Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-07


evangelist in America If not in the
world, preached three sermons recent
lv TO the students Of the University OF
Pennsylvania just outside Of Phila-
deIphia. The Enquirer has many read
ers who know more or less about Rev.
Mr.. Sunday end who will no doubt be
glad to get better idea Of the nature
and character of his work. The follow
ing report of the meeting taken from
the Philadelphia Public Ledger will
therefore be Of especial interest.
FIRST SERMON TYPICAL OF
EvANGELlST's STYLE.
Sunday lost little time in getting into
his sermon. He took few seconds TO
express his great appreciation Of the
honor of being introduced by Provost
Smith, who, he added, had a greater
reputation than any other college man
in the United States. Il am mighty
glad came" he said, and the applause
of the students showed their approval
Of his sentiment.
The evangelist stood at the edge or
the platform for moment, silent. Then
throwing his right arm upright, as II to
demand the attention of every one, he
shouted:
what shall do with Jesus?"
"This question is just as pertinent
to the world today as it was to PLATE"
he. said. 'Pilate had many things to
encourage and discourage him, but no
man ever sought to do anything with
out meeting difficulties.
IT don't care whether /. was batting
a ball when the score was against him,
there were three men on base and he
had already had two strikes called on
hinl-he has had to drill his own tun-
nels. You men could throw yourselves
upon the seas Of lust or passion and
yield to your temptations, but all you'd
have to show for 1t would be name
on little tombstone and short obit-
uary notice in the newspapers"
PLATE should have been influenced
by his wife's dream, the speaker con-
tinued, whimsically suggesting that he
didn't care what sort Of wife PLATE had
God often reveals himself and His
wishes to people who aren't exactly
godly. she may have been one OF
those miserable, pliable, plastic, two
faced, two by four, hck-spittle, toot-
my-own- horn sort Of women, but PLATE
should have needed her warning and
set Jesus Free" he asserted.
Criticises PLATE.
PLATE had the personality Of Jesus
before him and should have been infiu-
enced by this. He had also heard OF
the miracles of Jesus, even il he had
never seen them.
why, Jesus was cussed and discuss
ed from one end of the land to the 9TH
er. All He had to do was to say Come
forth and the graves opened like
chestnut burrs in the fall" he added.
Il have mouse for the fellow that
sneers and mocks Jesus Christ. II the
world is against Christ, 1 am against
the world, with every tooth, nail, bit Of
skin, hair follicle, muscular molecule,
articulation, joint"-here the evangel-
ist paused for breath before adding
Yes, and even my vermiform appen-
dix.
But PLATE was just one Of those
rat-hole, pin-headed, pliable, standpat'
free-lunch, pie-counter politicians. He
was the direct result Of the machine
gang in Jewish politics, and he was
afraid that if he released Christ he
would lose his job"
Say boys" he demanded, leaning
so far over the platform it seemed he
must have fallen, ARE you fellows
willing to slap Jesus Christ in the face
in order to have some one come up and
slap you on the back and say you are
good fellow and a dead-game sport?
That is the surest way to lose out in
life. 1 am giving you the experience Of
life that knows.
Listen, fellows" and here the evan
gelist's voice softened to wonderful
tone of pleading, Jesus Christ was
either the son Of God and born of the
Virgin Mary, he was either the son Of
God or he was the son Of Jewish
harlot, born out of wedlock. Christ said
he was the son of God and PLATE was
so filled with wonderful sense of JUS
tice that he said, Away with Him; l
find no fault with Him
'Pilate had his chance and he missed
it. His name rings down through the
ages in scorn and contempt because he
had not the courage to stand up for
his convictions and Jesus Christ. Aren't
you boys doing the same thing? You
are convinced that Jesus Christ is the
son Of God, but you are afraid of the
horse laugh the boys will give you"
Talks of Baseball.
II was at this point that Sunday
brought himself closest to the great
body of men before him. He talked to
them about baseball, knowing that his
own experiences had been the most
absorbing topic in many a fraternity
house and classroom since his coming
to the university had been announced.
why, when l was in baseball, /
could run a hundred yards in 10 sec
onds. l was the first man to go
around the bases in IA seconds, al
though believe Hans Lobert can do it
now could do it before 1 was Chris
tian, and you can bet your boots could
do it afterward, too" The hand-clap-
ping and shouting that greeted this bit
of reminiscence was enormous, and it
was several minutes before the evan
gelist could continue his address.
,,,;n he, 70 dn
you unless you are willing to keep
clean" he said. Some people think
they are not good enough to go to
heaven and not bad enough to go to
hell, and that God is too good to send
them to hell, so they fix up little re-
ligion of their own. God isn't keeping
any halfway house for any one. The
man who believes in that will change
his theology before he has been in hell
five minutes.
There's just one enemy that keeps
every one from accepting Christ, and