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The Washington herald., 1915-01-19
lilly SUNDAYS CHARACTERISTIC SERMON

1 trying to influence others to live for
Him, and am 1 dealing honestly in
business, or do l say il is all-wool
when it is half cotton. or imported
when it was made in Philadelphia?
What are you doing in business? Are
you found behind every influence that
it for the good of humanity Are you
the uncompromising foe OF everything
that is evil? II Jesus Christ would
come to Washington. what changes
would you make in your life II you
had twenty-four hours notice that He
was coming?
Supposing that I notified Washington
that He would be here tomorrow alter
noon at eight minutes past five Cput your
watch up? I'm keeping track. What
would you do il you had twenty
fours hours notice that Jesus is
Would you change any dates that
you have already made? Would yOI
telephone that you can't be there? Would
you say it Is all off Um, Hum, would
you tear up any letters you have written?
Would you take some that you have
gotten and burn them so that your wife
would not find them? Would you go and
apologize to somebody for saying what
you have said? Would you pay some
debt that you have refused to pay or
would you go into bankruptcy ana take
refuge behind the bankrupt wall? Would
you deed back the property that you
swindled some fellow out Of? Would you
pull out Of your check-boolC and write a
check and pay back the money you are
stealing? Would you? Would you go TO
Him and tell Him that you have lied
about Him? Would you do that? Would
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CIVILIZATIONS CENTRAL FIGURE.

oh. He has become the central figure
in all the civilizations of all the CEN
turtles OF the world Now, let me try to
describe. Whenever a man looks at
Jesus Christ you feel yourself under an
obligation to reproduce anew the charac-
ter that Jesus Christ expressed That is
If you are man of decency, and want
TO be decent you may sneer at histori-
cal Christ, and love only the ideal Still
ycu have got TO reckon with the magni-
tud" Of the first power that is the Christ
of human eXperience-the Christ of hu-
man experience. There is something that
calls out 10 your spiritual and moral ma
tureS TO awaken in you. The very name
# Jesus that makes us dissatisfied with
sin, no matter how much We may love
it.
The name of Jesus shames you out of
vice into purity; out OF falsehood into
truth; out of pettiness into largeness; out
Of sin into salvation: out of drunkenness
into sObriety: from living a double, mis-
cradle life, and into talking square with
your wife and not breaking your marriage
vows. Nobody can think of Jesus Christ
without feeling laid upon YOU the obliga-
ton to surrender your little puny pigmy
infnitecimal mediocre life to His for the
noble and grander world of the power of
Jesus Christ
He can take himself and so infuse
himself into every man and woman
that will surrender to him that it is
impossible for any man or any woman
to be his or her whole self without
making Jesus Christ the master of
your life. You cant do il, and /
don't give a rap who you are or where
you come from. II is the perfection
of character. and you cannot escape
Jesus Christ without ceasing to be
your best self. Mans highest useful
ness is reached in Jesus Christ. and
when you turn your back on Jesus
Christ you assassinate your character.
When you turn your back on Jesus
Christ you are forfeiting all right to
be respected. You surrender your self
respect that otherwise you would have,
when you say mo" to Jesus. 1t is of
this Christ I want to speak.
II Christ came to Washington-l
whenever royalty enters a city it is a
holiday. o. she is decked in holiday
attire; every honor is shown: saIutes
are fired; flags are waved; people sing
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WOULD NOT ACCEPT HIS DOCTRINE.

that would crowd TO behold the old Bard
of Avon.
And if I could announce that Milton,
whose bright eyes seemed to see, were
to speak. thousands would flock to look
in the fact and the sightless eyes of the
immortal author of Paradise Lost" II
I could announce Oliver Cromwell, under
whose spartan devotion England was
ripped and torn from the hands Of King
Charles 7. tens of thousands would rush
and stand with uncovered heads 10 catch
a glimpse of Old Ironsides.
