harrt was
brakin' fer yer sorrer, an' Billy Sunday,
or Jimmy Munday, or Sammy Choosday
shud turn him roight about face, ye cud
be smaal enough to say 'Here ,frind
here's fifty cints fer savin' me buy, he's
worth it?' I guess not Jim Flanigan.
Yed fale loike sellin' the pyaner to git
money enough to give what ye'd waantter.
"Av coorse, Jim, I do think mesel', as
some av the min say, it's purty dangerous
to give wan man so much money, min-
isters not bein' used to handlin' much
cash. But thin, if Carooso gits fifty thou-
sand dollars in six wakes fer singin' loike
a burrud, why shud they kick over Billy
Sunday gittin' harf as much fer emptyin'
hell an' wakin' up the burruds in tin thou-
sand hearts, phwat? An' they didn't kick
anny when Billy gave up playin' base
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ball an' worruked fer six hundred a year
wid the Y. M. C. A.
"Don't he prayche about anything but
booze, Hogan?" asks Mr. Flanigan.
"Yis indade," replies Hogan, "he
prayched nearly a hundhred toimes in
Wilkez Barry an' he had plenty stuff left
oi guess, whin he got troo.
"Oi got some av the Wilkez Barry pa-
pers that give the rayporruts av some of
his taalks.
"Oi cut out a couple av things oi
thought wus purty gude an' stuck thim in
my pocket.”
Matthew fished around in his pocket a
moment and produced a couple of
crumpled newspaper clippings which he
read to his friend Flanigan:
"Saul and all of his sons except David
went off to war; they left David at home
because he was only a kid. After awhile
David's ma got worried. She wondered
what had become of his brothers, because
they hadn't telephoned to her or sent
word. So she said to David, ‘Dave, you
roads to bancárach of this seas except David
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go on down there and see whether they
are all right.
"So David pikes off to where the war
is, and the first morning he was there out
comes this big Goliath, a big, strapping
fellow about eleven feet tall, who com-
menced to shoot off his mouth as to what
he was going to do.
""Who's that big stiff putting up that
game of talk?' asked David of his
brothers.
“ 'Oh he's the whole works; he's the
head cheese of the Philistines. He does
that little stunt every day.'
"Say,' said David, 'you guys make me
sick. Why don't some of you go out and
soak that guy? You let him get away
with that stuff?' He decided to go out
and tell Goliath where to head in.
"So Saul said: 'You'd better take my
armor and sword.' David put them on,
but he felt like a fellow with a hand-me-
down suit about four times too big for
him, so he took them off and went down
to the brook and picked up a half dozen
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stones. He put one of them in his sling,
threw it, and soaked Goliath in the cocoa
between the lamps, and he went down for
the count. David drew his sword and
chopped off his block, and the rest of the
gang skidooed."
“An' here's the other wan, about loafin'
on the job av loife" continues Matthew.
"Every land flowing with milk and
honey has giants in it. Breathe the air
with the smoke of battle. Don't hunt an
easy chair if you want to hang your mug
in God's hall of fame.
“We become like that on which we
feed. A man whose diet is swill will soon
be at home with any hog. Phidias could
never have chiseled an angel out of
marble if he had a devil in his mind.
Ruskin would never allow his boy to look
at an indecent picture for fear it would
kill the angel in his soul. And he was
right.
"I think that when a tadpole sees a frog
it makes him ashamed of himself and he
immediately wants to become something
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better, and soon, lo and behold, he's a
frog
"To be a man study the model I've
been holding up before you for seven
weeks--Jesus Christ. By veering a little
he would have missed Gethsemane and
Calvary, but, my God, think what that
would have meant for us."
"Raley now” says Matthew when he
had finished
finished reading his clippings
"Ayven if he hates yer business Jim, he
wud loike ye, an' ye'd loike him, man.
He shure do run the knoife in dape an'
he makes the blood spurrut from min's
spiritooal anatomy, so to spake, but whin
he's done that an' made yez fale what an’
awful, mane, nasty, squirmin', worrum
yez are an' how hell is too cool a place
fer sich a sinner, he jists boinds up the
broken hearruts an' prayches deliverance
to the captives of habit an' lust an' hat-
red an' sin; an' tinder an' wooin' loike, he
tells the gude news that min can be saved.
“An' say, Jim, there's wan song they
sing phwat they calls ‘De Brewer's Big
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“The whiskey gang wud rather go to his fu-
neral than to elect ten senators an' have Kansas
go wet.”
