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The text: "For the preaching of the cross Is- to them that perish, foolishness, but to us which are saved it is the power of God." First Corinthians, 1st chapter, 18th verse. "Power" was the theme of Rev. W. A. Sunday's discourse Friday night, In which he said: Man has always been looking and striving after cower. Th world wasi not very old before h noticed th ' strength of the ox, and he coveted it! and he cauarht it nnd Tib voVp1 it and!

he trained It He made "it carry his'Pusn a little instrument and make burdens and nlow Ms fields nnil dn I thoughts go over the wire? It can't

burdens and plow his fields and do his labor. Man went on finding power here and there and appropriating it to himself and benefitine bv its labor. That is why the world has grown. That 13 1 why we are not ploughing today with a forked stick, like they did in the days of Abraham. That I3 why the world is full of knowledge and inventions and progress. Man discovered that the horse could run faster than he, and he coveted the horse, and he caught it and bridled it, saddled it harnessed it, and he made it draw bis wagon and plough hi3 fields and become the most useful beast , of burden in all the world. Man, the weakest thing, who was ambitious to become the strongest, led I to the Invention of the sling, the bow, J the dart, the gun, the locomotive, the raiiroaa, tne battleship, the electric light, the telephone all that we have today. j Man saw that there was power to the current as he was swimming in the water, and se he bridled the river. He harnessed it. He made it turn hl3 mill-wheel; and that put his brain to incubating and he hatched out the battleship and our great steamers. Man Learned to Use Power Slowly Man was never content to remain weaker than he had to, but in spite of his lust after power, he learned very slowly. Man was slow and is Blow today to appropriate the good things that God gives him and make them work for him. I have no doubt but that it took ages to reach the first wagon wheel. It might have been known ages before they ever put it into practical use. Nearly every good thing that we couldn't get along without now was foolishness when it was first proposed. We built our present civilization around the electric light Instead of the tallow candle, and around the automobile instead of the ox-cart and around the motor boat instead of the birch canoe ; and we have reached our present station because of these developments. Man has always been looking for the best of it and he is today, for as long as the grass is green and as long as the birds sing and as long as water will geek its level, man will bite at a gold brick, and he will take a chance on a wheel of fortune. He is looking for the best of it If he thinks he can get three dollars for one, he is going to try for it always. Every power that we have today was foolishness at first. "The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness, but to us which are saved, it. is the power of God." Men Scoff at New Inventions Every power that we have today, that we couldn't get along without, was foolishness when it was first proposed. We know it is true in modern i times, and human nature ia the same In all ages. I am safe in assuming that It is true in the past and will be in the future. The people in the future will sneer and mock as we do when somebody proposes something that is as far in advance of what we have today as many things we have now are ahead of what we had a hundred years ago. The man who discovered them was sure to be put down as a fool and dreamer. I suppose the man who Invented the bow and arrow died without getting his tribe to benefit by It. When steam was discovered, it was a long time before they could get anybody to use It; and when it was proposed in the British parliament to build a railroad, a peer arose and opposed the proposition, saying that a man couldn't breathe going through the air at 15 miles an hour. Oh, you laugh at hi3 foolishness, but there are things that we believe today that will be just as foolish to the people that come after as such a thing was to that fellow. He said, "If we build this railroad the people will be asphyxiated by the gas from the coal as it comes out of the smokestack; and if a sheep gets within six hundred feet of the track with the train going 15 miles an hour. It will pull the wool off Its back; and the cinders from the train will kill all the grass along the track and the cattle won't have anything to eat." When they proposed the railroad, they said, "It can't be done." The same was true when they talked about electricity. I remember when I was in Iowa they were trying to get the community to install a plant. They said, "The idea of running anything over a wire and making a light burn It can't be clone." Telegraph Had Hard Time. It was a long time before they could introduce the telegraph, and it was the same with every good thing that came knocking at our door. .Then I am not surprised to find people fools about religion. They have been fool3 about the telegraph, the telephone, steam, about radium, about, electricity, and they are just as big fools about religion. You can't get the benefit that comes from religion. . A lot of you are sitting here to night In this twentieth century and you are big fools because I can't make you believe In religion. You are Just as big a fool as that fellow that stood up and opposed the railroad. I suppose It always will be and I suppose it is useless for me to spend my time and strength and your time In arguing the question. "The preaching of the cross Is to them-that perish, foolishness, but to ' us which are saved, it is the power of God." When Bell offered to sell the telephone for $100,000, they laughed at him and said, "You are crazy. There is no use ln arguing about it, you cant talk into a little instrument and have eomebody hear your voice over , a wire.

