Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 125, 26 May 1922 — Page 14

the Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, ind.,friday, may 26, 1922

MAN WANTS TO WHITEWASH HIS SHIS; GOD WANTS TO WASH THEM WHITE; SALVATION IS FREE TO THOSE WHO ACCEPT REDEEMER

"Heaven" was the toplo on which Rev. W. A. Sunday preached Thursday evening. He Bald: I 'would like in my sermon, If my strength will permit and your patience endure, to ask and answer three questions. First, what do I want most of all? A man in Chicago said to me one day, "If I could have all I wanted of any one thing I would take money." He would be ,a fool, and so would you, if you would make a similar choice. Not that money is not necessary, but there are lots of things that money cannot buy. if you shouid meet with an accident, when you require a surgical operation or your life .would be despaired of, there Is not a man here but that would gladly part with all the money he has if that would give him the assurance that he could live 12 months longer. But if you had all the money In the

world, you couldn't go to the grave

yard and Cut that loved one back in

your arms and have them all around the family circle again, and hear that

voice speak your name again!

Some years ago a steamer tied up at her wharf, having Just returned from the Klondike, and as the people

walked down the gangplank their

friends met them to congratulate them

on their success or to .encourage them through their defeat. And among the crowd was a man I used to know in

Fargo, N. D.

Friends rushed up and said, "Well,

we hear that you were very success

ful in the far-off north." "Yes, wife and I left hero six

months ago with Just enough money

know that there sleeps the Pullman

magnate, waiting for the trumpet of Gabriel, for the powers of God, will snap his steel-cemented sarophagus as

though it were made of a snell, ana

he will stand before God as any other

sinner. Cannot Produce

Life . , - Then I summon three electrical wizards of the wfcrld to my bedside and I say, "Gentlemen, I want to live and I have sent for you to come" And. they say to me, "Oh! we can kill people with electricity, we can Tight buildings, we can make search lights, we can flash messages across the seas, but we can not prolong life." Then I summon the great Queen Elizabeth, queen of a country upon

which the sun never sets. Three

thousand five hundred dresses hang in her wardrobe. She measured her jewels by the peck. Dukes, kings, earls and princes fought for her smile and they came miles to touch the hem of her dress. I stand by her bedside and hear her cry, "All my possessions for a moment of time." I. go ,to Alexander the , Great, who won his first battle when he was18; king of Macedonia, when he was 20. He sat down on the shore of the Aegean sea, wrapped the drapery of his couch about him, and lay down to eternal sleep, the conqueror of an unknown world, when he was only 35 years old. I go to Napoleon Bonaparte. Victor Hugo called him the archangel of war. He arose in the air of the nineteenth century like a meteor. His

to pay our fare and now we havesun arose at Austerlitz; it set at

$150,000 worth of gold dust in the

hold of that ship." Find Money, Lose Son Then somebody discovered that their little boy was not with; them, and said, "Where is Jim?" The tears rolled down his cheeks, and he said, "We left him buried on the banks of the Yukon beneath the snow and ice, and we would gladly part with all the gold if we only had our boy." But all the wealth of the Klondike could not open the grave and put that chiMback into their arms. Money can't buy the peace of God that passeth understanding. Money cant take the sin out of your life. Money can surround your sick bed with luxuries, but it cannot restore your health. Money can furnish you with a bed of swandown, but it, will not take the thorns out of a guilty conscience. Money will purchase parasites, but it has never bought , a true and tried friend that. will stand by you until the last ditch. Is there any particular kind of life you would like to have? If you could live 100 years you wouldn't want to die, would you? I wouldn't. I want to stay as long as God's will will let me stay, but when God's time . comes for me- I'm ready to go. But If I tould live 1,000 years, I'd like to stay. A don't want to die. I always thought there was something wrong with the fellow who wanted to die. I am not afraid to die. But I will put up an argument with God to try to convince Him that it would not hurt to let me stay a little longer. And so, what I want Is eternal life. You want it, everybody wants it. Go to doctor in Illness

