Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 105, 3 May 1922 — Page 5

BILLY SUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLEMENT Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

Fall Report of Evangelistic Meeting Additional Copies At Palladium Office TABERNACLE ON SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET RICHMOND, IND., MAY 3, 1922 AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES

Sunday Believes Hundreds Are Waiting to Bring Somebody to Christ, but Do Not Know How Personal Workers Must Have Clean Hearts and Willing Hands So That Others May Be Induced to Become Followers of Christ, Says Evangelist in Sermon on Wednesday Afternoon.

The Text "He that wlnneth tout is wise," Proverbs 11th chapter, 30th verse. In his sermon Wednesday afternoon at the tabernacle, Rev. W. A. Sunday says: In Proverbs 11:30: "He that wlnneth eouls is -wise." "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." "He that goeth forth and reapeth shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing precious eeed with him." "We sow and then we harvest." "When I Eay unto the wicked man, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die in thine iniquity If thou doest not speak to warn that! wicked man to turn from his way, but if he do not turn from It he shall die in his sins, you have delivered your 60ul. You are free when you warn people, but you are condemned if you don't. "Let him that heareth keep his mouth shut?" No. "Let him that heareth say "Come.' " If it's a good thing for you, It's as good for the other fellow. "Fear not, I am with thee, be not dismayed. I am thy God. I will help thee, I will strengthen thee, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." I wonder why God said "right hand?" Because the Lord Isn't a southpaw. You are stronger in your right hand than In your left hand. He said: "I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness." Most people are right-handed, anyway, so you know what is meant. Of course, it's the right hand. pie today that want to win somebody for Jesus Christ, but they are waiting to be told how. I think there are I hundreds of people that want to work ! ut laeir oaau or uicu mcir iiya u help anybody for Jesus. Believes Many Want To Help. I believe there are hundreds. If not thousands, of people that are anxious, ' J not five talented men, not talented, but men and women of ordinary ability that are sick and tired of a mere empty profession. They are getting tired of Just beating a path from their home to the church and back again on Sunday morning. Multitudes of them never go In the afternoon and never go at night and their entire Christian life consists in going to church on Sunday morning- and putting a little money in the collection plate. They never pray In their home, never have family prayer, never visit the sick, never try to alleviate human misery or suffering, never try to win anybody for Jesus Christ. That's the entire extent of the religion of the majority of the people in the church and I expect you are a fairly good specimen of the majority of .them In your church, all right. So listen! If everybody did no more than you do. the world would be in hell if that's all you ao ana mere rfl1 fo'treue fflhis awaken and come to the rescue if this Jesus Christ. The first recorded words of Jesus are: "Wist ye not that I must bo about my Father's business?" When He was 12 years of age He was conscious that He was the Son of God, for He uttered those word3 in the temple after they'd gone on their Journey, when they'd been up to Jerusalem to the Passover Feast and they missed Him and His mother went back to look for Him, and they found Him in the temple discussing religion with the doctors of the law, and He said to them: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father'6 business?" Calls Men Unto -Salvation. "This Is what I came" Into the world for." And He has been calling; men and women ever since. j Oh. God wants mothers that will turn pale over their children going down to the devil. He wants parents that will weep, He wants workers that will groan; He wants church members and ministers that will be concerned and forget to eat or sleep over people going to perdition and nothing being done to win them only service one dav in seven. Now there are certain gifts, if you are going to do it. First of all, salvation because, I want to repeat, multitudes in the church, I believe, have never been saved They don't know what a religious experience 13. I don't need to consume my strength and your time telling you how good bread and butter are, how good apples are, how good water is you've eaten, you've drunk. That's an experience. So you know they are good, because you have eaten. That's an experi ence. Therefore. If you have ever hadlhe experience you know there is a God. He answers your prayer. Multitudes of people never have any experience; they don't know what it is. They don't live bo that God can answer their prayer. Therefore, all they know about God Is second-hand they get It from somebody else. You can -so live that God can manifest His power through you. Then you know from experience that there .Is a God, and you are not going to follow all these isms and schisms that may come thundering along to lead you away from Jesus Christ. Jesus said to Peter, "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren," So you are In no position to help anybody else If you haven't been helped yourself. ' . ! When I played baseball, the first baseball team that ever took a trip into the south to practice down south and get ready for the spring wprk was the old Chicago White Sox.

