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THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6; 1918.
Billy Sunday Starts Big Drive to Rout the Devil From the National Capital
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Here's Sunday's First Sermon in Washington Delivered This Morning
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by the renowned Homer Rodeheaver,
carried out the sons service. At 10:38
John Joy Edson introduced Mr.
Hodeheaver to his choir "Rhody"
offered a short prayer, and then led
the choir and audience In singing
"America,"' accompanied fcy his fa
mous trombone.
First to Arrive.
Mrs; Saxe, head of the people's
work department; Miss Kinney, head
of the children's work department,
and Miss Miller, of the women's work
department, were the first of the
Sunday party to arrive. Tbey were
followed shortly thereafter by Mr.
Hodeheaver end Chief Pianist Brew
ster. Above the rostrum, somewhat re
setnbllng a huge aeroplane pro
peller, was the Billy Sunday augo
phone the latest thing in acoustics
This augophone was a huge solid
wheel grooved from the center In six
directions to throw the evangelist's
tolce as near as possible Into the ears
of the audience
The rostrum was draped with an
American flag and a service flag of
one star for the evangelist's on,
George Sundaj, motor truck driver
extraordinary.
BIG THRONG SINGS
AS BILLY ARRIVES
AT UNION STATION
While 1,000 persons sanir "Brieht-
en the Comer Where You Are,"
cheered, waved handkerchiefs, and
cneerea some more, Hilly Sunday
and Ma Sunday stepped off the
Pennsylvania Limited at 8:23 o'clock
last night in Union Station.
The first person to greet the
evangelist was his son, George Sun
day, now a lieutenant in the avia
jion section of the signal corps.
"Hello, boy!" Billy called out when
he saw the olive-drab uniform, and
father and son rushed into each
other's arms for a great, bin huir.
And then Ma came down the train
ysteps, and there was a regular
family reunion with members of the
Sunday party, the executive commit
tee and newspaper men looking on.
-Hello, Everybody!"
Hello, folks Hello. everjbody" was
Billy's greeting to the reception com
lalttee. He shook hands on every side,
calling out cheery greetings in hU won
derful voice, smiling the magnetic smile
that has become famous the country
"ver.
A cheer went up from the crowd In
the east end of the station, where Major
Pullman had roped off a section In or
der to keep people back. The flashlight
-shot" of a Times photographer as he
snapped a group picture of the Sunday
family was the signal for the singing
to Degin. ana as Hilly walked through
the station toward the east entrance,
he waved his hat and shouted greetings
to the people who had waited two hours
and a half to see him.
Billy's wonderful intuitu e sense as
serted itself the moment he stepped
from his train. He seemed to know
everybody in the reception party.
"Hello. Cooper' Hello. Letts' Hello,
Chance' he called In quick succession.
He greeted Mrs George Sunday, his
daughter in-law with a hug and a kiss,
and demanded, "Where s Body?"
Major Pullman. Bjron S Adams,
Dr. James L. Gordon Rev George A.
Miller, John C Letts and members
of the Sunday partj. personal work
ers of the campaign were in the group
hat greeted Billy when he stepped
from his train
In the nineteenth chapter of Acts,
the second verse, we find these words,
"Have je received the Holy Ghost
since ye believed?"
The personality and the divinity
and the attributes of the Holy Spirit
afford one of the most interesting.
Inspiring, Instructive, and at the same
time mysterious studies in all the
Scriptures.
When the Holy Spirit came at Pent
ecOBt, he came as a rushing mighty
wind, and he hovered over each of
the expectant Pentecostal worshipers.
When Jesus was baptized of John In
the Illver Jordan; out from the blue
expanse of heaven came what looked
like a snow-flake. As it came nearer
the earth. It assumed the form of a
dove and we are told that whirring of
wings was heard and that the Holy
Spirit In the form of a dove hovered
over the dripping locks of the Son of
God as he stood on the banks of the
Jordan.
Two Sock Probabilities.
There have been but two such vis
lble manifestations of the Spirit, and
the probabilities are that this side of
the crave neither your eyes nor mine
shall ever behold such scenes: neither
shall our eara ever be privileged to
hear such a sound again.
You cannot dissect, you cannot
weigh, you cannot analyze the Holy
Spirit as a chemist would some sub
stance In his laboratory, out we can
all feel bis power and we can all
eniov the orchard fruits of his plant
Ing, for I read that the fruits of the
spirit are love, Joy, long suffering,
gentleness, brotherly love; against
such there is no law.
Jesus Christ was a distinct being. He
was born, cruc.fled. dead, burled.
ascended into glory. The Holy Spirit Is
a personality as much of a personality
as God, Christ, you, I, anything or any
body. "Howbelt, he shall not speak of him
self, but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak and he shall show
you things to come."
Always In Future Tense.