And if I could announce that Napoleon
Bonaparte. the greatest general of any
day. the greatest man that ever marshall
ed men upon the battlefield. l would have
told the star, for he could hit the ball.
If I could announce that he were to
speak-why. he played with armies like
boys played with marbles. and he made
and unnade kings and kingdoms, just
for amusement-why. tens of thousands
would rush 10 see and hear the little
corporal
And if I could announce that Christie
pher Reed, who could dream Cathedrals
as easily as you could eat ice cream in
August. and he could swing domes Of
marble in the air with all the careless
abandonment of boy blowing soap bub-
hles-if 1 could announce the man who
produced St. Paul, thousands would rush
10 look at him
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He was in Boston long before Paul
Revere waved the lantern and said: Beat
it, oh, Jesus Christ-why. he was in
Denver long before Fremont or Ludwig.
on the day they moved across the plains.
He was IN Frisco long before. my friend,
or in Los Angeles. long before there
was an orange grove. He was there long
before the old Spanish missionaries--he
was there. He was there, my friends;
he has never been out Of 1t. He has never
been out OF it, He was In Paris before
Napoleon turned the cannon on Parislans
and the mob. He was in London before
they beheaded Lady Jane Grey. or took
Charles the First and put Cromwell on
the mart. He was in St. Petersburg long
before Ivan the Terrible, and Peter the
Great rhled over the people.
tie has never been out Of Washington
There is a little degree OF unfaithfulness
with that. He has heard every lie that
has fell from your lips. He has seen
every false vote that hes been recorded,
or Of your constituents, and. sir, he has
seen every vicious thought, that has struC-
Eled for birth in your brain. He has
heard every sneed and lie, and holy and
noble thing. He has seen every yielding
10 low debauched. grovelinG. vile. iniquit-
Gus. corrupt dehasing, thing lie has
known every impure thought that went
through your mind. il you approached
il in the secret of your Imagination. Oh.
he has seen every corrupt practice and
every injustice
He has moved In the madened crowd
OF every strike. He has seen every elc-
ment of justice or injustice that moved
the thrOng-Jesus has. He has heard the
cry OF that broken hearted wife that
came from the home Of squaIor and want
and misery. Oh, he has heard the wall
of little children tuEging at empty breasts
for milk. Oh. he has heard every prayer
that has risen from the lips Of the penl-
tent, seeking salvation. He has been at
the counsel table Of every great corpora
tinn and he has known when propertv
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the square forest preaching the insepa-
rable riches of Jesus Christ and calling
the people from their sins. He knew
the very thoughts, uppermost in the
minds Of the Italians, were:
What kind of a government will
emerge from all this mob?" and "Will 1t
be monarchy continued, or a republi-
can form Of government? What will
happen?' The other question was: What
VIII be the religion Of Italy? viii It be
Christian or Pagan? Will the cross wave
or the star and the crescent And he
knew that those thoughts were upper
most in the minds of the Italians, and
he cried ''O-h-h-h-h, Florence: Jesus
Christ waits to be your king. What is
your answer" And the people swayed
and they cried, "Jayzu Christie, Ell not tro
SALVADOR" ('Jesus Christ. our King and
Savior.D Down the streets they rushed.
The people caught the inspiration. They
screeched and screamed. II rolled out
side the limits. over the hills, through
the valleys they went. This cry rang
out "Jayzu Christie, ell nos tro salvadorr'
Washington, Washington Jesus Christ
waits to have you crown Him. What is
your answer Do you do It? Do you
believe in Him? Do you bow before
Him!
If you do, stand up with me and let me
look at you while pray. Get up; every
body. Say 'I believe in him" II you
don't want you to keep your seat.
What Is your answer? /.
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You're not going square. old man"
You could not get away. Men and
women. let me ask you. The eyes of
Jesus Christ are upon you. I plead with
YOU to live that those eyes may smile
on you and this ambition to have Jesus
Christ pleased with your life mas been
tho inspiration of all that is good and
noble and pure in the lives of all that
have lived and made the world better.
