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Trials of Life Give Christian Better Knowledge of God, Says Sunday, Explaining Job's Lot Christian Character Is Strengthened and Love for God and His Goodness Increase As We Suffer Tribulations and Overcome Handicaps of Life, Evangelist Belives It Pays to Serve God.

The Text "There was a man In the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and echewed evil "Job, 1st' chapter, 1st verse. In his sermon on Job, Rev. W. A. Sunday said Wednesday afternoon: That i3 the greatest certificate of character that I know anything about It is greatest in what is said, for language could not express more. It declares that he was perfect and to that nothing can be added. When that is said, all that speech can say has been said. "Perfect" means a wonder and then some. That is the kind of n man that Job was, perfect in character and nothing more can be said of an angel. Perfect, when measured by the honest standard in the uriverse, God's. Job was white in the light of Heaven, this certificate of character comes from the highest source in the world. God; and if the Lord makes It, and it Is the Lord that makes it, that means that he just suited God. The allseeing eye of God could not find a flaw in his character, and for the first time in History, God could lean over the battlements of Glory and look down UDon the land of tt an find the man that He could trust, find a man He could admire, recommend, endorse, go the limit. I would rather be perfect in the eight of God than have all the world could give in wealth and honor, and have God look down and say, "Well there is a Wop." Think of the hope and the inspiration that comes to you today, meditation upon the declaration that God made about Job. If Job could please God back there In those dark day3, you and I can please him down here tonight with all the enlightment and incentives that we enjoy. Any One Can Please God. To know that it Is possible for one man or woman to please God. is to know that any man or woman that lives can please God! What one did, all can do. if all are willing to do it. This is not a standard too high for human attainment. ? The Bible does not say that Job was perfect in the sight of man. Jesus t nnst was not; they called him a wine bibber and they cursed him and mpnemea mm. so he was not perfect in the sight of man. but he was perfect In the sight of God. If I thought that I had to please everybody or miss Heaven, I would throw up the sponge now and take the count, and if I were to please everyDoay I would miss Heaven. If you had to be perfect in the sight of neighbors you would never wear a crown. There is not one of us that can please everybody for a week even if your life depended on it. There is not a man who can b perfect in the sight of his wife and there i3 not a woman could please her husband fifteen minutes. But hundreds of us may please God if we are earnest and do our best. It is a thousand times easier to please God than it is your neighbor. The reason of it is that God knows everything about us and our most intimate friends only know a- little bit about us. Human Vision Stops At Surface. . Our friends judge us by what they ee uj aq ana uod judges us by what we would do if we had the power to do it. You see a fellow reeling down xne street, drunk; that fellow goes and moans and cries and sheds tears. God judges him by what he wants to do and you judge him by what you saw him do. Human vision stops at me surrace. A good many people measure God but they deny Gods right to measure them. "There was a man in the land ef Uz" I don't know much about the land of Uz but they say it was located near where Bagdad is. Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Ezra arc buriod in Rnsrdad. Babylon used to stand about twenty miles East of where Bagdad is now. I don't know much about the lard of Uz but I will tell what I think about it; I have an idea it was about as hard a place in the then known world ror a man to be perfect as there was. I meet people who seem to think that religion is a matter of geography. There are nrsnl whit thinkthey can be good if they live in Kan sas, ana people in Kansas tninK they couta serve uoa in iew YorK. Heopie in New York eeem to think they could serve Gcd better if they lived in California. I heard of a man who went to a camp meeting and he shouted "A- , men" so loud that he frightened people around him. And he got into a fight with a hack-driver on the way home. Every One Can Please God. If Job could please God in the land of Uz, I know you can do it here. Every time. Any Christian man or woman can do it. no matter, where vntir lot mav h nrnvliipnttallv Met The man who has to be in church or in a revival meeting to be happy has a leak in his Faith, and a doubt is the leak that sinks the ship of Faith. "There was a man In the land of Uz". Job. Have you ever noticed that when the Bible has anything good to say about a man it usually gives his name and if nothing but evil, his name is withheld. We know the name of the poor man that was lying at the gate of the rich man Lazarus but we do not know i the name of the rich man. God had nothing to say about him so ho did not mention his name. If you know anything about a man or woman that is