If vou are ill. the most natural

thing for you to do is to go for your doctor. He is to whom you phone any hour of the day or night, and then you let him whistle for his money. ' You will say to him: "I have been thinking this, matter over and I have come to -the conclusion that I don't want to die. Can you hold me?" He will tell you: "I can diagnose your case and I can prescribe for your malady, but I cannot sen life. I have one hundred patients on my hand, all asking me the same thing. None of them wants to die. I cannot prolong life.". When your time comes you will have to go. So. then, you go to your philosopher. He it is that reasons out the problems and mysteries of life by the ap

plication of reason. You say to him,

"I have come to you for help. I want

to live forever. "Can you help me?" He says to you, "Young man, my hair and my beard have grown long and white as snow, and my'eyes are dim and my shoulders bent -with the weight of my years, and I am Just as far from the solution of that problem as I was when I started. I, too, must die soon and Bleep beneath the sod." Then you turn to the millionaire, and you say: "Oh! millionaire, you will not die. You can bribe death." He will say: "I can hire the best doctors and visit the H world-famous sanitariums, and I can cruise "in my yacht and travel, but I cannot bribe death. I cannot prolong life." Cannot Cheat Death And in my imagination I have stood by the bedside of the dying Pullman nalace car magnate. George M. Pull

man, whose will probated $25,000,000, ' and I havei said: "Oh! Mr. Pullman, vou will not die. You can bribe : death." . ... I watched the pupils of his eyes dl- ' late and his breast heaves and gasp3 ! and he is gone! Then send for the ' undertaker, and he makes an incision ' in his left arm, pumps in the embalm- ,. Ing fluid, beneath whose power he turns as rigid and white as ice and ' alabaster, and they put him in the I rosewood Jeweled coffin trimmed with silver and gold, and then they put ' that in an hermetically 6ealed casket. ! '" The grave diggers go to the Grace- ' land cemetery, on the 6hores of Lake Michigan, and dig his grave in the ; old family lot; and dig his grave nine feet wide, and theput in there Port. ' land cement four and a half feet thick, ' and while it is yet soft, pliable and ' plastic, a set of workmen drop down : into the grave a steel cage with steel bars one inch apart. ; They bring his body, in the hermet- ' ically sealed , casket, all wrapped ; about with cloth, and they lower it into the steel cage, and a set of workmen put steel bars across the top and another puts concrete and a solid wall of masonry, and they bring it up with- - in IS inches of the top. They put ' pack the black, loamy sod and with a whisk broom and dust pan they sweep up the dirt, and you would never

Waterloo. He leaped over the slain of his countrymen to the presidency of his country: then he was first consul and then he vaulted to the chair

of the emperor of France. But It. was the cruel wanton achievement of insatiate and nnsanctified ambition and it led to the barren St. Helena Isle. As the storm beat , upon the - rock once more he fought at the head of his troop3 at

Austerlitz, at ML Taber, and the Pyramids. Once more he cried, 'Tm still the head of the army." and he fell back Into the arms bf death, and the greatest warrior the world has known since the days of Joshua was no more. In Magnificent Tomb. Tonight on the banks of the Siene he lies in the magnificent tomb with his marshals sleeping where he can summon them, and the battle flag3 he made famous draped around him, and from the four corners of the earth students and travelers turn aside to do homage to the great military genius.

' So here we are In the midst of

plenty, the very apex of commercial development, yet there Is just one source For God so loved the World that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth In Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

Search the annals of time and the pages of history and where do you

find those words? Only in the Bible

How can we get it? All you have

or will have you will coma, into poa

session of in one of three ways

honestly, 'dishonestly, or as a gift,

Only you will work for it, if you

get it honestly. Dishonestly, you will steal it. And the gift you will

inherit You have got to work for anything you get on this earth re

ligion or anything else. " Most people believe in high mora!

ity. They deal honestly in business

and they are charitable. But you

cannot hire a substitute in religion

You can't do some deed of kindness or act of philanthropy and substitute

that for the necessity of repentance

and faith in Jesus Christ.

