Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 119, 19 May 1922 — Page 14

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND..

ALL RICHES AND CULTURE AVAIL NOTHING IF PERSON LACKS SAVING POWER OF JESUSSAYS SUNDAY IN SERMON ON "ZACCHAEUS"

? Th Text "Th( Son" of Man la come

to seek and to save that which was lost", Luke 19th chapter, 10th verse. In his sermon Thursday night, Rev. W. A. Sunday said: The division of the Bible into chapters and verses sometimes appears confusing. The original Bible was not thus sub-divided. All the words and sentences were joined together. The trsnalntcr hod in BonnmtR it nil

1ntr Rpntenrps vpi-kps. and chanters. ! system, the only one I have ever heard

the system that was then in vogue. You must remember that the Jews were under the control, at that time.

of Romans, and they were severe in

their commands. The Jews were

hard-working, thrifty, industrious people, and the Romans were lazy, lustful and indolent, and so the Jews were required to come into the temple every year and bring their money and lay it before these money-changers. It was only a single taxation

In the original there were no periods.

colon, or semicolons. All thi3 breaking up into sentences was man-made and for convenience sake- to aid us in memorizing. Sometimes a chapter begins in the middle of an interesting story, and not frequently it ends opportunely and quite often it end3 inopportunely

If you would understand one chapter it would be necessary for you to read the chapter that precedes as well as the one that follows. Particularly is that true of the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Luke,

which should always be read togeth

er that was in working force.

The Jews used to go to the temple and give all his money to the moneychangers and the money-changers would scoop it all up and give none of it back. Jews Became Shrewd. The Jews became shrewd, eo instead of taking . it all, they used to take a small portion of it and hide the rest of it and the Roman government began to feel the effects of that system and they said, "We have

to change thi3 system or we will go

would stand up fcr the Stars andj

Stripes. Then I haven't any respect for the man or woman who is not ready to stand up for Jesus Christ and stand up for the Son of God the principle of the Christian religion as God Almighty holds it out If it were not for the principles of Jesus Christ there would not be any

country worth living In. I would'

not want to live in it either, would you? Make haste! Make haste! Years ago a friend of mine wa3 preaching up in Saginaw, Michigan, and a bright, keen looking fellow

entered and sat down. And when he gave the invitation he was the first to walk down and take his stand for. Jesus Christ. That man was Colonel A. T. Bliss, the Ex-Governor of that state and the congressman. And when I went to Saginaw, Some body said, "There is a woman at the door who wants to get in." . And it was Mrs. Bliss and I had the honor of taking them up on the platform.

Later on when we went to Detroit

we asked Colonel Eliss to say a few

words and then he said: "When the war broke out I was a young man

a trifle under age, and my mother

urged me to give my heart to Christ before I went away, for she said

'You may be killed.'"

He went out a private and he came back a colonel, but he still

said "No" to God.

And he said, "If I could only be-

Shavings From the Tabernacle Sawdust Trail

er, for. the nineteenth is simply the conclusion of the story begun in the eighteenth chapter. Jesus is on His final journey to Jerusalem. He is now going to Jerusalem for the last time, and when He arrived there shortly afterwards

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e , ' ' ,r -r So they figured up and they sold the answering the questions of the scribes r privilee collec?lng the taxes to a

into bankruptcy."

And so here is what they did andjcome very ricn j coud use my sur.

plus on Jesus Christ."

it was the law that was in force

when Jesus came on earth. The Roman government figured out how much money they had to have from Palestine and from the Jews and they took no chances. They said, "It takes a Jew to catch a Jew".

gang of fellows who paid the Roman

TZrZ, 7 w7 Tn ioverament the ul1 amount that ireLnT!r ,"4 they figured they had to have from

to ball Him up. They said, "Look

here, according to the Mosaic Law, if a man died his brother would have to marry his widow to raise up seed to the name so it would not be lost. Here was a woman whose husband died and he had seven brothers, which was it to be?" No Relationship In Heaven. And Jesus said, "There Is no flesh relationship in Heaven. There is neither any marrying or giving in marriage. There are no male or fe

me jews, tor example, supposing that I should buy from the legislature of New York, the right to collect the taxes and I paid ten million dollars for the privilege then I would make fifteen to twenty million on it. The Roman government gave a certain figure and they didn't give a rap how much beyond that the Jews paid, just as long as they got their money. So Zacchaeus was the leader of that gang of publicans who purchased the privilege of collecting the

taxes from the Roman government

BETTER ATENDANCE The afternoon meetings during the week have been better attended than those of the earlier weeks of th cam. paign although the attendance at the evening sermons has not been a3 good. Thursday afternoon there were about 800 present.

