Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 102, 29 April 1922 — Page 5
BILLY SUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLE Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM
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Full Report of Evangelistic Meeting Additional Copies At Palladium Office TABERNACLE ON SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET RICHMOND, INDIANA, APRIL 29, 1922. AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES
Games and Sports Are Intended For Boys and Girls, but They Must Obey Ten Commandments Evangelist Urges Children to Have a Good Time, but in Conformity with the Laws of God, Because Wickedness Brings Punishment Even to the Little Ones Praises Dutiful Children.
Following the text of the sermon delivered by Rev. W. A. Sunday on Saturday afternoon:
as to get the one that was the longest. -
When they passed the oranges her little brother got a Florida orange
and she got a Tangerine and she got
her brother and made him give it to
her. The Lord wants you to play.
Play marbles, have a good time, never play ball on the Sabbath, never
play marbles for keeps,
The streets of the city are full of
boys and girls playing in the streets.
So we want them to have a good time
dred. Twenty-three hundred years ! down here and the Lord wants 'em to ago, this man. one day. looked out of j have a good time and be with him forthe window and there were no boys l ever. or girls in the streets, because their; I've got a flag here and I don't fathers and mothers would not do think you know what it is. What is
I've got a verse of scripture. Zachariah said, "The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing In the streets thereof." Zachariah lived four hundred years before Jesus, and Jesus lived nineteen hundred years ago. Nineteen and four are how many? Twenty-three hun-
Billy "Listening In" for the First Time to a Wireless Telephone Program
right and the. old prophet was look
ing out of the window and he felt sad. Just think of what an awful thing it would be if there were no boys and girls alive on earth. We could not have any schools or Sunday schools. Then I think he thought about heaven. He said. "There will be a place where the streets will be full of girls and boys playing and that will be up in heaven," and so the Lord wants us to do right and have a good time on this earth.
that one?
"American." How many stars are there? "Forty-eight." What do they stand for? "Each state." How many stripes? "Thirteen." Tell the name of one 'of them? "Rhode Island." Tell me, what is the capital? "Washington." "Who is President" "Harding."
I
The Lord likes .to .see bovs and
girls play, but we have to do right! Can you sing a verse of. "My down here and we can't lie and steal Country 'Tis of Thee?" Sit up and swear and do mean things. -All 1 straight and let 'em go. (Children
those things are what Satan wants to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee. )
do. I suppose the boys are playing hall, some of them are playing mumble peg. Well the Lord likes to see boys play and have a good time. He
don't like to see one of these Jimmy
Tough kind of boys and if you ask!
him something he says. "Oh, I don't know." One of these boys s always the first at the dog fight and last at Sunday school. How Business Man Picked a Boy. One time I read of a man who advertised that he wanted a boy to come to work in the store and ther were about twenty-five boys cams around: Some had their hair combed, some didn't, and be picked out a boy and he said. "Boy, can you write?" He said, "Yep." He said, "Can you read?" He said, "Sure Mike." He said. "Can you figure?" ! "Unhuh." - ! He said, "I don't want you." Finally he picked out a boy and he said, "Why didn't you pick out that boy?" And he said, "He doesn't know how to say 'Yes sir' and 'No sir. A lady would come into the store and say. "Have you any oranges?' and he would say. 'Un huh'. They like to see a nice boy." When 1 was, one time, up in New London, Connecticut, a man said, "Come here, Mr. Sunday, get. on hoard this boat." I got on board and went across the river and climbed up a hill and there stood a fort that
stood thtre in the Revolutionary
war and there is a big stone place
and right in the middle of it is a brass star and on that brass star said. "Here's where Benedict Arnold sat when they came in and burned it and destroyed everything, but one store house." I.et me tell you what kind of a boy
Benedict Arnold was when he was
What is that one?
"English." "Canadian." No! No! "Canada," What, is the capital of ' C -ns is? "Ottawa." Is Canada up north or ruth? "North." What is that one? ''Mexico." Where is Mexico? "South."
We navenr time to uuk aDou: mese.., mr.rrrir,, r..,nr; m,,fh What is this nne' 10 POgrani
"Cuba." What is the capital of Cuba? "Havana." What do we get from Cuba? "Cigars " Yes, sugar, bananas and cigars. What is that one? It is a country in South America. - "Venezuela." What is the capital of Venezuela? ''Caracas." . Here is one, what is-it?' "Italy." What is the capital of Italy? "Rome." What is the big. church in Rome? "St. Peters."
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78 HIT TRAIL WHEN SUNDAY ENDS SERM
Preaches on Power of Christ To Break Down Opposition of Most Hardened Sinner in World.
