Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 100, 27 April 1922 — Page 6

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BE SOME OF THE LORD'S SPECKLED TROUT AND HOT THE DEVIL'S CODFISH, IS PLEA OF SUNDAY TO BACKSLIDERS FROM CHURCH

"Backsliders" constituted the sub-! . Ject of Rev. W. A. Sunday's sermon at the tabernacle Wednesday night. Rev. Sunday said: Whn you leave the world, you leave something more than an epitaph on a . tombstone. You leave regrets in the , hearts of people whom you have lifted toward God because you yourself had known something of the Lord. : . A little girl was asked why she fell - out of bed and she said. "I went to :' slep too close to where I crawled ' in." We don't get far enough away from ; the things of the world. Out in a western state they had a -. strike on the railroad. They filled

i he strikers' places with any kind of .. an engineer, whether locomotive or

stationary. They put an Irishman up in the cab of a locomotive, and he did

very well. He brought the engine on - the turn table and he saw she was . going through, so he started back on ... the turn table and repeated this sev- ,. eral times. "Pat, why don't you shut her off and keep her in here?" said a fellow workman. "Why don't you shut the door and keep her in?" he replied.

A friend of mine was preaching in a southern citv and In the middle of

(he sermon he aked: "How manv ofireurn

you people once knew God, had any

experience, and now don't pray and j with tears of repentance. Old Judas have grown careless in your life? Are denied him and he went out and comyou willing to admit it?" mitted suicide, and he died an aposForty or 50 people arose and in the; ate. They both denied Jesus but one mute way acknowledged their neglect came back and the other didn't, and their carelessness. And as the7 Down in North Carolina sometime sat down he said: (ago an old fellow went out and Must Explain Why j caught seventeen fine brook trout. They Lost Faith He brought them home and cleaned "Now, are you willing to go a step ' them" arid his wife said: further? Will you tell us what caused! ..vA Ktto- tiro th, n t town

you to lose your touch with God andjt tne preacher, he's got some friends! Why you left the gospel train? Uisitino- him nd hA's irnt a h1r familv

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vac luau paiu. tvcru, j. IJIUUUI j hlmSelf could keep my- store open on Sundavi ' , ... morning to accommodate a few strag- SJ the? P,utiV. a lltu salt on. lem gling customers and then close it In!and wrapped them aJ up put them time to get around to the church." m a. basket and he started to town Nothing doing! You can't cut the to glv,e the.m to the preacher. On the

.....l. ,,n ut. ,-c 1 viwrv w, 1 1 1 . V. T VI I fj a I . J anu H II."" n parts and spirit-1 by trotting out to , rnornina and lookjalize the secular church on Sunday ing a little more pious than you did on Saturday. Net on your life! I say a man that will keep his store open on Sunday, in my opinion, is an anarchist and he can't have a dollar of my money. Not a dollar! He mightn't go Jnto bankruptcy if he didn't have my trade, but he can't have it , he trampled God's law 'neath his feet.

Presently a young lady arose andjm &na Bdi- : she said: "Well, a young lady friend; Gives Gift ! of mine gave a card party and ITo Poster. ihought I had to give a bridge in re-j "I went out and caught reventeen turn and among those I invited was a of the finest speckled trout I ever " young man I didn't know and when cleaned. I heard you were having he arrived at my house, he felt cha- j some company so I brought them in grined and horrified to imagine that i to you." ' I thought he'd stoop to do that and he . Then he took the fish out of the took his coat and hat and left the 'basket, and when the women got a

