The Washington herald., 1915-01-19

can eat your dinner for you,'' de-
c!ared the speaker.
He said Christ's influence was great
because il was personal. He asserted the
name of Jesus would make a man trot
right with his wife and enable him to
keep his marriage VOWS.
Spat Upon Platform.
When you turn your back on Jesus
Christ, you assassinate your character"
he continued.
He told of how Christ's contemporaries
had reviled and prosecuted him, and
every word and thought was made
graphic by forceful gesticulation. When
he told Of how the crowds stoned the
Saviour, he went through the motions
Of a prosecutor: when he told OF how
the crowds Missed and spat upon the
Christ, he likewise hissed and spat upon
the platform.
The unfriendly crowds called Christ
a fore-lusher and excess baggage" he
shouted, waving his hands wildly.
He told the audience that the fellow
of Jesus Christ, and added that Christ
always was in the way of adulterers,
panderers, white slavers, and infdels
Scores Sabbath Ball.
He asked his congregation where
they would like to be should Jesus
come to town-at the bar drinking
poison, in the house of ilI-fame, sit
ting in the seat of the scornful, at the
Sunday theater watching women clad
in hardly enough material to furnish
the tail TO a kite or the pad to a
crutch.
He extolled baseball as the cleanest
game in America, but voiced his dis
approval of engaging in the sport on
the Sabbath.
"Dop't you know, members OF Con-
gress," the evangelist pursued, Christ
has seen every false vote you have
cast or had cast for your election?
Christ isomnipresent He has been
al the council table of every big cor
poration."
Christ is the Unavoidable One" the
evangelist said in concluding his remarks
Iron locks and bars can't keep out
the appeal of Jesus Christ. I appeal to
you to live the Christian life, and you
will be respected and admired for it.
Live for Cod
GesticuIatIon Strenuous.
As he brought his sermon to a termina-
tion he drew his white enamel chair up
to the prayer desk. mounted the chair,
placed one knee on the desk, and en-
phasized his remarks by leaping up time
dlIeT Time belOTe IN MS adOreSS ne had
placed one foot on a shelf at the back
of the prayer desk and punctuated his
phrases by swinging his body of the
floor repeatedly. He charged about the
stage from time to time. swung his arms
in the air, lay down once on the floor
to illustrate how Jesus groveled before
his prosecutors, and went through other
ContOrtIons.
At the conclusion Of his remarks he
asked all those who believed in Christ
and wanted TO serve Him to rise. and
practically the entire audience Of 5000
persons stood. There were not more
than several score who retained their
seats. While the great throng stood with
bowed heads BILLY" offered a lengthy
prayer. in which he invoked divine bless
ing upon those present.
He had talked just forty-fve minutes
for 1t was SO O'Clock when he conciu1ed
His bout with Old Nick had been a
strenuous one, and Billy was about
played out. His shirt was wringinC vet
His face still was running rivuIets Of
perspiration. He grabbed his hat pulled
it down upon his head, leaped down onto
the long press table and shook bands
with hundreds who pressed forward to
pay him their personal respects.