Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 107, 5 May 1922 — Page 5

iUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLEMEN rrr Full Report of Evangelistic Meeting Additional Copies At Palladium Office Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM TABERNACLE ON SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET RICHMOND, IND., MAY 5, 1922 AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES

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He That Wins Souls Is Wm,

Do Something for God and See What Blessings Will Follow It

Too Much Theorizing on How Things Are to be Done in the Church and Too Little Practice Slows Up Church Work, Declares Billy Sunday, in An Argument Showing Why Christians Should Save Others

"Churches Need Enthusiasm, Perseverance, Personal Work,"Billy

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The text: "He that wlnneth souls is wise." Proverbs, 11th chapter, 30th verse. In his third sermon on "Personal Work," Rev. W. A- Sunday Friday afternoon said: "The boy that's' gone out and. hooked a worm on a bent pin knows more about fishing from the practical Standpoint than some fellow who read ISir Isaac Walton's book on "Com"plete Angling," and never hooked a worm in his life. There's too much theorizing on how things ought to be done and too little practice. We need wisdom to do anything in the world, particularly what the Lord

wants done, and God can use horse sense, and the church needs a baptism of good horse sense. There are many kinds of wisdom ' the wisdom of winning men, the wisdom of winning money, the wisdom Qfof teaching, the wisdom of constructing buildings the kind that makes somebody forsake their sins and become a Christian. A wise man believes in God; the fool doesn't. The wise man built his "house on a rock; the fool on the sands. A wise man will pray; a fool won't. A wise man will do what God .tells him to do to go to heaven; the fool doesn't care. The fool hath said in his heart: "There is no god." Life-Saving Crew Knows Work Did you ever watch a life-saving

rew at work? When I played base

ball I used to go out to Northwestern

university out at Evanston, trying to

get something that I might go out and preach and talk to people, and

but neveT pass the Information to others and let them die? What do you think, if you have found Jesus Christ and know it's a good thing, if you don't pass It to the next one? If it's better for you to go to heaven than to go to hell, It's just aa good for the fellow next to you to go to heaven instead of hell, so let somebody else know what you have found. If you are sick and some doctor gives you medicine that makes you well, and you know of a friend that has the same trouble, you always tell them about the doctor, don't you? Pass It on! And so, If the gospel Is , a good thing, tell the other person. The

people of old found It good and pass

ed it on to us, let's pass it on to

others In our day. Leave somebody

behind that will keep on telling the

plan of salvation to the world. The keynotes of the gospel are "come" and "go" "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." You can't take anything to heaven with you but your soul not your property, your automobile, your beautiful home or your clothes nothing but your soul, my friends. If you want to do anyone a personal favor, win them to Jesus Christ It's the greatest thing a wife can do for her husband, or a husband for a

wife; it's the greatest thing a parent can do for a child or a child for a

parent; it's the greatest thing you can do for your neighbor, or members

of your lodge or your club, and it you want to please Christ do that,

one thing I delighted to do was to and if you want to displease the devil

stroll out about 5 o'clock and watch! do it. Say, you ought to break your

There's too much theorizing on how things ought to be done and too little practice. The church seeds a baptism of good horse sense. The wise man believes In God'; the fool" doesn't. The wise man built his house on the rock; the fool didn't . Thereis no greater call for loyalty

to your country than loyalty to Jesus

Christ, too. Show that you're for the Lord, too, willing to die for either of them, or both. What would your country amount to if it were not for Jesus Christ. If it's better for you to go to heaven than to hell, it's just as good for the fellow next to you to go to heaven instead of hell. If the gospel is a good thing, tell It to the other fellow. You can't take anything to heaven with you but your soul not your property, not your automobile, your beautiful home or your clothes nothing but your soul, my friend. You ought to break your neck to please God and not to make the devil

groan, l lie awake at nights studying up something the devil doesn't want done, and then go do it.

r-t ,ltil . . Romans shortened their swords and Icebergs sympathy, Don t go around with your head . . , , , . . n th -hurv. hanging like a bulrush, as though you extended their kingdom. You shorten to the church.

