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Afternoon Audience. The Text "Choose whom ye will serve." chapter, 5th verse. ye this day Joshua 24th "Choose Ye This Day" was the subject about which Rev. W. A. Sunday on Sunday afternoon said: These are the words of Joshua, the successor of Moses. Moses was one of the most famous men in the world. He took a great horde of half-civilized men, the Jews, who had been for four hundred and thirty years in Egyptian bondage, and out of them he made the greatest nation the world has ever known. Other nations hare lost their nationality by intermarriage and assimilating together, but not the Jew. A Jew Is just, as ranch a Jew today as he . was six thousand years ago. Moses led the Jews to the borderland of Canaan but God denied him the privilege of going in. Then Joshua took them in, and after he was an old man ready to shuffle off this mor tal coil, be said. "I want you to remember what God has done for you and that all the blessings you have received have come to you through the beneficence of God, and all the trotfble that has come to you has come to you through your own disobedience. I want you to choose this day whom you are going to serve whether you're going to serve God or serve the devil. All you've got to do la to look around and see what the two have done for you, and it ought not take you long to make up your mind what you're going to do." So, I bring you the words that fell from the lip3 of Joshua three thousand years ago. I'd like to ap- . fusl tn vniir -manhnnri today and I KO-ft V - know I can do it for you are the highest type of manhood. ' God Has Given Man Reason. Someone has defined man as being a rational animal. Now I know that ClnA hna plvpn evprv man a reason and he expects you to use it. The man doesn't use his reason when he swears or refuses to be a Christian. He doesn t use his reason wnen ne doesn't do what God wants him to do. Therefore, a man must be a moral idiot who doesn't see that a manis unreasonable when he is unrighteous and only righteous when he does the will of God through faith In Jesus Christ. I cannot define manhood except as I catch the meaning in Jesus Christ, the definition of manhood. Avoirdupois doesn't make a man, a man isn't a man because he stands six feet tall Some of the noblest specimens of manhood I have ever met have been small men. On the other hand, some of the abandoned wretches I have seen have been of powerful physique. Some of the finest specimens of unrisuan mannooa u nas ever Deen my privilege to associate with have - been men of frail stature, on the f.ther hand some of the most menda cious, rapacious buffoons, poltroons and moral and sexual perverts and rotten degenerates I have ever met have been men of great build. There are some men that remind roe of sign, "Dressed Beef," "Dressed Pork." They are hog-jowled men and they lack the principles of real, true manhood for they seem to imagine it is on the basis of avoirdupois and it is not so. It takes something more than that. Describes A. H. Stephens. Alexander H. Stephens, the late Ex-Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, was a man or iran siaiure anu uuru B iu term in the United States Senate, he was an invalid. He wa3 incisive, furious, vindictive. His words would : cut like a Damascus blade. One day a subject was up for discussion and his colleague from Georgla. Bob Thomas, took the opposite - side of the contest. Stephens said something in retort that made Thomas mad and Bob walked up and shook c his fist in his face and said, "Stephens, : damn you, I can eat you!" Stephens said, "If you did. Bob, you'd have more brains in your belly than you've got in your head." And then Thomas said to . him, "Well, sir, I haven't had the oppor- " funities to advance and prepare my- ' self like you have. I am a self-made man." Stephens said, "I am glad to know i that. That relieves God from a wonderful responsibility. I always did doubt that God had anything to do"i with you and now I know it and I am glad to know tt."So, therefore, in Jesus Christ I find the revelation of manhood, and Jesus Christ not only revealed God to man but he revealed man to man, and in Jesus I have the highest revelation of God to me, and I have the : highest revelation of myself to myself. In Jesus I know what kind of a man God wants me to be and I know " what kind of a man he wants you to be. In Jesus I have my standard for calling you to choose this day whom ye will serve. Everybody Can Find Excuse. I meet a good many men who give excuses for not being a Christian. I never have met a man that could give a reason for no man on earth can give a reason. Everybody can . give an excuse but that man doesn't . exist who can give a reason. A reason is a ground that justifies you in not doing a thing. If you are brought into-court and you prove self-defense, it is a reason, it isn't an excuse. It is a reason and that justifies you, for the laws of the land and the Constitution of the United States give every man the right to defend hi3 life and . his property. But no man can give a reason for not being a Christian, for no man " can say anything that will justify him and let him out. You can give an ex- , cuse but you can't give a reason! Yet, I met a man up in Troy when I was associated with Dr. Chapman, - who came nearer giving a reason than anybody I ever met. I went out and spoke to a fellow and I said, "How do vou do? Are you a Christian?"

