The Washington times., 1916-03-04
SUNDAY HAMMERS
BLACKSL|DERS AND
HURCHDEAD-BEATS
Evangelist Thunders at Rich
Pensioners Who Fail to
Contribute Heavily.

BALTIMORE, Md. March 4-Billy
Sunday hammered and thundered at
backsliders this afternoon. His text
was: "IIe wist not that the spirit of the
Lord had departed from him."
"1f there's anything the church OF
God needs It's 20 clir'h the stairs and
rot IN an upper room" the evangelist
srid,
nothing but card partiea and society;
they are not leaders In spiritual things.
man comes TO me and says Mrs. So
snd-So Is one 2f your leading members
Does she put her arms around some
noor sinner and try to save her for
And I nnd she is a leader in nothing
but card parties, society. bridge whist
clubs, and dances. / don't call her a
leading woman In the church. she Is the
dcyil's bell wether."
Pummels Processing Christians.
lie landed hard blows on processing
Christians who do not help support the
church.
I'VE are the richest people on earth
ninc-twcntioths OF all tho wealth or all
the money In the United States today
is IN the hands of protesting Christians,
Catholic and Protestant" he said.
That ought to mean that II Is I'm
Gods hands; but It doesn't. They are
robbinE God. | was in a church In
Iowa that had three members who
were worth 100000 each and they paid
their preacher the measly salary OF $50
y year, and I will be hornswagglcd IL
they did not owe him $500 then. If
y ever skinned any old fellows did those
old stingy coots.
"A man who doesn't pay to the church
h y as big a swindler as a man who
deadbeating his way to he'll he'll. any Yon nc ,ei II
somebody else pay your bills. you old
needbeat. God hasn't any moro tIse
today for a deadbeat in the church thar
nsona ne mas f9r p the man who doesn't pay his
- KICK when man rides I'D 10 the
church In 5000 limousinc. tbrows "S
quarter in the collection plate snd
growls at the sermon. '
College Graduates, Too.
The church in America would die OF
Tot or sink forty fathoms in hell 1,
All members were millionaires or col.
iege graduates" Sunday shouted.
some OF the most powerful churche,
nave ever worked with were NOT ths
enurches that had the largest number
In a town in Iowa there were three
Women who used to pray all night ever,
thursday night-one of them a colorei
we. woman, People used to come under
pray. She murdered the kings English
I'VE times IN every sentence. but. OH
she knew God. They had 500 names
on their list for prayer. and when tie
meetings closed they had checked ON
397 of them. '
Every Friday I would be called over
the telephone or receive a letter or
meet those women and they would tell
sne what assurances God gave them rs
10 who would be saved. have never
Inet three women that were stronger
IN faith than those three women. That
town was Fairfield, Iowa-onc of the
brightest clcanest. snappiest little
towns / ever went into.
years ago. down in Phillips
Academy. in Andover.. there was deyeI.
oped student who knew GOD. Son,s
students 40 TO Berlin, or Leipzig, ol
Munich and dream out n few heresies
over beer mugs They go to EuropC
to brush up
''Sometimes they put parenthesl!
around the college and allow q student
10 slip over from the academy 20 tn,
seminary. Tho trouble with the church
today Is that too many are skimmin.
car"