Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 92, 18 April 1922 — Page 7

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RICHMOND, INDIANA, APRIL 18, 1922.

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" Preachers Would Preach The Truth Devil Would Have To Work Harder, " Billy Sunday

Today's Hot Epigrams from Billy Sunday's Lips With the Sting Still in Them

How many misguided, short-sighted preachers seem to have their only anxiety in drawing a crowd. Some of them are as crazy after sensations as the yellowest Journal you might find, and I think that is one reason why the ministry is degraded by a lot of nonsensical clap-traps as exist outside of the insane asylum.

Characteristic Pose

Christianity Is Weak Because Church Members Lack Faith j ffi?t o&lSTa11!! and Consecration for Their Calling, Opines Evangelist wm that ought to go home with a devil out of . " ! nirn That id -inat a a c 11 i-ct a a vnn hroatha

io une ever oougnt nnst and ume away irom

Him Empty-handed.

The text "Why could not we him out?" Mark 9th chapter, verse. ,

cast'

28th

In his Tuesday afternoon 6ermon, Mr. Sunday said: When Jesus came down from the

Mount of Transfiguration, and with him Peter, James and John and reached the valley below, he found his disciples surrounded by a great multitude of people. They were Scribes, Pharisees, the high-brows of their day, and the Pharisees were the knockers of their day, and the Sadducees were the higher critics, for they didn"t believe in angels or devils or resurrection. They were all questoning and Jesus came up and inquired the cause of this commotion, and as he did a father came forward with his little boy and he said to him. "Jesus, ever since he was a baby he has been tormented by evil spirits

and they have thrown hira into firej

and into water, and ne nas ioamea ' at the mouth and he has convulsions and he is weak." And this father was suffering

grievious disappointment because the; devil; and as if to show how utterly j they had failed and to prove his pow-i er over this boy, the demon threw the j

hoy to the grouna ana ne wrunea in frightful convulsions. Big Crowd Drawn By Idle Curiosity. Notice, first, the disciples had a big crowd drawn by curiosity, but no devils were being cast out, and the same thing is happening all over the land today. Some people think the Lord isn't within ten miles of the church unless it is packed to the roof. And before the Lord came down the disciples might have thought they were having a great time, and I can almost see them rubbing their hands

in glee and saying. "low Vi 1 a errn 1 1

TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON

Some of you have got a newmind and new affection in you, and a new will in you, and new n otives; you are going i do new things to please God and displease the devil. Like a friend of mine, who lived out on the Ohio river and there was an old steamboat down there that used to trail all the res? of the crafts on the river, and one day they missed her and everybodv wondered where their old frlen-1 was. She didn't show up for a month, and one day they heard her famous old siren whistle, and sre came In there glistening In the afternoon sun like a woman scin tillating in jewels. She was painted from her smokestack to hr:r keel, and everythingshined up, and she had a bone in her teeth, ar.d she was leading all the craft on the Ohio. They assembled arounj the dock and said: "Hello, Captain, we are glad to see you. Now we know why she came in ahead of the others, she'3 got a new coat of paint on. " "Take another guess," said the captain. "She's got a new engine." She had a new engine, so shs had a new force and a new power.

he wouldn't meet with any more respect. He wouldn't get a better reception from the people of this city

than he did at that day. He had a I

hard time when he was on earth, and no matter what your lot, he will have compassion on you and help you. "If thou canst," He wanted the help for his child; he was helpless and his need found expression in his prayer. And can you imagine Jesus turninc fleaf psr in n man 1 i L-a that'

We are stirring ; ? ja nnthinUahin nH nr.

things like John the Baptist did when Dlace in the Blbe wher a crv wen;

he was on earth." I up for help that God refused to grant. How many misguided, short-sighted . There Is No Failure

preachers seem to nave ineir n'v i With Jesus Christ.

Do you know what hinders a revival? Do you know what kills th3 church .today? It Isn't the whiskey business, dirty,, rotten, in

famous, vile, contemptible, stinking, degrading, infesting, infecting, polluting, mildewing, like a pestilence with no decent thing to be ( said about it. It isn't that curse, that gang, vile as it is; it isn't the wickedness in the ! slums and the submerged tenements; It isn't 1 licentiousness, my friends, oh, it is the quar-

i relling, envy, strife, jealousy, dissension, sel

fishness, that kills the spirit of prayer upon the souls of men.