VISITS HIS BROTHER John S. Brown, brother of Rev. E. Howard Brown of the East Main Richmond Friday for a visit. Mr. Brown has been appointed sup; erintendent of the Western district of the American Sunday School union with headquarters in Kansas City. He was formerly finance officer of the Pennsylvania union and is driving through from that state on his way to his new headquarters. BARBERS TO ATTEND The barbers are to be out in force at the tabernacle on Tuesday night of next week, 75 reservations having been asked for that body.

I the other ribbon, another, and I could mill V nPFHO flAIII & t" uttub uUun

; down through the vestibules where you j stand, go down the street. I could stop

mond Thursdav to act Hf- c-w lne auiomounes, go turougu uue uaumo

recommend a good evangelist for them !

of Sin and Vice and I can pin one

for throo wont. o7,rv,,. t i, or lao omer oa me ureaoi ui evcij Li5ff hi this summer It is msm or WOman. Upon one would be frin nlJlo ,SUy ma7w ai Printed the word-"Lost" and on the l"Pr.?liSSpiCla.nd to Preac tberether .Saver and toe cros8 of JesuB

on Thursday morning of next week.

divides the people nothing

TO ATTEND SERVICE A petition to let the employed girls off early on Saturday night bo that they could attend the women only

meeting at the tabernacle Saturday! Experience

s Ul, , . circulated up ana l preached down at Ocean Grove down Main street. Quite a number of j where there seems to be a peculiar

olu,eB udvo BS many oi tne gins point Drolectine out where the wind

Christ else.

It isn't intellectuality, culture or anything else but religion. You are lost You are lost. '

Narrates

EATON TO COME Eaton, Ohio, has asked for another night. This time A. J. Eussard, has asked for 500 seats for the delegation that he says will come over on Wednesday night of next week. That is the last reservation that is asked for in the present series. There cannot

jhe many more reservations made as

tne time is getting short.

WORTHS AT SERVICE Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Worth of Fountain City were visitors at the tabernacle Thursday afternnon. Mr. Worth, who is a retired Methodist minister, 86 years old, has been preaching for over 70 years.

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angels, so there is no relationship i 0 tts the ay he had made

,u 'Tru, . Ill' .:..." Vt" I So here is

FOR WOMEN ONLY People are aware that Sunday will preach to women only on Saturday night. Part of the afternoon proceedings would, read this way:

MK. SUNDAY: Preaching every afternoon and evening for everybody, except Saturday night (laughter by

audience.) Women only of course.

When Mr, Sunday made the same

as they possibly could be off for that service. HIS DAY OFF When Rev. Sunday announced that the women only meeting was so exclusive that Mis, Asher was to lead the music so that Rodeheaver could

and the waves hit it terrifically and some of them pounded until they have washed the great driveways and torn the beautiful palatial homes and ripped them and thrown them into the sea, and now it seems designed to win the battle even yet. Years ago a friend of mine stood

not be there, and that Miss Kinney! down there at Seabrieht and lookine

was to play the piano, Mr. Rodeheaver off he saw a Spanish bark going to

IN CHRISTIAN

IS SUNDAY'S!

breathed a heaity "Amen" from his

corner beside tbe piano.

did it; any man or woman who would

laugh at you and the fear of those criticisms would keep you from Jesus

Christ, he is damnable and low down that I would not insult a polecat by

pieces upon the sandbar out there and they launched the lifeboat, but the

wind and the waves beat them back. Six times they tried it, but with i no success and then they saw a man as the old ship would toss in the roll of the sea until its masts would touch the

waves, they saw the wreckage come in and bodies come in, and they saw

questions of the Scribes and Phari

sees respecting divorce and blessing the little children and as soon as he finished this latter act of grace a. rich young ruler said to him. Good Master, what good thing must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus turned to him and said, "Why do you call me good? There is only one good and that is God." That used to puzzle me when I was a young Christian, for I used to say if Jesus Christ was not good where will I go to find one that is? There was a little touch of sarcasm about that. "You had been saying I am a fraud when I told you that

