Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 95, 21 April 1922 — Page 7

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BILLY SUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLE Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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Too Many Members of Church Chew the Rag and Neglect to Do Work God Assigns to Them Churches Expect Kingdom to Grow by Efforts of Others, Says Billy Sunday You Cannot Expect Results if You Depend on Proxies or Find Fault Continually With the Preacher Everybody Must Be Alert and Active.

In his sermon on "Martha and Mary" Friday afternoon. Rev. Sunday said: You will find two texts this after, noon in the eleventh chapter of John the twenty-eighth and thirty-ninth verses i no master is come, and catleth for thee," and "Take ye away the stone." I once heard a sermon on the eleventh v chapter of John, and the man who preached the sermon made it analogous to a revival of religion, and I was so impressed with the appropriateness of what he said that I took copious notes; and then I read a sermon on the subject, and the hearing of the sermon and the reading of others led me to study the Bible with that in view, with the result that I bring you this message today to help you. If I had been made to pray these words for years I never could have made them sound as they must have sounded when they fell from the lips of Martha. You know we all have a sort of professional way of saying, "I feel sorry for you," when we see someone in mourning or weeping, or who has just come back from the cemetery, and we mean it insofar as our experience goes. But if you followed a loved one to the cemetery, when you came back there would be a different tone in your voice and a different look on your face when you said, "I am sorry." Don't you see? i It isn t cold and metallic like other, word 3 would be. And if you passed ' through a similar experience you will: know what I mean. Death Takes Lead Over Everything. When death comes it takes precedence over everything. ' And so whenever death does come he takes the one that we can spare the least. I think if God had selected me as the

death angel to go down there and"Many of the Jews, when they came select a member of that family, Iiand saw the things that Jesus did, be-j

would have chosen one or tne two girls Martha or Mary instead of Lazarus, the brother. But I think we all see why the Lord did it that way. I say death takes precedence over: everything. When death enters your home no matter what your engagements, you will withdraw them. If you have sent out invitations you will recall them. You will stop work. You ,will close the store. Crape will flutter from your doorknob, whether you live on the boulevard or in a back alley. WThen McKinley died, every wheel and every factory in America stood still for five minutes. Not a wheel turned, not a yard of cloth was sold, not a pound of sny commodity was weighed, to pay respect to him. - ' Now I don't mean to convey the danger in time 01 rciai mau .". - her time, but I hold this: That in a campaign like this, this meeting ought to have precedence over everything. You ought to give God the right of way. Other things can wait. Never mind your literaries. You can read your paper on "The Lady of the . 1 J 1 V. nn.T ' Lake" later on, and if you have one prepared on Ruskin. that is all right, j but hold it and give uoa a tnanie once in a while in this old world. Give Lint' To Revival IV jrnent. The mc you put into this the more you w4. get out of it. That's true with everything. Like an old preacher who was going to supply a church one time, and, as. was the custom in those days, at either door was a little box in which the people were requested to put their offering for the preacher, and whatever was dropped into that box belonged to the minister, as his remuneration for his services. As he went in his boy noticed that he dropped fifty cents in, and as he came out he took the contents of the box as his reward, and the boy noticed that all he took out of the box was fifty cents, and the boy said to him, "Pop, If you had put more in you would have got more out." People are not more dead spiritually and morally in time of revival than any other time. People are just as dead spiritually and morally now as they were before this campaign started, but I believe there i3 more and more danger now in time of revival than any other time. Why? Because it is God's set time to call men and women from their sins and their apathy and indifference, and don't you dare lift your infinitesimal reason and mediocre personality, and your pigmy Intellect up In defiance Tears of One Woman Better Than Argument "The Master Is come and calleth for thee." Some crusaders were going out in a western state to give arguments against the saloon and there was one old saint seventy-five years of age and she wanted to go along. They said, "Oh, no, Granny, you can't talk. All you will do is cry." She said, "Let me go along and cry for Jesus then," And she would hobble out on her crutches and stand there, leaning on them, while the other women were hurling arguments against the saloon. One of the, saloonkeepers, looking out, saw that old woman with the tears rolling down her cheeks, and it reminded him of hi own mother and he gave up his cussed business and dumped it in the alley. She showed what side she was on, and her tears did for that man what all the arguments of the others couldn't do.

