Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 127, 29 May 1922 — Page 19

1 Evangelist Tells Converts to

Keep in Mind Reward Given to Those Who Are Faithful to End Officers of Churches and Sunday School Teachers Should Do Their Full Duty to Newly Made Christians to Guide and Advise Them in Doctrine and life, Declares Billy Sunday in First Sermon on Final Day. ,

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Rev. W. A. Sunday speaking In the tabernacle Sunday morning Bald: This morning for a little while I 'hlnk I can help yon. A great many people suppose after they hare accepted Jesus ChriBt as their Savior, made a public acknowledgement of Him as such, and Joined the church that la all there Is to a Christian life. Then a scholar might as veil say

when he matriculates that that Is all there is to an education. There Is something more which comes to you and then there Is still something more which will com to you when you stand in the presence of Him, whom, having not seen, you love. My text this morning Is In the second Epistle of John and a part of the eighth verse, "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward."

And the emphasis is to he placed

upon the word "full."

John seemed desirlous of the im

pressing the. followers of Jesus Christ with the fact that there are rewards,

and he seems to be worried and bur

dened, and to Inspire them with con

tinued activity and zeal that they might receive the blessings of God, he said, "Look to yourselves and that

you receive a full reward."

Don t be satisfied with a quarter when you can have a dollar, don't be satisfied with that when you can

have five.

loqk to yourselves, that wo have wrought, but that we receive

a full reward."

I am not surprised to hear Peter

say. in the 19th chapter of Matthew,

"Behold, we have forsaken all, and

followed thee, what shall we have

therefore?" Advises Caution.

church, after he'd preached his first

sermon, after the Installation, down the aisle came an old man, hobbling on the crutches of decrepitude. He

said, "I am afraid you are going to make a failure out of this. You are the first young man that has ever been pastor of the church." The old man thought that the

success was synonomous with gray hair and failure with youth. He

said, "I am going to help you."

He looked at the old man plty-

lf they don't, let them go to the' devil." , If they dont come, than go where they are, and the power of God and the blessing of God will be upon you. They say that the fire In London could have been stayed If the firemen could have been . privileged to proceed against It instantly upon its discovery, but in those days before that was possible, the lord mayor had to enter his office, don his official robes, pick up his pen, dip It in the Ink and sign the order which gave the firemen a privilege to turn the hose on the fire, and by the time they had received It the flames had made such a headway that they licked the gold from off their proud palaces and granite blocks were consumed as if they were made' of paper. Oh! We've got two crowds In the church, the ruts and the anti-ruts. We have a crowd that want things

done decently and In order, and they

actually convince me they'd rather

see people go to hell than to be saved out of the ordinary, set rules and regulations. Old ways are all right if they will deliver the goods, but they are fit only for the junk heap if they fail

feeling of I to do that. So, therefore don't be

inelv and with minffled

gratitude and pity, he thought: I J toyatjns-J

What can you do?" I expect the . Christ has God's blessine upon it

although it may have the sneers and

the railery and the ridicule of soma

undertaker has already started for

you and you've got one foot hanging over the edge of the grave." The old man said, "Four men came to my house this morning on my invitation and on our knees we pledged to each other that we'd pray for you every day you were pastor of this church." Easy To Preach There. The five rose to twenty, the twenty to fifty, the fifty to a hundred, and then they doubled and many a

Sunday morning he'd meet with flvei hundred men and they'd say, "Now God bless our minister. Make him a soul winner. Bless our church, make people come with a spirit of prayer." He said he had never served In a church in all his life where it was bo easy to preach. For he knew that at least hundreds of men were holding him up in prayer as he stood and for the real that he possessed. I heard of a pastor who was leaving a pastorate that he had served for fourteen years. He was around bidding the members of his church good-bye. He went Into the home of a bedridden saint who said to him, "Pastor, in all the fourteen years

you have served us, I have never

Perhaps you have found yourself j heard you preach, but there hasn't pondering over the same question. I j been a day or night that I have been know I have. I have said, "Lord. I racked by pain that I haven't prayed have made great sacrifices for you. j God to bless you." I have been in tho thick of the fight, j The other ministers were Jealous I bav been on the firing line, I have 1 0f his success. They said, "He hasn't been working In the barren spots ofa winning personality," but he never the earth and I have been laboring ! bad a communion, that he didn't have

