Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 95, 21 April 1922 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1922.

BILLY DEFENDS BIBLICAL STORY OF JONAH ! AND WHALE, BELIEVES IN INSPIRATION OF BIBLE AND AUTHENTICITY OF HOLY WRIT

The text "Heaven and earth shall

pass away but my word shall not." Ml -All U L. . - 4B1L . .

eyes, the butterfly has 4, 700 eyes, the common dragon fly has 25,088 eyeB, the Bilk worm moth ha3 12,500 eyes and the wings of a fly make 1,600 vi-

"Nuts for Skeptics" -was the subject of Rev. W. A, Sunday's sermon Thursday night. -He said: When Tom Pain was about to publish his famous book entitled "The Age of Reason," he sent the manuscript to Benjamin Franklin, who at that time was a doubter regarding

some of the essential beliefs of Orthodox Christiaity, and Benjamin Franklin returned to Tom Paine the manuscript with this appended advice: "Burn It. I would advise you never to attempt to unchain that tiger upon the people." If the world 13 so bad with Jesus Christ, what would It be without Him?, The Bible-is not a difficult book to understand. It" was written by men of common, sense, and by the application of. common sense to Its teachings you will understand most of it. 'if not & of It. The disciDlea them-

; selves did not fully understand all

of the E'ble until Jesus, after His resurrection explained to them the things that were written in the

Psalms of the .(prophets concerning i Himself, and I am not surprised to I find people reading the Bible for their

own instruction today. ! Bible' Leads All i Books for Morals

You go to all the books from all

the libraries of all the nations of all ages and you cull out of all these ! books all, that's good and noble and I pure and Inspiring. And you go and

J glean from the fields of geology andj ; botany end astronomy and scienoe i I and then you embody your results into j one book, and I defy and challenge tyou that you cannot produce a book I that would touch the hem of the garment of the bible, it you took the best out of all the books of all ages ;in the world. 1 So the atheists and agnostics and the materialists must confess that they ought to be able to make a better book, but they - have tried time and again, only to fall back hopelessly with despair, i . There are a few people who make no pretensions of understanding the -Bible. Why? For the simple reajson they are too darn lazy to study iit, so far as I can figure it out. You ! can't hope to master science or mathematics, you can't master the history of the world or the literature of the world, without scanning, reviewing, comparing .analyzing history from ; period to period. And. the contemporaneous history of the period you will study. And if you want to understand the divine problem as it unfolds itself from the divine mind, you

have to study, for God put no premium on laziness. But thank God, the only truth you need to know is summed up in John 3:16: : "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." That's all you need ; to know; you needn't know about the miracles of God or anything of that sort. His Opinion About Atheists ; "In the beginning God" G-O-D, not plural, one "created the heaven and the earth." Some races of mankind believe in two god3. The Persians in particular have a sort of a good-Lord-good-devil religion. They oelieve in a god that will make you

laugh and cry, a god that will give i you pain and a god that will make you well. - And so they have a god for everything In . the world. And

come isolated thinkers whose natural

Instinctive Impressions have been dis

turbed by that verse, say there is no

god. They are. atheists, "The fool i bath ealdin'his heart, there 13 no !god," and I am not an atheist .because I am not a fool. And some people believe that though there Is a God that we can ;know nothing about that god, that i God never reveals-Himself to us. 'They swell up and call themselves agostlcs. They say they don't beilieve what T ' can't understand." "then you are a fool, and if you only believe what you can understand, you will be dumbfounded to discover how little you really know. , : Can you explain how it Is that when a horse eats food, it goes to hair; when a sheep eats it, It goes to wool; when a chicken eats it, it

goes to feathers; when a hog eats u, it will go to bristles? Can you explain that, certainly you cannot! 'i Can you explain this to me, that when you plant beans they will climb the bean-pole from right to left and when you plant hops they will climb he pole from left to right? Do you know why? .-Np!v." ; Can you tell me why It Is that a black cow, can eat green grass and $ive white milk? We don't observe even the common things of life, let alone the un- ' common. A friend of mine was talkig with a company of men and women who gave as their reason for not being Christians the fact that they Couldn't believe In the Bible. One said: "How many legs has a fly,"

4nd another sail: "Three," another

I made myself one; if I'm an idiot, somebody else is to blame " And bo whenever I hear an infidel proclaiming his belief, I wonder if he will Bend for his infidel brother to Bee him die; 1 No, the chances are he will send for the preacher around the corner to try and help him get a glimpse of God before he dies. And I will put this old book (the Bible) against all the books of the world. It has survived- the ravages of time, all the sophistry and criticism

of the ages, all the sarcasm of human-

MISS KINNEY WORKS AT MANY PHASES OF REVIVAL MOVEMENT DURING CAMPAIGN HERE

brations Der second

Don't you find fault with God and ! ity and the blasphemy of Ingersoll, oh, his Word and the creation of this and the telescope, my friend3, of the

world, you poor Idiot, when you don't know beans about a fly. A fellow said: "Well, Jesus Christ was a false prophet, because he only

talked about the things He saw around Him."