of God. You would be just as big a fool if you would step out there and say: "God, I don't like to plow and plant In April." Then God says. "You starve to death If you don't like the way-1 da it. You starve to death. That is my way of doing it. If you want to plow and plant in January, go to it." God says, "This is my way of stirring up people to better faith. This is my way of filling the empty and depleted churches. This is my way of calling men and women from sin to salvation. If you don't like it I

don't give a picayune, I will do it anyway." What Real Effect Of Revival Is. So you will show you are a fool, whether you are a preacher or a lay member of the church, if you sneer at a revival., I wouldn't give much for you. I don't care who you are. I don't care to know you. A minister said to me there was nothing he dreaded nothing that he loved to see so much as a revival, although the statement might seem a paradox, because he said that what would be a savior of life in one case would be death in another, anil while this meeting will stir multitudes to love Jesus better, and be loving and virtuous and honest, it will make others so mad they will curse and damn and they can't say mean enough j things about it. So this revival is; producing two opposite effects. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and so, while this revival may melt the hearts of some and bring them to Jesus Christ, it will make others hard, and more bitter. But that is nothing new. It only shows some are fools, that's all. This miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead produced two opposite effects upon the people. Now listen! nevea on mm. mat 'is ma iony-i fifth verse. I "And from that day forth they! took counsel together for to put him I to death. That is the fifty-third j verse. So, therefore, it made some believe when they saw him raise Lazarus from the dead. They said, "Nobody but the Son of God can do that. We believe." . . -All Sorts Of Opposition. And it made others so mad that they wanted to kill him, because if he kept on raising people from the dead, others would believe him, and they would rather people would die and go to Hell, and show them up to be a fool lot. But there are lots of people to day that would rather go to Hell than be .converted in the taber nacle

You would be surprised howleuow will Show

many people have sense about other things are absolutely ignoramuses and fools when it comes to religion Absolutely. Thev are intelligent people about other things in the j world. But here thev Dlaced undue j reliance in human aid, not that you mustn't place reliance, for God's cause has been propagated through men and women that he can find to spread his word up and down the land and we are in a cause that demands human ' laborers, and if you don't do God's work it won't be done. God could send angels down here to preach and sing, but he doesn't. God puts that in human vessels, and if you don't do it it will never be done. Therefore, God isn't strengthening himself. He has power, and is strengthening his people through whom his power must be manifest. If they are not right then you put the handcuffs on the Lord. Now, they placed undue reliance in human aid. They sent friends over to Jesus. No doubt the ones they sent were friends of the family and of Jesus, and they went over after Jesus, because Lazarus was sick. Jesus had

gone over into another part of the;in Hell in country to Dreach. and Lazarus took won't do it.

ill, and they went over ana said to him. "Lord, he whom you love Is sick." My, what an enviable place Lazarus had in the heart of Jesus! Christ Was Fond Of Lazarus. If you would come up to me and; say, "She whom you love is sick, there is only one woman in the United States I would think about. That is Mrs. Sunday. I tell you Lazarus had a mighty cozy corner in the heart of Jesus. They didn't tell them to mention any names, but just go up and say, "He whom you love is sick," and he would think of Lazarus. Now listen! You would have thought that if Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus, and appreciated their hospitality, that he would Come up to the house instantly. I read in the fifth verse. "Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus. When he heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the place where he was." After the messengers had left Bethany, chased away over here to where Jesus was holding a meeting. and told him, "He whom you love is sick." instead of running down there, he staved over two days. I think it required more love for Jesus to stav away than it did for him to go up . there. I think Jesus said, "Now see here, if I go up there and raise him from the sick bed, thev won't believe on me." He would be doing that and they would be spitting into his face and cursing him, and calling him a winebibber and a glutton. But he said, "I will tell you; I will stay away and let him die, then I will raise him