I say it to the eternal disgrace of the human race, nobody ever had a harder time than Jesus Christ.

The deepest sorrows that come to humans are those that come to you through your own flesh and blood.

If you haven't got sense enough to know what made you fail you will never succeed. Find out! The doctor doesn't give medicine until he finds out what is the matter.

You've got to take sides. Make up your minds whether you're going to be decent or not. It's up to you, not to me.

I think that God is too busy to pay any attention to the fellow who is trying to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

It is as impossible to pray right when your life is wrong as it is., to run an automobile with dishwater. It can't be did!

There is nothing to show that God Almighty will do anything out of common to help a fool. No!

anxiety in drawing a crowd. Some of them are as crazy after sensation as the yellowest journal you might find, and I think that is one reason why the ministry is degraded by a lot of , as nonsensical clap-traps as exist out '-.of the insane asylum. And if all the preachers would preach the truth, the ' devil would have to work harder than he does for what he gets. I wouldn't give ten cents for the hietrest bunch of people on earth If

There was no failure with Jesus, The demon might defy the disciples, but not Jesus Christ. Jesus not only cast the devil out, but barred the door against his ever going in again. "I charge you, come out of him

and enter no more into hira," andi

God not only will cast a devil out of people, but will lock all doors so the devil can never get in again. He will drive the drunken devil out of

This is not a world of chance. God don't wind it up and then throw the key away and let her rip till she runs down. Nothing comes by chance.

Christianity is not simply a creed. Christianity is a creed plus Jesus Christ.

' f Billy In I' 1.a" ' n

HOWTO JUDGE HIS AUDIENCE

Studies Particular Groups to Learn By What Appeal He May Be Able to Save Their Souls.

TELLS EXPERIENCES

Remember These

no devils were cast out. What is the an an Kef,P n.e QrunKen aevu out use of a hospital if nobody is healf He will drive the licentious "a AiJL-y ww i tho usa of a devil out and keep him out and he will

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fire department if they can't put out

a fire? What is the use of a police force if they never arrest a criminal? What is the use of having a meeting if no devils are cast out of the people that come there? What 13 i j-v n V in rr tho hnncA frh t VlO-

roof if nothing happens that wm ble him again

make the recording angel sit up and take notice? What is gained? Devil Still Remains In Poor Boy. "Great multitudes" sound big. bu: it was a fizzle. But come back to

him out. He will not only cast him

out but say, "You can't go in again." "I command you, come out, and enter no more into him." In spite of the failure of the dis-

! ciples, that demon would never trou-

No matter what oth

er troubles might come, that demon

would nover trouble him, though he might bear the scars to his dying day. Goodbye to the demon. The deepest sorrows ever known are those that come to you through

You will get just as much fun out of coughing into your handkerchief or coat sleeve as you will coughing out loud at the tabernacle and it's mucli less disturbing. Bring all of your children with you if you must, but leave them at the nursery in the Friends' church beside the tabernacle. Mrs. II. R. McQueen and a corp of competent women are in charge. $ L-7. an usher help you find a seat. Avoid floating aimlessly along ' the saw-dust trails. If you can't find a space in which to park your car on Fifteenth or Sixteenth streets, anchor them at Glen Miller park. If you must leave a meeting before the sermon is over, get out as quickly and quietly as possible. Don't expect

to get the same seat back if you re

turn if a few minutes. Ushers have

orders to keep you on the fringe of

the crowd in such an event.

this poor father. The disciples might have thought they were having a great time, but please remember the devil was still in that boy. Don't foreet that part of it. and the father

your own flesh and blood. The deep

est sorrow that comes to a wife is the sorrow her husband brings. The deepest sorrow to a man is the sorrow his wife brings, or to parents

had been expeting and hoping. andl V TOW tneir ennaren onng. ine now the ca?e seemed to be hopeless deepest sorrow that comes to humans

and the devil never had less mercy umi come iu yuu imuugn

and never snowea more power muu

your own flesh and blood; and the

highest joys that come to you are tha

joys that come when your own loved ones are making good and are decent and making the world better because they are living in it. Imagine that father giving twentyfive cents a year to missions as a

mark of gratitude for God casting the, you failed and he will tell you and devil out of his son! Imagine any-lne wil1 tell you how to succeed.

