Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 112, 11 May 1922 — Page 13

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Religion Is Basis of Morality; Take It Away and Whole Vision Of Nation and World Perishes Christian Religion is Motive of Every Effort Bettering Humanity and Making World a Better Place in Which to Live. Declares Rev. Sunday to Afternoon Audience His Purpose to Help Others See Christ.

The Text: "Where there Js no vis-1 . Ion, the people perish." Proverbs 29th Chapter, 18th verse. In his sermon at the tabernacle on Thursday afternoon, Rev. W. A. Sunday said: "Where there is no vision, the people perish." That is where there is no appreciation of God's plan. That is where everybody becomes a law unto them- ' Eelves. That is where you don't stop to consider or care whether your action or conduct will make it easier for anyone else to do right or wrong. You do that because you personally want to do It. The only law you recognize is the law of your own desire, and you are actuated by the desire to gratify your one ambition or Inclination, irrespective of the influence upon others through that gratification. - Where there is no vision! There is s a better way for you to live than you Ware living.

U1C1C IS HIS IJOtUii. A U1UU tetter to be well than to be sick. Where there is no vision! Our people are better if they pray than if they curse, or if they obey God rather than if they live in sin "Where there is no vision, the peo ple perish." Religion Restrains People. They run riot. The restraining influences today are due to religion. There is many a man today that does not care about God. He doesn't believe in God. Yet he lives a passably decent life, and the fact that he does, isn't due to his unbelief, but it is due

to the restraining influences of Chris- J ed west and discovered this great contianity. You do away with religion tinent. Today we count it an honor to and you will sound the death knell of name our streets, our institutions, or morality. Morality will never stand, I our cities after him. He had a vision.

my friends, and survive the deatn or , Christianity. The fact that a lot of people live as good as they do, and yet have no use for God isn't due to anything which they develop through contact with each other, but it Is due to the restrain. ing influence of the religion whicn they sneer and blast at. Therefore, you take that religion away and then see what will become of your morality. So: "Where there is no vision, the people perish," and the hope, my friends, of the world is to get people to see that God is good and that he is concerned for their welfare. We have visions of the fact that we have got to plow and plant in the Bpring, if we have anything to eat in the winter. Therefore by working in harmony with God's law, we are kept -1 J - . 1 1- n-lnrr Tand our bread my friends, we nave never scraped the bottom of our meal carrel as a nation. What do we do? We simply work In harmony with the fact that God Almighty has appointed that we have got to plow our fields and plant our crops in spring if we have anything to eat in the winter. That s vision, so we work in harmony with God to make that. God Ought to Be First In Life The Bible opens with "In the beginning God." That's the. first verse this verse. in Genesis. That ought to be the very first with every life. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.' ' That ought to be the first

verse, but with a great many people man thought. So we have got a teleit is the last. I graph. All these things. "Where there) About the last person they want to! is no vision, the people perish." j see is the preacher. They have no I Robert Fulton had a vision that it j use for the preacher in the days of 'was beter to sail by steam than to I prosperity, when they go down the spread the sails and let the wind blow '

line and indulge their desires, but when the shadows of life begin to ; pather, and they realize that they are' about to drift out with the tide, then) thy like to have the preacher around) ;

Well, send for him. He will como Eli Whitney sat down and thought any hour of the day or night, but I . anci thought until he invented the cotray I consider it is a mean, contempti-i ton gin wnich separates the seed from bio. unmanly, unwomanly thing to do, j the cotton and revolutionized the cotto keep the control of your life in your j ton trade of the wori,j. if it hadn't own hands and then at the end of ajbeen for that look at the benefit

miseraoiy spent me, irj 10 wy imui, value of lt that we enjoy today

God's Kingdom because 01 nis 10ns A- 1 suffering with you. i think It is damnable and sneaky to oive your life and influence to thai

rtrvice or te aevu .no just j needle. He saw a better way than VJou idle ask God I Aim ghty to take you invented the sewing mar" fc vo?i wverf-8CrVedi chine. All these things that we God a day as long as you lived: i, , , . . . , And vet there are lots of people j have that are a benefit to humanity . ., w rtiv ti-.o -Brav timviare becuase of a vision. God Al-

it,,- nt t vorv dart in Eav that they are in the minority. Most people ire honest. Most people are trutntui. Most people are on the square. Most

people believe in God. Now and then1 without it, He woman t nave given it vou find ono that doesn't believe in . to us. od. j.. Please don't go through the world The Bible says he is a fool if he! acting as though God Almighty doesn't, and the man or the woman! didn't understand human nature that lives disregarding God's plan for; when He provided human nature for their lives is as big a fool as the cap-1 them. He understood It as well as tain who steered his ship by the, we. He provided sound for your