Did not Jesus Christ come to give morality? Why doesn't morality

save. Because morality

Jesus Christ i3 incomplete. A - man or woman can be morally good 'and! not be a true Christian. J , Some people will acknowledge their sin in the world, struggle on without Jesus Christ, and do their best to live honorable, upright lives. Your morality will make you a better man

or woman. It is tne Dest tning yon have got outside of the religion of Jesus Christ But morality does not save yous Here is a tree. It bears 60ur apples and the man wants to change the nature of it One would 6ay prune it and you would buy a pruning hook and cut off the superfluous limbs. Still the apples are sour. Another says to fertilize it and you fertilize it and still it doesn't change the nature of it. Finally someone says introduce a graft of another variety. When I was a little boy, one day my grandfather said to me my father went away to war in August and I was born in November so I never saw him and so lived with my grandfatheiv-"come on. son," and he took a ladder, a knife, some beeswax. strinK. sticks and some cloth.

and we went down Into the valley.

He leaned the ladder against a sour

crab-apple tree, climbed up and sawed off some of the limbs, and sDlit them and shoved In them some

little pear sprouts as big as my finger

and twice as long, and around tnem he tied a string , and put in some

I smid, "Grandpa, what are you doing?" He- said, "I am grsting pear sprouts into the sour apple tree." I said, "What will grow, pears or crab-apples?" He said, "Pears; I don't know that 111" live to eat the pears I hope I may but I know you will." Puts New Quality Into Tree. I lived to see those Bprouts which were no longer than my finger grow as large as my limb, and I climbed the tree and picked and ate the pears. He introduced a graft of another variety and that changed the nature of the tree. , So what you need is a new nature. It does not make any difference whether you are rich or poor, learned or illiterate, you need something else. And that has got to come by faith in Jesus Christ. s Here are two men. One man born with hereditary tendencies toward

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in his veins and he turns naturally to sin as a duck to water. There he .is, a down-and-outer, a booze fighter and the off-scouring scum of the earth. I go to him in his gquallor and want and unhappiness, and say to him: - "God has Included all that sin that

He may have mercy on all. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Will you give me your hand and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour? Whosoever cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.' , 'And that man says to me, "No, I don't want your Christ as my Saviour." Both Types

Are Lost Then there is a man With hereditary tendencies toward good, a good mother, a good father, good grandparents.

uvea in a gooa neighborhood, he was taught to go to Sunday school and has grown to a man, earnest, upright, virtuous, responsible, and his name is synonymous with all that is ood and pure and kind and true His name is as good as a government bond at any bank for a reasonable amount Everybody respects him. He is generous, charitable and kind. I go to your high-toned, cultured, respectable man and say to him: -"God hath included all under sin that He might have mercy upon all. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Whosoever cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out Will you "accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour? Will you give me your hand?" He says, "No, sir; I don't want your Christ." What's the difference between these two men? Absolutely none. They are both lost. They are both going to hell.

They are both 6lnners because they

say No to Jesus Christ, and rejec tion of Jesus Christ is 6in.

And so God saves you through faith

In Jesua Christ. He has one plan for

an. He hasn't, one plan of salvation

for the millionaire and one for the

hobo. No, He has one plan for every, body.

You can't help being good, but If

you are willing to be good. why. In

uod's name, do you refuse to do some

thing that will make you better than

you are? And If you are not an idiot

you will answer it in the right way.

you cannot answer it dishonestly,

A whole lot of people; attend church because it adds a little bit to their respectability. That is proof positive to

me that the gospel is a good thing.

i Ms is a flay wnen good thing3 are counterfeited. ;

Religion Can be

Counterfeited

You never see anyone counterfeit

ing brown paper. It is not worth it.

But they counterfeit money. Certain

ly. And Uncle Sam has found out that it is a good deal easier to pay some counterfeiters a big salary than

it is to run tnem aown. you would be dumbfounded if I would tell you how much he pays some counterfeiters.

They counterfeit religion. Religion

must be good or they wouldn't counterfeit it.

Nobody forges a." pauper's name. The worthless are not counterfeited.

When a man makes a phoney check

It is because he cannot make rood

and he tries to. - He has nothing in

tne Dank to draw on. The original article is" always bet

ter than the duplicate. When you go

to buy something in the store and the clerk tells you he has something "Just as good," don't you believe him. He is stringing you. If it were just as good he would get a brass band and advertise it. He is trying to put one over on you.