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mm a mmum: m And they laughed and mocked at BelL The idea of asking anybody to give $100,000 for that! Today we have got nearly forty million of them and they are worth hundreds of mil lions of dollars, and without the tel ephone, I will tell you, our business in this country would cease. They laughed at him, but what would we do without it today?

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telegraph for $60,000. They said ou re crazy: it isnt wortn ?t. You think you can sit down here and be done." What would we do today without the telegraph? Experience Is Best Teacher. Every good thing was foolishness when It was proposed, so I am not surprised to find you a fool and saying, "There is nothing in religion. Your grandfathers didn't believe in electric lights. Why, they didn't have sense enough to. Why, Thomas Edison now you will laugh at this says the day will come when we will not build houses out of wood. Lumber Is expensive; it will burn, and you have to carry insurance and you have to paint it It is getting scarce, takes so long for a tree to grow. It takes the lifetime of a man for a tree to get large enough to make wood, except the wicalvntus In California, which frrowa more rapidly than most any kind known, and is becoming very valuable for that reason. That's all right we will build them out of cement You won't have to carry Insurance. They will be cool in the summer, warm .in the winter. They will be easy to take care of. When you want to clean them, remove the furniture, turn the hose on in the garret and run it downj in the cellar. ! Years ago a young fellow walked into the office of old Cornelius Vanderbilt old Commodore Vanderbilt, and he said, "1 can 6top trains with air." Vanderbilt drove him out of his office thought he wa9 crazy. He said, "Get out of here with your nonsense." He wanted him to take stock and help finance it. The young fellow's name was George Westinghouse. Vanderbilt drove him out of the office. Forced Vanderbilt To Buy Airbrakes. A few years later the legislature of New York passed a bill making Vanderbilt put Westinghouse airbrakes on his trains. WTiat would we do without the Westinghouse airbrakes today? It wouldn't be possible to go at the speed our trains do today if it wasn't for them. They sneered at Westinghouse when he said he could stop a train with air, pump the air out of a tank and stop the train. They said, "It can't be done!." "The preaching of the cross ia to them that perish, foolishness." So all these things were foolishness, and I am not surprised to find that people think religion is foolish, too. The tabernacle is foolish, the churches are foolish, the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. are foolish, the Bible schools are foolish. What was foolishness yesterday Is power today. Thre it Is: What was foolishness yesterday is power today. Send a cablegram to Europe. What was foolishness yesterday is power today. Talk to your wife over the telephone, 500 mile3 away. WTiat was foolishness yesterday is power today. Get on a railroad tram here and get off in San Francisco. What was foolishness yesterday is power today. I said the first wagonwheel was all nonsense, but it became the pioneer that made traveling a mile a minute possible. Steam Had Its Handicaps. Steam was foolishness, but today steam is turning our wheels, driving our machinery, shooting our railroad trains over the country and our great steamships over the sea. Electricity was all foolishness,' but today it illuminates our homes, our public edifices, and we apply it in our mechanical pursuits. And these and a thousand other things were foolishness, because we were the fools, not the thing we condemned, so don't think religion Is wrong because you condemn it You are the fool. Religion is all right You are the fool. And all of these things became a power to us when we had sense enough to take hold of them In a way so that they could be a blessing to us. So it is with religion. All these things were waiting to do us good in the world. There is only a step between foolishness and power, and because you will not take that step ln a way that can be convincing to you, you are missing that power. Two young men, when they first put the trolley cars out, were crossing a bridge underneath which ran an interurban line. One of them said, "They say there I3 power enough in that little corner wire to kill a man if he takes hold of It" The other said, "That's nonsense." He reached over and grabbed hold of the wire, and fell a corpse, to the road below. Text Like Words of Judgment My text comes like the word of judgment and divides the world into just two classes. Oh, we divide rich and poor, black and white, learned and illiterate, native and foreign-born, but God divides the world into just two classes saved and lost That 13 all there 13 to the world so far as God Almighty looks upon it saved, lost What Is foolishness to an unsaved man Is power to a saved man. It Is foolishness to you because you have never put yourself In relationship to it so It can prove its power. It Is power to us, because we have submitted and we know from experience. Therefore, the one who has submitted to it knows, and I have never seen an infidel this side of hell whose opinion I will take In preference to that of a preacher or anybody else. One fellow says, "There is nothing to it." He hasn't tried it The other fellow says, "There Is something to it" He has tried it He has got sense; thi3 fellow has got none. And It is power of the highest order, too, because it is the power of God. If the Bible is nonsense and fool-

