Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 106, 4 May 1922 — Page 8

WIVES URGED BY SUNDAY TO PLEAD WITH DIETY FOR HUSBANDS ENMESHED BY EVIL AND FOLLOWING DOWNWARD PATH TO DEATH

The text: "It It well with thee?" Second Book of Kings, 4th chapter, 26th verte. Billy Sunday. In his sermon at the tabernacle Wednesday night, said: 'TIs evening in the Second Book of Kings, the fourth chapter and the 26th verse: "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with thy child?" Fifty-three miles north of Jerusalem, eight miles from Tabor and four and one-half miles from Jezreel, there once stood the famous and ancient city of Shunam, situated in one of the most beautiful, fertile and picturesque spots ever known on the globe; surrounded by olive orchards and fields of wavine grain, with bubbling fnrinrs and babbling brooks and shaded groves an ideal place for an ideal home. And in this city there was an Ideal home, presided over by one of the fa mous women of her day, Elisha. the Drophet, used to pass by this home on hia journey to Mt. Carmel and back again to the school of the prophets at Jericho, of which he wa3 the head, and there was something in his actions and conduct that led this woman to conclude that he was a man of God, for she had been watching . him. and she said to her husband one day: "I perceive that a man of God Is passing by us continually.With an invitation from us he might atop." , Sees Man of God ; . ! Pasting She felt that , much benefit might accrue from this, and she thought, "Why are we missing all this? I perceive that a man of God is passing by us continually and we are deriving no benefit from it." She euggested to her husband that they fix up a room for Elisha and put in there a bed. a stool and pictures and a candlestick, so that he could ever afterward make this his home They did it, and ever afterward, in his Journeys to and fro, the prophet of God used to turn aside from tne road and BtOD and enjoy the hospital ities of this home in Shunam and rest his weary frame there on the bed they had provided out of their hos pitality and their wealth. And there was in that home an only child, and he had grown to be a chunk of a boy, and he was out in the field one day with his father and the reapers, and the hot 8un of the Orieni beat down upon his head, and suddenly he threw his hands up to his head and cried out: "My head! My head: My head!" The father cried: "Carry the lad to his mother." And they picked the boy up and carried him to the house. And then, to my mind, occurs one of the saddest statements found in the Old Testament, "He sat upon his mother's knees until noon, then he died." Broken-hearted, the carried him upstairs and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and then, the turned to her servants and taid: "Saddle me a beast and drive on. Stay not until I bid you." Down there on the highway was the weeping, broken-hearted mother. Yonder at Mt. Carmel was the only man that she believed in all the kingdom that Gcd would hear. Turnt to Strangera for Relief Oh. Isn't it pitiable that when the death dew is on the brow of the loved one or the black-winged messenger of death has come, you have got to turn to strangers for comfort? And she hurried along the highway and Elisha sat on the hillside, and, looking down the road he saw her coming. He turned to Gehazi, who was a sort of assistant or private secretary for him, and said: "Yonder comes that Shunamite woman. Run down and see what she wants." Gehazi ran down the road and he met the weeping woman, and he sa luted her in the words of my text, "Is it well with thee; is it well with thy husband: is it well with thy child? That included the whole family, for there was only one child. She answered back: "It is well.' Then she cam near to Elisha, and. falling upon her knees, she threw her arms about the man of God, sobbing as If her heart would break; and Gehazi, posBibly thinking her insane, came and seized her by the shoulders and was about to tear her away, but the prophet of God put out his hand and stopped him, saying: "Do not so rudely use her. The poor woman is sorely vexed and troubled within her and the Lord hasn't revealed it to me." Grieves for Death of Son. And then he asked her why she ! had come and the occasion of her grief. She told him that it wa3 because her boy was dead, and she believed, from what she had seen and heard of him when he was in her home, that God would hear him and bring that dead child to life again, so had made the long trip to have him come down there and dry her tears and keep the boy out of the grave. Elisha turned to Gehazi and said, 'You go down and lay my staf on the dead child and he will live, and as Gehazi started off. Elisha said: 'As you go, salute no man. It would be necessary for you tcj understand something of oriental customs to know why he said that. A friend of mine who had been over there said that he saw two Orientals meet on the highway near Palestine. They removed their tnrbans from their heads and their pack from their backs. They saluted each other seven times with a kiss and an obeisance; and he pulled out his watch and timed them and they were Just half an hour. ; So you see if he met very many people it would take him all day to go a mile or two. The same custom was in force then that ia there today. When Jesus sent out His 70 disciples. He said, 'Salute no man by the way, and if he salutes you, salute him not again. Run the risk of having some one say you slighted them in order to do quickly what I want done.' But the woman remained, clinging to the prophet and weeping, and she said, 'As the Lord liveth and as my soul liveth, I will not let thee go,' and she compelled the prophet to make the journey -back with her. He went into the house and put everybody out. He went up the tirs where the dead boy was layinc on his bed and he spread himself " ... r i - I 1 J . cser the dead child. He put his hands