house and I made up my mind that aa long as I did that I was not worthy to be a member of the church. That is why I drifted away, trying to ape other people." Another fellow said: "I backslid when I voted a whiskey ticket.' - You bet your life he backslid before he voted or he never would have! voted for that dirty, lowdown bus!ness, and in my opinion, a man can' stand sponsor to that dirty business ' and keep his manhood ten minutes. Make up your mind! Bootleggers are the bitterest enemies to virtue, to home, to education, to childhood there is on God Almighty's dirt. Don't you lift your hand and look a decent man In the face when you stand sponser for the most damnable Institution that ever wriggled Us carcass out of hell the liquor traffic! It is one thing to be a member of a church, another to be a member of the body of Jesus Christ, although they ought to be synonymous, but they are not. There are thousands of mem - bers of the visible church the Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Congregationalist they are members of the visible church but not members of the body of Jesus Christ, for they have never been born again. Many Church Members Will Be In Hell. There will ,be lots of church members in hell. Lots of Protestants in hell, lots of Catholics in hell they never were converted, they never had a change of life, never were born again. You can't beat the devil sister, he has been preying on his old world for six thousand years, he never has rheu matism or appendicitis or peritonitis If you get to playing tag with the devil in his door yard he will hit you on the back and say, "tag, you are it." You can't put it over on him. Some c hurch members have the hoof and mouth disease, they run around the neighborhood and windjam about their neighbors and talk about them. I preach against certain amusements, you will be aware of this fact before I leave this city. I don't do it to arouse your antagonism, I am not a crank about anything, and my warfare is for the interest and virtue and morals of men and women. I don't care three whoops who I have to antagonize or what institution or corporation I have to fight to make it easier for men to get to heaven and harder for men to get to hell! I find more people in the church tbat are kept out from communion with God, and more people kept outside than are coming in. If you live wrong you can't die right so make up your mind hat you want to do, Emerson said: "What you are, speaks so loud, I can not hear what you f-ay." I tell you life is chuck full of half done things. Things started and never finished: trades begun, then abandoned; education started, then stopped, until eight million boys drop out of school in this country at the end of the eighth grade. Foundations laid, buildings never built on them; church going begun, then dropped. Life is chuck full of half-done things and there are multitudes of things in the life of every one that were intended to be done that haven't been finished to this day; although your hair is gray and you can look back twenty years and see what you intended to do and never did iI read of a hound that started after a stag. He chased it a while and then up jumped a fox and crossed the trail; he abandoned the stag and chased the fox. Up jumped a rabbit and he abandoned the fox and ran after the rabwc When at last his master overtook

him he found him barking at a hole where he had tried a field mouse. Many Persons Lost Faith. There are multitudes of people started on a royal run and they have

compromised on a rat: started for heaven, compromised on a bottle of. beer; started for glory, compromised on some trifling institution that cnnaprf vmi in lnfto vniir vision of you God and of his truth. Four things man must learn to do. If he would make his record true, First, to think without confusion, clearly, To love his fellow man sincerely, To act from honest motive purely. To trust in God, and heaven surely. If a man finds himself falling in one line of business he will be wise if he quits it and goes into another that he can make a success of. Religion is not for time, not for money, it Is not for business, it is not for socjety, it is not for politics. It Is for God, it is for life and death, for better or for worse; to be carefully considered before you can take

and never deviate from the path that .doe. thf, thfinS that he wouldn't God lays down for you to walk In.!"? ife to d- No. And he It will end in apostasy if you don't Is??8 She lf m7 wife or she is my

-Peter denied Jesus: he returned J ' '""'"B " - " r' - gracery s tore to buy some groceries, and a little country blacksmith shop way ne sioppea ai a nine country; . to get his old mare shod and was i telling about it. And the grocer's j boy went out and took the speckled I trout out of the basket and put them Sin the ice box, and he wrapped up a piece of rotten codfish and put that in the basket The fellow ordered some groceries and drove on and when he got to the preacher's house he got out and got his basket, walked whiff of it they grabbed their noses and beat lt for the door, and he said: "Marie is losing her mind. She put that codfish in there instead of the fish." And so he took them, put them in the basket and started back. On his way back he stopped at the groeery store in order to get the groceries he had ordered on the way up. The fellow noticed something was wrong and said, "What is the matter. Jack? "Oh! Maria is losing her mind, I tell you she is going crazy." He told them about the codfish and the boy went out and got the codfish and threw It out of the bas.ket and put the speckled trout back ) in and the old fellow drove home and j his wife came out to meet him. j "Well, Jack, what did the preacher j say?" i "Go back! I don't want you to talk to me, you're losin' your mind!" he said, "What made you put those ! rotten codfish in there?" "Losing my mind I am not." "No I'm not!" "Yes you are!" And they had one of those domestic explosions whose names are legion. He went and got the package out of the basket. She unrolled it. and reached down and picked up a speckled trout by the tail. "There! Who is losing their mind? Is them speckled trout or rotten codfish?" The old fellow looked at them pulled his whiskers and said, "Well, you may be speckled in the country, but you are rotten codfish in town. Some People Are Rotten Codfish. Some of you folks did amount to something before you came to town but now you are nothing but rotten codfish. All right, come on back to God and be some of the Lord's epeckled trout and not the devil's codfish. What do you Bay? The devil has no happy old men or women. I have never tabooed but two towns that I ever preached in. One was a little jay town in a western state and I tell you they had 350 charter members in an infidel club in that little town. I stopped at the best hotel and I was afraid of my life. They could have started a foundling asylum in that town. There were only two men there they called Christians and they put a question mark after their names. Somebody asked me, "Why Is It so heinous to sin?" I will tell you. It is to be untrue. There is no man or woman that I so delight to honor as a true man or a true woman; there is no one I so despise and abhor as a contemptible snake in the grass, an untrue mao. or an untrue woman. O, one whose word is as weak as a rope of sand and whose honor is as unenduring as a cloud of smoke or of vapor. You may differ from me in politics, in business, you may differ from me in religion, if I know that your ideals are wrong. I will work hard to convince you of your errors, clarify your vision, let you catch a glimpse of Jesus Christ, but all the time I will admire you and respect you if yo-j are living up to your highest ideal of what you believe to be true. But if I know what you believe to be true is erroneous I wilt work hard to lead you Into the light, but all the time I am doing it I say I will admire you, although I may differ from you, if you are living up to your highest ideal. I am ashamed to say there are men whose honor hangs like meat in a butcher shop and you can buy

