Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-10
SUNDAY AGAIN RAPS
ANEMIA or CHURCH

Is that you are 100 Sungy 1ou bpeHu
thousands on your own pleasure and then
come to church and drop in a penny
You go home singing, Jesus Paid II All
dmltating the singer. Praying is an eX-
pensive business when II is done right, as
Il should be-"
REPEATS ATTACK ON RUM.
Again the evangelist scored church
people who fail to enter the fight against
the saloon.
The man who truly prays Thy King
dom Come cannot pass saloon and not
| ask himself the question, What can 1 do
| TO get rid OF that thing that is blighting
the lives of thousands of young men, that
| is wreckng homes. and that is dragging
men and women down to hell?'" Sunday
said. You cannot pray Thy Kingdom
Come and then rush to the polls and vote
for the thing that is preventing that king
dom from coming. You cannot pray Thy
Kingdom Come and then go and do the
things that make the devil laugh.
Now for you preachers" he continued.
when a man prays Thy Kingdom Come
he will read the Bible to find out the
way to make It come. The preacher who
all his reading from the new books or
from the magazines He will not try to
please the highbrows, and in pleasing
them miss the masses. He will not try
TO tickle the palates of the glraffes and
then let the sheep starve. He VIII put
his cookies on the lower shelf, He will
prench In language that the commoncst
laborcr can understand"
There is strong possibility that |
"Bllly" Sunday will address the New Jer-
sey Legislature in Trenton, or the Penn |
sylvanIa Legislature, in Harrisburg, next |
Monday. with the chances in favor of
the former.
While Sunday would make no definite
of his plans this morning,
and was understood to be undecided
whether he would speak before either
body, 1t was known that he was giving
the invitation from the New Jersey As
sembly serious consideration and was
also devotng much thought to the pres
sure being brought by Collector of the
Port William II. Berry and other promi-
nent local optlonsts for him to go to
However, since tho New Jersey law
makers voted unanimously to invite the
evangelist to Trenton, he Is nafnrally led
20 give their invitation the most serious
thought at this time. Should the Penn
sylvania lawmakers take like action, his
attitude would be changed. Since he is
interested in driving evil and
rum from the keystone State and will
rave another opportunity to get at New ,
Jersey while in Paterson, it is probable |
hat he would accept the Pennsylvania in
'ltation at this time in preference to the
'nv from New Jersey
Mr.. Sunday will either preach on I
'Barabbas'' this afternoon, or will repeat !
lis sermon on "Thy Kingdom Come" {
which he gave on January "a. He has not /
ecided on a subject for tonights sermon.
SIDE MEETINGS PROGRAM.
Mrs. Bob" Stover and Miss Miller be- ]
an their activities this morning with !
n address before $50 employees of the G
Nanamaker store in Egyptian Hail {
District prayer meetings were conducted |
y members of the Sunday party and their :
4 churches of the city .
The most popular of these meetings was q
he one conducted in the Central Metho- Z
list Episcopal Church, Of Roxborough.
here ma" Sunday addressed an en- !
husiastic audience of more than 5000
ersons.
At Ii o'clock Miss Miller met the ;
entral business womens invitation :
at the Y. w. c. A, 18th 6
nd Arch streets, and at 11:3O o'clock
Iiss Kinney opened business women's l
iospel meeting and luncheon in the First .
Church, 7th and Spruce Il
treets p
At noon a business mems prayer meet
lg was held at l014 Market street, and Il
t the same hour Miss Fetterolf con- o
ucted a revival service at Bramis hosiery y
Hills, I'd and Westmoreand streets At i
80 o'clock this afternoon she addressed u
iris of the West Philadelphia High C.
chOol at the Trinity Methodist Episcopal t.
hurch, 18th and Mount Vernon streets. S
Miss Gamlin will address a mass-meet- e
lg for boys and girls at 1880 o'clock at II
Headed by William Knowles Cooper. d
neral secretary of the Washington
NJ. c, A., a committee came to this az
ty today and had a lengthy conference II
It'll Sunday, in an attempt TO get him TO 81
nduct campaign in Washington. They n
ere compelled to wait I'm the parlor OF II
Q Sunday home for about half an hour W
ter their arrival as the evangelist re- @
lsed to confer with them until Mrs | fc
|
eeting Sc
The delegation informed BILLY" that IT
ere are 40 churches back of the move
ent to get him to Washington, includ-
s virtually all those of the Protestant d.
with the exceptions of the N
These, Mr., Cooper said. will
in line before long. Among the clergy =
EN- who are especially anxious for sun
y to go to Washington is the Rev
:. James Taykor, President Wilson'S
stor.
Sunday would not give the delegation
definite promise of date but the lead
5 expressed their belief that he would
so later. Following their conference
Q Washington men went to the taber-
Gle for the afternoon meeting.
N the delegation was the Rev Or. F.
Prettyman, chaplain OF the United
ates Senate He spoke during the con-
renee. and declared that while he had
authority TO speak for the Senate, he
rs confident the Senators would give the
angelist warm welcome, and that he
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