in tho fields where there were little ' accessions to his church. He hall

a praylug church behind his back. Look To Yourselves. Look to yourselves. That Is some

thing

pray,

or no prospects." It Isn't a flood thing to simply think of the rewr.rd. The man who sits dowi and think of the salary he Is to receive will be perfectly useless, but you tabor and toil because you believe the firm or the Individual for whom you work wilt be trus to his cr her premise and that blng true, yflu e've cf ycur labor and your toil and ski'l. l)or.'i ysv think you can trust Oc-d" When Ko has roaSe you a , ror-'-Ff you cm depend upon it that J: v;r. rot f.. reaI thf other day where the pt.h'cc of crown? in itself was a vry Interesting study. The crown of Ivan tbfi Terrible of Russia had

?41 Jewel? In it. The crown of Peter the Great bsd S" jewels. The crown of Catherine of Russia 1,700,

th? crown of Russia 2,500. Tho crown of France 5,000 Jewels, and yet I believe, it is possible for the weaker saint to so labor and toll tbnt you will receive a reward which wi'.J surpass in brilliancy that ever worn by any potentate of UJs earth, when at last you burst through the Kates into the city, and that I may bo able to hold before you an incentive, listen to this: James, 1:12, "Blessed 13 the man that endureth temptation: for when

others in the world.

.LiOOK to yourselves tnat ye re

ceive a full reward!" First Thessa-

lonians "For what is our hope, or

Joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ as his coming?" Preachers Appreciate Some Places. Paul had been over to Thessalon-

ians and now, unable , to return, he

was writing this epistle, He said, "You are my crown of rejoicing. I love to recall I went and preached to you. I love to recall the openminded way in which you received my message, you are my crown of rejoicing." There isn't a preacher on earth that doesn't praipe God for the privilege of serving some churches In some communities, and I think they'd

ask God to forgive them if they ever went to some others. I want to tell you, I am glad I lived long enough to come to this city. I think the ministers for sending to me and the mem

bers of my party an Invitation to come and labor In this city. I want to thank you for anything you have done to help the success of Jesus Christ, perhaps greater than anything else that has ever been recorded since Jesus Christ was on the cross. You are living in the greatest manifestation of God's spirit that you have ever seen before. This is historv for Jesus Christ. As our nation is making history in the name of the

Word. So, look to yourselves that ye

receive a full reward.

So if there is one reward desired

you can an do, you can an : aDout ail others, it is the soul winIf you can't preach and sing, ner. That is the reward that Woslev

there is something that you can all enjoyed, Savonarola, Martin Luther.

do and that is to pray. finney any man or woman that

During the Crimean war a eoidier, bas ever won a soul to Jesus Christ

a fiussian soiaier, was uurrieuiy buiu-j lews ago a woman turned away moued to picket duty. Not suffi-jfrom her home with the consent of

ciently equipped to prevent contract- her husband, from her church with

ing a severe cold he was pacing bacK the consent of her pastor, and she and forth on duty when along came went to a work among the downa Russian peasant and seeing the J trodden. One night she walked

sentinel shivering, be said, "xou iane tnrough her conservatory and pluck

mv overcoat

He said, "I wouldn't think of that." He said, "You take my overcoat," and he removed it and hurried home, contracted a severe cold which developed Into typhoid and pneumonia and be died. Before he died he dreamed he was In the presence of Jesus and there lying at the feet of the Master, he saw his coat and in amazement he said, "How does it happen that it Is here?" He said, "Inasmuch as you did that to one of the least of my brethren, you did it unto me."

You never gave a handshake or a

my lambs," for the book of God Is so high they could never reach it Many a preacher Is trying to feed a few intellectual giraffes In his audience and starves the sheep that are sitting In the pews. I have never aspired1 to be known, as an Intellectual preacher. I like these good, old Anglo Saxon words, that's why I use them. If I should say "It la disintegrating by the formation of new chemical compounds," hundreds of people in this audience wouldn't know what I was talking about Trie To Preach To Common People. If I should say It was rotten, everybody would reach for bis nose. So It means the same thing, one is classical and the other is ordinary. So, I have always tried to put the cookies and the Jam on the lower shelf. I always like, when a fellow

comes to hear me preach to know that he don't need to lug a dictionary along to try and dig out the meaning of words., I have never aspired to that.