NO CHANCE

(Continued from Preceding Page) when he says, "plow the ground and put that seed in there," and when you die, you trust to a law you can't understand, originate or control the law of

without 118 ture- Why Ood wants you to do it,

i aon t Know, i aon t know.

If you deny hell, just so you've qot

to deny God's existence. And hell is the basis upon which Christianity Is

ouiit. without It, Christ's teachings won't hold together. He taught of

heaven and hell, and if he was wrong on one, then on what groands do you argue he was right on the other? If he was wrong in one case, then by all logic he was wrong in the other and the plan of redemption Is absolutely senseless, useless. Why did Jesus become a man Why was God incarnated in the flesh? Why did he suffer on the cross and be spit upon by men and wear a crown of thorns and bleed and die except to rescue us from the punishment of an eternal damnation? That is why he came into the world and if there was no punishment for him to save us from, there was no use for him to come into it. Do you see where your theory is gone? It is knocked in the head. That is why we build churches and have missionaries and Y. M.'s and Y. W.'s and all that to preach the fact that God has made a way to escape. Hallelujah! Hell Not Made For Believers And hell was made, as Istold you, for the devil and his angels and not for- man at all. The devil sinned, my friends, but once. He was condemned without hope. God never gave the

devil (and the devil was once a shining angel) a chance to repent. Not at all! Mnn sinned but God gave him a chance to repent. Now, why. I don't know. That is none of my business. No, sir! So, when Adam and Eve ate " the forbidden fruit and sinned, God gave the promise that the seed of the wom-

bad grandparents. He has bad blood

Instead of being here preaching. So,1 one of the greatest torments will be that they had the means of escape offered to them and they rejected it and that they are there through sheer neglect That is one of the torments that comes to a man in the penitentiary. He sits there and thinks. He sees where he did the things, that brought him there and says, "What a ool I was to do the thing that brought me here." One of the great terrors of punish

ment is to reflect on the fact that

he needn't to have been there if he

hadn't ' been a fool. They told me that from Sing Sing to St Quentin, and all over the country where I have spoken. , . I Hell Is A Certainty. . Hell is certain. I am not giving you my theories and speculations but God, knows and God has told us. and one ounce of revelation is worth ten tons of speculation. We are abso

lutely certain that it is. You say

seme scholarly ministers have given

up that belief. Well, that may bo true. All right That is always the way, favor the argument with a fellow who has a weak cause and wants

to bolster it up with a strong asser

tion. I will- admit that, but they

didnt give up because that has nev

er been taught them in the Bible. They gave it up for sentimental rea

sons. They gave it up for speculativo reasons, to be popular. No man breathes, I don't care who. he Is, listen! That man don't breathe that can go to the New Testament and read it to find out what it teaches in order to preach it to the people, my friends, and then not 6tand up and Bay, "There is an eternal damnation for the impenitent" Suppose all the preachers had, that wouldn't prove the Bible wrong. Facts are facts, whether anybody believes it or not. You don't change or alter them. If you were familiar with the history of the world and of the church, there is not an Invention nor a discovery, nor a doctrine, which we know to be absolutely true today, that weren't ridiculed and mocked when they were first advocated. Not a one! There was Bacon, he could

see by the laws, which were then in

effect where the nation was drift'

ing and he told the people. They

sneered and damned him and he had

to spend ten years in jail because

he was courageous enough to tell them. And today they take their hats

off to him. He was right Galilleo Was Right. '

Gallileo he said the world moves, and on his knees he was compelled

to retract his statement by the professors of his day and the scholars who didn't believe him. On his knees they forced him down and as he

arose he 6aid, "It moves notwith

standing." All right, who was right?

Galhleo, or the people that condemn ed him?

And Dr. Jenner he said, "I can cure smallpox". Ninety-eight people out of a hun-" dred used to die from smallpox. Today the death rate is only four. Dr. Jenner discovered the power and the value of inoculation. They expelled Dr. Jenner. We take our bats off to him. There isn't a thing today, a discovery since, or invention since, to be compared with it. Didn't they try and kill Martin Luther, because he said that the Jews should be Baved by faith and they

i were saved by faith and not by

works? They would have killed him if it hadn't been for somebody hiding him in the black forest. Martin Luther was right Didn't they ridicule Wesley, when he got up and preached that man and if he doesn't put hl3 will on the has something to do to be saved.

side -of God, although he is omnipotent, God can't save a man against his free will. Hats off to John Wes

ley. They damned him because he preached that He was right, all through. Disbelieved Noah's Warning. .