body being stingy after all that Godf am lad V3 1O,SS0n W,as not left 1,00 i f ,u a- iiout of the Blble- 1 am gted we are has done for them in feeding andtold that the discl les failed r clothing and giving us air to breathe jglad we are to,d wh they fajled Jf and water to drink and making life it had bcen left out of the Bible, I worth while! Imagine having to, never wouid have dreamed failure work so hard tov get people to be de- possible to the disciples who had seen cent . If to be a Chnst.an meant to Jesus face to face, lived with him, be disreputable, I vouldn't expect seen him as he wrought his wonderany of you to bs, but when it means

to be what God wants you to be, l haven't any respect for you. Don't you feel ashamed of yourself? Well, if you don't, the Lord pity you. i If you have lived as long as you have and come in here and are not a! Christian, you' ought to hang your! head in shame to think that you hav! gone through this world and haven't! thrown your influence on the side of Gcd. While the father and mother were; rejoicing over the deliverance of their; child from the power of the devil and : the neighbors were running in to join; with them, the disciples had gone to

S, ley-fnwhe,dn,Mnl theiul ks, erd 'hat he tauSht' and cast him m.t' y COuldnt we received his explanation to his teachin! !iBtIi t, AtA-t o,. ins and it would never have entered to fina out whv you have failed.1 . . . . . . j You can't get any light on the sub i ff,..! eI,JOied

ject in any church paper I have ever

pie of this city. They failed, and be-jB II A cause they failed, we can learn how 111 II I 1 , ff Mil 11 V to succeed, for we can learn what J II I jvUl made them fail ami then unless wel III1V .W

are fools we will avoi d the same ' thing. That is the whole proposition.! If you know that drinking impure water gave your neighbor typhoid fever, you are a big fool to go and drink the same kind of water, because it will do the same thing for you. Causes of Failure of Many Persons. Now then, when we see what causes so many people to fail, why are so many people such fools as to go and do the same thing? The man who will go in and spend all his money on drink knows it will hasten his ruin. And the girl who goes down with that

wild gang and dances and sits around and hits the booze, she knows it

causes tne ruination of three-tourtns

of the five hundred thousand prostitutes in the country, and that it will just do for her what it does for the rest of them. Why, they think that the man that stand3 up and warns them is their enemy, he is the best friend they ever listened to. He's trying to put them next. i don't want your virtue. I am not looking for your money. I want to warn you of the other fellow that does want it.' t don't want your

money, I am trying to warn you of

somebody else that does want it. I don't want it. I want your soul and God wants your soul, he wants you to live right. I am trying to teach you

how. I am glad to know that the disciples knew they had failed, hallelujah, and I am glad they were dissatisfied with the fact that they had failed and I am glad to know that they wanted to learn how to succeed. There is hope for the fellow who ha3 lost his way and is anxious about it. There is little hope for the fellow who

thinks he is right and keeps right on until he stumbles over the cliff down

into the canyon. They knew they had failed and fallen short of doing what the disciples of Jesus should do. i Over a shooting gallery out in j Butte, Montana,, a friend of mine saw

this sign, "If you can't find out why you miss, you will never hit the bull's eye." If you can't find out why you fail, you will never succeed. If you haven't got sense enough to know what made you fail you will never succeed. Find out! That is true of every life

in the world. The doctor doesn't;

give the medicine until he finds out what is the matter. That i3 why he does it I Find Out Why You Failed. The first step to success is to find out that you have failed. The second step is to find out why you failed. Are you making a failure of your

Christian life? Are you no good? Well, there is a reason for it. This is not a world of chance. God don't wind it up and then throw the key away and let her rip till she runs down. Nothing oomeS by accident.