SDeaktnK of the Holy Spirit as a per
sonality, not an Influence, therefore we
are born of the Spirit, be is our advo
cate. Jesus always thinks of the Spirit
In the future tense. Ho said, "It Is
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Billy and Ma, snapped by The Times photographer last night
just as they were about to step into an automobile to take them to
their home.
becomes as blood, and It is In this
guise that the devil does his most ef
fective work. If we could see the
devil as he is, he would be In tlie hos
pital before February 1st. That's
the trouble today, he's got you He
leads you astray and puts a ring In
your nose, and he's got you now.
The danger Is that the tired travel
er will walk too far out on the beach
and the Incoming tide will engulf
him. The trouble Is that past sins
will not be dragged out and confessed
and forsaken.
A man said to me, "Bill, I have
never been a drunkard" Good
Thank God you have never known
what it was to have the fangs of In
temperance grip and tear at you?
heart; thank Cod your wife and chil
dren have never known what It waa
to have a. husband and a father-stagger,
and reel, and Jabber, and! mutter,
and sputter, and spew, and vomit Into
their presence to curse, and damn,
and beat them; thank God that that
damnable, rotten, hellish, vile, corrupt
business has never clutched you by
the throat to choke out every spark
of life and leave you an abandoned
derelict out upon the high seas of
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Sunday, snapped last night Just,
after their arrival in the Capital.
ctple that Is necessary to pursue In
order to carry on business success
fully. I will thank him for his In
formation and all that he knows
a note: thank God you have always
been able to earn a livable salary and
put hard coal under the sidewalk and
hand the landlord hfs rent when he
punched the doorbell on the first of
the month.
Thank God you have never known
all that!
now He'll Do If.
But are you willing that man
should see yeu as God sees you?
"Man looketh on the outward show
but God looketh on the heart." Now
then, how Is the Lord jrolnc- to con
vict the world? He Is going to do It
through those who live, believe and
preach the truth.
1 There are three classes In the
.... , , . .... ,.1 church, as I have sized It up Impart-
and punish the wicked and although alIy after twenty.one yea?B.mPLi;.
U.?KareumaleJnvthe lmae Jof. God' ten! F't ere are people In the
although nobody has seen God at any church who personally want to be
time, there must be a medium of ,ave(1. They do.t ,ve a whether
communication, there must be a dark- anvbodv else Is d or of ,.
s
In-spiritual touch with man, to make
man feel that he needs a Saviour.
How do you feel that you need a
passion; thank God that you have I doctor when you are slclc the fire
never known what It Is! Thank God roan When there's a Are in your
you have never been tempted to forge house?
The Holy- Spirit is needed. It is
that in this city. Tou will hear It.
What,'" the matter? Oh nothing, we
are Just dead that's all; we're Just
dead. We don't need an evangelist
so much as we need an undertaker.
Just dead!
Oh. life will s-ive organization, but
organization won't give ll'e. That's that good-for-nothing. Godforsaken,
wnat I'm talking about. Then tne wnisKey-soaked gang, the worst
ory "Spirit Is needed to bring uoo gang of thugs this side of hell.
would have emptied the Treasury of
her reserve, she would have sent ev
ery battleship to the bottom of ths
China Sea, she would have dyed -the
soil or China red with the blood of
a million men but that she would
have avenged the Insult and ths
death to her ambassador
And I say to the forces of evil in
this city that have fed and fattened
and gormandized, outraged, ruined
men and women and children. Impov
erished, sent them shrieking and
screaming down Into hell; and all
the good-for-nothing. Godforsaken, in
iquitous, rapacious, mendacious, buf
foons, mountebanks, poltroons, sex
ual and moral perverts that have
cursed and damned this whole earth,
"Come on; come on!"
HU Life Threatened.
My life has been threatened from
cne end of this land to the other by
PEACE IN 1
MONTHS OR
THREYEMS
MORE OE WAR
ahnlir til a hnalnAaa Tma-o. mamhotit
a w u UUdlll .BC!o J V i J ail;,ot . .. ... - - " . we UVM tr
has got to watch the day book and I"' J-'"" -"": '' r3 are absolutely Indifferent to It. That'
the ledger: he's got to watch that his m neayemy oeaarziemenM. a. one class. Then there is a secon
They have insulted mr wife, and
my children. They havo hired men to
trail me up and down the country and
go aside to the owners of tho news
papers. They can't find a decent
paper in America that will publish
. lTi d,rt3r' rotten sewage until one
the microscope that magnifies one of them went to one of the leading
drop of the Saviour's blood Into an editors and offered him a sum that
ocean of redemption. The Holy WOuId stagger ml If he would fleht
w . a .441 v j imc ..,. xiini "toil OUKht to ro in hpll
I tInk God has not left hl-nself with-. e is a chufch member 5 th.
witnesses: the eyes of tne iora Thev hv ii.h .k. . V I """ -"' "' "v- v - wo,
to and fro throughout the whole ventlon In V centra " Western S?1 BteD toward pace, but-refused to b
store doesn't become overstocked
with goods- he's got to watch the
a good thing for you that I gq j buying and selling prices; he's got to
away. If I go not away the . !,, , h. . im,i -t,a uh i,
Comforter will not come" the future i can.t trugt Thcre are a tnousand
icnsc uui wnen i am tone, i "'.nd one thlnn-, i
send him unto you from the FaXhev -,..
