Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 104, 2 May 1922 — Page 7

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HOW SUNDAY TRAINS BODY FOR REVIVAL

Always in Perfect Trim, Due to Watchfulness and Proper

Food Evangelist Sleeps

Very Little.

CAREFUL OF VOICE

"Lord, Teach Us to Pray," Not To Talk About Oar Neighbors, Begs Sunday in Stirring Appeal The Only Time Some Pray is in a Calamity or When Death Threatens, But That isXowardly, Says Rev. W. A. Sunday, as He Points Out that Prayer is Second Nature to a Devout Christian. ,

The text: "Lord, teach us to pray" (not to talk about our neighbors). Luke 11th chapter, 1st verse.

Speaking on "Prayer," Rev. W. A. Sunday Tuesday afternoon said: "Lord, teach us to pray," not to live without it. "Lord, teach us to pray!" We live physically by exercise. That's the reason we have gymnasiums. That's the reason we have rescuers. That's the reason we have many ways to develop our cities. That's the reason we have schools and colleges to develop us intellectually. Therefore, that is the reason why God has Y. W.s and churches, in order to develop our spiritual side. We have got a spiritual nature as well a3 an Intellectual, and so don't live with

out developing both. A well-rounded

man or woman is one to take care of

his mind and body and soul. "Lord, teach us to pray." We are

taught to live, taught to eat, what not

to eat, and If you find out that some

thing you are eating doesn't agree with you, why, you are a fool to eat it and you won't. So, that's the way you carefor your body. You feed It three times a day, you warm It when it is cold, you cool It when it Is warm, you send for the doctor when you are sick, you give it medicine. That is the way you care for your body. But what about your soul!" Some of you haven't read the Bible. Some of you haven't prayed.

Some of you haven't done the things

Watched over and cared for like a star athlete, his health and vigor as carefully conserved as ever it was in the days when he could do a hundred

in :10 flat and circle the bases from a standing start in :14 even, Billy Sunday is today at 59 in almost perfect trim. "I can go five rounds so fast you can't see me for dust, and I could do the hundred in right around eleven now with just a little training," Sunday said. And his actions on the platform indicate that he is not far wrong in his estimates. Asked how he kept his health in

such perfect shape, so that he never has had to miss a series of meetings, Mr. Sunday replied he bad learned how to take care of himself when he was playing baseball, and put those things into practice while on his tours In evangelical work. Watched Over Carefully Every night right after the evening sermon, Mr. Sunday hurries down to the room on the south side of the tabernacle, marked private.. When the days are cool, Albert Peterson, custodian of the tabernacle, has had two electrical heaters going all afternoon, so that the room will be warm, and there on a specially built couch

Billy Sunday is given as severe ana that take care of and feed your soul thorough a rubdown as ever any ath- and build you up spiritually. Prayer is lete received. a great privilege. It is as much of a In his college days, Pete Peterson privilege to pray as it is to eat when was a star halfback on his college you are hungry, or breathe or drink

Beautiful Winona Where Billy Sunday Spends His Day of Rest

team, and his five years with Sunday have not decreased his knowledge of

how a good rubbing should be done. Stripped to the skin, his pores dripping from the exertion of the evening sermon, Eilly first is given a massage. Then he is rubbed with a special ointment which is composed of olive oil, wltchhazel, wintergreen, oil of eucalyptus, traces of camphor and a solvent of alcohol. Emerges In Fit Shape Mr. Sunday then emerges from his "dressing room" as fresh and revived as If he had not been through the strenuous exercise of an evening sermon. " - In the afternoon, when Mr. Sunday displays more of his humor and preaches a less strenuous message, the massage and rubdown are omitted from the list. Always before and after his evening sermon, Mr. Sunday goes to bed to relax. But. while Mr. Sunday spends a

great portion of his resting time in bed relaxed, he does not sleep. Very often he does not go to sleep before midnight or 1 o'clock in the morning, but spends the waking hours reading and adding to his already great store