THE RICHMOND

In the boy's hands, his face to the boy's face, his heart to the boy's heart his mouth to the child's mouth, and he prayed and God heard his prayer. Heart Starts Like Pump. The heart started like a pump and drove the blood thrmi the arteries, the eyelids trembled and the eyes opened and the little fellow, looking up at the prophet, began to cry and asked for his mother. Elisha called to Gehazi and said, Carry the lad to his mother, and they carried the living boy back to his mother, and the home of weeping was turned into laughter, death into life, sorrow into Joy, because the faith of the mother was not misplaced in the prophet 'of God. Now, then, why do you suppose that God gives us that beautiful story? It is simply an Old Testament incident, that is all, but I think there is a lesson in it peculiarly ap-i.iv-ciuio io mis meeting, ana parutuiaiijr io-mgni, mat after prayer i ormg you this mesage, and I ' believe that God wants to teach us importunity in prayer, determination to accomplish the thing upon which your ieart is set, no matter how many uBictuiea neii may mie In th way or how hard the devil may work to aiscourage you. Years ago in Cincinnati one night ai a ricn, fashionable church, the minister had made his appeal, and as he came to the close of the sermon the Spirit of God seemed to say to him. 'Make your anneal personal. Ask if there Isn't somebody here tonight wno wants to have it settled. e never had done it, but the spirit seemed to eay again, 'Make your appeal personal. Ask if there isn't some body now that is sick of sin.' And when they concluded the song the minister eaid, 'Is there a man or woman here that is sick and tired of sin and you want to be a Christian? I feel constrained and drawn to ask you. Will you lift your hands?" Appeals Again Man Enters. He waited and there was no response. He made the appeal again and the door opened and a young man entered and dropped into the rear seat. He made the appeal again and this young fellow jumped to his feet, lifted his hand and then cried out so that the audience was startled: "Pray for me. I am sick and tired of sin and I have made a wreck of my life,' and then he dropped, weeping, into the pew. The minister prayed. The meeting was dismissed. Nobody spoke to the young man as he went out. The minister came down the aisle and talked with him, learned a sad story of prodigality and wandering, learned that his father and mother lived in Brooklyn and he hadn't heard from home for seven years, and he didn't know whether they were living or dead. The minister advised him to write home and tell them where he was and what he had done. He didn't expect an answer back for four days, but when the fourth day came there was no answer. The fifth day there was no answer, and he was worried; the sixth day there was no answer, and he was troubled; the seventh day there was no answer and he was in distress; the' eighth day, no answer, and he was in agony. The ninth day and the answer came, but the envelope was bordered in black. With tear-dimmed eyes and trembling hands he broke the eeal, and he read something like this: 'My Precious Boy: The joy which your letter brought to our home and hearts was only exceeded by the sadness which reigned there at the same time, for as nearly as we can conclude, the same day and the same hour that you say you found Jesus Christ as your Savior in the church in Cincinnati your old father was going out into the skies. All day long he tossed and rolled upon his bed, and his mind would roam and wander and he would cry out: 'Oh, God, save my poor, wandering, wayward boy. We would attempt to turn his mind from your prodigality and drunkenness and wandering, but he would cry out: "Oh, God, save my poor, wandering, wayward boy.'" Finlthes Prayer To Christ. Just before he passed on he cried, 'Oh, God, save ' and he finished the prayer in the presence of Jesus.' Down at the bottom of the letter the mother added this postscript: 'Edward, you a.re a Christian tonight because your old father would not let God go nor take "No" for an answer.' Oh, for men and women who knew how to pray like that! Great God, for wives that could lay hold upon the Lord for husbands; parents for children; friend3 for friends, so that they would be swept into the Kingdom of God and yield for Jesus Christ. I would like to make my message tonight brief and make It personal, so that not a man or woman could leave this tabernacle and honestly say: 'Ho didn't mean me. That didn't apply to me.' First, 'Is it well with thee?' and I wil answer that much of it for every unsaved man or woman In this tabernacle. How could it be well with you? If you were to die, you would be in hell before midnight How can it be well with you when the wrath of God is upon you, when God s hand Is' against you? How can it be well when you are a rebel to God and God's Kingdom and living in rebellion, and nothing but mercy of God prevents His wrath from falling upon you? I know men; I know their trails. I know their temptations, and there Is many a man who is influenced by the momentum of the crowd that he is with to do thing3 and say things at the time he is with them that he hates and despises himself to think that he did; and when he is alone he thinks: 'Oh, how could I have stooped to do such a thing, that would put a blush on my mother's cheeks, make my wife ashamed that she ever married me, or my children ashamed to call me father?' .. There are men in hen tonight that were influenced by the crowd they went with. There are men in Heaven tonight because they were influenced by the crowd they went with, and the appeal to the higher and nobler instincts of their life and truth. Is it well with the man who will sit even i occasionally at the gambling of

