Evening star., 1918-01-31
SPEAKS TO
PRIVATE AUDIENCE
$50 Guests of Mrs. c. H. But
Ter Hear Evangelist and
His Musicians. :,


The third of the series of meetings
conducted by Billy Sunday in private
homes in Washington was held this
morning at the home of Mrs. Charles
Henry Butler, 1885 I street, with more
than $50 guests in attendance. The
evangelist was accompanied by two
members of his party-Homer Rode:
HEAVIER, chorister, and George A. Brew
ster, pianist.
In his talk Mr.. Sunday emphasized
how much better off the people and
the world would be If everybody lived
for Jesus Christ. He said that society
and everybody would be benefited If
they lived the way Jesus Christ want
ed them to live
'In so far as you submit the evan
ge1ist assorted, Gods plan will be per-
feet; in SO far as you rebel, Gods plan
will be defeated.
He puts it up to US as to submission
or rebellion to His plan. The Lord
leaves it all to US. The lack of the
touch of God can't be made up with
such things as wealth, etc.
Giving All Chance.
God is giving us all a chance. The
Lord Will give you chance to prove
yourself to the world. The Lord will
help you and help you more than you
can be helped without God.
The Bible is the Lords phonograph
to speak to everybody. The preachers
are the medium for carrying out His
plan"
Following the close of his talk Choir
lister Rodeheaver sang a hymn, accom-
panied by Pianist Brewster.
Owing to the close of the schools, all
nigh school meetings under the direc-
tlon of Miss Florence Kinney have been
Cancelled for this week.
The evangelist will preach on "If Any
Man VIII at this evenings service at
1880 o'clock.
Lessons in Love and Hate.
Billy Sundays afternoon sermon, under
the title of THerodias,'' drew lessons in
love and hate from the bitter passion con-
ceived by Herod's wife against John the
Baptist because he had proclaimed the
lliegallty of her marriage. The sermon
follows in part:'
THE man Herod's wife hated and would
have killed was John the Baptist And
what do you suppose it was that had so
aroused her hatred? 1t was just this:
John had fallen into the habit of aiming
front seats, and the man who does that
IS certain to stir up the cats and dogs
IL no one ever got mad enough to bite at
What say in my sermons l would be
scared dizzy, for l would feel about sure
l had misunderstood the Lord about my
call to preach"
Billy, using the language of a sailor
VINO mad heard preacher, compared a
sermon to whaler which had plenty of
ropes. but no harpoon, saying:
Uh hal iS he ~,
some otherwise very fine preaching The
sermon contains nothing that will lay
hold of a sinner as harpoon digs into
whale and holds him until he is landed,
but In the preaching OF the rough-and-
ready John the Baptist there was never
any drawback of that kind. John had al
ways plenty of harpoons on board and
was especially well prepared when Herod
and Herodfas. one day, drove up in
great splurge to hear him, proba bly to
see how the riff-raff in the crowd would
be kept on the dodge.
"Not Lawful to Have Her.
Pointing his long. bony finger at
Herod as he sat in his gaudy chariot
with his brother Philips wife, both
complacently smoothing out their
ermine. he said, with a voice that made
one of their. faces pale and the other
turn red with fury:
her.
From that moment Herodias had 1t
in for John, and went away with her
fingers twitching to take him by the
throat. She no doubt incessantly nag
ged at Herod to make short work of
John, but the old reprobate was super
stitious and had lived such red-hand-
ed life that he got cold feet at the mere
thought of lifting his hand against one
whom everybody believed to be a
prophet, and Sc under one pretense and
another he kept putting her of, until
she could have bitten a nail in two
with hatred and veXation.
But her hatred became moro terrible
with delay, and she kept her eye peel
ed for a chance to wreak her ven
geance on the man who had unwitting-
~ become her mortal enemy. Had there
been dynamite bombs I'm that time she
would have jumped at the chance to
give a handful of diamonds for one.
Summarizing an ocean liner loaded
with women and children to get at him
would have been mere pastime to her.
But in every plot Herodias hatched
there was hitch somewhere just
when she was most sure that she would
This was the state of affairs when
Herods birthday clicked around and
he invited bunch of high-rollers of
his own stripe for big carouse at the
palace.
Change Heaven to He'll.
What an awful thing hate is and
how surely it would change any heaven
into hell If it could only once have a
clean sweep of it. 1t would stop at no
crime, no matter how f1endish, to ac-
complish it's vengeance. ItN was hate
that crucified Christ, and hate would
kill God if it could. To refuse de-
family to obey Gods law means that
you have allowed hatred of Him to
creep into your heart and if it remains
there it will destroy and dama your
soul as certainly as that truth IS
eternal. The Jews refused to allow
Jesus to live in Jerusalem because
there was none of his spirit in them.
.tThe comma ndment, i hou Shalt not
KILL is the same as Thou shalt not