S iti. ; ZZ, ,, ' unt" the man who can atand n 'he
P La i. " .1 "".V"? ZTF1 busy ma" ' " w" decency and
rJ.,fh.t?','P,,rf,I honesty, I have a big admiration for
the wrong atmosphere in their homes.! , ...
by the crowd they keep company with ' '"n engage your auctioneer in con
Why, an angel from Heaven couldn't 'J"1' on-. 1Ie ca",eI,,b' "e amount
come down and stay here two weeks "'"V,1 am T1IIIn? J P1V for "'"
and train with th- crowd that some of automobile or piece of Jewelry wheth-
ou go with and call good and then, get ,r 1 k.now an?h'np about "'"'"fin
back to Heaven without having a bath ! value or wrhether he can string me.
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hyde
T'lerefore, we grieve tHW Spirit by
the wrong use of our lips; we grieve
til Cnf-lf hv f.a fhfnv. ,,-. mtnnn n
do. Oh. there are multitudes of men i versatlon. He will tell quitkly wheth
and women who will do things in pri-.er.i now anyming anoui ,ne organi
vate that they wouldn't do in public on and constitution of laws and
it would mean their disgrace! There th? codes and the onHnarrea.
Is many a man who wouldn't keep . can ense your physician In con
somebody on the side, who wouldn't versatlon. he can tell mighty quickly
Moses had to veil himself when he class they have a little concern,
came from tho Mount so the people thev thlnlc th worU i to k a k
could look upon him. so there must human wisdom and discretion. They
be, my friends, something that will I have a great deal to say about the
bind celestials to terrestrials in this . latent nower In tho church. Tk.r.
'an"aintcomttrvy.VrrV- s the moon reflects the glory s no auch thing a. powerT express
feV& "tS hi. pi tienTe Jr'i end's The Ewer ofGod"""' " ? mplledI mean latent power,
i th. ho .., f.S i ,h-t'rlends' ,he power of God Power Is as distinct from the indl-
out witnesses: the eyes of the Lord
run
earth to show himself strong in be
half of them whose heart? aspire to-ward-hlm.
How rhe eye? of God run
to and fro throughout the earth!
Picked Vp Lutaer.
And he picked up Martin Luther,
that German monk who was crawling
on his knees up the steps of Pilate at
Home. He hurled him as a mighty
thunderbolt against the ecclesiastic
errors of his day until under God
Almighty Martin Luther kindled up
on the hilltops of Germany the light
of reformation which illuminates the
world today.
Von ran ht If Xfartln T.nfhcr were
second jjving In this city today, he would be
a church member at that.
Developments of the last week.
culminating yesterday lathe restate
ment" of -allied war alms by Lloyd
George, were interpreted today by a
neutral north EuropeanmlnUter u
meaning:
Peace within tie" -xt dz'
months, or
CoatliinaUoa of the war with
undiminished rigor for tiree
'jean or sore. I
United States officials' saw in th
statement by Lloyd George a long
Holy Spirit' Work.
vldual as that current la from that
go down town and engage
an electrician In conversation He
can tell pretty quickly whether I
know anything about electricity
I can engage your lawer In enn-
I do not find God coming In nhy-M'eht. What are these lights wlth-
slcal contact-no. that's the work of ?u '" current? Nothing but glass
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit Is 4u'hs waiting for the scrap heap
the Father's voice seeking to win and.nat ? .man- th Individual, without
n the pathi of sin to lne S?l" 0l ... . ,VVnlnK.D,ul
From the
Business Office Viewpoint
Great Britain's
iixperience
Proves That Advertising
Lowers the Living Cost, A
This Series of Letters From
British Business Houses Will
Show:
No. 1
Catesby Ltd,
London
Advertising does not mean the
purchaser has to pay a higher
price. There are several causes
why he hasn't, but one cogent
fact will suffice to convince the
thoughtful person why he can
get Catesby's Cork Lino for less
because of advertising. Pattern
"No. 10" (any number will suf
fice) is shown to over fifty thou
sand applicants in a given period
through our advertising and col
ored sheets. The resulting-de-mand
is such that instead of the
intricate cork-lino machinery
stopping for change of pattern
when only a few rolls have been
printed, the machinery runs on
without expensive change until
hundreds of rolls of "No. 10"
have been printed. The economic
saving not only pays for tbe ad
vertising but leaves a margin al
lowing the home customer a low
er price than is otherwise pos
sible. That's all.
James P. Hunt
stagger and reel home Into the arms
of his wife, but he will stoop to do
thf mean, contemptible, dirty, scur
rilous, derogatory, underhanded, vll
lifying. little things that show that
he Is led by the flesh and not by the
Spirit, although he may have been
baptized, sprinkled and Immersed
every fifteen minutes, knows the cat
echism from A to Z, and has been con
Armed every half hour! There are
multitudes of them!