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black-legged gambler? Is it well with the man that will take even an occasional drink and run the risk of becoming a reeling, vomiting drunkj ard. staggering to the pit of hell? Ia it well with the man that will take God's name in vain and trample God's laws beneath his feet? Is it well with the man that will hang evil thoughts

upon the walls of his mind and ap- time when I find myself nearlng one preach in bis longings the secrets ofji mn to get by, because I am afraid

utiicio : ia li weu -wnu lae one mat is careless of his or her companions? Is It well with one that has no respect for God's holy day and uses it for his or her own convenience. No! Ten thousand times ten thousand times, no: God pity you If you go out Into eternity with the sin on your life that is there now as you sit and listen to i me. There are several reasons whv God stands ready and willing to for. give and remember your tins against you no more forever. Years ago In Philadelphia a boy was working for his father, and one night he tapped the till and stole $85, and he fled. The father hired detectives and they sent photographs of the boy to the Chiefs of Police all around, and the mother's heart was breaking, and they looked everywhere. , " And finally one day my old friend, Sam Hadley, who used to be superintendent of the old Water Street Mission in New York, sat teetered back in a chair in front of his place and a boy came down the street and stopped. He said: "Is this Mr. Hadley?" He said: "Yes.' He said: 'Will you kindly get me a needle?' Mr. Hadley said: 'What for?' He said: 'I want to mend my trousers.' He looked at the boy's trousers ana saw mey were in rags and hei said: You haven't got trousers enough on to bother about mending. You go upstairs and I'll get another pair. Tells of Money Theft. When they got upstairs he told him how he had stolen the money ana ne naa flea from home. Mr. Hadley sent a telegram to Philadel phia to the same address the boy gave him and back came the answer: "Mr. H. M. Hadley, 316 South Water street, New York City. Tell the dear boy to come home. Put him on a train and let us know when he is coming and we will meet him at the Broad-street Station.' God said to Jesus Christ: 'I comemission you to go down and tell them to never mind what they have done, forget the past and remember that I have a full pardon for them, free and eternal. It never enters into consideration what you have been and what you have done, if you are only ready and willing to forsake your stains, God stands ready and willing to foreive them, no matter what you have done that is not the question with the Lord. And then because of the life and death ressurrection of Jesus Christ it is made possible to do His will and keep His commandments. During the Indian mutiny some of the English were defeated and a number of them were captured and they were taken as prisoners to what was then the headquarters of the Sepoys, and among them was a man who was wounded and bleeding from a half dozen wounds. He was lying on the floor when in came an Indian officer and he started to wrap a long chain about each of the English officers. Brother Englishman Interferes. When he approached the man lying on the floor, so weak from loss of blood and his wounds that he couldn't move, he started to wrap and lock the chain about him, a brother Englishman named - Baird leaped to his feet and shoved the Indian back untin ne went staggering against the wall, and ho said: "Great God, man, have you neither heart nor sympathy? Don't you see the man is suffering from the wound 3 and is so weak now that he can't stand? He could make no attempt to escape, and couldn't if he wanted to, and you are not going to add to hia burdens by compelling him to lie there with a chain wrapped about him.' Said the Indian officer: 'There are as many chains as there are prisoners, and every chain must be worn.' Then said Baird: 'You may put two chains on me; I will wear mine and his. Put two around me instead of one.' And they locked two chains around him and they carried him out and dumped him into that infamous well at Calcutta. This other man was exchanged and he went back to England and until the day he died he never tried in private or public sounding forth the praises of the man who, by wearing his chains, had made it possible for him to creep back again into the arms of his wife and of his children. I "Oh, if the man had worn ail the chains that would not have been analogous to what Jesus Christ did when he made it possible for every one of us to keep out of hell. I don't see why you want me to kill myself trying to get you to do what is right. I think that with one message anybody who claims to be decent would rush to Jesus Christ. Your friends here and your friends in Heaven are anxious for your salvation. A man came up to a friend of mine and said: Asks To See Redeemed Man. "Say, would you like to meet a man that has been redeemed from the power of the devil and strong drink?" He said: 'I would like to meet any man that has been redeemed from the power of the devil, but particularly a man that has been held in the" meshes for whom I have more sympathy than he.' He said: 'Well, take me by the hand. I wasn't always thus. I used to be a prosperous man. I owned the three tallest buildings in this town. You can see my name carved there in marble, and I was prosperous. I got to drinking and gambling and. got to be careless in my life. My friends and my wife and others pleaded with me, but I wouldn't stop. "By and by I had to mortgage the building. That was foreclosed and I mortgaged another, and then another, until they were all gone, and I became a common gutter drunkard. "One day I was lying in the hallway of a building I used to own when they came and aroused me from my drunken stupor, and they said to me: 'If you want to see your little boy alive you had better hurry home." "It sobered me in a minute. I jumped to my feet. A minute ago I couldn't walk, but I started out reeling of course, but walking. I hurried to his bedside. He put his thin, transparent arms around my neck and

