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GQD PERFECTS PLAN FOR OUR LIVES, SAYS SUNDAY IN SERMON

i who had ever owned it, and if there! "God has a plan for every life," de-jwas any back taxes unpaid. If there clared Rev. Sunday at the tabernacle, pvas the slightest flaw, you wouldn't ! Tuesday afternoon. "He has a vision! rest if you knew the, titIe to your I

- J 1 of the result. Just as the potter sees

the finished vase in the lump of clay but examine titles to pieces of propwhich he holds In hi hand. Prtv ThPr. has nxiror ,i

It is a vision of the possibilities that makes for great things in the iu ture," he said, Illustrating his argument with the description of the changes of the "Great. American Desert" through the introduction of irrigation. - ' God Knows His Plan Pointing his sermon with a story of a college graduate who had become a drunken miner, living in squalor, and had then become converted, had used his talents, and had finally become the superintendent of the mines where he once worked, Sunday de-!11 clared that God had a vision of what was in that man and had not let him go. Mr. Sunday did not arrive from Winona Lake until about 3:30 o'clock, 60 the talk which Miss Kinney usually gives to her Bible class, was given at the regular sermon hour. She spoke on Christian Science. Miss Kinney illustrated her talk byi putting on the black board references j to the Bible and to "Science and Health," which she said were contradictory. NOW DON'T (Continued from Preceding Page) I have made the journey of life by it. I know all about It, so far as my experience goes. The Bible wasn't written to give me a history of science any more ' than a cr(5w-bar was made to take the place of a tooth-pick not a par- ; ticle! ( So, use it for the purpose it ; was Intended. - "These things are written that ye might believe." That is why God Vtold men to write the Bible, in order ' that I might believe that Jesus was , the Christ and I'd be saved. And it was written that dead men might live, and it is true that for all practical purposes those that are with- - -i , i jM . . , . i in sin. Life is the realistic thing in this world, or any other world. When , people are alive, they know it; and , when they are dead, other people know it Therefore, a man is dead If education is nothing to you, 11. - J J i A T M 1 men von axf cie;i(i in ir. ir si nnrfl is i nothing to you, you are dead to it. If God is nothing to you, if you are nut. living i in villi. ii t--ii vim n i m iifHii to God and living for the devil. Any ! man is dead to God, if God isn't in -Egyptian mummy is dead to tne tirst can ror dinner in tne aming car. When the rican arp Fathered frnm . the battle-fields, some are mangled others have scarcely any marks of violence upon them; but they are all dead, thev are no loneer in the realm of the living. There are lots of peoKif luai live VllJ ci.aiij , uui Liicjf ait:

dead spiritually, because they are notlaDout -the gospel that he taught to;

Christians, and, being dead spiritu ally, they are lost because they are; out of Jesus Christ. j It is as necessary to believe in Jesus to have spiritual life as it is to have eyes to see or lungs to breathe or ears to hear. There are men who honestly and candidly say, "I can't believe in Jesus. I have tried to." Well, I think I can sympathize with you, for I was in that fix myself one time. I couldn't believe, and the harder I tried, it seemed to me the worse off I got. But the trouble with me was the same as it was with you I didn't take the right course. And then, thirty years ago, one dark, stormy night in Chicago, I came and got down on my knees and said, : "God, I am a sinner, I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior." The trouble with me was I wouldn't take the right course. When I took the right course and told God I was an old sinner, bound for hell, that was really the right course, and I haven't had any trouble since. Now, you take the safe side and see how you will come out. And there is only one way to have your doubts destroyed. Go to the Bible read the Bible and obey it Suppose a man knew nothing about Greek or Latin how is he going to find out? Why, he has to begin with the simplest things, the "a b c's." There is an "a b c " in knowledge! that's why we have a kindergarten. There's an "a b c" in religion, and we have got to-start here. If you begin with the "a b c" of religion, you will have no more trouble than you do when you begin with the "a b c" in knowledge. The trouble with a lot of people is that they want to start in the senior department when they ought to start in the primary. Bible Written For Men. You have got to begin at the beginning of anything, whether it is a trade, knowledge or religion, and see how you will come out. The Bible is written, it says-, that men might believe. You can put that to the test, but God isn't something to try we know what he is. You can put strychnine to the test, and if you don't believe it will kill you, try it and see. You sa7, I don't believe that fire will burn, but if you put it to the test, you will see that it will. You say, I don't believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. All right, I challenge you to put that to a test My friends, South Africa is rich in diamonds, the richest diamond mines in the world. The Kimberley mines are there. It has been published to the world," but it is only those that " go there and dig that ever find any diamonds or the gold. Jerry Maccauley was a convict up in Sing Sing. An old side-kick, a pal of his, Gardner, went up there and talked to the prisoners, and in the course of his talk, he quoted a verse of scripture. When Jerry went r back to his cell, he wanted to ind ' the verse. He took out hi3 Bible and ' started in Genesis to find it. The verse was in Hebrews, but he found ! Jesus Christ before he ever found that verse, and he made his name ring throughout New York, and New . York couldn't hold it. and it spilled ' over into New Jersey. You couldn't hold it there, and it reached away out into the corn rows of Iowa. And they