many lau irom s uistiuicu uciweeu yuui ,. auu i w , t pecple that uke la the

Where one is won by a sermon, two of Goa- but never pass anything on to any are won by personal work. Qm chrlstlanlty today , too cold; body else. Dead! Dead!

long enough- shine up your face and There are people that you know eet a move 'on for Jesus Christ and Faith is courage taking hold. Hope that just take everything they can

his truth ' ls courage holding on. Enthusiasm get and give nothing. is courage on fire. Get on fire for

When the church begins to move Christ and for the church and the Line yourself up with the Lord, not

out for Jesus Christ at a high rate of cause of Jesus and see what the world with the devil s gang. anpeH all tlin Hvll will hap-In tn turn will An.

nnrt rHva hut wo ra rnlnv nt a vjavr- DO VOUr bt for the Lord. All the

freight schedule for Jesus Christ and Hav sympathy. That's one of the Lord askg you to do in the world is

the devil's going on the Twentieth loveUsts traits of character m a nu- your best, rvntnrv limited . . man being sympathy. It level3 the

You've got to rub elbows with others chasms sympathy. It gives bread to by dignity. If you have no passion to communicate it to the world. The the hungry sympathy. It melts the for souls you need' to be converted.

It brings people

are going to fail

lack of courage

tne life-saving crew at work. There were a half dozen big, strong, husky fellows pulling and as many pushing a bot down into the surf, and they'd get in and pick out the oars and lazily row out about a quarter of a mile from the shore where the United States government had allowed them to erect what represented the mast of a wrecked ship. v $Then-tho6e on shore would bring out the cannon and fire out the lifeline. There was a shell that had a hole through it and through that a fish line, and attached to the fishline a half-inch Manilla rope. They Khot the shell out to the wreck and the men there would grasp it and drag it up and pull it through and

neck to please God and you ought to take supreme delight in making Jesus Christ. smile and the devil groan. I lie awake nights studying up something the devil doesn't want done and then go and do It. It Requires Effort To Save People It requires effort to save people. I worked on a farm when I was only ten years old, milked ten cows night and morning. I used1 to bind oats before McCormick invented the selfbinder, and I was only eleven years old I fired for a railroad; I've played baseball; I've been an athlete, my friends. You'd naturally think it's the easiest thing on earth to get people

to do right well, it's the hardest thing

make it fast to the mast, and they d w,ni,n.f t ,

?,??.atSd bnnS them in. or woman to know that they are not v A0 em' andJlf ther!a Christian. I would be ashamed to

uccu a i cm BLurui mu a real wreck everybody would have been at sthe bottom of Lake Michigan before

tuiat crew would have reached them,

The hour had come for their daily routine and maneuvers and they were

just practicing. That's the way of a lot of peonle

today. On one day in seven the church bells ring and the calender says it's the Sabbath, and the hour has come for their regular routine and maneuvers; but they never try to save anybody; they just go through the motions. They go to church, put on a little better dress than they usually wear, fix up their hair a little different, and call that serving God. You Just hang your head! I expect you're a fair specimen perhaps of the majority of people in the church, and If everybody in the world did no more than you do, the world would. have been in hell long ago. It's a God's fact; It's a disgrace! If two-thirds of the people of this country had showed no more loyalty ito the government in her call for soldiers for help in the last war, my friends, Portugal could have whipped us to a frazzle or some other little country. Christ Calls for Loyalty I tell you, there is no greater call for loyalty to your country than loyalty to Jesus Christ, too. Show that you're for the Lord, too, willing to die for either of them, or both. What would our country amount to if it were not for Jesus Christ, and

What WOUIH th rhliprh amnun !

without the country? And up there at Evanston there was the hulk of what had been an old boat.