good, tell it out, but if you don't keep your darned mouth shut. I "If you know of a skeleton hidden away In a closet and guarded and kept from the day, in the dark And wrhose showing, whose sudden display Would cause grief and sorrow and life-long dismay, "If you know of a thing that would darken the Joy It's a pretty good plan to forget it. Of a man or a woman, a girl or a . boy, That would wipe out a smile and elsewise annoy a fellow, And cause his gladness to cloy, : It's a pretty good plan to forget ' it. And the reason why I am glad that the name of Job is given in connection with the stories of his trial, shis experiences, is, that it has been a great blessing and help to me and I want to tell him so when I get to Heaven, so 1 will know who to ask for now. Would Like to See Job I can imagine an angel chasing around and saying, "Job, Job, there

is a ienow nere from the United States named Billy Sunday wants to i see you." I want to take a walk with Job (some day and have him fill out the gaps in his story. I want to ask him tsome questions about a few things 'Over which I have been curious. I want to ask him how he felt when the messengers came dashing up ! bringing him bad news. I want to ask him if he did not find it easier to j endure his boils than he did the I taunts and insinuations of his alleged menus, i am going to ask him. You sit out there and look at me and talk about the world growing better! 'When you can trot out a character; show me a man wh is h than Job according to God's showing. ...... . ..... uhevc dim Let i k witn you about the world getting better. Understand it? Trot .him .out! Come I am tired of this hot-air, windjamming about the proposition. There is not a man or woman looking in my face that had not the advantage over Job in ten thousand wavs wviot nti, .help he had to be decent and good, ;cuuiparea witn wnat we enjoy today and put him by the side of Job, he j looks like a plugged counterfeit cent beside a thousand dollar government bond. ' Book Is One of Oldest" in World. ! The book Of .Tnh is art oldest writing in existence. Yet. way back in those misty days we find a man who puts us to shame and the contrast makes us hang our heads in .disgrace. Job lived before one line of the Bible was written. He had no .church to attend. He never heard a sermon. He never was in a revival. He never saw a tabernacle. He never saw a Y. M. C. A. or a Y. W. C. A. delegation. He never saw n roHir.,a newspaper. There were no Sundayschools, no young people's societies. He had no young fellow like Paul had to comfort him. N0 religious his-iry to go by; no book of martyrs to tell how others suffered.. and to inspire him to do likewise, and yet every day he just pleased God. All about him was moral darkness, blacker than the awful riartnocc i Egypt, and out of all that infamy and muiairy ana aauuery and corruption old Job walked, shining like a star; had on the whole armor nf find an jhe handled the shield of his Faith so -skilfully that the Devil could not j touch him. J Oh! God, how it shames us today !the- religious life of that man way ack yonder, compared to the mutts ' today, with all we have got to do ; with. Come on! , Too Many Persons i Lose Perspective ! Job. I am talking about. "Ther 'was a man in the- land of Uz and hi 'name was Job. and that man was Der- ; feet and upright." In other words jyou ould write "Finis"5 that is LatI In. I usually spring a little Latin bf j fore I leave town. It sounds more i authoratative and it helps one to i speak, as it were, ev cathedra, e plujribus unum, sic semper tyrannis; that j is more Latin. S "There was a man in the land of uz and that man's nams wna TnT and that man was perfect", God said I so. i The trouble with a good many peoj pie. they are .lop-sided,, bow-legged, j and cross-eyed and they scatter all lover like a shot gun. They never jget anything They do all their climbj ing In a treadmill. i nere was a man in tne land of Uz, he was perfect and he feared God and hated evil." In other words that means he trusted God and behaved himself. How soon .the world would be like- heaven if everybody would mind their own business and behave j tnemselves. j Trust in God and behave yourself. That is another way of saying "Thou oiiaii iuvc ins uoru in uoa wun ail jthy mind and with all thy strength and thy neighbor as thyself." Job never stopped for Holy days, he ticked off 365 days in. the year for God Almighty. One reason why 1 bo many people una it nara to bej have it because they, only work at it . a few minutes- of the time. If they did their breathing in the same Good Lord, Good devil milk and cider. J O - " J ""-.J i would have been dead, buried and iorgouen long ago. Job was an upright man. This means he had honesty that could stand the severe light of Heaven. There are men who are so crooked