of knowledge. Tremendous Energy Like many nervously active men, Mr. Sunday is cleancut physically, without the faintest suggestion of fat on his whole body. "I am always tired," he told his Richmond audience one night, "for no one can work as hard as I do and not be tired." But tired or not, when once worked up to a climax, his nervous energy is sufficient to carry him over to a spectacular finish. It is for that reason that he concentrates on his sermons, providing an extensive organization to do the other multitude of things that are a part of the successful revival campaign. He saves his entire store of energy for his platform efforts. What he eats Is a matter of real concern to Mr. Sunday, for he takes

no chances or eating anytmng tnai

water when you are thirsty, or have

the privilege of warming yourself when you are cold. Prayer Is Source of Blessing "Lord, teach us to pray." A wonderful privilege that God gives us all this! t you are a stranger to prayer, I pity you, for you are strangers to the source of the greatest blessing that comes to humanity. The greatest blessing that comes to humanity is not in being able to eat what you want or buy the most sensible clothes. The greatest benediction that comes to humanity comes through faith In God and through the spiritual being.

So the Lord wants you to be the best, and if you haven't had that you have not had the best yet. You may not have to ask the price of anything you buy, if you want It, but you have missed the greatest blessing if you have missed the Lord. When I pray I think as God thinks. Some say I don't need to pray. Thev might as well say, "You don't

need anything to eat,

well say. "You don't need to drink

water." Try It and seel We will put it to the test and see how you get

along. You won't get along any better

physically . than ycu

ye abide in me" not gossip, not doc

trine, 'if ye abide in me," not creed "If you abide in me, the living, reigning Christ and my words abide In you, then you who abide in me and

in whom my words abide shall ask what you will and it shall be done because you abide In me and my

woras abide in you.

See the inseparable connection, men and women? "If ye abide in me,

It shall be done unto you.1

.In Jame3 IV, I read, "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss

that ye may consume it upon you:

lusts," or vice versa your measures

are your lusts.

Don't pray any man or woman to

come and simply be saved and let the world go to the devil. God asks you to come and be saved and then

go out and try to help save somebody else. That is what God wants you to do. He don't ask you to come and be saved alone. If he asked me to come and be simply saved, I'd go and let you go to thunder, but he asked me to be saved and then come and try and help bring you to Christ. That is the plan of salvation. So, "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Isaiah LIX: I, 'Behold, the Lord's

hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your sins have separated , between you and your God, and your tins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear you." God Had Provided -Plan of Salvation. Now, If you want to be saved and God hasn't provided salvation, blame

God, but when God has provided sal

vation and you are lost, blame yourself. If you had wanted food and God

hadn't provided it, blame the Lord, but when God has provided it and you are too lazy to eat It, blamo yourself! "The Lord's hand is not shortened that he cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that he cannot hear." If you wanted to be saved and God couldn't save you. then the Lord wouldn't have saved you, but if the. Lord has provided salvation and you are not saved, you are then to blame. "The Lord's hand is -not shortened that he cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that he cannot

hear, but your sins have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear."

So, therefore, the prayer you can'

offer Is, "God be merciful to me, a sinner.'' That la the prayer for a sinner to offer. Then pray for bless

ings and they will come to you, but;

don't pray God to bless you wnen

You might asy0U don't do your part. Then he

won't do It, and you win go oui ana blame the Lord! Here is another verse, "Son of man. these men have set up their idols in

will spiritually i thpir hearts."

Some people have the Idol of pnae.

SUNDAY SEEKS REPOSE It! HIS WINONA HOffi

That's Where He will Retire, When He Quits Fighting the Devil Is Patron Saint of v the Town.

Upper Tabernacle at Winona. Middle The lake snapped from an airplane, Lower Left Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sunday. , Lower Right Mr. Sunday's Cottage.

