Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 93, 19 April 1922 — Page 7
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RICHMOND, INDIANA, APRIL 20, 1922.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES
You Cant Succeed Until You Set Yourself Right with God; Men's Failures Traced to Sin
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Examine Your Hearts to Discover the Cause of Your Weaknesses, Billy Sunday Shouts to Tabernacle Audience Follow Up Your Decision to Reform by Positive Deeds of Righteousness.
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Text "Your iniquities have turn
away these good things, and your
sins have withholden good things from, you," Jeremiah 5th chapter, 25tli
verse.
in ins eerinan weanesaay aiiemuuii Rev. W. A. Sunday said: In that verse of the scriptures,: Jeremiah is giving the explanation' for the existence of a sad state and condition of things in his day. He came as the prophet of God. the Just,: to whom certain things had been promised. When God entered into a covenant with them he promised them ample provision for their needs. He said, "1 will pour down the early and the latter rains upon your lands." I He promised them peace, "Peace I leave with you. my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." He promised them joy and gladness, "Because thou servedst not the Iord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abun-, dance of all things." He promised them prosperity. "This book of the law shall not depart out or thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou maycs observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt have good success." J He promised them victory, "How should one chase a thousand, and tw3 put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Tord had shut them up?" j God Promises Honor
TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON
I was in a town out in Iowa, preaching in a little tent, and an old farmer, a rich old fellow, asked me to go out to his house for dinner. I went out with him one time and we sat in the parlor and he was pulling his bird tail whiskers and trying to hit the spittoon thirty feet away like that. And pretty soon he got up and walked across the floor, reached up on the wall and took down a copy of Jayne's Almanac and he began to turn the leaves. He said "I am looking to see when the moon changes." I said, "What for?" He said, "I want to mark my calves: I cut the slits out of the ears of some of them and they bled to death." He said, "I was told if I marked them in a certain time of the moon they'd be all right." I said, "Do you believe that?" He said, "Yes. I've had one of these almanacs in the house for twenty years." I said. "That's queer that you will believe that. You've got two Wds. and if you'd put them on the market tomorrow they wouldn't bring as much as one of those black polled steers you've got out in the field." The trouble with people is that they spend too much time getting their hogs and cattle ready for market and too little time eettinsr
i boys and girls ready for heaven.
Sunday Makes Ears Bum; Prods Church-Goers, Too, in Sizzling Sermon
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If what I preach is not taught in the Bible, get up and tell me! If it is. keep your darned mouths shut, for I am preachiug God's truth. I am not standing up here airing my opinions, and if you sit out there and listen to me and don't agree with me, that shows you are a fool, for what I am preaching is the Bible. You are the ass, not me.
Tf the rich man doesn't repent he will go to Hell. If the poor man doesn't repent he will go to Hell, and if the banker doesn't repent, that wont seve him.
Say. "Lord. I don't want to be stingy, but J go to church with my purse filled with gold and I hunt around and find a nickel and then I sing, 'Jesus Paid it ALL.'"
You can't make a success of serving God and tripping around with the gang that some of you go with, If you can't afford a Pierce-Arrow, get a "tin Lizzie."
If you don't like the smell of gasoline, don't knock the fellow who can afford it; take your trolley ride for a nickel; don't growl, don't growl.
I'd rather hunt my own games than bar?: with the devil's pack at the foot of the tree.
Man of All Work
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If you want God's favor, you've got to give up the devil. So make your choice whether you want to go to the devil or to Heaven.
CHURCH" LETS WORLD GO TO HELL-SUNDAY
"Wake Up for, God's' Sake, Church, or Quit," Pleads Evangelist as He Demands Action.
DDCAVO riOOT Oil 1 ID
untnsvo nno! unAin
Tn Children Of Israel
JTr nromispd them honor. "And it
rhall com to pass if thou shalt rainu la your fault If you wan(.
neaiKen amgenuy uiiiu me " i to know whv there is no joy it
i fir iua tuy ijrm, iu uw.'v . , v your rault
s
If you want to knov
is no peace, it is
do all his commandments wh:ch I
command thee this day that the Lord your fault If you wanf knQw wh ; thy God will set thee ou high above .., iR nnwMrit.. it ia , '
all nations of the earth. fault. If you want to know whv "And the Lord shall make thee the then?.8 n0 vlctory it 1S your fault ,f head, and not the tall; and thou shalt you want to know wh VQU &re -n be above only, and thou shalt not be captivity, it your fault beneath; if that thou hearker .unto Jf ; , the commandments of the Lord thv , f
...u...u i thP this dav ..iniquitous, it is your fault. If you
ZII.. iwant to know why God keeps the
IOS"e "w nf h; numberless' od things from you, it's your fault.