Now they all do it but the first club that ever did that was the old Chicago WTiite Sox. We went to Hot

Springs, Ark. We went down there; and then we'd take the baths andi train down under the southern sun! and we'd come back up the first of! April in the pink of physical condition J to stand the long hard strain oft the. season's grind out on the diamond. I And one day we were strolling! around through the Ozark moun-j tains and we were going to a famous '. spring we'd been told about. We'd' wandered and roamed about, a half dozen of us, and we were tired and covered with, perspiration, and wa couldn't find the spring. We met a , colore boy. He had an old flintlocks gun and a couple of squirrels he'd; shot and an old yellow cog trailing at his heels. Leads Them On Right Road. I said, "Boy, are we on the right road to the spring?" He said. "No, sir." I Bald, "Here's a quarter; wll you take us?" He said. "Sure, boss; the road you're on now goes to Little Rock." I said, "We don't want to go to Little Rock; we are looking for the spring." He took us across a little mountain stream and ud a ravine, and bye and bye he said, "There's the spring, sir." We aw a great stream, as large or larger than my body, bubbling and shooting from the mountain side, and I said to him: "How did you know how to bring us here?" He said. "Boss, I live right up ar?und weJ fx hunt thl out of the spring and I hunt the B3"ir,r,el? l fS,merff Rn ne was "e f evVSn S w warn thirsty fellows there. So if you've Toea r-icf a found Jesus Christ AS your Savior, you are able to tell somebody elsoj about it dont you see: ir youve been sick and some doctor has given medicine that cured you. you vnnw from exDerience tnat ne s an light, eo you recommend him to your friends when they are sick. You say he's a good man, all right. So, If Jesus Christ Is any good, Just recommend Him to the other fellow. He'd like something good as well as you do. Then you need another thing. We've got to turn from every known sin if we are going to be any power for God. You can't have your own way about everything. A lot of people repeat the Lord's prayer "Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be Thy name" and never tell it to their dying day. Now that shows you that you ought to do something out of the ordinary. Fire Wagons Always Have Right of Way. I have always noticed that "everybody considers himself licensed to impede the progress of an ice wagon, but a fire engine always has a clear street Learn something Get a move to hSwL That's why you never 'r nnt doing anything, so he's been asleep all the time you've been on the job. So you need God's word. Pack your heart and pack ycur head full of the Word of God. That's the sword of the spirit. The sword of the spirit! You can quote Shakespeare, Carlyle, Emerson and Herodotus to a sinner and he won't bat an eye because that isn't what the spirit can u3e, but when you go with the Word of God, that will put all the devils on earth to flight. Don't you see? So pack your heart full of It. You want to use it to convince a man that he's a sinner. How does a man know he's a criminal? He's broken the laws of the state that makes him a criminal. How does a man know he Is a sinner? When he lives contrary to the Bibl-j he is a sinner, no matter whether he thinks he Is a sinner or not he Is a sinner. A man may not think he Is a criminal, but if he breaks the law he Is a criminal. So use the Bible to convince a man he Is a sinner and to reveal Jesus Christ. You ought to know the Bible because listen! God Almighty has been revealed through Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is revealed through the Bible. I must know the Bible to know Jesus. I must know Jesus to know God, and there is no way you will ever know God or Christ except youj - know them through the Bible. There-1 fore, if you turn your back on Jesus you will never know the Bible. Jesus Gave Us Best Example. " x So Jesus came Into the world not only to reveal God to man, but to reveal man to man, and in Jesus we have the highest revelation of God possible for the human mind to conceive, and in Jesus I have a revelation of myself to myself, for Jesus reveals what God wants me to be.

Sunday Revival Program WEDNESDAY

7 :30 P. M. Song service

Lutherans attend in a body. THURSDAY 10:00 A. M Billy Sunday speaks at Bradford, Ohio. Noon Business women's lunch, Reid Memorial church. Noon Shop meeting (Men) at Swayne-Robinson company shops. 2:30 P. M. Song service and sermon. 3:30 P.M. Bible study class ; Miss Kinney, leader. " 4:30 P. M Garfield, Hibbard and Finley school children at First Christian church ; Miss Kinney, leader. 6:00 P. M Council girls lunch, Reid Memorial church. 7:30 P. M. Song service and sermon. Delegations from Cincinnati, tye Masons, and Jr. O. U. A. M.

TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON

Years ago a woman went Into W store In London to trade and there was a bright, snappy young fellow In thereto whom she was attracted by his bright mannerism and fine features and one day she spoke to him about religion, and he wasn't a Christian so he ever afterwards fought shy when, he saw her coming. He'd try and get away If he could. But she used lots of good horse sense and In a kind of motherly way disarmed his prejudice and finally said to him: "I teach a Sunday school class down at such a place. I wish you'd come aown," and after much persuasion she Induced him to come, and she led that boy to Jesus Christ. New listen! He went back to that store and began to investigate and he found that there were two other young men that were Christlans, In that store of a hundred and fifty young men, and they asked the merchant if they could have a little room to go in to eat their luncheon, for those three pledged themselves they would work and pray to bring others to Jesus Christ.. And the merchant gave them this little room and they won others to Christ and that room got too small and they asked for a larger room and It was given. Today that's the Young Men's Chris, tian Association that touches every place on the globe, and that boy's name was George Williams. He organized the Y. M. C. A. and when that woman got to heaven God had as bright a crown waiting for.her as for George Williams because God had to start the Y. M. C. A. She didn't have sense enough but George did. But somebody had to win Williams first. He died Sir George Williams, the first man In the history of England that was ever knighted for the cause of Christianity. Where did she find him? Found him In the store waiting on her as a clerk. Where will you find them? Everywhere except in the graveyard. "He that winncth souls Is wise." Wlsel He has given His Word and His direction. Then again you must know the Bible to show a man that he needs a Savior. How do you know, my friends, you need a doctor when you are sick? How do you know, my friends that you need a fireman when your house is afire? Therefore, to show him that he needs a Savior, to ehow him that Jesus Is the Savior, that he need3, not philanthropy, not culture Jesu3 Is the only Savior, all others are false. There is only one way to be saved that's through Jesus Christ. That's all. Then show him what to do to make Jesus his Savior that he must repent, foresake hi3 sins, acknowl- ! edge that Jesu3 Christ was his sub stitute, Jesus became his security! Jesus took his place on the cross, and God lets you escape the curse of the law by your acceptance of Jesus as your substitute. He took your place and if you turn your back on Jesus Christ you will be eternally damned it doesn't make any difference who you are. God can't save you if you turn your back on Jesus. So you need tne tioiy spirit; witnout turn you can ao uouung. rsui yiease rememuer that the spirit of God worits througn clean people and the work of the' spirit of God is to make you feel that you need this salvation that Jesus has provided. The Holy Ghost doesn't save you; it's your faith in Jesus that save3 you. But the Holy trnost says to you: "You're a sinner," and then leads you to Jesus to be saved. Tne noiy fcpiru . makes you feel that you need the salvation that Jesus Christ provided( work of the Holy Spirit to make you realize that you need a Savior. But it doesn't save you; faith in Jesus Christ saves you. That's why it's "The Father, Son and Holy Ghost." Prayer is Needed for Success And prayer! Two-thirds of the church .members, I believe, do not have family prayer. I think it was the master stroke of the devil when he got the church to give up prayer. All of you have had your breakfast, your dinner, you have all dressed (if you didn't and came out on the street they'd pinch you), but I wonder how many of you have read your Bible and prayed today! I just wonder. I'm not going to ask you for a show of hands I won't do that. I never do. But here, I wouldn't need to ask you how many have had a meal; all right, I wouldn't have you do less. You feed this old body three meals a day, you wash it, comb its hair, you give it something to eat, something to drink, and if you took no better care of your physical manhood and womanhood tnan you a0 Df your spiritual, you'd be as dried up and useless and good-for-nothing physically as you are spiritually. Why don't you feed our soul? You've got a spiritual nature the same as you've got a physical nature, yet you don't feed It. You feed your spiritual nature by prayer, by reading the Bible, by doing the' things of God; you feed your physical manhood with meat, bread, potatoes, tea, coffee, milk the food that you have. All right, go ahead and feed it, but in heaven's name don't and sermon. Friends and

