The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-29
Billy Sunday-grans
Sunday In Philadelphia.

/ One reason God doesn't bless many churches
! Is that they are too narrow,
I I'll bet my life that lot OF you here now
haven't PRAYED or looked in your Bible yet to-
spiritually.
Get ON your knees and pray to God and see
how the crowfeet around your eyes are ironed
out.
The master stroke OF the devil when he
got the church to give up prayer.
+ America doesn't need ship subsidy consid-
Grafton of natural resources. free trade pro-
! tcctive tariff standpatism municipal resources
and all these things, but tidal wave of the
oid-time religion cyclone of salvation
II / stopped to shy rocks at every yellow
dog that barks at me l wouldn't do anything
! else from years cnd to another.
When you go to God in the name of Jesus
Christ, God viii stop making worlds to listen
10 you
Men don't go to hell because they are sim
hers. They go to hell because they don't re-
pent Of their sins Its Jesus Christ or nothing.
Heaven wouldn't stay heaven IL God shut the
GOOD and the bad up there in it. This earth
can't be heaven. because the good and bad are
mixed together.
iho pace you see me now, and I work harder
than anybody you ever saw. 1t puts some
people on their backs Just to hear me
Say, ne wasn't always the sissified. eliminate
person we make him cut to be. His were red
not words, surgng out of the OF divine
wrath. from the tongue of a master of invec-
tive. when he stood before that carping, smirk-
ng crowd of his day,
Many who were buried here years ago are
living in people walking the streets of
| Philadelphia because Of the influence of good
character or of bad
DO you believe employers should pay fair
wages? So does Jesus. Do you believe en-
lploye should earn his wages? So does Jesus.
Some people are too contempttbly stingv for
God to hear them.
I've never bawled anybody out In my life.
and | never will. No, sir. III preach the Cos
pei just straight and Just as strongly as I
Know, and make you feel uncomfortable in
SIN, but never bawl anybody out
Can you get along without ar7 II saliva
ton wasn't any good for you. If you could get
along without 1t. God wouldn't have offered
it to you.
l can give you something better than dope
for your face than Madame Yale or any of the
others, Just get down on your knees and see
how the crowfeet will iron out. can see by
Your faces what sort of lives you live, I study
faces like Jeweler studies q watch I can
/ tell whether YOU came here to hear something
that would do. you some good or whether you
fdropped in out of curiosity.
More people are put out Of business bv a
swelled head than anything else
/ Jesus Christ never went to funeral. He
f never followed a hearso or dead body TO the
grave. He never preached funeral sermon
! That was out of his line, He came that we
might have life. and that more abundantly
Is there any fault IN his peace? Some men
beoueath money. some lands some bad char
/ acter, some noble character, some hereditary
desire for drink. Jesus Christ said. my peace
l give unto you" Why. then. should he be sad
and gloomy?
When man starts a Journey. he doesn't
go by feeling. Feeling has nothing to do with
Itt He simply goes down to the station when
/ the timetable tells him a train is due He
! sees nothing but two rusty rails. He doesn't
start on the journey by feeling but by faith
II his watch is off, he changes to railroad time
/ Some pray THY will be done" then go out
/ and do something to block Gods win and
keep his kingdom from coming.-From this
Philadelphia North American