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it for so much a pound, so much a head, my friend, but thank God, they are in the minority. Oh! most men are honest, there are ' millions and millions of men and women that will not sell out to the devil and will not .-r, A.tw .1.1.. O U U O Il luOU Al UiU UU1UK LUC UilUK I that is rirht for fear nf anpHnr t. lclsm. No sir. Oh, to discorer a fault in yourself ( gives you an opportunity to add a: new line of beauty and attraction to your character; to find out where you are weak and then rectify It, that gives you a chance to build a new character and make a new name. i love 10 see a true man. Emerson said: "What I must do r"""" "" euuyesuu Bam. IUU never made a friend, who never made a foe." Burke said: "You must either be an anvil or a hammer one of the two." Make up your mind and go out to fight your way through' this old world and live as God tells you. What about a woman? God Al mighty marked out the same path for! men and women. Sin is Bexless. I What is wrong for a woman to do is wrong for a man to do, and the ing need of America today is the sin gle standard for men and women. A fallen man is as truly an adulterer as a fallen woman is an adulteress. It makes no difference to God whether the one that sins wears a plug hat or hair pins, a coat or a petticoat. Sin is sexless. There is many a man that stoops sister, or she is my sweetheart, or she Is 'going to by my wife." And yet your wife has just as good a right to walk down and sit around with a gang and fill her hide up with booze as you haye, and then stagger home vomiting and spewing as you have. , Just as good a right to sit around

and spit out oaths as you have: just'nd tnen he divided them into two as good a right to walk down the groups Then he asked these professtreet squirting tobacco Juice cn the ' rs in the twelve leading institutions side walk as you have. But neither ln ArWira. "Do vou believe in a per-

of you have. And do you know some such dialogue as this has been going on between the sexes for ages until Jesus Christ came into the world and changed it. Single Standard Demanded For All. Even now we seem to have gotten far from it. Man demands of a woman that she retain her original place of purity where God put her, but he has cut out for himself a niche away below where God Almighty places him, and she leaps over the bal usters and battlements of her alabaster purity and says to her liege and lord, "Where are you going?" "None of your business!" "Can't I go with you?" "No!" 4, "Well, what Is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Why not?"j "Because if you do they will tram pie you beneath their feet." "When do you think you will be back?" "None of your business, I'll come back when I get ready." O, a fountain of purity for women, a hog wallow for men, springs of purity for women, a mud puddle for men. No sir. Such a doctrrine crowled out of the pit of hell. God demands the same standard of living for both men and women. Some women will go to church, kneel at COmmUniOn. DUeht their: eternal allegiance to Jesus Christ and kneel with the unseen arm of Christ about them and say, "My liege, my lord, I renounce the world, the flesh and the devil for thee." And within forty-eight hours they

are down on some ball room floor, or bilites. Can't you Bee the possibiliin some carbaret with some lizard, !ties of a man being sober instead of with his arms around her, squeezing arunk?. of a man honest instead of the life literally and spiritually outjaiiar? of a man pure instead of im-

ui mem. i am asKiug ior mrormation, I want to know Untrue

le to the emanations of truth J ,, , o.l 1?. ""i to Jesus6 StyllS'SirSl 5f h! . . ::;t J. oin

untrue ail trUtn. Oh, I can imagine a man being untrue in business. I can imagine with a vast stretch of imazination. a man

