Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-11
IDES BRING NO
SUNDAY COMMENT
|s,..ncelist Gazes at Portraits
i Academy and Simply
Passes On.

,.,o,ng of the nude failed to disturb
~, sundays equanlmity this morn
80, he visited the Pennsylvania
- of the Fine Arts and viewed
,-,,,,os which are being shown at the
Ihe pl'Ots.,,at exhibition Of that institution.
ilpln y Who knew that the evangelist
haly mine the exhibits this morning
osIetsd that some OF the paintings
VA most certainly get Billy's angora'
|Fouiita ,,ere disappointed When Billy
bdt my y reached that part of the gall
ena davoted to the painting of the
ere ne evangelist game the pictures
rvue - over" ana hurri ed on to view
,ss.s lees open to comment.
~ Sunday was particularly interested
Mf.aIntinr by Emil Carleen. who came
.,Is. cJtv from New York today espe-
.,i,, N conduct the evangelist through
~ galleries. II was entiteu " re OF
s.,,s w taltb." and BILLY pronounced 1t
A.us ~ the most powerful he had ever
sesn ~, Frederick Lewis, president of the
sl,v. prominent artists and the 200
aasrssnis of the institution gretted Mr.
'.Tsv s.'y and finally persuaded him to
snske few remarks.
.saiiy" told Mr.. Carleen that he wanted
], thank him personally for painting his
,ha students, officials and invited
.,sts Sunday told the art students and
s.,sts that they should never measure
IN value of their works by what they
.n,gbt have received for them at the end
N zach year. for the good they could
~ was without any set price. Many of
"a. 6nest acts he declared. have been
;nsnred by persons looking on great
paintings.
+ Tho evangelist was especially impressed
.ith BENJAMIN Vests wonderful master
olece, "Chrlst Rejected" For more than
ia minutes he stood before 1t and
riewed It,
Before returning to their home Mr.. and
afrs Sunday called on Mrs. Frank II.
IWyeth at her home, 1912 Rittenhouse
Equare,
''Billy' Sunday made an impassioned
defense of the Bible as the word of
God and the authority for the type of
rellglon preached at the tabernacle this
morning when he addressed an audience
Of more than 500 women, who assembled
IN the auditorium of the New Century
3 club, 18th street above Walnut, as the
quests OF Mrs H. S. Prentlss Nichols.
q II can substantiate my testimony as
4 10 the life and teachings of Jesus" the
Evangelist cried shortly after ne had be-
gun TO speak. Yes, / can substantiate
4 Il by the histories and writings of men
who lived In His day, men who are not
mentioned in the Bible"
4 DO YOU know" he thundered, that
! there are enough passages quoted from
4 the New Testament In the literature of
The period of the Apostles to piece to-
Eether SO much of that Book that we
+ should have most of II even If the Bible
4 Itself had been lost?'
Billy evidently felt that he was face
! 10 face with many of the higher critics"
who damn the Bible with faint praise,
/ those he has scored so often in sermons
preached at the tabernacle. The thought
seemed to stir him almost to the breaking
point but although he never resorted to
the slang so frequently heard at the
tabernacle services. he talked so fast
at times as to be understood only with
great difficulty.
II wish somebody would tell me why
people never doubt the word of Mark
Antony about Cleopatra, the fat-nosed
vile African enchantress," he cried, land
yet they are ready enough to doubt the
word Of God.
Moses lived about 500 years before
Homer" he continued. land some of Won
can quote Homer by the page and believe
.lL yet you refuse to believe that Moses
even existed
Clement of Rome, was a friend of the
|dlsciples. He wrote an epistle to the
church at Corinth, and it is just satu-
rated with information about those men
and the work they were doing. Further
more, can tell you that the New Testa-
ment was popular book of the age fol-
lowing the Apostles. and without a shad-
oW OF doubt II was in the hands of the
people before the last of the Apostles had
passed away, too.
u tell you the Bible is the word of
God. and when I cry fo- the people to
repent and accept Jesus Christ, 1 want
you to know that have the best author
nv In the world for what I say"
Al one point in his sermon "Billy"