Program Tuesday Night and Wednesday 7:00 p.m Song service and sermon. WEDNESDAY 12:00 Noon meeting at W. N. Johnson plant. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. Meeting of prayer meeting committee. 7:00 p. m. Song service and sermon at Tabernacle.

read. You don't have to read book3 to find out what your weak spots are. Take your heartaches and do as the disciples did, go to Jesus, and ask why

That isn't true. What God did for

them he can do foryou today if you will do what they did. What God did for them he will do for the peo-

then. I hope that God will never let mo forget, and I hope you wilt say the same thing, my friends, that there is somebody he wants to bless through you and through me whether the audience be great or whether it be small. And I don't believe a meeting was ever held that somebody didn't come there with a devil in him that ought to go home with the devil out of them. That is just pure a1? you breathe. How quickly all was changed when Jesus came on the scene, and that is always so. The Scribes and the Pharisees. they stopped quizzing and they sat up and took notice. When Jesus comes

into a meeting and begins to manifest his power, you won't see any-j body looking wise, stroking his whisk-! 'a ' or. nrtrt wnndprinsr where Cain eot

C' his wife. No, sir! The father soon found out that Jesus had come and fo did the devils too. So he said "Have compassion upon us." Hid prayer wasn't long, but in it was everything that he felt he needed. He wanted compassion and he wanted help. Christ Always Remains Constant To Friends. Have you ever been in that place? Well, if the time ever does come when you are, then you will know how this father felt, and when the time comes, please remember thi3, that there is only one that can help you, comfort you, or sympathiza with you. Nobody ever went to Jesus as earnest

as ir.ai iainer uia. anu rni waj disappointed and empty-handed. The best friend iuay treat you coldly and without his sympathy, but not eo with Jesus Christ. They may sneer at you when you are trying to do your best to be decent and serve God, but not Jesus Christ. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities; he knows what it means to be disappointed. He knows what it means to be friendless and despised. He knows what It means to be lied about. He knows what it s to be taunted and jeered at Nobody ever had a hardpr time than Jesus. I

fay it to the eternal disgrace of the human race, nobody ever had a harder time than Jesu3 Christ. a Nobody was ever treated with more O contempt that Jeeus. We treat a saloon keeper and a brewer and a distiller with more respect than we do Jesus Christ. If he was alive today,

Using Pallad ium Wireless Telephone to Announce Sunday Revival Services in Richmond

Hi JC 1 & tfcr -

There Is a cause for everything,

There is a cause for that light blaz

ing above my head the dynamo and

the wire brings it in here. If you are

Billy started off Tuesday in fine shape following his rest of the day before. ; He was the first down to breakfast, geting to the dining, room about 8 o'clock, before the majority of the party were astir. ' . .... V As he came from the dining room -he started towards the elevator, his eyes set squarely on his destination, and never wavering for a minute to any other object. There was no car in sight, so with but a slight hesitation he turned for the stairs, and sprang up them two steps at a time. Writes New Sermon In his room he spent the morning wiiting a new sermon which is to be presented in the near future for the first time. Monday was an unusual day for Sun

day, for he spent it in Richmond, instead of at home as he plans for the rest of the six weeks. As usual he was the first one down for breakfast, beating Miss Kinney to it by about 15 minutes. ' He was in fine fettle for Tuesday's work at the tabernacle. "No two audiences are alike, some of them like humor, some sarcasm, and some want it heavy," said Billy Sun day, talking about his experiences. "You have to treat them all differently, and find what appeals to them the most." "No I am not following politics, but I am interested in affairs outside of the United States, and I believe

that the conference at Genoa will produce results," he said. Sunday makes Monday a day of rest. For the rest of the time that he is in Richmond he will spend it at Winona Lake with Ma Sunday and the family, r Charlestown Experience. "Now down at Charlestown we had a most enthusiastic group that came across in fine shape, and those miners down there, and those mine operators, they have come to realize that the only thing that can bring capital and labor together is Jesus Christ," he continued. Billy talked as forcefully to an audience of one as to the whole congregation at the tabernacle. Once set on a subject and he set hia teeth and went for it, focusing his eyes on a point over the reporter's shoulder and clenching his fist in his earnestness. "The miners find that they can gettogether on the basis of Christianity," he stated. "They find that the golden rule will do more for them in their relations with each other, than any other thing that they know of. "For years we have had all kinds of attempts to make a common ground for every one to meet on, but thev have found at last that it is Christianity that is the basis of it all." . -Noise Doesn't Deter

