The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-12
Wednesday Nights Sermon


Billy Sunday spoke Wednesday
night as follows;
Text: Seek ye the Lord while
He may be found, call ~ upon Him
while He is near Let the wicked
forsake his way. and the Unrgh'-
eous man HIS thoughts. and let him
return unto the Lord and He will
have mercy upon him and 20 o.
God. for he will abuncantly par
don. Isaiah w, 81.
ITO seek God Is mans hlghesf
duty and his greatest privilege
That is an address 10 the moralist
address 10 the society woman a.
well as TO the woman selling her
virtue in the redlight district
THE first thing 10 remember
abou, being saved IS that salvation
is a personal matter Seek ye The
Lord'-that means everyone must
seek for himself
1T won't do for the parent 20
seek for the children; II won't o.
for the children 20 seek FOR the
parent
II you were sick all the medicine
| might take wouldn't do you any
good Salvation IS a personal mat
ter that no one else can do fOr you
you must attend 10 il yourself
1T won't do you any good II your
wife IS a Christian You have got
TO be something more than a broth.
er-in-law 10 the church. You may
say 1 can't understand all the 81
bic teaches Neither can /. bur the
man who says he cant understand
the Bible isn't living up 10 what be
can understand
God won't hold you responsible
for doing what you haven't got
sense enough 20 do II | can under
stand more than you do God holds
me responsible 20 do more than
you II YOU understand more than
/. then God holds you responsible 20
do more than I. II you seek first
the kingdom 81 God your under
standing will grow
you say. We'll cant under
stand how Jesus dying on the cross
and shedding his blnaa saved iup
You don't need 10 understand ir
--obey n I don't know how 81 Is
that putting seed in the ground
will make the seed grow don
understand n We don't have ta
understand how the food We eat
builds muscle brain and r-sHos
just shovel the grub down and for
get IT,
God a Revelation.
God Is a reyelation-uo an ex-
PLANTATION You cant explain how o
seed viii grow bat put tr in tbc
ground and IL viii reveal 70 you
that II does, although YOU cant -z
plain why
But never mind what we con.
know You can 20 and pfrk uD III,
dewdrops from the doorstep and
may find In them a rainbow on
which an angel will stand and weer
over a dying world
"You say There are hypocrites Sol
the church know "a. and there
are many in the church who are
not, too.
Heaven doesn't look right wher
you look az q through beyelec
kldHh UT NNth YOU Wy 10 LOOK d' IT
with the devils goggles on Just
give your heart 10 God. and yol
will see thousands ~ hypocrlte,
outside the church where YOU 500,
Uup in there now.
Find God and other folks vii
look great deal better 20 you whpf
YOU look al them through salvation
You wilA find your neighbors hous,
will look great deal better II so,
only wash your own windows, ulS
man.
The fellew who looks through
cobwehs sees spiders all the time
you say. I never did any harm
That has nothing 10 do with IN
case: conduct is not an Issue Their
are plenty OF snakes in the gras
that have never bitten anybody YET
Hut YOU wouldn't let your childrei
play with n snake because " h8'
never done any harm.
Nobody would vote 10 turn
mad dog loose on the streets he
cause II has not bitten anybody yet
There II no difference between be
lng wronR and doing wrong an'