Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 118, 18 May 1922 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922.

GOD REQUIRES WILLING

MIND, DESIRE TO KNOW

TRUTH - CONFESSION

(Continued from preceding page) - do God's will because you know it will make you decent and you don't want to be decent In order to understand God you'd need to know all mystery and prophecy and all history and you'd have to explore -with your mind all time and space. In other words, you'd have to be God yourself. - You'd have to be equal to God In Intelligence and wisdom; you would have the greatest development of mind the world has ever known, but in order to know God, In order to know Jesus Christ, all

I away she went They all went in the same direction, for they were all I pivoted on the same center old, young, rich and poor. Here is a crowd of people. Here is a rich man,

poor man, intellectual, illiterate they all reject Jesus Christ. They are all going to hell, for they are all pivoted on the same center. They won't do God's will.

Everything Revolves

they started a series of meetings in the church and there was an infidel '

doctor in the town. One day the minister met him on the street, and he said: "Doctor, I haven't seen you at the meeting." "No," hel said, "But I believe the meetings are having a splendid moral

effect upon the community and in so I far as they have that moral effect

himself. He does the thing because

it pleases him to do it Althouah it may not otease you to

you need to do is to surrender your hie, get drunk, to steal, to swear, but

win to God. J you are doing wnat you ao Because

Surrender Will

About Will.

Here's anotner crowd, the will of God; they

heaven, for they are all pivoted on

God's will. It is the question of

they meet with my approbation." They all do Infidels make me sick. They give

will go to

met a stomach ache and I want a soda

mint to settle my stomach when they talk about moral effect. Where in

whether you are doing God's will or i the name of God did you ever learn whether you are not. Every man about moral effect? It isn't because and woman has a perverted will. (you learn anything from an infidel. Your will i3 set on blessing yourself; jit is because of the constraining inthat i3 what the thief does. HejAuence of Christianity that you are steals to please himself. That's what 'as decent as you are. the "get-rich-quick" fellow does. Andj "Well said the minister, "if you so that's what the fellow does that believe they are having a splendid sticks a gun under your nose, pleases,' moral effect, and if you believe in

To God.

. You may not know whether two and two makes seven or nine or one, You-may not have enough to buy a government bond, but all you have to do Is to surrender your will to God. I might as well try and speak with my feet, I might as well try and think with my finger. That chair might as well try to understand tho words I am talking over as for you to find God by any other method, plan or principle than your surrender to God. Some fellows assert, "Well, I take .nothing on trust." 1

Well, you are a fool and they con-

morality, they ought to receive your

indorsement and presence and help." He said, "If I should go down there people would misinterpret the motive which prompted my presence and they

t pleases you to do it. But when'wouia say 1 was aissausnea wun my

God im Darts His enirit to vau and His lniiaeillj.

nature, then you will want to please God because you have God's spirit and nature in you, and when you do God's will, it will be your pleasure to please God, because you have God's nature. Then if you will do that, 't will lead you to a knowledge of sin and you will be sorry for it.

He said, "See here. Doc, come down to the meetings." He met him the next day and said. "You weren't there." He said, "If I go the people would misinterpret it. I believe they are having a splendid moral effect upon the community." fiA' c r. :s in

All Scripture is given by inspira- and '

with you, I'll reserve a block of seats

TABERNACLE STATISTICS Wednesday Afternoon. Attendance 900. Wednesday Evening. Attendance 3,000. Collection (For high school baseball team), $160. Trail Hitters 261.

greatest intelligence in the world, If

t Moody what she said about him and jMoody said, "Sister, I am glad to see

you here, what can 1 ao tor you; "Brother Moody, I want to be a Christian." "You've come to the right person

:and place." So Moody talked to -her, used all I the argument be could thmink of. He was just, geting discouraged. Final-

6 k aZ JrVn Via Jhv That tion of the pendulum and the clock, nobody 'VrJhM ;0 the rst day of January the penmight not seem unreasonably but it ; d t dowlf and figured out ow you cant understand a thing there are other people that can and simply be- Q m , fc m , cause you can t you mutt, don t im- to d u and jd N air na tfiot n rH(iH v aIca pan T h 3 T c l . . -

aeine that nobody else can. That's

what gets my goat And we've got a lot of churches that disbelieve in the Creator, God, simply because they can't explain, the creation of the world. O, dear me! You can't explain the coat on your back. You can't explain the shoes on

your feet. The material out of which

use, nobody can hold out to tick that

long. I won't try it." Accepts Jesus Christ But then it thought, "But it's only a tick at a time." She looked at Moody and said, "Brother Moody. I will tick the first

it is made must come to your hand 1 tick now," and she fell on her knees.

