The Washington times., 1918-01-12
DON'T GO AFTER
A POLECAT WITH
PERFUME---BHLY

Billy Sunday turned from the devil
and the Kaiser long enough to hand the
Pharisee and the Publican a few jolts
in the solar plexus, in his sermon at the
Tabernacle this afternoon.
And he found before he got through
with the subject that there are few of
the Pharisee and Publican type still left
in the world.
His sermon follows:
In the eighteenth chapter of Luke
Il am not going to take my strength
and your time to read you the story
! OF the Pharisee and the Publican, for
1t Is a very familiar portion OF the
Word of God. But 1 want to talk
little today about true religion, and
not about a sham substitute
Void of Spiritual Power.
We hear expressions Of regret that
religion is so generally neglected by
the majority of mankind and no rea-
sonable man or woman can reflect
! upon that truth without a great deal
OF anguish, and yet, on the other
hand, much OF what we render and
/ offer to God as service is simply
formal and void of spiritual power,
ana reduced to an ethical code. Per
haps that is one reason why so many
do neglect II, because so much that we
/ offer is OF the head and not of the
heart.
Abraham Lincoln said, at the ded-
icatory service at Gettysburg. THE
world will little note nor long re-
member what we say here, but II
will never forget what they did here"
And what the world wants is a re-
ligion of deeds-not talk. Talks
nh ~ % art
wind hammers, but to get out and de-
liver the goods is what the world is
looking for.
Spoke To COnyine Such.
; Now, it was to convince such that
Jesus Christ spake this parable. and
F., he had two purposes in view. which
you keep in mind or you will lose
the benefit Of the message today.
! First, he wanted to show some peo-
| pie who think they are righteous that
they are not. Second, why the pray
ers OF some are answered and others
are not
He had those two purposes in view
1 when he spake this little parable of
the Pharisee and the Publican-first.
to show some who think they are
! righteous that they are not: second.
to show why the prayers of some are
answered and others are not.
Gratitude to God is never coupled
with a defamation OF his creatures. You.
can't thank God with one breath and
turn around and assassinate your neigh
Dor with the next; you can't thank
God with one breath and lie about some
body the next you can't put that over
on God-no. sir! Gratitude to God is
never coupled with a defamation OF his
creatures.
Thinks He's Righteous.
He thinks he is righteous. He puts
himself in class here, puts all the rest
in a dass by themselves. and says, Il
thank Sou, God, / am not as other men
are"
This man lied at the beginning OF his
prayer. II you will read the first seven
teen chapters OF. Luke. But the way.
you ought to know the contents OF the
first seventeen chapters before you at
tempt to find out what's in the eight
eenth-that's the way you do with a
novel. / suppose. but that's the way you
don't do with the Bible, and il you read
the novel in the same slipshod, happy
so-lucly. good-lord- -good-devil. milk.
cider. chalk. and vinegar way you do
the Bible you'd know no more about
the novel than you do about the Bible.
So II you will read the first seventeen
chapters Of Luke you will find that the
Pharisees hated everybody. Oh they
despised the Greeks: they hated the
Romans: they despised John the baptist
and above everybody they depiscd Jesus
Christ. He told that bunch of ecclesiasti-
cal crooks where To head in. Jesus
Christ proved himself an icOnoclas,.
Must Sober Him Up.
II ] find a man that's drunk. it's
none of my businesses whether ii was
hereditary. whether il was the result
OF his environment, whether IT was
the result of his being a fool: it's my
business To help make him sober.
And if | find girl selling her
womanhood. merchandising her vir-
| tue for gain, it's none OF my bust
mes whether that's the result of de-
/ ceptinn or misplaced love or OF lust.
it's your business to help set her free
and send her home with the tears OF
repentance CnuTsing down her cheeks
Perhaps IL you'd been up against
| what she was up against you'd be
what she is. so don't fold your skirts
of self-righteOusness about your old
carcass and thank God you are not
as other people are.
When l first started out to preach,
diagnosed the difficulty up in the
gray matter. I said:
Lord, the bunch is all from Mis-
souri,. They are waiting to be shown,
and ] guess it's up to me-"
Some Fine Words.
So 7 got a sermon. ] got out the
Encyclopedia britannica. and Web
ster's Unabridged. Oh. I had some
sentences in IL that lonE-it would
make the jaw OF a Greek professor
squeak a week trying to pronounce
the words.
You have seen a kid at the Fourth
Of Tu1 hreaL. firarrackpr N the