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,tarve your spiritual and moral na jture! Pray God to lead you to the right person; you may have more influ ence with some person than another, but if you have been lying about some-1 body, you ought to say something, and if you're a dead-beat and you owe a merchant something, go down and , pay your debts, and then you can talk religion to him. QuIt G08Spjnfl About Voup Neighbor j "If you've been talking about your netgncor, stop ana tea ner tnat you re an old gossip. Keep your mouth shut. Then they will have some respect for you. I want to say to you that this old world would be a mighty good world if everybody would mind their own darned business. You bet your life! I notice these people that are always butting into somebody else's affairs don't even attend to their own. If theyd' let other folks alone, they'd get along a Earned sight better. Pray God to help you to 6ave someone. I was preaching in a town in Iowa! some years ago and I stepped out into the audience and spoke to a bright, snappy young fellow about 17. His father had just died and the will was probated and left this fellow about a hundred and fifty thousand He thought every girl in town was breaking her fool neck to marry him. He was so chesty you could not get within 40 feet of him. I didn't know this at the time I 6poke to him. I walked down and said, "How do you do? Are you a Christian?" And he gave me the cold shoulder and said, "No." I said, "You ought to be." He said, "Forget it." And I said to him: "Oh, a brightlooking young fellow like you, with a good.suit you didn't buy that ofj Sears-Roebuck or Montgomery and! varas; mat iooks use a lanor-maae why, a young fellow like you. you don't mean that He said, "I don't care about your religion, sir." I said, "Do I understand you to nean you don't care whether you go to heaven or hell?" He said, "No." - . Explains Plan of Salvation I said, "Well, all right; got to hell, then." I said. "There are only two places to go, and it's dead sure you're not going to heaven." And I said fo him, "Now, look here, young fellow; if you live in this town fifty years I'll never ask you to be a Christian again; I'm through." The next day I was out taking a little walk with Mrs. Sunday and I met this young fellow. He'd been down to a sale and bought several head of high-blood cattle, and hetwas driving them home. He paid $5,000 for one. And he was driving them home, and I walked down the road with him a mile, and he tried to open up the subject of religion, but I sidestepped and I talked about everything

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I don't like to see a minister who has one mannerism for the pulpit and another for the street. Invite the unsaved to come Into the tabernacle. Pray with them In private. Don't forget that the new converts will be just as good as you old ones you old mossbacks. Down at your place of business how many of you ever ask the people around you If they are Christians? I have got more respect for you because you are here than I would have if you didn't come. The devil wants to put disease in J and God wants to put it out. With all our means of conveyance automobiles and trolley cars and subways and elevated we are so lazy letting the world go to hell that we ( are doing nothing, seemingly to save it. I haven't any sympathy for the man you've got to drive to make some sacrifice for the cause of Jesus Christ. Men do it for other things. You need love, love for the souls of men and women, a desire to 6ee them saved. Two-thirds of the- church people, I believe, do not have family prayer. I think it was a master stroke of the devil when he got the church to give up prayer. Qo ahead and eed your body but in Heaven's name don't starve your spiritual and moral nature. Pack your heart and head full of God's word.

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If you're a dead beat and owe a merchant something, go down and pay your debts and then you can talk religion to him. Learn something. Get a move on you and all the devils in hell will begin to howl. That's why you never stir up the devil because you are not doing anything, so he's been asleep all the time you're on the job. under the heaven but religion. 1 wouldn't mention it to him. The second night afterward I gave the invitation and the first one to come forward was this young fellow, who took me by the hand and gave his heart to Jesus Christ. I said, "I thought you told me you didn't care whether you went to heaven or hell?" He said, "I've changedmy mind.

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I've been in hell for three days and I don t want any more." I said to him. "What was it that brought you here?" i He said, "When I told you that I didn't care whether I went to heaven or hell, and you said there are only two places to go so I'd have to go to hell, because I surely wasn't going to heaven," he said. "I haven't been able to sleep since, hardly. I just realized that all my money and everything else wouldn't save my soul." He said, "That's what brought me down here, because you gave me one right square between the eyes." Pray to God for God Then pray God to, give power to what you say, and to carry on the work after you are through. There are special endowments you need. First, clean hands, pure heart. David said, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, God won't hear me." And, second, a wise head. The church of God needs a baptism of horse sense today preachers and all the rest of us. Good horse sense! I tell you, that's what we need a wise head! Forces to win you need love, love for the souls of men and women, a desire to see them saved. That is what you have In your home. If a loved one is sick you desire to see It saved, and you spend your money to get the best physician in the country. I don't blame you; you ought to have concern to see people well, but you ought to be concerned to see people saved. Wouldn't you rather have everyDoay m old Richmond praying than cursing? Wouldn't you rather have everybody going home sober than drunk? Wouldn't you rather have every man and woman pure than impure? Wouldn't the community and the nation be better? Certainly! I tell you, a nation of drunkards can't whip a nation of sober people, nor a nation of libertines a nation of pure people. Never in the world! And the more a man or woman lives in sin, the less and less they become a part of the nation any individual or anyou we want a company of peoole that are constantly alive, full of faith. dead in earnest, thoroughly awake, al- ! ways at it for Jesus Christ. That's what I love to see. Men have won derful things for other things, why not for religion? I haven't any sympathy for the man or woman that you have to drive to make some sacrifice for the cause of Jesus Christ, Men do it for other things. Why, Newton used to study all (Continued on Next Page) . TABERNACLE DATA Tuesday Afternoon Attendance 400 Collection 5 35.83 Tuesday Evening Attendance 5,000 Collection $400.10 'Trail-hitters 900 (315 signed cards)