SAYINGS OF SUNDAY ALL MAY UNDERSTAND

Can you explain how it is that when a horse eats food, it goes to hair; whvi a sheep eats, it goes to wool; when a chicken eats, it goes to feathers: when a hoe eats, it will go to bristles? Can you explain that certainly you cannot. Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk? "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God," and I am not an atheist because I am no fool. If you believe your great, great granddaddy was a monkey, then you lake your daddy and go to hell with him, but leave me out! I came from a different bunch.thank God. Don't you find fault with God and His word and the creation of this world, you poor idiot, when you don't know beans about a fly. I suppose if Jesus would come to this city and go around to the home of some folks who are members of the church, they might give Him a hand out and tell Him to dig something out of the garbage can. If you want to avoid criticism, be nothing, do nothing, say nothing. I haven't asked and I haven't been mrormed but I venture that not an the churches are interested in the campaign right now. I Go ahead, don't ask somebody else to do your work. Do it yourself and see what God will do. God won't do what we can do. I can preach. Rody can sing. You can sing. We must do our part. You don't need to tell the Lord what that man's sins are. He knows that. There seems to be a perpetual sign hanging in every church, "Wanted a recipe by which your work can be accomplished by proxy." I think Mary was a uneeda biscuit, fruit salad, peanut butter kind of a woman. God could send angels down here to preach and to sing, but he doesn't. God puts that in human vessels, and if you don't do it, it will never be done. if y0u have got any saffron in your make-up a revival like this will show vou up You have your best chance to show your grit on Jesus Christ that you ever had in your life. from the dead, and they can't help but believe that I am the Son of God, and it will fulfill prophecy." Up to that time we had no record that Jesus had raised anybody from the dead, so I think it required more love for Jesus to stay away than for him to go. He wanted to go up there and dry the tears on the cheeks of. Martha and Mary by healing their j sick brother, but he said, j "Those Jews won't believe if Ij raise a man from the sick bed. They! will say I am a take and a fraud. I. will let him die." Now, wait and see if I am not' right. In Revival Now, as I go up and down the land and preach, I find pastors as a rulej are willing to do all they can. Once n a while I find a fellow that's got a yellow streak in him. If he has! got a corner of the Spanish flag, tucked away in his makeup, I can dig it out as quick as anybody. If, you have got any saffron in your! makeup, a revival like this will show who you are, and you never had anything in the universe come to you as an individual to show whether you really loved God or not, or whether you are following him for the loaves and the fishes. You have your trt chance to show your grit on Jesus Christ that you ever had in your life. I have just, given you a chance to get our men-1 tal adjustment here for a couple of weeks, .tmt Christ win never come to this or any other city until his redemptive power- until the entire family of God go out to meet him. But if God had to wait for every preacher In this town and every church member to be absolutely in harmony before he saved a soul, you would be i forty-eight hours. He So God will take those tnat wiir get rignt, ana ao want something, and through you he will save people. Oh God, how the church is tying the Lord's hands nowadays instead! of getting out and doing what she ought to do. If the entire family of the redeemed would go out to pray and to work,' and to do personal work, oh, how you would stir not only this city, but this nation. They had a personal interview with Jesus. Every sinner must come as an individual. I can't save you and yon can't save your husbands. Religion is a personal matter, the same as everything else is a personal matter food, and air, and water, and medicine. All the medicine that I might take if you were ill wouldn't cure you. It is a personal matter between me and that bottle of medicine. And I can't step in. There is no proxy business in that, neither is there any in religion. Now, Lazarus was dead, and if he was going to be raised someone must see Jesus. Now, I believe in societies. I believe in organizations. I believe In evangelists. I believe in seminaries. I believe in the pastorate. But what is needed today is personal contact on the part of the individual with Jesus Christ. There is too much depending on the preacher to do it. There is too much proxy business. There seems to be a perpetual sign hanging around in every church "Wanted, a recipe by which our work can be accomplished by proxy." And so you are dropping money into the collection plate while God wants you. But you don't give yourself to him. Somebody's got to do it. You do your part, whatever you are able to d in the world. A friend of mine, went one time to

