Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-08
Billy Sunday Tells What ReUiUdI
Is and Why IL is Needed at This Time

chapter Of Deuteronomy. II you don't
mind H. you're bound TO lose out.
when people are willing TO make SIC
rifices then there will be a revival. Sup
pose some one has slandered you, called
you a backbiter and gossip. stand out
for Jesus. Forget what your neighbor
says and think OF them with charity.
The church is one big family. Don't
allow anybody 70 insult the church. The
ord loves to see Christians with grit
md backbone.
You can tell when a town needs a re-
vival when Christians are willing to lot
God 20 ahead as He sees fit, and when
those Christians will not balk at His
orders 20 get out and work personally.
We are only the earthen vessels for these
revival fulfillments. II is a great honor
TO be ambassadors OF God II God should
send His Son TO this town and lie should
ask. DO you want a revival? Are you
willing to let me promote IL rs l see fitg
there would be tho greatest stirring up
this city has ever seen and the biggest
religious awakening.
Must Prepare Ahead.
But there would needs be some
preparations for n revival First, II
would be necessary 20 break the fallow
ground. Do you know what fallow
ground Isl II IL ground that has never
been plowed under-spots where old shoes.
old corsets. rubbish and junk heaps lie.
This fallow ground must be stirred up
In n religious sense 20 give God a chance
to do something.
Look into your past life. see your
sins. You don't go 70 prayer meeting.
you do this, that and the other thing that
IL worldly. Confess your sins; confess
them one by one-you committed them one
by one. Confess them Just as publicly as
you committed them.
"Hindrances to a revival? First OF ALL
sins Of omission, things you don't do that
God commands you TO do. You say. I
don't lie. don't steal. don't dc this and
that But do you love thy God with all
thy heart. with all thy SOUL and thy
neighbor as thyselfT This is one OF the
greatest faults OF the church.
Neglect of the Bible.
"Hindrances7 Neglect of the Bible. For
weeks or months you never read the
Bible. You take great care OF your phys-
zeal health, but not of your spiritual
health. You never pray. No wonder the
! church has become merely four walls.
with roof and an organ backed into the
corner. You go to church and stand when
you should, sit when you should. sing
when you should and then go home. But
/ you don't pray. II makes me sick.
"Hindrances? Neglect Of prayer. There
| are times when you omit your prayers.
times when you are not In the spirit of
! prayer. You see men and women going
| 10 the devil and you never protest. There
| Is want OF love for the souls of men.
| No wonder the community Is going to the
| devil. The trouble isn't to get the fellow
outside the church, but the one inside.
''Hlndrances.. In your own life. You
sin openly
"IIindrances? Pride Pride is ancestry
Don't puff up because you can trace your
ancestry back to the revolutionary war
God won't open the door of heaven to you
because OF that. My ancestors fought In
the revolution. I'm proud OF that, sure
am. but don't put that pride above pride
| In God You pin b. p. o. r. button on
yourself and strut. Good night When
your husband works for a living you talk
like common people. but when he gets a
little money you swell up. you shake
hands with two fingers. That kind OF peo-
pie have a brain OF bulk oysters and saw
dust Be like common folks. God likes
them. The devil likes you when you are
puffed up.
Rob God of Your Time.
why don't we have a revival2 won
der that God does as well as He does
with the crowd He has. You rob God Of
your time by squandering hours In vain
things. We've got to have amusement.
yes, but Great God. when the theate
and leg show can muster more than a
prayer meeting. what Is the old world
coming tot
You have q temper. Oh you say. it's
quick. all over In a minute So is a
shotgun. but it blows everything before
It. The telephone girl gives you the
wrong number. and you fly off the
handle. You get after the butcher II he
sends you porterhouse steak with bone
and fat ON It, Why. he had to pay for It,
meat. bone and fat.
why don't we have a revival? Because
We lack the prevailing spirit of prayer.
Confess to God your sins against God;
confess 20 man your sins against man.
When you do that then you will know
what prevailing prayer is. then you will
know from experience the answer to