The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-25
CHURCHBUT MEANS
!, TO AN END, SAYS
SUNDAY
No Organization Successful Un-
less Souls Are Saved
URGES ALL TO ACCEPT CHRIST
Evangelist Evidently Pleased With
Large Number of Converts
in Boston

Boston, Nov. 24.-Bhly Sunday
preached to large audience at both
the afternoon and evening meetings
today. AT his second request for trail
hitters after tonight's service just 47O
people went down front to join the
ranks of converts. THE hour has
come" was the subject of the evening
sermon, and the baseball evangelist
was enthusiastic from the start
At the afternoon service the sub
ject of the sermon was How devils
are cast out" According to the ath-
letic evangelist no church is success
full no matter how many people it at
tracts, unless souls are saved.
At both services Billy Sunday
showed plainly the pleasure he ex-
perienced over last nights record Of
trail-hitters. At this evenings sery-
ice he urged all to lose no time in
accepting Christ. Some people" he
said, think that to join a church is
the end, the joining is all that is nee
essary. The church is not the end. 1t
is the means to an end and the soon
er you people find it out the better Off
you will be-"
Mr. Sunday said in part;
THE hour is come. | am not wor
shipping a dead Jew sleeping in the
tomb of Arimathea, but a living
Christ. Boston is in the midst OF the
greatest moral and religious crisis 1t
ever faced right now. The hour is
come to realize that the church is not
the end, that salvation does not rest
with those who occupy II square
inches of space in the church every
Sunday and think they have done
their full duty.
''The gospel of Jesus Christ rightly
preached interferes with all Illicit
pleasures and rottenness in society. /
know there are some society women
who won't come to hear me; they are
too busy attending their poodle dogs
and bridge parties
"The hour is come to believe in re-
vivals. They say | am too sensa-
tional Sensation is life and stagna.
tion is damnation. When you strike
at revivals you spit in the face of
Christ
81 am not worshiping dead jew
in the tomb of Arimathea. but a lv-
ing, reigning Christ, who sits at the
right hand of God, from whence he
will come to judge the living and the
dead. The hour is come.
The cross of Christ was the con-
Meeting link between the Old and the
New Testament. The old Jewish cere
monial law ended at the cross, and
the gospel of dispensation through
faith in Christ followed the cross.
Jesus realized that he had reached
crisis in his life. | believe the same
is true in Boston right now.
THE hour is come to realize that
the church is not the end. The
church is the means to an end. The
end is the salvation OF man. If you
think that when you come into the
church that is the end, God have mer-
cy on you and the church if you are
in it,
THE hour has come for something
else-for plainness of speech by the
preachers. Specify sins, don't deal in
SeHtIdllJlcS. Il gu dulHlIt man MlO
breaches the truth at you even
though he shoots holes into you. You
can always count on a decent public
to right wrong and any public that
won't right wrong is a good one to
get away from.
II repeat that anybody who is de-
cent or wants to be decent, will ad
mire you when you preach the truth,
although you riddle them when you
are doing it. The hour is come, my
friends. The house has come to be.
lieve in revivals. Some people do not
want revivals; neither does the devil;
so you are like your daddy. | am in
favor of everything the devil is
against and | am against everything
the devil is in favor of; the dance, the
booze, the brewery, my friends that
have cards in their homes.
The hour has come to present our
selves to God to make ourselves right
with him
THE hour has come to go out after
the lost and bring them to God Christ
says to the church of God in Boston.
They are lost Go We out after them.
But you are indolent You are not
willing to do something to bring them
to Jesus The hour has come"
L