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couldn't keep it there, and so ther truth kept on spreading. j Suppose a man told you that the; title to your property was no good J would you damn him and cuss him 1 and laugh at him? No, sir! You'd go hire the best title lawyer, and ; you'd .have him trace that title back i ne lyiupeiijr was uu guou. nKnnArtiT n-li. , ry,w, 17 1 iawe - r-hir hn ,i,, OBt Chicago that Wilson hasn't given hi opinion on. John Wilson makes a million dollars a year, just giving his opinion on the value of titles to property, and when he gives his opinion, you can go to bed and eo to sleep and not worry any more about it A man i said not very long ago. Yes. I paid him $150,000 for hit opinion on a piece of property, but . took tim almost a year to be able to say it was all right, and now that he has said it is. I can go to bed and go to sleep and be certain that the deal is O. K." z Always hire the best there Is In the world. That is what we want, and there is only one book that can tell you the truth about eternity. Down yonder, In the records of that book, if it says that your title is good' 8, b ant S to slep, and you don't need to listen to the sneers! of anybody else. That is final, and when the Bible tells you you are on the road to heaven, then don't worry about it. Here is the only book in the universe, my friends, that can tell you whether you will be saved or lost. Every man believes he is going to live forever somewhere, and the Bible tells him where. Shown Valuable Diamond. When I was in New York I was in Tiffany's, and they showed me a diamond worth a hundred thousand dollars. They don't carry that around and leave it lying on the counter. They keep it locked up in the safe where no thief can get at it. Then, why do you go around with your immortal soul, which is worth more to you than anything else in the world, exposed to every infidel and thief and libertine that comes around and wants to rob you of that precious thing. If you came down the aisle now and asked me to give up my hope in Jesus Christ or take a quitclaim deed for this world. I'd aive you my life, for I'd rather have standing-room J in heaven, don't you forget that! j than all the world, and go to hell Now, I meet a good many folks, old and young, who think it is an evidence of intellectual freedom and superiority to question the Bible and the existence of God and the divinity of Jesus Christ. I dispute the right of no man or no woman to their opinion, but why be a fool and believe that you have no pre-eminence or prominence over a beast? You say you can't believe in the miracles. You say you can't believe in the resurrection. Let me tell you the story of a greater miracle, the story of a poor peasant, a member of a despised and of a subject race, the Jews, himself despised, the place of his birth despised, who with a few ignorant followers went forth to teach. There was nothing attractive m caruai mmu, as iai as mis worm was concerned. All he offered his followers was poverty, self-sacrifice, scorn, strife, persecution, death. He said that was their reward for believing and obeying his teachings, and that was all the remuneration attached. And furthermore, he went on to try and show them.Career Of Jesus Christ. He never wrote a line, except a few forgotten words which he traced with his fingers in the sand. He scattered his precepts abroad and he left them to the memories of men. After a little while, they nailed him on the cross, and he died a felon's death. The world all around forgot that he ever lived and cared less, and yet his words have lived on. Fhilosophy with all it3 wisdom, priestcraft with all its terrors, kings wielding the iron powers of the world, have all united to try and resist and overthrow the strange power left behind by this poor Galilean peasant, Jesus Christ, who didn't have two coats to his back, and I have got four more than that now! And yet, over armies, over em pires, over dying dynasties, over persecution, over crumbling thrones, over kings, over queens, over presidents, over republics, through rivers of fire, through seas of blood, that power has swept on, until it has conquered the world. J Every kirw? on every throne admits hi3 power. His cross has become the symbol of salvation to all mankind. Do you believe it? O, young people, wait a minute! Don't you be among those who scoff and sneer at God and Christ and the Bible! Don't you pick company among the blasphemers and the sneerers! When rantingv round in pleasure'3 ring, Religion may be blinded Or if she give a random sting, She may be little minded. Yield to Jesus Christ, and you will never cry out, as my friend, Strickland Gililand, did: I'm an alien to the faith my mother taught me, I'm an alien to the God that heard my father when he cried, I'm a stranger to the comfort that "Now I lay me" brought me. To the everlasting arms that held my father when he died. I've spent a lifetime seeking things I've spurned when I have found them, I have thought and been rewarded in many a winning cause; But I'd take them all, fame, honor, fortune, and the pleasures that surround them, And exchange them for the faith that made my mother what she was. "Whatsoever things are true, think o these things." It is true that the Bible is the Word of God. Truth Cannot Be Destroyed. It is true that man is a sinner by nature. Leave the Bible out of the question, cross it right out, and ev erybody who thinks knows this is true anyway. All nations know it Is true that man is a sinner by nature, and they have all tried to make some kind of a religion for themselves to save themselves. They know it in China. They know it in Africa. They know it in India. They know it in the islands of the sea where the black-