Man can't account

tion of God and is profitable for cor-j

rection, reproof and instruction m righteousness and I believe that practice is more so. I believe a man will be convicted of sin in proportion as he tries to do the will of God. I

believe a man will have Godly sor-

sider people weak-brained, overcred- ro.w t0T s' ln Proportion as he

-Tilous souls that never use the reason

God gives them. Do you mean to I insult and insinuate, that that man uses his wisdom. '. Tom Paine wrote a book, "The tAge of Reason." Do you want to in- .' sinuate that tho people that didn't 'believe in Jesus Christ used their reason, while the people that did were weak, sissified and boneheads? Do you mean to tell me that Jhe man 'that goes home drunk uses his reason? No it is tho fpllnar that inci

home sober. Do you mean to tell meltron? CIod-.

that the man who damns Jesus Christ uses his reason? No, the man thai :gets down on his knees and prays ;to God, he uses his reason. He is the reasonable man. Explains Meaning ;Of Faith. So they consider people of faith weak-brained, over-credulous souls, stupid and never use their reason. -But to the reasonable, faith, belief, the acceptance of the truth on the authority of others is the basis of our 'judgment in courts, our conclusion.1! and our reasoning in every department of life. I have never been In Rome, but I can tell you of St. Peter. I can tell you of the Coliseum. I have never been in Athens but I can tell you of Mars Hill. I've never been in Paris but I can tell you of the tomb of Na

poleon. I've never- been in London but I can tell you all about Trafalgar 'Square; I can tell you about Buckingham palace, about the London tower, about Windsor castle on the authority of others. . I did not live in the days of Jesus Christ, but I accept the gospel as genuine, authentic history on the testimony of others; I believe what they said. I never saw Moses , and he only ;iived 500 years before Homer. I've never seen Alexander the Great, but ,1 believe on the authority of others. ;The newspapers tell me they had a war in Europe. How did I know? 1 have never heard a gun fired. Thev tell me the airship made a raid

on England. ' I haven't seen them, but

I believe on the authority of others. I am a fool not to believe it.

A fellow writes me and says his mother is dead. How do I know she

is dead? He said so m his letter. I believe on the authority of others. My doctor tells me I have pneumonia or appendicitis. I believe it. Chemists tell me that two gases if mixed together produce water. How

do I know it? History tells me Julius Caesar was murdered. How do I know? I believe on the authority of others. Oh, I see. i Faith Is

iNccc&aeirjr. ; And so you must believe on the authority of others or cease to live right now. I don't give a rap how skeptical you are, you are compelled to believe on the authority of others or cease to live. Then I am a fool to believe in Jesus Christ? No, sir! You are a fool because you don't. The other is, set the machine in motion. Start her up and see if it will make the egg crate fillers, and if it does you've got to believe what the fellow says. All right, set the machine in motion. Begin to do the will of God and see if God won't do for you what He said He would. There are no activities in life apart from your will. You are a doctor be-

cause you will, you are a lawyer Decause you will, you are a banker because you will. No activity in life is apart from our will. Your will is the base line of your character; your will is sovereign; your will is supreme. The natural man is in rebellion against God. The development of one factulty may make a man a genius, may make ,him an intellectual, musical or financial genius. The de

velopment of one faculty may make;

tries to be Godlike and do the will of God. I believe the nearer you get to God the more sensitive you are to sin. Speck In Eye Irritates You. Like a speck in your eye irritates and agitates. Why? Because it Is sensitive. The nearer you get to God the more sensitive ycu are to sin. Paul said, "I am not worthy to be called an apostle." H said, "I am the chief of sinners." I don't believe

and afterwards I'll make a statement to the audience that you and they are here, not that you particularly are prepared to renounce your belief and and accept Christianity, but because you believe, that the meetings are especially having a splendid moral effect upon the community and that you are anxious to have the people know about it." Old Doc took the bait, hook, sinker, line and all, and that night he, was there with 26 of his young men and two of them found the way to Christ. The next night old Doc was back with some of those same ones and others who had been interested. That night three of them took their stand. The

i next ninht nIH Dnr hnhheri nn errenr.

that Paul was getting farther away ,y with more and he was seen t- tupn

,,,JL" wu. . ircwc.c ana urge tne young men to do It. The

ram uvea ne was striving ms oesi minister said: "S ay, I don't understand to do the will of God and every daysuch a paradox; you say tnere is

ne am ne got nearer louua anunothing in jt and , saw you tonight the nearer he got to God he looked : urgjng youP young men t0 embrace it. back at what he used to be and whatf tnere js nothing in it, why under he is now and he contrasted the two; heaven's name ask them to accept it?"