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"Morality must be positive as well as negative," declared Billy Sunday at the tebernacle Tuesday afternoon, preaching on "Negative and Positive Religion." . "When you are not doing things that are wrong, you have done only half of the job," he declared, "you must also be doing positive things to be a real Christian." 7 "That is the curse of the church today, it is not doing the things it should not, as much as it is not doing the things that it should do." Digressing from his sermon, Billy Sunday told his audience confidentially where different' articles of his clothing came from. "I can't afford silk socks," saM Sunday, "but I have a friend in Wilson's in Chicago that every year sends me as many silk socks as I need." Has Four Suits Later he said, "I have four suits all given to me. The one that I wear tonight I have had for six years. I take care of them that is why." "When I was in Philadelphia, preaching to the employes of the Stetson company, one of the officials told me that I was never to buy another hat, and so they are all sent me from the Stetson company, made to order. "And that big chain, the one I wear about my neck some times, that was made from twenty-dollar gold pieces at Wanamaker's in Philadelphia and given to me with this watch, Swiss one, that P could not have afforded by myself." Mr. Sunday had some trouble in getting his sermon started into full swing. The tabernacle was warn, and the audience restless, and keen at watching every new person that came in. "I wish you could get over that fool idea of thinking that you have to sees every person that comes into the tabernacle," said Mr. Sunday. "When a speaker sees you watching others and gazing around. hV knows that you are not following ' him, and he doubles his effort." Rodeheaver Leaves At the beginning of the sermon, Mr. Rodeheaver had slipped out to keep another engagement. "Rody, is just going to keeD another engagement," Sunday said. "I see you are interested in seeing where he is going." "Now, are we all set? And ready to go?" he asked and the audience responded with a smile. Opening his talk, Rev. Sunday said that the afternoon sermons were written particularly for the class of people that come in the afternoon. In the evening I speak to a more varied audience." he said, "but in the afternoon I talk particularly to people of your kind, and if you will come then, I think that I can really do you more good than I can by my preaching in the evening." they could hide behind a cork-screw. They do; that is the reason they are so crooked. Job Was Square In All Dealings Job was square in all his dealings. He had been raised from a dead level to a living perpendicular. I never could understand why a lot of men won't believe the Bible, and they will gulp down everything that a horsejockey will tell them. Job was upright, that was why the devil was anxious to down him. There are a great many reasons why the devil should have been against Job and why he is against everybody that is doing likewise. Listen! Job had a character that stood like the pyramids of Egypt against' the devil's business. If the devil had not been against Job I would have concluded that he was not much of a gentleman. Job's character was like a fort of machine guns, knocking holes in th devil's business. If you want to find out what a hot fight the .devil can make and what a hot, fight he can wage, you live close enough to God to knock holes in the devil's business and you will find the air smelling with fire and brimstone, hot . from Hell. ' , , Yes, and whenever you see a church member or a preaAer who does not believe in Hell-fire and brimstone, you can bet your life they would believe in it if they got clear out on God's firing line and the bullets were going 'like a machinegun, they would believe it. That is what Job did and that is why the devil was against him. Devil Tried to Check Jcb. , ' ' As soon as God declared that Job was perfect and that Job suited God, it was up to the devil to prove that he was not. So it is the devil's business to bombard every man and every woman that God speaks well of. He has done that from Adam's day down until tonight ana. he will do it until the Lord comes and puts him in Hell and turns the yek. You let God speak well of a' man or woman and the devil will bombard him. He doesn't have anything to say against his own gang. Now a man's character is what is left when you take away everything that he can lose. When you strip and peel him of everything he can lose then you begin to get a glimmer of the real man or woman; Character never dies. Character comes from God. Character is eternal as the white throne. Character stand3 for squareness and against evil and never dips its color. Character nails the flag to the mast with nails that clinch on the other side; that is why the devil and all his hosts make war on character. And the character of Job was against the devil as darkness is against light; as sin is against salvation; as vice is against purity; as Heaven is against Hell. It was against him. " That is why the devil is kept anxious and troubled and busy all the time that a good man or woman is alive. You drop a good man or woman in a neighborhood and the devil will be walking to and fro. The devil never gets any rest near where a good man or woman lives. We all know that the devil made a lot of trouble

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Sunday Revival Program Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Presbyterian night. THURSDAY Noon Business women's luncheon, Reid Memorial church. t Noon Men's meeting, Swayne-Robinson plant. 2 :30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. Bible class; Miss Kinney, leader. . 6:00 p. m. Council Girls' luncheon, Reid Memorial church. 7:30' p. m. Song service and 'sermon. Christian, United Brethren and Baptist night.