luntrue in politics And I can imTi ' , ( n, n 1 a untrue m pontics. Ana i can imag-:came to reveal God to man. I have a

l?e b? .Jf' J.ast I imagina -

tion unthinkable as it is and ought to0, my re,ation to God. through Jesus be, I can imagine a man being untrue , Christ. That is what he came into the

m nis marriage vnw. I far aa un.' . - thinkable a3 it is. I can imagine it because it is so. . But be true to God and he will be tril tA VIMI . IJntrflA tn flrtA Um. turn hi. back on you. True t7 God. hj will stand by you through life and aeatn' . . . . i pray uoa my woras may ring true on your ears and you that may be uiciuiiius, uVvu iuc icij ji mn. ui iuu precipice, about to say goodbye to God cin1m(r n,Tl r a 1-1 .... V. ..... 1 . tUn ui.., jciuni n.ii ou juui ucai i nuu

an jum oxui iu -- mc mm ui mo man was placing upon nimseii ne-Loni-caUse of sin. when he went into the Now what is easily lost may be Garden of Eden and said. "Father, re-

painfully recovered. You can go outjm0ve this cup from me." and in one act you can sow the seed. That was the vision of the cross, that will baffle the skill of all the ; He said, "There is no other way to rephysicians on the face of the earth, deem this old world, my son." You can easily lose your health. You ! And he said. "All right, your will may save money for twenty-five years be done, not mine." and then invest in some "get rich! church Lacks

quicK" scneme or some take' mining; ctttlr- iTrTclt in tinil Iaca n i r,r .11 civvn. iiuf"'" voc cijr uur lar VOU have EOt, YOU Can Easilv Lose Your Gains. What is hard to gain can be easily lost. Your reputation-you can

one act tear down a reputation that'm th Son nf r.od. whet, von look into

has taken vou a ouarter of a cen - ! tury to build up. So, what is easily lost may be painfully recovered. Society makes it mighty easy for a man to be a drunkard, makes i; mighty easy for a girl to side step her womanhood. Oh! God they make it hard for you to get back if you want to make it mighty hard. It is easy to go down, hard to come up. n a i i j i Prof. Agassiz tells of his decent into the heart of a glacier. He was lowered by his assistants into the great depths of ice. Each foot of the descent was attended with great peril. But the ascent was more dangerous than the descent because the great crevasse was filled with hug3 icicles which, pointing downward, offered no obstacle to his descent, but when they started to pull him up, those huge javelins of ice pointing downward with tons and tons in each icicle, threatened him. He was afraid his swaying body would break one off, and crush him as if made from an egg shell. So the devil puts every obstacle in the way of a man or woman that wants to return to God. But the road to hell seems to have been greased for the occasion. And so that is the way the devil works to drag us down and make it easy for us to lose out: It is easy to lose your virtue, my girl, hard to (get back. your reputation. It is easy