He said: "Some of the young men

and he said, "How in the world

could I ever have been so low down as to have lived like that?" i I don't believe that you believe

that Paul was getting more and moreksponsiDe in a degree for their con

are drinking in my club; some of them are gambling, and I presume the com

munity and the parents hold me re-

a man a genius, but it can never mane a man a Christian. Gives An Incident. : I was at a Chautauqua one time in the west. They had a merry-go-round and I stood and watched them. Up tame a girl with a little, fliffy,, fluffy sort of a dress on and Gainesboro hat. She had on lavender shoes and stockings and lavender ribbon around her and she was chewing gum and she said: "I think I will take a ride." So she climbed up on the back of a duck. . - " Then along came a little girl and paid: "I think I will take a ride on the swan." Up came a guy smoking a cigarette, had a hat oiv. the back fjf his-head that looked like a fried egg. He had on a pair of white duck trousers and had on white shoes. He said: "Guess I will take a ride on the User' .,. Ha rlimbed ud and sat down ana

I saw an old rube coma along and wan nulline his bird-tail whiskers

nfl Iia came along and said: "By

gosh,. I, never, 'rid' on one of them new fancied things before. I guess

I'll try this here automobile.

I watched the crowa-as ukj came up. Finally they loaded her uptand the gate fellow gave the sign and they turned on tb.e juice and

sinful every day, but I believe, and

I believe that you believe that ever?' day Paul lived he was striving harder to do the things that pleased God

and as he did the things that pleased;

God he was amazed to think how he could ever have done the things that didn't please God. You might be down in a dark cellar tonight and a vomous snake ready to inject its venom, but when

a fellow opens tne aoor aDove ana lowers the candle, that little candle will dispel every cubic inch of dark

ness. That's why we have the lights here in this tabernacle. The electric lights are all positive and the darkness is negative, but when the positive is turned on, the negative beats it That's why you can see in here. Religion Is Positive; Sin Is Negative. So, religion is positive and sin Is

negative. . So here: When a man lowers a candle and that instant will every cubic inch of darkness be broken and it reveals to you the snake. You are dissatisfied, you want to get out of there. A little

bit ago you were content to stay' there. Why? Light ha3 come and the light revealed your surroundings and now you never will he satisfied

to remain there. All right, so long as you do your will and stay where you are, you will be perfectly satisfied to do it, but when you start to do the will of God

and yet out of your haunts and change your way of living, then you will say with Paul, "How could I ever have been low down enough to do that and serve1 the devil?" Some years ago a soldier arose In a regimental prayer meeting and said, "Pray for me that I may be a Christian." Some of his comrades said,

in view of the past life he lived, that he should have manifested more sor

row. He heard of it and felt grieved at it. He didn't show up at the prayer meeting for many weeks and when at last he did return, he said:

"Three weeks ago I asked you to

pray for me that I might be a Christian. I heard that I should have manifested more sorrow for my sin than I did when I r.rose and made that request. A girl died in a house of shame in Washington and my sin put her there." He said, 'I have never offered prayer from the day that I asked you to pray for me. three week3

ago. Three weeks that I haven't

prayed God to spare my life for many years that there might radiate from my life and influence for good which would counteract in a degree the influence for evjl that went ' from my life in the days when I was subsidized and followed the devil." Follow Your Convictions. If you were honest, you'd get up and walk down these aisles and take me by the hand and every time you

get on your knees say, "O God.- spare

duct, and I'd be very thankful if I could induce them to take any moral tonic which would tone them up a little bit." Saw His Plight Infidel that he was, he knew that all the infidelity this side of hell couldn't keep a man on the water wagon, or out of the arms of a prostitute, but if he'd accept Jesus Christ as his Savior and live it. then there weren't enough devils in hell to pull him into a booze joint. The next day hfe met this minister and said: "Say, I've been so busy I haven't had time to take an inventory. Could I see you for a little while this afternoon at four?" "You may." He didn't show up and the next morning he met the minister and said, "I apologize but I went home last night and I took down the Bible and read the gospel of John and the more I read the more I saw the Divine problem unfold