for Job, but God only knows how much trouble Job made for the deviL Don't forget that side of it, will you? Devil Hates ' Perfection. Job's character as a man was against the devil. He was perfect The devil is a destroyer, he hates perfection. Oh! it is torture to the devil for he hates to see a man pure or a woman pure or honest or decent or virtuous. Oh! he hates to see a man go hom sober, true to his wife; wife true to her husband, a-virtuous girl or a young man. Oh! if everybody would swear and lie and steal, and damn and cheat and murder and commit adulery, all the devils in Hell would cheer, but the earth would be deluged with tears, falling from the angel s eyes. Devils, devils, devils! Job's character as a citizen was against the devil's business. He was upright and hated evil. No man is a good citizen of whom that can not be said. I don't give a rap who he is. If you can't say of a man that he is upright and hates evil he is a disgrace and Richmond would be better if he did not live in it. I don't give a pickayune if it is you, or you, or you. Now, a man may be so conscious well I will put it this way; a man's consciousness of his relationship to God may be so vague and indefinite a3 to exercise absolutely no influence over his character or his conduct. Not at all. He may be a nominal Christian visually, subscribe to all the articles in the Apostles' Creed, but the glorious truths they confess with their lips are invalid and sterile. Their minds seem to be a sort of a dormitory of slumbering admissions, and a sick ward of impotent beliefs and paralytic and crippled purposes. Science Must Be Put to Practice. Oh! Wait a minute. I mean this: An educated Hindu will pass and examination of Hygiene and yet he will look on complacently while every sanitary law is violated beneath his own roof. The poor mutt does not seem to realize that science to be of any value must be put into practice. He is content with an abtruse knowledge. That is just exactly what is the matter with many people out there in the church, they do not believe in practicing what they read in the Bible and all they think is necessary is an intellectual knowledge. They never get out and deliver the goods, express charges prepaid. Job's character as a father was against the devil. He was a good father and he -carefully trained his children to be true. There is not very much said about Job's kids. But there is enough to show you and me that they were headed in the right direction and they had the right kind of homelife. I once saw a search-light held for a fraction of a second over an overland train that was speeding sixtyfive miles an hour. It was only for a fraction of a second but it was long enough for me to see in which direction the train was going. God turned the search light on Job's family and I catch a glimpse of them all going to Heaven. ' . "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.". This means when every one had a birthday they all met. together in a birthday party in that home. In the Far East enemies never eat together, only friends break bread together and when ever people eat salt together they make an eternal covenant and this custom still prevails in he East and it has been handed down from remote ages that are as old as Babylon or the cavaliers or Damascus. Ar?bs Believe In' Hospitality. t If an Arabian breaks bread with you under his own '.oof. you are under hi3 protection and he will shed his lat dollar and his last- drop of blocd for you and he will stand by you. If he trusts you enough to break bread with y'i, you are his friend. The fact that Job's family ate. together ten times in the year shows me, mv friends, that they were friendly. Where can you find a family of ten kids today that there is not a scrap in it? It showed Job took more interest in his children than he did his camels. That is more than a lot of you fellows can say. You take more interest 'in the ticker down at Wall street than you do in your own children; fol-de-rols in society think more of getting down to the grant opera that you do of your old family. Think of the possibilities for good or evil in that family of ten children, then you will understand how tremendously the devil was against the character of Job. for he was training his children to fight against the devil. Look at Susan Wesley, the mother of nineteen children, out .of which the Methodist church, with its seven million communicants today, walked. It is the most powerful of all Protestant organizations on earth, and they came from Susan Wesley. All from those two little boys, John and Charles. What a power the Wesley family has been against the devil. Look at the Salvation Army and General Booth, TABtHNAtLE STATISTICS Tuesday Afternoon Attendance 4 CO. . Collection (None more to ba taken except on Sunday. Tuesday Evening attendance 2,500. frail hitters 103. v: J