Photo by Campbell Photo Art Shop Billy Sunday in his bed at the Westcott hotel with a receiver held to his ears.
For thj'fiisl time ;n the history of the Sunday evangelistic party, a concert was given by members over the wirelesf; telephone Wednesday evening in The Palladium broadcasting station. Billy Sunday, who hitherto had never heard a wireless telephone con- ! cert, was provided with a receiving set in his room to "listen in"
He was resting pieparatoiy to his evening ser
mon, and the photograph shows him listening to the singing of
Mrs. Asher, Miss Kinney, Mr. Rodeheaver and Mr. Matthews. So impressed was Mr. Sunday with the marvelous attainments of radio broadcasting that he requested permission to use the receiving set for a few days in order that he might catch the programs regularly. The concert was given during Mr. Sunday's rest and study period, which accounts for the reclining position of the wellknowTi evangelist.
bov. He was learning a trade, and' we are.
What do we get fro-' ' "Olives." What is that? "Brazil." Capital? "Rio de Janerio." What big river runs through there? "Amazon." What do we get from Brazil? "Rubber." What one is that? "Norway." . What is the capital of Norway? "Stockholm." 'No. "Christiana " What is that? 1 "Denmark." Capital? . "Copenhagen."
That is a great little country. Here
TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON
vou have been in a drug store where
they have been a big bow: made ou ol iron and a big stone. He would put glass in there and pound it up fine and scatter it around on the floor and the boys would come in bare footed and step on it and then he'd laugh at them. So, no wonder he became a traitor. Tells of His
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wasn't anybody in the United States that could beat me. I could run one hundred yards in ten seconds. I could run around the diamond when I played baseball, in fourteen seconds. If I could get a start on a fellow, if he could run as fast as I could he never could catch me. So that is the time to learn those things when you are younger. I can run now and take a jump hera and turn a somersault over in the air. So, I want you to learn when you are young. Now it says that tho bovs are playing. I have often wondered what the girls were playing. Weli. it would not look nice to ste girls play leap frog, it is all right lor boys. The girls' can't play ball. If a boy stood ovei there and another over hero and she went to throw a ball to that boy, she'd hit that boy over here. That's what the twirls do. Here's the way the boy rtocs. I,ook! He knows how to do it. but girls do this way. T minDos some of them are play
ne dol'.v. som of the girls are mak-j
ing mud pi as, but they were having a good time. Nobody likes ono of iue?e saucy, imnudent. kind of girls. 1 remember when "Helen was a little girl going to school in Chicago. sh9 came homo and said, "Mama, I am not going with that little girl that lives up on Monroe street any more." "Why not. Helen?" She said, "Coming home from school today she said, 'Helen, I don't like you, Bah', and stuck her 'tongue out Nobody likes that kind of a girl. I remember Helen sat in the park one day and a lot of little girls were playing, "Drop the handkerchief." and a lot of games, and finally the mother said. "AH sit down and we will have ico cream." Had Ice Cream And Other Things. So they had Neopolitan ice cream. They had ice cream and they brought a dish around and a little girl was there with her two brothers and when they passed around the cako 8he measured with her fingers so
"Scotland."
What is the capital? "Edinburgh." What do we get from Scotland? "Thistles." What is this? "Peru" What is the capital? "Lima." What flag is this? "Chile." What is the capital of Chile? "Santiago." What do we get from Chile? "Nitrate." What do we put on the griddle? "Grease." What is the capital of Greece? "Athens." What is this? "Spain." Capital? "Madrid." What do we get from Spain? "Cork." Do we dig it out of the ground? "No." Where do you get it? "Pro mthe bark of a tree." Here's one? -"Australia." See it. A lot of you old guys didn't
l know that. Flag of what?
"Australia." What is the capital of Australia? "Sidney." What is this one.? "France." What is the capital? "Paris." Hurray for France! What is this flaer? "Austria-Hungary." What is the capital? "Budapest." (Waves German flag).