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TABERNACLE STATISTICS Tuesday Afternoon Attendance ..' 900 Tuesday Evening Attendance 4,500 Trail Hitters 210 , . . w . sleeP by tne lullaby of the oceans waves, as well as they know it in the cathedral. ?Vo matter where, man is a sinner by nature. Sin destroys good. All have the same wicked nature. What one has done, perhaps all would do under similar circumstances. Man cannot save himself by philosophy, science, art, resolution, morality, virtue. You can as easily lift yourself to the moon as to save yourself by these means. I am doubtful if, there was ever a man or woman who gave themselves up to a life of sin without a struggle They have groaned against it, cried against it ana Dattied against sin, but they have been overwhelmed. Do you mean to tell tne that that man, J loafing around stale beer joints, a staggering drunkard, reached that depth of iniquity without a struggle? No, he didn't. He tried hard to beat it back. Do you mean to tell me that that girl that is selling her womanhood in the dark, festering spots of the city, reached that depth without a battle? Not on your life! She had to fight against her ideals of womanhood, of morality and of virtue. Years ago, Captain Arkwright was climbing the Alps in Switzerland, and he lost his hold and fell and was buried in the snow and the glacier. Of course, search was made for him, but they didn't find him. Thirty years afterwards, they found the body of Captain Arkwright as he had fallen down in the ice and snow of the great crevasse. There his body hadn't decayed. Kis clothing hadn't rotted. His watch was still in his pocket, his money and his knife. Everything was just as he had fallen thirty years ago in the ice and the snow of the crevasse in the great glacier in the Alps. So, my friends, at the day of judgment everything will be revealed, although it may be' hidden from human eyes. Nothing is hidden from the eyes of God when we j stand before the Lord. Death Doesn't End All. But, wait a minute!. Death doesn't end all. We are going to live on forever somewhere, every one of us, and the way you live, here will daterminate your weal and woe when you leave this world. There isn't the slightest hope, my friends, of a chance after death. As we are going when we leave the world, we will keep on going forever. You will never have a chance to change if you don't change this side of the coffin, never in tho world. It is true that there is a heaven, the heaven where the redeemed go, a place that is God's, especially prepared for those that love him, and God can make mighty nice things when he starts out to do it. That is as sure as you live. Heaven will contain nothing but the good. Heaven will contain nothing but the blessed. Heaven is shut against all sin. There is an eternal quarantine between heaven and the sinner. He can't get in. It is true there is a hell. The Bible teaches that there is a hell and that it is eternal. Jesus said more about hell than he did about heaven. Jesus gave us no description of heaven at all, but he gave us a graphic description of hell, and if there had been no endless damnation for the impenitent, Jesus never would have said so. If there is no hell, then Jes us never would have said so. If there is no hell, then Jesus lied, and if he died, he isn't a good man, if you make him purely a man. Jesus said, endless glory for 'the saved, endless damnation for the impenitent. Divine Things Are True. Whatsoever things are true, think on these things. it is true mat. there is a heaven, true that there is a hell. Wait a minute! We enter into this world, we are born. I had nothing to say about coming into this world, but I have everything to say about the kind of a fellow that I will be now that I am in it. I have everything to say about where I am going out and how I will go out. I hear a lot of people talking about where we came from. I am not concerned about that. What I am inter, ested in is where we are going. That is the thing we are up against. Never mind where you came from. You are here. That is settled. That is done. We develop into young men, young women, men, women, old age, decreptitude. We go on and finally we all fall into the grave that .opens across our path. I don't know how leng it will take you to reach yours. I don't know bow long it win take me to reach mine, but somewhere in this country, there is one waiting, and some time, I don't know how soon, it will take me. In some things, I can take a circuitous route. I can go around and around that chair, but I can't get around the grave. I wish it could be done. Now, wait a minute! We have all got to fall into the grave some time. I don't know how long it will take you to get to it. I hope to God somo of you don't reach it in the condition you are in tonight. That is what I am preaching for and working hard for. The power that brings us into life pushes us on through life and reveals to us the after life, the judgment, and after the judgment, our destiny. God Gives You Your Choice. The amazing thing to me is that God permits men and women to choose whether they will be loyal and true, or whether they will be rebels. You can decide whether you will be a true patriot in these days or whether you will be a damnable, black-hearted traitor. If you are a traitor, you will have the government of the United States against you. If vou are friendly, all the power of Uncle Sam will back you up. You can choose whether you will be loyal to God or whether you will be a rebel, it is up to you. But, wait a minute that isn't all! God holds you responsible for your choice. That is fair. That is a square deal. And God prepares an eternal destiny. All right, if a fellow chooses heaven, that's what he gets. For the fellow that chooses hell, all right, there it is. God reveals in language that is plain the result of your choice, so you know what is going to be the end. If you choose this, you know where you are going; if you choose that, you know. God Almighty has made it all plain to you, and you will all find out when you are through that what God created and what God