I am a fraud and yet you come to me and ask me what to do to inherit eternal life?" - Jesus continued saying, "Do not bother to ask me "Good Master what shall I do?" for I am not even good if I am not what I claim to be, therefore my opinion i3 "worth nothing to you. So don't you bother ma. You go to God and ask Him about it. .: Here were two young men at the climax of the world. Here was a young man, rich and a ruler. Here was Jesus Christ the Son of Man, and they were both about the same age, and this young man came to Jesus and said: "What must I do to - get what you have got? If I have

all that I have, but do not have what you have, then it won't do me any good." ' Need3 Spirit

Of Christ. But Jesu3 Christ didn't ask the young fellow what he must do. to have

whatever he had. The rich younaj ruler knew that what he had would - not save him. "I am perfectly willing

a man rich in money

wanting to see a man rich in popularity, Jesus. Here i3 a man who is wealthy considered in what he had stolen from the Jews. Here is a man, Jesus, wealthy in blessing and benediction which he had bestowed upon man. esus Chri3t was the really, truly rich man although he didn't have two coats on his back. Jesus didn't have enough money to pay his taxes and Peter had to go down to the sea and catch a fish and they found gold in the fish's mouth which he used to pay the taxes, and yet Jesus was the richer man. Great Crowd In Street. And there was a great crowd in the streets. Zacchaeus was a man short of stature and he could not see over the heads of the crowd but

he saw that the route which Jesus wa3 taking would take him down to the famous sycamore tree. I should think when you read the obituary notices in the newspapers or see a funeral procession you would remember that you have to pass by that way and you would be ready for it and you would be prepared for the time is coming sooner or later when we will all pass that way. So he saw the route that Jesus was taking would take him down to the famous sycamore tree and he took a circutous route around the crowd and made for the sycamore tree. And Jesus came down the street and seeing Zacchaeus he said "Zacchaeus make haste, for to day I must abide at your house for the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost."

And I can imagine Zacchaeus say

ing to himself, "I wonder who has been telling him about me."

The reason for the command was that he wanted to dine at his home

And he became a multi-millionaire

and he said "No" to God. Then he said, "If I could only represent this district at .Washington!" And yet he said "No" to God. If you want - to know from me, I would say that now Is the best time to be a Christian. Now! The best time was the time you let go by but the best time is the time you have left. Your best time has become history. Your best is now, and if you sit there and listen to me you should know that now is the best time. How Zacchaeus Extended Invitation. When Zacchaeus came down from that tree he drew himself up with all the dignity of his little dwarfed body and he stood in the presence of Jesus and said to him: "Why Jesus, you don't know who

I am. I am the richest duck in this.

town. Why, I am Zacchaeus, the tax gatherer. I wish you would hon

or mo by coming up to my house to

dinner." Did he do that? No. He talked of restitution; he said, "Half of my good I give to the poor." Jesus did not ask him what kind of a life he had lived, but when he shined down that, tree and stood in the presence of Jesus, he said, "The half of my goods I will give to the poor." He was already giving the half of his goods to the poor, trying to make up and trying to have his gifts act

as a sort of disinfectant for the wayv

he got the money in the first place. He said, "The half of my goods I give to the poor." 9 He spoke of restitution. Oh! so

many will have to yank out their

check books and write a check on the bank and pay back some money

they skinned somebody out of ini

some transaction, before they will ever find Jesus Christ. Years ago in a town out West,

A Vkati lllir Q vmiTlC T-1 O Tl

pany, and one nighF they missed a htave died of black vomit in three min' E"!n fellow threw down his dime

1,1 nt wot it pt finaiiv th.v for a glass of whiskey and he said

' . . " I ir Vi i tyi "tfovo --it fioon n r in

comparing it with him. And if h is

aa low in stature as he is in principle, j this man put the speaking trumpet

lie toum kiss a iax wiuiout utuumg , iu ma lips, aDove ine roar or tne his knees. Why, he hasn't brains j waves, and shout. "Lost." Later one

enough to make a desert; for a map

In Philadelphia there was a fellow who worked in one of the big factories and he took his stand for Jesus Christ and he stood at the door of the factory

the next morning and he said, "Jack,

of the masts came washing in and his

body clung fast to it. I wish I could make men and women realize their position like the standed sailor off Seabright. You are lost

to a good many things. First, you are

I took my stand for Jesus Christ at lost to happiness and out of Jesus

the tabernacle last night. Will you

help me?" And he told every man that came in what he had done. They boosted him. They admired the one that had given his heart to Jesus Christ. Zacchaeus knew he was an old sinner when he climbed that tree, but before he struck the ground be "was converted and his sins were all blotted away.