itself and I have accepted Jesus Christ' as my Savior and I have come to tell you that I will be down to the church

tonight and make a public acknowl

edgment of my faith." He did and he led every one of those young men but three into the kingdom of God. He willed to do God s will and he knew that God was right and he was wrong. Dr. Rainsford who used to be rector of St. George's church had a fellow come to visit him who had been a classmate of his. He was a skeptic and of course! being entertained there he had to go and hear him preach. And after they were through Dr. Rainsford said to him: "Well, what do you think about it?" Doubts the ' Good He said, "It's very pretty, the way you preach it, but I don't believe it." "Don't you believe it's possible there is a God?" He said, "I believe that is possible but I don't believe God's word is a revelation."

Dr. Kalnsfora said, Ir there is a God, he could make a revelation, couldn't He?"

He said. "If there is a God and if

He is such a God as that book revealed, if He were disposed, He could make a revelation." Dr. Rainsford said, "If there is a God, and if we are his creatures and if we are going to be rewarded for doing His will, or damned if we don't isn't it extremely important that God should reveal His will to us?" "Oh," said the old skeptic, "Professor, I'd have to believe that. If there is a God and if He is kindly disposed

toward His creatures, it wouldn't be fair or just and honorable to damn us

already prepared.

for first causes. I A fellow said to me, "Bill, I would do God's will, but there are hypocrites in the church.". ' O God. certainly there are hypocrites in the lodge, there are men that are living in sin, and keeping somebody on the side, but that does not make you go out and live in sin. Certainly not. What is the use of that? If a hypocrit wants to go to hell, let him go, that is no reason why you should go. If you should find somebody that is a traitor to his country, that is no reason why you should be a traitor. Just get your eye off that bunch. If there is anything I profess to be a past master in, it is in skinning hypocrites Why, I can skin that crowd, rub salt in their hides, tack it up on a barn door to dry, while you are puckering

your mouth to spit on your whetstone

to sharpen your knife to begin the operation! I am all through. Doubts Hypocrisy Is Cause

I don't believe that the hypocrisy of any man or womean in the church is keeping any man or woman out of the church that honestly wants to be a

Christian I don't believe that

I can give you" an easy way to get over that, you give your heart to God, and it will keep you busy looking out for yourself, old man. So then you say

to me, "Why do you fuss with them

I fuss with them because I know they are not right, and 1 want to disturb their conscience and help them to come to God. And 'you are trying to hide behind them, you are fussing with them because you want an excuse to go on in your cussedness. I am trying to help them and you are not. If you wait until there are no hypocrites in the church you will be in hell long

before that happens. So I want to teli you right now that there is no hypocrit that stands between me and the spot where I stand tonight on this platform, and the time when at last I shall burst through the gates into the presence of Jesus Christ.

The hypocrites are all going the other way and if you don't want to spend your eternity in hell with the hypocrites you'd better come into the church where we've got a few of them. In the day of judgment God Almighty will say to the hypocrites, "Step over to the left, your elevator will be going down in a few minutes." Somebody says to me, "Bill, I would be a Christian but I am afraid it can't hold out" Some of you old sinners have held out so long and you haven't any hair on your heads between you and hell now. You've held out against the tears of your mothers, the pleadings

ren, against the prayers of your preacher. You've held out against every revival, against every influence

that's beat against your old hard hearts to get you to yield to Jesus

Christ. You've steeled yourself until

it is like adamant. Afraid it can't hold out! Is Ordained Minister I am an ordained minister, I have never officiated at but one wedding in

my life, and if the Lord will forgive me for that I will never do it again. Wait a minute, maybe I ought to qualify. I was in a town one time and a fine looking fellow and girl came up to where I was being entertained and said: "Mr. Sunday, we want to get married." I said, "You do, do you?" He said, "Will you tie the knot?" I said, "No." He said, "You are ordained." I said, "No, I don't care to do It, let the preacher do it." He said, "We want you to." Finally I went to him and said, "You go and marry them." He said, "You go. I'd rather have you than anybody." I said, "Will you come and help me do the job so I won't get balled up."

He said, "Yes, I will help you." He came up and I got through pretty good and the fellow gave me

When she got up she said, "Folks, I

accept Jesus as my Savior." She turned to Moody and said, "I

have ticked two ticks.

He said, "Right sister, go out and

tell others."