A lady heard me the other day. "What do you think of him?" "Why. dear me." she said, "av first I thought his eccentricities and ldiosyncracies were astonishing, but" she said, "he was the man of contrast He was January and June, he was Mount Vesuvius In a hemorrhage of lava. Now he was mining daffodils and primroses, now he was as refined and chaste as Addison; now he was as slangy as a hobo in a stale beer Joint." But she's got It right. I try to be all things for all people. I don't always stick to my text but f do stick to my crowd. Every Sunday school teacher and officer, every member of the church have received a commission to do vour

'part. Now I know what some people

think about revivals. I know what some people think about revivalists

and particularly about me. But you are entitled to your o'pinion, I have no fuss or quarrel with you, if you

can sleep betteT after spewing out your maledictions, all right, it don't

hurt me at all. Warns Against Failures.

I know what some people would

I sneeringly say if some man or worn-

l an wno has proressea raitn in tnese meetings should tumble and fall &- I morrow. "Ah! Ha! Just as I expected

to see.

Take a tip from me, the new con

verts will be just as good as the old

and they will be just like the old. You might as well bring a baby into this world and bind it hand and foot, throw it into a snowdrift and expect it to live and thrive and develop physically as to expect a man or woman would make any progress in spiritual development by creeping into some of these great big ice houses known

as churches, with cakes of ice on tne top of them. And when I pronounce the benediction, I absolutely refuse to assume any responsibility or allow anybody on earth to offer me any carping criticism for what I have done. I have done my duty, I am through when I pronounce the benediction. It's up to you. I am through. There are doctors present when a baby Is born, it's up to you to take care of it afterwards. So I have done

my duty with all the strength I have. I have done everything I know how to do, but I know what some would say. I'll tell you what the Bible tells you. "Brethren, If a man be overtaken a fault, let him alone; brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault, give him a kick; brethren, don't speak to him; brethren, if a man he overtaken in a fault, chew the rag, but offer no advice. Brethren get out show handbills and scatter them around the streets;

brethren get it Into, the newspapers

ed a beautiful pink rose and said to

ner nusoana, "I am going to give this to the vilest creature I can find." Finds Dissolute Girl Sho' made her way down Into the slums of the city and there she saw a company ofthe most vtalnns ohar.

acters, and" in the midst of them was ! and nut it on the front page; trample

standing a young girl with the marks him deeper in the mud.

of poverty and sin and debaucherv

and lust in her bloated face and' her bloodshot eyes and the vilest obscenity and profanity she ever heard was rolling from that girl's lips. Sho elbowed her way amone the

smile or a cud of cold water In the driftwood of humanity that surrounded

name of God, but He said, "I will; her, and' handing her a roso she said,

iaKe tms as an evidence of my sym-

see that you don't lose your reward.

be if) tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Iord hath They would war the victor's crown promised in them that love him." j 'Mid that triumphant throng. TIim-a Q Tin Til-rtm 1 a a in tTA PIMa t vtA-wA-w moita n& eti-MCcrlA Ti r A

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that you win not De tempted, iou For tne conquest or rignt oer wrong.

will get so that you will be deaf

and dumb and blind to temptation.

you will be dead to fin. but sin will not be dead to you. There will ba

They would wear the victor's crown who never lifted their fingers. I can tell you church members who

a constant battering at your heart and j haven't darkened this tabernacle in attempt to enter your mind and se- six weeks. I can name you preach-

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duce you from the path of virtue to