"Why, He couldn't peer into the

future," said an infidel out west "He

never talked about a locomotive, a steamship. He said nothing about a

submarine or electricity. He said

nothing about compressed air. or ra

dium."

My. that's a hot one. Because Jesus

never mentioned that, He must have

been a fraud!

Oh, God made the sun of fire and

he poised it in space to warm the universe. Is God Almighty going to stop to bother His head about a little, tiny

speck that we go into spasms over

called an electric light?

You Cannot Explain

astronomer, and the archeologlst s spade, and the physician's scalpel but the Bible, thank God, is too tough for the tooth of time. They all break when they attempt to crush God's word Into pulp. It is not an accident, Christian men

and women, that places the Christian nations in the forefront of the world. It is something more lhan race, climate and color which causes the people that live on the banks of the Mississippi and on the banks of the Nile to be so different. Christianity has touched our minds. We solve more intricate problems. Christianity has purified our hearts. Christianity has broadened our shoul

ders, has rescued our homes from being harems and turned them into abodes of peace and joy. Thirty years ago, one dark and stormy night in Chicago, I staggered

and groped my way into the arms of

cT , , Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Spirit So there are lots of things you can t ! o mv Oha t pntPTPd that wnndr-

eipmm, bo uon i ue an laiot ana go 10 hell just because ycu can't explain some of these things. Like an old woman 6aid to a doctor: "Why Is it.

"That nice lady over there .at the pianoi" ' That is almost all of the public introduction that Miss Florence Kinney, member of the Sunday party who is in

charge of the student work and Bible

class, gets. And then it is usually at the afternoon meetings, when the attendance is small that Mr. Rodeheaver introduces her that way. But if you attempt to follow her about her work, you soon find that Bhe has a real job cut out for her, and a most important one from the standpoint of the success of the campaign. Nearly every afternoon Miss Kinney teaches a Bible class, that before the end of the revival she expects to be

the really great class of the city. Right after the sermon, at about 3:U0 p. m., her class meets in the chorus Beats' be

hind the platform. Works Many Hours

Then when she is not playing the piano, or teaching the Bible, she is

working with the school children of

the city.JioldLig meetings In the nearest co-operating church to the school for which the meeting Is held, and telling them, in their own language, why they should join "Christ." As if that were not enough for her to tackle, she also has the general direction of the neighborhood prayer meetings, although here she has Rev.

! A. H. Backus to act as a clearing houBe

for the troubles that can be settled by

avoid criticism, my friend, be nothing, do nothing, say nothing. Hamilton Mable said: "Most of our criticism of others is Idle, cruel, unjust, because it does not take into account the obstacles they have overcorns nor the progress they have ac-

from Richmond, for she was raised and complished nor the distance they have

Btlll lives in Springfield, Ohio; Like Journey ed." practically all of the Sunday party, When you see a man or woman. If she has had an extensive formal musi- they are not as good! as you'd like cal training. She studied under Prof. , to have them, It you'd think how Haidih, who was a pupil of Listz, and . hard they worked to get to be as good for eome time she conducted a chorus as they are, you'd 6top your darned

class in St. Paul's M. E. church

Loves Bird Study Outside of music and Billy Sunday work. Miss Kinney's chief interest is in nature, particularly birds, and she has done field work in her subject all over the southern part of Ohio.