She came back thei next day and

said, "I have ticked 11 ticks since I saw you last night"

She invited Moody home, to dinner. She gave him a beautiful clock, gold hands and figures on the dial, dec

orated with jewels. She said, "You

take: this home and if anybody asks you the story you say it is only a tick

at a time

If you go to his late home in North- 80 sick!"

conductor, "Will you please let met

inaryr By and by he rang the bell and opened the door and said "McCormick's seminary," and my friend got off the car. The next morning as they were going to class a young fellow was seen leaning up against the door bracing himself on the chair, scanning the face of every student, and as my friend approached he stood head and shoulders above all his competitors.

He stepped out and said. "I beg your pardon, were you in a street car last night?" "Yes." "Did you get up and give your seat to two poorly clad women at the corner of Clark and Randolph?" "I did." "Did you read your Testament?" "Yes." He said. "Did you say to a young

man who asked you how far It was to heaven. 'Only a step'?" "I did." "Did you drop on your knees and ask him to kneel with you an dpray?" "I did." He said, "I am that young man and I am ashamed and disgusted with myself. I came from a Christian home and I came up here and I have forgotten my mother's and father's God and I am going down the line and I am drinking and gambling and I heard you say, 'Let me off at the seminary.' I knew you must be a student. I phoned down to the store ai.d I said I wouldn't be there today. Oh, I am

COUNTRY. CLUB HEARS ABOUT BILLY'S LIFE; SONG SUNG BY RODY

Rev. Billy Sunday told the story l his life, his early difficulties, his' conversion and some of his baseball stories at the Country club Thursday morning. Contrasting his own life since his conversion, Mr. Sunday told of the end of the various members of the team that had sat drunk on the curb stone with him the day that he got converted. ' Following the meeting, Mr. Sunday

was entertained at luncheon at the club. Mr. Rodeheaver, who sang at the club in the morning, and Miss Kinney were also guests at luncheon, while Mrs. Asher had to return to town for the noon meeting of business women, and Bob Matthews had tc come back to play for the Kiwanis club. Will Romey introduced Mr. Sunday at his second appearance at the club. At the same hour, Albert Peterson, custodian of the tabernacle, addressed a community meeting at the Third Methodist Episcopal church in Fair-view.

field you will see it on the mantle.

Tick your tick now. The crepe may flutter from your doorknob tomorrow. "Behold, now Is the accepted time.

Now Is the day of salvation

My friend, Doctor Marquis, who of

ficiated at our wedding and baptized our children, dismissed him from his class as he took this young man to his

room in the dormitory in a little while

And God will remove the stumbllna i be had him on his knees back again

black out of your way, then what?! the loving arms of Jesus Christ. He will give you the assurance of i It. is only a step to Jesus, then why

and salvation, and when you be- not take it now?

peace

gin to live out your belief, your belief begins to grow and take form and

shape like Pygmalion's statue of Galatea. When he started to carve he had nothing but a piece of repulsive mar

ble and at last there stood before him i

the beautiful form of Galatea and when you try to live out your belief, your belief takes form and shape.

we see it in everything. In music. I can't read music to save my life. I can't do it. 1 will bet you there are

a lot of folks in that choir that can't read music. Rody can read it, but most people that sing, sing by ear. You can sing "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," but can you read the music? No. They will open- the book and read the sharps and flats and measures and sextets, run the chro

matic scale like a squirrel climbs a tree. So we all know, "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," we all know "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart." Most of us sing that by sound and not by 'note. You are willing to do the best you can.

How Man Reaches Happiness A man's highest happiness and greatest usefulness is reached through Jesus Christ. Christians, if you are not right in your experience you are wrong in your life. If the Bible is a dull, dead book to you, if you haven't God's peace and joy, you are wrong in your life. If you'd fulfill the conditions you'd have the results. You say: "Bill, the Christian life is mysterious." Two and two make four

is a complicated mathematical proposition absolutely incapable of being

understood by anybody on the face of

the earth when compared to the plain

A B C of repentance and faith in

Jesus Christ to save my soul. It is

not mysterious and the biggest liar

that ever lived is the one who tries to make you believe that religion is something mysterious. In the) name of God and in the name of Jesus and in the name of the angels and of your wife and your mother and the redeemed before whom you may stand, I throw down the challenge and