Jesus Christ. Promise Cheered Early Church. I think that promise must have been especially dear to the early church. You know the church has never suffered through persecution, the church has risen from the ashes and flames of all opposition. It was only when she had grown rich and increased her numbers, that she became stolid and indifferent And the church of God hasn't smeUed gun powder for 150 years. Sh'd get rid of a lot of the barnacles that cling to the hull of the ship of Zlon. she'd get rid of the parasites and a lot of the drugs if she would. That Is especially Inspiring for the man who lives a passive Christian

life. I think there are multitudes of

people who would like to do moro than they have done. There are multitudes who have opportunities

but no Inclinations or disposition to do things. They consider that they

have discharged their oDiigauon to God when they condescend to look a little more sober and drop Into their pew and listen to your sermon and they will go home and count that serving God. They never do a thing to try and bring this world to Jesus Christ, and I believe in the day of Judgment there will be multitudes we'll all be there, Satan's sinners will be present, the 6inner that He condemned, the saint to be rewarded. Everybody will be present In the judgment Some will hear God say. "Enter thou into the Joy of the Lord." others, "Depart from me, ye cursed." Ready With Excuses. And they will say. "Lord. I did very little for you. I had an aching head. I had a weak side, I was physically incapacitated for doing what my heart would l)ave led me to do. I would have liked to have done a multitude more things than I did. I

couldn't fight. I couldn't sing. I couldn't Inspire by my presence, but I could pray and I could give of my means." And God says, "You will not lose your reward." A friend of mine told me that wljen he accepted the pastorate of a

ers of orthodox churches who haven't poked their old faces in this tabernacle. God Uses Other Forces.

"Look to yourselves that ye re-

pathy for you, and if you need a friend

come and I will be a friend to you." Little by little there was something In the tone of voice and the kind face and act that touched the depths of her soul, and as she thoughtlessly began to tear tho leaves and drop them upon the eidewalk, she looked up and eaid, "Do you mean it?" "I mean it Come and I will be a friend to you.-' A few days later the bell rang and there stood a vicious outcast She said, "Surely God can't save her." She was reaching out to push a button to have a servant called to nut her

'in the street. She raised her tear-

ceive a full reward." If God has to depend on them to save this city, she'd have been In hell long ago. First Corinthians, "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do It to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible." I think Paul got the Inspiration of that verse by watching the Olympic games at Athens because he says in Hebrews, 'Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin

which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that Is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith." He saw that the athletes, when they got out to run, laid aside everything that would impede their prog

ress. He said, "If men are willing to do that to win a race, why aren't

we winmg to do that mane a success of the Christian race?"

I used to run, I could run a hundred yards in ten seconds at the crack of a pistol. I could circle tho diamond in fourteen seconds from

stained face and said, "Please don't drive me away. I am so sick and tired of sin; can't you help me?" My friend, Mrs. Whitemore, jumped to her feet and kissed this girl and she called the servants and they nursed her back to health and strength. She gave her heart to Christ and started out in her weak, crude way to tell the story in the Tombs, in the

Raymond street jail, in Auburn, Sing Sing, down in the slums of the city

telling of Jesus Christ and, of His

power to save. Explains Secret of Success. She went one night Into the old Water Etreet mission to tell and my friend said, "Do you know this girl. Bluebell?" "Oh yes," he said. My friend said, "What was the secret of her power, was it her face?" He said: "If you could have seen her one nl&ht as I did. when she came and told the girls what Jesus had done for her. She talked about five minutes and stopped and she lifted her eyes to the skies and she said "Jesus!

Jesus! Jesus!" He said, "I thought

the standing point, I had a pair ofan angel wouid come down and take

running 6hoes, the two of them didnt

weigh a pound. I used to lay aside all superfluous clothing, so I wouldn't have anything to Impede the working of my muscles. I never tried to win a race .with a millstone strapped on my back. I don't propose to try and run God's race with besetting sins impeding my progress. I was straining every muscle and I didn't want any man to breast that tape ahead of me, and they couldn't do it, either. So Paul said, "Let us lay aside every weight, and let us run with patience the race that Is set befre us," and I think that would be characterictlc, my friends, of us if we only realized that without Jesus Christ men and women are lost Go Out To Find Sinners

I think the church is all wrong

if she simply does this, builds a

building, hires a preacher to preach

and a choir to sing and says, "If the people want to come, let them come;

her away. She was fully saved. She

had thoroughly surrendered herself to Jesus."

