Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 106, 4 May 1922 — Page 7

BILLY SUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLEMENT Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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One Person Can Set a Church On Fire with Zeal, Like One Match Could Burn Whole City Personal Work of Church Members and Pastors is Lacking and That's Why Churches Show Little Progress, Says

Billy Sunday- Don't Leave It to Work. The Text "He that winneth souls is wise." Proverbs 1,th chapter, 13th verse. , Continuing his topic of "Personal Work" begun Wednesday, Rev. W. A. Sunday said Thursday afternoon: So, in the work of the church, Jesus Baid, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." The Medical School says, "Follow me and I will make you a doctor." The Music school says, "Follow me and 1 will make you. a musician." The Law school says, . "Follow me and I will make you a lawyer." But the church says, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." That is, I'll show you the way; how the words of God are the salvation of the lost. That's what the church is for! That's what Jesus Christ came into the world for and died on the cross for, to open up the plan of salvation for us. A church that's not doing this has no right to claim to be a church of Jesus Christ. I read of an association of church letter sometime ago, which said, "Members received this year none; dismissed none; died none; married none; given to the missions nothing; paid the pastor nothing. Pray for us, brethren, that we may hold our own during the coming year." Churches Must Be Purified. And sometimes preachers report t the bright side of things; I am afraid) their heads would come off if they didn't. As a result, some of our churches are in bad shape. That's why we have a lot of these isms and schisms and faith cures, and holy rollers, and holy howlers, and holy jumpers, and a great variety of fad3 that have swept through the church to take people away from Jesus Christ, and anything that takes you away from God comes from hell and it comes from the devil! The devil's business is to Inspire I people, by the evil spirit in them, not! to pray, not to be decent, not to serve) God that all comes, from the devil. And anything thats advocated that! doesnt advocate Jesus Christ as the j Sav our of men, is of the devil The tJStJJ into an angel of light and he mixes re ligion up with a lot of these fads just to fool tbe'jeople; to make them think that he's very zealous for righteousness, when he doesn't give a picayune about it; he's a liar from the very beginning, and that's his business! That's why we have these things, and many times I find preachers are chasing after these fads instead of after souls, instead of trying to win people for the Lord. Some of them are in society and they are popular, rather than being in the church to be soul winners. I like to see people afraid that I will talk religion to them. That's my busi ness to talk religion, but it's no more my business than it's your business. It's no more the business of the preacher to talk religion than it's the business of the Sunday school teacher, or any others in the rank and file. It's just as much your business to help win. people to Christ as it's the preacher's business, just exactly! The general can't do all the fighting while the rank and file sit 'found and gab and talk and chew the rag. Everybody is tuppo&ed to do something. In the days, of war, there is something for everybody to do. For every man on the firing line it takes four people back home to keep them in ammunition, guns, clothes, and food; so it takes four people back home to keep one man on the firing line. So, you see, there's something for everybody to do. Put a million men out on the firing line, and four million have got to work back home to keep them there, and they will have to have ammunition and clothes and, eats, and they can't make any of it themselves; it all has to be handed to them. There is something for everybody to do! There's no chance for any loafer, cither in the Kingdom of God or in your country. Whether you are a live one or a dead one, everybody will either be a pa: riot or a traitor one of the pvo: tii.its all there is to it! No Choice Possible Under Circumstances. There's no other side to the proposi-j tion; you can take your choice. And so it is the-church's only busi ness to talk religion. It s the Christian business to help man and woman's bring people to Jesus Christ, by your light. Find the lost and bring them to the Lord. I think we have cot the thing all wrong nowadays. Why. we have two weekly meetings r. year in some churche3 that do have them, and some churches never have them. I'll bet your church never had a revival since you can remember. Now, take it on the square, isn't that true? Can you remember when you heard yours preacher preach an evangelistic ser nion and give an invitation for any body to accept Jesus Christ? You bet your life, you didn't. And, if there were only 50 weeks a' year to the saints and two weeks a! year to the sinners. Now it's not thej church's business to educate people. I There are thousands of graduates go-; ing down to hell! The chureh's busi-j ness is to save people from hell! Let the state do the educating. Let other institutions do the educating, my friends. If I had a million dollars to give; away tomorrow, I d give nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars to evangelistic Christianity to where I'd give one dollar to education. Not that I have anything against It, for I haven't, and I believe in it with boih' hands up. All the power In my heart ! I if 1 n.t unn all U 1 MIIU i w i jw wwil yv. ail kits CUU cation on earth and all the learning and all the knowledge out of all the books in all the world, and that won't nave- your soul; while if you know