GREENVILLE SENDS EMY TO REVIVAL

1 ,500 In Delegation and 800 Pledge Renewal of Faith After Hearing Sermon By. Sunday. RAILROADERS THERE GreenvlUe, Ohio, made the tabeir nacle its own Tuesday night whestwo train loads of iU citizens, more . than 1,500 in all, headed by the Amer-' lean Legion band, descended on RictP mond. A delegation of 450 railroad men,, from the Pennsylvania held the front seats, and their band may have mado ' more actual noise, but It was Green; , ville night, and more than 800 of them after the 6ermon came forward to shake Billy's hand, and pledge them--selves x make Christ their leader. "' One 'of the Greenville trains was ; late, and a great block of empty seats had to be held for a time for them, but" when they finally marched in, they fill-; ed all the aisle3 and vacant spaces! and for a time it looked as though there were not enough seats in the . whole tabernacle to care for them. , Carry Banners Banners enscribed "Greenville Is foj '4 Sunday no blue Monday," "Green-., ville Is for Billy" and "We want Jesus-'" Christ," were carried by the marchers..;; The Greenville band was given seats' " In the chorus, where they played onepiece of music before the sermon be-; gan. As the audience settled themselves, three Greenville men carrying with" them a huge pastboard box, came-; down the aisle. Recognizing a tribute ' to Billy Sunday the audience applaud ed as the box was taken to the plat: form. ' Present Roses. '" It was a huge basket of roses, lilies'; and carnations with the letters Greenville In gold on the decorations, which ' ' was presented to Mr. Sunday as a trib-' ute from the whole delegation. The ' flowers were purchased by the W. H. " O. class of the U. B. Sunday school,, of which G. W. Duckwall Is teacher. "Now everyone from Greenville that is for Billy Sunday stand up." Mr.Duckwall shouted after he had pre---sented the flowers, and the huge delegation again stood. "You Just name the day, and I shall come over In the morning and preach to you," was Mr. Sunday's answer to the gift. "How far is it?" "Twenty-six miles," some one told him. Ready to Go "Fine," declared Sunday, "I shall be over any day that your ministers can arrange for It." Later on he asked if Saturday would be all right; and a hearty "Yes" was given him by the delegation. "Fine," I'll be there Saturday morning." he promised. The Victoria Bible class of the Grace M. E. church of which Mrs. A. H. Bachus, is teacher, was the first delegation to be called on. The class. 180 strong, arose and sang a parody written by Mrs. Bachus, the words of which were: What a wonderful change in our lives has been wrought,' Since BILLY came into our town; We nave light in our souls for which long we nave sougnt, Since BILLY came into our town. CHORUS Since BILLY came into our town. Since BILLY came into our town; Oh! the work's just begun but the devil's on the run, Since BILLY came into our town. Inspired by the reception which he received from the out of town delegations, Mr. Sunday threw himself Into" his sermon with unusual vigor, even' for his evening sermons. -' Talks to Railroaders Opening his sermon with a string of railroad slang, directed at the delegation of railroad men, Sunday declared that he was one of them. "What does it matter what you gain in the world, when you lose In the end?" shouted Mr. Sunday at the end ' of a description of the man who could have all the land which he could run across and back in a day. Describing the lake that he had crossed in a canoe, the river that htv had splashed across,' and the longstretches of land which he had covered. Mr. Sunday ran across the platform. ,1 Then as the tired man. worn out. from running a greater distance than 1 . . 1 J f . ri a I ne tuum Biiieiy cover, ounaay came, j back across the platform, and as the . man in the story fell exhausted aL the finish line, he threw himself at full length on the platform. "He had crossed the line a victon isfled," shouted Sunday as he arose, Vbut that man did not rise, there helay, dead." .,n SlaDDincr hi3 hands nnd cpctriHrnr with an abandon that he has seldom; equalled in his other sermons, Sun day shouted, "What does it matter Jf you gain the applause of the world, if you lose in the end?" 'i Swinging the question of his own" desire for gain, Billy Sunday shouted.', "If I wanted gain in money I couLlget it A man came clear from Lake, in a Chautauqua there, and he prom-, ised me $1,500 for an hour's talk. T 1 a T 1 1 A. M - f eyes staring with a wicked glare, ani his teeth clenched at times until the muscles of his' face stood out "And you keep your dirty mouths shut," calling me a grafter, you dirty liars L" be shouted. , Then as he told of the people who haid stoned Christ in the days when

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