Oh, some people are only something to
help make up a crowd. and all they are
fit for is to help the census man count
one more when he gives the population.
Live the Christian life, men, will you?
Men will respect you: women will ad-
miro you. Little children will love you
God will crown your days with success
and happiness and when the twilight Of
your life minEles with the purpling dawn
Of eternity, the world will speak your
name with honor and baptize your grave
with tears. when the Lord attunes for
you the evening chimes of life, II you
live for God and live for Him.
Oh, this unavoidable Christ! WHAT do
you want to avoid Him for? You avoid
impure food because there is a law that
says you cannot put impure things into
this food. All, right! Why do you avoid
Jesus Christ? 1t is a bad sign il you
avoid Him. I feel sorry for you, my
friends: and If you avoid Him il is be-
cause your conscience condemns you
something is wrong in your life 1t is
impossible for any man or
woman to put himself or herself face to
face with Jesus Christ and unblushingly
live a bad life.
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MUST TAKE HIM INTO ACCOUNT.

He is with the evidence you think about
yourself. You cannot ask these two ques-
tions: Where did come from?'' and
Where am I going tor without taking
Jesus Christ into account He is with
you every time you think about your con-
duct. He has so thoroughly incarnatcd
in Himself all that is good that it is i'm
possible for YOU or for me 10 think Of
right and OF wrong without thinking Of
Jesus Christ.
l don't give a rap who you are. You
can't do 1t. He entered and passed
through Jerico. All right. Hold on a
minute. Now! There is a story in the
New Testament that reads like this. OF
how Jesus, after His resurrection, ap-
peared in the room where his disciples
were gathered together. His appearance
was mystery. The doors were all lock-
ed and apparently He had walked through
locked door. Well, there was a time
when the highbrOw, the homolitical. dI-
dactic' kid-gloved, AIberted.
white-necktied. bell-wethers of the devil
said. that couldn't be possible. Is that so?
! tell you the time has come when the
preachers of this country have got to be
something more than walking theological
mummies with isms and breathing a note
of hyeroglyphics and terminology Of the
Latin-Greek streets which can be intel
lectually-they cannot do it, HaIIeIuiah,
So there.
You know that He can walk through
doors, for He walked into your bedroom
when you woke up last night, and said
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I II His presence would trouble you. that
| is a bad sign for you: il His presence
would worry you. you had better square
| away. If Jesus Christ came here.
where would I like 70 have Him
find me? Would I want Him to find
me down in the city, lined up in front
Of a bar and pouring down the double dis
| titled damnatiOn as a stagnant to sputter
and spew and vomit down down the
street? Would care to have Him find
me there? Where would you like to
have Jesus Christ find you il he came to
town today? Would you like to have Him
find you down in some hall and wrapped
in the arms OF a woman selling manhood,
and always with her friends whose doors
open upon the paths of He'll? Or would
you like to have Him find you plotting
forth the ruin of some conlding person
in the world? Or would you like to have
him find you sitting in a seat Of scorn
and blasphemy.
If Jesus Christ came to the city. with
whom do you think He would spend most
OF his time? What do you think He
would do about it? With those who
sneer upon him? Do you think He
would spend his time. my friends. in some
ballroom? No Do YOU think He
would spend his time sitting in a Sunday
theater looking al a woman with sCanty
attire? Would you want Him to find
you III the social swirl with people that
never darken the church door from one
months end to another?