Proves Personality.
The fact that you can grlee the
Holy Spirit proves, from Inference at
least, his personality. Tou can't
grieve an influence, so the Holy Spirit
is more than an influence or the Bible
would not tell me to be careful and
not grieve the Spirit. I can't grieve
an influence, so the Holy Spirit Is a
personality and that proves his sen
sltlveness, too. So the Holy Spirit
must be capablexif being grieved by
the something you do, and the places
you go, and the things you say, or
the Bible would not warn us to be
careful.
I iave been told that a dove has
been known to tremble when the
single feather of a vulture's wing has
been held in front of it I don't
know whether that Is true or not, but
I know that the Spirit of God is
bo sensitive to the slightest evidence
of sin In jour life that It trembles
when He sees you stopping to do the
things that He knows there Ii but
one Inevitable outcome for. and that
is eternal damnation in hell for the
impenitent.
Sfo Fog Over Eye.
There Is no fog or mist over the
eyes and the mind of the Holy Spirit,
my friends, about eternal damnation
for the Impenitent If he does not turn
from his sin and yield to Jesus Christ
And this sensitiveness presents to
me the Father and his love. too.
Where thcre is no love you cannot
ings of a mother whose heart breaks
whether I know anything about ob
stetrics, or therapeutics it medicine,
and all that.
The Apostle Paul was on Ins third
missfonar Journey. Paul was a
stoop-shouldered, dim-eyed, wrinkled
browed, whltehalred gospel eteran.
He had been on the tiring line for
JeiUH ChriBt and he became bullet
meat for all that the fo-rcs of hell
and damnation and blasphemy can
hurl against the cross of the Son of
God. and he made the gospel-ignorant
dip their colors to the cros of Jesus
Christ
On Third Journey.
He was on his third missionary
Journey My friend. Busell Calvert,
of Philadelphia, says that no Imagines
that man Paul talking with the inn
keeper and the company nr men over
In one corner, gesticulating and going
through incantations like an Indian
medicine man and making gyrations
like a Dutch windmill, and Paul said'
"Who is that tunrh oer ihere"" or
words to that effect. lie replied
"Members of the church." "Well, sir.
that's a hum stfer." he said. "N'othlng
doin' Members of the church don't
talk like that "
He walked otcr to the crowd pretty
soon, and he came back and ttaid.
"Paul. 1 had It right" Paul walked
oer then and listened to the ronvcr
sation and ho said. "Wlint would you
call that gu T" He ha Id, "John .he
Baptist"
Paul said. "Did you recche the Holy
Ghost" Thev said. "We liaen't so
much as heard whether there vi ,
any or not " Then Paul asked. "Under
what were you baptized?" and they
said, "John's baptism." "Oh, I see
now '
Ilrhlnd the Time.
The diciples had gone through that
country preaching about Jesus,
preaohlng "Itepent, repent, repent."
"Oh." I'aul sals, 'jnu're behliii the
times This Jesus that the) preached
woo jou from the pa
those of righteousness and of truth.
He Is the aurora that shines to il
luminate the pathway that God wants
you to v-alk In, and he Is the
Father's voice that makes jou open
jour ears and makes ou responsive
to the Influences that would bring
you on your knees. He is the kiss,
and the incense that sweetens the at
mosphere and perfumes your life;
he Is the love that woos with a
smile, he is the aurora. I say, that
shines to help ou.
I do not And God working with
his hands like jou work with jour
hands or I work with mine. When
God wanted to build the universe
what did he do" Oh, he spake and
the Holy Spirit separated the land
from the sea and he put the moun
tains out on the frontiers of the unl
erse until they looked like senti
nels on picket dut, tossing their old
snow -covered heads 14.000 feet in the
air like flocks of Aheep feeding on
the hillsides of the skies He changed
the heaven Into a marching, choral
society when the evening stars sang
together In the twilight of the cen
turies. "He sendeth forth thy spirit
and they are renewed," and "Thou
renew eth the face of the earth," I
read, and "The earth was without
form and oid and darkness was up
on the f.ice of the deep " Perhaps
that is what Jesus meant when he
sitting right" down there and saying.
"Go to It. Bill! Go to It, Bill, and give
It to them!"
The eyes of the Lord ran to and
fro until he found Wesley and Whit
field and that movement which cryt
talllzed Into the Methodist Church,
which marshaled so many millions of
Christians, was the blessing of God
on earth in the brave days of old.
Kyes Running To and Fro.
The eyes of the Lord are running
..,. jiiraM oi mine were In where
they were having their conference.
They said, "We have been trailing
Sunday for twenty years; wo can't
get anything on him. The only thing
we can do is to start a systematic
campaign of vllllflcatlon. We will
say he is sacrilegious and crude and
vulgar and we will try to get the
ministers not to call him and If they
do, we will try and get them to op-
iua mm. ana uiey set aside money
to do this very thing up and down
the land today. That's their game all
over the country. I have put them
out of nearly two hundred million
dollars worth of business in the last
few years. I rsk no Quarter from
(the dirty bunch and I give them nona.
rsone whatever!