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ishness to you, you ought to bej alarmed. You are In more danger than the young man who was killed j by taking hold of a live wire. His! ignorance of electricity destroyed him, ; and you will perish If the Bible is no! more to you than any other book, and; if Jesus Christ is not more to you than j any other man, you are lost God pity j the peril pf your position! - Knowledge is' Great Power. Now, it Is impossible to be saved

and now not Jesus. There Is nojYoung Simpson discovered chloroform, salvation outside of Jesu3. It 13 im- or Doctor Miller, ether. , possible to have knowledge without Oh, think of the millinos that would

being learned. Latin' and Greek are all nonsense to the man that knows knows about It it is knowledge , and It is power. The finest music falls on unmusical ears, but to musical ears it is charming. I sing the same tune to all songs Yankee Doodle. They're all alike to me. Every time a man or woman stands up here to sing, or a quartet, I say to Rody, "I3 that good singing?" I don't know. And painting and sculpturing are nothing to the man or woman who knows nothing of art, but to the one who knows, it Is power, charm, beauty. All right So religion is a power to you, because you know from experience. It is nothing to you because you don t know, so you are wrong. The religion of Jesus Christ proves that it Is the power of God by what, it does now. It saves from the guilt;

of sin now It l3 the only power in;have got to have a start; then 'it . will

the world that can or does or ever; will. PVi Vonvfaa4 Vn.fliinn . 41... are the burdens of guilt. Nothing; crushes like the consciousness of! wrong. One look at the Cross byj faith in Jesu3 Christ and it dissolves j v iUiuvuj in. ttic t v yji i v. i like ice In a summer sea, and your sorrows turn Into joy, "For the preaching of the Cross la to them that perish, foolishness, I but to us which are saved it i3 the power of God." It says, "Believe on the Lord Jesu3 Christ and thou shalt be saved." What does it mean to believe in

Jesus? It is not the same thing asiw" UBS..S!iat. y.? haJ,e. Stai out

believing in Charlesmagne or Napo-i leon like they used to or as Caesar believed in Cleopatra, the high priestess of sensuality and lust Oh, no! forget it!

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magnificent boat covered with pur-ltnd as a hard time of it. It gets pie silk, clothed In sunshine and cli- fa"f. do' fa up on it goes, mate, and she put Caesar and Mark'." USV the strength it has, and pretty

Anthony out of business; almost wrecked the destinies of the worldFools! Fools! Now, what does It mean to believe in a surgeon in order to get the ben-

em of his skill? You believe in himi?e UP stumble Set up and go on.

because you have heard that he is a good surgeon, or you have seen his advertisement or you know him. It means to have confidence or trust When he says that an operation is needed, you believe him and you go on the operating table and go under his power. bankT It means to TbeHeve in it and ! tmst it , ,wt, on mQt-o m,,, What aoes it mean to Deneve in a deposit in it Mission of Jesus Was to Save. N What was the mission of Jesus Christ in this world? God did not 3J2i demn. The world was condemned before Jesus was born, I didn't come ZV wwn-,? tT'L:eultler her corporate limits. I have come to tell you the way of escape. Jesus came not to condemn the world; He came to save it I have come to tell you the way Out of your sins. - them that perish, foolishness, but to us power which are saved it is the power of God" Listen! You get the benefit of any power by obeying its law. Oh, susfs! Obey the laws of water and it will wash your face, slake your thirst. There is some water there. It says "I can slake your thirst." I say, "I don't believe it." "Give me a chance and I will show you." I would be a fool to stand there and argue with the water without giving it a chance. Do the same thing with religion. The most common sense thing in the world is religion. Prove it. It will .J : ! t n i wa 1 i .U-.K.tf.A