"Come Up to Help

(Written for The M . - - Myvf-jK. v f v 3. help a brother minister in a series of meetings, and it was his night to preach. He stepped up to the church door, and the church was comfortably filled. He looked up in the choir loft. Nobody was on the platform. He said to the usher, "Where is the minister?" He said, "He is over in the study with the officials," and my friend tiptoed his way to the study door, which stood ajar, and he heard the minister say, "When we started these meetings last Sabbath I thought there was great interest. It. increased Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thurs - day some were saved, and Saturday non3 an nay. I don t believe it is God's will that we preach and nobody be converted. There is something wrong. I have examined my heart to see what it is and I can't find it, and I have asked you to come, as officials, to see if there is anything in your heart that is grieving the Spirit. I think the Lord is trying to teach us it is not by might nor power, but by the Spirit, and that we thought that h,aco ti,o r-wr-n fin! h.f! because the church was was all there was to do." He said, "Let's get on our faces," And they fell on their faces and cried for God's forgiveness that they might realize that it was the Lord's will that was to be done and not man's, and the blessing of God came back upon them. And so we must realize that this is all for God. It is i for the Lord that the people are saved. I don't care how much you may plan. Now, only part of the family seemed to be interested at first. Martha listen twentieth verse, "Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary sat still in the house." Martha is Favorite Of -vangelist. I am glad of a chance this afternoon to speak a public word for Martha. a public word for Martha.. i my favorite of those two No doubt she was a northMartha is women

west wind kind of a woman, that hifJJ"81 as fcoou uau"u snavings.

and snapped and who kicked up the corner of a rug, or if you got a chair out of the corner she would call your attention to it. No doubt she was. But, I will tell you, she was my favorite. A friend of mine was asked which of those two girls he would rather have I for a wife. He said, "Martha before

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Palladium) - j ---- V 1 V - 3 dinner, Mary after dinner." asked why. He said, "Martha was the cook, that's why." You remember that Jesus was up there at the house one day and Martha was out getting dinner for Jesus and the disciples, and Martha poked her head in the door and said to Mary, "Carest thou not that I serve alone?" Now. wouldn't it get on your nerve if there were twelve great husky men in for dinner, and you had a ereat bie.' sister loafing on the job doing: 1 nothing? Just get a little horse sense into it now. bo Mary sat there, and Martha poked her. head jand said, "Carest thou not j alone?" ' " in tne aoor that I serve Jesus said. "Tut.tut.tut. thou art troubled and worried about many things." She said, "Oh. my potatoes are burning." Her hands were all covered with flour and the sweat was rolling down i her face. She said, "I should think I am troubled about a lot of things. HeTro my Pta. es re bhurnin P- K Jesus said, "Martha, thou art troubOne thing is needful. What is that? It is needful above all to be a Christian. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God," but you can't pray all the time, you have got to cook. You can't go to prayer meeting all the time. Certainly not! And so, therefore, it is no deportment of Christian effort to be occupied in one thing when something just as import ant remains undone. If somebody man i nustie arouna ana cook you would starve. You can t sit around and read, and be pious and long-faced all the time. Somebouv has E-nt tn get up and hustle. I think Mary was a uneeda biscuit, fruit salad, peanut butter kind of a woman. If you ever invite me to your home. , ' -u i , i iW ffu out heK f 'oa'" ..." 1 ? Sod- but 1 do?t,li,ke x all right. I would I i j. A l i i i . Mary Needed Time of Testing. Now, Mary needed this time of testing. Her heart really wasn't in sympathy. Oh, God Almighty will be testing this old community as never before In her history. God will test every preacher, and God will test every church member, whether you

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TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON A colored man went to join a fashionable church, and they kind of stalled him off, and the preacher said to him, "Mose, you ought to take this matter up in prayer." - After several days of absence he at last showed up and the preacher said, "Well, have you taken this matter up in prayer, Mose?" He said, "Yes." "Well, what did you decide?" He said, "The Lord said, 'Mose, there is no chance of you gettinj in that church. I have been try. ing to get in there myself for ten years.' " Are you a member of an icehouse like that? It is hard to get up a sweat in an icehouse, and it is harder to have to get up a sweat when there is a cake of ice in the pulpit too.