I want to tell you a story. Years ago a ship was coming across the ocean and a storm came up, and the ship began to settle. She sprung a leak and the captain went around and counted the people he had and said, "I've not room enough in the life-boats for everybody, I am going to write a number on the card and if you draw a blank you have to stay on the ship." So there was a man coming over with his wife and he put his hand in and drew a card with a number on it. Sshe drew a blank card. He said "You take my card and get in the boat and take the baby and I will stay on board " She didn't want to. When the Cfe boat pushed away, tne watched the old boat sinking down. Two days !ater, they were picked up and they brought them to this country. Years went by and one day their little girl said to her mother, "You look so sad today, what is the matter with you?" She said, "I was thinking about papa." The mother had promised the father on the ship not to tell the littie girl about it until she was 12 years old. That was her birthday and the mama said, "Come here, honey, you are 12 years old today, and I promised your pap, if you lived I'd tell you." She told the little girl all about it and the little girl took a chair and dragged it under her father' picture and kissed her fingers and she said, "My dear pap, how I love you for being so good." Don't you think everybody ought to love Jesus because he died for us on the cross? Then, when we will do that, he will be our flag and the flag of everybody. "By this sign we conquer." That is the reason we will win out for that stands for the cross and Jesus, right is white and when you get Jesus in your heart, we will all do right.
(Ap-
What is the capital? "Petograd." He:e you are? "Holland." Capital of Holland? "The Hague." Cranberry sauce and celery! "Turkey." What is this one? "Japan." Whar. is the capital? "Tokio." What do we get from Japan? "Rice." (Waves flag cf Belgium), platise and child;en wave flags).
In what country did the fellow shoot the apple? "Switzeriand." . What is 'Jie capital? "Berne." What big mountain range? "The Alps." What ;s the name of a big mountain peak? "Jungfrau." Waves flag). "Siam" They worship an elephant to they put iheir Gcd on their TUk. (Waves flag of Uruguay). "Uruguay." (Waves flag of China). "China." That is their new flag and it is a
pretty nice flag too, ital of China?
"Peking." Now, I "will not as:c you for any
more. You know them as well here j as any place 1 have ever been. That ; is a great compliment to you. I want ; to thank you. What does that mean? ! (Waves red flag), j "Danger." i You wave that and stand on a railroad and they will stop the train. You : see they have red lights where they are digging in the sidewalk or in the I street and they will put the red flag ,up when they go down into the street. : Bad Men Ought To 6
Be Tagged.
foot) Golden text did He said, "It was, I
you for-
(with his I say Ma?'
i got.
. She said, "How did you get your clothes so dirty?"
"Fell down coming over the bridge." r. 1 .1 . . . i '
cue saia, nun up ana cuauge them." Did he break any commandment? "Yes." , How many are there? "Ten." Who gave them to us? "Moses." Illustrates Ten Commandments.
He wrote them on stone and gave them to
said. "Take them down and tell the people what I want them to do." What was the first commandment? "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." Did he? He thought more of his marbles than he did of God so he broke the first commandment, (bieaks vase.) ' What is the second one? "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Wha. is the. third one? "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Did he? He swore at that boy
Broke it. (Breaks
, . 1 sundayI Says
Man was slow, and Is slow today to
appropriate the good things that God
gives him and make them work for
him. As long as the grass is green and as
tablets of: long as the birds sing, and as long as Moses and. not0r -n-ni cot ,m
' - ..... 'VI. .VkJ I , 111 I. Al "111 tj 1 at a gold brick and he will take a
chance on a wheel of fortune. Every power that we have today was foolishness at first. Lots of you are sitting here tonight in this twentieth century and you are by fools because I can't make you believe in religion. Your grandfathers didn't believe in electric lights. Why, they didn't have sense enough.
wnat is tne cap-iabout Dls marbles Ivase.) (
What is the fourth one? "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Did he? No. Played marbles on the Sabbath day. Broke it. (Breaks vase.) What is the fifth one? "Honor thy father and thy mother." . Did he? No he did not mind his ma. Broke it, broke that commandment. (Breaks vase). What is the sixth one?
"Thou shalt not bear false witness)
against thy neighbor." Did' he tell a lie? Yes, he said he
Religion is all right, fool.
you are the
If the Bible is nonsense and foolishness to you, you ought to be alarmed.
There Jesus.
is no salvation outside of
The heaven's burdens in the world are the burdens of guilt. Nothing crushes like the consciousness of wrong. You get the benefit of any force by obeying its command.
CRITICIZES OBSTINATE Put yourself in a position so that Jesus Christ can save you," thundered Rev. Sunday Friday night "Ever:-' power can demonstrate itself. If you give it the chance." Dashing across the platform he slid from the platform on one of the press tables, scattering the note paper. "If you don't let the power of Jesus Christ save you, you are a big fool," he shouted. Preaching on "Power," Rev. Sunday ended his serman with an appeal for those that would pledge themselves to re-consecrate themselves to Christ, and 78 persons walked "the saw dust trail" to shake Billy's hand and sign a pledge to go better. Religion Necessary "Oh," he cried, his voice carrying to every corner of the tabernacle, in a long drawn out wail, "Oh, it takes power to make men leave their bones bleaching in the heart of Africa for the sake of a Christ and a religion. "For religion has been the heart and the framework of a nation. War is only an incident, but religion is the very life of a nation."