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run your mill, irrigate your field, put out your fire, flow in your house. Obey the law of steam run your trains, run your battleships, run your engines. Obey the law of electricty illuminate your home. Obey the law of gasoline drive your automobile. God Wants You To Give It Chance Just give it a chance, that is all God wants you to do in the world. You get the benefit ' of any force by obeying its command. Now do the same in religion. Follow this rule and you will find that the Bible came from God and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The only way to find out If a seed will grow is to plant it; give it a chance to grow. Plant it. The power of religion can be tested in the same way that you can test the seed. Tho way to find out whether or not a railroad ticket is good' is to get on the train, give it to the conductor, and if he punches It Instead of you, it Is good. A man says to me, "You have never been born." I say, "You are too late. I don't need any argument to prove that I was born. I wouldn't be here if I hadn't been born." All right! I was no more truly born of mother than I was born of the Spirit of God: so I had a spiritual birth and I had a physical birth. Here I am. You don't need any argument about that. If I hadn't a spiritual birth I would have been dead, a drunkard, long ago for all I know. Something has kept me and saved me for 30 years. You are a fool If you argue against either physical or spiritual birth. The Bible says, "If you have a will to know you will know." ' That is something that any skeptic or any Infidel can try. There is a promise that any scientist can try out if he is honest Science Must . Have Chance ' All the science In the world would have been lost if we had not been willing to give it a chance to prove It. We would know nothing of electricity, we would know nothing of steam, we would know nothing of chloroform I think one of the greatest benefits the human race ever received is chloroform. If a man said to me, "What do you think is one of the greatest benefits that has ever