?S A Y

01 r it o I

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without prayer,

"All things whatsoever you shall i the idol of intellectuality, the idol of

ask in prayer" (believing) "ye- shall

receive." The Lord says, "I know you need It, but there is no way to get it if you don't ask me for it." God says to the sinner, "I know you need salvation, but if you don't think you need It bad enough to ask for It, you can't have It." The Lord says, "I know all these things now and I will be Inquired of by the house of Israel to do this for them." While the Lord need3 It. yet he says, "I'd like to have you come and talk with me about it. If you want me to do it, talk it over and it shall be given you." And other people say, "Well, I

will disagree with him and unfit him j don't : get what I pray for!" for his work. He trains as faithfully j on ,ame God

the year around as any athlete, al

though he allows himself a little more latitude than do some of them during the peak of their training. Milk Is Favorite Drink A very little coffee at breakfast, and once in a while some tea, are permitted, but his favorite drink is milk, half milk and half cream. Very often after a sermon, and before he goes to sleep, Sunday will have Pete bring up to his room a glass of milk and perhaps a cracker. On those occasions when the rest of the male members of the party have come to his room for a short conference on the work of the day to come, he will sip the milk, and answer the comments of his workers in short, crisp monosylables or In short brisk sentences.

On several occasions while in Rich- remarkable verses in the Bible

For Failure

All right, that may be true, but don't blame God, don't blame the Lord. If you didn't incline to do it.

I ask you to stop, that isn't a fair

thing, it isn't womanly, don't blame God. You might as well refuse to

eat, then blame God because you starve to death. You might as well go out here and jump In the river, then blame God if you drown. God made a fish for the water. If a fish tries to live on land It will dlo. Keep it in your element and it wilf die.

I don't blame the Lord. Now

money, the idol of clothes. These men have set up their idols In their hearts. . That is one reason why God won't hear you, something else has got the right-of-way instead of the Lord. Proverbs "Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard." Some People Are Too Stingy. Some people are too stingy. Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, heaping up, running over, shall be given to you. All right that is true! Mark, "And when you stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any; that your Father also which is In heaven may forgive you, your trespasses." ."Vj That may be one reason why Goa

doesn't hear you, because of the unforgiving spirit that you carry in your heart and in your life. And prayer, my friends, brings us near to God. It is a great privilege to say "Lord, teach us to pray." A friend of mine was taken ill and he had to go to Chicago for an operation and asked me to come out and preach during his absence and I did. Mr. Alexander, who led the singing, had been leading the singing in a great big tent and he called a little riri tn the nlatform to sing. I don't

It is as much of a privilege to pray as it Is to eat when you are hungry, or breathe, or drink water when you

are thirsty, or have the privilege of warming yourself when you are cold. The greatest benediction that comes to humanity comes through faith in God and through the spiritual being. Some say I don't v need to pray. They might as well say, "You don't need anything to eat." God made a fish for the water. If a fish tries to live on land It will die. Keep it in your element and It will die. God asks you to be saved and then go out and try to save some one else. If you want to be saved and God hasn't provided salvation, blame God, but when God has provided salvation and you are lost, blame yourself.

the other end and sat down and listened to the little girl. She sam? with such sweetness of voice and sim

plicity that it got tangled up in Patti'sl!

heart strings and the tears tricKiea; down her cheeks and she bounded, across the room and put her armsi around the little girl and carried herj back to where she had. been sitting;

and then she said: "Honey, you sit here and listen to

me and let me sing for you, you have been kind enough to sing for me." ' j Then Patti walked to where thei little girl had been and put her' arms behind her back and sang; "The Last Rose of Summer" and j "Home Sweet Home." If you'd heard i her on a program it would have cost just two thousand dollars a song and;