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what's in the Bible, that will save your soul. And It's the church's business to save the Jeople. Other people can do the other part. There are other, institutions to educate them, mat s their business. That's what I do to win people to God. Because if everybody in the nation knew everything there is to known, and didn't khowiIS God, what would be the conditions of the people, in the community? So, fifty weeks ought to be spent In go ' - i ing after the unsaved, and two weeks a year talking and preaching to the church, and we want soul winners in the pews and the platform and the choir loft. One person can set a church on fire with holy zeal, for Jesus Christ, the same as one match could burn a city. And the church of the future must work more for sinfZ u r rh ivr rt i i B for all, rich, poor, great, small, learn. ed, or illiterate. It is something everybody can do, and God will bless J you whether you have got much olittle, whether you wear homespun j or silk, whether you ride in an auto orj whether you hot-hoof it, whether you . have got a servant to wait on you or whether you have to wait on yourself, the Lord can honor you, and will if you will do His will and help bring somebody to the Lord. There was a time when a preacher was looked upon as a sort of an ecrlpcinatfo lnnmntlvp and thpv thmivt va T-rhicMinp and hiowimr off steam and cmders was enough to bring the whole bunch to glory. It won't do it! Everybody's got to do something to help. Now the majority of Christians never speak a word or do a thing to bring the interests of religion before the mind of the individual. Personal work is the busi ness of every minister ana deacon and every member of the church, andj you ought to begin at home among your friends and your own own ramily. too Personal Work Is Necessary. How many of you have spoken to b d about religJon slnce these h b ,n progress. The ,d 'be compelIed that you met with people day by dav in your club, in your lodge. In your literary, in your home. and you casually talk about everything under heaven except about their soul. And people ask why so many people are out of the church. I think the responsibility for it must largely be claced at the door of the church. That's what I think! I am getting sick of hearing about the non-church goer. I am talking about the non-going church after the non-church goer. That's what I'm talking about! Let's get the thing straightened around right. Don't crowd out the fellow that doesn't come, when your own bunch never asks him to come, and never does a thing to help him to the Lord. Get them to do their part, and then when they do their part, it's up to the other fellow if he don't do his. So if I stand up and preach the truth and you sit there and reject it and you go to hell, that's up to you! It's not up to me at all! What I preach is the truth, and you reiect it then God will damn you! If it isn't the truth, then God will damn me. You come and show me thati what I preach isnt tne trutn, no. from the standpoint of some old theological bell-wether, but the word of God. Come and show me that what I preach hasn't the word of God j hack of it. The Christian people, l think are responsible that thousands of people pass out into darkness and are lost. The opportunity to do something for Jesus Christ is never absent. I will be personal. Too Much Theory, Too Little Practice. I am not going to be a theorist toof there is too much theorizing and not enough practice In the church today. Debatins: over this or that dogma will never 'give spiritual life or power never and real effective results are obtained by personal contact. When you ask an individual, meet the Individual and speak with that individual. That's where the great work is to be done. So many of them do nothing. That's the reason we are not accomplishing more; they are doing nothing at..a1 are dead ones. - I till l ' muv vi MtJJt So, carry your religion with you everywhere you go and do your share. Carry your religion with you Just as you do your hair and clothes. Don't think that religion is a good deal like a cloak; you put it on of a Sunday morning, trot out to church, then hang it in the closet for the rest 1 of the week. Carry religion with you wherever you go. Take it with you at all times, to the hotel, the restaurant, the train. Oh. you will find somebody everyday that doesn't know