said:: 'Papa, I am going to die, butt promise me that you will quit drink-!

ing and I will meet you at the door of Heaven. ! "And with his breath hot on my face and with his words ringing in my ears I promised him. And many a time I cross the street to keep from going in front or a saioan. Many a the fumes will draw me in. Many a -time I will go a block Just to avoid ; 1 sv n iYiat T tvn--M naval moat ,

boy: and don't you know. I can feeliReller (Rotarian) and Tom Tarkinson

his arms around my neck and they are like a kite string tugging and pulling at my heart, and I wouldn't dis appoint him for all the world, for I know there is one in Heaven that is waiting for me.' Friends Should Offer Help. Friends here, frlendt yonder want you to win. Anybody that . doesn't want you to be a Christian It a dirty dog. Anybody that doetn't want you to be for Jetut Christ doesn't deserve your friendship. No. Friendt here and friendt hereafter want you to be a Christian. ONE PERSON (Continued from preceding page) was the fellow who financed the Civil war for the United States government: he was the bright financial star and his name was on everybody's lips. But you don t hear his name now,

They blaze for a little while and down were calIed tQ , tn 01d lltl u nl3l rA!i J m ,Mk for the son stammered a bit. y ni, VfgHanH uTln nf'and aske(l Mrs. Rodeheaver sing cago. Oh, my friends, it is men ofjne BQQg thcLCSJ- tm . M 4 ' "That request interests me grtatly."