Would you want Him to find YOU sit
ting on the bench in the summer time
at Sunday baseball game? I played
baseball for eight years professionally.
played it here in Washington. want
to tell you it is the cleanest game IN
America. Absolutely on the square If
there was anything crooked about II, 1
would put you next; but it is the cleanest
game in America; but l never stood for
Sunday baseball, and never will stand
Tor 1t. The best Christian is the best
citizen. The man who has the most re-
spect for Gods law will have the most
respect for mans law. o, I know where
He'd go. He'd go wherever there is
sinner, wherever there is a poor outcast
He would search around ior mud-sills
and the submerged tenth OF society He
would not be afraid OF soiling His gar
ment by going there either. II He was
here in Washington, I know where He
would go. Wherever anybody is in need,
regardless OF their class, whether native,
foreign born, rich, poor, black, white.
learned, illiterate wise or simple, rich or
poor. No, He'd go freely and frankly to
the poorest tenement as well as He would
on Sixteenth street
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you tell the brewer wagon It need not
call any more? Would you tell that
fashionable grocer that he need not send
up any more wine? Not to him.
II Jesus is coming to town. are there
any books on your library shelf you
would take of and throw away? 1 am
asking you, are there any pictures on
the wall that you would tear down and
throw into the waste basket? Are you
planning to go anywhere they you would
not go? Have you anything in the ice
box YOU would take out when you 20
home this afternoon? I am asking you.
That is all. Would you make any change
in your prayer schedule II you knew
Jesus was coming to Washington tomor-
row?
Jesus Christ was here when the Indians
camped on the bank of the river. Jesus
Christ was here when State street used
to be the western boundary OF Lake
Michigan. Jesus Christ was there when
the fire swept away 5000 acres Of build
ings and left 100000 people without homes.
Jesus Christ was in Washington before
its name. He was in Washington before
Henry Clay rode In here on horseback
from Kentucky. He was here before
Daniel Webster made his memorable re-
ply He was here before Thomas Jeffer-
son wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence. He was in Philadelphia before Old
Liberty Bell ever rang out. He was in
Philadelphia before Ben Franklin walked
the streets. He was in New York long
before old Peter Stuvesant governed
where the St Regis Hotel and the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel now are.
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plan OF conduct just as a teacher would
teach lesson aid you stand up and
recite like "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night" or Mary Had a Little Lamz"
That is all there is to it. And Buddha
Well, he was a genius. His influence
was exemplary. He tells us to illustrate
the attitude of self-fOrgetfulness. In our
day we call it Christian Science. Hold on!
II the name of Jesus Christ meant no
more than the memory Of some genius
who lived 1000 years ago, I could lock
up His name and I could imprison it in
a word like Scholastic and ''discip-
Hnary," and this and that and the other,
but Jesus Christ does more than all of
them. He puts into touch with God
through our repentance, and He shed
blood on the cross His name stands for
tender intimacy and fellowship that no
other name in all history stands for
Oh. they say Old Socrates created a sort
OF individual movement which is TODAY
n vital force in the factor of the worlds
life. but he left no trace behind him. His
memory is not hallowed by hymns or
by any prayer or religion. No artist
ever found in his name an inspiration for
pictures. No sculptor carved marble aft
er MIN. Not one person in a million
could stand up and give a quotation
from Socrates. The old PHILOSOPHER of
Athens-he remains the teacher of a scat
tered Few here and there. but Jesus Christ
OF Nazareth abides in the human heart
and is an inspiring and comforting friend.
That's the reason We stand I'D and
say I need Thee every hour most
gracious Lord No tender voice like Thine
can peace afford" 1t was said that
Caesar sort of crystallized in the insti-
tutions of government a theory of state
craft which made Rome the dominant
factor in his day and generation, and
pushed humanity forward in his march
OF progress, and Caesar stamped his |
genius upon the life and the times of his
day until in our political and in our
life, we feel the influence today /
OF the Roman law developed under !
Caesar. They say that the ghost Of |.
Caesar walks through the council cham |
bers OF Europe even today, but no organ
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I am sure I should be-to say nothing
of compliment. if were insensible of
the high honor my friend confers upon
me. Officially he is known as Speaker
Clark, but I know him as Champ. I am
delighted for the privilege of speaking be-
fore you today. You will hear nothing
new. ! have nothing new TO offer you
but the same old Gospel that has warmed
the old worlds heart for 200 years.