with all the good they have done, touching every civilized land on the globe. Families Work Against Devil Look at the tears they have dried, misery and squallor and want thev have turned into abodes of peace, ail they have done. See how terrifically the family of General Booth" has been against the devil. Do you see it? So Job and his family were against the devil. See how much depends on the proper training in each case. A lot of you people have children that grow up like a lot of wild asses or colts. They never go to church with you. And Job's character as a religious man was against the devil's business. Job had a religion that wa3 able to stand the test and there is no more fiery ordeal than that. If a preacher can't prove by his wife and children that his religion is better than his preaching, he has misunderstood his call. Oh, Gosh! you needn't clap your hands. If you can't prove by your-wife and kids that you are religious, then you are a fraud, if you can't prove the same. Job's wife was not very spiritual. Gosh! she was the limit. If there ever was a vixen in the land of Uz, Mrs. Job was. But wait a minute! I wonder why the devil did not kill her while he was on the job? She leaves her testimony. Her husband's religion was proof against affliction. She watched him with true wife's .interest as one of the devil's messengers, and then another galloped up and instead of seeing Job curse and damn and make the air blue, she saw that old patriarch fall down and say: "The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away, blessed be the Lord." And all this time she clenched her fists, and she set her teeth as if she had lockjaw, and she wished that Job would cut loose, and she watched him as he lay moaning in the dust, covered with boils from head to foot, and though he cried out in agony from pain, not one word of complaint ever fell from his lips. Job's Wife Knew His Religion By and by, she could hold in no longer, and with her eyes blazing like a rattlesnake she shook her fist in Job's face and shrieked out: "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and die. Are you going to keep on being religious and praying after all this? It is no use. Job, the jig is up. God? God? He is either deaf, dumb or blind! There is no use; there is no use!" Job's wife knew what kind of a religion he had, the same as everv man's wife -knows it. I wonder how many of you fellows could get to heaven on what your wife knows about your religion? Now, that strikes some of you preachers. And Job's religion, oh! it hit the devil's business every time, as far as I can find out. Notice how concerned he was for the spiritual welfare of his children, and "when the days of their feasting were gone Job sanctified them and rose up early and offered burnt offering, according to the number of children." Iob said, "If may be that mv sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." thus did Job continually. He wanted everybody in his family to be right with God and o keep right with H:m. He was not satisfied with outward forms, he wanted them right in the.r hearts, although he was busy and had big business interests, as any man as wealthy, as'we are told, was the greatest man of the East, He took time to keep the fires burning on the family altar. Oh! where is the religious man today if he had as much business on hand as Job? Whenever he attempts to pray he bunches his wife and children in his prayer to save him. I can see some of you fellows crawl out of bed a little bit late and you will bolt your breakfast and grab your cup of coffee and a sinker, and nrab your Bible and turn to the 117th Psalm that only has two verses, and drop on your knees and say. "God bless my wife, my son, John," and then bury your face in a newspaper in your limousine or in the subway. Oh! they just go through the motions of worship and God has to take the tag end of evervthing. Isn't that a fact? Why, sure! Other Reason for Opposition - Another reason why the devil was against Job was his wealth. Listen! The Bible says he was the greatest in all his possessions of all the men in the East. Job was the Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller, of his country. Richest man, best man, most religious man. If that combination was not enough to keep the devil on the jump, you tell me what was! Wouldn't it be great when you wanted to know who was the best man to go down and find out who has the most on deposit in the bank? Go to the courthouse and find out who is paying the most taxes? Whenever wealth and piety become synonomous terms, the devil will be out of a job. Some of' the noblest men and women I have ever met have been men and women of wealth. I have no patience nor sympathy with the Godforsaken mutt who will loaf around the street corner, stsnd on a drygoods box. or hang around Madison Square, and get up and damn a man that has an earnest dollar, expecting everybody to go out and divvy up with that God-forsaken bunch that hangs around the tale beer joints and hits the suds. Now, one of the hardest things for God is to find ' people that he can trust with money. It is as easy for God to give wealth as it Is for him to give sunshine. "No good thing