Here Peterson began on the piano

sick, there is a cause. The doctor! ana 1113 secretary, Bob Matthews, gave

finds out the cause, removes that andi oux a 60nS- Tn noise hardly made a

Fred Rapp, business manager of Billy Sunday, in The Talladium i the famous evangelist preach in the tabernacle. The picture shows radio station, broadcasting an invitation through ths air to hear Mr. Rapp speaking the invitation into the sending apparatus.

you will get well. The same as a flower is proof that somebody put h seed in the garden, that oak is proof that there was an acorn planted. You are sick, there is a reason for it in the world. Therefore, if you are not holding your own as a Christian there is a reason. If you are immoral, there is a reason. If you are an infidel, there is a reason. Find out! That is what we are trying to help you do. Am I the kind of a Christian

that Christ wants me to be? Am I hurting the devil's business by the way I live? Am I making a failure serving the Lord? If so, why? Is there any reason I can't live the way God wants me to live? Don't I pray enough? Don t I read the Bible enough? If you are a Sunday school

teacher, are you succeeding? Aro you teaching a lesson to make it read or just to kill time till the bell rings? If you are a preacher, are your sermons so much hot air or do they make the Felixs and Aggrippas that sit in the audiences squirm and tremble and cry out, "Much learning hath made you mad. Thou almost persuP.dest me to be a Christian?" Works Hard For i ' Christ's Cause. Do I get my Bible wide open when

I preach? Do I get my sermons i from the word of God? Are you"' drawing people to God? Are you: doing more for the church than the j organ and the bell or the janitor? i Are you in the pulpit because God

wants you there, or because you have j got a pull with the officials and they keep you there? How do you know?, What am I preaching? Am I mak-; ing it easier for people to do right and harder to do wrong? Am I cast-; ing out devils? If the church isn't j casting out devil3, is it because there I

are no devils in people to cast out?'

What is the trouble? I tell you if

the church throughout the world, if:

the church in this city will get down, on her knees and ask, "Why could!

not we cast him out," the devil and l

the white slaver will work harder than they do for all they get. Why? Why? Come on back to the text a minute. "Why could not Te

j cast him out?"

Jesus Chirst said, "This f . kind

cometh not forth but by prayer and fasting." That is all he said, that was enough. They . understood. That put them wise, that gave them all the lighc they needed and it made each one look into his heart and what he saw in there made him speechless, for he (Continued on Next Page)

pause, Billy simply rai.ed his voice a trifle and kept right on. ' The conference in Genoa is going to result in a lot of good, any conference where the people get together and get each other's views does a lot of good. "But the allies are not going to let Russia put any thing over on them. We are organized on an Individualistic basis, and Russia is now Socialistic. Socialism makes a man wear the kind of clothes that the state says, and act as the state says he Bhould act." Bows Head Th first suggestion that a prayer was being said, and Billy turned sharply, almost stopped his talk in the middle of sentence, and bowed his head. The very instant the praver was over, Sunday faced the audience, and in his rapid speech that sounds at first like the bark of a machine gun, began to tell the assembly what he had heard about Richmond, but that the campaign would come across in the end.

Wicked Men Cannot

Bribe God By Prayer Gad grant you salvation by your faith in Jesus and then you can pray God for a blessing and he will ptve it to you. Pray that prayer first, then the blessing will come. God won't hear when pride and set fishness are the main spring. There are cases where wick?d men pray in their extremity, everybody prays sometime. If you have not prayed, you will pray, ani some of you may pray before the

grass turns much greener and before the leaves bud and flowers bloom. You will pray; everybody will pray: There are cases where wicked men and wicked women have prayed "in their extremity, not because they were sorry they were sinners,not because they were longing In their hearts to know God, but because they hoped they could bribe God by the prayer, and that God wouldn't damn them although thev, had lived a life of sin. That is why they prayed, thinking that they could bribe God and escape the trouble they have brought on themselves.- because, they had lived In sin. They didn't, pray because they were sorry they were sinners and wanted toj do right and serve the Lord. No,: because God won't hear a selfivh prayer. , ; ,''?-,?-;. . I