tt.nt nod. through the nroDh- noi uniaunruiness on uoas part
Sunday Revival Program WEDNESDAY 7:00 p. m. Song service and sermon. THURSDAY 9:00 a. m. Sunday party at Earlham college. 12:00 noon. Shop meeting at Swayne-Robinson works. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. First Bible study class under Miss Kirniey. 6:00 p. m. Council Girls supper at First Presbyterian Church. 7 :00 p. m. Song service and sermon Presbyterian Night.
CHARLESTON WOKE UP TO SUNDAY REVIVAL AFTER EARLY APATHY
Robert Matthews "Is that Rodeheaver or Billy Sun-
! day?" the uninitiated ask, when a slight figure in a grey suit mounts the
platform. They are almost right, for it is Bob
Matthews, understudy to Rody and to the Boss, and holder of almost as many
'.jobs as Peterson, the custodian of the
tabernacle. Bob, as he is called, is first of all
! secretary to Mr. Sunday, buffer be
tween the world and the boss, pianist for the chorus, understudy for Rody as
leader of the choir, and finally a good talker when he has to be. Like so many versatile geniuses. Bob
just naturally had to turn his talents ! ,t pos,sible for us to sing My Country
to newspaper worn, ana was on tne , Ti of Thee," instead of 'God Save the
sian or tne cmcago 1 riDune wneniKinc'
( tsiuy touna mm aoout eight years ago.
"The churches look as if they ate too much and slept too well over the way the world is going to hell." shouted Eilly Sunday at the Wednesday evening meeting.- j . ; Grabbing a chair from the platform and swinging it around his head, he roared, "The world since, the war has realized the need of. Christ," and then swinging it with a crash to the floor, he leaned over the edge of the platform, his face perspiring and dripping from his exertion, be shook his fist at the audience. . - - "Wake up for God's sake, church, or quit.!" "I have never yet seen. a city that Mwuld not go for God if the churches would come out and stand for God," he declared. ' ': Preaching on the character, "Jacob", Billy Sunday opened with a tribute to the Jew and lo the things that the world owed to him. , . . "Don't forget that It was a Jew that raised the money for Washington at
the time of the Revolution, and made
ets of bid had given to the people
and the people desired these promises. , So desirable were they, that no same - man or woman could fail to long for their fulfillment, and yet by the peo- . pie these things were not possessed. instead of God pouring down the ear- , ly and latter rain for three years and f six months, it did not rain a drop and the dew never fell. Instead of peace, there was trouble;
. affliction; instead of prosperity, there ; was adversity; instead of victory ! there nai defeat; and instead of honor, there was dishonor. God Not To Blame ; Tor Israel's Troubles.
But in the sins of the people was found the explanation for the failure. Ministers Proclaim
Message of God.
At one time he had been city editor of
the Burlington Gazette, the Des
Moines News, and of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, way back in the days when that paper existed. Born in Kentucky
Born in Kentucky not too many
make a way to escape, that ye may,robate or a Christian. A fellow who be able to bear it." I wants to live to gratify his desires He has promised provision for ev- is a black-hearted adder; if he is livery need, "But my God shall supply : ing for his own ambition, he is an all your need according to his riches j adder. He can't do that, in Glory by Christ Jesus." Not all; Won't Read Books
Now as ministers of the srosnel nfiyou want! You may want a great j Swearina At Reliaion.
Jesus Christ, we are sent to proclaim i many things you don't need. God l3 there SQme ini it or accident ,i . . 1 j i cava T t-1 1 1 tnnnlv all vnur n p Pil .
uuua uiraiwgc iu me yt-upie, ahu ssij- rl "-' 7 ' V : or habit in vour life some spcret nipsspnirprs nf finri V nLpH ir faccordine to my riches in Glory." ou or naou m our Ule some secret,
ne and sneak God's messaee. Now may want ice cream, but you can get uuie mougm, some impure longings
ind certain things promised for us! along without it. See? "I will sup
ply all your need according to my riches in Glory."