Sunday Revival Program THURSDAY 6:00 p. m. Council girls' lunch, Reid Memorial church. 7 :30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Delegations from Masons, Jr. O. U. A. M., and Cincinnati. ' FIRDAY (Excursion day on the Pennsylvania railroad.) Noon Homer Rodeheaver and Mrs. Asher at the Atlas company. 2 :30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. Bible class; Miss Kinney, leader. 4:00 p. m. Rehearsal of boys' and girls' chorus. 3:30 p. m. Teachers' Bible study, Y. M. C. A.; Miss

Kinney, leader. 7:30 p. m. Song night. service

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The devil's lfusiness is to inspire i people, by the evil spirit in them, not to pray, not to be decent and not to serve God1 that all comes from, the devil. Many times I find preachers are chasing after fads instead of after souls, instead of trying to win sou's lor Christ, It's my business to talk religion, Dut Its no more my business than it yoursOne person can set a church on a l fire with holy zeal for Jesus Christ, me same as one matcn couia Durn a city. Personal work is the business every minister and every deacon. Don't crowd out the fellow that never comes when your own bunch never asks him to come. If I stand up and preach the truth iand Bet there and' reject it and t h . , ., Carry your religion with you just you do your hair and clothes, You are a big fool not to want to do what God wants you to do I think that soul-seeking is becoming: a lost art todav. Worldliness and 1 selfishness have absorbed the minis ters and the members and takes them away from their work. Some people don't even know where to put the lightning rod on a house. Don't leave religion in your heart, let it work itself out. Touch others if you are going to be a benediction and a blessing. ; You can't please God and the devil, I have always found out that one God and wouid ev their heart to r Jesus if you'd open your lips and Show a little interest in them. I think the ministers and I think the officials ought to get out of the church and the church members and officers j ought to get out among the people and try and help win them for Jesus' Christ. That's what you ought to do! ; Now, tell them of Christ, tell them; of his power to save, tell them of; the secret of the happy life, tell them ! the way to win in life. Everybody v.

,7t t i J$ ers a,one;: 1 am not talking about the for thebest in life. --Nobody would-rank and membership. Just rather be sick than well, nobodeach preacher wIn twelve souls to would rather be deaf than hear, no- God thatg Qne a montn th CQuld body would rather be blind than see win 4S0 000 soul friends.

x 1 - J 4 1Hn1F(n itentlary than be free; nobody would! rather eo to hell than to heaven Everybody is looking for the .best. No man will get out and work for five dollars a day if he can work for ten dollars a day. Not on your life! Every fellow is looking for the best. Christianity is Very Best. All right, if you are looking for

the best, Christianity is best. It is drawn their breath and their salary, better to be honest than it is to baead! a thief; better to love the lord than) Now, Jesus said, "Go ye into all the it is to hate Him. So, you are looking world and preach the gospel to every

for the best. Well, religion is me, best. The Lord don t want you to do anything that isn't for your good. You are a big fool not to want to do what God wants vou to do. take it from me! You are a big fool not to tUd Tioi'cr u-anta vnn to do anything that wouldn't better you if you did it. If you ever did anything' that God told you not to do, you were a bie fool. You let the lord alone, He knows what you need! I think that soul-seeking is becom ing a lost art today. Worldliness and selfishness have absorbed the min isters and the members , and taken them away from the work. Num berless organizations and endless machinery have crept in to take from the Individual the responsibility to ao u; for God. ' No wonder, when many of our seminaries mimimize, if they do not ignore this altogether; or when they do turn out preachers, they are a lot of little two by four infidels who get up and spout something, some stuff that they have gotten down there from some Godless old professor. They blight the faith of the, people. I blame them for it, and three-fourths of the teachers in our seminaries never had any experience in winning anybody for Christ, and the poorest personal worker you ever looked at is a young fellow that- just graduated from some theological seminary, because he wasn't taught there to do anything for the Lord Almighty; he was only taught to build .a sermon like you build a house. Some people don't even know where to put the lightning rod on a house. Cites Example To Prove Point Now, take the Methodist church. If every Methodist preacher in the United States won one soul atmonth twelve in a year, they would win over 460,000 just the Methodist preach and sermon. High school

