The Washington herald., 1918-02-09
Evangelist Billy Tells Big Tabernacle
Audience Power of God Is Factor
That Saves the Booze Fighter, Pros
titute and Other Sinners Who Have
Strayed from the Path of Virtue and
Righteousness. ..'
| EVENING SERMON
Think on These Things

them that perish foolishness. but to
rs which are saved 1t is the power
of God"
There is nothing more foolish
to the man who is perishing than
this meeting. And whenever you
hear q man knock you know what
he Is clamoring for.
Men have always striven after
power. The world wasn't very old
until man noticed the strength of
the OK and he Immediately coveted
II; he tanned and yoked it and made
it do k+s-werk for him.
Man has always appropriated
power. and that is why the world
has grown That led to the inven-
tion OF the sling, the arrow, the
cannon. the railways and every
thing which makes our lives bright
er and .onr burdens lighter.
Man! wins Power.
Man. soon, discovered the horse
can run faster than he can, and he
caught it; bridled it, saddled II. har-
messed ii. and today the horse is the
most useful animal in the world.
Man. the weakest thing in the
world. longed to be the strongest,
and man began to exercise his wits.
The results of this longing are seen
In everything We have today.
HE discovered that there was
power in the current when he tried
to swim against it and as a result
| he iharnessed IL and made it turn
the wheels Of machinery, generate
electric current and bear our ships.
Man was not content to remain the
| weakest.
''And yet man was slow to learn
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mate the first wagon wheel. Every
power today was foolish once.
Pioneers Called Fools.
'swe know of men who have made |
discoveries who were at first called |
dreamers and fools. imbeciles, fanatics
and cranks. Maybe the man who in
vented the bow and arrow was called
a fool and a dreamer and maybe he |
| lived and died before ne succeeded in |
having his tribe adopt il for use in |
warring against its enemies.
when it was proposed in parlia-
ment that a railroad be built from
Liverpool to Manchester a peer rose
In the house Of lords and said that
people could not breathe IL they went
as fast as fifteen miles per hour.
'-He said the train would strip bare |
of wool the backs Of sheep which
happened to be near the track and /,
that the erection OF a railroad would
mean the death of all the cattle. be-
| cause the cinders would kill the grass
. in the pastures and that the smoke |
and gas from the engine would suf-
focste the people.
You Who Are Fool.
-An these things seemed foolish
because we were fools. Christian
| ity is not fooIishness-it is you who
arefthe fool.
when we became wise enough |
to lake hold of steams it became a
power. The power was there all
| thes,time, but we were too big fools !
to know it.
1T is the same with Christian
| 1ty; God has been waiting all this
time to demonstrates to you that 1t
is power.
Two boys stood on a bridge near
which was strung a trolley wire. |
One of the boys said IL carried cur
rent enough to kill. and the other |
did not believe it. Leaning over he !
caught the wire in his hand, and |
was thrown lifeless to the tracks |
below.
The text comes like a word of
5ud gment, dividing the world into !
two classes, the saved and the lost !
What is foolishness to the unsaved
Is power of the highest order be-
eause Of God
Christ IL Necessary.
n the Bible is nonsense to you,
you ought to be alarmed. It is i'm
possible for a man to be saved and
not know Jesus Christ Latin and
Greek are nonsense to the man who |
knows nothing about them. Music !
falls dead on the unmusicaI ear.
lou may think that raising money
for this Tabernacle was foolishness,
and say, Why don't you give the
money to the poor?'
Old Judas put up the same plea, and
the Lord said: Not that he cared for
the poor, but he was an old lobster
If the atonemsnt Of Jesus seems
foolish to you, you're a most danger
Gus man in town to live with. Paint
ing and sculpture do not appeal to the
man who knows nothing about them. !
Like the man who viewed the $50 900 !
painting of the Madonna, and re-
marked: Gee whiz. that's a nne
frarae'
we show what we are bv where
We are. There is a law of gravitation |
"a character the same as in nature.
Opposing Natures.
Hogs like slop and the more filthy
and. sour it is the better they like II;
hogs like to wallow in the naIodors !
OF the barnyard.
"A sheep loves the fresh green |
grass in the fields and clear water to |
drink.
"A saloonkeeper would not enjoy !
himself in red-hot prayer meeting. |
It would be impossible for a good man
to be at home in booze Joint, where |
there was a lot of blaspheming and |
cursing men. A virtuous woman
could not be at home In q red-light |
district
Some people go one way, some an
other. Nothing is more foolish to the |
unsaSed- man than the Bible. You win |
never cease to be a fool until you |
rease to be q sinner and accept Jesus
Christ knowledge Is nothing to an |
lgnorant man: to an educated man It |
b power.
You need no argument as to the |
power OF the trolley car. All that Is |
necessary Is for you to see the car |
going up the hill crowded with pas |
sengsrs; you need no argument to de- |
cids that vhiskey Is a curse: all you |
need ts TO see man staggering home |
1runk; you need no argument as to |
ne power OF God. You can't argue |
kgainst It and you're . fool II you do. |
Jews WIN Come Back.
The same power oppressed them |
hat oppressed Jesus. but stil they
hpf on They were driven from |