' bright minds among the doctors, i Why, tell me the name of the doctor that doctored Garfield. No, you can't do it. Tell me the name of the man that doctored McKinley. McBurney was one of them. The names are gone. Perhaps the greatest surgeon in the country'lives in a town way up in Minnesota, Dr. Mayo. People come from London and Berlin in order to have those two farmer boys operate on them. Perhaps they are the most skilled surgeons in the world today, but in a few years they will die and pass away and there will be somebody else. Who were the bright political stars a few years ago? It was Grover Cleveland a few years ago; today you don't hear his name mentioned. A few years ago it was Thomas Reed, but you don't hear his name mentioned today. A few years ago it was Grant; now it is all Wilson. In a few years you won't hear his name. They blaze for a while, but others come and they are lorgotten. Names Soon Are Forgotte4n. But the Bible says, "They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars forever and forever." The financial stars blaze, those in the medical field blaze, the doctors and lawyers and business men; then they are gone. Now suppose I'd advertise a discovery whereby I could change common stones into nuggets, and gravel into gold, pebbles into diamonds suppos ing i couia prove mat l could do it. Whenever you see a diamond, that's nothing but a piece of charcoal or carbon, the same kind that you see in a leadpencil. The only difference Is that it has been changed from a piece of carbon into a diamond by nature That's the power; we don't know how nature did it. Well, supposing I could change lumps of coal into diamonds. Supposing I could change cobble stones into gold. Suppose the government assayer would pronounce it 24 carat fine. Supposing I formed a stock company to manufacture gold and diamonds and I could get a million dollars a share for it. Well, there's no such company that wm ever De organized, but I've got something that's better than that. I have a proposition I want you to take stock in. What is it? It's the power that can take a drunkard and make him sober; take a thief and make him steal no more; take a quarreling man and make him pray. It's .the gospel of Jesus Christ! I want you to take stock in religion. That's the power' Power to Work Great Changes. Change this City! Change your husband to a man that will love you and be kind to you. Change yourself so you won't turn your old gattling machine gun tongue loose. I think the lack of gfneral efficient personal work is one of the weakest spots of the church. It don't seem to enter the mind of the average church member that there is anything for him to do. It is the business of a flour mill to make flour. It is the business of the saw-mill to make lumber. It is the business of a uinnn arunKaras. It is the business of a meaicai college to make doctors It is the business of a law school to make lawyers. It is the business of the church to make Christians! That's the church's busines; not to entertain them or amuse them! Save them for Jesus Christ! Too much of the work done today is like a squirrel in a cage lots of activity but no progress. You nave seen them in a cage with a wheel m it. going around, but thev never get anywhere, and so it is with some of us, we are thinking to beat the band but we do not make any headway It don't require any spiritual life to play cards, run a bazaar or a rummage sale none at all but it does to help somebody to be won to Jesus Christ It don't require much wisdom to win a, man'3 friendship; if he is low down help him, flatter him, patronize him' and you can win him. Oh, you can get some fellow to vote for you for a few years maybe; a $5 bill will sometimes cause a man to do that. Condemns Men Who Sell Votes. A man that will sell his vote ought to be deprived of citizenship. Any dirty, black-hearted whelp that will tamper with the American ballot box ought to be disenfranchised, and where the minority may defeat the will of the majority they ought to be disenfranchised and thrown into prison. If I had anything to do with it, that's where they would be driven. I don't know whether there . would be any place to send them I don't think they want them in hell. It's marvelous, marvelous. Letters of testimony I never give letters of testimony, never give letters of testimony or- endorse books. I have nothing to sell you: I don't want to buy anything, if I did, there'd be an army of people preying on my credulity through my friendship. As it is, a lot of fellows go around selling stuff out on the street; I have nothing to do with it. I have nothing to sell you. They get my pictures, although the