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Need Church "No, I am not. Bill." I said, "Do you believe In God?" "Yes." "In the Bible?" "Every bit of It." "That Jesus Christ la the Son of God?" "I do." "Heaven for the saved, Hell for the lost?" "Yes." I said, "Tell me then, why you are not a Christian." He looked me in the face and said,. "Bill, I'm not a man enough to be a. Christian. I'm not man enough!" Some Lack Manhood. Oh, do you want to know why you are not a Christian? You aren't man enough to be a Christian! You haven't manhood enough to get up and walk down the aisle and take me by the hand and say, I give my hear to Christ." - You haven't manhood enough to take my hand and go home this afternoon and say, "I hit the trail thi3 afternoon and I'm going to live for Christ." You haven't manhood enough to take me by the hand and say to your sister, "I'm not going to make you ashamed of me, but proud." You haven't manhood enough, you aren't man enough to take me by the hand and then go home and say, "I've given my heart to Jesus Christ." Oh, you aren't man enough to be a Christian! It takes manhood to be a Christian, my friends, in this old world! No man can be a man without being a Christian and no man is a man unless he is a Christian. Therefore, if you want to be a man, be a Christian; if you want to be less than a man, serve the devil and go to hell! Manhood is Essential Trait. Nobody can be a man unless he is a Christian in the world, no matter where you go or what you are! I meet a good many fellows who put off the think it is manly to claims of religion and refuse to do what God wants them to do, and serve the world, the flesh and the devil. A man said to me, "Bill, I would but I am afraid somebody willi laugh at me." j Any man that would laugh at you for taking a stand for Jesus Christ hasn't the first principle of manhood in him. ' Any man that would laugh at you and make you ashamed of yourself that you had done this Is so low down, my friends, that I wouldn't disgrace this pulpit by comparing him with anything. I wouldn't spit on him or wipe my feet on him. The man who is brave enough to look his enemy in the face ought to be brave enough to take his stand on the side of Jesus Christ and for his truth, for there is no place on God's earth where you have a bet- - - - show" your reVl t. k ,or, vn ,i stand liuu luciuuuuu luau " -- j up and openly and bravely and truly acknowledge God and his truth. Physical Strength Not Necessary. It's a false idea that a good many neoDle have as to what constitutes manhood. Some seem to tninK it is physical strength. There was Samp - son he could carry off the gates as easily as you could lug a pillow on your lap, and yet he laid his head In .... . a woman's lap and she sheared his locks and he died. Look at Bacon. He was a prodigy of intellect. Men stood and looked at him. When he was Chancellor of England one man offered him a bribe of three hundred pounds if he'd give a decision in his favor. Another man offered him four hunpounds and he gave the dec! Jl" a v nff0r f,r h,.n. sion of the one w,ho offered four hundred pounds. Fast living is no test of manhood. You are not a man because you can drink more than the rest of the bunch, because you can drink twenty mugs of booze and then walk heme straight. That doesn't constitute manhood! You're not a man because your name happens to be on the lips of someone down in the haunts of shame. You're not a man because some fellow hits you on the back and calls you a dead game sport. That's no compliment! That's no ideal of manhood in this old world! Some Postpone Action. I think most men expect to be Christians, but they seem to imagine it is manly to put off the claims of religion and squeeze this old world like you would a lemon and then at the end of a misspent life, just be fore they 'phone for the undertaker, call for 'the preacher and pray and creep into the kingdom of God be cause of his long suffering and mercy! I Oh, I have met men who cherish the contemptible idea that it is manly to put off the claims of religion and keep the control of their own lives in their own hands, and just before they die they send for the preacher or priest to try and help them to catch a glimpse of Jesus Christ. I presume ther are men who, in the busy rush of life never give themselves an opportunity never stop to think about God Almighty and when they come to lie upon what will prove to be their death bed, may take time to plan and prepare, but I do not believe that any man who has the opportunity that you men have this afternoon, if you have never heard a sermon before, if you never hear another one besides this, you will hear enough to give you all the light that you need to give your life to Jesus Christ if you will accept it. Loses His Desire To Kill I heard of a hunter that had a weasel which imitated the voice of a fawn. He stood in front of the weasel and the weasel cried. Out came the mother deer looking this way and that way for, her little fawn that she j thought twas lost when she heard this sound. When she saw the man her Nature's instinct recognized her mortal enemy but when the man saw that exhibition of mother love on the part of that dumb brute which would bring that mother deer right into the muzzle of his gun, he didn't have