SUN - TELEGRAM, RICHMOND,

PROGRAM FOR NEXT SUNDAY ANNOUNCED . , . . .. , Th following can be, followed as ithe official program for next Sunday; Morning Services at the various churches throughout the city.' Afternoon, 2:30 Sermon for men only in the tabernacle, on the subject, "The Devil's Boomerang Up to Date." The sermon on "Chickens Come Home to Roost," will be preached later. Sermon for women only, by Mrs. William Asher, In the East Main Street Friends meeting house, right by the side of the tabernacle. Evening, 7:30 Preaching for everybody at the tabernacle. Union services of all churches will be held on Sunday, May 7. THERE IS (Continued from preceding page) cry-lour country, beat It back to where you came from Another, thing. Sabbath desecration A lot nt npnnlp come to this country with their damnable Euro-! pean ideas of a Sabbath and then we lower the standard to letethem do what they please, until we have no Sabbath it seems. These are the reas ons why we're not what we ought to j be. And then the infidel Influences In some of our colleges, wrecking the faith of our boys and girls that we do send there to learn and to be taught t of God. Professor James, down in Bryn Mawr, conducted an investigation recently. He took five thousand, five hundred names of the leading scientists, historians, socialists and from them he picked one thousand names sonal God?" And the eminent professors. seventy per cent of them said, "No," and of the less eminent, fifty-two per cent of them said No . Then he took the students, in nineteen of the leading colleges of the United States and he asked them the same question. Forty-six per cent, of the men students said, "Yes," and seventy-two per cent, of the women students said "Yes." Then he divided them up. Eight per cent, of the Freshmen said "Yes," wo believe in God and personal immor tality." Seventy-six per cent of the j Sophomores said "Yes." Seventy per cent of the Juniors said "Yes." Sixty per cent of the Seniors said "Yes." So here are the conditions as they are. The only way to meet tne cuarge of inefficiency is to become efficient, The only way to become efficient is by the grace of God, who is sufficient j for these things. Our sufficiency is of j God. Therefore, I call on the church ' to get on her knees and get converted. That is my call. Look at the multitudes. They were scattered abroad as 6heep having no shepherd. The harvest is great. The laborers are few. Compassion Was Keynote of Christ ; Now, compassion, that was the key in the life of Jesus. Not only on one occasion, but on all occasions he saw ' H 1 1 KuriH .1 1 1 1 ruuuiliuua ui wvw. i all sorts and conditions of people. , Till v ....... V. mnMfnoi cur thn thief, the down and outs, the publican, he Baw th infidel and all of that. He saw the possibilites. He knew the devil didn't make men. He knew the reason men were not what they ought to be was because of the devil in them. He saw the possi pure? ; ,,. Jesus Christ saw Ixvna rrootod in Ihn ImafTP of fiod. Sin has destroyed that image. Jesut ! r-hriot ramo intn the- world and not i tv, .1 i,t t, ;au0I, of GodVrelaSton to me aid I wunu .u uu. 00 inc uiiij vaj 1 ' nt anv knowledge of nood. is u i .l. ...... i ...:n through Jesus, and talk about loving God and slaDoina Jesus Christ in the 1 1 I

j Sack to Eden, when God -created tnVfnside 15 man. what did he say? "Let us ak.ftVft VhJTu'side man in our image, and he didntilik thp mpas1p!, or thfi scoript fpv3r

make him the image of . the devil, 'not at all! What was the effect when . . . . . . l o t ' i. I ne saw tne munuuaes ; i cam ana.iyze the vision the cross had upon jesus cnrisi. i-ie saw me limitations I miico nf 1n -when he went into the. - - - - - -- r.o,isii Men and cnid "Father rp. Compassion I wr, i . i . t i J : 1 : i . 1 o VVUV IS ne I'UUrCU UU1UE su ill ue : I Thcro is nn enmnassinn no onnpprn

I tV. col.-nHr. f nonnln Minic.ihe WantR.

fnr the salvation of oeoole Minis-1 ne wants. lue uaivrsi. is nitre uui l tne !.1J al1... . ' J ?ivou can't eet it without laborers.

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inivour viewnoini. If you live by faith

it m ,nnv f mm th d?. this old world, you look from the di vine standpoint and it makes you want to be a good man. Half of this world has never been ; converted That is the reason when he saw the multitudes o wa mnvorf with compassion. Some people have their vision so low that they are thunder struck at the sight of a mountain. You can't see very high with your eye ' - . ... .m - looking at the Bottom. You can't see veryhigh when you look at God through the bottom of a champagne glass. Your vision is too low. Compassion indicates suffering with and for another. Like the sin of the Venetian woman. When she brought her daughter she cried unto him saying, "O, Lord thou, son of David, my daughter Is grievously vexea with a to become a drunkard, hard to get back, lt is easy to steal from your employer, hard to get back your rep utation after you get . it. But God never considers, if you will only return and come to the Lord. He will kiss away your guilt. Say, do you want to know the solution of the problem of the twentieth century? When will we win the world for Jesus Christ? When men and women will come out clean cut uncompromising on the side of Jesus Christ, and when they will die before they will yield to the devil, before they will sin.

IND., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1922.

