Evening star., 1918-01-14
BILLY SUNDAY RESTS TODAY;
NO MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED
'Backsliders" and Why We Gould Not Cast
Out the Devil to Be Topics
For Tomorrow.

Will stand just as good show of going
to heaven as the man who has been on
the firing line for virtue and home and
| native land and has been bullet meat
! and has worked and fought against
| the stoical Indifference of the people of
| today. They convey the impression
! today that no man will ultimately reach
hell. I don't believe you can remem-
Well, you'll hear about hell while I am
here. God Almighty put hell in the
Bible, and any preacher that sidesteps
it because there are people sitting in
out of the pulpit. He is simply trim
| ming his sails to catch a passing
breeze of popularity. If You do that
YOU are a cipher. We stamp on our
"Let's Get Back to Christi
Lets get back to Christ. back to
back to the beliefs of our own fore
fathers, back to Gods kingdom. Gods
got to come first and all other things
can trail The trouble is that you've
got a lot of fool preachers who are
breaking their necks to please you So
ciety danes. The most up-to-da thing
on earth is the gospel Of Jesus Christ
There's a lot of preachers on earth
who can preach the gospel better than
l. but there's not one living who can
long ago my mother became very ILL.,
had her hurried to hospital in Chi
cago, got the best surgeons money
could get to attend her. hired a retinue
Of nurses to see that she would want
for nothing. l saw to it that ma Had
every attention that woman could get
on this earth and I told them to do
everything in their power for her, no
matter what 1t cost. for she is my
mother. The church of God. the church
ifIYo 2 Ya,x
down my life for her this minute.
II believe in base ball. Whyo Be-
cause know the game is clean. I
played 1t for eight years and 1 believe
1t is the squarest sport there is today.
1t is square because it hasn't got into
the hands of the blackleg gamblers.
Horse racing is crooked because the
gamblers have got hold of it.
Thaw Out Formally.
'Thaw out your miserable formality.
believe the pews in every church
ought to be free. Oh, I know you don't
agree with me. some of you; if you had
religion you would Many a poor man
Is made to feel like beggar in the
house of God because he's got to stand
and wait until so and SO comes before
he knows whether he can sit down or
not.
IF I read the signs of the times
Alright it behooves the church Of God
to wake up and fight as it has never
fought before, for you'll see the lines
between the man and the devil, the
church and the saloon, the home and
orothel drawn so tightly that your
game will be lost and the people keep
rushing to hell.
Il sound the charge! I sound the
charge! How many Of you will help
me to save old Washington for Christ?
Stand up those who are in this fight to
win"
Topic Was 'The Moral Leper."
Mr. Sunday took for his subject "The
Moral Leper" for last nights sermon.
He said in part:
Leprosy is an infectious disease like
scarlet fever. or like diphtheria and 1t
spreads through a community, those az
fected with 1t coming in contact with
other people that are not and thus
they spread 1t all over
In you will be the sin that will damn
somebody else. You can't have a dis
ease to yourself, you will give 1t to
others That's the reason we have got
Jaws that cause them to stay in their
homes. that's the reason we quarantine
smallpox and d1phtheria, and these con-
tagtous diseases. We don't want other
people, my friends. to be afflicted by
them. So why not sin?
society takes no notice of sin. Socf-
ETY. waits until sin has become vice.
tnen they become Mortified over it. So
clety takes no note of the girl flirting
with Tom. Dick and Harry, wearing
clothes that makes a man have anv
thing but pure thoughts when he looks
at ner Skating on thin ice, Society
waits until the mute evidence of Illicit
aHect1on can be no longer hidden and
sne Is on the way to become the mother
OF an il1egitimate child Then thew os.
tracize and stigmatize
God takes note in the beeinni,o.
GOD knows where that thing viii end
inats the reason God cries out his
warnings against society. Societv
taxes no note OF the young fellow
lhat comes to your house to a u..n-
auet. and you served liquor at the
taoie. and he. there, takes a drink of
whisky and in that drink he discovers
the law OF heredity whereby desires
nave been transmitted from his father
upon him, like a serpent in the cold
waiting Tor the warm sun to wrisgle
out ana inject his venom. Society waits
until he becomes a blear-eyed stag
gering. vermin-covered drunkard. then
1t KICKS him out and ostracizes him.
Society takes no note Of tho wound
1eilow that will sit and play cards in
your home for some prize Won offer
Society waits until he becomes inoc-
culated with that virus, then he be-
comes a black-legged gambler and they
Kick him out, after they've got him
started on the career where he is. God
warns the beginning Of those things,
thats why I preach about it. I want
you to get my viewpoint on the mat
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