A Welsh ancestry, and a life on her

SMALL CROWDS WANT

TO MANAGE CHURCHES BUT RETARD GROWTH "You will get what you look for at tlfese meetings," declared Sunday at the Thursday afternoon sermon "If you come here tobe helped, you will

be helped. If you come here to criti-

Sr ?w J ffrI' bJTuas y. when you are Its mother. No. JAr1 etiUt?"j-5 lve It twenty or thirty years' trial

SFive," and another "seven." One if them caught a fly to settle the question. If I should ask thl3 audience how many legs a fly has, it would be fiftyfifty as to whether, you could tell me. it you don't know how many legs a fly has, how am I supposed to know that you know anything about its fiiarvelously constructed feet? I There are a thousand hollow hairs opening into the pad of each tiny pot of a fly, and by means of mu-

slr, that some medicines will produce Bleep and others will not?" He told her in a rather technical way. She said: "Never knowed it before!" We take most things because they

appear to be. I hold that a design

tells of a designer. I hold that this)

pulpit over which I am speaking tells me that some mind conceived it and brought it forth. This sounding-board over my head wasn't evolved without the work of a creator. The old Hudson flowing along and the Palisades tell me of a creator that ran his finger down and made the pathway for it to flow into the sea. If evolution is used as a word to describe progress, surely I won't quarrel, but when evolution is used as a word to describe the development from one specie into another good night, you and I will fuss right there. I do not believe in the bastard theory of evolution. I do not believe that I came

from the "fortuitous concurrence of atoms." I do not believe that my great, great grandfather was a monkey with a tail wrapped around a cocoanut tree. If you believe your great, great grand-daddy was a monkey, then you take your daddy and go to hell with him, but leave me out! I came from a different bunch altogether, thank God!

Sunday's Opinion

About Evolutionists. Infidels and evolutionists go up and down the land. You give evolution full swing and you will have two hemispheres of crime and a thousand penitentiaries and lazaretos and brothels. Evolution says: "Better and better grows the heart by natural improvement," and the Bible says: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." Oh, you might as well try and brew fragrance from malodor or produce oratory from a buzz-saw or a tomcat on the fence doing his stunts, as to think that you can be saved by any other method or plan. All these other plans whereby you hope to be saved, are as useless as a hip-pocket in a night 6hirt.

A fellow says: "Bill, I believe the New Testament, but I don't believe the Old," or vice versa: "I believe the Old but I don't believe in the New Testament." All right, my friends, the Old and the New are interwoven, and the

Old is. quoted over 500 times in the

New. The New Testament Is not a new revelation of God, the New Testament is the fulfillment of the promises given in the Old, and if you will give an intelligent gentleman a copy of the New Testament he will ask you for the Old one, he will say: "Where is the one to which this refers?" So that Jesus Christ is the center and the circumference of both the Old and the New. So the New isn't a new revelation of God not at all. His Explanation of " -Jonah and Whale. "

Now, some man says: "I don't believe in Jonah and the whale." Why

not? The question is not, Did a whale swallow Jonah that isn't the question. The question is, Could God make a fish big enough to swallow a man? If He could, then there is nothing more to it. That's the question; it isn't whether the fish did swallow him, the question is cpuld God make one big enough to swallow him that's the whole thing in a nutshell, I don't give a picayune who you are. But listen to me. My friend George Bullen is one of the greatest authors on whales the world has ever known. He says there are fifty-two species of whales in the seas and fifty of them could swallow a man. In the first place the Bible doesn't, say that a whale swallowed Jonah. It says God prepared a great fish. So the question is, could God make a fish large enough to swallow a man that's the only question. Jonah took the first ride in a submarine. Oh, you needn't get excited. Why, some time ago there was a great fish captured. It was captured on the 1st day of June, 1912, in the vicinity of

Key West, down in Florida, and they

fought for forty-nine hours with this

whale with nine harpoons in him and one-hundred and fifty-one bullets in him in order to kill him. He smashed a

boat in two, he crushed the propellers

ful temple, sir, we call Christianity; as a friend of mine has put it, "I en-

. j" ,v v nu 1 superintendents and captain of dis-

went uuwu iu.uu6u iuo urn iniaiuC..i. . . . fh .tovol.monf tho

rr n 1 1 -v n n1 T n n r thA t(lf noa "vf

. l,rr "i-r hundreds of twice-weekly prayer meet-

iuc ui uu iif lo jl urn u n. lift i up, uyuu tuo i . , k , . - . wi. wall I passed into the music room of gs; BleD(1? a wonderful lot of matTimo o nA ter that has to come to her for atten-

the keyboard of my nature and

brought forth the dirge-like wail of the weeping prophet to the grand, impassioned strains of Isaiah until it seemed that every reed and pipe in God's great organ responded in a tuneful harp of David. "I passed into the business office of Proverbs and Into the chamber of Ecclesiastes where the voice of the Preacher was heard proclaiming the righteousness of Jesus Christ; and

then into the conservatory where the

tion.