My text is that Jesus entered and
passed through Jericho 1900 years ago"
A star poised above a lowly manger in
Bethlehem and above the moonlit mills
of Judea, the angels heralded the be-
ginning of the life of Jesus Christ who
came to teach the original human kind
ness and repentance and faith in Him
for the salvation of our guilt
No matter what He did, the Jews and
the Gentiles refused to acknowledge His
claim.
The announcement of the coming of
any historical person TO Washington at
this time would excite far and wide
spread interest. II could announce
that Shakespeare, in the analysis of
whose brains all classes and all races
of mankind and institutions gave up their
secrets. were to speak, excursions would
be run and the building has not vet been
erected large enough to hold the mob
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II l could announce Michael Angelo
were TO speak, why. his skill helped to
build St Peters. He expressed his last
judgment upon the walls which stand on
the back Of the arch on one OF the seven
wonders of the world-all Of them would
rush.
And II 1 could announce that John Bun
yOn. who talks to US in his writings and
soothes our pain and listens TO our pray
ers and stops all doubts and helps us to
solver the problems of life, the immortal
author of Pilgrims Progress" He
seizes US in our childhood with the strong
hand Of his compelling power and brings
our manhood and womanhood to surren-
der TO the spell Of his matchless sorcery,
and he has done more to uplift US. he
has painted the attractive colors, and he
has spoken of the human heart in more
tender words since Paul was heard at
Athens-if l could announce that he
were to speak. thousands would rush to
hear the Bedford tinker.
And If I could announce that Wash
inEton, first in peace, first in war, and
first in the hearts of his countrymen,
who pushed his way across the Delaware
and waded in snow knee-deep at Valley
Forge. while his army wrote their names
on a nations manuscript-if I could an
H'aL1G IildN He were 10 appear IN the
city that bears his name, America would
take a holiday and they would all rush
10 the District Of Columbia TO sing My
Country It's Of Thee. Sweet Land"
But ! need not consume my energy nor
your time in telling you that the an
nouncemcnt OF the coming OF Jesus Christ
10 Washington would awaken an interest
and send a thrill Of expectancy beyond
that of any other character that has
ever lived And the concern we would
feel for Jesus Christ would be vastly
different. not only in the magnitude. my
friends. hut in its essence. The ADM
ration We would feel towards these char
acters that I have briefly described would
be based upon our appreciation Of the
intellectual. upon the artistic, Of war. or
Of anything. and we instinctively feel tEe
difference that the coming of Jesus would
arouse and awaken in our hearts and
because his name is inseparably connect
cd with religion. and after all has been
said and done, religion is the true meas
ure Of mans concern.
Religion is the base line Of your char
aCter. Mans attitude toward God is the
real viewpoint Of his character Don't
come and talk to me, whether you came
afoot or rode in an automobile. Don't
talk to me. whether your name is rated
by Bradstreet or r. G. Dunn. That cuts
no ice when it comes TO looking at the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Men may guile religion, they may mis-
represent, they may scorn 1t, but in their
heart OF hearts they feel that in religion
your life finds its highest expression and
mans greatest usefulness is reached
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Rep with picturesque paseology forceuncss clarity
of dicon and wealth of classical historical and lusion the
address of Rev Billy yesterday
than Convention Hall
strictly speaking, sermon
Christ from beginning end The slang which the evangelist adept
appeared intervals, but pronounced Of
little below the
number members of the audience somewhat disappointed
Billy" evidently
delivering the people of the National Capital the
and Gospel Savous o mankind.
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light had difficulty his track
unable follow the
line of discussion.
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stereotype Johnson OF Todd place northeast
especially Herald Mr. Johnson declared Billy the
speaker this word
recorded the benefit OF those of
the The transacr
speech accomplished Mr. Johnson's
assistants performed The eangeI address