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STATISTICS Friday Afternoon Attendance 1,000 Collection $64.66 Friday Evening Attendance 5,000 Collection (not including pledges) $292.05 Trail hitters 78 come to the human race through Invention or through discovery?" I think be in their graves if it hadn't been for the discovery of chloroform or ether. They couldn't stand what they can today. It Just keeps people alive. Just give It a chance, that Is all it wants. God asks the same thing, no matter whom you may be. Now, all the science in this world would have been lost if we had been unwilling to prove it, give It a chance and try it. If you do nothing, you get nothing, and you get no more than you deserve, not a particle. I It is necessary to learn the alphai bet of religion. There is an alpha bet in knowledge. That is the reason you - start your children in the kindergarten. That is the beginning of knowledge. You don't think of starting them in a university or college. That is the wind-up. There Is a beginning in knowledge, and there is an A B C in religion, too. Then in the name of God, have sense miD,v an W1 w,t1 Ann ln reiigion like you did with the ABC tT,m-iB0 Tf oart in vm, prove and develop as your wind de velops. "f 1 rrovco Value of Discovery How yon learn that ice would freeze? By experiment How did we . , learn that fire would; burn? By experiment. How did we learn that strychnine would kill?' By experimenting with it. How did we learn that Jesus would save? By experiment We gave Him a chance, that is alL So, therefore, you get more if you "1LU ' , now. ijse that and God will give you more. Start out like a little child does when it starts to walk. Its legs are soon its got more, and it. seldom fails. That's the way with religion. Start out. You may be weak, and you may stumble and fall. Old appetites will come back to you. You will stumbleniicr a wnue you win get so strong you can give the the Hal Ha! "Steam and electricity have prov en 10,000 times more than we thought they would. .They were a long time doing it, but It wasn't their fault. The delay was caused by our ignorance. Jesus Christ has been a long time in convincing some of you fellows that He has power It isn't His fault; is your fault, because you wont put yourself in a relationship so that God can show you that He can save you and keep you. "Christianity can prove itself to Just the same as electricity or steam or strychninle or morphine. All it wants a chance. That is all just give it , a chance fooMshnessrbut to which are saved, it is the power of The preaching of the cross 13 to God God Will Let Us Discover Secrets If we were not so dull, God would make us all rich. I believe that somewhere there is growing herbs that .IP1! C1 Ter? dlsease. to which i flesh is heir. I do not believe there is a disease that curses humanity but that somewhere grows an herb that will cure it; somewhere it does. They found out what causes yellow fever. They thought it was by contamination with bodies. They proved that it wasn't so. They found out that it came from a mosquito bite; and when you write the history of it, you will have to build big monuments to Doctor Reid and Doctor Carroll, and the other brave men who allowed themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes that he had bitten others who had died from it. They themselves were stricken within two days and eight hours. Today, the world will ; an mre So we found that all out demon strated it; but somewhere there Is growing an herb that will cure consumption, that will cure cancer. Somewhere there is an herb that will cure everything, and it Is there now. The only trouble Is that we have not got sense enough to know it, but the weed is there and the power Is there. So it is true with everything in the world. All power can demonstrate itself, and the power from the Cross can do the same thing. It will do it if rou will put yourself in the right relationship to it. One spark of fire can do more to convince you of the power of powder than a whole library of books written on the subject. Culture Has Done Absolutely Nothing. All right, I eay to the infidel, "Culture, what have you done? Show me what you have done to save the world." And then I hold up the hand of Jesus Christ and I read the name of my wife and mother upon the hand of Jesus Christ. We are what we are by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, and I put myself in the care of the Lord, who has never lost anyone who ha3 ever trusted Him yet and so I believe that I trust in Him absolutely. So I cross them all out and I say, "It is the power of God thrft will make a drunkard sober, tame the tiger in a man, make a cursing, blaspheming man pray, send a girl weeping home with the tears of repentance on her cheek3 for having sold her womanhood." If you or I had said 100 years ago that there was power enough tumbling and rolling over the rocky declivity of Niagara to turn all the wheels and spindles of all the ma - chinery, and light of the streets and drive all the cars and cook the meals and carry everybody upstairs and downstairs, all the people that live in New York, they would have said we were fools; but that didn't do away with the fact that the power was there. The people were the fools, not the power. The power was waiting for them to readjust themselves So it could prove its strength. The power tumpled over there just the same ?before they ever harnessed it Just as much P5?? yeqt QYer there Jy6