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revealed is true. .If you don't believe there ia a hell now, you will later on. You will find later on that what God told you was true, and you will find out that you were a fool not to believe it now. It is just as true, whether you believe it or not. "Whatsoever things are true, think on these things!" Law Is Necessary. Wait a minute! Law is necessary. I wouldn't live in a country where there was no law, where every man and woman was a law unto themselves. Laws are necessary, so that men and women may know what they may and may not do, and the law levels a penalty against you if you disobey the law. All law3 amount to nothing without a penalty. If there was no penalty, you'd leave the floodgates of iniquity open and pandemonium would break loose. If there was no penaltyfor breaking the law, some fellow would kick you out of your home. He'd yank your diamonds from your ears. He'd pick your pocket and go up and shoot you. Great God, whenever men and women become a law unto themselves," then the white and the blue of the old flag dissolve into red, and we have the red flag of anarchy waving over our land. Laws are necessary, but the law would amount to nothing if there were no penalties attached to the law. And if God had no penalty for your living in sin, you'd scoff and mock. Heathen Deceive Themselves, Why. in India, they have stood with their arms extended like that, until their joints would stiffen and their muscles would harden, and they couldn't bend their arms and bring them again to their sides. They have i measured the length of their bodies j on spikes. They have smeared their hair with filth. They have run hundreds of miles down a hot, dusty road in the sand to some shrine, hoping to drive cut. evil spirits. They will put hooks through their flesh and the muscles of their backs and allow themselves to be raised in the a'r like you lift a rock with a derrick. They will rush and jump headlong into

thorn bushes. What, for? Oh, they i ure to think on these things? "Whatare trying to save themselves. Poor, I soever things are true, think on these poor heathens! I things." That is what God want? It is for this reason that Jesus! you and me to do. Now, we are all

