Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 113, 12 May 1922 — Page 14

EVERY SIN CARRIES ITS

HO ONE CAN ESCAPE RESULT OF EVIL ACT, IT PAYS TO BE GOOD, OPINES EVANGELIST

"God's Detective" was Rev. W. A. ; Sunday's theme at the tabernacle I Thursday evening. He said: "Be eure your Bins will find you on i. ; No man or woman can ever escape from his or her Bins. Every sin will find you out, call you to account, and : make you pay. Sometime, if not in stantly, sometime. No man. or woman " ever committed a sin that did not " have to pay In some way. I am not simply talking about dollars and cents. No man or woman ever committed a sin that wasn't a loser by it Why will you do a thing when you know you are losing every time you do it? Never has a man or woman committed a sin, never will a man or woman commit a sin, that pays. The most stupendous and gigantic folly that can possess any man of woman Is to Imagine that you gain . anything by doing wrong. You lose In character, reputation. In everything that Is decent, that God ad- ' mires and men respect. You gain nothing. Absolutely nothing. . I challenge any man or woman on earth to show me where anybody has ever gained anything by doing wrong. There may be those here tonight who are contemplating committing some sin. You may be here in order to allay suspicion that there is In your mind or heart the slightest inclination toward sin. You may be hprA until a m nro rfVnviTiipTit nmir presents itself. You may have dropped in here because it is nicely lighted, and comfortable and iyou'd like to hear the speaking and singing. If that Is true, please remember the words of my text, "Be sure that sin will find you out" Not Sure About Some Things. There are some things w are not sure about. You are not sure you will die. Jesus Christ may return and Borne will go to heaven without ever seeing death. You are not 6ure that the sun will rise tomorrow. It has risen regularly sinceever God said, "Let there be light," and swung in the skies to travel in its orbit, but there isn't one word of authority in the Word of God that the sun will rise. We are not sure that we will die, but the Bible says, "Be sure your sins will find you out" You needn't come here to find out whether my text Is true. You needn't read the Bible. You needn't read the newspapers. Just go down to the prisons, go down to the death houses, go through the hospitals, go through the homes for feeble-minded, go through the asylums, go down through the haunts of sin, see the wrecks and the derelicts of humanity, scarred, bruised, filthy, a stench arising from a decayed body because of sin. Their sins have found them out There is an inscription on a monument in Egypt, which says, 'The imcioua snail commie iniquity wun recompense, but not without remorse." ' - If vou are bound to sin, you will suffer," remember that If you put your hand into the fire, you must expect to "be Vned by doing it. Therefore, when you sin, you must expect the reward for that sin and that's punishment surely. Now, whv do you do the thing that you positively, absolutely know 13 a detriment to you from every viewpoint and every angle that you can, or men and women can argue? Absolutely from every viewpoint. No exception. God Wants Us To Be .Christians. Get up and tell me why you have got to plead to get a man or woman to be a Christian; get up and tell me why you have to plead with a man or woman to get them to do what God wants them to do. To be a Christian Is what God wants you to be, and when you are what God wants you to be, you are the best on earth. Then for any man or woman to refuse to be what God wants them to be I want you to get up and show me. Come on, I want to see. "Be sure your sins will find you out." You may escape the law, but you cannot escape the consequences of sin. You may escape the law of man, but you cannot escape the law of God. That's an Impossibility. And there is no place where any man or woman can hide away from God. Sin Is the one thing and the only thing In this universe which can permanently damage a man, or eternally damn him. Disappointment may worry him and grief may sadrin him. adversity may bring hard ships and hunger Into his life. It may bring squalor and want, but sin Is the one thing In this universe that can permanently mark your character with a mark that will last. Be sure, be sure sin finds you out In the execution of human laws. The execution of all laws depends upon human agents. If the mere enactment of a law was all that was necessary for its enforcement and respect then we'd have no police, sheriffs or penitentiaries. No law is automatic. Every law depends upon men to make that law alive or dead. Law Is Rule Of Majority. Law is the majority rule. Law Is the basic principle of our government. All men are given equal protection by the law. All men owe ooiint obedience and respect to the law If one man has a right to break some laws, then all men have v camo rieht to break the same laws If one man has a right to v v oil laws, then all men have a right to break all laws. And when all men and all women break all laws, the white, and the blue in the flae will dissolve into the red, and old glory will be pulled down from her flag staff, and the blood-red flag of anarchy will wave over the country Law is the basic principle of merit No matter where. So you owe wnat you - to the enforcement of it So God has a law In this world. "Sin finds us out" through the execution of law. t While some have an International reputation for being thlef-catchers, there are other people who have an equal ' reputation for being thieves, and ability to elude and escape. .Ono may successfully - elude tho law for days; weeks, months, and possibly for years, and yet all that time, my " . . -n iha Iaw nnri