j are ready to throw your influence on I the side-of Jesus Christ. You are not going to be found wanting when Jesus needs you. You are being tested all around. Now. I have never seen a revival that didn't start just that way in my life. Nothing j good ever started with a majority. J The anti-slavery movement: they rolled William Lloyd Garrison in the ! mud in Boston because he dared stand j up and champion freedom for the ' slaves, i ney duuq monuments to mm now, my friends. - Oh, yes, and the anti-saloon movement which has annihilated the liquor traffic, started with a few Godly women on their knees out in Ohio, praying to God to overthrow it, and they pinned a white ribbon on their breasts and have stood the test. Hats off to the women! That is the bunch, my friends that started this great wave that threatens the saloon to drive it from the face of the earth. Nothing good ever started with a majority. No! No! There never was a spontaneous cutburst, even in patriotism. Didn't I Daniel Webster I preached in Faneuil Hall in Boston and didn't Daniel Webster stand on the same spot and say that this agitation against slavery must cease, and from that day, Daniel Webster's star began to set, began to dim. He took the wrong position, that is why. Sometimes it is a godly sister, sigh ing and groaning before the Lord, Sometimes it is a preacher, moaning because of the deplorable condition of the people, and their stolidity to God's cause and the truth. I preached in a town in Illinois, and there was a man came up, a member of one of the big fashionable churches. He got under the atmosphere of the revival, and went back and began to talk religion and revival in the prayer meeting. It was like shooting off a giant firechacker in a hen-roost to talk religion to that bunch. Oh, it gave them the chills and peritonitis and appendicitis and everything, but he kept on telling them, he kept on talking it. Others got interested, and others and others and finally it broke down their spirit of opposition and they built a tabernacle and hundreds and hundreds swept into the Kingdom of God like doves to their windows. But it started with one. Did you ever read about Finney's blacksmith? Finney tells about a blacksmith that had two days of fast- ! ing and prayer. He locked up his shop Thursday night and began praying Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday he went around to see the preacher and said, - "Pastor, I think we are going to have a great revival." The pastor said. "I wish I saw indications of it. If I ever saw a church that needed it, thi.s is the one." The blacksmith said, "We are going to have it," and they sat there and talked about a revival and what they could do to promote the cause of Jesus Christ, and he urged the minister to make some statement of the fact on the Sabbath. j Finally he agreed to do so, and he ! got up one morning and told about the

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1 1 1 o on eti uiuii auu gdtc a. lit tic lllipromptu, offhand sort of talk and he closed by saying this, "If there is anybody here who wants to talk with me about their souls, I wish you'd come to my study tomorrow night." And Finney tells us that forty-two nien ana women lapped on the study !, dooroh the blacksmith was a Martha

that went out by faith to meet Jesus., man who led him had turned on the Mary sat still' in the house. Oh, you j electric lights and flooded the place have got your Marthas. I think youiwith mvriari liht anri rofiomna .

, , aui o a viuu i mdijth.as. her in this "itv as anywhere,' v nuns ili pi ujiu wining 10 serve on commuiees. out you nave got a big Duncn ot .Marys, too, that do nothing but keep a little spot seventeen inches square warm. Why Mary Would Not Leave Home

Well, now, we are pretty nearly i leveled, that Babylon and Nineva through with this sermon, but listen: I would be lost, that the Jewish race the best part is fo come. Mf.rtha went 1 would be scattered did not write beout and had a little talk with Jesus cause they knew the future, for no and Martha turned to Mary and said, i man knows the future, but they wrot "Jesus is coming. Oh, let's go out and j because God told them what the fumeet Him." ure was." . . ... - And Mary sat still in the house. I It was just following this when himagine Mary saying. "No, I am not j attacked the spiritualists, as the ones going a step. If you want to go, you I referred to in the Bible as sorcerers can go, but I don't propose to go a j that the interruption 'occurred. ' - step. He used to come down to our i Calls Them Fakers . house and stay all nisht and we gave "Thurston, Houdini and the other? Him the best we had to eat and we 'are wonders, they can do everything

gave Him tne spare room, and now when we send word that our brother iwas 6icK He hasn't even come near. He couia toucn a airty leper. The leper walked up and said. "Lord I if Thou wilt Thou canst make me wen and He said, I will, and He (Continued on Next Page)

