Evening star., 1918-02-06
POWER AND NEED OF PRAYER
DISCUSSED BY BILLY SUNDAY
Evangelist Reaches High Mark in Night
Sermon-Curfew Law Is Urged-New
Song Makes Instant Hit

Teach US to Pray was Sunuay
topic at the afternoon service at the
Tabernacle today. and Billy told MS
hearers that this form of intercourse
with God Will change everything III
life, take all the wrinkles from around
the eyes. and be better than anything
that can be bought at drug store
Some say. don't need to pray,
announced the evangelist They might
as well say. You don't need anything
to eat You might as well say. "fou
don't need to drink water Try 1t
and seei You won't get along any bet
ter physically than you will spiritually
without prayer.
"All things whatsoever you shall ask
In prayer-believing-y shall receive.
The Lord says. I know you need 1t,
but there is no way to get it if you
don't ask me for it,
Begin Each Day With Prayer.
Did you ever get up a little earlier
in the morning that you might have a
) little time with God? No! Begin each
day with prayer? You begin each
day with combing your hair, you begin
each day with a breakfast, you begin
each day with clothing yourself-Oh,
God. how many of them go through
day after day and year after year and
never pray, The only time they ever
pray is when some calamity comes or
when they are sick or members of their
family. perhaps. ill. They don't pray
for all the children sitting around them
until they are afraid there is going to
be an empty chair in the family circle.
when you go to God in the name of
Jesus Christ" concluded the preacher,
Il tell you God AImigmhty will lean
over to hear what you've got to say
That's the name they listen to up
abovei
"whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, that will I do
You ask Him today for salvation
see how quick You get it, Ask Him
TO forgive your negligence and your
your powerless life. and see the bene-
diction of God that will flood your soul
like California sunshine"
Tonight Will Be District Night.
Tonight will be District night. and
preparations have been made to seat
q delegation of 1000 municipal en-
ployes. headed by Commissioners
Brownlow and Gardiner and Acting
Engineer Commissioner Loving. Prac-
tically the entire District building per-
sonnel is expected to be on hand, and
It Is very probable that Billy will
touch on matters pertaining to the
local government. The committee IN
charge consists or I. j. Har1ord, r. t.
Edgington, A. G. Cole. j. E. Pool and
Miss NJ. C. Lillis.
A crowd that filled two-thirds of the
Tabernacle and that included a goodly
number Of special delegations from
governmental bureaus, religious or
ganizations and suburban towns, not
to mention soldiers and sailors, heard
Sunday preach last night on the text
from II Kings: "Is it well with
thee? Is It well with thy husband? Is
1t well with thy child?"
Sunday enthusiasts and those who
have attended the meetings here regu-
1arly are authority for the statement
that last nights sermon touched the
high mark SO far from the standpoint
of logic, conference and eloquence. Billy
skipped from the sublime to the RI
diculous" and from pathos to bathos"
and. to borrow from his own favorite
slang, was particularly active with 1.-The
tremolo stop" He manipulated it mighty
well. though, and with evident SINGER
ity. and noticeable effect on his hearers.
He digressed only occasionally and
kept the German kaiser cooling his
heels untn the impassioned prayer that
closed the sermon. Then the war lord
and his horde of hungry hyenas'' got
what was coming to them.
Trail-hitting was disappointing, al
though Sundays invitation was elo-
Quent and the personal workers and
secretaries were Industrious. Four or
dve of the front benches filled up and