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that isn't doing personal work as a rule has some sin in his life. About the last thing a devil lets you do is ,n SDak to somebody about being a Christian. . T . ' . ,. " I don t believe you are sane and healthy Christians unless you are trying to win somebody to God. About the larst thing some people give to God TABERNACLE STATISTICS Wednesday Afternoon Attendance 900 Collection 51.66 Wednesday Evening Attendance 4,500 Collection $961.71 (Including cash of Lutheran donation, but not pledges.) Trail hitters . 100 " each of the Baptist members it V- t,v TV au CUUl 0 ILIJ 11 IU, L li J VA win 426,000, and if each of the Protestant preachers were to win twelve souls a month, they'd win over 1,700,000 in a year, and yet, as I have told you, 7,500 churches made reports last year that not one member joined this year on confession of faith. What's the matter? Dead! Dead! Dead! That's all, it's dead! They've creature Everybody that's accepted Jesus as their Saviour has a responsibility laid upon him to win somebody else to Christ. It's a great privilege too. My, jit's a wonderful privilege to work for the T.nrri ' Thnro aro a trnnrl manv departments to th:s listen! The Lord always had a quick eye for things that needed to be done. One day he passed by Mathew, the publican, who was sitting in the seat of custom in the temple, and he saw an opportunity to turn a multitude from sin by winning Mathew, an opportunity that perhaps not one of his disciples saw or figured; they'd overlooked it. Peter might have said, "There is no use of Paying any attention to. that miseru,u vuum.au, uc uU i arc any thing but money, and for you to talk religion to him would be like casting pearls before swine." No "Time to -Find Fault John might have said. "Mathew's a thief and a robber and I'd; like to tell him if I had time to talk with him." James might have said, "It isn't a good time to talk religion to a fellow when he's busy; he'd resent the interruption. I'd wait until some day when you find him alone, and then it can be done." Mathew might never have been in the same frame of mind that he was that day. There are men and women in this city in a frame of mind toward God and Christ and the church at this meeting, that have never been in that attitude before since they were born, and if you don't win them to Jesus Christ now. you never will. God A1icnua mighty is throwing before the church of this city the greatest opportunity and privilege you ever had to bridge the chasm between the man and the dinner bucket. He thinks you don't give a whoop for him. Show him that he's wrong; that you're interestel in his soul. See what God will do. He will fill your old icehouses chuck-full with life, my friends, throbbing humanity, if you will get out and win the men that are to be 'won, and they are susceptible, but you can't do it throuoh the Indifference of the people! toward it. And so. whether you buy or whether you sell, whether you pray, whether you write, whether you print, whether you teach, whether you "are a doctor, whether you are a mother in a home, whether you are a laborer, all along life's highway you find men and women that don't know Jesus Christ, in your circle. One Man Cannot Do All Work No matter how much you may have or how little you have, there Is somebody you know that isn't a Christian. You are the person to win that