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friends, an Invisible something In weaving a net which sooner or later will bring that man to Justice. Go down and ask the police how few people ultimately escape. "You'd be dumbfounded if you knew all the crime that's committed where ultimately something happens that brings most of the criminals to Justice. Mighty few of them, ultimately, escape. Up in ' the weeds in Minnesota, when the spring sun melted the snow, they found the body of a man lying under a heap of brush. Nobody was able to identify him. Along in July, a plainclothes man of the Chicago police department was strolling around on the West Side among the saloons and haunts over near Desplaines street police station just casually strolling along. He saw a .fellow walking down the street who kept looking back at in tervals, tie ioiiowea mm for a couple of blocks and every once in a while he'd look back. He followed him into a cheap lodging house and put his hand on the fellow's shoulder as he sat there pretending to read a newspaper. Man Confesses His Crime. He said,n "They want you dow here at the police station." There he confessed that he'd com mitted the murder of that man away back in November and hid his body up there. He said it was in ! self-defense, but they convicted him anyway. Ultimately something will happen to bring men to justice. ' In Iowa at the close of the war a soldier got Into a fight with a man and shot him. He fled and they weren't able to locate him. Forty years afterwards a man in Missouri made application to the United States government for a pension, and in the application he of course, had to apply under the name by which he enlisted and which was his right name and in that way, my friends, they got track of him. The officials of Iowa went to Mis souri, and asked for extradition papers . They presented the matter and it was granted. They broucht him back to Iowa, and he was indicted and 200 of the reputable citizens of that community chartered special trains and came back voluntarily as character witnesses, for that man was married and had grandchildren. Then they said, "He is the most respectable citizen In the community." They presented the evidence. He was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary at Fort Madison, la., and later Governor Cummings pardoned the man. After 40 years, his application for his pension revealed his whereabouts, and who he was, and he supposed they'd all forgotten. Find Man's Team Standing Alone. In Illinois, In a town where I preached, a farmer went to town and drew several hundred dollars from the bank. He drank liquor and just after dark he was Been to untie his horses and start for home. He was never seen alive again. In the morning they found the team standing at the gate and they found the lines wrapped around the whip and the blanket was folded and lying on the seat There was no evidence of a struggle. They couldn't find the missing man, .and finally they arrested a neighbor who had had a quarrel with him. The man readily proved an alibi, but they were sure that he was the man although they couldn't convict him. wo years after that, he sold his farm and moved away. Years and years went by, and they had a long, hot spell in Illinois and on this man's farm wa3 a pond fed by a spring, and never known to go dry, and out in the middle they found the skeleton of a man with a log chain and on that was the initial of the man who had been arrested. So, therefore they scoured tho country, atid -found him out in Pasadena, Cal., dying from consumption. They got out extradition papers. They sent officers. He was too sick to move, but they constantly watched him, and a few hours before he died, he confessed that he had committed the murder and taken the man's body out to the pond. Something will happen that will bring out the fact that they are sinners. I was preaching in West Virginia, not far from Wheeling, where there is a very rich man. He loaned money to the farmers all around. The people supposed that he kept vast sums of money In the house and two men went there to rob him with intent of murdering if they had to. Before going to the house they went to the barn and took a two-by-four and they whittled it down so they could get held of it They went to the house and the man resisted, and they pounded him to a pulp and they fled. Finally Arrest Two Men. There were living with him two relatives and they 'phoned for the police in Wheeling. They threw out the drag net and along about 11:30 they arrested two men at a road-house-where they sat dringing. One of them had a criminal record. Nobody knew the other. They searched the men and they had nothing but a jack-knife. They had on "those disguises, that they put over their face, with holes, cut through for their eyes. They brought those two men back and they Indicted them. On of them was named John Moody. They didn't know the other fellow's name. As the indictment was returned they Indicted him under the name of Frank Fry, and the trial was called. My friend, who was then a prosecuting attorney, was prosecuting the case. The lawyer for the defense arose and made an appeal that they'd take the matter out of the hands of a Jury for they had failed to establish their guilt and there wasn't very much evidence. Everything was purely circumstantial. Frank Nesbitt took ont of those magnifying glasses they use in jewelry stores. He picked up the knife that had been taken from the man and he saw two little nicks about an eighth of an inch apart that they had overlooked. He got up and picked up this two-by-four and Baid: "Whoever whittled that whittled it with a knife that had two nicks In the blade," and he fitted those nicks into the grove and they fitted, showing that whoever whittled that