5he always knew how many 6ongs she was going to sing before she walked on the stage, for she had her money before she'd sing. It will always be an epoch in the life of that little girl that she had the privilege of sitting at the feet of Patti and listening to the world's song-bird singing. Won

derful! A friend of mine told me that he heard Paganini play a violin, and he played with such marvelous power and vim that one string in the violin snapped and still he played without

i discord such music thatx the audience

there is a reason! You say, "I don't 'think she was over eight, a beautiful

mond Mr. Sunday has said that he did

not like hotel fare and much preferred home life and home cooking. "All hotel food tastes alike to me," he has said. Favorite Food What Mr. Sunday does like is plain but wholesome food, such as most homes have. Mashed potatoes, boiled beef, codfish, dried beef, cooked tomatoes, apple pie with nutmeg and cinnamon on it, milk and a little coffee are the things he eats most of the time when he can get them. The applie pie, with cinnamon sprinkled over the top, is one of his real favorites. Since several of Mr. Sunday's family have had tuberculosis, he i3 very careful of his lungs. He does take cold rather easily while traveling on trains, but otherwise, because of his active life, has had no trouble. To one used to speaking to a multitude, in such a large building, it i3 easily noticeable that Mr. Sunday takp everv nrecaution In savinz his

voice while still speaking loud enough j

to be heard over the entire building. The huge sounding board over his head which throws the, sound waves (Continued on Next Page)

get what I pray for." In John XV I read, "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and It shall be done unto you. I regard that as one of the most

If

"no-

littio iriri. and I said to myseir,

body can hear that little girl 50 feet from the platform!" But she sang with such sweetness and wonderfulness that it penetrated that great tent and I saw scores of

The only time some pray is when a

liCL.lCLlli.il. V WJLLltO Ul V liii J . C L it , . - , , . . U-.J nr mem W nf their familv. nerhaos. 1 swayed to their feet and they cheered

m t0 t.'t rovr frr- t, ,.,?i . and cheered and cheered

rtrpn Kitting armmrf them until thev' Oh, what a privilege to sit at the

TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON

Sunday Revival Program TUESDAY 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Delegations from Greenville, Ohio, Pennsy shops, Victoria Bible class. 7:30 p. m. Student nurses at Reid Memorial hospital ; Mrs. Asher, leader. WEDNESDAY 11:00 a. m. Morton high school girls; Miss Kinney, leader. 11:00 a. m. Morton high school boys; Mr. Rodeheaver, leader. Noon Business women's lunch, Reid Memorial church. Noon Sunday speaks at the Pennsy shops. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon; Richmond district M. E. church delegates present. 2 :30 p. m. Business women's invitation committee, Reid Memorial church. 3 :30 p. m. Bible class ; Miss Kinney, leader. 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon; Friends and Lutherans attend in body.

feet of Paganini; or what a privilege to sit at the feet of Patti! But Jesus Chrfcst said, "you can sit here and let me teach you." Jesus Taught Us To Pray. God Almighty has got to beg you to get on your knees. Lord, teach us, we are pupils! We don't know! Lead us, we want knowledge! How are you going to get it? Sit down

If a man lives in sin, or a woman, ! here and let me tell you.'

you can tell by looking in their faces! "Lord, teach us to pray." Now in

some devil. i ou ; some instances the Bible shows how 1 Jesus prayed. "And in the morning,

rising up a great while before day, he The church need3 a spirit of pray- departed Into a solitary place and er, God knows, if there ever was a graved "

Did you ever get up a little ear-

are afraid there is going to be an emp

ty chair in the family circle. Always ask God to help you do a thing and then don't forget to thank Him. The God that gives us the water to drink and the wood and coal to warm us. Is the God that gives the sunshine, it Isn't ours. Thank Him for it.

they are can tell!

serving

I time when people ought to get on their

knees it is now.

