The Detroit times., 1916-10-12
Wednesday NIahts Sermon


Billy Sunday spoke Wednesday
night as follows:
Text: Seek We the Lord while
He may be found, call ye upon Him
while He Is near. Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unright-
eous man his thoughts, and let him
return unto the Lord and He will
have mercy upon him and 10 on
God. for He will aoundantly par
don. Isaiah ". OF.
ITO seek God is mans highest
duty and his greatest privilege
That is an address 10 the moralist
as well as to the drunkard II Is an
address TO the society woman as
well as to the woman selling her
virtue In the redlight district
THE first thing 20 remember
about being saved Is that salvation
is personal matter Seek ye the
Lord'-that means everyone must
seek for himself
at won't do for the parent %
seek for the children; il won't do
for the children TO seek for the
parent
III you were sick all the medicine
I might take wouldn't do you any
good. Salvation is a personal mat
ter that no one else can do for you,
you must attend 20 It yourself
III won't do you any good II your
wife Is Christian. You have got
to be something more than a broth
er-in-law 10 the church You may
say I can't understand all the Bi-
bic teaches Neither can |, but the
man who says he can't understand
the Bible ism, living up to what be
can understand.
God won't hold you responsible
for doing what you haven't got
sense enough 10 do II | can under
stand more than you do. God holds
me responsible 10 do more than
you. n you understand more than
l, then God holds you responsible 90
do more than |. II you seek first
the kingdom OF God your under.
standing will grow
you say. Well can't under.
stand how Jesus dying on the cross
and shedding his blood saved me
You don't need 10 understand it
obey Il ! don't know how 4 IS
that putting a seed In the ground
will make the seed grow dom
understand H. We don't have 20
understand how the food We eat
builds muscle brain and tissues
just shovel the grub down and for
get It.
God a Revelation.
God Is revelation-not an ax-
PLANTATION You cant explain how
seed will grow but pu, Il In the
ground and II will reveal 10 you
that II does, although you can't "a.
plain why.
but never mind what we don't
know. You can go and pick Up the
dewdrops from the doorstep. and
may find In them a rainbow on
which an angel will stand and weep
over dying world
you say, There are hypocrites In
the church | know A. and there
are many in the church who are
not. too.
Heaven doesn't look right when
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glass or when you try 10 look AZ n
with the devils goggles on Just
give your heart 20 God. and you
will see thousands OF hypoerltes
outside the church where you see
one In there now
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look a great deal better To- you when
you look al them through salvation
You will hnd your nelghbor's house
will look a great deal better II you
only wash your own windows. old
man.
The fellow who looks through
cobwehs sees spiders all the time.
You say. I never dld any harm
That has nothing "a do with tho
case; conduct is not an issue. There
are plenty OF snakes in the grass
that have never bitten anybody yet
But you wouldn't let your children
play with q snake because Il had
never done any harm
, Nobody would vote 20 turn =
mad dog loose on the streets be
cause II has not bitten anybody yet.
There II no difference between be
lnE wrong and doing wrong: and