Christ came into the world and tasted death, to do for every man what ev ! ery fellow couldn't do for himself. That is why the Bible was written. "Think on these things." Right at the beginning, it was promised that the serpent's head should be bruised under the heel of the woman. The very first need of man was for salvation, and it is the very last thing you will need when you leave the world. The age-long cry of the human race has been for the revelation of a personal savior that is able to forgive sin. From the days of Job, who said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" down until now, man may personally know whether Jesus Christ can give peace for a troubled conscience or peace for life's doubtful promises or healing for life's staggering bonds. Look Everywhere But For Christ. The world is chuckful of men and women vainly seeking everywhere for peace and light except at the cross of Jesus Christ. Look at them as they chase down the White Way. Look at them as they "stagger in and out of growing error. Look at them as they creep from the arms of infamy and as they blaspheme. What's the matter? Why, they're trying to find something that isn't there any more than the pot of gold - is at the end of the rainbow, But when they found Jesus Christ, they knew the victory was won and the burden lifted. Now, let me ask you a question. How do you explain the fact, and how .is it, that since the world be gan you never neard of a man be- ! ing Rayed by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, 0r anybody else except Jesus Christ .' How was he able to save a drunkard? How was he able to save a thief? Because he is the Son of God, and for a man or church to love

Jesus Christ as a good man and deny go. And if tney don t, it isn t Dehis divinity is a damnable insult to cause God doesn't want them to go, God Almighty and humanity today. U am going to heaven some day yes. When hp snid he was thf Son of sir.

God, if he wasn't the Son of God, conceived by the Holy Ghost, he lied. I defy any man who denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, and I say it is a damnable inult to your moher and wife and everybody that believes in Jesus Christ, every drunkard that was ever made sober, every man that walks the street of heaven today because faith in Jesus Christ put him there to do his will and keep his commandments. So we have got to have a supernatural Savior. You Can't Escape Judgment. It is appointed unto men once to die. You can't escape the judgment If my preaching gets too hot, you can get up and leave. If you don't like it, you don't need to come. You can't escape the judgment. Fellows, girls, boys, men, women, deep down in your heart something tells you that it is true. Belief in the judgment is woven into the woof and the warp of our being. All heathen nations believe in the judgment. That is the reason that every one of the nations have tried to make a

plan of salvation for themselves by I about her, and the people applaudwhic.h thov hone to annease the eod3. ! ins: and falling in homage at her

It is because he fears that judgment that the Indian snake-dancer nf nn th uupetprn nlains eianc.fn himself into a frenzy bordering on imbecility and idiocy, with wriqalinn serpents around his neck and his! arms hissing. He hopes and Denevcs I that when those serpents leave his i body and creep down into the dark caverns of the earth, they will helD him win the favor of the gods he has got to stand before'on the day of Judgment. All nations have some idea of a future, my friends. It was this that made the Aztec offer to his gods the blood of his own daughter. He would lead her up to an elevated platform, stand her there in all her beauty, seize a sharp rock, and. rushing up, jab it into her breast, tear open the wound and reach in bis arm, seize her beating, pulsating heart tear it out and hold it up, while she'd moan and die. He wanted the blood of his daughter to come between himself and the god he had to stand before in the judgment. That was his idea. Poor Mothers Deceived. It was this that made the Hindu,; mother take her crying baby to the sacred . Ganges and toss it into tho mouth of the crockodile. She'd listen, my friends, to its shrieks . and look at the blood-flecked foam, and then turn -back to her home, humming some wierd Oriental religious tune. Her faith was that her baby