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two-by-four whittled It with that jack inure. He laid that matter before the Jury, and they convicted those men to be hung in Moundsville penitentiary, and they died on the scaffold. Oh, be sure your signs will find you out! Ultimately something will happen. You can find the record of that, my friends, in West Virginia, 49,712. You lawyers know what that la. Man Plans to Commit Crime. Now, in the perpetration of all crime, the criminal agent with incredible egotism is preparing to match his brain and his cunning against that of destiny and how strikingly do such incidents show the utter futility of trying to get away. A man prepares to commit a crime. He lays his plan3 and he takes his precautions and he goes to work and yet destiny idly, casually and contemptuously, without making any attempt to lay a counter plan, trips him up by some trifling incident He overlooked the two nicks in the knife. He overlooked the log chain, with the initial on it. Somethine will hrinir tViom to judgment later on. And vour sins wiu rina you out In your own bodies.) x nere s not a man that doesn't pay. Many a man will not pay at human courts but he will pay at a court which he cannot bribe or browbeat, and that's the court of physical retribution for your transgressions and your moral offenses. Certain disease follows certain sins. If a man has a certain disease we all know that he had to commit a certain sin or he wouldn't have had that disease and we all know that some relative had to commit a certain ein or he wouldn't have had it, for "God visits the iniquities . of the parents unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate Him." We all know that certain diseases only come by certain sins and if you didn't commit a certain sin vmii wouldn't have that disease, for that's me oniy way it comes to . anybodv, and although they may not see you commit the sin, they know you did it or you wouldn't have had that dis I Immoral Life ease, Brings Disgrace. So there it finds you out and publicly stamps you as having committed that sin, although no eye perhap3 might have seen you do that There is aa intimate connection between morality and health. A moral life conducive to health; an immoral life is conducive to disease. A moral life eliminates disease; and an immoral life breeds disease. A moral life lengthens your life; an immoral ure snortens it. "The wicked shall not liye out half their days," and men and women if you loouea at it purely from the standpoint of living in this world and being happy, you ought to be a uribuan ana serve Jesus Christ. If there were no incentive or reward for you to be a Christian in thf nrm-wi to come, if only what God Almighty will do for you in the matter of cuaracier, m the matter of respec uiDuny ana the matter of health nere on tne face of thi3 old earth, vou ougm to stand for Jesus Christ. Therefore, moralitv means rfe-ht ra. lationship, always, to God's will, recognized human beings. I recognize that when I act in harmony with God's will, I am a better man man ir I act contrary to God's will. I am more respectable and live longer, and I am a better man. Morals are the basis of all law. Moral3 are derived from God. Morals came from heaven, they didn't come from hell. Morals came from God not from infidelity. So, morals, my friends, are the basis of all law, and morals are derived only from God. All sins have physical consequences. Oh, the sufferings when some men and women commit some sins may not be immediate. You may commit a sin and you may not immediately suffer for that sin. Thrs 1 other sins, that if you commit, you will nave to sutter for immediately. You may wait for weeks, or months, and possibly years before the suffering will come to you physically for having violated a moral law and trampled God's law beneath your feet. Scarcely a day goes by that somebody doesn't come to me, suffering the physical torments of hell because oi tne result or their own sin and they will tell me with the tears streaming down their cheeks. When you see others suffering the terrible consequences of their transgression of God's law, why, in God's name, will you go on committing the same sin that you know they committed tn I bring the suffering that they are hav ing now. Moral Stamina If the man or woman living in that suffering because of their sins, should ask you, "How much will you give me to take away my suffering and my disease that I have brought on myself because of the transgression?" you haven't got enough money to do that you wouldn't give it, and yet you will go ahead and commit the same sin that you know brought that suffering to them knowing it will bring it to you just the same as it did to them. You will go Tight ahead and do the verv samp, thinr notwithstanding all the preacher can say or all anybody can do to warn you. Persons will see a man steal and know it will land him in prison and then go right out and steal. When a man sees a man staggering down the street he will go and do the same thing that made that. It will make him a drunkard. When a man has delirium tremens he knows what brought it to him. and vet he will go and do the same thing that Drougnt it to him. Why do so many people have broken bodies and shattered intel lects? Their sins have found them out. And they find you out in your individual body, they find you out in delirium tremens which goes with alcoholism; they find you out in locomotar ataxia, they find you out in paralysis of the young, although you juuiobu miguc not nave sinned or your young might not have sinned somebody sinned and the germs of tneir sin are in It and they strike your child down. So you have got to Buffer, not because of your Bin, but because somebody else Binned and all that because somebody was a cuss; because somebody didn't live right Disease Is Result of Sin. So therefore, you have got a erave out there with your baby lying in it because some other devil wouldn't be decent So, you have got to carry your baby out In the graveyard and bury it just to pay for the transgression of some other God-forsaken reprobate. Oh, It make3 me hot! You eee, you can't confine it Tf