Miss Kinney lives not so awfully far ! on her work,

her interest in nature fosters, and

makes it possible for her to Btand the heavy strain of a six weeks' revival campaign. After her education In Dr. W. W. White's Bible School in New York was completed. Miss Kinney taught in the

Young Woman's Seminary at Springfield, so she knows her subject as a practical teacher as well as an evan

geilst. At home in Springfield Miss Kinney is an ardent club worker and was for two years president of the "Woman's Club" of her home town. She still keeps he'r membership in the club. " When Roheheaver is away and Bob Matthews has to lead the chorus. Miss Kinney plays the first piano, and Albert PeterBon plays the second piano. To see her at the piano, keep pace with the volume of the chorus, when it gets into full swing, one realizes the enercv

mat Bne must have In order to carry

Newberry is willing to do It, we are willing to do it" And the best folks In Detroit were on the committees, lifting for Jesus Christ. They said, "We are willing to do the work of God." Why not? He gives you something to eat, and breath. Why should you hover around? Don't wait until it becomes popular, gripping at the tail-

Song of Solomon was as sweet as the feathers of success ; not at all.

I Now listen, here's the verse that

staggers me: "Jesus was not yet come into town, but at the place where Martha met him."

perfume of the Rose of Sharon; on

out to the observatory where I saw telescopes pointing to the nearby and the far-off stars but all concentrated upon the bright and morning star scheduled to rise above the moonlit hills of Judea-when Jesus Christ was born in the mangeT. "I went into the auditorium of Matthew, Mark. Luke and John and I caught a vision, from their standpoint; I stepped over , into the Acts of the Apostles where I saw the Spirit forming the church. I walked into the correspondence room where I saw

them writing their epistles to the

he

fault-finding. You bet your boots!

IUt has taken you thirty years as ajclze wiU t what Jook or

occupy and somebody else has only been at it for a week or a month, you can't expect them to know as much as you. When a baby is born, you don't slap

it because it doesn't know as much

me

Martha met Jesus while He wa3 outside of town, wasn't even in town, and Jesus said, "Where Is Mary?" "She's at home." "Didn't she hear I was coming?" "Yes." "Well, why is she sitting in the house?" You go tell her I want her." Poor Martha had to hike back over the hot, dusty road. Some Churches

church; on into the throne room ! Holding Aloof.

where all glittered in a towering peak the city revealed to John." Oh, I can say to this audience, sir: "Thou, truest friend man ever knew. Thy constancy I've tried, With all the false, I found Thee true, My councellor and guide. "The mines of earth no treasures give That can this volume buy; In teaching me the way to live. It's taught me how to die."

TOO MANY

(Continued from preceding page) reached out and touched him. It was against the Mosaic law to touch a leper. He was bigger than the Mosaic law. He didn't have to take his hat off before the Mosaic law. So Mary said, "No. I am not going.

If you want to go up there and hear that man, you can, but I am not going to get my shoes in the sawdust. I want upholstered seats and I want Brussels carpets. No, I am not going a step up there and sit on those wooden benches." And you know, a lot of them are chewing the rag just like that in the church, too. Mary sat still in the house but by her interview with Jesus, Martha learned some things . she never knew before and never would have learned if she1 had not gone. Oh, there is nothing like personal experience, sir; and what Mary learned, she got from Martha. Mary's religion was second-hand. That's what's the matter with a lot of you today. You

don't live so that God can show his

power through you, so you can learn

from personal experience.

You know food is good. Why? That's experience, because you have

for the souls of men, the stone of bitterness, the stone of an unforgiving

spirit, the stone of a gossiping pro-: clivlty, the stone of a prayerless life, the stone of formalisms, the 6tone of dignity, the stone of austere mannerisms and bloodless platitudes whatever they are, take ye away the stone. What One Confession Did To a Church. A preacher, a friend of mine, was

preaching in New Jersey and an aged minister got up and said, "I have been praying that God would make this the best day I have ever had. I have been preaching for twenty years. I have preached not because I had a sense of burden for souls, but because I had sense enough to make words into sentences; and I have been content if there were children enough born of members of this church to keep the Sunday school

even with those who grow to manhood and womanhood and die and

and it will get along, it will be all right. Now at last, here Is my sermon. It takes two minutes for my sermon. Jesus, when He got done preaching

!in Jerusalem, would hurry away, to the

home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Nobody else cared a rap about Him.