God touched her heart years ago

and it stopped, her eyes closed, but before He called her home she turned scores and scores of outcasts like

herself from sin to Jesus Christ and if God did It for her He can do it for

you, for God Is no respecter ot per

sons. "Look to yourselves that ye receive full reward," For God gives you the opportunities to win out in the world. First Peter, 5:4. "And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." All have received a commission to do what Jesus would do. He said to Peter, "Feed my sheep." I remember hearing Dr. Henson of Chicago say. you'd imagine the way some preachers preach, and the way

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Studying Bible. "Brethren, If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." And I say to you, friends, get down intn the old Mother Book. Get down

into the old Book, read it as newborn babies desire the sincere milk of the word. Sincere, that is milk before the cheese principle forms in it Desire the sincere meaning of the word. What bread and meat is to your body, what milk is to the baby, the Bible is to a new convert When a baby is born, what do you do with it, put it in a refrigerator? That's a good place for dead chickens, and meat and butter and milk. What do you give a baby to eat when it is born? Gristle and meat and bone? You give a baby milk as newborn hohiPR desire, the sincere milk of the

word that it may grow and the Bible

will h tn vnu sDiritually what food is

to you physically. Read it! Pray! AtrnH tho rhnreh services. Join the

rhnrch. riot a meeting house, join the

church, not simply the prayer meeting, not simply the Sunday morning service, join the church. Give your 'means and God will wonderfully hless

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I remember when our cDiiuren weie learning to walk, I used to put a cloth under their arms to hold them up. I don't need to do that now. Gosh, I get tired watching them go. But there was a time when they were weak and they needed strength. Now they have become strong enough to take care of themselves and help others and so ye that are strong, bear the infirmities of the weak. . fc Strorrj Should Help Weak. Therefore, we that are strong physically help others that are weak. We that are strong spiritually help the fellow that is weak spiritually. A fried of mine told we when he was out of Pike's Peak and he stood there bathed in the perfect sunlight

of a perfect day. He said the clouds beneath his feet were as dense as adamant. You could hear thunder roll, and see the lightning flash, and the storm was sweeping down over Colorado Springs, condensed and thick, while where he stood it was bright and beautiful. Finally he saw the black object fighting and baitling its way up through the storm, when suddenly, with scream of triumph, a mountain

eagle burst out of the clouds and every feather was wet with a rain drop and every rain drop was glistening like a jewel and the old eagle lodged upon a ledge of rock and shook himself and then he turned his eyes towards the skies and with a scream of triumph he circled around and around until he became nebulous and hid himself in his chambers near the sun. There was a time when that eagle had to be fed. It grew strong until it could battle against the elements

and soar beyond the point of vision.

yourselves that ye receive a full reward. . In Timothy I want this on my tombstone "I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." That la all I want, that's enough. Seek To Do Right. And so, therefore, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there la laid up for mo a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." "I have fought a good fight I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." You will agree that I am not a crank. I told you when I came here the first afternoon, that my crd while I was here would be this, "With Jesus you are saved, without Him you are lost," and I have tried to answer

your questions In every sermon. Are you going to heaven? Are you going to hell? Are you saved? Are you

lost? And I have tried to build them around those things.

nut it is the Inspiration of my lire,

It is the secret of my vehemence that some day Jesus Christ will come. I am not a crank on it. I don't keep

harping on them. Man Is a sinner

with Jesus saved, without Him, lost

Never mind splitting hairs over a lot

of divergencies of opinion. It's the inspiration of my life that some day

He will burst upon this earth.

It may be at morn when the day Is awaking, when the darkness and shadow is breaking, that Jesus will

come in the fullness of glory to re

ceive from the world His own. Oh,

joy and delight to go without dying

Caught up with the Lord In the clouds

into glory when he comes to receive

from the world His own.

Now if John should come Into this

tabernacle this morning I'd say, "John, will you please preach to us or talk?"

He'd talk about the love of God and

he'd take 3:16, I think, for his text

And I'd say, "James, will you talk

a little?"

James would get up and say, "Faith

witnout woras Isn t worth shuck, or

words to that effect. He'd say,

"Faith without works is dead." Show me your faith by your works, 1 am from Missouri. It is all right, that's

just "exactly another way of saying the

same things. Deliver the goods, in other words. Express charges pre

paid. Thats' all sir." What Peter Would Say. I'd say, "Peter, will you preach

sermon." Peter would talk about the

Holy Ghost.