:lock instead of the compass. Nations Must Have Vision. Every nation must have a vision or po down. We stand where we do to-

day because of the fact that we have,miehty is trving to cram something had visions, that our people were bet- down your throat that you can get

ter under certain laws than under others, and this nation, my friends has recently declared and entered the great world conflict because that is a vision that the nations of this world are better governed by laws for the people and by the people than they are to wear the collar of militarism. For that reason, we bared our breast to the bullets of the world and have gone forth to help the nations. We have had a vision that they were better in that way and we are willing to pour our men and money and our lfcLfluence and our unsurpassed power war in order that .peace might reign and that the nations might be govern-

ed by the people, and so therefore, we j

have got a vision of that fact. So every nation must have. Every great achievement that has moved this old world Godward or brought beneficience or blessing to the world has been brought about by the fact that somebody had a vision, no matter what. No matter whether it is commendable or not. Alexander the Great had a vision that he'd like to conquer the world. Why, he won his first battle when he was 18. He was king of Macedonia when he was 20. He sat upon the shores of the Aegean Sea and wept that there were not other worlds to conquer, and his sword had drunk the blood of the conquered world, and he crept into his coffin when he was only 32 years old. That was his vision. He bent every effort, my friends, to the achieving of that. Caesar Also Had Vision. Caesar had a vision. He reached the banks of the Rubicon which nobody had ever dared cross without the consent of the Roman Senate, and if they did it meant war. He stood and hesitated. He counted the cost and he cried out, "The die is cast." He leaped in. His soldiers followed him, and that act changed the history and the geography of the world. He had a vision, whether the vision be commendable or not. A large number of people working for its accomplish ment will meet with results. Columbus had a vision. He said. "The world is round." He said, "I can sail west and go "east." They laughed him to scorn, they ridiculed him, they expelled him from their in stitutions of learning, and yet-he sailEverything you see is the result of someone's sentiments. Rapheal had a vision, and he placed his immortal cartoons upon the walls j of the labyrinth, and he painted the i Madonna which has never been sur passed by any man who has ever mixed paints. Angelo had a vision, and as a result he carved the statue of David, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. Everything Is Expression of thounght. Everything you see is the expression of thought, whether it is the clothes on your back, the seat upon which you sit, the tabernacle in which you worship, the automobile in which you rode here or the home in which you live. Everything you see Is the expression of thought, whether it is the watch by which you tell time, the ship upon which you sail, the railway train. Everything you see is the expression of thought,- that is, the tangible, visible results of a man's meditation in the world. And so the electricity blazing over my head, the telephone, all that is the expression of the thought of somebody, but "Where j th?J?, is n vision the people perish." iuiouu imu n vibiuii mat it wuuiu be better to light our homes with electricity than with a tallow dip, so we have the elctric light. Alexander Bell had a vision that it would be better to talk over the wire than to yell to a fellow. Morse had a vision that it Is better to sit down to an instrument and say tick, tick, tick, and every tick a huI against them. So as his boat went up the Hudson, it revolutionized navigation. Whitney Worked out Invention. ( A1 through, everything in this wholeI universe was brought about because of vision Howe saw a woman threading: a mighty knew, my friends. that the world would be better with religion so he entered the covenant of Abraham. If we could have gotten along ears, and food for your bodies, and rest for your frame, when He made the day and the night. God knows his business. Don't sit there like an ass as though God Al1 along without. And when God wants you to be Christians and serve him it is because, my friends, you are better with it than you are without it, or God never would ask you to do it, and you are a fool if you don't do it. You are better off if you will obey the Lord. Communities Need Vision. Every community has got to have a vision, or it will go down. We have to realize that there is a better way for the people, and so the preachers and the church people of this city had a vision that they would be better if they had a great moral awakening, and if the people, my friends, only