Nobody else seemed to open their homes but Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Jesus Never Stopped

In His Work. Jesus would work up here, fight the Pharisees, tell them he was the Son of God, cast out devils, raise the dead do that all day, and then He would walk 'way down there. Then in the

morning He'd get up early and start back to Jerusalem, and the Pharisees would tag Him around and hang around when He came out in the morning. He walked through a cornfield one Sabbath day and plucked ears of corn and ate them they wouldn't give Him anything to eat and they said, "Oh, he plucked corn on the Sabbath!" 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 at the back door and tell Him to dig something out of the garbage can.

That's the way. they treated Him when He was on earth. Martha, Mary and Lazarus were the only ones that ever gave Him anything. So He went down there and He went 'way over here to preach. While He was gone, Lazarus took sick and the girls said, "You go tell Him to come up here. He whom He loves is sick." And this messenger hiked away over here and said to Jesus, "He whom you love Is sick."

He stayed there two days after He

I'll go out of my way to help you," said.

I take my mannerisms with

wherever I go, and if you don' want them, you cannot have me. I take my eyes, my mouth, my nose with me, and just so my mannerisms go with me. "Now I am giving you thin advice as a result of my experience, you can gauge the interest in a revival by the amount of money they give. "When Richmond came down to Invite roe to come here.Vincennes came at the same time and 6ald that they had $22,000 in the bank ready to pay' expenses, so Richmond said that they would raise $10,000 to build the tabernacle and they have not. ' "You are not playing fair to me. I

am doing my part, that is why I am here, but you have not done your part." Billy Sunday had a good time with his audience describing the things to do to spoil a church. "All you have to do Is to try and run the church. We have a government by majority, yet you think the church should be run by the minority. Want to Boss 'Til bet that that church there (pointing the East Main Street Friends meeting house) has two or three people that Just want to run the meeting. I'll bet that there is a crowd in the Reid Memorial church that wants to be it up there. "And another way ia to fix up your own house and let the House of" the Lord look like a tumble downxshack. God deserves the finest house In the land. Why the Reid Memorial. church is one of the finest I have ever Been in a city of this size. A good set ot churches is a fine indication of the kind of town it is." "Unlimber yourselves." Mr. Sunday asked. Don't be like over at Salem. Ind., where the Presbyterians wouldn't kneel when I asked them to because

they thought they would be taken for

; neara apout mm. ana in tne interim Methodists. A minister eot uo and

Lazarus died. Then Jesus started to apologized for them, but I said 'Don't

come up to Bethlehem to the home ot

Martha and Mary and Lazarus. When Martha and Mary heard that He was coming, Martha jumped up and ran

jout to meet Him. Mary sat still in

eilage-liks secretion they can crawl of a thirty-one-ton yacht. They

on a pane of glass as easily as a squirrel can climb a tree; they can oost on the ceiling bottom-side up, and never fall off. Oh, wait a minute! If you don't 6now anything about how many legs a fly has. if you know nothing about his marvelously constructed feet, how am It to suppose that you know anything about his still more marvelously consftructed eyes? S Every fly has S.000 eyes, 4,000 perfectly formed lenses in each eye, each Kens of which is a perfect prism, and photographs have been-taken through the lens of the eye of a fly, and a processor in the University of Berlin some jears ago by the aid of a magnifying glass, looking through the lens of the iye of a fly saw a church steeple three blocks away. : To prove that there is nothing mysterious about a fly having 8,000 eyes, it 5'e known that a certain beetle has 50,016 eyes, the butterfly has 34.700

Oh, I know nothing about the churches of this city. I haven't asked and I haven't been informed, but I will venture that not all of them are interested in this campaign right now. And when Martha rushed back she went to Mry and said, "The Master is oome and calleth for thee." It only took eight words to move Mary:

"The Master is come and calleth for

thee." When she heard that Jesus was coming, nothing she could , say would budge Mary. She wouldn't budge, but Martha went out, met Jesus, and had her Interview, then she ran back. It only took eight words to get her. All right, you get In touch with Jesus and see if you haven't got the power to help somebody else. You get right yourself then see what will happen and how people will come to

the Lord.