"Paul, will you preach?" Paul would

talk about the resurrection. He'd talk

about the return of Jesus. He'd say

if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, your faith ds in vain, your hopes in vain and there is nothing to it forget it. So you are not saved by the life and death of Jesus. The death cf Jesus Christ on the cross didn't save your soul. If Jesus Christ didn't rise from the dead, the death on the cross won't do that much good in your life. So the resurrection completed it." He was divine, died on the cross, but If He hadn't arisen from the dead, then death would have conquered Him instead of Him conquering death But he arose from the dead and the resurrection

completed it because Paul said, "If He didn't arise from the dead, then your

faith is in vain. There Is no use." So you are not saved by the death

on the cross alone. The death on the

cross and the resurrection, completes it

And in the last place ( Revelations,

4:4: "And round about the throne were four and 20 seats: and upon the seats

I saw four and 20 elders sitting, cloth

ed in white raimant: and they had on

their heads crowns of gold."

I know some elders that won't. Of

course they all live in Chicago where

I live.

And they had on their heads

crowns of gold and they'd take the

crowns from their heads and cast

them at His feet and shout, "Worthy is the lamb that was slain." Oh! That is a picture of the glorified church, that is a picture of the church militant. I sometimes think it is the church somnolent, but we talk about It being the church miliant when it ia all passed away, time is ended and we receive our reward. Tells War Incident. At the close of the Crimean war, the soldiers returned to England on an appointed day. They were given medals, marks of appreciation for their deeds of bravery and their acts of prowess and the valor that brought renown to England, when France and England united to fight against the aggressions of Russia in the Crimean war. To one they gave a medal that said "Inkerman" upon it. To another "Balaklava." To another "Alva." To another "Sebastopol." Those were the names of the principle battles and sieges in the Crimean war and in the battle of Inkerman, a soldier stood fighting for his country, when a can

non ball swept past and shattered his

leg and he dre whis saber and on one remaining limb, arm grasping a tree.

he stood ready to fight, bleed and die for old England, when a second cannon ball swept past and shattered his other leg and he fell and they carried his wounded and bleeding and, as they supposed, dying to the rear. Strange as it may seem, he survived and returned ta England and when the day of awarding came, his limbs had not healed sufficiently to enable him to wear wooden legs so fourf his comrades bore him in on a stretcher. Queen Victoria was giving out the medals through the hands of her assistants and secretaries. When she saw them coming down the aisle bearing the wounded comrade she turned

to her chief chamberlain and said: "What is his name, what was the battle?" , He quickly returned and he said: "Your Majesty Trowbridge is his name and Inkerman was the battle." She said, "Give me the medal." Pins Medal On His Breast.

They gave her the medal, she arose and walked down from the throne and she met the man and the tears

trickled down her cheeks and she said, "My poor boy, how you must have suffered, how horrible are tho ravages of war. Oh, when will nations and men cease to fight and tear and mutilate?" and bending over she pinned upon his breast with her own hand the medal that said "Inkerman" upon it The royal musician tried to play and they broke down. The royal signers tried to sing and it ended in a sob, when suddenly someone with a

voice like a golden bell started the

VMM EXCUSES AGAIIIST ACCEPTING JESUS - -J.

TRIP MANY PERSONS INTO DOOM, DECLARES ' SUNDAY AS HE PRAYS FOR MEN TO BELIEVE

The text "And ve will not come to'

me that ye might hav life," John

fifth chapter, fortieth versa. Speaking on "Excuses," Rev. W. A,

Sunday on Saturday night said:

Of all the recorded utterances that

fell from Jesus lips, this Is among the sadde&t I have often wished I

might have been present to have heard them. I wish I could reproduce the tone of the voice and the sad look on his face, and when you remember the circumstances It only adds to the

grief and sorrow.

It was to the Pharisees and the

Ecclesiastical powers and the very

ones that you would anticipate would be In sympathy with him. They said:

'You are a liar, you are a fraud, you

are a devil. You are a prince of

devils."

And they spat upon him. And he

said. "It is not I that am wrong. It

Is you that are wrong, but you are un

willing to admit it. There is Just one way to get life and that is to come

to me. that you mieht have lire. And

ve will not come to me.

So therefore, people, are lost because they will not go to Christ, and if any man or woman goes from this building unsaved, or If you drift out with the tide and are not saved It Is because God has offered you salvation

and you have refused it. Nobody Need Be Lost Nobody needs to be lost God pro

vided salvation for all but all will

not be saved. I wish they would, but they will not accept the salvation he offers.