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trail

TO WELCOME VISITORS, Plans for the welcoming of the Cincinnati and Charleston delegations were put under way at the tabernacle i meeting Wednesday night when a committee composed of Charles Wood. man representing the ministers, Will UOmey, ttay Mowe (Kiwanis), Will was appointed to work out the details of the plans. MANY BABIES An average of nearly a hundred babies a day are now being taken care of by the nursery in the Friends church, for the tabernacle meetings. The attendance runs from about 75 for an average at night to about 25 for the day. The largest number in any one evening has been something over a hundred. A SUGGESTION Rodeheaver's latest suggestion for the women is that they pin their hats to their skirts so that they will not lose them but at the same time be comfortable. "I wonder if Rody knows how many women don't use hat pins these days?" one woman whispered to another. ASKS FOR SONG t AT re A ch r and TTt pArIartA9Trat .said Rodeheaver. "I'd like very much song." WELCOME THEM "We want a card in every window welcoming the Charleston delegation," said Will Romey from the platform. "And you can take them out to dinner Sunday." added Rodeheaver, "and then after yu have taken them out you can invite some of the party out." HAS HIS TROUBLES Billy Sunday -had more than the usual interruptions Wednesday night. Once a glass fell from one of the windows and broke on the floor. At another time he stopped in his sermon to have all of the doors of the tabernacle opened. "It's not the fresh air that will hurt you, he said; "it's the foul air in a! shut up place. law doesn't give a man the right to do it; but they will go and get the copies and sell them. I have nothing to do with it. If I had anything to sell I'd put it right in the tabernacle. What little money is made on these song books I give it all to Rody. I don't make a cent of it. Letters of Praise Are Foolishness. 1 We get up a few little sermons for 10 cents; sometimes we will sell them if the people want them, but what I get on that I give it away. Now, I have got no rake-off from anything.! And another thing here, it don't require much friendship. yVhy, you take a church that wants to get rid of a preacher, they can give him the most flattering letter of testimony you ever read in your life. Why, if he will fulfill, all of those requirements, I ought to be pastor of some of the metropolitan churches, or some of the big churches here. t Look at the get-rich-quick schemes! They filched 1100,000,000 out of the pockets of the poor people in juts a few months until the government haS to take hold of them. But some fellow advertises and he's got a plan that will give you 30 xr 40 percent on your investment; and you can bet your life he's a fraud on the face of it Why? I will tell you. If he's got good giltedged security to offer, he can go down to the bank and put up his stock and borrow money from the bank at five percent. I don't find anybody lying awake at home at night trying to put 30 percent in your pocket. I want to tell you the United States gov ernment can get all the money it wants at three percent; Uncle Sam is gilt-edged security. The higher the rate of interest, the more danger your principal is in every time, every time. And so four percent interest eight hour's sleep better than 15 percent ana insomnia ana men lose your principal. Don't bite! I am not going to give you a lecture on finance. Don't bite! Your money Is as good to you as it is to the other fellow. Don't bite, don't bite! Go down and put it in and get three percent and go home and go to bed and go to sleep. Anybody can do it! Everybody can't preach. I know what would happen if Rody would try and preach. Everybody can't sing. j tverybody can Help To Win Souls. And so, everybody can do something, but we can't all preach. But everybody can talk! You can do that. So that's why. if there were only one hundred Christian in the world right now and if they'd each win one squl in a year, that "would be two hundred at the end of a year. Then if the two hundred would each win a soul, that would be four hundred at the end of the year; at the end of another it woul be eight hundred, and in another years it would be sixteen hundred. Do you know how long it would take to win l,600,000.0qo, or more than the present inhabitants of the globe? It would take just 25 years. And Jesus Christ died over 1,900 years ago, and we have got beneath the Stars and Stripes 70,000,000 people not in any church,, Catholic or Protestant. What are we doing? Nothing to help bring them to the Lord. And you can do it any place. You can't preach any place! I can't preach in a store; I can't preach in a street car; I can't preach in the street I can preach in the tabernacle twice a day but you can Speak to people no matter where you are, while paying the fellow your carfare, or calling the fellow on the 'phone; you can speak to people when you go out. You go out of here, some thousands of you; you can each speak to some person this afternoon, and therefore you go out and see what you can do. Do you see what you'd do? You'd multiply what you say for God cud for his truth. Now you can do it any time, any hour of tht day or night. You can't preach any time. How Moody Saved Souls For Christ Moody, when he was a young fellow, was secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Chicago, and he made a resolve that he wouldn't go to bed without winning somebody for Jesus. He went to bed one night and -it occurred to

REMOVES HATS A hat, hung on one of the posts, attracted Sunday's attention. "Won't you please take the hats from the