ljyou courd confine it to yourself, why.i

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that wouldn't be bo bad, but you can't Somebody else has got to suffer for it It will find you out in the diseases of the spinal cord, dis eases or the brain, diseases of thet ciuucjr, uiocaoca ot me nea.iT, aiS' eases of the nervous system. Now if we could eliminate all diseases . caused . by our own voluntary acts. A large part of the blindness is preventable. A large part of the insanity, ' tuberculosis, and blindness come as a result of voluntary sins sins that you voluntarily commit Although you may be blind and you committed. nothing that, made you blind. Somebody else did. So, most all of this is preventable, that's what I mean by it and if men and, women would only get on their knees, confess their sins and quit living in sin, you'd be dumbfounded to see how little disease would remain in the world. You know that You bet your life, and you can't get around it Of course, disease may bo hereditary.. Disease may be the result of accident Disease may come through misfortune. I will admit all that I will take all the diseases that come not .hereditary. You cannot transmitted down from generations. I will take all that. I will put them here. I will take all the diseases that comes from accidents. Many times a cancer will start from accident You wil bruise the tissues. A cancer Is not hereidtary. You cannot transmit that down. You can transmit other things, but you cannot a can er. It will come by affliction. All right, after I have all that 1 1 repeat my statement, if men and women would only quit sinning there woumn t be very much disease in the world, and if we want to have our nation damned with disease, go ahead and live as you have been. No. Why can t you get people to see that sin is their enemy and when I am preach lng for your good. I am your friend trying to warn you of the very thing mat mreatens to curse and blight ana arag you down. iviow take anger. All right. When you get mad. your blood Is distorted It effects your stomach. That in turn arrects your appetite. That in turn arrects the food that you have eaten so that it doesn't assimilate to your ooay. n airects your brain and nerve, and in many cases It causes ceatn by paralytic stroke, from anger. Professor Gates has crvstalized 40 health-giving ingredients made from the human body while the mind of the man or woman was in a state of contentment and peace. He has also crystalized as many deadly poi sons maae rrom the secretions nf thp body while the mind of the man or woman was in a state of anger and rebellion. We all know that a nurs ing mother wil throw her babv Into spasms because of the effect of her anger upon her nurse. That reacts upon the child and the child is tied up in spasms and wil froth at the moutU like a doe With hvdrnnhnhla That's the efect of the anger of the momer tnrough the effect of the nourishment upon her child. We all Know tnese things, yet people go on inej-u oe tools. You will sit there ana listen to me and go out and stick your head in a lion's mouth. All uuii l uiame me men ir vou 6" l me aevn. ir you go to hell, you can stand up and say, "Well, Bill wasn't to blame. He tried to Keep me out" Praise for Good Fathers. I stood one day on Michigan p.venue in front of the Aucitorium hotel, and uovvn me street came a touring car. In it sat a company of voime nponte and they were buried and hid in their turs ana you could just catch a glimpse of their faces. You could hear the cachinnations of laughter as tne