Christ did not condemn the world, but he came to give us a chance to escape from the condemnation. I have come to Richmond for that. I did not condemn Richmond. It was coidemend before I came, but I have come to Richmond to give you a plan of escape from your condemnation." he shouted. "There is a law of gravity." said Rev. Sunday, and he illustrated with his handkerchief to show the effect of the law. "Just as there is a law ot gravity in physical affairs, there is a law in religion," he said. Christianity Is Power Pointing out that you did not have to understand electricity to know that it was real, Mr. Sunday thundered: "You do not need any more argument tht Christianity is real than the people that live it. The onlv proof that I need of the authenticity of the Bible and of Gd is the life that men who believe in it have lived. "You believe a power, because it t an demonstrate its power," said Mr. Sunday. "Here is morphine; it says it can put you to sleep." Mr, Sunday tilted an imaginary bottle to his lips, and throwing his head back, snored loudly. "You believe that power because it can prove itself," he said, while the crowd laughed their appreciation. Coming to the other side of the stage he took up an imaginary bottle ofstrychnine and held a conversation with it. "What are you?" he asked. "What can you do?" "I don't believe it," "Then try me." Then Mr. Sunday put another Imaginary bottle to his lips, and with a sudden shriek, toppled stlflv over tn th floor, landing on his hands, but almost bruising his nose on the floor. "Just put yourself in the right position, and every power can demonstrate itself," he shot out. Tells of Education Digressing on his education, he told how he had attended Northwestern university in the winter while he was playing ball in the summer. "Northwestern, that's my What do they call it, Rody?" he demanded.
(turning sharply to Mr. Rodeheaver in
j his niche by the pianos.
The only way to find out if a seed! Alma mater," answered Rody, as
grow is to plant it; give it a
will
chance to grow.
Plant it. The power
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SUDnosins everv hov and everv cirl 11 e al no1 K1" or steal, wnat is tne; - ouypuams every Doy ana eeiy gin t wav that vnu can test -the eperl
icuui one. -
j All the science in the world would
"Germany." What is the capital? "Berlin."- . What do you like to get tor Christ-
! mas?
"Toys." (Waves Irish flag.) What is the capital of Ireland? "Dublin." . What de we get from Ireland? "Potatoes." ' (Waves Chinese flag). What little country west of Spain? "Portugal." That is one of our little friends, here you are? "Sweden." What is the capital of Sweden? "Stockholm." What is this? "Russia,"
1 mat lies ann steals nnrl everv man
ithat don't orav and do risht sunnos-1 "Thou shalt not covet."
I ing he had to walk down the sireet! Di.d he? He wanted the other boy's, hav hppn 1nfit if x.S(i nt h .,
Hand carry a red flag. That would say, ! J?1"- Dl? ne break ll- Ye3- ing to give it a chance to prove it. j j "Keep away from me, I am dangerous.) Itsreaks vase.) jlf you come around me you will learn' So tne IT& feels worse when you Jesus Christ has been a long time to be bad and mean." Supposing they break a commandment than you in convincing some of you fellows j all had to carry that flag. . i feel because I break one of those that He has power. It isn't His fault;
I une time mere was a boy we II call ,a3ca- many commanaments i n is your fault.
were tnere: "Ten. now many aid he break? Six. Here's his flag. Don't you go, around with that kind of a boy. .
this boy Jim his mother said, "Jimmy, run up stairs and change your clothes and get rt-ady for Sunday school." He went upstairs and threw them on the floor and something in the pockets rattled. Marbles. And the
Yellow Flag Shews Illness.
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good spirit said, "Jimmy, leave your vn !, S w"tL',s lual old marbles here today." ljeWJ?L
Anil the dovil sairt "Tnlio vniip mar. i ,u"l,,uu,:' ' lcvri. nuin
bles and your shooter
I pox, diphtheria. When a ship comes
Tf we were not so dull God would make us lich.