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the heart to shoot her. He threw his gun into the snow, clapped his hands and scared her away and she went bounding back into the thicket and disappeared. But do you think that because God has been patient with you he will continue to be? Do you think because God hasn't struck you down that Hei won't do it? Do you think that be-j wm oumtj ui juu iueui live to be thirty, forty fifty sixty years ni,nn .1 11 1 C ' or age and come in here, you that are not Christians, do you think that God will continue to be as patient with you in the future as he has been in the past? I hope he will, but I beg of ytu, in the name of God, don't put the Lord to any such test, my friends, as that. Don't trample God's law beneath your feet. If you've done it up to now may this be the last day that you live in rebellion against God! I tell you men, the church needs you. You need the church for a hiding place. Many Put Low Mark on Church Many put a mighty low mark on the church. Many people begrudge every)thing they give to the church. Thev i make no sacrifices to God. Thev will dole out a few pennies of their surplus Oh, if your children ever crow up - . - I to lives of purity and happiness, they will grow up in the shadow of the church. If the church doesn't get them, the world will. If they don't reach heaven, they'll go to hell. .The church Is God's institution to help them on their way to o'ory and when you pass away it may not be lona with some of you, some of you may never see the hills turn brown, some of you may never see the leaves fall from the flowers before they will carry you to the graveyard. .Listen! Some of you may never see the snows sift over the hills before you will pass away. Oh, what a satisfaction it will be to you to know that your children are in Christian society! You'd like to see them in the sacred precincts when t you leave, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you rather see your boy in a church than in a saloon? Wouldn't you rather have your daughter on her knees praying than weeping and moaning because she lost her womanhood? Wouldn't you like to see them sit in the church and partake of that Holy Sacrament, mingling with Christian associates? And when you are on your death bed and your little ones are brought in to take their last look into your face and you look up to their bewildered faces, oh, what a benediction to leave them under the shadow of the church. Many of You Need Church More than that, you yourself will need tne church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed on your soul, sir, and when your daughter just budding into womanhood suddenly claps her hands to her head. stumbles and falls and begins that sleep which knows no wakening until the trumpet of Gabriel .shall sound you will want something to shelter you ana neip you In that hour. A friend of mine said to a widowed mother a few months after she buried her only son, "How do you get along nowadays. She said, "Well, I get along tolerably well except when the sun shines." "Why," he said. "What do you mean? I should think that would be the best time." "Oh" she said, "I can't bear to see the sun shine. My heart is so dark ana l am so discouraged that the brightness of the sun seems to mock me, and when the days are cloudy and it is raining they seem to be in sympathy with my sorrow and with mv grief." I swing the doors of the church wide open from wall to wall and I say, "Come on in, men. We will pray you a prayer, we will sing you a song, we win preacn you a sermon. i i . - . . nurcn ot uoo Will Not Perish All other institutions are going to J fall, but the church of God has for i its foundation the Rock of Ages, its charter is the everlastinsr vears. its keys are held by the universal pro-

prietor. Its dividend is heaven and its You, Etop aDd, ?yT' 'Madam. I feel sorpresident Is God. ry for 'ou but 1 can 1 helP yu- 1 am not a member of the Fire DepartSure as thv truth shall last ment- 1 am very sorry but 1 wil1 To Zion shall be given ' g0 on aown tne street and I will make The highest glories earth can yield inuirics and if 1 meet a member of And richest bliss of heaven 'ithe Fire Department I will tell him ; of your sad predicament and advise And the church needs men' And!him to come up and rescue 5"ou- But I tell you men, you will need theiin tne meantime if vou should be inchurch npre than the church needs ' cineratea' Please remember that I

