The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-27
SUNDAY CONVERTS
: ,S!aRE THAN PETER
uTACOST
Nearly 1000 Hit Sawdust Trail"
During Three SerViCeS
THOUSANDS FIND NO SEATS
Tabernacle Filled Two and One-Haf
Hours Before Evering Service
Began.

Boston, Nov. 26.-Today was the
greatest day in the history of Billy
Sunday revivals. just 1902 people
hit the sawdust trail' at the three
meetings, eclipsing the number of con-
verts in the biblical account of Peter
at Pentecost, when 5000 were convert
ed in a day. At both the afternoon
and evening services the baseball
evangelist preached his sermon on
Chickens come home to roost.' which
is considered one of his greatest SER
mons.
Hours before the time of service the
large auditorium was filled with thcus
ands of eager people, and many thous-
ands were unable to get in. This af
ternoon's meeting was for men only,
and just 1885 men hit the trail after
the sermon. Get right with Cod"
was was the subject of this mornings
sermon, in which Billy urged all to
lose no time in accepting the teach
ings of the Bible.
Every seat in the immense taber-
nacle was taken tonight at o'clock,
just 2 1-2 hours before the time of the
service. The baseball evangelist was
very active during his evening ser
mon. He told his audience that he
was American to the core. "My fore
fathers died in the war of the Revolu.
tion and my father died in the south
land during the civil war. | am an
American, don't you forget that.
When every man becomes a law 10
a, ,tr,,c cto Sol fI,n
flag. The white and blue will dissolve
into red and the red flag of anarchy
will fly in its stead We will swim
in rivers of blood before we allow
that. If you wave red flag, then to
hell with you, | say"
Mr.. Sundays text was the 104th
Psalm, the 35th verse: Let the sin
ner be consumed out of the earth and
let the wicked be no more"
This always seemed to me to be
queer verse OF scripture. II is a verse
more often misunderstood than any
other and read by many to justify
their living In sin. 1t contains a
thought which | don't find so well ex-
pressed in any other verse, not on
account of its popularity but because
it is used by men to justify their liv-
ing in sin.
l sometimes find people who talk
lightly of sin. If only the men who
sin were affected by their sins, it
would be hard enough.
When you come staggering home.
cussing right and left and spewing and
splitting, your wife suffers, your chill
| dren suffer. Don't think that you are
the only one that suffers. A man that
goes to the penintentiary makes his
wife and children suffer just as much
as he does. You're placing a stain
on your wife and your children. If
you're dirty, low-down, filthy,
| drunken, whisky.soaked bum, you'll
affect all with whom you come in
contact. II you're a God-fearing man
you will influence all with whom you
come in contact You can't live by
yourself.
You say you're not afraid of sin
You ought to be for your children. 1t
/ doesn't take boys long to get on the
wrong track, and while you are
scratching gravel to make one lap
your boy makes TO- We've got kids
who have not yet sprouted long
breeches who know more about sin
and vice than Methuselah.
There are little frizzled top sisies
not yet sprouting long dresses who
know more about vice than did their
gray-haird grandmothers. The girl
who drinks will abandon her virtue.
What did Methuselah know about
smoking cigarets?
If anyone ever tells you that you
can't be vrtuous and enjoy good
health | brand him as a low, infa-
nous, black-hearted liar Why they'll
be telling you your daughter can't
| be healthy and be virtuous before
| long and want you to let some one
keep her on the side just like you're
keeping that woman.
Ask any afflicted man you see on the
street. If you could only reveal the
heart of every one of theml In most
you would find despair and disease.
How little he thinks when he is
nursing that lust that he is nursing a
demon which, like a vampire, will
suck his blood and wreck his life and
blacken and blight his existence. And
if any little children are born to him
they will be weak anemics without
the proper blood in their veins to sup
port them.
Young men, shrink from that vice
as you would viper. Our young
men ought to be taught that no sum
they can leave to charitable institu-
tion can blot out the deed of an ig-
nominious life.
There isn't fellow in this crowd