Sin you roll It like a" sweet morsel

Christ there is none.

I used to think there was, but I want to say this to you, I have been a professing Christian for thirty years and five minutes knowing that my 6lns were forgiven gave me more peace than I ever found in all the years I served the devil. You are lost They Bay that John Ericsson who invented the "Monitor," and Ole Bull,

were boys together. One became then

world famous musician and the other

the world-famous inventor. Years roll-

tlinlon rvit frtrtfriiAd if mow "K ffl r-n unA r

Si. r;,,: ,:XZ way of the transgressor is hard, but

again.

FRIENDS PASTOR PRESENT Zcno H. Doane, pastor of the Knightstown Friends meeting was at the tabernacle Thursday afternoon to hear Rev. Sunday preach.

,ausuw,the end of the road is a good deal

1 harder than the road.

Sin with that one word S-I-N, I

spell all the murders, all the

SEEK EVANGELIST Rev. C. W. Anderson,, pastor of the Methodist church of Spiceland, and Theodore Foxworthy, pastor the Friends meeting there, were in Rich-

that dirty, stinking, black-hearted gang will have to go out of business.

That is what is the matter withling

them. Zacchaeus climbed that tree with no other ambition than to get a glimpse of Jesus Christ. Everybody was talking about Jesus and they were discussing Jesus, and so he wanted to see Jesus.

can

thefts, all the outrage, all the seduc

tion, the lust, the drunkenness, blasphemy, broken hearts, all that blights like a pestilence and causes the misery of this world; all with that onejvord S-I-N. Come down from your sin and turn from it to the name of Jesus Christ and do His will. Come down trom your morality. I am not conveying the idea that you

should be immoral, no; but I want to convey with all my power, stop trust-

in your morality for salvation.

You have got to have something more than that if you are ever saved. Morality is included in Christianity, but Christianity is not included in morality. Many People Are Moral

There are lots of good moral men

vou have. Will you please tell me

to give up all that I have to get whatj

You go ahead and get ail the world Jpsus' ,h?orig most unpopular M L w vm, art worth nothing mai of his day. the most unpopular

unless you have what Jesus Christ man 'ou, could have found in the TViit rirH vniintr. rnlor rnn I Kingdom .

rrC, vno. n,ir iri "Why, how-do-you-do, Jesus. If

; en-thing but he said. "What must I do!1 had hadthe slightest idea that you

; to get what you have got. Tell ms, for I want that too." So they entered the city of Jericho

There were

lived in Jericho, one was Bartimeus, the blind man, and I see him as my friend cornea down he road and he says, "Bartimeus, I can see." "Is that so, how did it happen?" "When a man named Jesus came to our town and I heard of the wonderful cures He had wrought for oth-

were coming up here to see me I would have had my limousine here

but I didn't know you were cominjr

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two famous men that iUl T f a uw

fierce-Arrow. 11 isii i very iar over or I would 'Phone the chauffeur to bring it over, but you don't mind walking, do you?" Jesus Goes Into House. And I can see them going down the street of Jericho, Zacchaeus and

T tii-pq nrofl rhin tr nnt in Tnwa nnrt

a fellow went into a saloon to get a;""" vonauo, drink and the barkeeper was calling tut there are no Christians who are

me everything he could lay nis tongue i ,Vv o

to, and if all the venom in his heart

"The Son of. Man is core." Jesus

'i against me and Christianity had been faid to Zacchaeus "The Son of Man ,! injected into his stomach he would is come to save 'he lost' There are

many reasons way tie uiu not say "The Son of God." Why? I will tell yon. There is a fear in the heart of every unsaved man or woman when they

tabernacle to hear Billy Sunday?" """ J", "uu- Ilu. ,U ! uuumiu And he said, "No, And by the , 515

eternal blankety-blank-blank, don't: " "?VT ": I,. """""J3-

the

arrested a clerk on suspicion

readily proved his innocence and yet some people still thought that he

They would have him around no propose to go and hear that blank longer so he left and .went up and vulgar blankety-blank. down the land some months later He was just throwing blankets over be went to Chicago and went around evlP, .rf; . , . ,. . . . the Farwell Hall and heard Moody I .This eow stood and listened to u ci-a cnmotv,-;nr Q,r,iit maViTi him and he said, To be on the