you. Do you know that next to sus lenance tne average man is more concerned with religion than anything in the world? So you ned the church more than the church needs you. The church could get alor.Q without you better than you could get along without the church of God in this old world. Are the saloons full of men or women? Full of men! Are the penitentiaries full of men or women? Full of men. Are the prisons full of men or women? Full of men! Are the gambling dens full of men or women? Full of men! Are thp insti tutions of vice and corruption full men or women; Full of men! Are the churches full of men or women? Full of women! Seventy-four per cent of the membership of the church 13 maae up of women. It's a disgrace j LnJJL that stand for God and purity should almost be empty of men while the haunts of damnation and vice are crowded and thronged with men, .sir! Concerned . For Others. I used to be concerned when I read a verse of. Scripture like this: "What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee?" Im not concerned about it for myself now, but I am concerned about it for you and what will you say when you meet God you that are not living a Christian life? What will you say when you meet your wife? What will you say when you meet your children? What will you say when you meet your mother? What will you say when you meet the members of your lodge? What will you say when you meet your business associates, when you meet your clerks and those you pay wages? When I stand before God I want to tell God that I did all I could to help my wife and our children to live a Christian life and I couldn't say that unless I caught in Jesuj Christ the inspiration for the life which enables me to say that. And do you know there are men here today you are harming your wives and your children, you are harming your neighbors, harming the community, harming the man that sits by your side, harming the clerks that work for you, because you are not living for Jesus Christ. There are men here today that are crushing the hearts out of their wives. There are men here today that are

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crushing the heart out of their wives, stead of doing something t,o encourage her to keep on praying. What you do discourage her and Instead of doing something to make her faith etronger your attitude toward her Is makine her faith weaker: instead of encouraging her to go to church and; your children to go to church you are j discouraging them. nerhaDs. bv vour attitude. your attitude I attitude. - ' - - I your attitude. Men Stifle Christian Desire, ..... Oh, there are men here casting cold water upon your religion and upon the religion of others instead of being enthusiastic for it! You are throwing cold water on it to chill It. There are men here today whose children never hear them pray, or hear the name of God fall from their lips except as it has fallen in profanity and in derision. There are men here today whose children have never seen them read the Bible. There are men here today whose children have never heard them ask a blessing at the table. No sir! Not one! There are not ten men here this' afternoon who do not know if they , I..! tL. . J . , J.. . A ... I Al 1.1 UWMC ine,r oul' l"ar er God ,anc!, ,el!owmen they'd have been In the kingdom because they; took their stand and they'd have influenced others to follow Christ. j A fellow said to me, "I'm not a member of a church but if you can prove to me where I am any more obligated to be sober and decent than you are, I'll quit." You are under just as much obligation to be decent as I am. It's a disgrace for you to be able to sit out there this afternoon and say. "I am not a member of a church." Non-Church Member Disgrace. That's no compliment to any man on God's earth. It's an insult and it's a disgrace to an intelligent American citizen for him to be able to say, "I'm not a member of a church and I don't go to church." You are under just as much obligation to be a Christian as the preacher. You ari unHpr inst as mnr.h nh-

ligation to serve God as I am. Yon;af-

are human, so am I, but God doesn't put the responsibility on me to be a Christian and let you escape. He puts' it on all of us. You need to lose your mind and go into an insane asylum before you can ever do anything contrary to the Word of God and not be responsible to God for what you have done in the world. Here you are in business. You are under just as much obligation as a business man to be able to tell a. man how to die as you are to sell him a commodity. No matter what you may possess you are under just as much obligation. In a town one time where a friend of mine was holding a meeting they went around to ask the merchants if they wouldn't close the stores every evening except Saturday during the campaign, and one merchant who had a hundred and fifty clerks called them in and said, "In common with th other merchants of this city, to show our interest in these meetings and religion, we are going to close this store every evening at six o'clock except Saturday. Now if any of you want to go to the meeting you may; if you don't, you don't need to, but I want you to know that your chance with this firm will not be gauged by your presence or absence at this meeting or your presence or absence at the front. I don't expect to go and if I should happen to stroll around where the meeting is being held I won't go to the front. I want to make myself clear here you go if you want to or stay away if you want to." Explains Wrong Position. He said to a friend of mine. "Don't you think I did a fine thing?" My friend said, "No, sir. You remind me of a fellow going down the street and he sees a house on fire

