Evening star., 1918-02-07
SKY SMILES, TRAIL
TO SUNDAY GROWS
End of Freeze Adds to Throng
Which Visits Tabernacle to
Hear Evangelist.
''WITHERED HAND" TOPIC

Billy Sunday preached to somewhat
better crowd this afternoon. the smil-
ing skies and pleasant temperature
more than offsetting the sloppy going
in bringing out Sunday enthusiasts.
The subject of his sermon was The
Withered Hand"
Through Secretary Tumulty Mr.. Sun
day has an appointment with the Presi-
| dent of the United States at the White
House at o'clock this afternoon. The
visit will be an informal one. Tho two
leaders, national and religious, are ex-
pected to have just brief personal
chat.
Billy made many and timely modern
| applications of the story of the healing
of the withered hand by Jesus long
ago, declaring that what Christ did for
| that ancient Jew He can do for any
modern man or woman.
There are men in India that have stood
| with their arms extended until their mus
| cles and joints have stiffened and they
can't bend their arms and bring their
| hands against their bodies.' he said. in
part. There are people who have kept
| their hands in their pockets SO long they
can't take out a dollar and put it into the
collection plate
| Hand Most Useful.
The hand is the most useful mem
| Der of the human body. You might
have all the genius of a Phidias or q
| Raphael, an Angelo or of Christopher
| Wrenn. but without hands none of your
immortal conceptions would ever find
expression either in marble or in
bronze or on canvas or in great build
| ings like the st. Paul, which Chris
| topher Wrenn built.
| as the soul of Ole Bull. Handel or
Paganini or Paderewski or Josef
| Holman. but it would remain forever
still, because you could not give ex-
! Your hand will double the fist, or It
VIII hold the pistol. or shoot your
friend, or stab your loved one, If you
tell it to do it. The hand will rock
the cradle. The hand built the ship
with which Columbus crossed the seas
t and discovered a new world
Mans Greatest Document
THE hand wrote the Declaration of
Independence, the grandest document
ever written by the skill of man, and
think the Lord was watching Thomas
Jefferson when he did the Job.
The hand wrote the Bible
1.-The hand stripped and scourged
Jesus. The hand made the Cross"
Billy Sunday held his usual Thursday
morning meeting at a private home to-
| day, the place being the residence of
| northwest
Tonight at 1880 Sunday will preach
on Think of These Things"
| Tomorrow will be the last students
| Florence Kinney, in charge of students
| work, has arranged for a rousing at
tendance of pupils from the District
| schools. colleges and universities.
Invited to Hit the Trail.
! Commissioners Brownlow and Gardiner
and Acting Engineer Commissioner Low
| ing were cordially and personally invited
| to hit the trail last night by Billy Sunday.
| The evangelist wanted them to head the
delegation from the municipal government
employees. but they managed to resist his
Establishments and the strains of Almost
Persuaded Last night was District
night at the Tabernacle: the District gov
| ernment delegation was the largest OF
| several present and Joined in the singing
| with particular enthusiasm.
Billy next summoned the fringe Of Do
licemen and firemen standing around the
outer edge of the Tabernacle, telling them
that he would assume responsibility for
their leaving their posts. Business be-
/ fore pleasure" seemed, however, to be
| their motto for the occasion and they
stuck closely to the burning deck, said
deck being represented by the stoves.
Billy, in his PRAYER. reminded the Lord
that He was to give the old kaiser the
! hook and square up with him.
| Other special delegations present last
i night included groups from the Continen-
tai Trust Company, the Sons of Jonadab.
| the Treasury Department. Clarendon,
| Brunswick and Montgomery county.
Explains Repentance.
| Sundays sermon on God Commands
All Men TO Repent" concluded as fol-
| lows:
"You ask me, BILL what is repent
| ance2' Listen. 1t is the immediate
| forsakins of anything in your life that
you know to be wrong. oh. no mat
! ter what it may be. It may drive you
| with whip of scorpions. It is for
| saking everything you know to be
wrong and asking God for Christ's sake
| to forgive you.
where have you been? I have been
standing right here by you. waiting
/ for you to say. I want to be a Chris
| tian. and do right l have been waiting.
waiting"
A number of special meetings for
men were scheduled at various places in
the city today. those for tonight being
at No. "a engine house at o'clock, led
by R. H. Thompson. and at truck 3
house. same hour. led by Page NICK.
Etchison.
Followin the usual Bible class led
by Miss SAKE ut the close of the sermon
yesterday afternoon Chorister Rode
HEAVIER rehearsed big group of Wash
ington school children for a choir per-
dafa fn ha