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I find no fault in Jesus. My greatest I joy will be to hear my Saviour Bay,: "I find no fault with thee." ! I am sick and disgusted with peo-i pie who are trying to picture Jesus! cnnst as though he was a doughfaced nonenity. He was the bravest preacher that ever preached. He shot hit nrearhine-s Into tho hie--gest guns of the synagogues. . He never had a harsh word for the sinner. He never had a good one for the Pharisees. Farm your faith. Start with what in T1 S,"? there wouldn't be a factory, there wouldn't be a railroad, business without it. We can't do Faith is the hand by which my faith touches God. Take what you have got. Use it and you will get more. Start with your faith. Use it and you will get more. It will grow. Take out of this world all that Jesus Christ has ever done and what have you got left? Faith is to my soul what the law of gravitation is to the world. We are always helped or hindered by our belief. Wrong belief makes ev erybody wrong. Right belief makes everything right, because belief always results in action which harmonizes with your belief. You show me somebody that is sav ed that didn't believe in Jesus Christ ooy -nri!! K coH .l v. ' i;ir. -.;H; I Faith is the grandest word in the lexicon of man or woman. Say, let me tell you something. Do you regulate your life by the Bible? 1 You adjust yourself and see what he will do. A man hangs out a sign and says he is a Christian. I expect something and I've got a right to do it. Every nation must have a vision or go down. Everything you see is the expression of thought. God knows his business. Don't sit there like an ass as though God Almighty is trying to cram something down your throat that you can get along without. I think there is more religion in the pews in the average church than there I is in the pulpit. You might just as well blow your breath against the vestibule of a street car and try to run it that way as to think that you can put God's word aside. We have lost favor with God and we have lost our power. That's the reason why the forces of hell sneer and blaspheme. I believe in experimental religion and that's the only kind I believe in. ' If you sleep with the dogs you must expect to get up with lice on you. My evangelism is as old as the cross of Jesus Christ. had some common great meeting place where they could come ana hear of God and his truth. So they erected this tabernacle and men and women are pouring their money to help pay the

expenses. What for?jany sieePi God's word stands immut -

Oh, theie that his old awakening campaingn why you are sitting here listening to me. What are some of the reasons why we have no vision. Well in the first place, the disrespect that is shown to the Son of God by some. I asked a man one time, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ was divine?" He laughingly and flippantly said, "Oh yes, and so was Buudha, so was j Confucius, and so am 1, we are ali 1 rl'ivin " x Men Must See . God Whoever holds such views shuts heaven's. vision out from the people. The men that have moved the world and set her going Godward, the men of blessed memory, have been men who believed that God was God, and Jesus Christ the Son of God, and that t salvation was to be had1 by repentance and faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. They held up the bleeding form of Christ as God's ultimatum for sin and man's only hope to keep out of hell. You can go and read and see if they are not men. So I think there is more religion in the pews in the average church than there is in the pulpit. And therefore, one reason why we have been denied of the vision of God and of his truth, is the irreverent criticism of the Bible that is offered by many, sneaking and blatent as though the Bible was the worst enemy of the human rather than the best friend. There is a reverent criticism of the Bible I admire. That deals with authorship, and with dates, and with places and all that. I admire the man who is willing to use his skill and judgment in order to help me more clearly understand, in order that I in turn might impart that information to others, to make you better. I admire such a one. Describes Kinds Of Critics I find as I go up and down the land three classes of critics. First, there . is the critic who'd like to see the Bible go. The Bible rebukes- his sins. Poor fool, he imagines that if he shuts his eyes and stops his ears, and ' says he doesn't believe it, that that' makes him immune to any punishment. Well he will go to hell whether he believes it or not. That doesn't change him one iota. You may sit there and fold your arms and say I don"t believe in hell. Well, that don't . shut the doors and' put the fires out because you are a fool. Hell is hell,

was a vision of the fact!aKie nnrhano-pahip and irrowahio I my Savior that is personal, that has liant woman in England named Susan

city needed just such aniar,fi vn mi,f aa hi gotten tangled in your heart strings? , Ferrier, and some one asked her to

as would come through a breath against the vestibule of a street ' 1 lok at a crow( ot women, and sayj write her deepest wish and she wrote: like this, and so that is car and trv ' run it that wav ao tnl"tiOok at the woman." "My deepest wish is that my life may