w i pounaea to pieces on tne sandbar that rime nut. from tho tknro that o

runs out irom the shore that at

Evanston, and the ship was wrecked, and they had fired the lifelong, but too far away. The high waves and heavy surf beat back the life-isavers and they found a keg on board this old boat and

put this keg in a sack, tied a rope to it. threw it overboard, and the wind and the waves carried the old keg in to the shore, and they made the end of the rope fast to the shore and brought 17 people off the wreck and saved them. And they kept that old keg there as a relic, and I'd look at it and say: "Lord, make me an old keg that will carry the lifeline to some stranded sailor in this old world!" If you are trying to save someone

irom the stormy seas s of passion and unbelief, you are doing what God wants done, and you are doing what the devil doesn't want done, ia carrying out the plan of salvation. When a traveling caravan In the East runs out of water, the entire company will separate. One man will go as far as his voice will carry to another on either side, and they will string the company out across a great area, of land. Then they will go looking for water, and when one finds water he turns and calls to the one nearest him. "Water found! Water found! Water found!" And he will pass it to the next, and he to the next, until the entire company Is informed that one has found water. What would you think if you were with a company of people dying from thirst and one should find water and

lie y-there and satisfy hi3 own thirst

lnnV n Atrert man nr 'woman in thft

fap and sav T was tint a Christian, mvl

friend! If to be a Christian meant to be something disreputable, I would understand why anyone would refuse it but when It means to be the highest

(and noblest man or woman on God's

dirt, tell me why you refuse and ex

pect people t respect you. And you need courage. Oh, there Is nothing harder, seemingly, than to get out and talk talk to somebody about being a Christian. You can talk about business, about politics, about society that doesn't hurt the devil's cause but when you begin your assault on his kingdom, all the devils In hell will be on your back. Don't be afraid; don't go around with your head hanging down like a bullrush, as though you are going to fail. Many fail from lack of courage. I suppose I read the story of Noah and the flood twenty times before I

got this lesson out of it: God told Noat to build the ark, and he built It, and he was a hundred and twenty years In building it. And when he got It complete he couldn't convince anybody but his wife, his three sons and their wives, that God was going to destroy the world. In other words, after a hundred and twenty years, he could only convince seven people, and only eight went into the ark (with himself.) Jesus Christ Was True tc Calling. So, Jesus Christ lived on this earth thirty-three years and - at Pentecost

he could muster one hundred and twenty after thirty-three years of work and of preaching. Some of them followed him a3 long as he'd feed them, but when he cut the com

missary department off. they stopped. They just followed him for the loaves and fishes. I got that lesson out of It, and yet Jesus Christ said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he

do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father." Jesus was a great worker. He said: "I must work the works of Him that send me." ' When His disciples came along as He sat on the well of Sychar they went on into the town to buy bread, and while he was sitting there, there came out a woman with a pitcher upon her shoulder to draw water from the well and Jesus asked her to give

him a drink. She said: "No, you are a Jew; I am a Samaritan. We have no dealings one with another." You can bet your life the racial lines were mighty finely drawn when that Samaritan woman wouldn't give

Jesus a drink because he was a Jew. They wouldn't have any dealings one

with the other." "I am a Samaritan; you are a Jew; we have no dealings." she said.

And Jesus said, "If you only knew

who it was that was asking you, you

would ask of. him the living water."

And she became a materialist and

said, "Lord, give me that water that

I came not hither to draw. Christ Tells of True Water.

He said, "If you drink that water

you will get thirsty again but who

ever drinks the water I give him shall

never thirst and shall be a well of I

water springing up into everlasting i

life. You are talking about material I

imii&a , a alii laiaiu auuui, cyunuai things. You can't get along without the water I want to give you." Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband." And she said, "I have no husband." "Thou hast said true you have had five and the fellow you are living with now is not your husband." She seemed to be in the wholesale business of getting and civing away husbands. And pretty soon Jesus' disciples came back and they were amazed that Jesus wouldn't eat and he said to them, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of. My meat- is to do the

will of my Father in heaven. It is more satisfactory to Tne to turn that sinful woman away from her adultery than to gormandize upon food and let her go to the devil."