car hurried down Michigan avenue, -who is tnat?' dmi II - . - mats warsnau Field, Jr.. son of Aiarsnau Field, and heir to $155,000,un, wouia it be great to be the son or a merchant like that? Yes; but I am a child of God, i",iuu6u jc-sus arist. uon t you iiiiiiH. i ougnt to oe glad? All things will work together for your good when you are on God'a side. Yes, the devil came to me many a time, and said to me, "What would you ao n your wife would take sick in tho middle of a meeting and have to go to a hospital?" That's come to me many a time and I have said, "I don't know what I would do." ..But it did come and God gave me strength to stand up under It Many a time I have said that in years gone by, and people have asked me, "What would you do?" and I have said: I don't know what I'd do." But I say now, since it did come, God's grace is sufficient. ..They have said to me," What would you do if one of your children would die?" I don't know. I know I'd forget I'm a preacher and I'd cry as if my heart would break, but I know God would do in an hour like that what he does now, for he has promised me grace. It is sufficient for me. Some one says, "what would you do if you'd lose your vofce, and couldn't preacn : I don't know. I don't know anything I could do to earn my living. I have Kiven an my time and skill to developing myself along this line and if my voice should ive away tomorrow, I don't know anything that I could do to earn enough to feed my wife and thildren. I have given all mv whio time but it would be up to God to take care of me because I wore it out fighting for him and his truth and I think if I did give away and would creep back, this old town would give me a hand. Happy Because Converted. But it's great to know that I'm going live with the Lord forever, I tell you that. And so, don't be worried about it. Don't be worried about it. The Lord would kill me if He thought I'd have to live with the devil and the devil's gang. "People say to me, "How long do you think you will be able to preach'" Some people said I'd die ten years ago. I have been going at this speed you have seen me for 21 years and I have never missed a night for 21 years. You never looked at a man in your life that eats less and sleeps less than I do. Listen, my friends! He loved us and gave Himself for us. Born to be kings and queens, how dare we submit and yield ourselves to the influence that will rip the crown from our heads and send us back slinking into the dens. with the devils and demons. No! No! No! I beg of you. Come to Christ and he will Bave you.

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... by S. W. STRAUS, President Live within your means. This may seem like trite advice, vet if it were universally followed a large measure of human suffering would be eliminated. It is one of the shortcomings of persons in all walks of life to-day that they do not keep their expenditures within the limits of their incomes. The desire to make a showing, to attract attention and to enjoy the transitory pleasures of the day, are, in large measure, responsible for this evil. This is not said in sweeping con demnation of the finer things of life.- It must be remembered that" what may be perfectly prudent spending for one may be the height of extravagance for another. Conditions in life vary. Each person must regulate his own expenses in keeping with his income, because it is only in this way that individual progress can be made. To drift along from day to day without getting ahead is the worst form of mismanagement