"Don't forget that it Mas a Jew that loaned the money to ! discover America, and that it was a Jew in Columbu's party that was the first to set foot on American soil." The first appearance of Homer Rodeheaver was a tsignal for a demonstration from the chorus,' the-audience meanwhile looking somewhat bewildered until the song leader appeared beside the piano, and took off his grey felt hat. Then the audience broke into applause. , .-'Billy Sunday appeared on the plat-
le best thing that has hit j x" Mnn M brne ! miauteS and waS m' withm the memory of even 1 wou,d hink he hag distfectjon (lyw yed . -
There is some parallel to the Richmond situation in the early difficulties of the Charlestown, W. Va., campaign, says a message from that city.
The following editorial from the f a aS- le son of Kev. Dr. it. J u
.. ... , . , Matthews, Presbyterian minister. Bob Bulletin of the Charleston Automo- naturally aUo had ,t in him tQ folow
uiie liuu Milieu lias jusi cume uuui
the press, tells the story
It matters not from what angle it
may be viewed, the Billy Sunday cam
i paign is the
Charleston
Billy. He is not a reverend, but he is a deacon in his own home church. With a B. A. from Lake Forest uni-
jversity, and a musical education in
our otaest citizens. enmio.i, h 5!o.o
Many of us at the outset were not the has compost secular and enthusiastic over the prospect of his . . travlert ,n tllo
Iand, been all over the United States
come
I find certain things promised for us
to proclaim. For example, God has promised forgiveness, "Verily, verily, I say unto
you. He that heareth my word, and
Much is Promised To True Believers.
believeth on him that sent me, hathj Such are a few or the numberless everlasting life, and shall not come promises which make the life of the
into condemnation; but is passed from believer full of glory and full of
death unto life.
God has promised peace.
some book? I will not read a book that will sneer and mock at religion and God Almighty. I won't have it on my shelves. And we ought to go through our homes and have a religious revival in literature. If some of you people would go
through your homos and yank out the
coming, nor did we lend proper en- j
couragement to those who were behind the movement. Nevertheless he came and whatever of prejudice may
' have existed in the minds of some of
our people, under the influence of his magnetic pesonality and the genuine sincerity of his purpose all this was wiped out and those who had been prone to scoff became loudest in their acclaim of the man and his mission. He has preached the old, old gospel of love, the gospel of our fathers, the gospel of the saints who bearing witness to its truth and to its promise were led serenly smiling into God's eternity. The gospel he has preached, the
peace. To us, as believers, they are books on your library shelves that annt, t ST 3 whIp, i i , ,. . . . 'has touched the heart3 of hardened
They went into captivity and paid m " "'um,u '"ril tribute to a foreign nation. Whatj h"Ss 1 have spoken unto you that .des. or. fr thi wn p.nri m me ye might have peace. In the; and
bankrupt? Did God make promises I world y811 hlv tribulation: but intending to fulfill them, and then! be of 'good cheer; I have overcome the
conditions arose that made it impos-
"Thes promised; as believers they should be : have no business there, and burn
red with a yearning which daily them, like they did in Ephesus in the!
hourly increases with intensity. I days of Paul, some of you would not
with Sunday.
Bob would like to be the greatest golfer on earth, except that he says "on some days my golf is awfully poor, and on the other days it is not so good." His ambitions as a great pianist run about in the same direction Faithful to Billy. But he is sure that Billy is the greatest man on the face of the earth. Just to show that he had some other attainments than good newspaper ability before he joined Sunday, Matthews confessed that he had been choir director and organist of the Fullerton avenue Presbyterian church in Chicago. The Richmond audinces have al-
mt-n and led them from the paths ; reaJy learned that Bob can sing, and
sible for him to do it? Oh, no! A
thousand times no! You've got to look for the explan- ; ation of the failure from a different 5 source than that, and Jeremiah knew ', where it belonged, and he laid the 'I blame in the right place, when he . said, in the words of my text, as he 5 addressed it to the people, "Your ini- ' quities have turned away tllese things. and your sins have withholden good f- things from you." If you want to know why it doesn't
world."
God has promised -fulness of joy.
We ought to long for the fulfillment of these things, and let me ask you, are they possessed? There are thousands of people to-
of wickedness into the path of. right
eousness. To the writer of this ar-
rZ"V? ta.5r.bfi K his message ha been as Tver- vocal number.
they show it v.hen he and Peterson
or Mrs. Asher are announcd for a
to bang your old hair or wad a shot
gun.
s nal one and he has benefitted in-
Popular All Around.