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thus given to the merciless jaws of that amphibious monster would help to placate the god she had to stand before at the judgment. That is the way the Aztecs and the Indians tried to save themselves. Here, they try to do it by philanthropy and cults. You can go to hell as quick from a mansion, as you can from anywhere else. ' You can't save yourself. Wealth, culture, these things that are commendable, don't save you. I am not fool enough to preach against them. No, that isn't. I am saying that these thing3 without Jesu3 won't save you. So, "Whatsoever things are true, think on these things. I am dead sure that there wouldn't be an unrepentant man in this audience or city that would continue to live twenty-four hours longer in sin, indifferent to his soul's salvation, if he'd stop to think that ev ery time the sun rises and sets, you are brought just that much nearer the judgment. Men. live in sin now and scoff and mock at God when they know the penalty that will come to them. They do it anyway. Great God, if they are as bad as they are, knowing they are going to hell, what would they be if tbey didn't know it? "But," you say, "Bill, I don't think I could be comfortable in the- hell they tell about in the Bible." God Wants Us To Escape. God didn't make hell for you to be comfortable in. Penalties, my friends were not made to conform to the comforts of the criminal. No, no, that isn't it at all. You thin you might be happy in a hell where they had carpet on" the floor, electric light. electric fan, water and lemonade, icy lemonade that you suck through a straw, have the daily papers and periodicals. You think that would be all right. Well, it 'sn't fitted up like a club-house, take it from me. You don't have any water there. Penalties are not made for the comfort of the criminal. All unrepentant sinners, big or little, rich or poor, will be lost. Are you foolish enough to run the risk, and wake up at last in perdition, through your fail glad when some fellow-mortal cuts bad out of his or her life and yields to God and says, "I am going to be a Christian." The Bible says, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." There is nothing known to chemistry that can change a scarlet rag to a white one, and when a rag picker brings a scarlet rag to a paper manufacturer, he never attempts to make white paper out of it, because it cannot be done, for there is nothing known to chemistry that will make scarlet white. It is an indelible dye. But God says, though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them like snow, though they be red as crim son, I will make them like an arctic snow, make them white as wool. So, we are all glad when a man or wom an says, "I am through with sin, I am going to serve the Lord and keep his commandments and do his will. I am going to heaven some day, halle lujah!" Wants To Be Saved. A fellow told me to go to "hell the other day, but I said, "Nothing do ing." I am not going, and I don't want you to go, nor does God want . , . . i ou to. go euner. ine angeis m neaven j don't want you to go and your mother doesn't want you to go, and your children don't want you to go. The preacher doesn't want you to go. That is why we build the Tabernacle and come here and preach. I am going to heaven some day, hallelujah! I think I will make a goose of myself when I get to heaven. God has arranged that every mortal that will accept Jesus Christ as his or her savior and obey him shall go to heaven. Come, go too; God has room for everybody to go if everybody will go, but God knows a lot of them won't The Lord has arranged it, and he has planned that every mortal that will cut sin out of his or her life, accept Jesus Christ as the savior, can go, too. Jesus said on that great day, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." And to the others he said, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Tell me, which crowd will you be with? The Czar of Russia lay dying years ago. His daughter, Elizabeth, who was heir to the throne, was reluc- ' tant about thinking of even wearing the crown if he aid die. vvnen ne died, the man who corresponds to our Secretary of State rushed to the palace. He had prepared pictures, in case of her refusal," in order that he might use every influence to induce her to choose. When she resisted and said, "No, I don't want to," he held up the two pictures, one to represent her seated on the throne, the crown on her head, robes of royalty feet- The other represented her standing on a scaffold, with a rope . around her neck, and the black can 'on. He said, "Choose instantly. Your : life depends on it Jesus says, "Enter thou, or depart' which crowd will you be with? ODEHEAVER SPEAKS TO EMPLOYES OF STARR An inspirational service was conducted with 500 employes of the Starr Piano company in the phonograph department, which was decorated for the occasion, by Homer Rodeheaver and Mrs. Asher, Tuesday noon. Mr. Rodeheaver delivered a talk which found a warm response among the hundreds" who heard it. He and Mrs. Asher also sang several solos. A trombone solo by Mr. Rodeheaver was warmly received. The meeting was regarded as one of the most successful ones that has been conducted during the campaign of Mr. Sunday here. HAS NEW HAT Billy Sunday appeared Tuesday with a new straw hat. At the afternoon sermon Sunday laid it on the platform, but at the evening service it was carefully laid away on the shelf under the platform whre he usually keeps his coat and hat.