Doesn't Want Money.
Xow then, let 'me tell you some
thing. I don't want your money, I
want you. They say. "Oh. he works
for money." I haven't got a dollar
today that tbe people of this country
didn't give me. I don't ask peo
ple for one cent for my services. It
is nobody's business but the man
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
That's all It Is In the universe. With
out the Spirit of God, she degenerates
Into a third rate amusement bureau
with religion left out.
Have Learned Leson.
Then the third class they have
learned this lesson. "It is not by
might nor by power but by My spir
it," salth the Lord God of hosts.
From the third class came the proph
ets: from the third class came Gid
eon, who put to flight the Mldlanites;
from the third class came Moses, who
beat back the waters of the Red Sea;
from the third class came Daniel, who
shut the lion's mouth by the power of
God; from the third class came every
man and every woman who has ever
been used of God to light up the
dark, rotten, festering spots of this
Sabbath breaking, whiskey-soaked,
gambling-cursed old world that's go
ing to hell to fast she's breaking the
speed limit.
?."ow, I am no pessimist; I am an op
timist of the optimists. I believe,
sir. ihat a brighter day has never
dawned in history, my friends, than
now. I believe, sir. that no church
door should ever sw Ing open, I be
lieve no sermon should over be
reached, no songs sung nor prayer
prayed that hasn't for its only pur
pose the glorifying of God and the
bringing of some poor wanderer
to and fro today. Tou remember j who gives It whether he gives any
reading about the blowing up of Hell thing or not. So I have never asked
Gate? The Government gave the for it
contract for the work to Generalj I was offered a cold million dol
Newton. He sunk his cofferdam, he lars if I would anDear before the
started tunnels, undermined, laid movies and let them take my picture I
giant powder, nitroglycerin and dy- and put them on the fllm. I said. I
namlte, he made the electric connect- "Tou can't do It for a hundred mil-'
ions and ran the wires off to his Hon." Not that I have anything
Quoted, pending any official Inter
pretation by the President of the re
statement, of war alms-
Developments of "Week.
The, Times announced last Sunday
that the Kaiser had agreed to- glv
Chancellor Hertllng the power to'con
duet International negotiation's, and
pointed out the significance of this
action a a stride toward peace. Hire,
are the other developments of tho
wee:
Chancellor appeals to Russian- dele
gates to forward Germany's peac
plea to the allies.
Count Czernln, Austrian .foreign ,
minister, sets forth terms qn which
Germany Is willing to end war.
Hertllng appeals to the Reichstag
to sponsor new "feeler" addressed, to
the allies.
Bolshevlkl refuse to accept humll
Istlng peace. Allies consider recogni
tion of provisional Russian 'govern- ,
ment.
Germans revise terms, "'offering' to
"police" small nations whoso-fat Is la
dispute.
Bulgaria and Turkey outline peace
terms to Russia.
After cable conference with all al
lies. Lloyd George sets forth war alma
of the allies In definite terms.
home In Brooklyn Heights and then
the Government came and they put
everybody back in boats (all the pec-
pie who had assembiea in aavania
against the movies. I haven't; but
you couldn't put my mug on the
movies for a hundred million dollars.
i waa onerea tnree tnousana aoi
geous places to watch it) and General iara to tjfc for twenty four minutes
Newton, tyo miles away, called Ks
little daughter, aiary. two yeara oia,
took her on his lap and said, "Honey.
put your thumb against that black
button and push It when I tell you."
He sat there with a recelvar to
hi, eat and when the signal came,
"General, we are ready," he said.
"Honey, push the button." and she
put her tiny thumb against the but
ton and pushed. Two miles away
there was a muffled roar and the
water shot into the air like a typhoon.
and rocks shot Into the air and they
fell like the autumnal leaves In theT"'8 Indwelling motor? Oh, are there
said, "If je had faitli so miiLh as a' down at the foot of the cross of Jesus
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a stain upon the family escutcheon
tnat nothing can ever erase becai
that girl, by her good-for-not
coquettish ways, and her god
wayward life, and the miserable
bunch jhe goes with, she will soon,
sir, present to the world the mute
evidence of illicit affection, and by
her jou help to feed the red light
of some great citj. Or the mun who
swore ta be true to jou as long as
the sky and waves were blue and has
turned from that marriage vow and
broken it as if It were made of
spider webs, until be has made the
name ejnonymous with everything
that Is low down, groveling, and In
famous In the world. "Grieve not the
Spirit of God"'
So important is the office work
of the Spirit that I read. "Wherefore
I say unto you. ail manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be given unto men,
but the blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto
men. neither in this world nor In the
world to come," but I'd like to know
where any bunch gets any Scriptural
authority for future probation: If
you don't settle It before the under
taker pumps you full of embalming
fluid, you afe all In, take It from me
Men ought to bo masters of their
own business Of course, a lot of you
men know a lot more about how to
preach than I; that's the reason I
am preaching and you're not Uvery
man ought to be master of his own
business, I can go downtown tomor
row morning and I can engage your
merchant in conversation and he will
explain to me many things that I
don't know about business the prln-
cross, they put him In the grave; but
be burst the bonds of death He rose
In conquering majesty, to stoop to
death no more "
Then Paul breathed upon him ami
sold. "Receive je the Holy Ghost"
Hi said, "Vou've got something more
coming to you "
So It Is my purpose this afternoon
to briefly Fhow what the Holy Spirit
wants to do with us In the lirst
place, lie will come to reveal Hod by
the phvslcal touch of man through
creation It's not difficult for you
and me to Imagine Clod. We speak of
him as the Father, vie who believe
in Jesus Christ as an Issue I do not
believe In jour doctrine of the nnl
vernal fatherhood of God and the uni
versal brotherhood of man. unless he
has been born again by faith In Jesus
Christ It Is an Infernal lie.