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is their time and you have got to live straight if you want to have anyi power for God. you siop winning souis ior God- 'ou UP as a Christian. I Too much of the work done today is like a squirrel in a cage lots of activity but no progress. person to the Lord! There are many professors who think that job belongs to the minister. Well, if I thought for one minute that you imagined that I was going to do all this work, I'd pack my trunk and go home so quick that it would make your head swim. I didn't ask for the privilege of coming to this city. They begged us to come for years! We are here In response to the appeal of the preachers and the church and the people that want to benefit the fellowmen and fellow-women with the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's why we are here! I am here to do my part, and I guess I have been here long enough for you to know that I will not shirk it: I will go to the limit of my strength every time for God and for the truth. I have got just as much right to expect you to do your best as you have got a right to expect me to do my best. And I will dot it, but you must do yours. And so many think that once they've made a public confession of their faith, then their nope of eternal life is secure; there's nothing for them to do. The church members are a target for the world. It's not enough to have the love; of God in your heart, but that love must express itself in words and in deeds. WTiat would happen if the farmer left all his grain in the granary and never planted any of it? You'd never have any crop never In the world L.t R-iiainn Work I . ' And so, don't leave religion in your heart, but let it work itself out. Touch others if you are going to be a benediction and a blessing. You have got to be careful of your behavior. The Lord's hand is not so short that He cannot save; neither is His ear so deaf that he cannot hear, but your sins have separated you and your God, and get your face way from Him and you will not hear. God says. "You cannot serve God and Mammon." Just ?s God had said, a bird cannot fly without wings, you cannot see without eyes, you cannot hear without ears, you cannot breathe without lungs, you cannot serve God and Mammon. You can't be partakers of the table of J the Lord and the devil too. You can't please God and the devil. You can't live p half a day with one man and the other half day with another and then please your husband. That's right now! You can't do it. You cannot serve god and Mammon. A German soldier couldn't fight my friends under the German flag ana then switch over and fight under a British Jack in the afternoon. No man can be a loyal soldier in two different armies. You can't serve God and Mammon! You can't please the Lord and the devil. So make up vour mind that if you are going to please the devil you will have to slap God in tne iace ana ten mm to go; and you are going to please God then tell the J i, i j , ue,u B ,u feHOW uJour tolorhit v ti ii uti iue riiuw wuu )uu want. I litdevil or God Heaven or hellf Most Americans want To Do Right. I think I know the American people well enough to know that about 999 of them out of 1000 want to be decent. We have got some that don't give a picayune; they make a lot of noise they are like frogs; they make more noise than a whale. Now I believe the law of God al j lows veiy cniid or uod every liberty OI action witn wnicn a regenerated conscience approves. But when you see that the exercise of your liberty of action is going to curtail the liberty 1 ol somebody else and make It harder 1 tor them to do right you have no right to do it although the doing of it might not hurt you. You haven't any right to do it! None whatever! None whatever! None whatever! Let me make this plain. Paui was a bachelor. Paul went into a butcher shop at Euphesus to get a piece of meat and he bought a piece of meat. A fellow stood there watching Paul, who had been converted from heath enism to Christianity. .They had kill-I

TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON Johnston Myers, of Chicago, pastor of the Immanuel Church, had a University of Chicago professor as superintendent of his Sunday school. ' He would win sauls. Why? The Sunday school teacher one day went to Myers, instead of the superintendent, and said, "What am I going to do with that class of young men from high school? Their teacher has left and I don't know who can take the class." Johnston Myers said, "What about that barber tmi. was convrted two weeks ago and had suck a bripht testimony in prayer meeting? The University Professor from Chicago said, "What! A barber, uneducated, talking to those hiQh school boys! That will never do." "Well," Myers said, "Your college professor that's been talking to them for years has never brought any of them into church, and I don't know whether the barber could do any worse than that." He said, "You give him a chance. I will take the responsibility." They turned that class of 30-odd young men over to that barber and in two months he'd brought every one of them into the church on confession of their faith in Jesus Christ. ' "He that winneth souls is wise."

