GOSPEL IN SLANG

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 9 August 1915, Page 2

GOSPEL IN SLANG

England is threatened by a visit from an American preacher who calls himself Billy Sunday. In Ih e land of the wooden ham and the suspicious nutmeg Bill is hailed as a humorist and a disturber of th e emotions. In this country his preachings dufshtflo qualifp him for a Perm of imprisonment in an ice-barrel. William Seventh Dap has been saying things like this to a fashionable congregation in New Ycyk; “When Solomon found out that there was nothing in those things, he went and tried wine. He hit up the booze. He tried a lot. of things . . . He loved

many stran,ge, women. That’s where he dropped his candy. They got his goat, sui'Cil ” “Look at Daniel; he wouldn’t go down the line hittin’ the boc.ae! Look at Joseph, when old Potiphar’s wife made eyes at him; what did he say; ‘Nothin’ doin’.” And listen to this;

“I’m disgusted with having people think that Jesus Christ was a doughfaced, pudding-headed nonentity, who let everybody use him as a cuspidor (spittoon). Hes.didn’t come, to the Temple and say: ‘Please go away from the sanctuary.’ Not on your life! Jesus bad the punch!”