and there is a woman up in the topthe father beard him' brushed the

story screaming, 'Help! Help! Help!" jxiciu iuiU4i j iui j jw. He is under just as much obligation to her whether he wears a blue uniform or not. You are under obligation to lead the way for Jesus Christ to help others to take their stand for God , and for his truth and it doesn t release you from the obligation to say you are not a member of the church. I preached in a town one time in Nebraska. I saw a man come running down the aisle. He had a case in his hand that told me he was a doctor, and one of the merchants said to me, "You don't know that man?" Tells of of'His Change. No, sir, never saw him before." He said, "He's the leading physician and surgeon in this part of the conntry. We've got three hundred and fifty infiaels out here, charter members of an infidel church and he's the vicepresident of that concern. You don't know what it means! We've never been able to break into that crowd. He's the vice-president, Dr. M.". I said, "Dr. M.. what was it that I said that caused you to come down here? You came down that aisle trotting." He said, "Nothing in the sermon at all, although I enjoyed it." I said, "What was it?" He said, "You know I am a member of this infidel club. Well, our president died a few weeks ago and I was with him till the end and he said me, 'Edward, there may be something in it, perhaps. Death is not an eternal sleep as we have tried to make ourselves and others believe. If it isn't an eternal sleep then we are wrong, and if death is not an eternal sleep, then we are lost. There is uncertainty when you get to a time like this. It looks a good deal different to you than when you are walking the street and sitting around in the lodge room talking with others,' and he said, 'You'd better look into it. Can't you help me?' " He said he had to bend over that man and tell him that he didn't have six hours to live and yet he couldn't help him. He was under just as much obligation to be able' to tell that man how to die as he was to tell him that he had to die and he couldn't do it. You Have Responsibility. You're a human being and that responsibility is on you, sir, no matter who you are! You can t chuck it by

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church if you aren't you ought to be. Every man here ought to be a member of a church, and I tell you men I think I'd rather lose my eyesight and grope my way through darkness- to the grave ; I think I'd rather lose my mind and be unable to recognize my loved ones or mends; I tnink la rather beg my bread from door to door; I think I'd j m rather have disease lay hold upon me I It