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METHODISTS ATTEND HAOERSTOWN MEETING Several Richmond Methodists are attending the meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society, which convened Tuesday in Hagerstown, and lasted through Wednesday. Dr. Somerville Light, district superintendent, was among those to represent Richmond at the meeting. Mrs. Ora Stegall, representative from Richmond, was to lead the music of the conference.. - Other Methodists who went to Hagerstown were Mrs. A. P, Price, Mrs. Ned Cook, Mrs. A. H. Backus and Mrs. L. H. Bunyan. Lutherans Will Attend Service Wednesday Night This will be Lutheran night at the tabernacle. Members of that denom-j ination will attend in a body that will! meet at the East Main Street, Friends church and proceed to the tabernacle in a body to hear Rev. W. A. Sunday preach. At a former rally of the denomination, a gift of $500 was presented, and another surprise, although not of a monetary kind, has been prepared for this evening. 900 PERSONS (Continued from preceding page) for quiet, two girls in one of the front rows, blushed, and then began to untangle their hair which had become caught in each others hair decorations. . Sundays sermon, while full of action, flowed on with a regularity that was unusual. There were few high points of energy or anger Turning aside at one time to deal w:1h the Japanese question. Sunday declared that the Japanepse wete not colonizers, that they could conquer a country only by the sword, and that they were not to be trusted. "The people out In California do not trust a Jap,' he declared; "they know better. But tbey will trust a China man, for tbey ate all right. "The Japan?se have not colonized Formosa and they have not colonized Korea," Sunday declaied; "they have merely ruled by force, and tried to make the subject peoples accept their customs." Waxing furious at the people who have not read the Bible. Sunday tottered on the very edge of the platform where be sputtered out his words, his physical actions being too fast for the words themselves to form easily. Some people have the audacity," he shouted," to assume that they are educated when they haven't looked into a Bible in ten years. I assume that Ihey are fools. But I don't just assume " Purpose of Bible. "The Eible was not intended for a science text book, for a geography, or for any other number of purposes. It was made to teach you to have faith in Jesus Christ. Then just as you are a fool if you do not use other things for their right purpose, you are a fool if you use the Bible for other purposes." "Young man, young man, from the Y. M. C. A.," Sunday suddenly ejected, "I saw you from my window at the hotel marching down here and singing; young man, don't you disregard the teachings of Christ." Taking another side excursion in his sermon. Sunday gave his opinion of speed limits. Sions Are Jokes. "I wonder if those people that put those 15 miles an hour signs up on the posts ever rode in an automobile at 15 miles an hour, Sunday asked. Running across the stage at a fair ly rapid gait, Sunday declared, "There I was going 15 miles an hour then, only for a short distance, but I was going that fast." Why those signs are a joke, I never saw any one keep to the limit." Tabernacle Notes BIG CROWD EXPECTED The north, the east and south Bides will have to go some if they are to beat the west side, Rodeheaver declared after the west side delegation had risen Tuesday night BUSY DAYS AHEAD Three talks a day keeps a man busy, but that is Sunday's schedule for five days, when he will have morning preaching on Wednesday at Portland, Thursday at the Country club, Friday at New Paris, Saturday at Winchester and Sunday at the tabernacle, hen the Knights Templar will be out. NO SECOND CHANCE I'm going to preach Bome afternoon on "No Second Chance," Sunday declared Tuesday night as he paused in a long argument on why there would be no second chance to gain salvation. Extend Invitation to All to Attend Prayer Service Every ci'izen of Fairview, no matter to which church they belong, is strongly urged to attend the prayer j service to be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in the Third M, E. church. The Rev. E. L. Gates, pastor of the church, announced Wednesday that Albert Peterson, member of the Billy Sunday party, will be in charge of the exercises. He invites all persons to come to the church and take part In the worship. . Denmark Prince Spends Winter In Danish Colony (By Associated Press.) CALGARY, Alta., -May 17. Prince Eric of Denmark has spent the winter in the Danish colony at Markerville, Alta. He owns a large amount of land in that district and is studying farming methods in Western Canada at first hand. The prince, who is closely connected with the royal house of Denmark, has gone to Vancouver to meet his brother who is master of a vessel playing between Canadian ports and the Orient OHIO PROFESSOR DIES DELAWARE. Ohio. May 17. Prof William Walter Davies. 74 years old, who has been head of the German department at. Ohio Wesleyan university for more than 40 ytars, died at his home here yesterday. Death came fol lowing a lingering illness.