And so he listened to Satan and j lnt a harbor down here, if they've J when.
took his shooter and his marhlM r,.l ! S- a yeuow nag uyiS. mey will
The Christian man or woman proves the power of Christianity, I don't need any other argument to prove it. The corpse proves the power of disease. You don't need any argument to prove it. That is all you need. You don't have to see how it began or where or
started off to Sunday school whistling make them go to quarantine, they
and he met a touch k nd of a Hrl had w" lumigaie
a straw hat on with the rim tore off:SnP- Why?
the clothes and th
That means they've
Sunday Revival Program SATURDAY 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. All seats to be thrown open to general public. SUNDAY Morning Services in different churches. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon (men only) in tabernacle. Subject, "Devil's Boomerang Up to Date." 2 :30 p. m. Song service and sermon (women only) in East Main Street Meeting house ; Mrs. Asher, speaker. 7:30 p. m. Song sendee and sermon. MONDAY The Sunday party rests on Monday. . , it
and he canje slobbering along.
He said, "Hello, Jim, where you goin' to?" j "Going to Sunday school." j He said, "Let's have a game." J "No." j "Oh! you are afraid, I dare you." j So he said, "I will play you a game." J And so they made a ring and they? were shooting the marbles and this
fellow's shooter rolled down the hill l that would lie or steal, walk along
in the mud and this big kid said, "I ; Past a grocery store and swipes an I will go in and get it, "and he picked 1 apple from the barrel. I it up with a handful of mud and he I You know, my papa died a month
wanted to steal it. He picked up his before I was born. He went to wan
marbles and said, "I won't play with I and never came back.
you. you are going to Sunday school." a little boy, I said, "Mama,. I
When he got there he round he was too late, so he hung around outside. So he went on home and his mama said, "Well, Jimmie, were you in time for Sunday school?" "Yes, mama." . ' ' "Did you have a lesson?" He said, "Yes, mama." "What was it?" "Why, it was (scratching his leg
There Is nothing more foolish than
the Bible or relicion to an unbeliever, BDd it will always be the case until he cases to be a fool, and he will never cease to be a fool until h" ceases to be a sinner, then he will have
got disease and don't want anybody
else to get it. Supposing every boy and girl who
lies, aDd won't pray, every man and) the sense to believe in them.
woman who wont be a Christian, have to go down the street with a red and yellow flag. "It is dangerous. " You will catch what I've got. Keep away."
So you don't want to go with a boy
All the devils in hell can't turn you away from God, because the power that is for vou is more than the power that is against you: and God saves you from the guilt and He saves you from the power of sin.
boy when his Ma asks him to do anything he didn't want to do? So I went out and picked up cobs
When I wasiand cniPs nd dirt and I could hear
wantne Doys up at tne swimming hole
to go swimming." ' navmg a great time, t looked to see How many of you boys ever went!lf mother was looking and I ducked swimming? How many of you ever!and 1 went down the hill lickety-split went fishing? How many ever caught I and up to the swimming hole. I said,
anvthin before vou eot. home? I am so hot 1 must go swimi
I said, "I want to go swimming."! "ad n,y KVio ttA Vn -OTilHa imi, FW ClOtheS.
too little." She said. "No, you go 1 onIjf ATI OTlri nlnlr onm A aaKo T m I Ol
imming."
only had on a shirt and a pair
overalls ana if id coughed real (Continued on Next Page)
the laughter subsided.
"Alma mater, that's it," went on Mr. Sunday; "but I didn't get through the joint," he finished to heavy applause. Teacher's Profession In speaking on the question of
I finances, Mr. Charles O. Williams.
county superintendent of schools, said that the profession of teaching lost a
real man when Sunday became an
evangelist.
"If I should he a teacher." answered Mr. Sunday, "I would never teach mathematics. I was good at geography, but I never was any good at arithmetic or grammar. "Now if the King's English gets in my way I just ride rough shod over it." At one sally of Billy Sunday's the ministerial section applauded. "I have never been sick and have never missed a series for which I was scheduled in 25 years," declared Mr. Sunday, and then added, "but half the ministers In town get sick just listening to me preach." "Amen," came from several quarter of the section above the applause. In which the audience also joined. Each Had Present Ea?ii of the delegations to the tabernacle had a present for Mr. Sunday As the Christian church delegation of nearly 1,500 members was introduced, a little girl brought up to Mr. Sunday on the platform a huge box of candy. Tickled at the curtsey the little girl made for him, Billy imitated It, a b-oad smile hovering over his face, while he called Mr. Rodeheaver's attention to it. - - "Any cinnamon in it?" he demanded; "if there is I am going to have all that for myself." - The United Brethren delegation, 300 strong, presented Sunday with a huge basket of red roses. - "Red, just my color," declared Sunday. "And you know what I am going to do with them? I am going to send them right up to Mrs. Sunday a,t Winona Lake." v ; The Earlham college gronp of 250 after giving a cheer for Mr. Sunday 1 (Continued on Next Page)
going to bake." Did you ever see a, I