And Noah said, "God is going to

destroy this world with a flood."

They said, "What, he will not do

anything of the kind."

And he pounded for a hundred

and twenty years on that old ark,

but God turned the hose on them just the same. Jesus walked down the streets of Jerusalem. He looked at the city and said, "Not one stone will stand

on top of another." They said, "What is that?" They hurled stones at him and spat upon him. Forty years after he uttered those words the Rehoboam army entered Jerusalem and levelled its walls to the ground. Who was

right? I have the words of Jesus, "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devils and his angels." I have the word3 of Paul, "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengence on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction rrom the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." Quotes From i 1

St Peter. I have the words of Peter, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly." The Lord knoweth bow to deliver the godly out of temptation and to

bad, a bad father, a bad mother and-if he bed killed me 'when I was - a

an should bruise the serpent's head

and Jesus was born of Mary in thei reserve the unjust unto the day of

manger, conceived by the Holy Ghost, to give man a chance to be 8fvd. But when the angels rebelled and became devils, God has never given them a chance and he never will. No! They never had one. I don't know why, but he didn't The plan of salvation has nothing to do with them at all. It has to do with human beings, which are the ones that God has offered salvation to, and the men and women sin grievously today. Yet, they are rarely struck dead. Why don't God strike a man down dead and say, "Listen to me?" It is because God Almighty wants to give him a chance to repent, that is why.

O, how we ought to thank God !

judgment to be punished. God knows,

we all do. And so the. Lord's got it all planned out I have the word of Jude, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his angel3 to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against the Lord."

I have the words of Jesus, after

be had been to the abode of death, after the resurrection, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idola

ters, - and all liars, - shall - have their

fire and brimstone; which Is the second death." Christ Said There Is Hell We are certain that there is a helL Jesus Christ eaid so. The apostles said so and God says so. We are' more sure than we are that the sun will rise. The only thing against it my friends, is the speculations of a lot of theologians that dream, of some poets and novel writers and pMlosophers, and those who may not be able to reconcile the suffering in hell with the doctrine of the love pf God. But

no Intelligent man will give up a fact

because he acts beyond your power of reason to understand it You won't be fool enough to do that At least

I wouldn't and I think you've got as much sense as I have. Now, when on one hand I've got he speculations of philosophers and theologians and the dreams of poets and novel writers who say (there is no hell, and on the other side' I've got the word of God. and the word of Jesu3f and the word of aposties, who say there is a hell, it don't take me long to make up my mind which I am, going to believe. And the next time you read a book, and I don't give a rap who wrote It; the next time you hear a lecture, and I don't care who delivers it; the next time you hear a sermon, and I don't

give a picayune who the preacher is; I

if that book says there is no hell, If

that preacher says there is no hell, I

say the author of that book, and that lecturer and that preacher are liars.

Hell is a place of bodily suffering. In hell he lifted up his eyes being

In torment" That is the plain teach

ing of the New Testament and the words used to express the doom of the sinner are these, "Death ana destruction" (or perdition which is translated perdition In one place and destruction in another, means the same thing).

Quotes From New Testament "The beast shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition (or destruction, came ..hing). And the devil that deceived them, was cast into the lake of flre and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and

nignt forever and ever. According tothe word of God, my friends, perdition or destruction is a place in the lake of flre where they are tormented day and night Let's see if we can find out where the beast goes; "And the beast was tuken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that

had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of flre burning with brimstone." By the word of God, perdition or destruction is a place in the lake of flre of torment forever. Let's see if we can find God's definition of death. Listen! "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers and whoremong

ers, and scorcerers and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with flre and brim

stone, which is the second death." The word death doesn't carry with it

the idea of ceasing to exist

What Death Means? - We've got a lot of people that say that means total annihilation, Russellism and a lot of those "isms" and "sisms." It doesn't mean anything of the kind. We say of a man, "He is dead in sin, and still alive physically."