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as is going over there now. trouble was, we didn't know it The power was there, all right, all the time, and the power that will save a man is right by yon Just the same, and it will do it if you will put yourself in the right relationship; to it So you can't stop religion by mak ing fun of it AH any power want3 Is just a chance to show you. Here Is a little bottle with a Uttlo white powder in it I say, "What are you?" "I am morphine." "What caa you do?" T can put you to sleep." "I don't believe it I'm from Missouri." - "Well," the morphine says, "let me .try." "I don't believe a word you say." "Well, dont condemn me before you let me try." "All right" So the fellow put It on his lips It puts you to Bleep. I picked up a little powder, littlo scintillating crystals, I say, "What are you?" "I am strychnine.1 "What can you do?" 1 ! "I can kill you." "" "I don't believe you." "Have you ever tried me?" "No, sir." "All I ask is a chance to show you; a chance to prove it. Any power can demonstrate Itself." "So you take a little powder and you put it on your tongue., "Hellow, Is this-Central? Tell the undertaker to come up." Condemnation you dont need to go up to prison to preach condem nation. Every fellow there knows he is condemned. What he wants is a ray of hope, how he can get out Sinner Needs to Hear Word of Christ That Is the way with every sinner on earth. You are already con demned. What you need is to hear how you can get out escape. "For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish, foolishness, but to us which are saved, it ia the pow er of God." A surgeon can do me no good ii I am unwilling to trust myself to his skill. A banker can do me no good if I am unwilling to trust him with my money. Jesus Christ can do me no good if I am unwilling to let him save me. Sin put you out of harmony with God. You are lost, and you must let Jesus Christ save you. He bore our sins In His own body on the Cross. God picked up my Iniquity and put It over on Jesus; then I have to accept the one that became my surety, my bond. He took my place. You say, "I would, but I don't understand it." Then don't be a fooL Don't refuse to trust Him because you can't understand. I have been a Christian for 30 years and I don't understand it, but I am following all the light I have now, and I have more light now than I had 30 years ago when I commenced, and I expect to have more light when I die than I have got now, but I am living up to all I have got now. Your understanding has nothing to do with It You don't need to under stand about electricity before you send a telegram. Certainly not! You don't need to understand about electricity before you telephone for a doctor, before you turn the button to flood vour room with light. Your knowledge has nothing to do with it absolutely nothing to do with it at all. Christ Delivers From Sin. When we put our faith In Jesus Christ, we are delivered from the power of sin. Man needs', deliverance from the power of sin as well as the guilt When a man accepts Jesus Christ, when he accepts Jesus Christ as hi3 Savior, he is delivered from the guilt of 6in. He is no longer guilty but if the Bible could do no more than that it wouldn't help him very much. He is not only de livered from the guilt of sin, but from the power of sin. God not only saves a man from the guilt, but Ho saves him from the power of sin; and if I wasn't saved from the power of sin, I would keep on falling into sin. God has not only taken away the guilt of my sins, but He has released me from the power of sin. You Insulate a man properly and you can turn all the electricity in this city against him and it won't singe a hair. Why? It" has no power over him If he is properly insul ated. What about the Cross of Jesus Christ? Oh, the Cross of Jesua Christ is the greatest power in all the world! The Cross of Jesus! Why are you here tonight? Because I announced that I would preach as much as I know about the Cross. Missionaries have gone to the corners of the earth and they have held up the bleeding form of Jesus Christ. The Bible has been translated into 500 languages and dialects. Over 200,000,000 copies of it have been distributed throughout the world, and it runs through and through like the scarlet through the British cordage. GAMES (Continued from preceding page) hard I would not have had them on. I went in and was having -lots of fun and I got to the edge of this sand bar and T slid off into deep water and I couldn't swim and I remembered hearing people say, "If a boy was drowning he'd remember all the mean things he ever did." I remembered one time I got Into a fight with a boy and I scratched j his face and I opened my mouth to ; holler and the water ran in. I re-' membered hearing them say, when a boy was drowning he would go up and down three times. I went up and down three times and my feet touched the bottom and I came up the fourth time and a man was iymg out on tne DanK asleep and he just raised up a3 ha ; &aw my hands and head going under the fourth time and he hollered and said, "Willie is drowning." The men came rushing down and they plunged from the bank and they found me lying on the bottom and they took me out and stood me on my head, worked my arms up and down, they rubbed my body and pretty soon I opened my eyes and said, "O, I want to go home to my mama," and they started with me and I said, "Oh! I am sick in my stomach, Ba-ha!-Ba-ha! Ba-ha!" And I spurted water like a. whale. Idj jiawas ouXcajllng m and

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Worker to Speak Here C. W. Brubaker, of Dayton, head of the state children's work In Ohio, will be one of the principal speakers at the Wayne county Sunday school convention Saturday, May 6, at the tabernacle. Mr. Brubaker Is known in Richmond, having appeared on the Chautauqua platform here. I heard her say, "O Willie! O Willie!" And when she saw me all pale hair wet, and all fagged out Oh she rushed up and kissed me and took me into the house, put me in bed put a mustard plaster on my lungs. If she'd taken her slipper off and plastered me somewhere else, it would have been good. Satan Caused Him To Run Away. What made me run away. I had ; the devil in me. That made such an J impression on my life that I was a good boy, of, maybe for two weeks See? There were many that would say, "Willie won't mind his mama keep away. He won't mind his mama, if you go with him, you won't mind your mama." You don't want to do that That is why we have Sunday school to tell you to mind. Go to Sunday school! Go to church! Learn to be good. What is the white flag? Purity,

trust Two armies fighting, waved j as ne Deamea ana laugnea at nis own the white flag, that means surrender, story, the audience chuckled. Want to. give It up. Years ago T Mother's Music Sweet, pulled down these two flags and said, I At another time, in telling of the "I am not a gonna fight any more. Power and sweetness of a mother's Jesus, I surrender, I give up, I wantismne. he imitated in shrill falseto. the

