Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-04-30
Secrets of Sundays Power.

Both the personality and the meth
odsof BILLY Sunday, the great evange
list who is preaching to about sixteen
thousand persons i'll Paterson daily,
afford an interesting study of psyche,
logy and at the same time Il unique
Phase OF human nature. If it is pos
slole TO nave extremes meet in the
same person and at the same time.
that possibility has its striking illus.
tration in the wonderful evangelist
who has captured our citizens. as he
does IN every community where he
iaOors. This absolute fcarlessness is
no doubt one of the many explanations
oil ms marvellous popularity. He de-
nounces what he believes to be wrong
III the individual and community with.
out fear or favor. lie can pour an
avalanche of anathemas oversin as he
views 1t with an irresistible torrent to
exceed any living man.
There Is an Unborn respect for the
truth in every human breast, even
where falsehood is allowed to exist.
ana an admiration for the man who
calls IA spade Il spade" and who at
tacks sin in every form without apol-
ogy. with this preacher sin is sin.
lie who commits it, in whatever form
Is SINNER, and cannot evade Gods
penalty for it only by the gospel pro-
visions made. If he is my friend who
tells me of my faults, then Mr.. Sun
day will be the friend of MANY thou
sands in our city. Too many, we fear.
who are recognized as religious in
struetors, .iV"soften the truth and
smoth their tongue" lest they offend.
There is a fairness in Mr.. Sundays
preaching that commends him even to
those who do not agree with him in
all he says. Where he mercilessly at
lacks evil, under whatever guise it
may appear, and is inspiring in his
denunciations of even the appearances
OF evil, he can speak admiringly of
what he can endorse. In his recent
sermon on Jacob" whom he STYLED n
Jew for he was grandson of Father
Abraham), he took occasion to paw
tribute to the Jews. Although a
Christian through and through, no
referred to them in most common
datory language. While admitting
their peculiar endowments as CONNER
clalists, he extolled the many noble
quantities they possessed; he cited the
DISTINGUISHED men who had been world
wide benefactors; he mentioned sever.
-. " ~ 90 oSatSoiileH Ilslu Deen Il DlcSS-
ing to their race. He admitted an
Indebtedness to the Jews for our Bible
our Christ, our Christianity and in
these statements, so earnestly spoken.
ne received the piolong applause of
his large audience He also exhibited
the same liberality in his reference to
the Roman Catholic Church; he de-
lighted in their strong and unchange-
able adherence to the cardinal doct-
rines of the Apos tolic Church, the
trinity and the IDENTITY of Christ, and
declared his belief that in its fellow
ship many of the most devout Christ
ians are to be found.
1t is this broad, liberal spirit that
dlsarms his hearers of criticism, and
while he has no mercy for the MANY
"isms and scisms" now broadcast.
unscriptural and absured, he eloquent
ly endorses all that is true, reasonable
and scriptural, wherever it exists.
MIR. Sundays liberality is one of the
secrets of his astonishing power over
the thousands who hear his sermons
and the still multitndes who read them
IN the newspapers.-Paterson Press