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Hosses.' Oh my stars an garters! Phwat
a diminstrashun, yez moight say, when
they sing that! 'Tain't great poetry, oi'm
told, an' the music ain't in the same class
wid Paddyroosky's performances, but 'tis
a great battle song, Jim, an' it stirs up the
payple more
more than
than 'Raymember the
Maine' or 'Fergit it' ever did. When
they sings that song, wid Rodenheaver
leadin' off loike the angel Gabriel tootin'
fer the last battle agin' ole Satan, an' ten
thousand men gits on foire fer the tem-
perance croosade yez can almost hear
John B. Gough turrun over in his grave
an' shout 'Go to it, boys'; an' yez can al-
most see the brewery walls a-crumblin'
and a-fallin' down an' the whole miser-
able business buried ten fathoms deep
feriver an'iver, Amen.”
"Aw, cut it out, Mat,” protests Jim.
“Phwat ails yez annyway, ye're batty,
lad.”
"That's where ye're wrong agin' Jim.
Yez know that if oi cud cut out rum ye'd
never see another pay invelope av moine
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in this place; an' if yez cud do anny thing
else that paid yez as well as this, ye'd get
out whoile the gettin' out is gude, fer yer
ole shop wont be worruth a tinker's cuss
purty soon.
Jim knew better than to quarrel with
Matthew over this matter, for the latter's
better nature frequently asserted itself in
their conversations and seemed about to
gain the victory; but as yet Mat's refor-
mations had not permanently affected the
volume of trade at Flanigan's bar. In
spite of his wretched business Flanigan
had some higher aspirations yet in his
heart and between himself and Hogan
there was a secret sympathy as between
comrades who had been taken prisoners
by a common foe.
“Oh, he ain't much of a thayologian,
Billy Sunday ain't. His thayological in-
take got stopped up manny years ago, an'
he's about as logical as a daycapitated
rooster. But, man aloive, do ye think
min are saaved by logic? What if he
does caal some gude min higher critic
1
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squirrut guns, it don't hurrut thim an’ it
ralayves his feelin's. He ain't to home
in the broad fields of logic an' thayology,
but he's a giniral whin it comes to
stormin' the castle of a man's will an'
makin' him surrender an' loine up wid
God.
"Oh oi suppose Billy ain't phwat ye'd
call an angel yet a whoile, Jim. Perhaps
that's why so manny payple loike him.
But judgin' a man by the enemies he
makes as well as by the company he kapes
oi think he must be all roight. An' oi'm
votin' fer him to come to Noo Yorruk.
He wudn't fit in as prisident av Princeton
College, that's a cinch, but he cud stop
more dead game sporruts from gettin'
called out at the home plate when they
make their foinal sloide than a dozen
doctors av philosophy iver will. The
whiskey bunch wud rather go to his fu-
neral than to elect ten men to the Senate
or see Kansas go wet. An' when men can
say that about me, Jim Flanigan, oi'm
goin' to order me ascension robes and git
ready to skidoo."
62
De Brewer's Big Hosses.
(SOLO AND CHORUS.)
COPYRIANT, 1897, BY FILLMORE BROS. ; HOMER A MODEWEAVER, OWNEA. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LOURD.
PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE MODEMLAVER COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO.
H. 8. Taylor.
J. B. Herbert.
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like dey own dis place,
to do temp-'ranco cart,
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Tot in' all & -round Ole Lu - ci - fer's load; Dey step 80 high,
Liv. in
on do sweat ob de po' man's face. Dey's fat and
Hit 'em wid & gad to ib em 8 start, I'll teach 'em how
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an' dey step 80 free, But dem big hoss-e8 can't run
as dey C&D be, But dem big hoss-08 can't run
for to haw and gee, For dem big hoss- es can't run
0• Ver me.
O. Ver me.
O• ver me.
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CHORUB.
Oh, no! boys, oh, no! De turnpike's free wherebber I go, I'm a temperance
Oh, bol boys, no, no, no!
in . gine, don't you see, And de Brower's big hoss. es can't run o . vor me!
!
From "The Live Wire," published by The Rodebeaver Co., Chicago, Ill.
HOGAN AND HOGAN
Theology in Overalls
By CHARLES A. MCALPINE
Discusses Ladies' Aid, Temperance,
Foreign Missions, Higher Criticism,
Candidating, the Old Preacher
and other timely religious
topics.