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If I thought that I had to please everybody or miss heaven I wmilri throw up the sponge now and take the count, and if I were to please everybody 1 1 would miss heaven. . . . If you had to he perfect in the sight of neighbors you would never wear a crown. , Trust-in God and behave yourself J The trouble with a good many people, they are lopsided, bowlegged, and: crosseyed and they scatter all over, like a hot gun. They never get any-1 where. They do all their climbing in a treadmill. j You let God speak well of a man or woman and the devel will bombard him. He doesn't have " anything to say against his own gang. Character nail the flag to the mast with nail that clinch on the other side; that is why the devil and all his hosts make war on character. ' . . . i You drop a good man or woman in the neighborhood and the devil wi'I be walking to and fro. The devil never gets any rest where a good man or woman lives. , i . Character comes from God. Character never d:es. Character is eternal as the white throne. Character stands for squareness and against evil and never dips its colors. , ; Whenever wealth and piety become synonomous terms, the devil will be out of a job. - thftt prnw tin TiL-a s lrvt nf ocdau I or colts. They never go to church! witn you. . Don't you come, up and tell me I'm a grafter. If you do I would advise you to have your picture taken before you come. Your wife wouldn't know you when you went home today. will be withold from them that walk uprightly" and "you will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth . its fruit in season." "Blessed shall be the increase of thy flocks and of. thy herds." Money is not always a good thing. Sometimes it is a through ticket to Hell to the fellow that owns ' it. "There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also." I don't know when the devil first started going, to church but he went to church in Job's time and he has not missed a meeting since. The devil is as sure to be at church as a Sunday school picnic is apt to be scattered by a thunderstorm. -' The Lord said "DevuV where did you come from?" Lord Calls Devil's Attention To Job. The devil said, "From walking to and fro and up and down on the earth." Gosh. I feel we have got him on the run now. But you see how scared he is. The devil is more frightened in this old town than he has ever been since he encamped here on this old city. And the- Lord called the devil's attention to Job and he said. "Have you considered my servant, Job? Have you noticed him. devil?" Oh! the irony of it. "Have you noticed him, devil?" - . Why, the devil hadn't been doing anything else but keping his eyes! peeled on Job. Walking up and; down the earth looking at Job from! all angles, sizing him up. Job kepi! the devil wide awake. I once read of a man who was traveling in n RtmnM pnnntrr arA ey " . - - . . . O -. iuvA 1 he went down the road and saw aj beautiful little cottage standing in the! midst, of a cluster of trees, ;; with ai spacious lawn and flowers here and ; there; happy children laughing and rolling on the gross and a happy mother watching them and -up on the roof he saw great big devils tearing around to beat the band, sweat rolling down their faces and on he ' went and he saw presently a great monstrous building. It was a magnificent - cathedral and he saw on Jittle devil lined up there in the chimney ound asleep and he went on farthei down the road and met a devil as big as a touring car. The devil said. "Wait a minute, stranger." He said, "Hurry up." Devils. Try To Catch Christians. " t ' '" . "I ani a stranger and ' I . saw a little house and seven big devils tearing around to beat; the band and I came down to a great big band and ! came down a great big magnificent building and there is one little devil up there and he was asleep. Can you explain that to me, sir?" The big devil said. "The best and most religious men and women live up there and seven devils are there and 1bey have been working overtime and they have sent a hurry-up call for me j and I am going down to see if r can't start something. And the! church you saw has a preacher thatj does not believe in Jesus Christ, and! one little devil can watch that gang! and he can sleep half of the time, ' too." " - j Now, are you a pastor of a church i like that? Are you in a church like!

that? . If you are, take a tip from me and beat it. "Have you noticed my servant, Job?" That gets me, gets me every time I read it. The devil was sure keeping his eye on Job. He turned to the Lord and said, "Does Job fear God . for naught? No wonder he trflsts you. You hedge him about so nobody can touch him and 'you gratify hls every desire." . Oh! yes, Job served God when he had naught. Job was as religious when he was poor as he was 'in his plenty "and because he was religious in. his poverty that is why God gave him plenty. Yes, that is why God blessed him. Now, the devil said,. "Oh! you give him children and they are all alike' You think Job is perfect and he is a (Continued on Next Page)

