The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-11-16
BILLY SUNDAY
HAS HOT TIN
Militarism in Church Can Whip
Devil, He Says.

Atlanta. Ca, Nov. 12.-Billy and
devil had q hot tima at the taberne
Sunday afternoon. e
The weather man added to
warmth of the occasion by schedae
a hot sun that made Billy ~perspire
a race horse and caused a coupled
fainting women to be yanked by
I yellow-ribboned seconds from the b
show to the Billy Sunday hospit|
Here, in due course of time by apr
cations of ice bags and smelling s.
they were revived and returned to
tabernacle in time to see the ia (
evangelist start on the home stretc,
the lead. t
Anyway, Billy, after due preTne.
ton by Rodeheaver and Billy's SOFA
ron of musicians of the magnifice
audience that had fastened from
Sunday dinner to get a ~prize-ring SCI
entered the ring promptly at 2:
o'clock, six minutes before the DO
with the devil was scheduled to beg
Being a hot afternoon, as ~aforesaI
Billy lost no time in discarding \
coat, and Rody "hiked" the play
inviting all the gentlemen in the ps
ty to remove their coats.
Then the bout began.
The evangelist started the fire wor
by announcing that he would take !
text of his sermon from Second Tin
thy, second chapter, fifteenth veA
which reads STUDY to prove thya
approved unto God" y
He then opened up with a hei
barrage fire on other religions, J
which he passed up as good for moi
ing' Hindooism, theosophy and Chril
ian science.
Then with a second or so of parle
ing for another good opening b
began to prod Atlantians about TIL
famed hospitality. He told them
"show the goods" by asking the sold
boys in the audience home to SUPP
with them in order that they mis-
come back to the night sermon.
Treat these boys who r go.
across to fight for you and stop thu
bloodthirsty, murderous Germans
you would your own sons. Inv
them home with you before you lea
this tabernacle and feed them a
bring them back again tonight. VIII
you pass them on the streets pick the
up in you automobiles and give th'
a lift to wherever they are goiI
Make them feel at home down he,
Everyone of them is homesick, a
you ought to show your Christian
by helping them feel CHEEKY"
Billy then took a swing or two
trial marriage. He "swore by" he
matrimony as the only salvation /
the human race, and denounced the
v~ocates of trial marriage.
"How would this look on a hotel re
%ister," he yelled, "Mr. and Mrs. Ne
lywed, limited?" ~
d church the occasion.
geen party among
Lodses are domg the work the chGI
ought to be doing in taking care Of
!, sick and suffering. This is Go
work, but the church is too stingy
be taking a of it, Why, Ringli
Bros circus could take more MOI
out of Atlanta in one day than y
would give in a week to defray /
expenses Of this tabernacle!
what is the church of God in
lanta doing to save those $4,000 sold
; boys out at Camp Godon? 1t has
done a thing yet to save the souls c
there, and they are the men who ne
the church in their midst.
Let US do away with the songs
used to sing in our churches and ha
nothing but martial airs. We want
more of Sweet Bye and Bye;' we wa
no more of those kind of songs, b
we want such airs as will marshal t
forces of God and make of them usef
armies. Let us have such airs as %
ward, Christian Soldiers The Sons
God Go Forth to War; and 'Americ,
IF we can but instill into the chur
the spirit of militarism the devil W
be whipped before he can cock his fir
gum"