The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-11-13
GOSPEL AS EXPOUNDED
BY REV. BILL SUNDAY
THOUSANDS FLOCK TO HEAR
THE FAMOUS EVANGELIST
NOW IN ATLANTA.

ATLANTA, Ga.-The Billy Sun
day revival is in full swing and thou
sands flock to hear the famous evan
gelist at every service.
The following extracts from his
sermon gives some idea as to how he
is reaching his congregations:
In the tabernacle the main services
are conducted with all the whoop
and sensation the evangelist can COM
mand. He has got to the coat-shuck-
ing point and warmed up to the point
of becoming perceptibly collarless in
his sermon on the "Revival of Pen
tacost''
There is just as big an interest in
the meeting as at the start-off, but
crowds naturally are not expected in
the week days and nights like those
of the opening occasion. The money
return of each plate passing isn't in
keeping with the first one, either,
but that appears to have no visible
effect on the evangelist other than
to bring the suggestion from him
that people in Atlanta or who come
here might just as we'll begin figur-
ing a little on dimes and quarters
instead of nickels.
When Joshua fought the battle he
saw that the sun would go down and
it would be dark before he could fin
ish the conflict. He said, Lord, it's
taking me longer than / figured out,
and if you've got some way just to
prolong this day and keep the sun
from behind the western hills, I'll
lick this bunch to a fragile and I'll
send your name ringing down
through the ages" And God reached
up and grabbed the sun and said,
"You stay there and don't you move
an inch until Joshua gives you the
high ball"
Church Machinery.
We've got our churches, we've got
our preachers. Why, at Pentecost
one sermon brought three thousand
to their knees; now it takes about
three thousand of the average ser
mons to bring one old weasel-eyed,
red-nosed, whisky-soaked blasphemer
to his knees. Some sermons wouldn't
have found Jesus Christ with
search warrant.
Now, we've got our churches;
we've got our josh houses; we've got
our tabernacles. Oh, we've got the
wisdom of the Orientals; we've got
the vim, vigor, tabasco sauce and
pepperino and the push, and the go,
and the wealth of the twentieth CEN
fury. | tell you, / believe no people
on earth are better paid, better fed,
better clothed, better housed, are
more happy and prosperous than
those that live beneath the Stars and
Stripes In America.
A lady came in from Iowa She
reached her eyebrows and drew in
her diaphragm (she was a kind of a
cold storage proposition).
She said, "What the church needs
is organization" l said, Forget it.
We are organized to death. We've
got SO much machinery in the aver
age church you can hear it squak
when you start in. We haven't got
oil enough for the Holy Ghost to
grease one axle of Gods chariot
that's what's the matter with us to-
day, we've got the Y. NJ. C. A., and
we've got the Y. w C. A., we've got
the Y. P. S. c. E., we've got the B..
Y. P. u, we've got the c.. E., we've
got the w. F. n H., we've got the
j. E. L. and the j. e. |. l. Y. S. 1t gets
man bughouse."
Drop into the average young peo-
pies meeting and the leader says in
a weak, negative, falsetto, apologize,
slsslfied sort of mannerism, ''This is
a splendid topic this evening. | have
been so busy | haven't had time for
preparation" It's superfuous to say
that, it wouldn't take the bunch long
to find he's all in. 81 hope you will
feel free to take part" Somebody
gets up and reads poem from the
Christian Endeavor Herald and then
along comes someone and says let's
sing No. 32," and they sing, ooh, to
be Nothing, Nothing; Only to Sit
at His Feet"
Two-thirds of them are like in
Algebra. Someone says, Lets sing
No; "a" They all get up and sing
Throw Out the Life Line, Throw
Out the Life Line, when they
haven't got strength enough to put
up clothes line. Then long pause
and ! hear the organ pealing that
prelude and then Let us arise and
repeat our benediction and be ad-
Journed." "The Lord watch between
me and thee when we are absent, one
from another"
Yes, and Gods got a hard job or
his hand!