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trail

REPAIRS TABERNACLE Albert Peterson is going Monday to Winona Lake to get the tabernacle there in good shape for the Bummer use. Fred Rapp Rays Pete is going to scatter the shavings there, just like ho did in the building here. OFFERS PRAYER Rev. H. M. Gard of Knightstown, who is conected with the "No-Tobacco league," offered the opening prayer at the tabernacle Thursday afternoon. DEMAND FAVORITES People are not letting Mrs. Asher and Mr. Rodeheaver get by without singing the "Old Rugged Cross" and demand it at almost every meeting. They are also getting "wise" to Bob Matthews' voice, and are asking for him more and more. CALLS FOR SONG Rodeheaver called for "Onward. Christian Soldiers" as he saw the Christian delegation marching into the tabernacle on Thursday night CALLS OFF PRACTICE Because of the presence of the bovs' band on Saturday the attempt to have children as a chorus was called off, so the boys and girls were not to practice on Friday evening at 4 o'clock. SPECIAL POWER j "Winona Lake is the only city In the United States that has a provision in its charter whereby it can charge admittance to enter the town," Sunday told the audience Thursday night. "We got a special act from the legislature giving us the power to do it." EXPLAINS VIEW Commenting on the wav in which neople used to entertain in their homes. Sunday declared Uiat now days "you BILLY LOOSES Continued from preceding page) sermon, "morals mean the right re lationship with God, and that means longer life and better health." 'If men and women would ston committing sin, they would be sur prised at the lack of disease. . Sin comes from the devil, and yet some people think that I am fighting against them, when I am merely fighting against the devil." Shows Earnestness Suddenly, breaking from his cease less pacing around the pulpit, Billy bunday shook his fists in the air and roared with all the vehemence of a Greek fury: "I call a strike asainst the devil!" "Don't, don't, don't" he shouted. waving his clenched firsts above hisi head, "don't be a fool!" Stamping on I floor until it creaked under the i

weight of the blows. "Be sure youflPray. And the Chines

sin will find you out. Attacking immorality In the movies bunday declared I that they must be purged of their dirt. "Youngsters do! not uock to tne spoKen drama," he i - -1 : . . I saia, Dut tney do flock to the movies. Film Censorshio "That is why we must have a censorship of the films. I don't know what Will Hays Is going to do, but he has an awful bunch to deal with." "The men in hell know what the wages of their sin 13," declared Sunday. "If God would let me go down to hell and preach one sermon, I could eveijoiie. n 1 gave, tnem an; invitation to come out they would i come so fast that there wouldn't even', be enough left to bank the fires." Dr. J. B. Slocumb. pastor of the First Baptist church of Dayton, offered the opening prayer, and Mr. Julian Smith j of the Y. M. C. A., the closing prayer. 1 ine evening attendance was about r 3,250. YOU CANT (Continued from Preceding Page) in Ocean Grove last summer and two women came to me and said: "We want to meet you; we are Bishop Simpson's daughters." Bishop Simpson prayed all night with Lincoln asking God to preserve the victory of this country. Knox his prayers are heard and felt in Scotland today and the queen feared them more than she did an Invading army. Stonewall Jackson prayed in everything he did and he was known to say: "Oh, God, let this horrible war auicklv come to an end thftt we may all return nome ana engage in the only work that

