The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-12
SOWING AND
REAP|NC' WAS
GREAT SERMON
FORMER EFFORTS-lNTENSE IN
TEREST-ARDMORE GIVEN TO
PURSUIT OF PLEASURE.

Both the evangelist and his singer
made big hits at the tabernacle last
night Mr. Bray has been giving his
attention mostly to the boys this week
and with very satisfactory results. The
way those boys can sing! Their most
taking" number was Billy Sundays
famous song, THE Brewers Big
Horses Can't Run over Me- Mr.. Bray
eXcels with the young people He is
worth his weight in gold to any
church that might be able to secure
his services. No wonder Adam made
mistake with Cain. Adam had new
er been a boy and did not know how
a boy felt nor what he wanted to do.
He also made another mistake in not
taking out a patent on boy. There
is nothing like him anywhere in the
heavens above, in the earth beneath,
nor in any place under the earth. The
most amazing thing is that churches
take 50 little interest in their boys. If
there is any church within a radius of
100 miles that is doing anything for
boys that is worth speaking Of, we do
not know it, Why are there no young
men at work in these meetings, lead
ing other young men to Christ? Sim
bA
lected. The moss-back leaders in the
church think it is big thing if some
of tobacco and with a quart of boot
leg whiskey under his belt gives the
fag end of his life to Christ. And God
be praised for his salvation, say we
all. But see here, the work of, the
kingdom will never be done by fag-
end followers of Christ whose vital
forces have been burned out by life
of sin. Give us an army of these
Timothys, and we will show you won
ders in this city. Why do not the
wealthy men and women in our church
es invest money in boys which will
bring more than 200 per cent for the
kingdom. Money is poured without
stint into exclusive country clubs, golf
links, fishing preserves, automobiles,
social functions and extensive Vaca-
tions, while the boy is pushed off to
a prosy Sunday school with an in
different teacher who administers his
gospel dose as old Squears did his
treacle. Then the boy is turned into
the street for the rest of the week
with the devil take the hindmost
abandon while on goes the low type
of religion as the devil takes the
hindmost, the foremost, and all in be
tween. These Rip van Wrinkle church
es better wake up before it is too late
Some one asked DR.. Williams which
was worse, Sunday baseball or Sunday
golf. Neither" said the evangelist
they are both alike bad, demoraliz
ing, calling forth the wrath of Coo
and mutually surpass each other in
wickedness. Each has features pc
culiarly its own, and no Christian
ought to hinder the work of God in
helping the work of the devil. "Bot
and Nabob' alike are sowing to the
wind which will produce the whirlwinC
later when all of us must suffer as
they are doing now in Europe.
DR.. Williams sermon was based OF
Gal CTS. The sermon was easy in
thought and faultless in delivery and
lasted one hour and quarter. No one
dreamed of its length, such was the
intense interest in his discussion. The
sermon is one of the unreportablt
kind, not because of its difficulty but
because of ease. Who can report the
light? Who can define a breath from
the mountain or the ocean? How car
we convey the fragrance of the rose
The line of thought was familiar anC
the argument Is simply unanswerable
and it was done with most consum
ate skill and beautiful Christian
spirit, but with a sweep Of experie ICE
and conviction that carried everything
before it.
He said that he would gladly dodge
the subject if he could, that there was
mo pleasure in discussing the ques
ton. He said Ardmore could not b'
/ beat in its pursuit Of pleasures of al
kinds and that the church has beeI