The Washington herald., 1918-01-12
Wine, Woman, Song Draw
Bitter Denunciation in
Tabernacle Sermon
AFTERNOON SERMON
Cleansing T emple"

"cIean out your house! Get the
wine of the sideboard. Go get
your ball room costume and make
crazy quilt of ft. Then come
back here and see what this city
can do" was the plea OF Billy Sun
day yesterday afternoon in his cam
paign TO save the souls Of Washing
ton sinners.
Rev. Sundays text was taken
from second Chronicles. 1921.
when the burnt offering began.
the song of the Lord began also"
His sermon in brief follows:
In the Second Chronicles, the
twenty-n ninth chapter. twenty
seventh verse-"when the burnt Of
fering began, the song Of the Lord
began also"
The difference between the TWEEN.
ty-eighth and the twenty ninth OF
Chronicles Is the difference you can
find sometimes manifest in the
church-periods of great enthusi-
asm and zeal. only TO be followed
by a great lapse, and people seem
to have no interest in anything that
pertains to the church. We see IL
oftimes in individuals. There are
men and women whose names used
to be connected actively with re-
ligion and for some reason they have
grown apathetic- and indifferent
and when you hear their names pro-
nounced today IT is never in con-
nection with anything that pertains
to the advancement of Gods cause
and kingdom.
Rich Lack Piety.
I can tell you of families whose
names used TO be intimately assOci-
ated with everything that had for
its object the uplifting Of the cause
OF God and bringing men and wom-
en- to Jesus Christ. but because they
have climbed a few rounds higher
in the social ladder, and have gotten
little money now wadays that comes
in dollars where 1t used to come in
pennies, they seem TO have CORE
spondingly decreased in interest in
the cause of Jesus.
You can have your culture clubs.
you can have your litersries, you
team have your Kelley cures, you
can have your Hull House settle
ments, you can have sociology and
you can build, my friends, your liz
braries. you can build a university
in the middle of every block, you
can stick a public school on every
corner, you can erect your museums
you will never prevent America
from rotting into hell without g
tidal wave of old time religion! 1t
can't be done.
If q girls skirt is too short, stick
little on it; il il is cut on too
much at the top. add a couple Of
stories. But that won't purify her
heart. I tell you. America needs a
tidal wave OF religion!
Denounees Liquor Drinking.
believe in your libraries. be-
lieve in your social work, l believe
in your sociology, ! believe in your
/ social settlements. / believe in all
and everything, and L will go with
you in any work and in anything
that has for its keynote the uplift
Of humanity. But when you part
company with Jesus Christ 1 will
not go with you.
| Now that's the type Of New Tes-
lament temple. Know ye not
that your bodies are the temples of
the Holy Ghost?" Do you think the
Z
1 through a pair Of eyes that are
bloodshot from last nights de-
bauchery and beer and champagne
guzzle? Do you think the Holy
Ghost wants the feet to go to
church that the devil used yester-
day to go to some haunt of sin or
down some ballroom floor?
Oh, do you think the Holy Spirit
I l. shrnmsrh 1fnG
that will drink booze at some ban
think the Holy Spirit wants to
/ nestle in the hands that one day
will reach out and touch the Bible
and another day the things forbid
den of this old world? Mo-
Would you think of worshipping
God in a church where a lazy Jani-
tor had made the aisles a dumping
place for the cinders and ashes and
where the rats had gnawed holes in
| the carpet, where the choir loft
was deserted and the spiders had
| spun their webs. and where the
doors were broken Of. and hrows-
| ing cattle might wander through
and lie down in the deserted aisles?
Would you think OF worshipping
4 SOu III a place AAht AAAeN" 49, -'N-
Did you expect, then, the Holy
Spirit wants to dwell in a dirty man
or a dirty woman? I believe that
GOD Almighty wants to be worship
ned, ought to be worshipped, in the
finest buildings that the wealth and
skill Of man can erect. I am one OF
the kind that doesn't think we can
get the churches too fne, because
L. rarnp1A--fha dRUf1 does
not and never has.
Two Things necessary.
Always look for two things neces-
sary for a rising tide in spiritual
| things-the amount OF money you
throw into the collection plate, and
how many of you sing. Those are
two invariable indexes to the inter
est of the people-how much you
| give, how much you are willing to
sing.
So many of you go to church and
\ look upon the choir as a sort OF a
paid institution TO entertain you
on Sunday morning. A lot OF you
never open your lips. You are never
heard in song. Many of the psalms
were written and sung as songs in
the temple. ..- -.
II you are not being saved from
/ your temper; il you are not being
saved from your pride; II you are not
being saved from your grouchy,
grumbling, crotchety, knocking,
fauIt-inding disposition; IL you are
not being saved from those qualities
which develop the mean, sordid char
| acteristics, then there is something
[, wrong with you. not with the Lord.
Then another thing. The desires
the I-want-to's, ] pray that God can
take the desire away. claim that
Cad can faka frnnn thai man a de-