.-i ""a."r.rX. I. . "'snr.. T m n.mod to toll von that auQ lwlsl OUT SKy-sc

tne wrongs m your me rignt, u you.. TvI'wi " ot,-i! would lie in ruins at your feet

if I got close enough to Billy to yJt , , f V ou

shake hand3 with him, I wouldn't! r "

want him to smell the whiskey on my breath: so guess I'll change my mind. I don't want to drink, am going up to hear Bill."

! Come Forward

For Christ.

And hf ramp mi to hpr ma. Thatted tried as we tried, oh. He stoops

fellow sat there and listened to me1"? tne wayside to help every tempest and he had not drawn a sober j tossed and discouraged soul on earth, breath for fourteen years and had ' The Son of God in Power, the Son of drunk enough whiskey to float a bat-jMai m sympathy. He comes to help

ers and I said, Lord, let me have m? !Jf"s with ? disciples going up to

h vi o nn0n0H V hiinrf cvm" me couse. i nave orten xnea to lm

And I imagine the look of sadness I Sine what kind of a woman Mrs c, -r. tho tone of TiirtimPii nn,l ! Zacchaeus was. There isn't a word

he said. "Well, I have heard or wnat Jesus has done for others but Jericho seems to be a little off the place where he is and I guess I am doomed to go through life blind, but if he ever comes to this town, I will surely ask Him to open my eyes." His friend said, "There is a company of men and women! I wonder what it means. I will be back in a little while." He left his friend and in a little while rushing back he says, "Cheer up, I have good news. It is Jesus Christ, the same one that opened my eyes and He is coming down the street past where you are sitting." And Bartimeus began to cry. "Thou Son of God, have mercy on me." Jesus Hears The Call. And the crowd said, "Keep still don't bother Him". And Jesus said, "Who is calling me?"

And they said, "Nobody but a blind

said about her. I imagine the children were out in the front of the house playing and they saw their father coming and they said, "Ma here comes Pa with a lot of men." That was not unusual then, they had no hotels. People invited themselves up to Zacchaeus' house, that was the custom in those days. , And so Jesus said, "This day must I abide at your house" so it wa3 up to Zacchaeus to come across with the grub. S And eo I can see " the children when they see their father go back into the house and say "Ma, he is bringing them all into the house." And she would say, "Here, take

your hobby horse, ' and put that chair out of the way," and I can seo her fixing herself up, bustling around to get the house looking presentable and in comes Zacchaeus and he says: "This is Jesus of Nazareth and this

is Mr. Peter, Mr. John, Mr. Nathaniel

can.

We Cannot Make Some Things Right. I will tell you there are things in the lives of everybody that we cannot make right. And there are some things that if you had your life to live over again you would do and

would not do. And so this young man went to hear Moody. When he got through he said, "I want to talk to you." Moody said, "I am trred." The young man said, "I am sure you will be glad to hear what I have to say." Moodv said. "If it Is a confession,

I will gladly listen to it,' -n "I am a thief, I stole that money." And he told Moody where $13,400 of it was hidden, and said, "I only took $600 of it. What will I do?" Moody said, "Go back and give yourself up." "But," he said, "They will send me to the penitenitary if I do." Moody said, "You ought to be there." And he went back and hi3 father and a few friends made up the $600 and they walked into the Adams Ex

press company office and they .laid

the $20,000 on the desk and

"Here is the money." What did they do? They sentenced him to the penitentiary at Columbus for two years. When he walked behind the prison bar3 for the, first

time in his life he was a free man

God could speak and the tide would not. stop at 7 or 8 feet, she would sweep over the Rocky Mountains. Couldn't God speak and this continent would sink into the sea? Couldn't God speak, blow His breath and twist your sky-scrapers until they

fear when he thinks about God?

