The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-10


lodge with a bar in it is as bad as a
saloon; and hotel with bar attach
ment is worse than a saloon
IF you're bound to dance, get a di-
vorce from Jesus Christ he shouted.
Talk of dancing Christian you
might just as well speak of a heaven
ly devil"
as it well with thee? Is it well with
thy husband? Is it well with the
child?"
Those three questions taken from
an old Bible story, made up the text
of Billy Sundays sermon Wednesday
night. A pathetic story that probably
thousands of the great throng in the
Tabernacle never heard before; and
those who had heard it, or read it, got
a new version of it, as Sunday told it
in his own vivid, luminous, vigorous
way that made the characters in it
live, and breathe, and weep and laugh,
as if it had happened in Kansas City
today instead of in Palestine thou
sands of years ago.
The Story.
1t was a story of the elemental emo
tions that come, to all of us at some
time; a woman whose husband was
unsympathetic; her little boy whom
she loved; the man of God, to whom
she looked for guidance and comfort
in spiritual things. One day the child
died and the mother went alone for
the prophet and chung to his knees,
and plead with him, and would not
let him go, and would not let him send
a substitute, but forced him by her
entreaties to come with her and raise
her child again. And then the joy of
the mothers heart when her child was
restored.
From this Sunday drew the three
lessons of his sermon: rs it well with
thee?''
Not if you are unsaYed.
rs it well with thy husband?"
Not if he is unsaved.
"Is it well with the child ~
Not if he has an ungodly father; a
mother who never prays
Stranger Must Save Them.
There are boys and girls, young
people, if they ever walk the streets of
heaven instead of groaning in hell it
will be because of the influence of
some stranger. 1t will be because OF
what somebody, not related to them
by ties of flesh and blood, has done
for your children shouted Sunday.
God pity boy or girl who has to
call a man like that father, and a wo-
man like that mother.
God pity a boy or girl, when all the
Christianity they hear is from the
lips of strangers, not from their own
parents.
els it well with the child?'
You spend too little time on your
knees praying to God to keep the
home right for Jesus Christ.
Speak to them Live right before
them Set them an example that will
inspire them.
81 can't imagine a father and moth
er tucking themselves in bed and let
ting their children CAD the streets.
Be Fishers of Men.
Billy Sunday, in his sermon Wed
nesday afternoon, said:
unto them, come We after Me and
will make you to become fishers OF
men,
Jesus did not say follow me and
will make you feeders of sheep. In
many churches nine-tenths of expend
ed energy is in feeding the sheep.
Fifty weeks in the year are spent
preaching to sheep in the church ant
two weeks to the people outside
Someone says, The sheep need to be
| fed, don't they? Surely, but the best
way to feed the ninety-and-nine is tt
forget them and go out after the one
that is lost.
1.-THE church that spends all of its
time conserving the doctrine and
membership may become an evangeI
ical church. The church that is sim
ply evangelical is the church on ice
the church that is evangelistic is the
church on fire for God Almighty.
There are thousands of church
members who seem to think the
preachers sole duty is to provide then
with predigested religious food, which
from Sunday to Sunday they may bt
able to bolt, being themselves reliev
ed of the process of mastication and
| digestion.
That's the reason so many who
| take this attitude towards the minis
try die of fatty degeneration Of tbs
soul or spiritual locomotor ataxia.
"The thousand and one makeshtft'
| the people, now use in the place o
atonement are well and good in theil
place, but their place is not here.
You'll all begin to learn somethin:
! if you don't sit here with your mouth:
open and your ears closed. When yol
do begin to hear something, don't ST
around and pout and knock and b
spiteful and mean.