The Master is come and calleth for you." Then do your best for

move away or leave the church." He je house I j (t i - l. . 1 n J - 1

am. iius UUU w. Martha Fears Waster

matte ims me oesi uay i nave ever

known, and He is answering my pray

er;" and he sat down. I And presently a man arose and said, "The idea of my minister making a confession like that. It Is I that ought to make it I have been more Immersed In my business in one month, and I have given more thoughts and plans to my business in a week, than I have to the 'church in twelve months." He said, "Pray for me, not that I may have less Interest In my business, but that I may give more concern and plans to the work of the Lord;" and he sat down. Presently a woman arose. She said, "I am a member of the Doctor'3 church, but nobody would ever have known it by the company I kept and the things I did, nor by the things I didn't do. You would have had to go to a church record to ever find it out."

She said, "I have two daughters.

t, . L I Z L . , They recently made their debut Into llT,Z 6,brLy d 13 th0j society, and I spent more money on

And so the girls came on in with

Him and Jesus said, "Where have you laid him?" ' Did they say. "You go out through the kitchen, Jesus, then through the garden, and be careful, because we have got an asparagus bed just coming up, and go down past the olive tree, then across that little bridge and then turn to the right and you will find four sepulchres and our brother is in the last one." Did they talk like that? No! Jesus said, "Where have you laid him? Where is he?" They said, "Come and see. We will show you." All right, you lock arms with Jesua

I Christ and go home and say to your

eaten it. But you don't know anything 1 husband. "Husband, you ought to be about God. All you know about God's I a Christian. LetJs go down to the

tabernacle wnn our t.nuaxen ana an give our hearts to God." Go ahead. Don't ask somebodv

towed him in to land after they killed

him, and he weighed just 3,000 pounds. He was forty-five feet long, and his mouth, when opened wide, thirty-one inches in diameter. His tongue was forty inches long, and he had thousands of teeth, and he had swallowed an animal weighing 1,500 pounds and it was still in him. His liver weighed just 107 pounds and his skin was three inches thick. He wouldn't have much trouble getting a man down. So what a fool you are when you put your infinitesimal reason Into play and ety. "Oh, I don't believe that a whale swallowed Jonah!" The late Josh Billings said that impudence, ingratitude, ignorance and vice and cowardice make up the creed of the average infidel. He said: "Did you ever hear of men renouncing Christianity on their deathbed and embracing infidelity? No!" He said: "I'd rather be an idiot than an infidel." He said: "If I'm an infidel,

power is what you heard somebody tell you or you read it in a bok. In the

name of God, why don't you live it so you can get it first-hand from the Lord? Martha got it first-hand. She never learned some things by reading about them, for she went out there and said to Jesus, "Oh, he is dead, and if you had been here, he wouldn't have died." Jesus said, "Why, Martha, I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that liveth and believeth in me, though he be dead, yet shall he live again." So Martha learned out there that Jesu3 was the Resurrection and the Life. She never knew that before, for Martha was the first one He ever told, and Martha came back and told Mary. She might have gotten it from the lips of Jesus, but she got it from Martha. She was out of tune in the house, as near as I can figure it out. Now, when all the family went, then everybody went. When Martha heard it was Jesus coming, she jumped up. Don't forget, now that Martha is my

favorite. Martha heard Jesus was coming. She jumped up and out she

went like a twin-six; and Martha's friend saw her and said, "Where is Martha going?" "She's going up to the tabernacle to hear Mr. Sunday.' "Well, if she goes, I think I will go." But Mary had her friend3. too. "Is she going?" S "No, she don't like him. She thinks he is crude." "Well, then, I will not go." Many Followed Her Example. He went to Detroit. On the committee of business women was Mrs. Truman H. Newberry. Mr. Newberry was secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt Mrs. Newberry has millions where most people have dollars. She has culture, too. She has everything, but Mrs. Truman Newberry of Detroit went everywhere hotels.

restaurants, factories to get infor

mation, and when her friends saw Mrs. Newberry, they said. . "Put us on the committee. If Mrs.