So a greater blessing comes to you

TABERNACLE STATISTICS Thursday Afternoon Attendance 700 Collection 539 Thursday Evening Attendance 3,500 Collection ?227 Drail hitters ' 70

lnrstion mart la neutralied bv some

I foolish, twaddle-talk after the sermon

i is over. Some women get together

I and this is the conversation they

have:

"Oh, were you down at the liter

ary Thursday? Did you hear Mrs

A's paper on Ruskin? And that pap

er in the Lady of the Lake? Have

you seen her new gown? Her new

coat? I wonder if it's eeal or near seal?"

And darned if I haven't seen them

back up and feel of It Just to find

es, sir. Pretend to be at

like a twin-six. He rattled over the bridge and around the curve he went,

and disappeared in a cloud of dust. ; out

"You got any more of that stuff fprtionate and lust walk ud and nut

left in the store what you put la the j their hand on her arm to tell by the

by doing what God wants you to do than simply doing the material things. "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." What was this meant? To do the will of his Father, to send that sinful woman from sin, to live for him and for the truth. So Jesus said, "I must work the works of him that sent me." And if Jesus must, you must and so must I. Every One Has work to do.

You have as much a mission to perform in this campaign as I have. My mission is to do my best; your mission is to do your - best. God won't hold me responsible if you don't do your share and he won't hold you responsible if I don't do my share, but I am doing my best and that doesn't let you out if you don't do your best. Don't think all you have to do It to come here and sit

and fold your arms and listen and then go home without saying a word. You are under Just as much an obligation as I to help your country in its hour of need as anybody else. Do your best that's what you are to

It does-

mule?" he eaid.

"Yes," "How much was that you put in him?" "Ten cent's worth." Well," he Eaid, "shoot ninety cents worth into my arm; I've got to catch that mule." Do something! A lot of you have been dead ones long enough; shine up your face and get a move on you for Jesus Christ and his truth. That's what the church needs aggressiveness! An anxious church always makes anxious inquiries and when the people in the church become concerned, the fellow outside is con

cerned, and if you want to know why

the

more concern

touch whether it was seal or nearseal. . What do they care? Nothing! Many Hold Themselves Aloof. Others hold themselves aloof. I can tell a lot of people that haven't been near this revival, officials in the church and preachers. I've been preaching as hard as I have ever preached in my life and they haven't poked their old head around here. Do you think Jesus Christ would live here that long and never go around to see how his work was coming on? They hold themselves aloof. Thev say, "what's the use of this revival?" I suppose there were people stand-

great masses outside have no! Ing around when Jesus raised Izarus ... . . tViA rry-t t tithA coin MWnara

their soul than has been manifested, it's because the church of Jesus Christ doesn't care whether they all go to heaven or to hell. Church Too 8elfish. The church never misses a meal, never sheds a tear, never looks for

a dry spot on the pillow ior weep

the use of raising Lazarus from the dead, he'll die again." I expect you could have heard a line of talk like that in Jerusalem then. Years ago I went away up in the northern part of Minnesota, a hun

dred and twenty-five miles northeast.

of Duluth, away up on the Mesabi

Range, away up In the Carnegie and

ao wnetner maie or remaie. it aoes- . f,IOu ot--ccn thA msmhws! Tn

nT,;tv (ncr trt hpil ! Rockefeller interests in the mining re

they are absorbed in selfishness flon. I was up there preaching in that's all under heaven they do. . If Finn Hall. They are mostly all minthey go to church on Sunday morn- P there and they are mostly Fining and find somebody in their pew, panders, and most every Finlander is they kick up a row and threaten to ! temperance man, and bo they had leave the church. I Temperance Hall, or Finn Hall And No wonder you engender that I " holding a meeting in Finn Hall ctrifp? Kn wnnflpr vmi nut factions and there was a woman there and they

n't make any difference who you are. Do you think the fellow that goes on the firing line is going to do it all? I was In Chicago one day and I saw a horse running away down the street a little fellow weighing about eight hundred pounds hitched to a buggy with a black box and a red

running gear, and there was nobody trying to stop him. I'll tell you no-

wonder it's so hard to reach the masses! I'm talking to you from the standpoint of the fellow outside. I know him; that's my crowd. That'3 the, crowd I come from. I'm telling you what he says and thinks about you. I have become one of you bui