He is dead in sin, he is a drunkard,

a liar, a libertine, he is dead in sin. He is dead to everything that is good, pure, he is dead in sin but he isn't -physically dead. He is dead in sin but he is alive physically for wherever the old devil goes jou. will see him go down to the street And we say to a person, "They are dead in sin." That is they are Christian and they won't do right. They are dead in sin, dead to everything that is good, but hey are still alive physically. So the word death doesn't convey the idea that I cease to exist and get into a coffin full of embalming fluid. Not a bit! Seel 'O but " says a fellow to me, "Bill, that is figurative." Well, God's figures never lie. You can't do away wtth the truth by saying, "It is figurative," not at all! We use figurative language every day to express facts or describe them. So does the Lord. Let me give

you an illustration. We say of a man, "He is slippery as an eel." "Well, is be? No, he isn't It is figurative. We say, "He is as sharp as a tack." -He isn't That is figurative language, but it describes the fact that he is a smooth guy. Explains Use of Figures We say, "Oh, I am as dry as a fish." Now that is figurative language to express the fact that you are thirsty. But you don't do away with the fact that you are thirsty, by using figurative language to say. that you were thirsty. You are still thirsty. You say the Lord said, "Land flowing with milk and honey." There weren't rivers of milk and rivers of honey, but the Lord says it is fertile and when we . talk about milk and honey, that is our idea about fertility.

So the Lord used figurative language to tell the people what a great country Canaan was and he said, "I shall cover

thee with feathers as a mother hen covers her chickens. The Lord will protect thee." The people understood that, when t. .r saw a mother hen cover her children. ibe words were finished and I did eat them." You don't believe that Jere

miah picked up a Bible and bit off a corner of it no, sir! Jesus said, "I am the vine, ye are the branch," But we are not He said, "I am the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." He isn't, but he meant that the way you go into a house, you go through the door. - He said, "If you are going to heaven you've got to come through me, as you go through a door to get in." That is figurative language, but it describes a fact. . See? And we say of a fellow, le's got barrels of money." He hasn't got money in barrels. Cites Other Examples We say of a fellow, "He has money to burn." He hasn't He doesn't build a fire with money. He's got lots of it. I was out West one time and they

were talking about the man who! built the Pennsylvania railroad. He

didn't turn a spadeful of dirt nor lay a rail nor a tie nor drive a spike, but he raised the money with which they built the Union and Southern Pacific railroad. A preacher said to me one time, "I built that church. Bill." He didn't lay a brick in it.

I was talking: with a breach or the

sinner, I'd been in hell long ago. part in the lake which burneth with other day and he said to me, "There

is a fine girl, I married her." He didn't' He officiated at her wedding. He didn't marry her. Another fellow married her but this fellow officiated. Now, all that Is figurative language. See? But it describes a fact that occurred. All right. You havent put the flre out of hell because you use figurative language. It is the re I

I am trying to help you, with all the strength I know how and the wisdom. Hell would be a place of vile companions, abominable murderers, idolators, thieves, whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Oh! I will

admit there will be some people in hell that were great on earth. Ahab will be there! Jezebel will be there, there is no doubt of that at all. Old Antiochus will be there. So will Epiphanes that old sinner will be there. Ivan the Terrible, Catherine, or Russia, will be there. Oh, yes, there are lots of people that were great that will be there, Diderot de Alembert Rosseau, Voltaire, John

Stuart Mill. Those people were great

on earth, great in science, great in art great in literature, but they will be in hell. Why? Because they rejected Jesus Christ I will admit

there will be some people in hell that were great on earth, occupied great positions in the world.

Hell Is Place Without Hope Hell is a place without hope. Some people will deceive you and say the word, everlasting, doesnt mean everlasting as applied to hell. Then it doesn't mean everlasting as applied to heaven, either. If you blot it out in one place you rub it out in the

other. If hell is not everlasting, neither is heaven. "And these shall go into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." By what sense or common sense do you argue it is eternal in one and not in the other, the same as God said it? ..I have looked the Bible through. I wouldn't stand up here and preach to you if I hadn't done it and give it to you from my standpoint and ability to understand it. I've studied it from every angle and I ame hero to tell you that there Isn't one ray of hope

that a man or woman will ever have a chance after you leave this world. If there was, I'd tell you so. Not one ray of hope, not onel . And bo the trouble with many peoDle is that thev hnvn nr Hme fnr r-

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to get this deal, through, I've got to get rich first I've got to succeed

first Some time, maybe, I'll be a Christian, but not now. Plenty of

time.