It was a master stroke of the devil when he got people to quit praying.

lier in the morning that you might have a little time with God? No! Begin each day with prayer? You begin each day with combing your

I remember one time in Chicago, Mr. Armstrong, who was the superintendent of the city works in the Congregational Church, came to the Y. M. C. A. to give an address. He told this Incident. (I remember the Incident but I don't know whether I have the names right. He told, of sending one of the assistants over on the west side in Chicago to collect a subscription that had been made to the city ml sionary work. (I think It was, Dr. Leroy they sent out. I am not so sure about his name.) He reached the home at twenty minutes past nine and rang the doorbell, and a

little girl came and he said, "Does Mrs. So and So live here?" . She bowed and said, "Yes." "Is she your mother?" "yes." "Is she home?" "Yes." "I'd like to see her. The little girl said, "Are you sick mister?" "No." "Do you know anybody else that Is sick?" "No." "Are you hurt?" "Do you know anybody else that is hurt?" "No." "You can't see mama until ten o'clock." "Why?" "She reads the Bible and pray? every morning until ten o'clock and

Lyou can't see mama now. I am not

allowed to bother mama until ten o'clock unless somebody is sick or hurt. At ten o'clock mama will be down." A Home-Like Heaven. He said he knew then why that home was like heaven on earth. He knew then why she had two boys in the Chicago Theolog'cal seminary studying to be preachers. He knew then why she had a daughter as a missionary over in India holding up the bleeding form of Jesus Christ. Pray! Pray! Pray! "And he rewarded them openly."

Tho Txird la Hpnf and dumb to nnv

one that goe3 in other way or by any1 fast, you begin each day with cloth-! his way to Scotland to try and raise

ing yourseir o uoa, now many oTmoney jn order to buy a seagoing

other name.

them go through day after day and' En that ho visit

people weeping. Her father was an year after year and never pray! Thej , ' engineer on a Northwestern train andnly time they ever pray is when some I the mission stations, because storms

this little girl and her mother had : calamity comes or when they are sick

gone to Chicago io attend to shopping or members of their family, perhaps, andvisit friends, and while there,' ill. They don't pray for all the chil-

Patti was giving concerts at the audi- dren, sitting around them until they

torium.

used to arise and tornadoes would

sweep over the southern seas and for weeks, sometimes, they would be de-

BELOVED BY CITIZENS

By OBSERVER WINONA LAKE. .May 1. This being an off-day in Billy Sunday's tabernacle In Richmond, come on over to Billy Sunday's famous bungalow in this town and pass the day there. Winona Lake Is a garden town, surrounded by a fence and a lake. Spring comes there a little later than in Richmond, Winona being farther north. Buds are just beginning to burst. The home of Winona Lake's most famous citizen, the same being Billy Sunday, stands on a sort of knob, and is built of the wood of the fir tree and Is stained dark brown, and cost $3,500 to build 12 years ago. Myth About Mansion Of course, it isn't, as a rule, nice to discuss the cost of your host's home when you go visiting. But there's a myth abroad that Billy Sunday lives In a $100,000 mansion, filled with all the familiar appurtenances of luxury. Therefore, it is necessary to gratify the curiosity of the- gossips. Billy Sunday's house is the kind of a place one might buy in R "en for $8,500 to $9,000, on which a building association probably would loan $5,000. , 1 The disagreeable statistics beinz

disposed of, we now can enter the house, "Ma" Sunday herself opening the door. We find ourselves in a large living room that runs the width of the house and has a large brick fireplace at one end, a piano at the other, and comfortable things to sit in between. When Billy gets too old to fight the devil he will have a soft nook by the fireplace to sit in while he waits his call to heaven, the log on the andirtps crackling cheerfully the while. Three Chiming Clocks Folks There's an oil painting of Billy Sunday on the wall and three chiming clocks all gifts of admiring communities play sweetly with the passing hours. We mention the clocks because when Birfy Sunday is through with his revival in Richmond some grateful folk, thinking to give him a useful present for his house, may decide a clock's the very thing. Now, folk, take off your hats and