Sunday Revival Program THURSDAY 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Christian, United Brethren and Baptist night. Delegation from Dayton. FRIDAY Noon Woman's meeting, Indianapolis Glove company; Mrs. Asher, leader. . . .- . Noon Men's meeting, Dille-McGuire Lawn Mower company 12:30 "p. m. Business men's meeting at Y. M. C. A. 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Asher speaks before Thimble club at New Paris. 2:30 p.m. Song service and sermon. Pittsburgh Theological Glee club present. 3:30 p. m. Bible class; Miss Kinney, teacher. 4:00 p. m. Children's chorus practices. 4:30 p. m. Teachers' Bible class at Y. M. C. A.; Miss Kinney, leader. 5:30 p. m. Girls' shop meeting at Vigran's; Mrs. Asher, leader. 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Rural night.

whether you have sense enough to believe or not. You may say, "I don't believe there Is a heaven." Well there is a heaven whether you believe it or not. You may say, "I don't relieve there Bible is the word of bod." It is, whether you believe it or' not. ' You may say, "I don't believe that salvation Is by faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ." It is. whether vou believe it or not. And1 please remember that a fact remains a fact wheth er you believe it or not, and your unbelief doesn't change it one iota, and you won't be in hell five minutes until you will be sorry that you were so little. i A woman said, "Why, nobody beI'cvca m ire ii. is luai au : uuu uc"eves in hell! Jesus Christ believes in hell! The devil believes in hell! Here's one preacher that does! nm') . come around here with that stuff! God is Author of Calvation I am not the author of the plan of salvation, I am responsible for my preaching of it, and if what I preach is the truth, it is up to you, and if what I preach is ,not the truth, it is up to me, and I defy and challenge anybody to prove by the Word of God that what I preach is not revealed in the Bible. I defy yon! I challenge you! When you reject it. it isn't your quarrel with me personally, not at all. i am simply God's ambassador. I am simply God's servant telling you God's truth, and if you don't believe it, you settle with God, not with me at all. Then there is the critic who apes scholarship. If there is anyone this side of perdition that I despise, it is a fellow like that. Oh, h seeks to curry the favor of some big man and high-brow by quoting him and making his opinions and theories paramount to the Word of God! And therefore, because this man says it, he quotes this man, that God was wrong and that fellow was right. - I despise tho fellow who apss scholarship and seeks to curry their favor by quoting them as authority, and keeping his mouth shut upon what the God of Jacob has to say on the subject. So we have got a lot of fools like that up and down the land! , Now then, there is the devout, reverent critic who studies the Bible in order that he might clarify my vision, and help me to see as I told you to see. and understand the truths more clearly, that I in turn might preach it to voii pn that vn,,'H ,inirtt,nH i i more cieariy. i love sucn a man as that, that's trying to help make the world better and make it easier for us to understand. But you needn't worry, don't lose think that you can put God's word aside. Years ago th' storm swept the Atlantic coast. Oh! it was terrific! And TODAY'S BEST STORY IN BILLY'S SERMON I went to visit the Waltham watch works. Down in the basement they have what they call the master c'ock. It is surrounded by several thicknesses of wall. It is kept at a normal temperature the yaer 'rcund. They have a gas arrangement In there, a thermostat, that is automatically lighted by electricity. When the temperature reaches a certain degree, the light will qo on, and when it gets to a certain degree, it will go out. Now, there is that clock resting upon a foundation that goes down, my friends, below the river. Then attached to it, they have a little machine with a cylinder. On that is a piece of paper, and fastened on that is a fountain pen. As the clock ticks, that fountain pen makes a little mark on this cylinder of paper. Out yonder stands an observatory, one of the finest In the United States, resting upon a foundation that noes 50 feet below the bed of the river. There sit expert men, astronomers with a huge telescope, and they sit there and watch the stars. As the stars go by, they push a button and it records it with a fountain pen on another cylinder down in the basement near this great master clock. If the one made by the tick of the clock is wrong, I mean if It doesn't harmonize with the cylinder made by the astronomers, then the clock is wrong. The stars are never wrong. They never try to set the 6 tars by the clock, but they set the clock by the stars. So they always adjust the clock to suit the record made on the cylinder by the stars. They go by the telescope because the stars are never wrong. Say, let me tell you something. Do you regulate your life by the Bible? God is never wrong. You are wrong! You are wrong! God) is never wrong! You adjust yourself and see what he will do.