that animal and shed its blood .in sacrifice to an idol; then they put the meat on sale in the butchershop and Paul went and bought a piece of the flesh of the animal whose blood had been shed in sacrifice to the idol, this fellow used to worship, and he said to paul: "Why, you can't do that. They've shed the blood of tllat animal and sacrificed it to this idol." Paul said, "Well, that doesn't hurt the meat." But the fellow said, "It hurts me. I couldn't buy a piece of meat of an animal that I knew had Its blood shed In sacrifice to an idol." And Paul said, "All right if my buying that piece of meat to eat for myself is going to hurt you and make it harder for you to be a Christian then I will eat no meat while the worlds stands, if it makes my brother to offend." Paul said he wouldn't do it; he woudn't eat that piece of meat of the animal whose blood had been shed on that idol. But I can see Paul slam that piece down and say, "If my eating makes my brother to offend, then I will eat no meat while the stands." And so, if you'd stop to think of what effect your conduct has on somebody else that's looking to you for an example and trying to see Jesus in you, I want to tell you that you change your lives and there wouldn't be so much of this cussedness going on today by a lot of church members. Look at the difference half of the church members have consciences. They know the way. We have the ability to do it whether the doing hurts somebody or not; they do it because they want to do it. All right, you see where . you'll land when you get through, too. Now I always found that one that isn't doing personal work as a rule has some sin in his life. About the last thing the devil lets yon do Is to speak to somebody about being a Christian. He lets you attend prayer meetings and lectures on the Bible I and give you your tenth, and pin on badge, and pass a collection plate, and lets you do almost anything but personal work, sing in a choir; If you want to be a deacon or elder,' committeeman, or vestryman, anything except talking to somebody about Jesus Christ. . Good Christians Active In Work. And I don't believe you're a sane and healty Christian unless you are trying to win somebody to God. About the last thing that most people give to God is their time, and vou have got to live straight if you want to have any power for God. WTien you stop winning souls for God, you dry up, as a Christian. That's the reason we have so many spiritual mummies. 50, go right at it. Don't be everlastingly getting busy to do something, but go right to work with what you have. God will bless you if you will use what you have. Supposing I'd go through this audience this afternoon or tonight and say. "Who is wise?" Oh, you'd say, "The millionaire captain of industry." "Who is wise"?" "Oh, his honor, the Governor." "Who is wise?" "Oh, his honor, the mayor." "Who is wise?" Oh. the judge of the Court." "Who is wise?" "Oh, the general." "Who is wise?" "Oh, the inventor." Supreme' I. . . . - a get a ereat vanetv of antu-or; to my question. . - " """" But supposing I say to God. "What do you think about it who is wise?" The Lord says, "He that winneth souls is wise." You remember the rich man who strolled out one day and looked at his fields. He said "My barns and graneries are full; I have enough to last for next year, and no place to put all of it. This will I do; I will pull down my barns and build greater and I will say to my soul, "Take thine ease, eat, unns ana De merry. And the Lord said, "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee." Men Who Do Are Remembered. Then who's to get thee? The man that simply lives for honor, and the woman who simply lives for pleasure, and the person who simply lives fr education thou fool, thou fool! Who are the bright stars finally? Get up and tell me the name of the man that financed the Civil war for the United States government. They blaze for a little while, but they are forgotten. Tell me the name of that man. There are not five DeoDle in thte audience that can tell me the name of that man. Jay Cooke of Philadelphia

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GIFTS MADE BY FRIENDS, LUTHERANS