Both Crraturrs of Cod. ,
Tou are a creature of God. so Is a
cow rating grass in pasture, you are
a creature of God vou are not a
child of God unless jou've been born
again in repentant e. and faith in Je
bus Christ. I don't believe in your
doctrine of the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man unless
you arc a Christian don't believe in
It. I believe a man Is born not by
good worki. or philanthropy or char
ily, but by the faith and repentance,
faith in Jesus Christ, and If he Isn't,
he will go to hell whether ho lives in
a mansion or in a stale beer Joint
Now we speak of him as the Cre
ator. ve are tho objects of his cre
ative genius and of his power We
speak of him under the simile of a
Judge who will reward the righteous
grain of mustard seed, ve shall say
unto tins mountain. Remove hence
to vonder place, and it shall remove
and nothing shall be Impossible unto
jou." Therefore, when God wills,
the Holy Spirit does an act, accom
plishes material phenomena.
Sun Annlted High Ball.
When Joshua fought the battle, he
saw that the sun would go down and
It would be dark before he could fin
Uh the conflict lie said, "Lord. It's
taking me longer than I figured out.
und if jou ve got some way Just to
prolong this day and keep the sun
from behind the western hills. I'll
lick this bunrli to a frazzle and I'll
send j'.ur name ringing down through
the ages " And God reached up and
grabbed the gun and said. "Tou stay
there and don't move on Inch until
Joshua gives you the high ball"
He accomplished material phenom
ena In this old world Samson, with
the spirit of God on him. could take
the Jawbone of an ass and flay a
thousand Philistines Samson alone,
without the spirit of God. was as
weak as a new-born babe, and the
chuich of God tcdaj-, with all her
wealth, with her vested choir, her pipe
organs and her numbers'.- without
Jesus Chrlst'and the Holy Ghost, be-
iuies four wulls with a roof over
her and a pipe organ built up In the
turner and a preacher doing stunts
twe times one day out of Feven.
Who is the spirit of God There
Is no force on earth or In hell that
tan stand the onward man It of the
church of Jesus Christ and his truth
Ilest Way To . It.
The be-ft way to grasp Scriptural
truth Is to compare Scripture vvilh
Scripture. The greatest danger, as I
see It ttidaj-. Is egotistical self-content
A lot of people don't give a
whoop whether anjbody goes to hell,
or where they go. so long as thev
themselves are ttnved. Kgctistlcal
self-contentment Is one of th- curses
of the world and of the chun h. A
man will not walk to a precipice and
leap over with two good eyes and a
good head, no captain would put to
sea without the chart of the pilot
and tho compass, for It is by the
trembling of that tiny needle that she
can leave the harbor at New Tori- and
enter the habor of Liverpool and
never deviate two miles unless driven
by a storm
Will Walk Too Far.
Oh, death lurks In the poisoned oup
as well as it gleams upon the point
of the polnard or glistens upon the
barrel of the gun Satan plumes him
self Into a dove of light and he
sharpens his fangs and Injects his
venom. The flowers fade and the sun
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Christ, the Son of God.
We've got our churches, we've got
our preachers. Whj-, at Pentecost
one sermon brought three thousand
to their knees: now It takes about
three thousand of the average ser
mons to bring one old weazel-eyed.
red nosed, whiskey soaked blasphem
er to his knees. Some sermons
wouldn't have found Jesus Christ
with a search warrant.
We've Got Tn ll.
Now, we've got our churches, we've
got our Josh-houses, we've got our tab
ernacles. Oh, wa've got the wisdom of
the Orientals, wa've got the vim, vigor,
tobisco sauce and pepperlno, and the
push, and the go. and the wealth of the
twentieth century. I tell you, I believe
no people on earth are better paid, are
better fed, are better clothed, are bet
ter housed, are more happy and pros
perous than thooo that live beneath the
Stars and Stripes in America.
A lady came In from Iowa. She
roached her eyebrows and drew In her
diaphragm (she was a kind of a cold
storage proposition).