II say: "Come on out on Christ's side

and will to do His will that you know how and then you will know." Years ago in Chicago a friend of mine studied in McCormick's seminary. He used to go down into the foreign mission and help. One night he walked north on Clark street and he caught a north bound cable car on the corner of Clark and Monroe! and the cable train went east on Monroe street to Dearborn, turned the corner in front of the First National bank and a crowd of young men and women got on the cable car there. They'd been down to the old Columbia theatre that used to stand where the old InterOcean building does and afterwards they'd go to old Kingley's restaurant and try to figures up on the evening's outing. Gives Seat to Scrubwoman They ran it up to a hundred dollars and quit. The cable ran up to Randolph and turned west to Randolph and a couple of women, they were

Come and your sins confessing, Thou shalt receive a blessing, Come! He waits for thee.

Tabernacle Notes

ANNOUNCE FRIDAY PRAYER MEETINGS

The following prayer meetings are to be held on Friday morning, as a part of the Sunday revival campaign. District 2. Sec. A. Mrs. Myrtle Lott, 314 South West 2nd street; Sec. C. Mrs. Lela Patterson, 706 South 9th street, Mrs. John Moss. District 3. Sec. A. Mrs. Russell

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HOLDS LAST CLASS Friday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, Miss Kinney will hold the last of her Bible study classes, with a lesson on Colossians. The Bible study classes have been meeting four days a week since almost the first day of the campaign, and have been well attended.

ASSEMBLY PERIOD High school boys and girls will have

another assembly period each with the members of the Sunday party. The

girls meet In the assembly hall with Miss Kinney at 11 o'clock, while the boys meet with Mr. Rodeheaver for their half hour at 11:30 o'clock.

LAST SCHOOL MEETING The last school meeting of the week as now planned will be that held by Miss Kinney and Mr. Rodeheaver at the Whitewater school on Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock

Cox, 208 South 11th street, Mr. Peterson: Sec. B. Mr. and Mrs. McQueen, E0 South 12th street, Mrs. J. W. Webb; Sec. C. Mrs. Irvin White. 32 South 14th street, Mrs. John Hansel; Sec. G. Mrs. Gaede. 1212 South F street. District R. Sec. B. Mrs. John Moranda, 24 North 12th street, Mrs. C. E. Thomason; Sec. G. Mrs. May Morris. 217 North 13th street, Mrs. John Deitz. District 5, Sec. A. Mrs. H. E. Shockley, 411 North 18th street, Mrs. Asher:' Sec. B. Mrs. Selby, 2014 North E street, Mrs. Rodgers; Sec. E. Mrs. L. E. Turner, 104 North 21st street; Sec. F. Mrs. Irvin Stegall, 209 North 19th

street, Mrs.. Richey; Sec. H. Mrs. Laura Sloane, 207 North 17th street; Sec. K. Same as Sec. A. District 6, Sec. A. Mrs. C. C. Walling, 1614 South A street, Dr. and Mrs. Rae; Dec. D. Mrs. E. V. Stanback,' 2119 East Main street, Mrs A. E. Schvh. District 9, Sec. J. Mrs. E. H. Scott, 319 Kinsey street.

Mrs. Allie Ebling, 1007 North J

street. Rev. Bunyan.

ANDERSON SERVICE Mr. Sunday is to preach a sermon at Anderson, the place where he sometimes gets off on his trips to Richmond from Winona Lake. Tuesday of next week has been selected as the tentative date, as at that time the American Legion will be in session.

a ten-spot and I gave it to the preach- scruowomen, mey got on tne cable er and said. "Go buv vour wif a hat " train and their hands were all soiled

She was wearing a winter hat in the summer time. He had gone whining and blubbering around that day saying that the new preachers come to town and take our weddings away. I felt like punching him. I said, "Lord, I will never do it again." So that is why I say I won't do it.

But, supposing I would agree and

when we didn't know what that will j you'd come up and stand before me.

me for many years that I may be of

good influence to others to counteract the bad influence that went from my life in the days when I served the devil and went down the lino with the bunch and lived in sin." If you are willing to" do His will, you will know. Then, if you do the will of God it will solve your doubts and they will dissolve like ice in a summer seaCan Rise From Sin. I believe there is no infidel threading the maze of unbelief: there is no fkentic in the catacombs of doubt; there is no atheist in the labyrinths of his infiledity; there is no drunkard staggering and muttering and spewing to hell; there is no prostitute selling her womanhood in tho red light district; there is no infidel

blasphening and damning God; there is no man or woman anywhere on earth, sitting tonight bound hand

and foot by lust and avarice and sensuality but that that man and won an can rise in all of his or her free

dom and liberty if you will only yield to God through faith in Jesus Christ The shackles will be broken and you will be free from the sins that hold

you .

