New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12

interfere. ! am not member OF any
lodge, but il | was | would not let
II keep me awi Y from prayer meeting.
To go TO "A literary society on Wednes-
day night is to slap God in the face.
Tho trouble is that lot of you are
trying to back God Almighty into a
sidetrack for every Tom. Dick and
Harry thing that comes along. NO
dances and parties interrupted Pente-
cost.
There were no UNCONVENTIONAL diff
fcrences, no hair-splittings, no worry
ings at Pentecost. Why can't we have
Pentccost to-day? We can. It's the
same God, the same Christ. the same
Spirit. God isn't limited"
And then, shaking his fist so that
the mild hammered folks in the from
rows blinked and blushed, he shouted;
God has the right to make you
serve Him just rs your government TO
day has the right 10 make the people
respond to the call for troops. God
won't conscript you. though; He'll let
you be fool if you want TO. But
the devil he'll draft you to shoulder
in hell. That's what he'll do.
ooh, prepare for Heaven, you folks
If there's one thing that makes me
NlSEuNltu VIII my EVNti NV
country il is that they've known for
two years that war was coming but
did not do anything TO prepare for It,
1--WE prepare for everything in life;
we don't wait until you break leg to
learn how TO set it; you don't wait Tor
your house to burn before you put vi
fire escapes. Go ahead; be sensible.
Not one half of New York's church
Christianity in Billy Sundays opinion
They've never had religious expe-
rience but think they're religious be
cause they pass through church once
week"
ITS said that only 10 per cent OF
your church members darken the
church doors Sunday nights he said,
while only 20 per cent or 80 per cent
go mornings. The churches don't
need new members half as much as
they need to have the old bunch made
over
"If the church of God to-day would
hold ten hours prayer meeting. and
pray of one accord, wonderful things
would happen. The church needs one
accord more than high steeples or pipe
organs or opera singers up IN the
choir loft scraping the kalsomine of
the ceiling and wiggling their
diaphragms.
"The biggest thing that could hap
pen in New York would be to convert
half the church people. Some. people
know old Hoyle better than they do
Jesus Christ. Like lady at prayer
meeting. She was asked to repeat
verse of Scripture and responded with
Il pass.
Praise for New Jersey, which ere,
Gently enacted a law that no girl could
sue for a breach of promise unless
her engagement was publicly re-
corded" was sounded by the evangelist
Further compliments were made by
him to the management of the Algon'
auin Hotel which recently discon'
tinued the sale of intoxicating liquor
"If you have to go to a hotel e
there" advised Billy. ITS good
one"
He finished, with characteristic
praver to Jesus Christ, asking Him to
"go through New York. through the
mansions on Fifth avenue and the
novels on the East Side, Wall street
and the docks and stir up the people.
The collections to date have been
disappointingiy small in comparisor
with those taken in other cities. The
total offering at Tuesdays services
was $S99s6. making the campaign to-
tai So 500 0S