The Washington times., 1918-02-09
REMEMBER YOUR
CREATOR, BILLY
TELLS CHILDREN

Billy Suno-v preached a special ser
mon ~ the children Of Washington
this afternoon. The sermon was RE
memEer Iour Creator Rody con
Quoted a song service with choir
OF several hundred youngsters. Billy
seemed glad to talk to So many
children. He said:
Remembear God when you are
young, because IL you don't and you
20 on living in sin the Bible says
the time will come when you Will
say. Il have no pleasure in them"
The one great time TO learn any
thing is when you are young. That's
the time to learn to serve God. l
was talking one time to big crowd.
There were thousand Christian
people there. and ! asked this Ques-
tion-they were all grown men ane
women.
Converted Early.
How many of you became con
verted and became Christians before
YOU were twenty years old?" and
Se3 out of a thousand people held
up their hands.
So, most everybody that's a Chris
tian. started when they were young.
That's the reason the Lord says, "Re-
member your Creator in the days OF
your YOUTH and il you wait until
You get old, your habits become form
ed and it is hard to change them.
Billy said that II you learn to DO
something wrong when you are
Young IL is a ten to one shot that you
will keep on doing that thing wrong
Billy also talked about habits. When
YOU start out young, said Billy, ana
give yourself to God, He Will make
YOU what he wants you to be. and
with the devil It is vice versa
Doesn't Like Graveyards.
Billy said he never liked to go
near a graveyard. Billy fooled his
audience the way he said it. They
were expecting him to say bar-room.
Here is the way he said it:
There is one place ] never like to
20 to-a graveyard. never like TO
see people sad; I~never like to see
people cry, and don't like to go out
there unless I have to go. We all
want to live a pleasant life. I've
never seen anybody that would rath-
er be blind than to have good eyes;
I've never seen anybody that would
rather be sick than well;' I've never |
seen pONI AuhA ~ |
hungry than have enough to eat; |
I've never seen anybody that would \
rather be mean than to be good. Ev-
erybody wants to be good.
Il believe / can go downtown any |
where today and every drunkard |
down there wants to be sober, and |
every thief wants to be honest, but /
they got a wrong start-thats the |
reason they're going ahead and liv-
ing as they are"
Tells Little Story.
Billy wound up his sermon today
by telling a little story about three
boys and a steep bank. One boy
dared another to climb down the al
most perpendicular bank. So they
all slid down, from rock to rock.
Finally they reached a place where
they could neither go forward nor
backward. After awhile their father
came and lowered a rope. saying:
Tie this around your arms"
Then Billy finished his sermon:
They got into trouble because they
didn't mind. and we all get into trou-
BILE because we don't mind. You tie
a knot whenever you do right, YOU
unite a knot whenever you do wrong.
Don't let the devil unite them. He
wants you TO be mean and play hook
ey, and swear. play marbles for
keeps. Every time you do anything
bad you unite a knot. Every time
you pray. every time you go to Sun
lay school. every time you are kind
and do good, you tie knot. Il
Il started to tie knots, boys and
girls. thirty years ago, and ! am
wing some every day. watch
mighty closely that the devil doesn't
mite any of them" il