O, Mr. Broker, in a hurry; Mrs. Gad-

About in a hurry; Mr. Stenographer,

in a hurry; Mr. Baker, in a hurry;

Mr. Newspaperman, in a hurry; Oh, everybody in a hurry! Like the little girl down praying, and she said, "Goodbye, God, papa struck oil." Preaches Gospel Truth And they say, "Well, anyhow, this religion Bill's preaching up there in the tabernacle, it's too old-fashioned for me. Why, he preaches that there is a hell and that there is a personal devil, just think of it!- Why, we dis

carded those old-fashioned notions long ago. Our preacher he is a

smart chap. We pay him ten thous

and bones a year. He don't breathe

a word about that. All right, then, you will go with him or he will go with you. It don't make any difference which.

it is appointed for men once to die. You don't like to think of hell,

too uncomfortable. Yes, so is the

ocean uncomfortable when the storm

lashes her into fury and it swallows up man's greatness and breaks it as if it were made of an egg shell, and men sink 'neath it3 depths with and unsung. Yes, but it 13 there, and It has rolled since the dawn began, ages old. Strong and uncontrolled, it passes restlessly to and fro, and iti will break your bones and it will crush the staunchest ship upon its bosom. Too old-fashioned! So Is birth. It; is as old-fashioned as the human: race. But nobody ever came into the world, my friend, in any other way. Even the Son of God came through i the door of' mother. No! Old age i3 old-fashioned, but men have grown old with the years and they , always will. Death is old-fashioned. Man with all his genius, my friend, has never been able to change it and never will; you will die in the oldfashioned way, you will crumble -to dust in the old-fashioned way, and if you are lost you will go to the oldfashioned hell. And if you are saved it will be in' the old-fashioned way, the way of the cross leads home. And by the old-fashioned religion of your father and of your mother. Leads Them Back To Christ t O, I have come to call you back to the old-fashioned Christ and the old-fashioned cross. So I have come, my friend, to preach the love of God to you, showing you from what God wants to save you. I can preach the love of God more by showing people what God's love wants to keep them out of, than any other way. Other people may preach it more from another angle but that isn't my way of doing it, my friends, and if we onlv

appreciated God's love, I will tell you, the call of the unsaved would cease. If everybody only realized how God

loves them, there would be no more thieves and thugs, no more selling or giving away manhood or womanhood, no more lying, no more men going around court houses, my friends. O, I suppose half of the troubles that are carried into Gourt can be adjusted if only one side or the other of you would give in a little bit and you'd save wrecking your home and taking live3 and sending your children out to drift upon this old. Bincursed world. Cites Example Oh! Jesus Christ, don't let the devil tear human hearts to shreds and then laugh at them for being sinners and fools! God! A young woman

Lwent to buy a ticket ah.d up over the

ticket window she read that God bo loved the world that he gave his only

Degotien son. sne said, "Where is that?" "In the Bible." " Have you a Bible? Do you, know where I can get one?" "Yes, across the street at the newspaper stand." "Have I time before the train starts?" She hurried, ran over and bought It and ran back but when she got back she didn't know where to look for her train and finally a little woman saw her and said, "Is there anything you want?" And she told her. She turned to John 3:16 and read it and tears trickled down her cheeks like rivers of water as she "read it again and again and kept her Bible open and her finger on the verse. When the train got to her destina-