and folly and it'is bound to bring unhappiness if 'not absblute ruin. It hurts no oneto be deprived of a few passing pleasures in order to make provision for the future for it is through experiences of this kind that strong characters are formed and moral strength is generated. To yield to temptation and be continually .spending money which should be laid away for future uses has a most deteriorating effect. No matter what your conditions in life may be, above all things else, live within vour means 1- . . 3 To do so will bring rewards in later years that will well repay you for every imaginary privation and inconvenience you suffer. If your income is limited your savings, of course, -will necessarily be small, but the amount that you lay by at regular intervals is of secondary importance to the fact that you save something. No matter what your circumstances may be, therefore live witliin your means. could not Jimmy your way Into a home io get entertainment so as to save the local committee some expense." TO SPEAK ON THEATRES Sunday got all worked up over desecration of the Sabbath, and was starting in on the theatres that run on Sunday. "The miserable," he started to roar, as he stopped in the middle of an explosion. "I'll preach on that Saturday night" ANOTHER CHARLESTON Charleston is a favorite name with Billy Sunday, it seems, for now Charleston, South Carolina, has tendered him an Invitation to come there to preach. "My earliest open date Is January, 1924," Mr. Sunday had to write in aswer to the letter. CINCY GIRLS COMING About 40 business women from Cincinnati will arrive in Richmond Saturaay evening, according to a telegram received by Mrs. William Asher of the Sunday party on Friday. The girls are an advance party of the delegation that will come up over Sunday to attend the services. While they are here, as many as possible will be entertained In the homes of the local business women who are interested in Mrs. Asher's noon meetings. 13 worth while and that is the salvation o; men. George Muller prayed and his prayers controlled over eight million dollars. He supported thousands of orphan children; fed, clothed and educated them and never asked for a dollar. Commodore Vanderbilt when he lay dying, said: "Send for the rardener. he knows how to pray.' So we all want somebody around when we are uiuuing gooa-Dye to this old world. These men I have named were not ieecie men, tne world has crowned them as great, and they were great men, everyone of them. Prayer is the swiftest thing In the universe, goes from New York to Philadelphia; Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh to St Louis, St Louis to Cincinnati, Chicago, Portland, 'Frisco, New Orleanh, Los Angeles, around the world, on this wonderful arrow of light tipped with fire and the flame of love and winged with faith. It goes around the world to bring men and women to salvation, and to Jesus Christ. I know not where his islands lift their tufted palms in air. But this I know, I can not drift beyond His love and care." God will answer prayer. I heard Dr. Read tell how when they were surrounded by the Bnwr trnnnc icc1ot. ed by the Imperial troops in the great Chinese rebellion, tw -.tiZZf Christian voiin? Tn ,i the wind would blow and carry the flames over the house in which the British were, which W9 C9tnrato,3 -nrtfV. oil. They waited to rp , , the flames shoot up and the Bmoke begin to curl over, and -they called those Godly men and women and they . . - . " wiv, u emu icu on uieir Knees- ana they said: God Answered Prayers Vith Rain "Oh! God we are heirless wo nn and while they prayed the wind came UD roin the sea and it started to rain and jt rained, and rained, and rained' ;and rained without ceasing for nearly "teip anui everything was soaked and saturated. The lowlands were covered and the rivers leaped their banks The armies were debatlns- wfcet,. they would start, when one evening the Seneral of the United States army sa,d "Tomorrow morning the gentle1 sxar rr rexm so tney forded the stream and on they went Nothing but me answer or uoa to their prayers. In the thirty-seven years of war between Spain and the Dutch they surrounded the city of Leyden. The people there were starving and seven or eight Dutch ships came up loaded to the water's edge with provisions. But it was several miles from where they could come, over to the city, and they offered Prince William of Orange a fabulous sum if he would surrender. They could not buy him. Although they offered to put him in line to the Spanish throne, he would not yield. And then what happened? They prayed, and God blew the winds and he picked up the North Sea in the winds and hurricanes blew until the waters rolled over every barrier, eighteen feet deep over the lowlands. They drove the Spaniards that were encamped out of the lowlands and they fled for their lives. The Dutch ships

