The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
Prods church Officials.


ards, vestrymen, prudential commit
tee that they should work and the
place to begin is at your own home
Sit down and write the names of five
or ten of your friends, and many of
them members of your own church,
and two or three of those not mem
bers of any church.; yet you mingIe
with these people in the club, in bust
ness, in your home in a friendly way.
You meet them every week, some of
them every day and you never speak
to them on the subject of religion;
you never bring it to their attention
at all; you should be up and doing
something for GSd and Gods truth.
There are always opportunities for
Christian to work for God. There is
always a chance to speak to someone
about God. 1 am not going to theor-
ize; we are dealing too much in the
cries and speculations. This OF that
Interpretation of some dogma or doc
trine is not going to give you spirit
ual power. You carry your religion
with you by the bare truth. Be out
and out for God. Have a heart to
heart talk with some people and win
them to Christ. The first recorded
words of Jesus are these: 'Wist We
not that 1 must be about My Fathers
business?' He was lost and they
found him sitting in the temple and
he had the old Pharisee and doctors
Of the law tied up in a bunch That
whole bunch had brain fever trying to
keep up with Him and He was only II
old nd
said: Son, don't you know we have
been searching for your He answered,
'Wist ye not must be about My Faith
er's business?' and from then until
now He has been calling US to go
forth and do His work Mothers
should plead with their children, and
they in turn should plead with their
friends for religion"
Andrew Young, vice president and
general manager of the big mail order
house of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
came down the "sawdust traiT' in Bill
ly Sundays Tabernacle Wednesday
night and gave his heart to God With
him came J. E. Settle, superintendent
of offices; George J. Gabriel, secretary
of the board of control; J. NJ. Dunlap,
superintendent of operation; ]. H.
WerneX, manager of the implement
and vehicle departments; many heads
of departments anG $50 men and wo-
men who work in the plant.
Four thousand five hundred en-
ployees of Montgomery Ward & Co.,
and their families, were at the Taber-
nacIe meeting
No Care for Soul.
mo Man Cared for My Sour was
Billy Sundays text. He began by
pointing out that people cared for
their neighbors in times of physical
distress; they helped them. When
trouble came to a man his friends
sympathized with him. But none
seemed to care about his soul.
Urged Christians to Work.
His whole sermon was a plea to
Christians to get out and work, now.
Such an opportunity as this revivel
offers the church comes only once in
a generation. 1t was the duty of all
church people to drop everything and
get into personal work for God.
Mr.. Sunday was terribly in earnest.
He told several stories to illustrate
the argument that people out of the
church were hungry for the gospel,
were yearning for some Christian to
care for their souls enough to try and
| lead them to salvation.
Sermon Was Dramatic.
There were some wonderful eli
makes in his sermon; when he told
the story of the little daughter of the
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the inf1del then sent for the preacher,
and Sunday shouted:
why didn't he send for the presi-
dent of the in1deI club? All, my
friends, when there are empty chairs
around the table and newly made
graves in the family lot; when the
death dew gathers on the brow, and
the death rattle is in the throat, and
the Iurid lights of the farther shore
are in the face of your loved ones,
then it is that the hearts of men
yearn for the consolation Of the old
time religion. There is nothing on
earth that can help you like the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ
At the close of a powerful sermon
about the way Samson lost out, and
/ IuIu6U HIS NE anu came 10 misery
disgrace, humiliation and death be
cause he forsook Gods ways and trod
the primrose paths of pleasure and
dalliance, Billy Sunday, standing at
the edge of his platform, waving his
wet handkerchief, shouted, like a
trumpet call:
Young men, if you don't build your
lives on Jesus Christ you are lost, you
are lost; come, come down here and
take me by the hand and by that sign
show to the world that you accept
Jesus Christ as your savior and guide.
Come on! Come oni
The evangelist seemed weighted
down with the responsibility that lay
upon him. He pleaded with church
members.