" ... . !ptimaiiiv hv th camnai?n for riht- i nen coupled with tne lact that he
Something in your family life.? eousness s with him so with a mul-! s one of the best kidders that the I was not a Christian, but could not
R. W. Stoakes said:
"This afternoon I introduce Rody' trombone to the audience, but tonight I am introducing Rodeheaver himsrlf." Almost the first song eung wa "Brighten the Corner Where You Are.' which was demanded by a member ot the florists' delegation,, the first local delegation to visit the meetings. The announcement of tho famou number, brought a round of applau e. and Mr. Rodheaver assisted with troin bone accompaniment.' With the advent of Mr. Rodeheaver everything seemed to start off with adder" enthusiasm. Mr. Matthews at the piano added any number of extra thrills and fancy chords, until it sounded like a whole battery of pianos following the song. Reading a letter attached to a $100 billl found in the afternoon collection, Sunday demanded of the audience how many would promise to bring $1.00 on the following night. Nearly half of the audience stood. The letter stated that the sender
The God of hope will you with joy,? wno nve na ine lPal " uver-inauigence : , u fl f other8 , charlestpn and the ; Sunday party carries, you can under
TA,-c.irm.,o a ...x.i m v ecu aH". u. inc ijuvc; II- c,i rrminrl in d- trritrV Tl,o inflii. Stand WhV lie IS PODUlar.
who are absolute strangers to the ment to the people that ought to stop f chrJstiani'y examn'e will i Last but not least Robert Matchurch. They do not know the A. gormandizing and stop eating fou.-iab,de with us , ft , thews (without any middle initial B. C's out of which to write God's pounds of beef steak when you can ; become a memory I'lease) is not married. He confesses peace; they do not know perfect for- get along w.th half a pound. Do, w boagf f health of:ihat he has hopes, but if vou would giveness; they have no personal as-j something for other 'People! Let';our re60urctB. of our industries 'andiee the way he has to jump around
and peace in beiievin
He nas promised emancipation from sin, "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under tho law, but under grace." He has promised victory. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also
Group of Billy Sunday Workers
K 1 i , i - fev- j . .1 "&4 fell M .
nation; tney nave no,Degin to comply w.tn me requests. nt nnr mnt.rial nrnsnor.ia w ,hn wlm cover all his iob?. with reporters
ntrfift npnrp Thpir lives are a con- Oh. how we'd he surnrised tn know . '. . ... , ... . , ... '., . ,
, . .. r part of t naricston s spienuor is the,;lller i'"1' ueiore i ui oi neu. i stant prey to anxiety; circumstance . how much we can get along without, s jritua, awakpnInB tnat has made it!and hounding him until late at night! upset them; they have no experience 1 how much we have today that we better j L ., Bn, Sunda j vou Wculd understand why he never nl t0 )leepLng,P rt 11 , -t M i. the dynamic herald of Christ, to rally i has time to meet any of the eligible Christ; in the hour of tempta tiov U Vhat is the trouble? s it seltish- to thJe gtandard of tne Savl0 the I girls in the towns where he has been.
lutJ ' I ' T 8 1, lost men and women of our beloved are gloomy. the preacher because he skins you and countrv They are not victorious, but they tells you where you're wrong? You '
are aeieaiea, ana ineir cry sterns iu lumur me ekiii oi t puysitiau iuai ry.
see a cood thing passed up. and
wanted to help. It was unsigned. "A man like that would n?t join a church that could not put across such a project at this, because he would think that the church was a bunch of tightwads," declared Rev. Sunday.
Wednesday's night will be found on the next page.
be, 'Oh, wretched man that I am! comes and tells you what's the mat-
Who shall deliver niel
'For the ter with you, and no matter how bit-
it takes a birr man or woman to
see other people succeed and uot raine a howl about it. Envy is one
Tabernacle Nursery's First Patrons
law oi tne spiru oi me m uinsi n-i auu uaueaung uis uituiciue is, of tne greatest robbers in the world Jesus hath made me free from the you will take it and it will taste like If can-t af?ord an automobile; law of sin and death.' It is just ice cream soda, if it will only help v rnn ... thf P1fth 11W
I iuc ujjuoiit; num.