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trail

STAMPER APPLAUDS When Billy Sunday, payed a tribute to Grover Cleveland in the Wednesday afternoon Bermon, Rev.-A. L. Stamper, of the First Christian church, applauded loudly. WELL DRESSED MAN Sunday has a new suit for every sermon, or at least he never wears the same one twice in succession. Wednesday, afternoon he wore a light spring suit, of equally light color. In the evening he wore a dark grey, with spats. Each suit looks as if it had just come from the pressing table, devil." But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and be sought him. saying, "Send her away; for she crieth after us." But he answered and said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Woman Persists In Selling Christ Then came she and worshipped him saying, "Lord, help me." But he answered arid said, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast lt to aog8 And she 6aid, "Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table." Then Jesus answered and said unto her, "O, woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt." And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. It is great the way her daughter was made whole and, what is compassion? You let the church of God have a compassion to bring themselves to Jesus Christ and they will have to build an addition to all the churches. That is what they will have to do but they haven't got it. Some church members haven't even got to this Tabernacle, and I have been here some two weeks and they haven't been near it. Gosh! I haven't seen some of the preachers even. Compassion! Some people when they see the crowds, see money. Thy say, "Gosh! If I had all they have, wouldn't I be rich?" Some people say, "Oh! if they'd all trade with me, I'd put an addition in my store." Some people, when they see a crowd, see the politicians and say, "If they'd all vote for me, I'd go to Washington.' What effect does a crowd have on you? It depends altogether on your viewpoint If the life you now live in the flesh, you live by faith in the Son or uoa, wnen you see tne crowa, you will see them from God's standpoint and he wants them to be saved and so do you. See? You can't get around it, not at all. When I quit playing baseball I went into the Y. M. .C. A. in Chicago and among other duties I had the saloon route. Every Tuesday and Saturday night I went ont through the saloons, giving out tickets inviting men " to come to Fargo's hall to the men's meetings. I wa3 talking to a young fellow I met on night in a saloon that used to stand where the Boston store stands now. We walked out and were standing there talking. He said. "I was just thinking of this crowd that Tuns niiT-lct AioA frv TViot-o ara & nao juci lumniuK vi l luia v i w" u one hundred and fifty saloons and seventeen theatres right down In the Loop," he said, "and to think that you and I are the only two Christians of all the tens of thousands in Chicago that are down here in the Loop trying to get this great crowd to Jesus Christ. God Wants Persons To Believe When he saw the multitude, it .'brought tears down his cheeks. Why .He was living in the presence of God. So' refore. 83 t0 d crowd has upon you depends on your your viewpoint altogether. Now, hold on a minute and I am tnrougn. uua aoesn 1 want anyDoay who isnt the. Jesus said, ,Q.eof ,a iMti lf n 3 lTl ! 'Lrdf the haVStttat S II L'I' tl1 vo mo vest." Evidently he wants you to pray or he wouldn't ask you to do it. And they were driven to their knees. If you are serving the flesh ; vow life' It will show vou wm 6ee it BO. Prav Tint i j it never for the crowd,did pray for the crowd. Understand he c uctc! uw 11-j not for the world," he; never did it. lie saiu, i i v i n . uui, i w i i i i v , n ui iu, ii ' j.-j it u .t ' c. n ,' . I T ...... .r nr f.. fh a WAt-ll " Vic iicirr uiu tinier. n saiu, i inny iui , . t '

uiose wno win oeueve on me lurougn j there sat the monev changers selling your words, I pray that you may be pigeons and doves at a table. And kept from the evil that is in the)Jesus came in one d amJ h saw world," but he never prayed for the' that hnnPh nv. m,i ,a

world. Pray for Men to Gather Harvest.

Pray not for tne crowd, no. Prayjnp tipped, over their chairs. He said what for? That God will send labor- "Get out of here! It is written that

6TS into the harvest. That is what at ..what God Almighty need. here-. on' tnis meet,rn neeas ten tnousana men ana women mat wn ! work and pray and weep and plead; with men to come to Christ. That is' iwhat it needs. You will re-write his tory, if you do. You've got the chance , I'V "Zr'J 7,Y'n I a . ... send somebody, but don't send me But if you are honest when you pray, then you say, "God, I am ready to go sure. He said to the disciples, "Go answer your own prayer." When your compassion moves you to pray, then God will say, "Go, an swer your own prayer. Your prayers are worth no more in the sight of God than you are willing to work to redeem them there no sir! This, and I am through. "Freely lye have received, freely give What does that mean? It means simply this. When you can measure the depths of the blessings that God has given to you, through your faith in Jesus Christ, by that same standard you can measure the depths of your responsibility to go out and tell other people to come to Christ, and they can get what you've got. Do you get it? "Freely ye have received, freely give." When you can measure the depths of the blessings of. God to you through your faith in Jesu3, by that same standard you measure the depths of your responsibility to take that message to o&er people, that they

while his shoes are always highly polished. Incidentally in some of his sermons, Rev. Sunday has commented on what he thought of men that dressed slovenly.

