Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-20
SUNDAY HITS RICH
WHO FORSAKE GOD

| 'If church members Will quit playing
cards, well have no more gambling
Sunday shouted so that his voice was re-
echoed from the farthest corners of the
| great hall when the church members
quit patronizing theatres they'll either
clean UP or 20 out of business When
church members quit voting for the sa-
loon the saloon will go to hell
These were some of the hot shots he
poured into the camp OF "contented and
complaining church members And he
spared the ministers not at all. for he
claimed many of them encourage such
practices by their silence. He made 1t
plain that he was not against the theatre
as an institution, but that he was against
dirty" shows. But he did make i plain
! that he was against card playing and
| against the saloon as an institution,
claiming that nothing but sin and mis-
cry ever came from rumshop'
MINISTER'S OFF JOBS.
The words OF his text taken from the
Rfth chapter and the 25th verse OF Jere-
F., mah. %ere, TNour iniuuities have turned
/ away these things and your sins have
! uithholden good things from you and
! he showed that the reason the world and
! Philadelphia is so corrupted with sin was
( because the preachers and the church
members have been "off their Jobs
apply the same rule to your business
/ that you do to your church activity"
said the evangelist. "and your business
| will have a sheriT's sale tag on it be-
! fore you turn around. Take the same
! interest in making money and In having
! n good time as you do i'm saving souls
| for God and winning eternal salvation
| and freedom from hellfre for yourselves
! and you will be one of the bummiest
! buns. You cant get anything worth
| while in this world without working for
! it. Then why expect to get the greatest
| gift that human being can hope for
| when you simply put up a bluff that you
are a Christian? Get on the job. Stop
, loafing. Put some ginger into your work.
| Stop wearing loug face. Smile! Work!
| Be busy for Jesus Christ and against the
devil and YOU cannot fail
| The audience was enthusiastic when
Billy pounded the pulpit and threw his
| blows at it today.
| The evangelist seemed tired and his
voice was husky when he started to
| speak, but in short time he had warmed
| up and was the same old Billy and
| preached one Of the strongest sermons Of
his Philadelphia campaign.
| Hundreds of women croCheted, knit.
| sewed and even darned socks for three
| and four hours today while seated on the
rough wooden seats of the "Billy' sun
| day tabernacle waiting for the afternoon
| services to begin.
| you can go to hell just as quick from
| the church pew as from the dive or just
| as quick from the parlor as from the
| grog shop" shouted BILLY" Sunday last
| night when he poured a cannonade of hot
| shot against sin and the devil into the
| audience that filed the tabernacle. and
| led 235 men and women down the sawdust-
| trails to "glory row." With the 10 con-
verts of the afternoon there were 40
! "trail-hitters' at yesterdays meetings,
swelling the total number to 5O12.
God Commandeth All Men to Repent
| was the subject upon which Billy" was
preaching. and he made it plain that no
! person could go to Heaven or escape the
! punishments of hell if they refused to
| repent of their sins
Joining the church won't help you, you
! miserable old sinners" cried Sunday. IF
| YOU don't repent you are lost and you will
| go to hell. That's all there is TO it."
! A large proportion of the converts last
| night were women. They had marched
! to the tabernacle several thousand strong
! from the First Regiment Armory. where
| they assembled at o'clock under the
! auspices of the Business Women's Invita-
| tion Committee. Most of them were bus
! ness women, girls and women who are
| employed in the stores and Offices in the
| central part of the city. Not few of
| them were weeping as they walked for
| ward through the sawdust aisles and
| grasped the evangelist's hand.
| What is repentance" asked the evan
| gelist Repentance isn't just being sorry
| for what you've done. Repentance isn't
! just promising to do better Repentance
! is to stand before God convicted in your
| heart of sin. Repentance is to fall on your
| knees and say to God, oh, God, I'm going
| to try to do right. Help me help me-"
AGAIN ATTACKS MINISTER'S.
Again he attacked the tickle me-and-
| Ill-tlckle-you" preachers, as he called
them. "Oh you make a man feel like
God was stuck on him." he sneered at
them, shaking his fist the while, You
call vice and the devils sins by their right
names and you'll lick 'em every time.
| People die of poison because the bottles
aren't labeled right. There isn't such
commandment in the Bible as 'Thous shalt
not commit affinity" he jibed,
Death-bed repentances he scorned, de-
| claring:
There was only one case of death
| bed repentances recorded in the Good
| Book. And that was the thief on the
| cross beside Jesus at Calvary
"High-brows" and free-thinkers all
| came in for share of his blows. II
don't want to go in opposition 10 God
| to die and go to hell just to find out
whether the flames literal or not" he
| said
NO MORE SIDE TRIPS"
| Mr. Sunday was feeling tired and did
not arise until late this morning, When
he did he announced that he Aid not in
| tend to do much speaking OH his day of
rest in the future, and that he would
! not make visits to Baltimore, New Ssrk
! and Boston ON Mondays during his stay
| in Philadelphia, as he has been requested
| The task here was so great. he asserted
| il would require all the strength he could
| command,
The extension business women and shop
work is advancing rapidly, aud besides
| the tabernacle meetings this afternoon
/ and evening, there We're meetings at
! noon in the factories and Bible classes
| and meetings for school girls in all parts
| OF the city in the afternoon. The "a dis
| trlct prayer meetings, with Sunday party
workers in charge. We're largely attended
this morning.
The Rev. j. w. Welsh addressed the
| students of Medico-Chi College at the
| chapel this morning and at noon he
| smoke the emulOVAs a