1,900 PERSONS HEAR -AFTERNOON ADDRESS

OF GREAT REVIVALIST

A new record for week day afternoon attendance at the tabernacle was set Thursday afternoon when 1.90O persons listened to Billy Sunday preach on "God 80 loved the world,' and six persons, either not church members, or without a membership in Richmond came forward and confessed their belief in Jesus Christ Except for the rain the attendance might have been larger as most of the audience arrived while it was raining or while It was threatening badly. Prays for Unconverted Ending his sermon for a prayer for those that were still unconverted, Billy Sunday made an appeal for all those that had not transferred

their membership when they came to Richmond, to come forward, and take his hand in pledge that they would Join a local church. Later he added to his call the plea that those who did not belong to a church should come forward and pledge that they would Join. Sis persons answered the calls. Bob Matthews and Mr. Rodeheaver sang a duet as part of the musical program. It was the first time that' Bob has appeared in a number besides the trio of Bob, Rody and Mrs. Asher,

and his appearance was heartily applauded. Rev. Dalphert of Columbus offered the opening prayer, while Rev. H. S. James, pastor of the United Brethren church explained the final offering to be given to Mr. Sunday.

tion she met her amour who was there in his carriage. He said, "What is the matter, Bess,

"Oh! no read that!" W

He said, "I have known that" "Know that and never told me? Known it and lived the way you have? If that is true I don't want to live this way." And they were converted and their home became a center of religious influence. t : . Tells What Gob" " ; ; ; ' Love Can Do. ". " ' ' If you only realized what God's love is, you'd know what he wants you to do and there wouldn't be a sinner walking on the face of this old earth. He wants to save us from

the punishment That is the reason he came into the world. I have pictured it with the authority of the Bible and I've told you that God's love wants to keep you out of there. That is what it is for. That is why he was manifest at all in this world. A man came from England years ago and went to Cuba and they arrested him on the supposition that he was a spy. He made his appeal to the British consul, and to the American council. He'd lived a good many years 'neath the Stars and Stripes, though still a British subject and he convinced them that he was not a spy. They told the governorgeneral that he had convinced them that he was not a spy, but still he had been ordered shot in the morning at sunrise. No matter what they could do, he was to be shot in the early

morning. They were leading him out and

they had his eyes bandaged and his hands tied when up dashed a carriage out leaped the British consul and rushing up he wrapped the Union Jack about him. Up rushed the -American consul and wrapped thotl Stars and Stripes about him. Stepping back, they said to the firing squad, "Shoot, if you dare." And when I stand robed in Christ's righteousness, I don't fear all the devils on earth nor in hell. Doesn't Worry ' About Sneers. I say sneer if you want to for I am under the power of God and it reaches to the end of the earth, sir. "Whosoever will may come." If God

Almighty would send an angel down

to this old world to tell it of his love he'd have to stop every thief on thei street and say, "God so loved the world." He'd go into Sing Sing and Into the! death house and say, "God so loved: the world." ' He'd go down to the White Way, into every theatre and every cabaret; he'd say to them, wild, wayward, crowding to perdition, drinking, curs-' ing, blaspheming, "God so loved the world." He'd go into every haunt of Yiee and sin, he'd stop -every girl on, the street, my friend, he'd go to the haunts of vice and say that "God so loved the world." He'd go to the East Bide, he'd go in every nook and corner of the city, he'd go into the great newspapers, and say, "God so loved the world." He'd walk up and down and cry it in the stock exchange, he'd go. my friends, into the great banks and cry it He'd stand in front of church- " es and cry it to the surging crowds down the street and he'd cry out anfi

he'd go up and down the land unless there might be some sinner, somewhere, that angel wouldn't find. God has emblazoned it on his word that he so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in him might not perish but have everlasting life.

VISITORS PRESENT Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Brock of Green's Fork, gospel singers and song writers, were visitors at the tabernacle Thursday night

ODD FELLOWS (Continued from preceding page) tiful spot t& Indiana that he would

land at Winona Lake, and for second

choice would land in Richmond. "I think he would land In thai block just across from the tabernacle. I do not know who lives there, but that block is a beauty. Still I think that be would land on this tabernacle, because we are doing things for God here." members of the Good Cheer Sunday school class responded so Quickly that they blocked the aisles, while waiting for the front seats to be cleared, and for Mr. Sunday to take his place in v the pit. A ' Quick as they were, one or two Oddv Fellows were before them. Aa the bulk of that delegation began to file pass Sunday, he declared with enthuslasm, "Magnificent I tell you. magnificent"