The atonement of Jesus Christ covers all the sins of the people. He lasted death for every man and therefore he Is not willing that any should perish, but that all might come. If God could have his way there would not be any lost. None are lost because of any purpose or decree.

God knew before this campaign start-

pictured anything but a bright pic-"

tore.

1 am not proud of it" "WelL then you will accept Jesus ,

Christ?" .

I know that I ought to, but that

sin is remunerative to me and brings : me a degree of pleasure at least, and

I know that if I took you by the hand, , I would have to give up that sin."

So the poor man made his choice.

Preferring to keep the stn rather than : Jesus Christ -

All Reasons

I dont know what Is keeping you

out of the kingdom. I wouldn't tell '

you If I did know. A colored preacher In Georgia wa' asked to resign for something he did '. that his parishioners did not approve ; cf. So he went over Into Alabama; and got a church there. Everything' was going his way. So he decided one ' morning to preach a sermon on Thanksgiving." and he came out with his robe one and who should he spy in the front seat but one of the parishioners from his old church in Georgia. ' When he say him, he said: "I ain't ' a gwine to preach. I'se got a text and " it is in the Schiptures, but I ein't . gwine to tell you. You knows me and . I knows you, and what I knows about you I ain't a gwine to tell, and if. you tells about me, what you knows.. I will hit you so hard that I will make . a dent In your shadow." And so I don't know what Is keeping you out of the kingdom, and if I did. I wouldn't telL Love of Money

Prevents Some The love of money keeps some people out of the kingdom and away from God. Many a person knows he will lose money If he becomes a Christian. The brewer, the saloon-keeper, the The bootlegger, the saloon-keeper, the fellow that sticks a gun under your nose. They wouldn't sacrifice It and

L j" u i,r m-,A Mo they choose between the sin ana

ea evcryouar u Jesus Christ

God knows from the beginning to the

end. God knows now-every man or woman that gives me his or her hand, and I do net know one. God knows everything. But God Is giving everyone here a chance, but God knows whether you will or will

not accept it, so it Is up to you. God provided salvation to all who will accept it through Faith in Jesus Christ But God knows you wouldn't do it1 .

It is vour fault None are lost De-

cause they have gone so deep in sin.

None are lost because t&ey are ioo weak to lead a Christian life. No one has made a success of life without

God. "Unto him that Is here to Keep

us from falling. And If you can trust God to save you, trust him to keep you.- If he can take you out, he can keep you out, If you will only do what he wants you to do. Many Foolish

Excuses Given Well. I won't attempt to give all the excuses. Some are so asinine and idiotic that I am amazed that an intelligent man or woman might offer such excuses. Sin That Is keeping multitudes out. The men and women know thev need Jesus, but they know they will have to give up sin so they fight the question out And though the pleasures they derive from that sin are as unendurlng as a rope of sand or a cloud of smoke or vapor it passeth away. If you prefer it, God can't do

anything. ' One time Moody was preaching tho sermon on the "Podigal Son." and a man in the audience said, "If he had known me all my life from the day I was old enough to know right from wrong, he could not have pictured my life more accurately than he did." And Moody said, "Will you give me your hand?" And the man said. "No." Moody said, ""Certainly you are not proud of your life" for Moody had

of others and rang out until the whole building echoed and trembled. Oh! I'd like to have witnessed that I have been privileged to take the hand of three soldiers who were

there-and one of them had two medals. "Inkerman" on one breast

and "Balaklava" upon the other, that Tennyson immortalized:

"Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them. Cannon in front of them, volleyed and thundered, Thelr's not to to reason why, Their's but to do and die, Into the jaws of death. Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the Bix hundred." I ean tell you something I think

would have been more wonderful. If every soldier had torn the medals from off his breast and walked up

and hurled them at the feet ot her

Majesty and said: "O, Queen, it 13 reward enough for

us to stand in your presence, receive your smile and know that what we did was to strengthen you upon the throne, overthrow your enemies." Where He Will Find Reward. And Eay when I have preached my last sermon, when I have gone to the last city, when I have given the last invitation and my eyes to earth's glories grow dim, and I am preparing to drift out with the tide, and I at last burst through the gates Into the city and receive the reward whatever God thinks I have earned in my life of labor and service, I shall feel like taking It from off my

brow and throwing it at the feet of

Jesus and saying:

"O Master, It is reward enough for me to look into your face and to know that the pearly gates have

closed upon their jeweled hinges and that I shall go in and out no more forever, but every time I lift my

eyes I shall eaten a vision ot your

face and I will hear the angels sing.