I have never forgotten what he thinks

tried to get her to come to the meeting. Her husband was an elder a Presbyterian and they said to her: "Mrs. Kingsbury, haven't you been to the meeting?" And she said, "I can't understand " (she talked as though she had hot mush in her mouth one of those kind

of women) and she reached her eye

TODAYS BEST STORY

IN BILLVS SERMON I live out in Indiana; I was born in Iowa I live In Indiana, In a beautiful park at Winona Lake, In. diana. One day I heard the birds calling and chattering and making a great noise, and I went out to see what was the matter, and ' I found a fledgling of a robin had fallen out of the nest, and there

were the robins and sparrows and '

bluejays and the flickers and the woodpeckers and blackbirds and the orioles all chattering. This little robin would make a great strug. gle and get about ten feet above the ground and then fall back again and all the birds were trying to do something, expressing their sympathy, but unable to do anything more than chatter. So I went back t the house and got a ladder and I came down and picked up the tittle bird and put it back In the nest, and all the birds Increased their chatter. They alt seemed to say: "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" All trying to express their sympathy. 61 got a lesson from the birdhow they show sympathy to the one that's down and needs a little bit of help; and yet the church Is doing nothing to help bring the world nearer Christ. "Thy soul must overflow If thou other souls would reach." And It is a great privilege, not that God needs us, but that we need him, and yet though that may sound strange, but He does nejed us. God could send angels down here to ring the church bells and preach and sing, but God has put that In earthen vessels, and unless we do it, It won't be done. I am staggered to think that God honors us by asking human beings to carry on His work. God wants you. But don't look and act and talk as though it was a great task and duty but a wonderful privilege to go out and do something for Jesus Christ

v V

never done anything that I couldn't

pick it all to pieces after I did it, but if I can't do as well as you think I

ought to do, or as well as I would

like to do (and I, never do), I always do the best I know how to do, and I am always for Jesus Christ Wants to See Women Active But, wait a minute! If you are satisfied with what you are doing, then I don't want to know you. I like to see the man or woman always striving to greater heights or spiritual success and triumph; I like to see a man or woman trying to do more for Jesus Christ Imperfections taint

everything that we do. Listen! Raphael painted the Madonna, and after he had finished it lie turned aside and wept as if his

heart would break. There was a picture in his soul he couldn't paint, although there has never been one painted like it since. Never! Never! And Kipling, after he had written the Recessional, threw it in the wastepaper basket, disgusted with bis efforts, and his wife, in digging the rubbish out to burn, found the manuscript, read It, detected its literary merit, saved it, gave It to the world, and Kipling never wrote anything better than the Recessional. There was a poem in his soul he couldn't express.

Spurgeon preached a sermon and moved thousands, and when he'd pronounced the benediction he went to his study and some friends found him lying on his face sobbing as If his heart would break. There was, a sermon in his oul he couldn't preach, although he never preached any better. So you will always want to do better than you are doing, although what you did was the best you could do. Try to Cheat tho Waves Galveston, Texas, is an island only

six feet above high-tide. They ve got a low stretch of land there and when the great tidal wave swept through there,, driven by a typhoon, ther-as an Orphans' asylum kept by the Catholic church, and the Sisters of Charity hurried away and got a rope. They

divided the children up and mad

eight for each Sister of Charity, who

then tied the other end of the rope

around her body. They made up their

minds if worst come to worst they d

70 HIT TRAIL IN RESPONSE TO PLEADING

Billy Would Have All Cards Destroyed Asks Sinners To Repent Of Their Evil Ways. CROWD ISlMPRESSED Slamming a chair to the platform, while it creaked as though it had broken, Billy Sunday shouted, "If I had my way I'd have every deck of cards and every pint of liquor in hell before mid

night." Giving his sermon on Inviting .Christ into one's life to an audience of 4,000 at the tabernacle Thursday night Sunday gave the invitation for those who believed in Christ and were willing to pledge themselves to follow him. Seventy trail hitters came forward. - Led by the flag of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the