Sunday Revival Program FRIDAY U 7:00 p. m. Kiwanis night. Song service and serrhon; "Bring something special." - -- ; V .:.;- SATURDAY ; .1 . " ; 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. ' J ; '' 7:00 p. m. Song service and sermon. Student nighv the High School and Earlham College. .

HECKLER GETS NO COMFORT FROM CROWD

Audience Which Fills Tabernacle Drowns Person Who Interrupts, Cheering Denunciation of Spiritualist. EVOLUTIONlAHMERED Cheering his denunciation of a spiritualist, and drowning with tremendous applause a heckler from the audience 'Billy Sunday's biggest Richmond audience, nearly filled the tabernacle Thursday night. Gesturing and pounding the table. Sunday dealt sledge hammer blow's at evolution, and the scientists that did not believe in God and taught, whar. he called the "curses at atheeism, and the foolishness of our descent from the monkey." Answers Heckler In the midst of an attack on Lodge and his spiritualism a woman in the audience, shrilly called out, "What about the dictionary. - It is In the dictionary." Stopping suddenly in the midst of his argument. Sunday shot . back, "This is my audience, if you want to talk get your own audience," and th huge audience applauded for several minutes, drowning out any reply that could be made. The opposition and the Intensely loyal support of the audience, stirred Sunday to even greater bursts, and h ? flayed the spiritualist and the soothsayers, and their counterparts through all the ages, with "a fire and .vigor that has not been equalled in any of. his previous sermons. Calls Doyle Fool. "I think the biggest fool in America is Conan Doyle. His Idea that he can see into the hereafter is foolishness "e.d V U 0U to throw a boot iack at the cat on the fence at night, because that is your neighbor's daushyour neighbor's daugh ter that studied music come back to life. It is Theosophy." "I have no quarrel with the individuals, but I hate your sniveling, lying, cheating spiritualists. I regard them as workers of the devil.' Balancing on the edge of the platform, Sunday roared his 6entimen his face red and perspiring from hiexertion. Beginning his sermon with a"stronc denunciation of the scientists wh' denunciation of the scientists who hail : ried for ages to overthrow the trut'n m the Bible. Sunday declared- "Soin people say you can't prove the Biblju they are agnostics, I call them "dos ticks." "And as for those that say they cannot understand the Bible" and Sunday spitted the scorn he showed in the words when he described them. "God never intended that we should understand all of the Bible. "If God is so simple that I could understand him, what a poor God he would be." "I wouldn't have a teacher who taught the rot of evolution, in any school in the United States that was supported by Christian money." Then paying a tribute to the ini ventors and the scientists who made famous progress, and were Christians, Sunday pointed out that "real science has only developed under the grace of the Christian religion." . . Jonah Rode In 'It is not a question of . whether, or j not a whale swallowed Jonah," Sunday declared balancing himself in his characteristic fashion on one foot, and holding on to the desk, "it is a question of whether or not God could create an animal large enough to swallow Jonah." ; . "And you cannot deny that God can do that," he added. . . "Jonah simnlv took the first rido in a submarine, that was all." And the i crowd laughed, and applauded. - Telling of a descent into a natural cave in Virginia, of how the place was damp and cold, and of how he had wanted to turn back, and of how the I uu . . i V V. 1.11(1.', H 7 suuuemy turned to tne press dox "You ought to get that it's a good one. j And again the audience that fol lowed his every mood and gesture and bit of witticism, applauded. "I believe in the Bible because Its prophecies have been fulfilled. The men that wrote that Tyre would be that a spiritualist can do. and a lot that they cannot do. But they "aiv slight of hand men, and not fakers." "You should go and see them," hv advised the audience. "But those lying, cheating eplritu- ! alists that work inlv on hysterical i (Continued on Next Page) -1'