Price, $1.00 postpaid
At Booksellers, or sent on receipt of price
THE BRIGGS PRESS
Granite Building
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
"A truly refreshing book is Hogan and Hogan, by
Charles A. McAlpine. Mr. McAlpine rivals the
famous Mr. Dooley in the mastery of the Irish dia-
lect and philosophy. The book is made up of the
sayings of one Hogan, who with his good wife, the
other member of the firm of Hogan and Hogan,
state their observations of the life and work of
Protetsant ministers, laymen and organizations.
Their homilies are not only refreshingly humorous,
but startlingly suggestive, pointing out many weak
places in modern Protestant church life, and hinting
the way to better things.
“The Christian Herald.”
“This pair (Hogan and Hogan) discusses current
issues and personages, various phases of high society
life and particularly religious affairs with quaint ex-
pressions, rich dialect and often keen homely wit.
Mr. McAlpine has been singularly successful in
drawing these characters; they stand out distinctly
and are warm with real life; one feels that if he
should go round the next corner into 'Warrud
Twinty-wan' he would be certain to see Hogan and
Hogan in the flesh. They are real folks of distinct
individualities, of a very interesting and agreeable
sort. The author has proved himself a clever humor-
ist; his satire has a keen edge, but it does not leave
a smarting cut. His sympathies are broad and his
attitude practical. He has succeeded in making Irish
dialect an effective vehicle for intelligent criticism
of the views and practices of people inside and out-
side of the church in regard to religion. It is an
entertaining, wholesome book.
"Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester."
“Theology in overalls is a rather good description
of Charles A. McAlpine's book Hogan and Hogan.
Ecclesiastical matters are discussed in an
imitation of Mr. Dooley's style and language with
considerable humor and much wisdom.
These sketches are really good fun.
“The Congregationalist."
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REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
“A unique and irresistibly attractive book.”
“The book is replete with humorous, not to say
comic, situations, and abounds from end to end with
flashes of wit."
“The topics discussed present some of the most
vital of present day church problems. The aimia-
bility of the presentation is only less in evidence
than the thorough knowledge of the subjects treated.
The author knows what he is talking about, and his
large sympathy toward those to whom he is writing
is apparent. The book ought to be in every Chris-
tian home. And it is easy to predict that the names
of Matthew and Mary Hogan will become house-
hold words around many domestic hearths and in
many a church circle.
“The chapters are as interesting as a play to read
aloud either at home or in the social gatherings of
the church, even in the mid-week meetings. And it
would be hard to find a more attractive means of
conveying pertinent and essential information to the
whole church in regard to matters which all the
membership ought to understand.
“The book is an emphatic testimony to the useful-
ness of the ininistry of humor and is an original
contribution in a new field of literature. It ought to
bring cheer and assistance to many a lonely pastor
and missionary."
Prof. J. P. Silvernail.
"It is a wise pastor who buys "Hogan and Hogan'
and keeps it circulating among his people; wiser if
he gets his members to purchase copies for them-
selves. Such keen thrusts, such delicate sarcasm,
such wholesome revelation of one's self and one's
church, I have never read elsewhere. The book says
things that we ministers want to say to our people,
and it does it in a more effective way. Its fun is
wholesome, its humor food for thought and its laugh-
ter sanctifying."
C. D. Case, D. D.,
Pastor Delaware Ave. Baptist Church, Buffalo, N. Y.
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REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
“Rev. C. A. McAlpine's 'Hogan and Hogan' very
decidedly impresses me with its deep seriousness, its
exalted seriousness of Christian purpose, and with its
genuine fitness to serve the author's purpose. I do
not know another book of such well sustained humor
and so well directed for service."
H. W. Barnes, D. D.,
Former Secy. N. Y. State Convention.
"I have wanted to write you for a week on the
joy I have got from Hogan and Hogan. We read
it aloud and laughed till the tears came. The chap-
ters are all so good I hardly know which I liked
best. Your views on the Higher Criticism are both
sound and mighty effectively put. And you are
coming right in with the tide in your estimate of
Billy Sunday.
Rev. H. R. Chamberlin.
“Mr. McAlpine is a genuine humorist, and Mat
Hogan's letter to his wife from Washington on the
prospect of America becoming 'a saloonless nashun
in 1920' should be read by all persons who either
drink or are total abstainers."
Rochester Post Express.
"It is brim full, pressed down and running over
with bright, sparkling humor and fine religious
teaching. I am so firmly convinced of its value as
a 'spiritual tonic' that with your permission I shall
commit many pages of it to memory and make very
much of my 1914-15 repertoire from its pages.
Fred Peck, Entertainer.
Price, $1.00 postpaid
THE BRIGGS PRESS
Granite Building
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
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