Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-25
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| u. les, the same old devils are at work
| now as We're opposing Christ when He
| was on earth. The only difference Is that
they go around under false names.
They're the same old deviisS though.
BILLY" SIGHTS OLD FRIEND
When the call was given for trail hit
ters' 142 men and women went forward
and took the evangelist's hand. Among
the men who did personal work was The
Rev. DIR. j. Whitcomb Brougher. pastor
of the Temple Baptist Church, Los An
geles, Cal This Is the same church
which the Rev. DR.. Robert J. Burdette
former resident of Bryn Mawr and
widely known humorist, served several
years ago. Doctor Brougher was passing
through the city on a business trim and
had stopped in the tabernacle. Sunday
saw him as he worked among the con-
verts and recognized him as an old friend.
Bully for you, Doctor" he cried
"a special offering, the first one taken this
week, which will go to the Police and Fire
mems Pension Fund, was received this
afternoon. It amounted to $S97.15. Another
oHering for the same purpose will be re-
ceived at tonght's sermon.
PAINTS WORD PICTURE.
Through the words of the evangelist
the audience today heard the cries of
suffering and the laughter of the healed
to whom the Son of God brought io,
They were made to see these things
plainly. And they laughed, cried and APP
plauded throughout the discourse in
which Sunday portrayed the story OF
Christs life In such vivid word pictures
that none who heard him could fail TO
feel the power Of the Christ as told in
Bible miracles.
Quoting from the words of the leper
who was healed, the blind man who was
made to see, the lame man who was made
to walk the mother whose dead child
was returned to her alive, and scores of
other Bible characters whose lives of suf-
ferlng were changed to lives of rejoicing
Billy depicted Christ as the merciful
Master who came to this world to redeem
1t through His sacred blood. And then he
cited the few who criticised Christ and
stoned Him, and slandered Him and cruci-
fed Him.
P. R. r. MEN ATTEND.
Prominent among the delegations oc-
cupying the reserved section at the taber-
nacle this afternoon were $50 night en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Other delegations were: Sixty employees
of the Haupturer Diaries, 90 members of
the Nursery committee, so members of
the Children's Charity Sewing Circle, so
delegates from Cape May and IL persons
from the Home for the Aged.
" In the beginning, God'-This, as we
all know, is the first verse of the Bible.
But how many of you here put God up
permost In your daily life and think
of Him at the beginning of each day.?
This is the question BILLY" Sunday
asked more than 500 well-known residents
of Chestnut Hill and Germantown as
sembled in the homo of Mrs. Nathan A.
Taylor, 416 Moreland avenue, Chestnut
Hill. this morning.
The meeting, one of the regular Thurs
day morning home prayer meetings, was
one of the most successful the evangelist
has held since coming to Philadelphia.
The large audience of men and women
who crowded "Efnemheim," the Taylor
was deeply moved by the
stirring appeal, by impress
sve and tender stories told by Mrs. Sun |
day and by the songs sung by Homer A. |
Rodeheaver, the choir leader. Many were |
moved to tears by the sweet voices of 70 |
the guests of Mrs. Taylor for the occa-
sion. |
you ARE NOT CHRISTIANS"
In the beginning. Cod" Sunday re- |
oeated, as he circled his arms in charac-
Leristic manner. as though to include the |
entire audience. Many of you here are
not living at all You are just merely
existing. You are not living because you
are not Christians. The man who lives
without God is in my mind just as big
l fool as the captain who attempts to
guide his ship by clock instead of by
/ compass. He'll dash his ship on the
-ocks just as sure as the man without
iod will go to hell.
MANY of you, / am sure, begin to think
If God only when some one telephones
or the undertaken l have chosen for
NY text, Where there is no vision peo-
,le must perish Every nation must have
vision of God. We don't need so many
so many forts or big stand
ng armies but we do need the vision of
iod. Without God the nation will sink
nto hell.
Take that dress you have on" he
said as he pointed to one of the women,
take the automobile you ride in; take
he suit 1 am wearing; everything, all In
ife, Is an expression of thought, When
you pray to God know you are think
ng of Him; when you live in sin / know
'ou are not thinking of Him There are
10 two ways about II.
THE tabernacle In Philadelphia shows
hat God has other ways of drawing souls
o Him than the old-fashioned way of
-olng TO church on Sunday and living as
'ou please the remainder of the week.
that is what many of us have been doing
or the last hundred years. No wonder
he world is going TO hell
There are people who are keeping
ther from having a vision of God be-
ause they preach their vile doctrines.
every man who has ever been chosen to
reach the word of God has preached
regardless of what people may
ay
when l hear any one befoullng the
lame of Jesus, 1t makes me just fighting
mad. l want to tell you right here that
wouldn't give a snap of my finger for
man or woman without plenty OF gin
Ier. You never heard me preach a SER
non on how TO keep your temper, did
-ou?
"I think there is some wrong to be
ound in the ministry. Mind you, / am
lot criticlsing ministers as a class, but
am critieising some individuals With
ome, their sermons are reprint of the
asst novel they have been reading; they
ack on the text for effect"
In closing. Sunday said that clergymen
lake the mistake OF preaching TO their
udienees as though their listeners were
II Christians. Instead, he declared, they
hould address them as sinners. for many
I them have never known Jesus Christ.
Bentley ID. Aelkley. Sundays pianist and
rivate secretary. and Miss Grace Sake
'ere the other members OF the evange-
SITS party who attended the meeting.
Iany prominent ministers were also
resent.