Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-13
Left Salary of
$500 Month to
Work For gym. -
Billy Sunday, in Association
Men, Relates lust Why
He Did Il

w ny llIIN sunday, lhIlOuS eNdHStt-
iSt and former baseball player. left u
salary Of $500 a month. offered by the
Cincinnati club. to accept a position In
Y. NJ. T. A. at $&3 a month, Is relat.
ed by him in a recent edition of As.
sOciatfon men, Sunday says,
Il owe much to the ~. NJ" 1t did
more to develop my Christian charac.
ago, had an offer from the Chicago
Association. | had a contract with
the Philadelphia ball club. and il
hadn't run out. didn't want to
jump il, and | prayed TO God TO help
me out. gave Him little time to
do it'll MARCH, Is. On March II
got my release from the Philadelphia
club, and the same day got an offer
from the Cincinnati club at $500 q
month thought about It over night
i didn't have so much faith then
$500 month looked big. but finally
turned II down and took the Y. VI. e..
A. job at $50 month. Hard times
struck us. and for six months | didn't
get any salary, hut wouldn't take q
million dollars for the experience /
got. then went to work studying
the Bible from an orthodox point OF
view. That Is the point of view to
take, my frlends-ther are thousand
and one makeshifts for the stonement,
for faith in Jesus Christ, but there is
only one way to be saved. have no
quarrel with social service. but 1t Is
wrong as a substitute for salvation,
repentance and faith.
THE road to heaven is not by the
bathtub, or Harvard or Yale. but by
Christ's blood. The world today Is
trying to cruelty the fundamentals OF
religion, and somebody has got to get
the world back to its mornings.
The tendency in your day and mine
is to cruelty the fundamentals OF re-
ligion. Social service, in it's place, is
road to Jesus Christ but somebody
needs to cry like a Waterman to call
people back to the fundamentals.
believe in books. bat l don't believe
that they can take the place of faith.
I believe in construction and instruc-
ton so long as they make people real.
fze that they need also something else
the Lord. "a Ill.
THE United States leads all other
J 'tions in crime. What we must do
o cleanse the heart A dressed-up
\ covering black heart is like a
n 9arlor with pole-cat In it. The
sn brings man into the way OF
ohe the law. and the gospel is a
matt u civilization. The scholar
says / the remedy lies in univer-
sal sys Of education. Forget IT,
The rem lies. in a pure heart. 1
believe th tghly in education, but
that WON'T the trick. It Is the
church's lbh IS to knock out sin
and work h Saiyation, and when
churches turn to amusement bu-
reaus 1t Is timN them to shut up
They call me in re and crude and
vulgar. but | pr Jesus and the
crowd, flocks to b me; while the
man that is preach Schopenhauer
and Anheuser Busch rs his ethics
to paint and Varnish.
There is no substith Or the COS
pel or salvation through is Christ.
The church that preach. My doc.
trines may be evangelical, tbs not
eyangelistic. An eyangelic 'nurcIl
is a church on ice; an ev, fstic
church is church ON fire. Yo tght
as we'll turn out the sun and a
talloy candle in the heavens q
think that q man can be saved BY,
other method than by faith in Ja
Christ"