Contribution of $500 to Cur rent expenses . of campaign, Bundy: Painting', Roses Presented. SUNDAY IS OVERJOYED Lutherans and Friends stampeded the tabernacle Wednesday night, with gifts and enthusiasm. Contributing - $500 to the current expenses of the campaign the , Lai; therans opened the evening's giving, followed by the Friends with a painting by Bundy, and a vase of American roses from the greenhouse of E. Gupney Hill. "We of Richmond have developed a peculiar culture," said Prof. Loui3 Jones, in presenting the. painting, "and we want to give Mr. Sunday a sample of the things that we value so highly. "We are a center of music, and a center of art, and want to present to you a painting by one of Indiana's greatest painters." Presents Roses Immediately afterwards, Rev. E. Howard Brown, presented Mr. Rodeheaver and the rest of the party with "The best cuttings of 'American roses" that Gurney Hill had ever made, naming Mr. Hill as one of the greatest rose growers in the world. ' "Remember to say that those roses can not be bought," prompted a voice from the platform, "they are not on the market." . , - Rev. Sunday stood as if collecting his thoughts while the Bundy picture, held by Rodeheaver was slowly turned for all the audience to see. "Some one said that I was not to get discouraged with Richmond" Mr. Sunday finally said after the applause bad died away. "For when Richmond goes she goes so fast you can't see her for dust. If she is going this way now, what will she be doing by the end of the campaign?". Given Ovation . Mr. Rodeheaver called on Mr. Hill to stand up, while he thanked him for . being able to raise such beautiful roses. Then there came cries from the audience for "Bundy! Bundy!" Yielding at last to the demands of the platform and of the crowd, Mr. Bundy finally arose, and was given an ovation. Just before the collection was taken, Will Romey. who made the announcement, held up a check from the Ladies Aid Society of the First Pres-: byterian church for $100 to be?adder to the current expense fund of the campaign. "That's a mark to shoot at" he 6aid. Nusbaum Leads Before the presenting of thft gifts. Lee B. Nusbaum lead the Lutheran delegation in singing a parody on "Smiles", the last phrase of which ran "But a tabernacle smile will help you, Billy Sunday looks good to me." Twenty-seven years ago this month" Rodeheaver announced, "Nusbaum lead the singing for Mr. Sunday in a campaign In Richmond." "Is it well with you, is it well with your husband, is it well with your, child," was the theme of Mr. Sunday sermon. With the sweat drops flying from his face like fain, and his voice shaky with emotion, Sunday shouted. "We have the greatest educational system in the world, but without Christ the whole country is bound for hell." Shaking his fist, and - pacing th platform like a caged tiger, almost breathless from his exertion, he bellowed, "The greatest need of reconstruction, is a need for the old timo religion." Must Be Born Again "I sympathize with your difficulties, with the beginning you had, with your heredity, with all the troubles that have stood in the way of your Christian life." Sunday told his audience. "But I am here to tell you that you can be born again," he roared, dashing back and forth across the platform. "And without that you can never be saved." Rallying to the defense of the church as an institution, he declared: "Don't blame the church for its shortcomings. The church is not to blame. It is the, l individuals in. the church that im blame." - Brings Tears . Ending his sermon with a descrip-: tion of the old home back in Iowa where the mother that he buried five Iraarc a o-r Vi -j A tonohf Kim v.jr. At - - " .lav. ,aulll II 1111 1113 111 ? I 1 o,, ,.,.. i u. . ilia; iprajer. aunaay Drougnt tears to the eyes of his audience. "How many people here tonight" can -say, "All is well with my soul?" Rev. ' Sunday asked after the prayer . and hands went up all over the audience. - , "How many would like to have me . pray for you or for your brother. or. son?" he asked, and a few hands appeared in different parts of the audience. "Then how many will come down . and take my hand and renew their , faith in Jesus Christ, or take him for , his savior, and gradually after the American flag of the Lutheran delegation came forward, 100 men and wom en came forward, shook Sunday's hand . and renewed their pledge to lead a. Christian life. , . Quakers Present ' ' The Quakers, 1,500 in number, were the first delegation to enter the taber; nacle. Before them came a hugs banner with the words, "The Quakers are ; here," which was taken down front;, and placed just in front of the plat-; form. , Heading the delegation were four .' Friends with a combine dage of 368years. They were Edward Bellas, 95; Timothy Nicholson, 93? Mrs. Thomas, J New Garden, 91; and Ben Johnson, 89. They were followed by the Good

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