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FAMILY GROUP LEADS 103 TO Father, Mother' And Son . Lead Trail ;- Hittters 5un- . day Takes , Up Arguments - Made; Against 1 Christianity ROTARY GIVESFLOVERS Led by a family "group, a father, a mother and a son, 103 trail hitters shook Billy Sunday's hand Tuesday night and signed pledges to live a Christian Jife. .. - Preaching on "If Any Man Should Do My Will," Rev. Sunday took up" in turn many of the arguments that are made against the Christian religion. "Where did Cain get his wife," he demanded, "How should I ' know or care. Cain was 125 years old -when he met his wife, and according to scientists, man doubles' in population in 25 years. That being the cass Cain had 5,000 damsels to choose from." - . : . :. ,? . . w , Begin AtBeginnlng . "Begin at the beginning when you study religion' he said, "just as yon begin-at-the beginning in the Btndy" of law or medicine or business." .- . "If more people; made a practice of starting at the beginning there wouldn't be so many of these fool, questions asked. And most of them are asked as an excuse because the practice of the Christian religion would keep them from something that they want to do." . It was a special Methodist night and they turned out 750 strong In spite of the rainy night. , : . ; - , "The sprinkling wouldn't keep a Methodist in," declared Homer Rodeheaver. "for if it did, they wouldn't be. Methodists." . Rotary Represented The Rotary club was represented by 60 persons. When asked for a song, several voices shouted "4fi." while the rest of the club laughed, becanse Rodeheaver had been teaching the Rotarians that song at their noon time luncheon. ; .. ..; ... . ; -, As the . club was introduced, Mis Katherine Baird 229 North Seventeeth street brought tothe platform, a ba. ket of roses, 6nap-dragons. and lilies, which 6he placed before Mr. Sundav. disappearing from the platform before Mr. Sunday had a chance to greet her. "Did you see that little girl come up here, and make her getaway," demanded Sunday of Rodeheaver as he grinned at the path the girl had taken. Rotarians Sing - - On the request of the-Rotary club. Rodeheaver had the audience Eing', "Brighten the Corner ' Where '- You Are," and on the, chorus had the Ro: tary club sing the last phrase alone. " Mrs. Asher and Mr. Rodeheaver sang "Who Could It Be - But Jesus", by request. Prayer was given ' by Evangelist G.' R. Powell, of HartfordCity, when it was' suggested that therwere other delegations present . A Seventeen of the Spanish-American war veterans were present" i Lewisville was represented . hy. 45 persons,? and 20 members of the Ladies Aid society of the East Main Street; Friends church were present When the call for -"trail . bitters" -came the the Ladies Aid and the det-' egation from Lewisville responded al--most in a body. . .- - ? ..--Vsi'i Rody Gives Introductions ' At the opening of the program Rode-" heaver had introduced to the audience, Ruth Rodeheaver, j his sister, -Mrs. Rodeheaver, not his wife. (Rode- " heaver says he is interested in meeting that Mrs. Rodeheaver) " and Mrs" Fred Rapp, and her daughter Virginia. "Come up after the meeting andshake hands with them," he said. When Mr. Sunday came on to the " platform he said that he. had some? friendsjthat he wanted to introduce.; and called to the platform Mr. W. C. Higgenbottom. of the "Panhandle" and William M. Wardrop,- general su-'1 perintendent of . the Michigan division of the G. R. & j. t- ,- . ..- "I have been up since 4 o'clock this., morning," said Mr. Sunday in opening his sermon. "I feed the birds at Wi-'r nonavLake, and they come around -at -i ociock to getj-tneir Teed, and they"! make so much noise -that it is impossi-J Die 10 sieep.: . 1

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Mr. Sunday reeled off the names of a dozen or more kinds of birds that"' come to his place to feed. 1 'They all come there," he said: - -' Hits Bootlegger - '"I Turning from the logical development of his sermon for a moment, Billy v Sunday paid his respects to the "boot-1 legger" and the person that would buv ' from him. - " : -' ...... .;- . . . ,- -: "I have more respect for the old' saloon keeper,- than4! have for the modern bootlegger," he khouted. gest 1 uring with vehemence, and darting from one side of the pulpit to another "And I have just as little "use for theperson who buys his stuff of -that "r bootlegger. : You know that you" s re3 trading with a liar, a low .down blackguard, or he wouldn't be in that bu3inesS." a-'.-A-w .... . "Some people hate said to rat," h"! continued, "that I ought, to go "slow ? on that as there might be people In , the audience that have liquor in their house." . -' " : -.:.-" -. "Well if they have." roared Mr.Sun-'ff day, his voice husky from -exertion' J and strain, "then I have no" use for' them.-- - v..-- ,.,.-;t: -;:.-ics. .-.'.v Hits M odern Novels - "- Turning his atte-nti6n -to the novels? of the day, Sunday declared for a revival literature. "If some lieople threV-' out of their houses' all that was' insf5 good," he said, "they wouldn't have HI enough Tpaper far" he house to start a fire with or make a hair-curler.- - ' Describing the house ' "where" theBible was not opened from one mbath r to the next, Sunday said; It is only? opened 'when some one dies, or .Js! married, or some baby 13 , born, tod 't 08bj ran no . pannnnoo) 'us!