And my hope and prayer is that

each morn may greet you with the

glad consciousness of His presence and that each step of your way may

be taken with a full assurance of His guidance, and may each experience that may come to you, whether it be bitter or sweet make you still surer of His unfailing mercy and goodness.

And may each day close in the

some people act and live that they'd So, therefore, ye that are strong, bear national anthem, "God Save Tho tainty that you are His and that He

received a commission to say, eed the infirmities of the weak. Look to Queen" and it leaped to the hearts is yours through Jesus Christ.

and no man has ever

been lost following close to God. No good thing will be withheld from those that walk uprightly. And to be shady in your transactions with others in the world is wrong ' and a great many would rather keep this up than to accept Jesus Christ. I said to one man at a meeting: "Will you take your stand for Jesus Christ?" And he said: "If I did I would have to send in my resignation to the firm

i worn ior. i travel ior a wnoiesaiR whiskey house in Louisville, and I would have to send my resignation. I am getting $3,500 a year and I bav? laised my wife and two daughters; in a good living and I could not cut. them down now." "How long do you suppose you will live?" "I dont know." "Suppose you live ten years. That would mean thirty-five hundred dollars a year. Suppose I could hand you a check for thirty-five thousand dollars, would you sign a release and say that you would repent?" "No sir, I would not." "And you don't know that you will be living tomorrow to draw another cent, and yet you will sell your soul

to the devil for a few dirty dollars." Why Girls Could Not Attend " I was preaching in West Pullman, Illinois and there were a lot of department store girls there and I said, "Girls, whv don't you give your heart3 to Christ?" They said: "We have to work in a rtore and stand behind a counter and sell goods that is misrepresented. We cannot do that and be Christians." I would rather walk over a rough and stony road to heaven than to ride to hell on dirty money. There is many a fellow that gets rich robbing the orphan, or the widow and he Is too slick to get caught in' the meshes of the law. And he goes down the street and so and so says: "There he goes." Anr his name is honored, and it is only necessary to attach his name to any project to Insure success. Bye and bye he dies and there Is an uproar and a fuss, and a pow-pow over his old carcas at the funeral, and they pass resolutions as long as from here to the back door, and send a

copy to his wife and the members of the club, and the loderes and the other things he was member of. Etatln? whereases and wherelses and resolve, etc., while the bones of his victims lie In the potter's field. Do vou mean teo tell m there i no hell for a guy like that? Manv a fellow lives todav without a thought of God In his business, societv. nolitics or home. No thought of God in his lodge; no thought ot God in his church. Fasier to Save These Men I would rather undertake to ive ten drunkards for Jesus Christ than

one fellow who will scheme to get rich quick. -

A friend of mine was ur in Min

neapolis. Minneapolis Is one or th best towns in this country. Minneapolis Chicago. Kansas City, Detroit

and Buffalo. Mnsn't forget Kunaio. lor she is cominc fast, with Niagara to furnish the Juice. Well, he was up ther In Minnennolis and he left to go back to hi home back In Ohio. And when ho pot back there a neighbor of his wax very ill and my friend offered to help the family hy relieving them of th; nightwatch by his bedside. And he sat with him one night about midnieht, and he wa then only six hours from the coffin. Did he take down the Eible and read it? No. He said to my friend, "Do you know a place where I can Invest my money at 6 per cent first mortgages? I am only getting 3 with the money In the bank. Instead of getting ready to meet God, he was wondering how he could Invest his mcney to better advantage. The world can give you present pos

sessions, but the world can not give you future hope. . You don't know you will be alive tomorrow. Some people will say, "Bill you can take your future hope. Give toe present possession." That Is all foolishness. Suppose tonight you were worth a million dollars but that when the sun rose in the morning you would be proved to be an embezzler and spend (Continued on page 4 of Supplement)