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PRAY FOR REVIVAL TO SWEEP OVER CITY, l URGES REV. BACKUS

Calling attention to the need at prayer in the present revival campaign Rev. A. H. Backus, chairman of th prayer meeting and, Bible etudy committee, has issued the following announcement : "The conviction deepens upon oui hearts that the great need in the present evangelistic campaign is mora prayer. I believe this is where we are losing out, not because we are' not interested and working hard for the success of the meetings, but because our work is not backed up by eufflclent prayer. The source of spiritual vitality in any Christian movement is prayer. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. "Not oy nignt, nor by power, but by my spirit saith the lrd of Hosts." , The source of the power of any spiritual movement is God; and the energies of God are released in answer to prayer. "Before there can fee a mighty tide of revival sweeping over the city of Richmond the Christian people must give themselves to earnest, agonizing, prevailing prayer. Mr. Sunday and his party are doing all they can for 'US. The daily and nightly messages are stirring the hearts of men. But th great results we desire tarry upon our own use of the mighty power of intercession. "As chairman of the prayer meeting committee of the campaign allow me to urge all district superintendents, captains and other workers to be very diligent In your work during the l&sV two weeks of the campaign. Do nota slacken your pace. Rather excelerator It Let the Christian people gather together In groups all over the city and pray mightily that our city may t swept hy the power of God during these opportune days." ALFRED H. BACKUS, i Chairman prayer meeting and Blblei Btudy , GRANGE WILL ATTEND 7 TABERNACLE SERVICE (Special to The Palladium) x CAMPBELLSTOWN, Ohio. May 22. Jackson Grange will attend the Billy Sunday meeting In a -body on Grange night. May 18, wearing badges and carrying a banner, according to arragements made at the meeting in the Campbellstown school building Thursday night A booster committee of three headed, by Rev. D. G. Pleasant was appointed to spread the word of the Thursday night gathering, and tentative arrangements were made to run trucks for the accomodation of those who wish transportation. The Grange will meet on the Friend's church lawn at 7 o'clock so as to enter the tabernacle before 7:15. Announcement wa smade also at the meeting of a banauet to he uiu next regular meeting night, Thursday, May 25. This will be served by the ladies of the Grange a.s a conclusion to the membership contest which was closed this week. The lecturer was Instructed to secure a state speaker for the occasion. A report on the county club leaders meeting at Eaton on Thursday afternoon was given by Miss Edith Larsb who with Miss Ruth O'Hara was delegated by Miss Zoe Benham to represent Jackson township in the clutt -leaders absence. . - came up against the walls and the people came up and took the provisions ou. ana carried tnem from the hold and stored them in the fort, and then the wind shifted and blew back the waters of the North Sea and the North Sea has never crossed that boundary line from that day to this. That was God's answer to their pray-, ers. Had it not been for God's an-i swer the red rag of Spain would bai flying over Holland today. I preached in Minnesota year audi years ago and the grasshoppers Invaded the state, and they became so dense and bo thick that the Kim v o veiled for hours. And the people -wwreJ starving tor an tne green things -were being eaten. They ate vegetation outj or tne garaen ana the people were- crying for help. ,, Stayed Plague of ; ' ; ty.J , Grasshoppers ' !..--. John A. Pillsbunr h sftTTrf i "Eventually, why not now?" waa ?iuur uuu ao isstiea a proclamation tori a aay or lasting ana prayer that God would stay the plague of the mts. hoppers. People were urged to rafcwv in churches and spend the day Inj fasting and In prayer and they did.,1 The next day they went out and th' grounds were covered with dead grass-! noppers; tney crawled on the railroad j and they died on the rails; and the trains would crush their bodies. And' they said: "The eggs are In the, ground and they will hatch." . , For about four days the sun beamed on Minnesota as ordinarily as In July and the grasshopper eggs hatched and the young grasshoppers crawled out of the ground and the northwest wind switched and the frost came for about two days, and then God sent a little red bug about as large as the head of a little pin and it ate the eggs of the grasshoppers, and the frost ate the little red insects after they had oiottea out tne grassnoppers. Are you a praying Christian or Just a nominal one? "Papa, is God dead?" "No. Why?" "Because you don't talk about him to me any more like you used to." Maybe that is the trouble with ebme of you in your homes. Like the great Hercules when ' he went out to fight against his great opponent, his strength was almost equal and It was heads or tails as to who would win, but Hercules discovered that when the giant's feet were lifted from the earth his strength seemed to become half and bo he summoned all his strength and lifted his opponent In the air and he pierced him dead And when you stand upon the truths of the omnipotent God there Is nothing on the earth that can move you. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth. much.' Does it pay to pray? - WINS ONE CENT VERDICT HAMILTON, Ohio, May 12. Jennie Arnowitz, Middletown. won a rerdlct for on cent damages from wmian,

Dyehouse in common pleas court forV detention of a house she had purchaj-

.y" rarit, sub-division of that city. An order of ejection them was Issued against Dyehouse. JTh plaintiff pays the cost of the case

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