The Brinkley argus., 1915-04-02
ANOTHER BILLY SUNDAY SERMON
The Great Evangelist Breaches to Thousands ln
 Philadelphia on the Lesson of Job.

published in the ARGUS during the past few weeks have proven so acceptable to the ARGUS read CTS, that we publish part of another by the great evangelist.
 Billy Sunday was paid more than $5O,00O.00 for his three months work at Philadelphia but this amount was nothing to com- pare with the work done. Each one of the great Philadelphia dailies featured Sundays ser- mons every day with double column heads on the front page giving them equal prominence with the war news. This in itself was worth in dollars and cents to the Christian cause double the amount paid to Sum- day, but that isn't all. The great industrial plants. factories and organizations, bear testi- mony to the fact that they have been benefited in dollars and cents by the influence of the Billy Sunday revival far more than its cost.
 Sunday has now been in the evangelist work 25 years and possibly there is not a man preaching the gospel today who is so cursed and abused as he, though with it all, he has been a consistent, consecrated man of God.
 The following sermon on Job IS therefore of special interest:
 Job had character that stood out like a pyramid against the devils business. If you want to find out what hard fight the devil can make, what a hot fire he can wage, live close enough to God.
 Some of you church members don't believe in fire and brim- stone you would if you got clear out on Gods firing line. That's what Job did. and that's why the devil opposed him.
 As soon as God declared that Job was perfect it was up to the devil to prove that he wasn't. It's the devils business to lombard everybody that God speaks well of. He has done that from Adam down until the present time. He will continue to do so until the Lord comes and drives him away, out of the world.
 The devil is prompting the things that are being said about me, and some of the meanest, most yillifying, most scurrilous things are being said about me by people in the church. Some of the ministers are in it, too.
 A mans character is what is left after you have taken away everything else that he can lose. After you strip the peel off everything else that man can lose, then you begin to catch a glimpse of the real man.
 Character never dies. It comes from God eternal as the great White Throne. It stands four square against everything evil. That's why the devil and all his hosts make war upon it.
 But the devil never gets any rest where there's good >man or woman. know the devil IS making lot of trouble for me, but Pm keeping him busy, and don't you forget that.
 The devil would like to have every married man in Phila- delphia keep keep a woman on the side; every girl sell her virtue. He hates perfection, and you're on his side, you big idiot. You're a fool. You never thought so little of yourself be- fore, did you? Do something for God.
 There are a lot of nominal Christians who have subscribed to all the articles of the creed, but their minds are sterile, they never reproduce. Their minds are nothing but a sick ward of llmpotent, paralytic purposes. Where i s the religious man