to be a Christian. So I am surrendering this flag to you." Years ago I pulled them down and ran this one up and I have nothing to do with the red or yellow one any more. That means, "Give up, I want to do right" There is the black one, what does e DiacK one, won uuesi that mean? Death. Every boy and girl here, all the hundreds of millions ,' , .u ttsj 0 n ut.iicuiixo m uiu umtcu sM.ai.co, oiij. the one billion, four hundred million in the world have to come under that black one. When the black one comes, if we have the red and yellow one up we are lost but if we are under the white one we will be saved because we will all be Christians, we have sur rendered, going to do right and serve the Lord and keep his commandments. 78 HIT (Continued from preceding page) and singing a song, presented him with a baseball, signed by the members oi the Earlham team. Rev. Anderson of Springport offered the opening prayer. "Oh, Lord, I am tired," began Mr. Sunday, in his closing prayer. "But I am not tired of working for thee, but wouldn't it be a fine thing if this Earlham bunch, and the delegations from the United Brethren and the Christian churches, could come forward and give me their hand in a renewal of their Christian life." For a time no one moved. Xets stand up everybody," cried Mr. Sunday motioning with his hands. "Come on, Earlham; come on, Christians," he cried. Then a woman, all alone walked down the right aisle, past the secre taries to the front of the pit where Mr. Sunday shakes hands and after her came others, until over 80 had passed by and shaken hands. Of these 78 signed cards renewing their faith.

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SERMON ON SALE Sunday's sermon on "Mothers" is one of the two that he has published. Albert Peterson has unboxed a few of the printed copies of the sermon, and has them available in case any person wants to buy a copy. The sermon is printed in pamphlet form. KNOWS GERALDINE FARRAR "I knew Geraldine Farrar when she was in the candy sucking age," declared Billy Sunday during his sermon, Friday afternoon. "Her daddy played ball on the Philadelphia team, and I used to hold her on my lap." LISTENS TO SERMON One old lady in a wheeled chair listened to Mr. Sunday's sermon cn "Mothers," Friday afternoon. Her chair was wheeled into the aside to one side. LARGE AUDIENCE With an attendance of 1,000 Friday afternoon was the largest meeting of the week day afternoons so far. The circus did not cut down the audience. NO RESERVATIONS "We are going to open the seats at he tabernacle to the first comers on Saturday night," said Bob Matthews, secretary to Mr. Sunday, "so that the best seats can be had by the general public. Wo have had several complaints from persons not belonging to any special delegations, that they have not been able to get the better seats," he said, "so on Saturday night there are not to be any resarvations of any kind." U. B. SINGERS The United Brethren ministers Quartet from Dayton furnished music for the tabernacle Friday night The quar Spartanburg. SPARTANBURG, Ind Mr. and Mrs. John Hill of Red Key are spending the week with their daughter, Mrs. John Crist and family. Mr. and Mrs. j Hill have purchased a home in this town which is now being prepared for them. . . .Miss Edna Banta returned to her home in Brooksburg Tuesday after spending the winter with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wiggs, with whom she stayed while teaching in our high school. .. .Miss Pauline Carper spent Friday night with Mrs. Laura Mann. Miss Dorothy Cox and Miss Ruth Thorn spent Friday night with Miss Elizabeth Wise Orville Bowen returned to liis home in Chester Monday after boarding for some time with his brother, Harry Bowen and family while attending school here.... Misses Ruth and Christina Middleton are spending the week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Middleton. ....The Junior class of Spartanburg high school held a market at the People's Loan and Trust bank in Richmond Saturday. The class went to Glen MilleT park for dinner. Those who represented the class were Misses Dorothy Cox, Ruth Thorn, Elizabeth Wise, Fern Lacey, Geneva Burk