potts," said Mr. Sunday; "it hides the faces of the audience. VISITORS HERE Lyle Rader of Chicago, brother of Paul Rader, dropped Into the tabernacle to see Sunday, and was called upon to offer the closing prayer over the trail-hitters. George Arnold of Paterson, N. J, who was chairman of the campaign in that city, who was with Mr. Rader, also dropped in to renew acquaintances. , "Mr. Arnold has been connected with the Sunday campaigns in a surprising number of places," said Miss Matthews. "He was almost head of the New York City campaign in 1917." BUNDY PICTURE The picture which was presented to Mr. Sunday was painted by Mr. Bundy from a sketch made some five years ago close to Matamora and near Brookville, along the valley of the Whitewater. The sketch was made on-the spot by Mr. Bundy. SMILE SONG The "Smiles" song sung by the Lutherans is as follows: (Tune: "Smiles.") Some may smile because they're happy. Some don't smile because they're blue; Some may smile because they have a conscience And their heart is ever brave and true; Some may smile when troubles overcome them, Yet they trust, although they can not see; But a "Tabernacle Smile" will help you, Billy Sunday looks good to me. TO MAKE RECORDS Next Wednesday Bob Matthews is to make some records for the Gennetts, in which he is going to set a new mark in recording. In order to get the proper feeling .to the songs, Bob is going to play his own accompaniment, and the company has made a special recording horn to get both the voice and the piano. So far as is known no records have ever been made where the soloist has played his own accompaniment The songs to be recorded are mainly humorous ones, like those which Matthews gives on occasion from the tabernacle platform. him that he hadn't spoken to anybody about being a Christian, and he got up and started to dress, and the devil said. Oh, don't get up. Moody, you're tired; don't go out on the street hunt ing for somebody. He was just about to listen to the devil and he said, "Well devil, I am going to do it because you don't want me to do if So he dressed and strolled out on the street near the City Hall, and it was nan pasctweive, ana he met a fellow. He said., "Hello, stranger! Are you a Christian?" The fellow said, "None of your blankety-blank business. Who are you?" v He said, "I am Moody. Who are you?" He said, "Go and mind your own blank business." Moody said, "There's a blank to fill out when you make up your mind to be a Christian." The next day this fellow went to J. V. Farwell, the merchant prince, who was president of the Y. M. C. A., and he said, "Farwell. I want you to call that fool Moody off because he's do ing your Y. M. C. A. more harm than good. He stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a Christian, and I told him it was none of his blankety-blank business." Farwell went to Moody and said, "Now, Moody, I'd be a little careful aoout what I did. I admire your want ing to help the cause." Moody Stands Pat Cn Proposal. Moody said, "I don't propose to have you or anybody else tell me when and when and to whom I am to talk about their soul's salvation. I have a com pact with God Almighty to try and win somebody everyday. I have been so Dusy sweeping out your office and doing a lot of detail work that I oughtn't to have to do, that I went to bed and forgot about it. and I trot up and found that fellow, out on the street, ana ir you don't want me to talk about any particular thine that I see fit to talk about, I won't talk at an. "Oh," said Farwell. "I don't want you to talk like that And you can have my resignation rism now,- saia Moody. They didn't accept his resignation. You bet they didn't! Thev wouldn't allow a fellow like that to tret awav. tane it from me. and "Moody moved over on the West Side in Chicago. One n tir: spoken to anybody that dav. and when . " " UdUU he awakened it was one o'clock in the morning and it was raining furiously, great gusts of rain were sweeping dow nthe street. The devil said, "Moody, go to bed; don't go out there and get wet and get pneumonia: go to bed." Moody said, "All right, I'd go to heaven quicker if I had it than if I didn't" So he put on his clothes, he put on his rubber boots, and he put on a raincoat, took an umbrella, and started out He saw a fellow with his coat collar turned up and his hat drawn over his head, in the rain, and Moody went up to him and said, "Well, stranger, you look as though you are having a hard time navigating against this storm. Here, take my umbrella." Moody had a raincoat and rubber boots and the fellow was just drenched, and Moody said, "Take my umbrella." The fellow said, "Thank you for the little help you have given me." Moody said, "Where do you live?" "I live at 600 West Washington Boulevard." And Moody said, "Well, I don't live very far; I will take you home." Then Moody said, "Are you a Christian?" He said, "Well, I used to be and I came up here to Chicago and got crazy making money; I haven't been near a church." He said, "What's your name?" "D. L. Moody, from the Y. M C A." He said, "How did you happen to be out here on the street tonight?" Moody said, "I went to bed and had

