Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-07
BILLY" SUNDAYS SERMONS

y ought to feel Himself compiimented tina
/ they were IN place like that, Their
n was one little girl who had lost he
a virtue and was selling her womanhoo
o for gain. She said, oh, God, save m
p for Jesus; ! ask forgiveness for my slns
1 and You have said that though the!
= we're crimson they would DO made white
than snow" There WINS another hope
/ less helpless drunkard who had stag
, gered In and roeled with misery ant
suualor and want, and he said, "oh, God
. save me; / am a hopeless drunkardi
have broken my mothers heart, sent ml
wife 10 her grave, but save me fol
, Jesus" out of those II God only saved
two people, because while they were mis-
cradle sinners thoy were honest enough
| to tell God that they were sinners and
deserved he'll; they didn't try TO fix the
thing UP and make God believe that He
ought to consider Himself complmented
Don't try TO smooth things out with
God; come as you are.
1.-THE year I was born my father went
TO war. He never came back and !
never looked In my fathers face / fought
my way through poverty and squalor,
and once made an application for Job
as janitor Of n schoolhouse, and the
Board OF Education gave me the Job. l
got SIS n month, but nobody called me
CRATER then.
zone day went TO the bank with my
| check for months pay. man ahead
of me tossed check through the win
dow to the teller and / threw mine In.
I received my money and walked out to
| the street, where I counted IL. I found
] had $40 instead of $25. I told a friend
about IL, BILL he said II I had your
luck I'd buy a lottery ticket / wanted
to return the extra money, but my friend
said no.
Buy suit Of clothes, and you will
still have the s25. So 1 did. But years
later l was convinced OF sin, and when
was praying the Lord told me about
the money owed the bank.
:" But, Lord, the bank doesn't know I
owe IT, said.
"'No,' replied the Lord. but you know
you owe IT.
fright there began struggle to be a
man or a fool. Every time I'd pray I'd
see that SIS and interest. So I sent the
bank check and explained. and ever
since have felt all right. You owe some
merchant bill Pay up; don't be
deadbeat.
II desire tonight to ask a few ques-
tlons and answer them, questions that
l think will lay the foundation of sue
cess In your life for every individual,
which Will arouse you and make you bet
ter men or women; make a better COM
munity and n better home. What will |
give US power with God? What will give |
US power with man? God will not hear |
you because you are wise or simple. God |
is no respecter of persons; he doesn't
care whether you wear q tailor-made or
a hand-me- down.
zone time a dirty laboring man went
into church and knelt beside the Duke
of wellington The food kid usherette
told the man not to kneel there, as that
was the Duke of wellington, and the
duke replied by putting his arms around
the man and saying: When we kneel be-
fore God there are no dukes princes or
earls, but we all take the same level
POWER IN EXTREMITY.
you will have power with God when
you reach an extremity. II 1 had my
choice of tabernacle filled with pray
ing Christians and one of non-ChrstIans
I would take the former. for If we
get the inside right We can get the out
side. The city doesn't stand that won't
move for God IL the church people do.
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Lon
don will fall on their faces in repen-
tance II the church people move.
"At one place where was preaching a
mother came to mo asking me to help
save her son who was a drunkard, who
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his sister and his wife. / searched for
him. but could not find him. That night
In the tabernacle led a drunken man
from a post against which he was lean
Ing down to the altar. There was
scream, and the mother and sister came
forward. They had sown in
tears, they reaped in joy. They had
reached an extremity.
II think the Church Of God has been
eating too much. sleeping too much and
taking things too easy. Man should be
an active force, not a Dead sea- On
one day In the week you live like a
saint and the other six like a devil.
CRIME STATISTICS.
"All sorts of crime are on the increase.
Listen. I'll give you some figures that
viii startle you.
There is one murder for every hour
lay and night. year in and year out In
-his country. Eighty-sIx out of 81 muir
ierers are never caught, In Germany
here are eight murders to every million
n population, in England nine. In Canada,
a; In France, is; in Belgium. II; In the
United States, 80. and 1t is a 1o-to-1 bot
hat they never get caught, and so-to-l
'et they will never be hanged.
'Graft has strangle-hold on religion.
IN everything. Investigation shows n
'ermeates everything. I know of an
Undertaken that offered a preacher a
ake-off on all the funerals turned his
way School superintendents are offered
graft by publishing house II they will
ecommend their books. Labor leaders
all strikes because contractors won't
on1e across. Look at your State capitol
raft Senator's are charged with buying
heir seats In the Senate.
Church members rent their property
o saloons If you do you are Just as
ow as the saloon. II you rent property
or houses Of Ill fame you are living
irectly on the product OF graft. Graft
} destroying religion. It has Pennsyl-
Rnia by the throat. 1t won't let you
ote for local option, but II makes you
ote for some Judge who Is TO do the
eciding. The present political system is
ne Of graft and plunder.
ADULTERATED FOODS.
Doctor 8usby tells me ZOO babies die
very year because OF impure food. Food
in our country is amazinE.
fud is shaped like coffee beans. glazed