Years ago in a New England city

was. He said, "Havei you ever tried to find out whether there is a God?" "Never have." "Would you like to know?"

"I would." He said, "Come on, let's pray about

it."

After some inducement he got him

down on his knees. Dr. Rainsford said

to the old professor, "You pray."

He said, "Oh God," He thought he d

gone too far and got up and backpaddled. He said, "I don't know that there is a God."

Act as if there is."

He said, "Oh God, if there Is a God,

Fine fellow, what is your name?"

"Tom." "What is your name?" "Dorothy." "Tornado you take Dorothy to be your lawfully wedded wife, promise to love, honor, cherish and obey until death do you part?" "Bill, I am afraid I can't hold out." Do you know what a girl wonld do if a fellow said that? She would say: "You hike out and I'll get a fellow that can hold out." There will be lots of little difficulties and differences that will come up and if you knew that old vixen

as well beforehand .as you did after

and if the Bible is a revelation of Your two years if she knew you and said

will to us, and if there Is no salvation good-bye to her mother and home, except in the faith of Jesus Christ, I she said good-bye to more blessings oromise if You will reveal that to me. than you will ever give her in 10 or

I will Dubliclv confess Him." "15 years. Y'oull have little ditfer-

He had no sooner made that prayer

than he jumped to his feet and he said, "I see it and it is beautiful. Jesus Christ is the Son of God." He willed to do and he knew. Lady Henry Somerset said when she was seeking God, she heard a spirit that seemed to say to her, "Act as though I were and thou shall know that I am," and she was not deceived. So, act as though God is and you will know that God is. Will to do His will and then you will know. That's What Gets My Goat . Some people think that nothing Is to be believed unless they can understand it Ha! Ha! If you have the

ences and discouragements. All right, you will in your new Christian life. If you confess your sins, and begin, the Lord will take care of you. When Moody was preaching, a wo

man came to hear him. Something made her mad and she went out saying she never would return. The next night she was back. He said some

thing that made her madder than ever. Out she went and her brown dress swished around the door like a fox's tail and she declared she would never return. A few nights later her anger became nebulous and at last disappeared and at last she bobbed up again in her spot Somebody told

and dirty and cracked from the soap and each of them had a calico dress on and fascinator over her head, through a hole in which protruded an ear. Each carried on her arm a basket and in that basket were broken pieces of pie and doughnuts. And my friend sat there reading his little Bible Testament and looked up and saw these two tired scrubwomen, leaning in the doorway, and he arose and said: "Ladies, you may have my seat." And both of them squeezed into the space vacated by my friend. Then he took the only seat there was

left in the car, a strap, and he took

hold of the strap by one hand, reading his little Testament in the other. The cable train stopped at Powers theater and a young fellow, a member of this box party from the Colum

bia said to my friend as he stood there

reading he said: "You are a Christian are you?"

He said, "Yes, in my weak way I

am trying to serve my God and hu manity."

He said, "Perhaps you can tell me and my friends how far it is from the

top of your heart to this heaven you

hope to gain. My friend closed his little Testa

ment and fell to his knees in front of

this dude and he said, "It is only a

step to Jesus, will you take it now

If. you will kneel with me, while I pray

for your guilty soul. "A hush fell over that cable car

The conductor rang the bell and the

motorman tightened his grip on the

cable. She rounded the corner and

plunged into the old LaSalle street tunnel, came out the north end and turned over to Clark, then she went

north past Lincoln park. Not a word was spoken nor a sound heard save the conductor would call the streets

and the man would ring the bell at

the crossing not a word.

Then they switched her into Lincoln

avenue and my ' friend sftd to the

Rodeheaver always has a new way for making routine announcements. Wednesday night, instead of calling a mother holding a certain number out, he declared that a young man or lady would like to have an interview with the mother holding check No. 16. "You evidently forgot to tell him something," Rodeheaver added. EXCELLENT SERMONS "Some of Mr. Sunday's best sermons are to be delivered during the afternoon," Mr. Rodeheaver announced Wedaesday night. "They are written for just the people that want to come in the afternoon," he said. Mr. Sunday's preaching In the afternoon is much more like the sermons that he would preach if he were to hold a pastorate in any place for some lime, some of the regular devotees of the afternoon sermons say. ONE WEDDING Rev. Sunday has never officiated at but one wedding, and hopes that God

w-li forgive him if he ever does It

again. When his audience Wednesday

night semed unawares how to take it.