And let me as
Hon. Why is by the average
a saa ana Diner contrast 10 tnai pi- i"ti n ; iuu i -.x t ma." a success v r.r,rv- fn foiir,r .on frn A n-
tured on the pages of the New Tes- by serving Oct and tripling around v ke r trollv ride for a nicklo lament? , with the gang that some of you go don.t grow, don"-t growl; t yu anotner. Question. ' with. - . ,f sortlc woman can afford to wear Is the Christian life as pictured in: Is it envy, evil speaking, ljiPS? .nk 3nn vou ran't what is th
the Bible too high for human attain- , rf ltnnt,ei' anH cinn. -.sh.'J
ment? Oh, no! Did God tell you . ' J 3
iwitnn w nur ?ff r?c
iuai. iJ""' l""w' for tpn rpnts nnrt if vnn ran't nffnrd
k you another ques- you are wrong, why don t you thank Pilir(.p.rr' . ' ir. Ii77.,
it , that the life lived God that he had the courage to do it? Ntow what is tllP trouble'' If yo'-i Christian afforda such Something in our social life? U Hon.t th an.oII f pastnuno rinn't
to do something that he knew yoi could never achieve? Don't you have the audacity to say that is true. That is a lie! i God Proves All j Can Repent. i God did not put the Christ life too high for human attainment. When God commands all men to repent, God knows all men can repent, or God would not command them to do it. God's promises are never meant to be unfulfilled. Is . God trifling with his people? No! Is the Christ life an ideal toward which you must always long and approximate but never realize? Must it be something that I'd like to possess, but it is too high for me to reach? No! Is it something that I
! would like to own, that I have not J the ability to own? No! i
But the explanation is in the text. Let me read it again. "Your iniquities hav.e turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you." i Failure with ourselves, not with God. Then that means self examination to find out why you have failed. Isn't that right? Certainly! j Let me ask you another question.! "What is there in your life that hinders the blessing from coming to you? And because it doesn't come to you, it is kept away from somebody else? You can't go through this
To Make World Happy
Reading from left to right: William Asher, Mrs. William Asher, In
charge of women's work; Miss Florence Kinney, supervisor of Bible student world an insulated and isolated being;
activities; Robert "Bob" Matthews, secretary to Mr. Sunday and publicity you will either damn it or you will
man; and Aibert "Pete" Peterson, tabernacle custodian and pianist. , i bless it, accordingly as you are a rep-,
Gosh, wouldn't this be a great world if everybody would mind their own business? Wouldn't the devil have a hard time? He'd be in the hospital. I'd make that definate too. I'd say, "Lord, I will not read those books that sneer at You, that appeal to my baser nature. I will not go with that crowd of gin fizzlers and cocktail guzzlers. No, No! Lord I won't be stingy. Lord, I have been unclean today. Lord, forgive me for the lie I spoke. Lord, lead me safely past my old haunts." Oh, the man who is in earnest vill put his fingers on the sore just as we tell the doctor where is the pain, so hs can intelligently diagnose and prescribe for the malady. Do the same thing with the Lord. That is the second. First thing, confess your sin. Second renounce, abandon it, get away from.it and get it away from you Third, instant obedience to God. You must not only resolve that you will not do what God tells you not to do, when God tells you not to steal or lie or commit adultery, but you must resolve that you will do what God tells you to do, and there is no difference between doing what you are . told not to do
and what you are told to do.
I, ,-1 s,..te.&-r&-A.J.t.-
PoppycoCK such darn spirit youj have got about this country foolish. If you can't live on the avenue, be content where you can live. I can't! afford to live there, but I am having! a good time. I am not sore at the
fellow that's got money enough to live there. The Lord bless him. I'd rather hunt my own game thaa bark with the devil's pack at the foot of the tree. Envy, that's the trouble! Search yourself by lighted candle of God'j truth. Sin cherished, cancels the blessing. So, make up your mind that if you keep fin, you can't have the blessing, and if you want the blessing you've got to give sin no. Now make up your mind which you'll keep. That wa3 true in Jeremiah's day and . it's true today, so make uo your mind which you want. If you want God's favor, you've got to give up the devil. So make your choice whether you want to go to the devH or to Heaven.
God Can't Bless Sinning Persons. Iniquity persisted in making the promises of non-effect. Don't insist on living in sin and then growl at God because he doesn't bless you. It's your fault and not God's. So to Israel, so to us. Instead of the blessings, they became curses to the Jew,
because he lived contrary to wnat tnej Mrs. Glen Hamilton and her two -HiiaYen, Betty and Eloise, thre anc
Lord told him to live. It may not be fjve year8 0id, respectively, who were - - children '"t? -" In th
(Continued on Next Page) , , nursery Sunday afternoon.