She said, "What the church needs Ls
organization." I said, "Forget It, We
arc organized to death. We've got so
much machinery In the average church
you ran hear It squeak when you start
in. Wo haven't g t oil enough for the
Holy Ghost to grease one axle of God's
chariot that's what's the matter with
us toduj. we've got the T. M. C. A.,
anil we've got tho T. W C A., we've
got the Y P. S C U., we've got the It
T. P U. we've got the C U.. weve got
the W. F N II , we've got the J. K. L..
and the J e. 1 1 j s. It gets a man
bughouse."
Drop Into An average joung people's
meeting and the leader sajs in a weak,
mgHtlvr. falsetto, apologetic, aisslflcsl
sort of mannerism. "This Is a splendid
topic this evening I have been so busj
I haven't had time for preparation" It's
supriluniis o say that It wou'dn't LuXe
the bunch long to find he's all in. "I
lnpo jou will feel free to take part.
Somebody gets up and reads a poem
from the Christian Kndeavor Herald and
then along comes someone and sajs.
' L"t's sing . 31 ' and they slog. "Oh.
to be Nothing. Nothing. Only to Sit at
His Fet."
Two-thirds of them are like x In
algebra Someone sajs, 'Let's sing
No N4 " Thej ull get uo and sing,
"Throw out the Life Line Throw out
the Life Line," when tney haven't
got s-trength enough to put up a
clothes line Then a long pause and
I hear the organ pealing that prelude
and then. "Lot us ar'.se and repeat
our benediction and be adjourned "
"The Lord watch between me and
thee when wc are absent on from
another"
Ten, and God's got a, hard Job on
tiix hand'
Did you ever hear anything; like
November blasts. Helplessness Itself
was that little girl, but backed by
the brain and the genius of her il
lustrious father she was all powerful.
TTell Can't Do It.
Helplessness Itself are you and I.
but by the power of the spirit of
God there is not enough force in hell
to pull one hair out of jour head
unless God gives the pow-er. God Is
looking for men and women who are
willing to go down in the marshes of
sin and from their slimy suction res
cue the perishing, cars for the dying
Then, in the last place, the Holy
Into a talking machine for them to
make records. Not that I have any
thing against it, but I said. "No. sir.
I will not commercialize God's words
or God's cause."
Are Ton Ready f
Can It be that we fail to realize
His help and the need or it In this
world? Hold on! Don't you ask Him
to help you when jou preach, to help
j on to live, to help you to be right
in this old world; don't you yearn for
LLOYDGEORGEHAS
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OFALLDEMDCRAGY
any so blind as to not see the ben
efits of the Holy Ghost? Are you
readj- to surrender?.
Tou saj-. "My. it's a little thing to
go to war because we threw some
tea overboard In the Boston harbor!"
Great God. we didn't go to war over
the tea; we said to the Cast India
Companj-. "Tou can't tax us without
representation." Wo went to war for
the principle.
"Oh." jou saj "it was a mighty
little thing for God to drive Adam
and Eve out of the Garden of Eden
because they ate the fruit." God
didn't give a rap about ths fruit;
It was the principle whether God
Spirit Is needed to bring God in hou!d bow to man or man should
spiritual touch with man that man I b(m tl Coll and God will never take
may realize he is the representative
of God in the world Did you ever
realize, mj friends, that you and I
rt present .God? I heard Dr Fink,
who returned from China, tell how
the Chinese troops had surrounded
the British legation and all the for
eigners, and the embassies with their
wives had taken refuge In the Brit
ish embass)-. and from it flew the
flags of all nations. They were giv
Ing themselves up to the fate of mas
sacre which thej- felt inevitablv
nwaited them The Chinese had suc
ceeded in planting a battery on an
eminence that commanded the Brit
ish legation, and with fear ana
dread they awaited the dawning of
the day w)lch they believed meant
murder for every man, outrage for
every woman and a life worse than
death, and at midnight as they strain
ed their eyes and their oars, some of
the Germans clambered upon the ram
parts and with their hands behind
their ears, thej listened and away
In the distance they heard the "Watih
on the Rhine," and they cheered and
chetred and cheered.
iiearn -narsrlllnlsr.- I snake Injecting
Then the French clambered up and They piled the dirt about him until
looking and listening, thej heard I only tits eyas and nose protruded,
the "Marseillaise," and they cheered Thev said to him. "Three shovel full
and cheered and cheered. I'p t-amei miire aad you are dead This ls the
the British, and looking nut in the last chance. Do jou yield Will you
darkness and bending their ear. tliej submit to our authorit'" and he
caught the strains of "Uo.i .save the falntlj gasped back, "Teo, I will yUla.
Queen," they heard and thej cheer I will jield " If Christ must live and
his hat off to anybody.
When Jonathan Edwards was
twentj three jears of age he made
tins entry in his diary "If I knew it
were given to but one young man to
live an earnest, thoroughly, fully sur
rendered life to Jesus Chrt, I. Jona
than Kdwards. would live every hour
as though I were that one favored
joung man."
story of tke Monk.