. - ,to a man In this life and be able to say iwith Job, "I know that my Redeemer jliveth and he shall stand in the later days upon the earth" I'd rather have the worst that can come to a man In this life and have Jesus Christ than to have the best that can come to us and not have hope in Jesus. I'd rather have standing room In Heaven when I am through down here than to own the world and go to hell. And when I come to leave the world I want something better than that which can come to me by reflecting on the fact that I may have been a great business man. Serves God His Way. I never look at a man with brains to run a great institution that I don't look upon him with a degree of envy. I have no business ability. All the ability that I have I 'have developed doing this one thing preaching, and I don't know how to do anything else. If I'd break down and couldn't preach, I don't know anything that I could turn my hand to to earn my living. I don't know anything I could do, and so if I have any ability in business it is lying dormant. But I have bent every effort and every energy and ev erything I possess in order to advance God's cause in the world. Other men do it to advance business, some to advance politics. These things are commendable. You to your calling, I to mine, and all that in the world. When I com? to leave the world I want something better than what could come to me by reflecting on the fact that I might have been the richest man in Manhattan for that will be of little or no value when you come to They say that John Ross could build ships that would plow their way through the Atlantic, laugh at every disaster, and yet he knew he couldn't build a ship that would carry him into iGod's harbor, so he sent for a minis ter, was baptised and received into the church just a few months before he passed away and left this old world. Oh, I want something better when I go, and I am a Christian today for the blessings that come to me! If there were no future I'd still keep on living for Jesus here in this old world. I'd do it and God would bless me wonderfully for it. Young Man Rises to Feet. Years ago Colonel Clark started the old Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. At a meeting one night he said, "I want the young man who thinks God's done more for him than anybody else to stand up." A young fellow jumped up. He might have been twenty-five or thirty years of age and you could tell by his looks that he'd gone down the line. "Well, sir," he said, "I am a graduate of Harvard College. I went home a drunken, bloated loafer." He said, "My sins and my "'sinful companions broke my mother's heart and sent her to the grave." One day his father met him on the street and he chided that boy as he came staggering down the street hol lering and yelling, and the boy doubled his fist and would have felled his father to the ground. Wait! A man grabbed him and he turned around and spit in his face. His father left him and went home The boy clapped his hands to his head, uttered shrieks of agony that startled the neighborhood. The father went home, sat down on the veranda and sat there sobbing. When bye and bye the boy came staggering and reeling up the walk to the steps on the veranda, tears from his eyes and looking up, he jumped to his feet, ran and met the boy, grahbed him by the shoulder turned him around and said to him, Ordered Away From Home "I want you to do two things, and do them now. I want you to leave home, and change your name. The family name has never been disgraced, but the way you are living you will put a stain upon the escutcheon that nothing can eradicate. Leave home! Change your name!. Out of my heart, out of my memory! You've sent your mother to her grave and you've got me so I am all ready to stumble into mine. You won't listen to anything I say. Go!" The boy started and reeled down the walk. His sister was up stairs and heard their loud voices as they quarreled. She came running down and ran out the walk and overtook her brother just as he cpened the gate. He shut the gate between them. She reached over the fence, put her arms around him and kissed him and said: "Edward, God pity you! God help you! Every mgnt as long as i nve, and unless I hear you are aeaa, every nisht at eight o'clock I am going to be on my knees praying for you." He staggered away with tne tears trickling down his cheeks. He went ut and down the land, he went irom bad to worse, and from worse he went to Chicago. He got so low down that they used to tell him not to come to those barrel houses down on South Clark street below the police dead line to sleep. Why, he got so low down he couldn't get money to buy food, and he made up his mind he'd end his life. Saved By Rescue Band He started to walk to Lake Michi gan one night to take the viaduct route where he could plunge from the viaduct into Lake Micnigan. He reached the corner of Dearborn and Van Buren, the corner in front of the Old Colony building and as he did the clock in the Board of Trade building at the foot of LaSalle street struck eight.- He leaned up against the lamp post and letterbox there and began to cry. A fellow stood there giving out tickets inviting men to come to the Pacific Garden Mission. "Man," he said? "What's the matter with you?" "I'm a drunken bum. I m on my way to the viaduct to take a header into the lake. My sister is praying for me back in the little town in Ohio." The young fellow said, "Come on In here." He took him back and the bum staggered in, dropped into a rear seat and when my friend gave the invitation, down the aisle he came, knocked down five chairs getting to the mourners' bench, fell on his knees, prayed, pa vp his heart to God and then he started out He came there every day

ana rot me from heaa to foot; I thinKjwere stringing mm. I' rather have the worst that can cornel He wrote hime and 6aid. "Father,

i jllii " - J with his testimony, and my friend x

watched him and after he had been going square for two weeks he visited him. Writes Father of Return .He told my friend his story. He ad