wraps and make yourself at home in Billy Sunday's house while Nora Lynn, the housekeeper, prepares lunch and "Ma" Sunday shows us around. "And this," says "Ma", taking us into the upstairs pitting room, "Is the old sofa Billy and I used to sit in when he was courting me. It stood in the parlor in my home in Chicago. Billy would sit at the right and "Ma" at the left. It was In this very sofa that he proposed to her. - Just Waste of Space ' "Nell," he began but what's the use. Every married man knows what Billy Sunday said that evening. And over the ancient sofa hangs an oil painting that "Ma" Sunday painted herself before she married Billy. 1 It's a picture of cows and sheep drink

ing at a babbling brook and use to hang over the same 60fa when Billy was preparing to ask "Ma" to marry him. Then- out of a drawer In a desk that the Chicago baseball team gave "Ma" and Billy when they were married, she takes a lot of pictures of Billy, and among them are the love letters he sent her when he was traveling with the team. "I have kept them all," says "Ma". I like to read them sometimes, and to discover that he is the same loving Bill that he was. It's a good husband who, 30 years later, still is living up to his love letters." One of Billy's Letters And "Ma" let's us hold a love letter that still Is In the envelope In which Billy Sunday mailed it to "Miss Helen Thompson", that was "Ma's" maiden name of Throop street, Chicago. "Ah. me!" sighs "Ma", romatlc like. And she takes us all over the house and shows us the bathroom and the

kitchen and everything and then we go down into the cellar and help her bring some logs for the fireplace. Then we sit In the cozy corner by the fire, while "Ma" feeds us candy until she says it's time to go out and see the town. And as we walk along the pleasant paths we meet various fellow-citizens

i vi &iuy ou.uv.ay. a ienow may oe a

big man away from home, but what does hie home town think of him? "Well," says John Motto, a Republican leader in the county, "you are in the home of one of the greatest men in America and the world. More (Than Any Other "It makes me angry to hear som people knock Billy Sunday. I think I know more about Billy Sunday than any other man. And if I would start telling you about all his charities you could fill up your paper. "I know of an old preacher In New

Child Touches Patti'i Heart.

She took this little girl around to JJJ.dneJK Jgf - p ! the hotel and said to the world-famous! ?u.d' L 4PI !f

prima aonna. -. I for and how few you can ask for. "Out in Iowa, people Who have.Ts ohne It nrniiml Rim through

heard my little girl sing think that;iife and see now manv things you

are afraid there is going to be anu ' . ' , y , ,, r " .h,i- i m k- mii .irc.i,. boats. And he was endeavoring to

Well, God will hear you although

she can sing sweetly, but of course

there is no comparison between her voice and your well-trained voice but I thought you might like to hear her sing." And Patti said, "I'd be delighted to hear her." And she took her to a suite of rooms. Then she herself walked to

can be thankful to uoa ror in tne world. "Lord, teach U3 to pray." When I was secretary of one of the Chicago Y. M. C. A's I had a great privilege. John G. Payne and if you want to read a book that sound3 like the acts of the apostles, read his history came back to the United States on

raise money enough to buy a sea-going steam yacht. And the way he could do it was to go delivering lectures and addresses and take up collections. And as I had the privilege of having him for a week in Farwell hall, we'd take up collections and then take him out to dinner. We have had as many as twenty preachers, and we'd all sit and listen to this patriarch of God and never eat a mouthful. And I remember one time he said this: "All that I am as a Christian and (Continued on Next Page)

York who mortgaged his home to raise money for his church. And when the notes became due and he couldn't pay them, his home was about to be sold over his head. "Billy Sunday heard about 1t, Investigated, paid off the notes and saved the preacher's home. "I know Billy Sunday will be angry when he reads this In your paper. But I want the world to know what sort of a man he really is when he's away from the tabernacle. There are ad bells on his charities. "One day when he' was In: New York, Billy Sunday heard of an Invalid woman whose daughter was in the tabernacle choir and who grieved (Continued on Next Page) 4