Don't God hold in His hands the seas as they wash to and fro? Doesn't He hold in His hands the winds as

they blow? Certainly He does, but the

Son of Man, tempted as we are tempt

tleship, but there he was.' And one night he came forward and gave his

heart to Jesus Christ. And he was elected chairman of the Civic Federation and he cleaned that God-forsaken, whiskey-soaked, infidel town up for Jesus Christ. I preached in Omaha two yeara ago and met the leading lawyer Frank Turner, who is mayor of the city, and I said, "Frank, how about Jack?" He said, "He went to Heaven two years ago but he kept the old town clean for JeSus Christ while he was on the job." All right.I don't care what inspired or moved you to come here, if

said ' JT0U only realize that you are

here to get a glimpse or jesus nrist. Come down from your pride. Why not saved, because they are too

us, if we will let Him

Did you ever read of the parting of Hector from his wife? Hector came oat to go to battle, and the nurse came with his little baby boy. The child failed to recognize the father with his helmet on and he removed it and the little one recognized the father and leaped into his arms. He kissed the child and was away to battle. When I look at Jesus Christ It Is God with the helmet on and when He lays it off He is the Son of God in power and the Son of Man in sympathy, come to help me. Oh,, there is a big difference between seeking and looking. If I should get off this platform tonight and walk down that aisle and across the end and then I said to the ministers, "Last night I lost Something," they would have a right to ask two things. First,

proud to become near this tabernacle o J?-7v "7 and too proud to get up and walk d 8nd- if thA !SJlmf :to Bnd down the aisles and by that act admit! nZ " ln Sf 1T- JL ?

He only served for a little less than! that there somethmg they can do thrQUg them aU in search g

a year and he was pardoned and ne n-". T , m V f would be seeking, went out and brought his father, tbem near to Jesus Cbrbt. They are , Chpjst Came

to live a different life from what they are living, and they are willing to go on, imagining that it would be humil-

mother and sister to Christ and then died within a short time. I am glad to tell you on the au-

beggar that accosts everybody that! Mr. Bartholomew", and no doubt they

comes along, and he thinks that you have come to help him." And those that had told Bartimeus to keep his mouth shut were the messengers of Jesus. Jesus said, "What will you that I should do unto you." And Bartimeus said, "Lord that I might receive- my sight." x Jesus said, "Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole," and he went his way praising God. And ; there was another famous man that lived in that town named Zacchaeus, the subject of my sermon. He was the chief of a gang of publicans and he was rich ' and he had made his money by trickery and by intrisuo and extortion because of

had the same custom of introducng his wife to all the disciples and he said, "I brought them up to the house for dinner. Jesus did not go up there to eat what that rich Jew had to eat He went up there to win him to the fact that he was the Christ and when he bade them good-bye he said to Zacchaeus, "This day has salvation come to your house" and he left behind him one believing that he was the Christ, the Son of the living God. He said to him "Make haste." Wants Them To Respect Christ. If I should ask this audience how many believe in him, how many of you would stand up for Him? You

thority of God that it is not a ques-!""' .

you have done. If you are ready and willing to forsake your sins God will

forgive you. The kind of sin never enters Into it with God. It is not a!

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question ui wiiat uio u uu-; k tQ tion Is are you willing to accept JesuS p' Tt God Almiehty Christ as ycur Savior? That is all ; are. abouA.tlfd ....

Jesus didn't give a rap about what

the people of Jerusalem would say about Zacchaeus climbing a tree to see him. I believe multitudes are more concerned about what other

they

that God asks of you. Come Down From Your Perch. Come down from your perch of curiosity. What brought you here tonight? Because you had listened to the dirty black-hearted lies of some of these degenerates of Hell around the street and you thought you would come in to see what I looked like. There are some men that can't bear to see anybody decent. No, no, because they know if the people are converted they will have to go out of their dirty business and they can't feed and fatten on the misfortunes and sins of other people. So they are afraid to have people come around to the tabernacle to hear because they will be converted and be decent and

Ask them, if their names were

called in the judgment, will they pay the penalty. Ask them if they, want you to Eteal tonight," if you are arrested they will pay the penalty.