vised him to write home and tell his iamer. ne Earn, "uon t asK me oia ivt uiuucj J UU UU11 ! unci IV 11. you d ask for money he'd think you . .. I'm coming back soon and when I do yu will be proud to meet me at the depot with the family carriage. Sis ter will be proud to drive me down the street. You will be proud to introduce me to your new friends, for I haven't tasted a drop of liquor and God has saved my soul." Just as fast as the mail could carry It back came a letter with a sight draft on the First National bank of Chicago. It said, "Get you a suit of clothes and buy a ticket and come home. We are dying to see you, we can't sleep until you come. Let me know and I will be down at the depot with the carriage." He pulled a letter out of his pocket He said, "Some of my old side kicks and pals say I am getting paid for it, that's the reason I do it." He said, "I am." He said, "Boys, I staggered in here three weeks ago with a suit of clothes on that wouldn't have made leggings for a humming bird. Do you see that I've got on a suit? It's a hand-me-down, but it's a suit." ' Happy to Return Home. He said, "The devil drove me away from home; Jesus Christ has taken me back home, r came to Chicago in a side-door Pullman I rode the bumpers. I'm going to hit the hay tonight in a Pullman. There's my ticket. Do you see that little red piece of cardboard? The Panhandle train on the Pennsylvania leaves Chicago tonight at 9:45 and your Uncle Fuller will be on the train. I'm going home! I'm going home! I'm getting paid! It pays to serve Jesus Christ, any way you look at It." When Moody went to St. Louis years ago, the St. Louis newspapers said, "We are going to publish every word that Moody utters from the time j ne waiKs on ine Piaxiorm unm ne says rm DIE t! aDf iVI,d .Suld3e U I?Lae T6a ,,fi tth!Blb,e ln my sermons and I will let the newspapers of St. Louis preach to the sinners that won't come to hear me." I can't find words sufficient to express my appreciation and admiration for the newspapers of this country for the great work they are doing In helping spread the gospel in every nook and corner in this city and to millions of people that never hear my sermons. So, Moody said, "I will put a lot of Scripture in," so the newspapers used to vie with each other for sensational headlines. One night Moody preached on the Phillipian jailer. The next morning the St. Louis Globe Demo crat had this headline "How the Jailer at Phillip! Got Caught." and he said, "That's a town in Illinois. I cracked a safe there one night. I never did like that guy, I wonder how he got here." i He started to read and he found It was a sermon. He said, "What the hell's the matter with the newspapers? Gone crazy?" He threw the paper on the floor and kicked it under his bunk, then he went and pulled it out. He read something that made him madder than ever, so he threw it down and kicked it again. He fell asleep, but awakened about 2 o'clock and got to thinking about what he had read, so he reached under the bunk and pulled it out and stood reading the newspaper by the light hanging out in the hall as it shone through the door. And he read it through; ha got down on his knees and commenced to cry. The watchman going his rounds heard him, thought he was sick, and looked in and said to him: "Burke the fellow was named Valentine Burke "Burke, are you sick?' "No, I've been reading Moody's sermon, and I've made up my mind that he's right and I'm wrong and I'm going to go out and live an honest man." Sheriff Fears a Ruse The watchman went and told the sheriff, and the sheriff said, '"Double the guard on him; he's stringing you." When the trial took place Burke escaped through a little technicality in the law and he started out. He'd gone out and got a Job, but every time he pot a job some "ex" would come along and tip off his employer, or some old side-kick or pal of his would tell that he was an "ex" and he'd have to go. He kept shifting and couldn't hold a job down -very long until some "ex" would come along and tell his employer, and away he'd go. He came back to St. Louis about a year later, and the sheriff sent for him. He said to himself, "They have found some old job that I haven't done time for, but I'll go up, and if I am guilty I will own it and take my medicine like a man." He went up, and the sheriff said: "Hello. Burke, how are you getting along?" "Fine." "How about this religion business?" "Still praying, sir." The sheriff said, "Good!" He said, "I haven't stole a thing. I've been on the square all the way i through, but I never knew it was so hard to live down an old life. I'd get a job and somebody would tip them off, and I'd have to move on." The sheriff said, "Where have you been?" Gives Man Important Job He told him a few places he had been in. The sheriff reached up in the pigeonhole and took down a paper and unrolled it. He said, "That's a good record cf the towns. It's chronological. They've been keeping me posted on you." He continued, "I have not found a job that you haven't done time for, but I've got a gang of crook3 and I can't find anybody to put it over on them. I'll tell you what I want T want to make you deputy sheriff." And he was appointed. A few months later Moody went through St. Louis on his way to Dallas, Texas, and he had four hours between trains, so he went around to the courthouse and asked, "Where is Burke?" He went into the room and there sat Burke with a chamois skin bag and its diamonds valued at $80,000, part proceeds of a burglary. He said, "Moody, a year ago I'd have - killed, you for those diamonds, and here I am deputy sheriff. And I've been picked out to guard these diamonds.. That is what God has done for me." And when Sam Jones was to come to St. Louis to hold a series of meet ings he was taken sick and had to

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KU KLUXKLAN (Continued from Preceding Page) Fellows, or any other secret order, but I've learned more about them tonight than I ever knew before. "So I guess if you behave yourself they won't bother you," Sunday said. A Hint to Others "Now you Masons, Odd Fellows, or