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Declaring that a real mother has her name on God's payroll. Rev. Billy Sunday preached on the duties and blessings of motherhood to his largest afternoon week day audience at the tabernacle Friday afternoon. "God pays a mother as no other one in the world," he declared, "but if the mothers of the land fail us." "If every cradle was rocked by a good mother the devil would go out of business," he eaid. Then turning suddenly at his audience, he exclayned, "Put that in your empty heads." As is usual at the afternoon sermons, Mr. Sunday was in a jovil mood more often than in a fighting one. Wonders About It "Nuts!" he declared to his audience, as he told of the man who spent two years engraving the 10 commandments on a dime, "What good did it do him." As the audience tittered, he added, "I think Shakespeare was thinking of this generation, when he said what he did about fools." Again he described the mother who tried to rear her children along eugenic principles, and had set feeding times, and followed fads, and fancies. He told flippently of the "two-minutes past-three feeding hour, and then no more attention until five six" and thrill of an opera singer, and his au dience laughed heartily. "Parti, Geraldine Farrar, all of then," he declared suddenly serious, cannot equal the music of the real mother's heart, when she sings to her child." Then leanine over the edee of the

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IZZ'a tt V intT - .J1 One of the blackest things about hell fh . th h -,n mother's love L.V JTIS!w!.r, 8 love Turning his attention to the people that "follow the isms and cisms" of religion, Mr. Sunday started marching around the platform whistling and snaping his fingers-, in imitation of a man calling a dog. Ridicules Some. "That," he declared, "is the way with most people, like the puppy, they follow any one who whistles and snapes their fingers." Sunday denounced the mother who did not teach her children in the home, so that when it was grown, it would follow in the way of the Lord. He denounced the father that by his example set at nought the teachings that the mother was trying to instill in the child, and he paid a high tribute to the mother who brought up her child, in the way he should go. "There is more power in a" mother's hand than in a ruler's sceptre," he declared. Baby Disturbs. Once during the sermon Mr. Sunday was disturbed by a baby crying. As the mother was leaving the tabernacle, Mr. Sunday said: "I can't understand the mental process. We have a nursery for them where they will be taken cafe of. They can't enjoy the sermon, and they spoil it for the mother. We cannot have them in the meeting." On request Mr. Rodeheaver and MrsAsher again sang the "Old Rugged Cross," and the audience joined in the singing of "Abide wVi Me," and "How Firm a Foundation" vhich had been asked for by different persons. tet is headed by Rev. Upson, who is connected with Mr. Rqdeheaver's school in Winona Lake. COLLECTIONS The total collections in both 'cash and pledges total about10,000. CALLS HIM Billy Sunday had just begun his sermon, when a minister moved his chair, making it squeak. Sunday turned around, located the cause of the noise, looked all over the chorus, and the special sections, and then said, "All set now so we can go on?" IMITATES BOY "When I was In school I could learn the pieces off first few time, but when the teacher called out 'Recitation by Willie Sunday I would forget every word." Mr. Sunday demonstrated how a stage frightened boy acted, and rubbed one foot against the calf of the other leg. "Then the boys would laugh," he said, "But after school I would lick the tar out of them." hardt, Virginia Scott, Dean Lewis and Herman Scott Mrs. Clarence Brinkley of Fountain City and her mother, Mrs. T. C. Hough, assisted in the market Miss Geneva Burkhardt spent Friday night with Miss Virginia Scott... Miss Ruth Thorn, of Lynn, spent the week-end with Miss Elizabeth Wise, of Crete.... Mr. and Mrs. Noral Anderson and children, Katherine and Carl Edwin, were visiting relatives In Lynn Sunday afternoon.... Rev. M. R. Scott and son, Herman, and George Comer attended the Billy Sunday meeting at the tabernacle Wednesday afternoon.... Miss Dana Wise started her course in music teaching in this community Wedncfcay. Miss Wise has taught in this community for tho last two summers and certainly ha3 given great satisfaction. . . . - Mr. and Mrs. Howard Maxwell and eon, Rob ert, of Farmland, attended the commencement exercises at the Christian church last Saturday evening. The speaker for the evening was Edward Lewellyn, of Newcastle, who delivered an excellent address. The high school orchestra furnished the music They certainly are to be commended, as they have only been members of the orchestra during the past winter. Miss Dana Wise and Clayton Hunt directed the orchestra Miss Geneva Burkhardt and Miss Virginia Scott attended senior class night exereises at the Lynn Christian church Tuesday evening. The exercises were enjoyed by all present Rev, Scott was called to Seymour last week to preach the funeral of Mrs. Charles Coombs, -wife of one of the leading merchants of Seymour

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