HOW TO COUGH Homer Rodeheaver s demonstration of how to cough into a handkerchief i without noise always brings a laugh, ! and then by the time the eermon is j well underway .someone will cough right out loud. The interruptions are becoming less frequent, however. Repeated demonstrations are gaining: results. I SPECIAL SERMONS The following sermons and days have been announced for the rest of the week: Friday afternoon. Mother's day; Satuiday afternoon. Children's day, a sermon that uses from 20 to 30 flags of different nations; Sunday afternoon, for men only, a sermon called, "Devil's Boomerang Up to Date." For women only, a talk by Mrs. Asher in Uhe West Main Street Friends meetinguuuou. KEEPS PROMISE "Some time.'" Mr. Sunday reminded his audience, "I shall take up a collection to buy the high school boys uniforms for their baseball team. I have promised I shall do it, and I shall. You know I got my start as an athlete, and I think a lot of sport." ' LEAVES COOKIES Some one left at the doors of the Sunday party some cookies, with the following legend on a card attached: "Old-fashioned ginger cookies. Baked by a Democrat. Ha, ha, for the Sunday party." The Sunday party enjoyed them immensely. may receive the blessing that you've got. "Freely ye have received, freely give." To somebody else. Pass it on. And you are receiving as the measure of your giving. See? As God gives, you give up, and he will give in proportion to your faith. You say, "My, that would sift the rank3 of our workers. God knows they need it."

No doubt oHraran-rbsolutely Af Sn3' Everv chnrrh nnht tn n .ti!Mr: Sunday has to say can not be

for the lost nf fn, th nJuaaTSlooa- American siang is Known

hearted, a home of welcome for the wanderer. If I knew of a box 'where the smiles were kept. No matter how large the key Or strong the bolt, I'd do my best To open and set them free. Then on the land and sea broadcast I'd scatter the smiles, and pray That the children's face3 might hold Them strong, forever and a day. If I knew of a box that was large enough - To hold all the frowns you meet, I'd gather them all together From nursery and street. Then quick as a flash I'd fasten the locks. And turn the monster key. And hire a giant to drop the box Out in the midst of the sea. You'd get rid of a lot of thing3 then. If you've no compassion and if your compassion is not strong enough to overcome your sentimental, denominational prejudice, my friends, then our spiritual life will ebb away in ritualisms and formal isms. O Lord, have mercy on us! We have wandered like sheep from our paths. Strong Church Can Do Wonders. imagine a church where all the members were born aeain. wouldn't i that be great? Imagine a church where everybody smiled and everybody liked one another. Imaeine a church where everybody boosted the Dreacher. Ima2ine a seccinn fhot smTile3 and al? at P meeting. Imagine a prudential committee where all the men had relig ion, ana tne vestrymen, wouldn t that be great? Imagine a church where all- the members were porn again, filled with the Holy Ghost, not degenerating into a third rate amusement bureau with religion left out. Imagine it! Not a church where the leading members are leaders in nothing but the ballroom and at the arand ODera. Sundav I golf and God only knows what. You I never RCe them at th nrauor mast. ingS( never heard them pray in their lives. Never! Multitudes! j8SUS went intr) thp ,1Tml(1 llav . ipoiio it-put inrr J5SUS enl.mto 11 Jpshs f hrint bo nwnt in thor gmi ! " ,t,u;' vnnsi, ne went in mere ana j through his veins like a fire pressure I and he rushed up and he overturned i their tables and scattered them and j my nouse snau be called a house ot mouc h a u-n I of thieves. Out of here! Out of here!" That was a little sensational. I , , y. . u oe an ; 111S UUL u.T.u bUcn 'SP at ine lasi And if one old double-chin dog matic, phlegmatic, rheumatic, goutmatic, old member got mad and tied up her purse strings and beat it, fifty people would come around to see how you did the job. When he saw ttfe multitudes, he; was moved with compassion, for they were lute sheep scattered around i having no shepherd. He said, "The j harvest truly is plenteous, but the laDorers are rew. rray ye, there fnro 1"ha T rrrt nf tlio horracl tt.n 1 will send forth laborers into his harvest! "Hark!" the voice of Jesus cries, "Who will go to work today The fields are white and harvest waiting " Who will bear the sheaves away?" Loud and strong the Master calleth Rich reward he offers thee. Oh, who will answer gladly, saying "Here am I, Lord, send me, send me!" Let none hear you idly sayings "There is nothing I can do," While the souls of men are dying, And the Master calls for you. Take the task he gladly gives you Let his work your pleasure be, Answer quickly when he calleth, "Here ana I, send me, send me!"