' their coming-out gowns and reception

than I have given to the church in twelve years. I was crazy to introduce either of them to Jesus Christ. They don't know him." She sat down weeping. My friend said, "Is there anybody here that would like to have ua pray for them? If so, I wish you'd stand up." Back yonder two girls arose with the tears trickling down their cheeks. The minister rolled away the stone, then the business man, immersed In his business, rolled away the stone; then the society mother, a member of the church, rolled away the Btone,

and her two dead girls walked out of the sepulchre of the sinful life and said, "Pray for us that we may be Christians." Church Must Take Lead Itself. That's what I mean. When the

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, . , . . vuun-u ui uuu Stria ll&ui, yuuil 2 and thousands of people

onvi " - .'.i In this world converted

me jjora is saying, i am kujue iu raise the people that are in trespasses and sin, but I am not going to do it with the churches sitting still and doing nothing." No, sir. And now when they arrived at the sepulchre, here is what Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." What does that mean? It means that He wanted them to still do their part They couldn't raise the dead but they could roll the stone away. All Of Us Must Do Our Part. So God won't do what we can do. I can preach. Rody can sing. You can sing. We must do our part And so what feelings of expecta

tion must have filed the hearts of those girls, Martha and Mary. They had been over that road twice. They went down when they buried Laza

rus, to the funeral, and then they had gone back home after the funeral. Now they are going down with Jesu3, and I can imagine the feelings that must have been in their hearts. And Martha said when they reached the sepulchre, "Jesus, he has be"en dead four days." Well, the Lord knew all about that. You can't put God in possession ot some information that He hasn't already got. You don't need to tell the Lord what that man's sins arc; He knows that All he asks of you and me is to get right and do our part It is His business to save people. He didn't ask anything, in raising him from the dead, whether he'd been dead four days or forty. That didn't make any difference.

"Take ye away the Btone," What

stone? Oh, the stone of worldliness,

the stone of Indifference, the stone

of half-heartedness, the stone of a

cold, critical spirit the stone of crit

Icism, the stone of a want of love

Just this and I am done: When they rolled back the stone, then they could see the dead body of their brother; then when they did, they began to weep. Jesus wept, Martha wept, Mary wept.' They just wept, and they bad a weeping time. "They that sow in tears shall reap in Joy." Did you ever cry over anybody going to the devil? Did you ever shed a tear over the Bins of somebody In the world? You didn't have to try to cry when your baby died, did you? You didn't have to try to cry when the hearee called at your

your loved one in the coffin? Did ' Vi.

you have to try to work yourself up

to tears? Wby not? Because it was the easiest thing in the world to cry. It was hard not to cry. You realized they, were dead.

All right. If the church . of God

would only get right and realize that men and women without Jesus Christ are lost, you'd see fountains of tears coursing down their cheeks and they wouldn't go to church with that cold, critical, sneering, voracious, icicle-

sort-of-an-embalming-fluid tombstone kind of a look on tb.eir faces. No! There'd be more sympathy about God and His truth. I have seen things since I have been here thzt have made my heart leap I've seen friends go out and talk to friends and bring them to the front I have said to the Lord, "They are trying to get the grave-clothes off of somebody that is dead In sin." And I have seen other things that have almost frozen my heart. Oh, the bitter, sneering criticisms! But I am not afraid of criticism. No. no, not at all. If you wish to avoid criticism, be nothing; do nothing; say nothing. Then you will be a mere cipher. You will be a nonentity on earth. , So I wish to repeat, if you want to

Arrived Too Late

Martha rushed out nere and she said, "Oh, Jesus, you are too late. He Is dead. If you had been here, he wouldn't have died." "Oh," Jesus said, "don't you worry about that, Martha. I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that liveth and believeth In me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Where is Mary?" She is back home." "Well, didn't she hear I was coming?" "Yes." "Well, you go tell her I want her." Poor Martha had to be the goat, and back she went. She rushed In the house and eaid to Mary, "The Master is come and calleth for thee." Mary jumped up. Listen: "Jesus was not yet In the town, but at the place where Martha met him." I think Jesus said. "Look here,

Martha, if Mary doesn't care anything about this, I am not going, to bother. If she doesn't want her brother alive, he can stay in the grave. She heard I was coming." I don't believe that Jesus would ever have entered the town or crossed

the threshold if Mary hadn't come out

too,

town, but was at the place where

Martha met Him, so when Martha and Mary came out. He went In. You get the entire family of the redeemed, you Presbyterians and Methodists and Baptists and Quakers and Lutherans and all of you go out to meet Jesus Christ and you will Bee what will happen to the community take it from me. You will see what people will be Baved your crowd and your clique. And they came with Jesus and Jesus 6aid. "Where have you laid him, girls?" Where is he?" They said, "Come on and see." So they walked up and said, "He Is in there, right there in the sepulchre." Stone on Grave Is Rolled Away. Jesus said, "Take the stone away, girls." They stooped down and rolled It away, and they could 6ee Lazarus lying in there dead' and they commenced to boo-hoo. Jesus said. "What

do you cry for?" just to show His sym-

painy ior tnem. He could speak and make that dead man jump into life, but He stood there blubbering like a baby, great, bighearted Jesus. And He stood there and He looked. Mind you now, this gang was right here by Him, this bunch of knockers. Jesus stood there and said, "Lazarus, come forth," and he that was dead

apologize for them, skin them."'

