Evening journal., 1915-01-22
'5O5 MORE TRAIL
HITTERS FOR SUNDAY
Evangelist breaches Stirring
Sermons That Win Many
To Christ
MANY OFFICIALS
HEAR THE GOSPEL

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.-Delega-
tions from half-a-hundred sources,
from Federal offices, from business
houses, financial institutions, railroads,
insurance offices, occupied Billy Sun
days enormous tabernacle last night.
Five hundred and five trail hitters'
confessed their faith in the teachings
Of Jesus Christ as 81 necessary means
of personal salvation.
Every quality Of human emotion was
evoked by the evangelist at some time
or other during his hour or two before
the audience. Laughter at his "asides
tears at his stories of life-crises and
the conversions as rule spring there
from, growls OF rage at the modern
"scribes and Pharisees," and the emo
| tion expressed upon the silent lips and
| the downcast eyes of the greater NUM-
Der of the new converts as they came
hand in hand down the path of glory"
these succeeded one another at the
speakers will.
At neither service did the evangelist
lose time in getting after" his hear
ers.
IF Jesus Christ would come down
to be q pastor in a Philadelphia
church and talked to you as he talked
to that treacherous Jerusalem crowd,
how long do you think He'd hold His
job?
"The reason why Philadelphia float
ed a loan of $5,O00,O0O was because
there are churches here. II it wasn't
for the churches and the Sunday
Schools and the Bible classes, there'd
be no Philadelphia here.
Jesus Christ claimed to be the Son
of God-can you dispute It? If you
do, you're a fooll"
The afternoon sermon was not lack
ing in vigor. At its very beginning al
most, the speaker whacked ineffec-
tual prayer
"lts no use to pray for a blessing
If you have a fuss on with your neigh
bors. 1t doesn't do you any good. You
go to a sewing circle to make mosquito
netting for the Eskimos and blankets
for the Hottentots, and instead of
maxim them you sit and chew the rag
and rip some other woman up the
back"
Touching other themes, he said:
you might as well speak of heav-
emily devil as a worldly Christian.
81 can tell those of you who sit here
listening to me through their preju-
dices. ! study faces as a jeweler stud
les a watch / can tell to look at you
, whether you live close to God or not.
America doesn't need ship subsidy,
conservation, municipal ownership,
free trade or protection half as much
as she needs tidal wave Of religion.
"Half o. you don't 90 TO prayer meet
4 ing because you know just who'll b.
there, and just what each old fogy'
\ going to say.
"lf I stopped 10 shy rocks at ever,
dog that barks at me, / wouldn't havr
time for anything else from one year.
end to the other
"If by preaching Gods truth / create
your enmity, then / don't want you
friendship
pray for your neighbors 9s well a
4 your own family. The pastor OF on
church does not pray for the congrega
tion of another denomination. I'm no
saying anything against denominations
I belneve they are of God. Denomna
tions represent different temperanents.
"a man with warm emotions woul
not make good Episcopalian, but h
would make a crackaiack Methodist oh
the curse of selfshnessl The Lord i
4 dying for religion, for religion pure ant
undefled Pure religion and undefled i
visiting the widow and the fatherles
and doing the win of God without s.
much thought of yourself. | tell you,
lot Of people are going to be fooled o
the day of judgment.
let us take few examples from th
i life of Christ. In this we learn tina
4 He rose up early in the morning an
A went out to a secluded place and prayed
He began every day with prayer. Yo
never get up without dressing. Yo
y never forget to wash your face an
\ comb your hair. You always think q
n breakfast. You feed your physical body
n why do you starve your spiritual body
4 If nine-tenths of you were as wea
4 physically as you are spiritually yo
4 couldn't walk"