up in Boston they showed where the waves rolled up, a quarter of a mile on the shore, that they have never been known to reach that point again. Houses were wrecked and torn into sea by the undertow. It was terrific. And in the height of the storm, reports went down the streets of Boston that the lighthouse had . gone down in the fury of the blast. And while the storm was still raging and the clouds were lowering and you couldn't see the old lighthouse, one man met the lighthouse keeper, opposite the commons and he said, "Well I am glad to see you. How is the world did you escape with your life? We heard

that the men on the lighthouse went down in the fury of the blast." The old, grizzled lighthouse keeper who had kept her blinking at the harbor entrance threw back his shoulders and said, "The men on the nsumuuse weni aown in me siorm: Ho. ha she never shook!" So you needn't be afraid of all the blatent blasphemy and all the sneering criticism, all the vile epithets that may be hurled against God's word. She stands immovable as Gibralter. You needn't worry, God's truth towers over all! Where Church Is Weak. Now, I think, the church is at fault. I read a little book, it is today published across the sea it was called the grammar of the church and it said among other things that the church has lost its interrogation point. You know at Pentecost men marveled and when they saw, they said, "What can these things be?" Why don't they ask it today? And yet, if we would all believe and give ourselves to God, God would manifest his power until people would stagger and become overawed at the evi dences of the Lord's power. So, why not? It is because we are mingling, and mixing, and amalgamating with the th'ings of the world. We have lost favor with God and we have lost our power. That's the reason the forces of hell sneer and blaspheme. That's the reason they don't stand and stagger back and say, "What can these things be?" O. I am not afraid, my friends! I am afraid of being dignified. A lady I , , A HTI. ln. J f " Ba me: "e 1 'f "V t , That s what I am afraid of. I am j afraiJ I will be dignified. Religion has been, urt nd kliled-l,.d!f nitJ formality, and "tualism and all that. If you want to see me when I am dignified, just please come:

around and look into my coffin. You been more welcome and given us more attend my funeral. I will be dignified : help than my friend, Dr. Powett, pasthen to suit the most fastidious. jtor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Oh. we speak of Jesus as a Savior : church in New York. I remember

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my wife that's a different proposi-. 1 look upon or touch may be bereft of tion. Your Savior and my Savior, ; the divine. That is, that everywhere that's personal. But the trouble i3, ' there may open mystic doors that will very few people ' have any personal lead me into the presence of Jesus knowledge of Jesus Christ. They re-; Christ and to a higher plane of useduce their religion to an ethical code ' fulness in the world." and they don't know anything about! "My deepest wish," said Susan FerGod from an experimental standpoint. ' rier, "Is that my life may never lose You know that food is good. You its halo, that nothing may ever appear

have eaten it. You know that water will help your thirst. You have drunk it. You know that sleep will rest your body. You have gone to bed. That's experience. I don't need to stand here and waste my strength telling you that. We all know that, That's what we call experience, but I have to waste my strength telling you about God because multitudes of cecDle don't live so that God can manifest his power through their life;

so that they know of the personating the little ones shoes and clothing contact with God. I believe in ex- and food. She clothed the boys and ' perimental religion, and it is the only girls. When she got ready to go, a i kind that I do believe in. So there-j child three years old pulled her by the fore, we have lost all that. We have dress and said, "Lady, are you Jesus' j lost our possessive case and we have! wife?" I lost the imperative mood. Do You Practice ! It is true today, that when the i Your Belief? 'church lifts her hands and takes her I Did you ever do anything that would ! stand against any evil, that evil will! have made anybody wonier what rela-