No sir, they will never do that. I suppose there are men and women here tonight .who would like to take their stand but are , afraid of the laugh, that some members of your lodge, club, literary societ-, or your social circles, would give you, or what they would say if they knew you had taken your stand for Jesus Christ. Don't Sneer at Christians Any man or woman that tries to prevent you from being a Christian; any man or woman that will sneer at you to make you regret that you

For Sinners

"The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost." The trouble is Jesus Christ has been seeking you but you have turned your back on Him. Turn around and you will find Him right here and ready to throw His arms arond you. "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost," and He has been seeking some of you for ten, twenty, thirty, fifty years and you have not found Him. For He Is come to seek and save the lost, I wish I were able to put into that one word all that it will mean to you if It ever becomes a reality, which I pray from the depths of my heart it never will, then I could startle you and the time will come when you would give ten thousand worlds like thi3 to have the chance to accept Jesus. Say, if God would give me the privi

lege to. go to hell and preach one ser

mon and give the invitation, I could

depopulate hell in fifteen minutes; just one sermon. They that are in there would give the world to get out and you big fool, you are trying to get in.

Don t you do It Don t you do it.

I could take two ,ribbons. One of one color and one of another; on one ribbon , I could print one word, on

to give some concerts,

Have Several Regrets I have several regrets In my life, one of which is that I never heard

Ole Bull play a violin! Second, I nev

er heard Charles Spurgeon preach a sermon. Well, Ole Bull sent word around to his friend Ericsson and he said, "John, here are some tickets. I want you to come down and hear me play tonight. When I walk out oh the stage tonight I will look and if you are not m your seat I will be disappointed." 1 Well.Ole Bull came out on the stag and the audience arose and chered and cheered, artd he looked at the seats and they were vacant It unnerved him for a minute then he seemed to play with a new pathos and a new tenderness and a new touch. The next day he went to his friend and

said, ."John, you were not there last night I could hardly keep back the tears,- but you must come and hear me play. If you don't come and hear

me play, I will come down here and play for you." John said, "Ole, don't you bring

your old fiddle here. I don't care for music."

But Ole Bull was there and they talked of tones, and semi-tones and fibres and he said, "John, I will show

you how it works.

He tightened the strings and he

started to play and he could make it sing like a nightingale, make it weep like a child, sob like a strong man in

distress and he started to play.

The men stopped the machinery, dropped their tools, they had never

heard such music, it sounded like an

angel choir, and they came and form

ed circles around the great musician,

and Ole Bull played on, and presently

,ncson was seen to elbow his way

through the men until he stood direct

ly in front of Ole Bull and presently

Ole Bull stopped.

The men heaved a sigh of relief and

turned back to their work but Erics

son stood still and the tears trickled like rivers of water down his cheeks

and he said to his friend

"Ole, play cn, play on, play on, play on. I nver knew what I was missing

in my life before; it is music. Play

on.'

"You don't know what is missing out

of your life, do you? You have got wealth and culture and position. I tell you what. I know what brings you here night after night. Why do you hurry in without your luncheon? Why do you elbow and crowd your way? Some of you stand. Oh, it is the lack of Jesus Christ Find Happiness On Cross You will never know the A, B, C of which to write the word "Happiness" until you find it down at the cross of Jesus Christ the Son of Tod. Eternity it means eternity with Jesus Christ God and the angelsand all other good and noble in this old world. The cold, bleak wind3 blew down the streets of Chicago in 1903, during the World's Fair. At the 57th street entrance1 to Stoney Island avenue stood a big policeman on guard; and there stood a group of children, a little boy and a little girl that Joined hands. Their legs and feet were

bare, their little lips were purple and blue, and they stood shivering in their rags in the cold wind that blew off Lake Michigan.

And the big policeman said. What

is it, children?"

And the little boy said to his sister,

"You tell."

And she said, "No, you." He said, Mm, Mm, you.'

And she said to him, "Is this the

White City?"

And he said, "Yes, why? Then she turned to her little broth er and said to him, "You ask him."

He shook his little head and hid

behind her ragged dress. Then she said, "Well, we want to go in. We

live over on the West Side and we

hopped a ride on the street car and

on the ice wagon and we walked and we are tired and we want to go in." "What do you want to go in for?" Then she stopped again and the little boy peeked around behind and said, "Why, our mamma died two weeks ago and sho told us she was going to the White City and if we would be good, Jesus Christ would come and take us and we was playing with some boys and girls over In Van

Demonstarticg his ability

er, in a rendering of Jack d

poem "Sunshine," Rev. Bill Thursday afternoon preach effect of the life of a Christ

ilustration of the power of q

"It Is the act that counts

declared, "when the fcrotW

home and said that Joseph

he did not believe their worJ did believe the evidence of tq

of grain that they brought them."