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PREACH AT PORTLAND; TELLS ABOUT WINONA PORTLAND, Ind., May 17. Portland greeted Billy Sunday 1,000 strong when he preached at the first Methodist church here Wednesday morning, in return for the visit that the Portland people paid to the tabernacle in Richmond. "I have come to Portland for four reasons," declared Sunday, during his sermon. "First to preach, second to repay you for your visit, third to tell you something about Winona Lake and fourth because I had promised Charlie Allen that I would come up some day." Charlie Allen is a revival singer, who travelled for some time with Wil bur Chapman. Before beginning his sermon. Mr. Sunday explained the objects of the Bible school and summer school and Chautauqua at Winona Lake, and a collection was taken "It Is not for me the collection is being taken." Sunday declared, "but for the running expenses of the gatherings there. I have paid all of the debts, but I want to make some more improvements." Present Floral Tribute A floral tribute to Mr. Sunday was presented by Lois Whitstock. 'That's a nice little girl." declared Sunday. "You showed good choice in your selection of flowers. I shall send them right up to Winona Lake to Mrs. Sunday so that she can get them while they are still fresh. "Always be ready to give a reason why you are a Christian," Sunday declared in his sermon. "I can tell why I am a Republican, so why not tell why you are a Christian. "It is not pleasure or fame, or gain, or wealth, or even personal charm that satisfies," Mr. Sunday declared. "It i the faith in Jesus Christ that brings contentment." Work of Religion Religion, Mr. Sunday said, had don'? three things for him among others. Jt cas given me happiness, it has given me a better life, and it has made me more useful in the world " bunday left Richmond about S:00 o'clock and arrived ahead of time. The extensive Drenarations made ff" his reception in the city could not be carried outDriving directly to the First Mpth. odist church, Mr. Sunday hastened to tne parsonage for f moment and then rushed back to the church. The ser mon was started before a full house before most of the members of the reception committee could find where he was. Rev. W. E. Hogan opened the meeting and Rev. James A. Ruley, of Newcastle, offered the prayer. The committee on reception was composed of the following men: W. ' E. Hogan, renresentin the miniaterial association; Dr. Ara Badders, of the Rotary club; L. W. Hudson, of the Kiwanis club; Capt. E. A. Fulton, representing the military units of Portland, and Louis Weiler, of the Chamber of Commerce. Oldest Journalist is 101 Years Old (By Associated Press) PARIS, May 17 M. Maille SaintPrix, the oldest working journalist , in France and probably in the world, 101 years old, contributes an article of a column to a column and a half every week to the Abeille de Seine-et Oise, a French provincial newspaper. M. Maille Saint-Prix told a correspondent who called on him at his chateau, about an hour's journey from Paris, that his great regret is that he can no longer go shooting, which he imd to abandon at the young age of 90. A PLEASING "LINGERIE" MODEL 3967. For this charming style crepe de chine, radium silk, batiste or crepe could be used. Embroidery lace." or simple hemstitching is effective for trimming. The gown may be finished without the dainty bib portion shown in the large view, and its fullness may be confined at the waistline with rib bon drawn through slashes. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small. 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 4244; extra large, 46-48 inches bust meas ure. A medium size requires yards of 32-inch material. Name 4 3 dress City Size A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 12 cenu in silver or stamps. Address Pattern Department Palladium Vatteroa win be mailed to your ati drews within one week.

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