any of you other fellows. If you want to give something to Winona you just come ahead," Mr. Sunday said after he announced that the letter contained $50 in bills, which he said would be used to pay the expenses of the Winona Lake tabernacle. "The $50 comes from the Muncie branch," Mr. Sunday started to say in telling of the money in the envelope, when Fred Rapp interrupted to say that Richmond was also mentioned. Fumbling with the letter for a moment, Sunday reread the closing words and corrected himself. "It comes also from the provisional Richmond klan." After a little pause Sunday added to the audience: "Well, you seemed io be all right; they didn't take you." Denouncing the liberal wing of the Baptist church which is forcing a contest within that denomination, Mr. Sunday called them the "God-forsaken liberal wing," and declared that "they ought to be in Hell." Denounces Liberalism. "Its the liberal bunch that don't like me. and I don't want their backing. The Baptists were the last bulwark of orthodoxy," he said, "and now they have a fight on their hands." "I have no use for that God-forsaken liberal wing of the church, that teaches ethical death of Christ. Its bunk." At the end of the sermon, but before the audience arose, Sunday called on those that wanted to make an open confession of Christ to walk down in front. "I want to see your faces as you come," he said. "I don't know how you feel about it, but I want to see you come -i haven't asked for that in a long time" be adde. "but I had a feeling that I should ask for you to come jMn . down that way. For a time no one moved, but a

single woman making her way from the center section, led the way. About, six men and women gathered before the pit to wait for Mr. Sunday to come down and take their hands. 63 Come Forward After the audience stood, and the personal workers had scattered among them, more gathered at the front until 63 "trail hitters" had come forward an sdigned pledges of belief in Christ. The opening prayer was offered by Rev. E. L. Gates of the Third Methodist church, while the meeting was closed by prayer by Louis Jones, minister of the South Eighth Street Friends meeting. The collection, as at the other meetings of the day, was taken for the Bible School, Chautauqua, and other summer meetings held at Winona Lake, Indiana. Afternoon Service Coatless, perspiring until he removed his collar and necktie, Billv Sunday called on the packed tabernacle Sunday afternoon to give their lives to Christ, and from an audience of 6,000, more than 300 persons came forward to shake his hand, while 101 "trail hitters" signed cards pledging themselves to accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. It was an audience composed almost entirely of out-of-town people. On a show of hands it had seemed a3 if there were no Richmond people -present, but a rising demonstration of Richmond and of visitors showed that only a fifth were local residents. The huge crowd gathered early, by 2 o'clock the tabernacle was filled and the music began. Just before the sermon Mr. Rodeheavor called for the show of hands as to residence. Calls for City As the huge out-of-town audience stood, cries of "Richmond .Richmond" came from the ministerial section, and Mr. Rodeheaver called for the local people to stand. They made ud a

ipoor fifth of the audience. "That is a good example of Richmond's unselfishness," declared Mr. Rodeheaver, "They have stayed away so that you people could come and have seats. You people here should appreciate it all the more, when you realize that so few Richmond people who have been interested have met all of the debts of the tabernacle." "It takes about three weeks to meet expenses in most places," Mr. Rodeheaver said, and Richmond, came across in just three weeks. "It is only in the South that they regularly do better than that." Takes Off Coat As Mr. Sunday appeared on the platform he took off his coat, and several men in the audience stood up and took theirs off. Later on invitation of Mr. Sunday, a number of others followed suit. "In the 27 years that I have been preaching I have never seen such a small number of people from the community, in proportion to its size, as here at Richmond. I feel like I had fooled away six weeks of my time, ( one sixth Of all that T havo tn aiuo V fcV . . V W m a. uj tuuiiiig uere, wnen 1 had to turn down 25 other cities to do it." "It is not," he ' added, "that you people are not welcome to come, but I do think that the community where I preach should be represented at the meetings." Babies Disturb Sunday was interrupted several times during the sermon by crying babies, and he paused in his sermon each time until the baby could be taken out. At one interruption he said. "There is no use trying to preach against a crying baby. Mother, won't you take him over to the church where the women can take care of him." Richmond papers were paid a compliment by Mr. Sunday during his sermon, as he told of a conversion of a thief who had read one of Mody's sermons in jail. One of the St. Loui3 papers had attempted to print every word that Moody had said, Sunday stated, "and the newspapers in Richmond have more nearly printed everything that I have said, and have covered the meeting more thoroughly in every way, than in any city that I have been in for a long time."

"Get Valentine Burke." And for eight nights he packed the old Music Hall from the stage to the roof, and there were hundreds of people odtside clamoring to get in to hear his story. And when he died, business men, multimillionaires, counted it an honor to serve as pallbearers and carry his body to the grave! Oh, it pays to go straight!