Tottering along on weak la

day demonstrated how the

had taken the news of Josepl "I'm from Missouri, and yoi

show me," Sunday declared

an imaginary beard, and

along the platform, "Joseph'

Deed Counts

But when the old,, man hi

mzea mat josepn was reauy

cause the evidence of the w

too much for him, Sunday

that it was that way with

"All arguments of Christ!

not convict us, it is the dee

the great argument" One baby disturbed the

couple of times with Its cd each time Sunday . paused in

mon to wait until the disturq

over. But finally he asked

er to take the child over to thl

meeting house where It could

care of.

Starts to Complain

Looking woried. he declare!

not understand " then he T as the audience turned its !

watch the mother depart.

pay any attention, it's not jl

or mine, if it was my baby not be here." .

Digressing in his sennwa

point Sunday said that worried and could not 6lecf

came to a town and roused "Now, however," he said, "i

raise up emnlty I begin to t

I have been backsliding,

little feet couldn't walk to th

He wiped the tears from

and he spoke to the gateke

the policeman dropped a dd

the hand of the little boy and

crawl under the turnstile. I

a plain clothes man and said

them a little while and then

take them home in the wago

They stood and watched

He watched them until they w

they scanned the face of ever

swallowed up in the grea

crowd.

I wish I could picture Helli

horrors and Heaven with it

until you would fall to Jesd

and so many people would h

names on the Lamb's book irl

that the angels would have

a legion to write them down.

lost to Heaven without Jesu

You are lost, that is all

Now it is wonderful that wi

saved so easily.

any special standard

intelligence, whatever

able to say whil

will have this to say-

just as easy to be a Christi

But if you can trust God me, I can trust him to keep I have got a wonderful Savioi Here is a man that has bee all his life, a drunken mar

you stumble and fall, don't

Get up and tell God you are

win, and ask him for forgive

you can win. What did he say? day has salvation. Come to hi

Christian Evans tells about

that lived over in the to

Jesus cast the devil out of.

pictures the children playing

rush in and say:

"Yonder comes a man that 1

papa, but he don't act like

to act."

And the mother takes one

she says, "It is your father,

maniac. He will kill us

They go in. and shut the d bolt them and they stand t and they hear him coming

steps ana ne raps no sou

again.

"Oh, Mary, Mary, don't be

let me in. Open the door,

a loving husband to you an

father to the children. I h;

Jesug Christ and he has set

and I am no longer under the

the devil."

She slips to the door; It s

its hinges, they rush into eac

arms a picture of many a

night if you would only do t

thing with Jesus Christ and t

home as a companion. You ar!

heaven without it

Zacchaeus gained everythin

you are lost it will be becal

stumbled over the love of

hell.

Buren stret In the alley and they said

me wane tuy was aown nere; anaa person who took their f -pi we are tired and hungry and we want was as small physically asT?e 1

w i v Aumuuja. wise en ii in kirs a rat vrirrtrmr

97 PERSONS

(Continued from Preceding

in the sermon. The main

sermon was pathetic, but in t ning Mr. Sunday told of the

the fact corpulant, short lit

who was up a tree, waiti

Christ come along the way.

"Zacchaeus skinned down f

tree," Mr. Sunday said, "and

up to Christ, protesting that i

known that Christ wanted to

his house he would have had

I just bought a new flivver, y

around. Sunday then described the

of Mrs. Zacchaeus at the new

of her attempt to straighten out, of her company manners ing Jesus Christ and the

members of the party, while t

ence snickered and giggled at tations.

Roars His Defiance

Then becoming " the energy

roaring sunaay, ne told of tl

that laugh at a man for takin

Christian life.

"As them on Judgment day your punishment for giving in sneers and laughter," Sundav

"and see how quick they wi forward."

"I tell you," he roared withr

vigor while he stamped the i

ana leanea far over the ed, never did a more manly act

life if you came down front a!

your stand. "Why, the man that would

a person who took their

The big policeman said, "Well, your his knee."

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