whole delegation of 2o, with members of the Daughters of America led the way, followed by some Masons,, headed by the Worshipful Master Carl Wolf, and Frank Strayer, lately nominated for county prosecutor. Brotherhood Present In their wake came members of the M. E. Brotherhood lead by Rev. R. W. Stoakes of the First Methodist church. - Special delegations again took up most of the front seats in the tabernacle. The Masons were present 500 strong, the J. O. U. A. M. 25, and

the Daughters of America 30 strong, while the M. E. Brotherhood counted 40, and the delegation from Campbellstown ran 60. Campbellstown, when introduced, greeted Sunday with a cheer, while the Junior Order requested that Mrs. Asher and Rodeheaver sing a verse of the Star Spangled Banner. In answer to the request later the whole audience sang one verse of the national air. Give Flowers The Masons when introduced presented Mr. Sunday with a basket of red roses. Rodeheaver, who is a Ma-

on, told his brothers that there was another degree that they had to take if they wanted to find the way to salvation, and that was in Jesus Christ. When Sunday began his sermon he told the Masons that if he ever joined any secret order, that he would want to Join the Masons. "The others are all right," he said, "I have nothing against them, but there is something about your order that appeals to me," Following the collection, which way made after an announcement by Sylvester Jones, Mr. Sunday said that all but $2,000 of the cost of the tabernacle and of the current expenses had been met. "I hope that you can get it off by the end of the week." he said, "and

then we can stop this collecting. That' amount ought to be easy to get out of Richmond." Collections on Sunday "But of course we will still take collections on Sunday," he added, "it would not be Sunday if we did not." "Religion is the backbone of our life," declared Sunday during his sermon.? "It is the cause of our philanthropy, of our honesty, of our, good will, of the virtue of your wife, and of your faith to her. "Then why," demanded 'Sunday darting and striding across the platform, in. a frenzy, "do you deny th Christ, when He is the cause of all the good things in the world." Turns to Rodeheaver Turning like a shot towards Mr. Rodeheaver who was sitting just back of the platform, "Oh h, my, Oh Ro-

yL0y." Sunday stuuttered at a complete

VTinss

because I know what I thought when j brows and drew in her diaphragm and I was out there, so I have come in! said: "I can't understand why we here to stand as one of you to tell 'have to send to Chicago and have a

body did try, either; they gave him you what to do to get that fellow out j strange preacher come and preach to

the right of way.

And when the church begins "to

move out for Jesus Christ at a high rate of speed, all the devils will begin to turn and dive, but we are going on a way-freight scheduled for Jesus Christ and the devil's going on

the Twentieth Century Limited.

Like an old colored fellow one

time was going home driving an old mule ring-boned, bone-spavined,

and he stopped In front of a country

drugstore and said to the druggisst.

"Say, boss, you got anything that will make this here old mule move along faster? I've got to get home

before dark." He Wanted

Some Himself. He fixed up some sort of a concoction and took it out and injected it through a needle into the old mule, and that mule batted its eyes, bobbed its ears, switched its old rat tail and

Drayea ana aown tne roaa ne went

there. He is easy to get if you want j us-

him. Don't forget that for one min

ute. More Won By Personal Effort. "He that winneth souls i wise." My friend Bishop Hull told me that when he was a pastor he started a

She Could Not See Point And somebody ventured the remark that it was to make the community better. She said, "Make our community betr ter! I think we have an absolutely

loss for words with which to express

his emotion. Working himself up to a fever heat, he reached for his pocket for his handkerchief. "Bob, Itody. got a handkerchief?" he demanded turning

do their best to keep those children

frftm Koino- cnrli-tirl mit infn tho hnr-i

. ----.! n-rain.

Dor. iiut you know tne next tiaai Th ,-, , j wave that swent throuch went to the' Then throlne himself into a fervid laIti iSf ??Jr JeVL-P,,e: nation on the sacrifices that Christ

ings and engulfed them. Two days later they found two of the dead bod

ies of those Sisters of Charity float

ing out in the Galveston Harb? each with eight children tied to her. She didn't save the children, but she did the best she could, and the world applauded their efforts. So do your best for' Jesus Christ. All the Lord asks you to do in the world Is your best!