Illustrates Point Here Sunday sat down in a chair, folded his hands, and looked sanctimonious, 6tiff as a poker meanwhile, while the crowd tittered and broke into a laugh. Before taking up the collection, Sylvester Jones said that the biggest thing that Richmond was trying to do right then was to raise the money for the expenses of the campaign. "It must be done if we are to get the benefit of the things that this revival can do for us." Homer Rodeheaver sang his first song for the afternoon audience Thursday, and followed that, with a duet with Mrs. Asher. Both numbers were well received.

HECKLER GETS

(Continued from preceding page) DeODle. ones that !!vp hMn nmrrht

up over trouble are instruments of the

devil." "You never saw one yet that had a real healthy body." Declaring that the Spiritualists had been exposed as fakers, Sunday worked himself towards the front of the platform, and standing with one foot on the reporters' table, he leaned Blowly toward the front. "Spiritualism is insanity." His hard Jaws snapped over the worda like

He had not yet come into the ' Eteel traps.

Kodeheaver Applauded. Homer Rodeheaver's first appear

ance on the platform was the signal for the usual outburst of applause. The crowd already was past the mark set at the Tuesday night meeting, and was therefore the largest in the series.

Sunday appeared while the andlence

was singing a song, but the spontane

ous applause that broke forth 6howed that Billy had captured hia congregation, in spite of the pessemism of the early part of the week.

Special delegations nresent were

the Council Girls who are the factory and shop representatives of the busi

ness women's work, and the represen

tatives or the Presbyterian church, who turned out about 800 strong.

Sing Own Song. The Presbyterians suggested that

the special song of the evening be No. 50.

'That Is sort of a Methodist tune.

but its fine for the Presbyterians too,"

retorted Kodeheaver. In his plea to raise the exDenses f

the campaign. Sundav declared that

it was not his bills that hd to be ' paid, but the debts of the local people in building the tabernacle. "All I ask of you is a free-will offering at the last isn't that fair enough?" he asked. Insisting that how he Bpent his money was his own affair, Sunday said "But I can tell you that I spent $25,00U on a tabernacle at Winona Lake tha' has the finest auditorium in the United States. Gives Away One-Tenth "I give one-tenth of all my income to the church, and I gave $125,000 in donations that were given me for tha' purpose to the Y. M. C. A. during th? war." "Richmond," he said, "is considered one of the richest cities for its size in the United States, and should come across." As the collection started, Sunday walked to the edge of the platform and dropped a greenbacked bill to the usher of the front row. 1 After the sermon, Rodeheaver addressed a few of the more Interested members of the audience, on the pros

pects or tne campaign. "The thing Is going across,' he said. "Sunday was disappointed in the first x crowds, but it is started now and naa to go across. Before the end people are going to fight for admission to the tabernacle. We want you to invite' your friends, urge them to come and: have the benefit of the "meetings, be-' fore the crush in the last weeks of tne Camnnitm "

. o The ministers and members of the general executive committee met in' executive session after the meeting !

Jesus said, "Loose him. Let him

go. Cut the grave-clothes off of him.

They used to wrap them about in

those days. So they cut them off and Lazarus stepped out.

Now listen. The crowd stood there

watching and when they saw Lazarus

get out ot the grave and they knew he had been dead there for four days.

multitudes of them said, "Thou art the

Christ, the Son of God."

But another bunch of them said,

"Perceive ye, they nearly fill the tab

ernacle in the afternoon when it rains. Perceive ye, the whole world is gone after him. Let's kill him, get him out or the way. We will go at it and we will lie about him and we will hire fellows to scatter lies about him and

we will threaten and we will do every

thing we can to prejudice people

against him.

So perceive ye, the raising of Lazarus produced two effects. It put some

of them on their knees weeping and

made others angry and they wanted to kill him. That is what the revival is doing. i These went their way and believed on Jesus because of Lazarus. See? All right. You do something. Somebody will catch a vision of Jesus Christ through what you do. You take your stand and help somebody else.

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