The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-22
angelt Billy Sunday Tells His Hearers What God Demands of the Christian

I be all sticks. but now he can write
la5 words minute Let God have
your hands and he Will make them
! DO things that wugid make the an.
gels wonder and applaud
Dancing and Wine
a young man went down 10
I Thomasville. Ga. and while there
I was invited 20 a dress ball or rath-
or an undress ball \ young Lady
YOUNG lady With eyes ike a dove
and with beautiful tresses came up
10 him and said Won't YOU pledge a
glass OF champagne with me- The
young man thanked her. but said
No. don't drink Not with me .
she said. ard smiled. And again he
answered No Then she said
II | had thought you would refuse
me- | would not have asked YOU and
exposed myself 20 the embarrassment
OF a refusal.
a little later she came back 20
him and repeated her invitation
Again ne said No Others came up
and laughed He took Il and hest.
lated She smiled AZ h.u and ne gave
in and drank The champagne, then
drank another GLASS and another. IN.
III ne vas flushed with d. then he
danced AZ . o'clock the next morn.
ing man with a linen buster over
his oufsr clothes walked nervousl ~
on a railroad station platform walt
ing FOR train FOR the North. and as
be walked be would exclaim. oh,
Coo" and would pull q pink flask
from hts rocket and drink Ny God
he would say, what wiN mother
saw -Four months later IN his home
In Vernon. With his weeping par
en,s by him and with four strong
men 70 hold him down. he died Of
delirium tremens
The Epvorth Leagues motto Is;
Look up. lity NJ but you'll never
IN much az unless God has hold 81
your hands Unless BE has YOU will
never put your hand deep IN you-
pocket. up 70 the elbow ard bring II
VI rull OF money FOR HIS cause.
Ahea; the arst- hing religion does
IL 20 cut the strings around the
pocketbook.
A man who was about 70 b. hap
tired took out his watch and laid II
aside. then be took out his knife and
bank book ard laid them aside Bet
ter give me your pocketbook 20 put
aside for you said the minister No
said the man, I want Il to go under
with me
There's no such thing "a bar
gain counter religion. Pure and un-
tehled religion will do more when
God had something besides pennies
70 work with God doesn't run any
excursions 20 Heaven. You must
pay the full fare Your religion IL
worth just what IL costs you II you
get religion and then lie down and
20 20 sleep your Joints will get stin
as Rip Van Wrinkles did. and
you'll never win the religious mara
thon.
"A man said 20 his wife that he
had heard the preacher say that re-
lig.on Is worth lust what II costs
and that he had determined 20 give
more for religion and 70 deny him
self a. well What Will YOU give up
she asked. He said that he would
GIVE up cofee-for he dearly loved
coree-used 10 drink several cups
az every meal. the very best. She
said that she would give NJ some
thing. too-tha- she would give up
tea. Then their daughter said she
would give up some Of her little
pleasures. and the father turned 70
hts son. Tom. who vas shoveling
mashed potatoes. covered with chick
en- gravy. into bis mouth, said, III
give up salt n1ackerel never did
like the darned stuff anyway
There are too many salt mack
erel people Ike that IN the pevs In
our churches today They will take
something that they don't Ike, and
that nobody else viii have. and give
n 20 the Lord That isn't enough
for God. He wants the best we
have
Must Make Real Sacrifice
Two little girls were playing
Noah's ark in ne bathtnb. and after
they had become tired of the game
one OF them pulled out the plug and
said. Floods over Noah had a sac
rifce. The other one said 'Ist's
have a sacrifice SO she took The
soap dish and placed a piece % pa
per on II and put broken sheer
from the Noah's ark on top Of that