Sunday explained. Out in Iowa once

he had married a man and woman on

their request, but only after getting the consent of the man who would

have married them, had he not been there. The fee for doing the marrying

was men lurnea over to tnis same

minister.

'And would you believe it," Sunday

declared, "but that same man began

to whine about the outside ministers that came in and got their fees. I don't

marry any more."

SHOP MEETING Friday noon Mrs. Asher is to con

duct a shop meeting for girls at the

B. B. Glove factory.

AT HOSPITAL

Next Saturday morning the patients

at the hospital are to hear Mr. Rodeheaver and Mrs. Asher sing, for they are booked to give a musical program

there at 10:30 o clock.

MANY TRAIL HITTERS

By the help of the Lutherans the

audience Wednesday night furnished

perhaps the greatest proportion of its

members as trail hitters of any of the

meetings yet held in Richmond by Mr. Sunday.

Knights Templar Will Go

To Tabernacle on Sunday Local Knights Templar will worship

at the tabernacle Sunday morning, in

full regalia. - - r

The knights accepted an invitation

of the tabernacle committee to attend the services there in the morning, in

stead of going to some church, as is

their custom on that day.

The members of the order are to

meet at 9 o'clock at the temple, and will march to the tabernacle, for the

services which are to begin at 11:45.

Special seats will be reserved for

the knights.

HEARS ORIGINAL "I'm glad now because I have heard

the original," declared an old man

at the tabernacle, Wednesday after

noon, after he had heard Jr. Rodeheaver sing one of the song3 that he has recorded.

Standing up in his place in the audi

ence, the man hailed Mr. Rodeheaver's

attention. "I have been listening to

it on my phonograph." he said.

"Which do you . like best," Rody

asked, and the man answered, "I can't tell no difference." "Thank you for the compliment both to the singer and the phonograph," answered Rodeheaver. PREPARE FOR VISIT John Maynard. undertaker, and O. T. Martin, pastor of the Methodist church at Winchester, are making preparations to greet Billy Sunday whn

he preaches in that place Saturday

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suits, and no one can play ball properly unless they have uniforms."

Rev. Sunday declared that he could

name 2a men, that u they were de

cent enough to come to the tabernacle

and consecrate themselves to Jesus

Christ, would bring 3,000 people in their footsteps in the next week."

"I have been here but five weeks.

Sunday declared, "But I can name those men that are the leaders in

your town, and they are not behind these meetings. Instead, they are

against these meetings, and the word

of Christ, and yet some of them are

members of the church.

Audience Laughs. Flopping himself over the pulpit,

and reaching his hand inside, Sunday demonstrated how a man had once

tried to show how a broken machine would work if it were fixed, while the audience roared with laughter at his performance. Then throwing himself back to ar erect position, he drew his moral "When I saw the machine next day actually making egg crates, I believed what I saw, but the theoretical demonstration of the day before did not convince me." Again he demonstrated a group of people reaching for a merry-go-round. There was the young girl, that wanted one kind of car, the college graduate, with the peg top pants, and gay socks, who wanted to ride the tiger, and there was the bent old man that said he had "never rode on one of those tarnal things." Imitates Old Man. Bent and stooping. Sunday strolled across the platform in imitation of the old man. Stroking his whiskers, Sunday spit to one side and remarked that "he could try it once," and

as the crowd applauded warmly, blew his nose vigorously, wiped it on his coat sleeve, spit again and dacided on an Imitation motor car. "But when the thing started up, they all went in the same direction, for they were attached to the same center," Sunday moralized, "just as you can do a lot of things different from other people, but you will go to hell just the same for you are fast to the same center."

GOING TO TABERNACLE Friday night the intermedite department of the First Methodist church will attend the tabernacle in a body, according to present plans. Reservations for 50 have been made. SPECIAL DELEGATION Sunday afternoon is to see a special delegation here. The CollinBville. Ohio, C. E. society has asked for some reservations as they expect to attend in a body. W. C. T. U. MEETING

Tuesday of next week Rev. Mrs.

morning. Both men were in Riah- Brown will head a delegation of, 400

ii... im me uignt mai nev, auncay je- women trom the various W. C. T. U

I bodies in Wayne county. I

cided to preach at Winchester.

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