The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-20

things and your sins have W1thholden
good things froL4 you
God said: My promises were con-
ditionaI If you do Ny commandments
you will be possessed of the fulfill
ments of these promises but they
didn't do it, and a curse came It was
not unfaithfulness on Gods part. This
is true of the people here today. We
are under a dispensation Of salvation,
free, full, perfect and eternal to all who
believe It is offered to you, who you
may or where you may be.
81 wish every one could be saved,
but everyone will not. If you repent
you will be saved. If you don't repent
you'll go to he'll. Sin in the church can
GELS the blessing. Sin pursued makes
promises null and void The same was
true OF the Jews of old and the same
is true of US today The blessings will
become curses. 1t may not be that you
do what God tells you not to do, but
you may not do what God tells you
to do. Your sin may not be the sin of
commission, but the sin of omission"
Kansas City-Two hundred and
forty-four persons, three-fourths OF
them young women of the stores and
factories, gave their hearts to God the
other night in Billy Sundays Taber-
nacle. 1t was Business WOmen's
Night" and 5000 of them, from laun-
dries, department stores, biscuit
works, telephone and telegraph Offices
and other places, were there in Sec
lions of seats reserved for them. When
10 CT Of Of
who wanted to be Christians to come
out, the young women got up in groups
in all parts of the Tabernacle and
came down the long aisles, some weep
/ ing, some smiling, some with solemn
faces, some with faces radiantly hap
by in their newly taken resolve.
Tears by Spectators. Too.
An aged pastor of one of the
churches of this city, standing on the
choir platform, leaning over a desk
where he could watch the procession
o. penitents coming along, and look
into their faces, had his handkerchief
in his hand, and tears rolled down his
cheeks.
Thank God that mine eyes have
been spared to see the glory of the
Lord" he said. What a fine thing to
see those hundreds of young women,
future mothers of our next generation,
coming down here and starting out on
the Christian life
Billy Sunday had selected another
sermon for last night, a sermon aimed
at backsliders; but when he learned
that thousands of young women were
to be there he selected a sermon espe-
cially adapted for them, entitled: RE
cruiting for Gods Army"
A Powerful Sermon.
The ministers who heard Sundays
sermon last night said they never
heard a more powerful one. The evan
gelist seemed affame with the spirit
of his message, and twenty thousand
persons sat so silently through it all
that every word he spoke reached to
the farthest corners and even out to
the streets, where five thousand who
could not get in stood and listened; an
audience of twenty thousand under the
raftered roof, another audience of five
thousand under the stars outside.
He told them how God called for
volunteers, not for slaves; God never
owned a slave. He told them how
much they had to thank God for, how
many mereies, for life, health. food
eyesight, hearing, taste, breath, fol
hospitals, doctors, nurses, for bread.
"Give kiII to God"
He urged his hearers to let God
, have their hands, their mouths, their
brains, their all.
He told of the man who drains the
cup of pleasure until he is too old tc
go down the line with the gang, Their
: he offers his old carcass to God. But
God is too good for that. God meant
folks to come when they were young
and had strength and a whole life
: ahead in which to work, not to wait
till they were old and broken.
eff you've got the long faced kinC
of religion you never got it from God,
: he shouted That's the kind thai
e scares people away from the church
e Oh, give God your face and let hin
= shine it up. The devil will bank hi!
d fires and go to church to hear that ole
I long faced Christian pray. Coz
t doesn't want a man to take religion
:, as if it were toothache. Shine up"
e He said it was not easy to serv'
: God God required us to do hare
: things. but it paid to do them.
It Paul said: This one thing I do
e Keep your eye on that man! He viii
move every mountain and pull VI
every tree that is in his pathway
= Nothing can chill his ardor nor coo
/ his courage. He keeps on going ant
q growing, no matter what interferes.
/, One-idea Man Succeeds.
e "The man who undertakes to do
e thousand things will never amount t
n a hill of beans. The man who devote
IT his time and skill and energy to doin
e one thing will stand before kings
!; God was not to blame then 70
o mans faults any more than he is nov
10 any more than God is to blame toda!
e start in that way and he will nc
n throw away his Bible when he strike
Ii hard place.
There are some preachers who's
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