Then the formality! Oh, people will

had made for the earth, he told of the blood that He had shed, of the willingness to forgive that He had shown, of the spirit of God who had given His only begotten Son to save the world. "Get up and tell me what more God could do to give you salvation." he demanded. "I shall stop for you, If you will give me some answer." The stillness of the audience, was the only answer, and again he turned his attention to the sacrifices thai

special series of meetings in hiif;ne community!" church and through his preaching! There was one of the most good-

forty-eight took their stand for Jesus ! for-nothing, God-forsaken, whiskey-

Christ while during the same period

seventy-five came into the church through hie personal efforts. So, where one is won by a sermon, about two are won through personal

have nothing to do with the church Christ had made. "And we trample never go to prayer meetings the 1 His blocd into the earth, into the dirt

preacher has never seen their maps ! OI in's sia-cursea wona : ne scoutea.

in the prayer meeting door, has never

heard their voices. They never give

a testimony or say anything for God

soaked, blaspheming, accursed, harlot-11' ttey do happen to go occasionally,

... . i j 1 1 v rnicuv n im 1

ridden communiui mat i nave ever-

preached the gospel in in the twenty-

one years I have been preacmng. Here! You listen to me! A little

4 work, and the church isn't doing any : jay town with thirty-five hundred peo-

personal work so thats the reason pie and had 27 saloonsiz gamming so few people are coming into the j halls with doors wide open day and church. The church isn't doing any- night so that men, women and chilthing, so there you are! dren could walk right in and gamble; Sermons many a time are lost. A had eight houses of ill-fame and one aood Imoresslon mlaht be made on had 69 girls in it. and the path from

some man that came to the comunlty or the church, yet the good im-

Sunday Revival Program FRIDAY 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. High school night. SATURDAY . Afternoon Wayne County Sunday School association convention. Homer Rodeheaver will talk to children.

7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon, ing of Christ" is sermon topic.

'Second Com-

They crucify Him!

"Oh, the preacher is vulger, he is crude, his eccentricitit3 and idiosyncrasies grate on my nerves!" Aha! Aha! And so the church is being killed by dignity. If you have no passion for souls, you need to be converted. You ought to walk right

down and renew your vow and covenant and get something you haven't got; if you haven't got a burden to

those houses to the town was beaten see people brought to Jesus Christ

as hard as the rocks, while the grass grew around the churches knee high,

and the churches looked like a lot of little chicken coops sitting around on the street corners with no coat of

paint. And there was a woman, a member of the church, for her husband was an elder, and she couldn't see that that God-forsaken, rotten community wasn't about to sprout its wings and fly away to the empyrean of God above.

"I can't understand" Gee! I tell you, the Lord is having a hard time. Jump in and , make it easy for God what do you say? Line yourself up with the Lord, not the devil's gang! i Then criticize! Oh, merc;! I have

then you are going wrong, and I'd come down and get It. That's what I would do never mind who you are I'd come down and say: Everybody Must be Saved

"Lord, I'm in the church, but I have no passion for having people brought to Christ. I don't care whether they are saved or lost, and, therefore, I know I am wrong and I haven't got what I ought to have." I wouldn't let a day go but what

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"what more could j-ou ask of Jesus.'

Humorous Vein The humorous vein of his sermon broke out in one place. He had been describing the willingness of Jesus to be a guest in the home if but given an invitation. "But don't give him the spare room." he added, with a smile that was echoed by chuckles from the audience. "You know the spare room, usually in the Northwest corner, where the frost was inches thick on the windows, and the sheets on the beds why I would just as soon sleep between two cakes of ice as sleep between those sheets. Had Spare Room "We had a spare room in our place out in Iowa. It was the only room in the house that had a carpet, a lit

tle bit of green in the center of tho floor, ft was the only room that was papered. It had birds, and allegators all over to match the carpet." Sunday was beaming with delight at the description, and the audience was breaking forth Into chuckles. "It had the only upholstered furniture a hair covered sofa that had been In the family for a generation. And then the bed." . Here Sunday held up his hands, and

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