be driven from the land. It will b stopped, and if the churches would all unite against the wrong, there isn't a one that couldn't be driven back. Stage Could Be Purified. If the church of God would withi i ! draw her patronage from the theatres

unless they cleaned up ineir stages j ours, ana we are trying to lift this and took a lot of these offensive old world to his tender, beating heart, things off, the stage would be changed and make it better that we have lived and it would be purified, if the in it. "Oh, where there is no vision, j church would refuse its patronage J the people perish." ! until they did. Then you'd change j A friend of mine was going over j something. I to Chautauqua in New York to give I That's true of the whole business a lecture, and he told me he had to today. But if you sleep with the dogs; change four times to get there. When I you must expect to get up with licejhe arrived he was tired and dust-cov-

i on you. . ! I used to say, "We are going to, ! have a revival next year." I change !my prophecies. I have learned with - jin the last few vears that the promis - 'es of God are in the present tense. ! We have it now. but you will have to 1 pay the price A ladv vpnt -im to a friend of mine and said, "I'd give the world if I only had your experience!" He said 1 "Lady, that's what I gave to have it. That's what it cost me. That's what i it will cost you. Give up the things

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Homer Rodeheaver that you are doing. Then you haye God's power in your life." A man said to me, "Is modern Evangelism a success?" I know nothing about modern Evangelism. Mine is not modern. Mine is as old as the cross of Jesus Christ. Mine is as old as the nails driven through his hands and feet. My Evangelism is as old as the crown of thorns that they put upon his brow, and any Evangelism that doesn't hang on the cross of Jesus Christ is no Evangelism for me. Sometimes. Ministers Are Wrong. I know nothing about your twentieth century stuff. I know nothing about it. And so, I am not posted on that proposition at all! Not at all! "Where there Is no vision, the people perish." Sometimes the ministers are wrong. t r Ur:: rr k-oS i ".""i "t"." vVi, .t - . uuu i wmi." organization or an institution but do criticize when they don't preach the truth with all the power they have. And as I told them, it is my humble experience that there 13 more religion in the pews today than in the average pupil. That's one reason why the people are denied their vision. Now another thing, and many a minister today has lost his vision. He is standing up in the pulpit preach ing1 ommyrot to the people, staking a claim out on Jupiter, talking about the conce n H that

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came from protopl being born of God Almighty, and Instead of being created of the Lord. I don't believe the old bastard theory of evolution. I want you to understand it I don't believe in it. I believe I am just as God Almighty made me right here, and I believe you are and everything in this world. Many a church is denied its revelation because the minister has lost his vision of the cross of Jesus Christ, and therefore he is still standing in the pulpit, but the church doesn't catch a glimpse of Jesus Christ, because he is lost, and there is the attitude. Noted Speakers Attend. I live in Winona Lake, Indiana, where we have the great interdenominational associations, and a great Bible conference there, and we get men from all quarters of the globe to come and talk. But nobody has ever hearing him one time tell about a brilnever lose its halo. That is, that nothing may ever appear common or com monplace. That is, that nothing that common or commonplace, that what ever I touch may 1 be divine, that wherever I go, it will give me a vision of Jesus Christ, that mystic doors may constantly open which would lead me straiglrt into the arms and the heart of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." What a blessing it would be! I read a little story the other day by Mrs. Helen Gould Finlay Shepard. She was down there to some homes of want and squalor and misery vears ago. givtionship you have to Jesus Christ? Have you so lived that people would know by your conversation and your absence and your presence that you are related to Jesus Christ? We ought to be glad of the opportunity to let the world know that we bear a reI lationship to God, and that God is jcicu, turn rsisnop viucem met aim and said, "Well, I am glad you have . arrived. Hurry up to the hotel, we " have got your room waiting for you. Take a little bath, and tidy up,; you !look dust covered. Then hurry down to tne auditorium. I want you to come down and Smoker, from Ohio, lecture." hear Professor This is his last