CALLS FOR SUNDAY'S ' RELIGIOUS EFFORTS z NOT LIMITED TO U. S.

If the call gets much stronger. Billy Sunday may be preaching beyond the shores of the United States, following luuipaina oi oiner lauiuuo But just for the present he is stlcking to the-United States and refusing any invitation to leave, in spite of the calls that come to him. For Rev. Dr. William A. Sunday has received a call to conduct a series of meetings in Belfast, Ireland, which, added to the list of other invitations from foreign lands, almost convinces him that there might be a real desire on the part of those people to hear his message. "I don'.t know whether they'd understand my jargon over the seas or not." Mr. Sunday said in commenting on the call. "I know my own folks, and I'm not convinced as yet that the Lord wants me to go over there." Preached in Canada. The only sermons that Billy Sunday has preached outside of the limits of the United States were two single sermons preached in Toronto and in Vancouver, in the interests of the dry fight in Canada. Outside oi that his whole 26 years of preaching has been within the 48 states, of which he has touched all but one, Maine. Other evangelists have made famous world tours. Mrs. William Asher and her husband were with Dr. Chapman when he made his tour of the world in 1909 and 1910, and. Dr. Moody and Torrey have also made famous tours. Within the last few months, Mr. Sunday has received calls to preach in London, Edinburgh, Tokio, Honolulu, Nagasaki, and from the Church Federation of Australia which includes Sidney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. At present, Mr. Sunday has a wait-J ing list of about 35 or 40 American cities, and is definitely booked up for a year ahead, and is adding the sec ond year gradually. The invitations which Mr. Sunday has received would make It very easy to swing around the whole world, so it is possible that he may go. "Any way," says Bob Matthews, secretary and pianist, who has alreadv been around the world himself, "I over a good' part of the world now, and he would not have to revamp very much of his vocabulary." For the time being though, Mr. Sunday is pretty well convinced that the people of America need saving, and will give him about all the work that he can handle for a while. EXPECT RIG TURNOUT OF CHRISTIANS, U. B.'S With two churches fo draw for the tabernacle Friday night, the Christians and the United Brethren, are making plans for a great crowd, not only from Richmond, but from Wayne county, and even from Ohio. The United Brethren are expecting delegations from Dayton, Greenville. New Madison. Eaton and Eldorado in Ohio, and Winchester, in Indiana. A special quartet of Dayton U. B. ministers, which sang at the tabernacle meetings in Cincinnati, also will De present,. ana give several numbers. The Christian church is expecting at least 100 men and women each froi -New Paris, Winchester and Unioiiji City, and at least 50 from SprlngportT Delegations also are expected from Bethel, Whitewater, Dublin, New Lisbon, Centerville, Cambridge City and Milton. Thursday night is Baptist night. Out of town delegations have been invited to take their supper at the church, before the meeting at the tabernacle. MASONIC NIGHT AT TABERNACLE MAY 4 Masonic night at the tabernacle has been postponed for one week. The Masons had made plans to be at the tabernacle Thursday night, but other things intervening, the special Masonic night has been set for Thursday, May 4. All of the Masonic organizations In town will be represented at the tabernacle by as large a gToup as possible. No attempt will be made to attend the meeting in a body, but special seats are to be reserved. VETERANS TO MEET AT FIFTH AND MAIN All ex-service men are requested to meet at Fifth and Main streets at 7 o'clock Thursday evening to go to th3 tabernacle in a body. Cincinnati Delegation Will Come Next Week Because of a celebration at Cincinnati, a delegation from that city will not be able to come to the Sunday campaign meeting Thursday, but will come some time next week. A letter from Garfield Winchler, of r.lnoirmati. who is eneineerlne thr party, to Mr. Matthews, secretary to Rev. Sunday, said tbat they would be sure to be here next week. (Continued from preceding page) the tabernacle expenses. Homer Rodeheaver. called on the Methodists to break the records for the giving. He gave them as a goal to shoot at, the donation of $250 made to the tabernacle fund by the officials of the Chautauqua company. Before the sermon, the Methodists presented Homer Rodeheaver with a basket of fruit and flowers, as a token of affection and esteem. "We shall give it to Mr. Sunday," declared Mr. Rodeheaver, "and then we will all go up to his room and eat it." "No, you don't do anything like that," Mr. Sunday answered. Dr. Somerville Light, superintendent of the Richmond district, of the Methodist church, led in prayer in opening the meeting.