I heard of a monk who violated
every rule of a monastery and ha
was sentenced by bis superior to be
buried alive, standing ere.'t and they
dug his grave nine feet deep. They
placed him in there hands and feet
bound They piled dirt abcut him un
til it reached his waist and they said.
Nou will jou surrender and submit
to our authorltj" He cried. "I will
not " They plied the dirt about him
until it reached kls shou.Jers and It
was with great difficulty he could
breathe The superior monk, leaning
lover, said: "Now, will jou yield and
'submit to our authority" Defiantly
I be spat back the words, l'Ke a rattle
' snake Injecting venom: "I will not."
reign in me. I must die; like him.
rui'ined must be. so dead that no de
sire can rise to pass for good or great
or wise In any but my Saviour's eyes.
Let me live. When I am dead, then,
Lurd. to me Issue life. My time, my
strength, my all to thee I give; Both
Ing for self shall henceforth be. dear
I give mjself to thee for time
Let me live, let
ed and cheered and cheered
The Americans said "Has I'nrlo
Sam forgotten us? Has he left us to
the mercj- of the blood thirsty China
men, to outrage the women Are we
forgotten" And as thej- listentd
away In the distance they caught the
strains of "The Star-Snnno-leit Ran-
n.r" Thev tienrri V,- ,nn...i,n.1.iii Lord
of the machine gun. they heard n,ej and for eternity,
deep bass cough of the Maxim gun me "vc-
and the shells crashed through the1
walls of the forbidden city and the PICKED DETAIL ON DUTY.
troops or uncle Sam led tho way and
the breezes of the Orient kissed the
Stars and Stripes. Men aod women
fainted: others wept fo'r joy. What
was it?
Lives rre In Denser.
Well, United -Statss Minister Cox.
of Des Moines, Iowa, our ambassa
dor, his wife and two daughters-
thelr lives were In danger He rep-Ill W Brown
The flower of Washington's Police
Department was on duty tiday at the
Tabernacle. Forty men formed the
foot detail; eight the bleycle detail
and two mounted men from the Ninth
precinct were also on dutj The men
were commanded bj Cap' -in Hartlej,
iting t'apt J. A. Duvall and Lieut.
vented eighty millions, then, of
the bravest men and women that
ever walked God Almighty's dirt, and
air. tho United fatates Government
In an order sent out last night
Major Pullman a- vised the captains
of ths various k-recincta that they
send their best man.
By DAVID ,LAWBENCE.
(Continued from First Page.)
mistake which allied newspapers have
made In the past by attacking a person
ality Instead of a system. Attacks on
the Kaiser .heretofore bava only-served
to rally the German people, Just aa for
eign criticism of an American President
would tend to solidify popular support
of him. But changes In the German
constitution, together with franchise" re
form would, greatly diminish the power
ot Emperor William, and sooner or Jater
bring about the downfall of the Hohen
zollern dynasty.
Follows Wilson Prladales. ,
In a general way Lloyd Goorga haa
followed the principles laid down by
President Wilson heretofore, bat th
British premier has developed the situa
tion much further by giving an explicit
statement on territorial questions, some
thing which Mr. Wilson in the very
nature of America's position could not
with propriety discuss In detail. Yet
whatever Inferences or doubts may have
been raised by the President' general
statements have now been clearly ex
pressed by the British leader and tho
allies have grrtn to the world formula,
for peace that Is equitable and Just. Its
acceptane depend upon the sincerity
of Germany and her readiness to stop
fighting before drastic measures of trade
discrimination by the allies lead to her
own economic strangulation no matter
what the military outcome of the war.
Confidential exchanges between
President Wilson and the British gov
ernment during the past week have
developed unity in the peace offensive
launched by the entente. The speech
of Lloyd George contain the meet
advanced and liberal term the al
lies have yet proclaimed. Except for
the Insistence on the return to France
of Alsace-Loralne and the emphasis
on a. change In the German constitu
tion, there ls nothing which the Ger
mans themselves would consider In
superable obstacles to peace.
Unquestionably, however, a Presi
dent Wilson elated Is his reply to the
Vatican, peace can o negotiated,
terms can be agreed, ueon around s
council table and equitable arrange
ments made provided tbe govern
ments concerned trust each other.
No Conference Now.
The present Imperial German gov
ernment Is not trusted by Great Brit
ain. France, or the United 3tates. Its
word cannot be taken. And eves If
a better personnel occupied the h?h
ministerial poets, until there is a fun
damental change tn the German con
stitution making the government re
sponsible to the people, none of the
civilized nations can feel certain that
the peace of the world win not again
be disturbed by the whim or ambi
tions of autocracy.
The allies wjjit security something
that will nezjnJt them to abolish con
scription aod the burden ot taxation
tliat weula otherwise, be required for
protective armament. Allies want th
next generation to grow up without
having to keep abreast ef German
schemes for military domination so
that the attention of ail' Monies may
be turned toward the' enjoyment of L'
w . t..,rf. . .ni..li.. vs -
flow- not from the pursuits f-wax.bUi.
the occupations. o yea, .