PERSONAL EFFORTS HELP WIN SOULS TO CHRISTIAN RELIGION

"I believe in. experimental religion." declared Rev. Billy Sunday preaching at the tabernacle Wednesday afternoon. "It is the person who has had a religious experience who is best able to guide a person to Christ Telling the story of the negro who had led the members of his baseball team to a famous spring in the hills near Hot Springs, Sunday declared. "That negro was able to lead the six big, husky, dry men to the spring because he had been there before, and Knew tne way." "It is the same way In religion," he insisted, "the experience is necessary if others are to be brought to Christ" Necessity of Work. The Wednesday afternoon sermon was directed mainly at the necessity of personal work in getting others to come forward and acknowledge Christ. "God has a use for men in Wis world," he said, "but he needs others to convert those people in the first place." t "Where will you find them' he demanded. "You will find them in the 6hops, in the offices, -in the clubs, at your back door, even the other tide of the breakfast table." Telling the story of the tough young man in Iowa who refused to listen to him when he wanted to talk' religion. Sunday dropped his lower lip, and speaking out of the corner of his mouth imitated the tough's action. "I don't care about your religion he said." forgotten to speak to some one, and I found you." He said, "You don't mean to tell me that you came out here looking for somebody to talk to about their soul." Returns to Find His God. ; Moody said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Moody, I will be down to see you tomorrow." He went down next dav and Moodv let him back to the renewal of his covenant. God blessed that man and he became one of our multi-million aires, and whenever Moody needed money, that man was one of the first to write out a check for him. "He that winneth souls is wise." Dr. Smith Baker of Boston, a noble man, had a University of Harvard Professor that came to his church.'Ho was trying to get into the church and there was a brakeman on the Boston & Maine R. R. that had been converted, and whenever they threw the meeting open for testimony, he'd always jump to his feet and give It and then sit down and say this "Fellows, come to Jesus Christ and he will give you a boost." And Dr. Smith Baker said to himself, 'Why, it will never do for that College Professor to hear that fellow: he will hink that religion is good for weak-minded sort of people and people with limited intelligence, but not for college professors." And he was wondering what he could do to keep that brakeman from the Boston & Main R. R. from getting up and giving his testimony, because he knew-his old mildewed bunch would sit there and look wise. Professor Joint The Church. Some time went by and the Harvard Professor came to Dr. Smith Baker and he said, "Doctor, I want to join the church next Sunday, on confession of faith." Dr. Baker said, "Well, I am delighted to know that you want to come in. I had been wishing and praying that you'd come, and. knowing your difficulties. I have been preaching sermons, having you "in mind when I preached. I wish you would tell me what sermon it was that I preached that answered your argument." "You preach fine sermons. Doctor, and we all love them." Dr. Baker said, "Would you mind telling me what brought you here?" He said, "Do you know that Boston & Main R. R. brakeman who gets up and gives a testimony in your prayer meeting and always winds up by saying, "Fellows, come tQ Jesus and he will give us a boost' Well, I am coming because of that testimony. I am coming to give Jesus Christ a chance to give me a boost. If you want to know why I am coming in, it's the Boston & Maine R. R. brakeman that brought me here." GOLDEN PLOVER FLIES FOR LONG DISTANCES The American golden plover Is the greatest long-distance migrant known to natural history. Ills flight from north to south is approximately 4,000 ! miles, the greatest distance traversed ! by any bird, and 2,400 miles of this done without a single rest. From 11 Cn,V.- HTqtv.1, 1, enar. September to March he spends on the pampas of Argentina and after this six months' residence in the South--ern Hemisphere, he starts his trip to the Arctic Circle. The plover's route i3 across Northwestern South America, then over the Gulf of Mexico, and into the United States along the coast of Louisiana and Texas. Thence he moves up the Mississippi Valley and by early June is nestling on the "barren ground'' above the Arctic Circle. GIFTS MADE (Continued from preceding page) Cheer Sunday school class of the U. B. church, 75 members, and finally by the Lutheran delegation, headed by an American flag, of 600 persons. Divide Honors The two churches divided honors of the evening. Rev. Charles E. Hlatt of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends lead in prayer, while Will Romey made the collection announcement. The Lutherans made a present of money from their own denomination, while the Friends presented Mr. Sunday with a painting by J. E. Bundy, a member of the West Main Street Friends' meeting, and roses raised by Gurney Hill, a member of the South Eighth Street Friends' meeting. Joseph Hill, who furnished the flowers for the cover for the picture, is also a member of that meeting. A Quaker quartet from Marion, composed of George Heflin, Frank Moon, Ray Leamon and John A. King, sane. Rodeheaver asked them to sing, "if the spirit moved them," and it did'