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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES GO TO TABERNACLE First to Hit Trail is Member of That Denomination Give Flowers to Sunday for Winona Home. 199 GARDTsIGNED Leading off in the march of the "trail hitters" and presenting Billy Sunday with cut flowers as tokens of the sets that are to be sent on to Winona Lake, the Presbyterians took the center of the stage at the tabernacle Wednesday night. The first person to hit the trail and

shake Billy's hand bore the blue badge of the Presbyterians, while behind them came almost solidly tho delegation from Portland, the Jewels, and the Junior Brotherhood from the M. E. church from College Corner, and Mrs. Sedwick's Sunday school class, of which a total of 199 persons signed card3 signifying their intention of leading a better life. Give Him Flowers After the opening prayer by tho Rev. Gordon Lang, of the Presbyterian church of Camden, Ohio, tho Presbyterians presented Mr. Sunday with 34 roses of different kind3, representing one for each of his years since his conversion. The plants themselves are to be mailed to Winona Lake, but the cut flowers were presented in token of them. "One of the Presbyterians has a special announcement which he wishes V? maKe sa,d Rodeheaver, and Suny 6t0a out of the way. as

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say is to be said to you, Mr. Sunday, he said, in presenting the flowers. "You have heard of Jehu and Jonadab," he said. "We believe you have out-Jehued Jehu, and while Jonadab was the man that gave booze his first knock-out, you come along and give him the knock-out that will last for eternity. "We are here representing the threa churches of Richmond, of Eaton, New

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land and Winchester," the spokesman for the Presbyterians said, "And wo love you, you old rock-ribbed conservative, dignified Presbyterian.' Thrusting out his hand to Billy Sunday, he exclaimed, "Put her there." In presenting the plants he said, "Imagine 34 ladies coming up to your lawn at Winona Lake where you and Mrs. Sunday are. Each of those ladies had a rose plant, for we want to give you something that will last." Give Special Plants The different flowers represented by the cut boquet represented the best of the different Richmond rose specialists, some of which are not yet on the market. The cuts tagged represented the Premier, the Butterfly, the Angelus, the Columbia, the Amelia Gude, and the America. The Presbyterian delegation then gave their special yell, "Billy, Billy, Billy, Presbyterian Billy, Our Billy and Ma." When the Portland delegation, 250 strong, stood up, Sunday said that he had noticed that town ever since the last delegation from that city had come to the tabernacle, and said tha he hoped some time to drop off there as he came through. "I want to say hello." he said. "And how far away are you?" he demanded next. Told 40 miles he said, "Fix it up and I shall come up and preach to you some morning." "Come Monday," some one in the crowd said. "No, I'm going to be home in Winona Lake that morning, how would Wednesday do?" At the cries of "Yes, Yes," Sunday turned to Bob Matthews. Get in tuoch with that Portland bunch and fix it up the details with them," he said. While the delegation were being called for, some one asked for the Charleston, West Virginia delegation. "Come right on up to the platform, John," said Billy Sunday, and John Dickinson, president of one of the Charleston banks came to the platform. "He could not get here with the Charleston bunch Sunday so he came up today to see us," Sunday announced. Tells Experience Dr. J. H. Hargert, pastor of the First Baptist church of Cincinnati, in telling of the benefit of the campaign to his church said tt&t 150 new members were added t the church, and one wealthy man -wim had her tofore been an inactir twwaber became interested and in tmm branch of service alone gave $1,2 J donations, during the year. "That one reconsecraffam alone was worth all of the effons f. all our members during the oaisiairri," he said. The totals of the detofrtttas to the tabernacle were as tMotm: Portland, 250; Bible claswi. Collie Corner, 35; Union Mlssicns, 3; Friends Foreign Mission Society, 30; Cincinnati, 10; Mrs. Sedgwick's Sunday School class, 21; Presbyterians, 800. The total attendance was 3.000. Harry Dickson Loes, and his sister. Birdie C. Loes, both of Chicago, sang a duet- The Loes are revival singeis, who are interested in Rodeheaver's school in Wiona Lake, and were in Richmond on a pleasure trip. Dancing with his nervousness and (Continued on Next rage) TABERNACLE STATISTICS Wednesday A'ternoon Attendance iOO. Wednesday Evening Attendance 3,000. Trail Hitters 199.