Evening star., 1918-01-21
TRAIL HITTERS RESPONDING
TO BILLY SUNDAYS APPEALS
Evangelist Holds No Services Today, But He
and Members of Party Take Part
in S pecial Programs

Although Monday is day of rest for
the Sunday party, the evangelist and sew
eraI others of his associates are sched-
ued to take part in programs this even
ing-one a celebration by the navy yard
employees at the Tabernacle, when Mr..
Sunday will deliver the opening prayer,
and another at the National Press Club.
which will entertain Robert Matthews.
pianist and private secretary to Mr.. Sun
day; Chorister Rodeheaver, and George
A. Brewster, pianist of the party. The
evangelist also kept a luncheon engage
ment at noon today with Senator Watson
of Indiana at the Capitol.
Messrs. Rodeheaver. Matthews and
Brewster are to sing and give piano selec-
evening.
Commerce Chamber Has Date.
Members of the Chamber of Commerce
will attend in a body the meeting Friday
night at the Tabernacle Arrangements
to this effect We're made at a conference
Of the board of directors of the Chamber
OF Commerce and the Sunday campaign
committee. Each member will wear a tag
to identity him. Good seats have been
reserved for this delegation, and it is
hand.
Inc following program of meetings has
been announced by the boys and girls
department of the Sunday campaign, Miss
Alice Miriam Gamlin, director: Tomorrow
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock at the Mt
Pleasant M. E. Church. boys and girls;
Wednesday afternoon. at 3:15 O'Clock, at
Wallace Memorial Church, boys and girls;
Mednesday evening, at 7:45 O'Clock, at
w, Wallace Memorial Church, parents;
wood Park NJ. e. Church, and in the
evening. at 7:45 o'clock, at Sherwood
PRESBYTERIAN Church, boys and girls;
Friday afternoon, at BIS O'Clock, at the
Fourth Presbyterian Church, boys and
girls.
Trail Hitters Respond to Appeals.
a good response on the part of the
audience to Billy Sundays appeals for
trail hitters" marked the three services
Yesterday. All meetings were well attend
ed. especially the afternoon meeting,
which was for men only. and the evening
meeting. The Tabernacle was taxed to its
capacity at the evening meeting
Albert Peterson, custodian of the Taber-
nac.e, is in Sibiey Hospital undergoing
treatment for tonsilitis.
what Will You Do With Jesus,
What VIII You Do With Jesus" was
the subject of Mr.. Sundays sermon
last night. He said:
Nineteen hundred years ago a star
paused above Il lowly manger in Beth
lehem. and above the moonlit hills of
Judea glad angels heralded the begin
ming of the life of Jesus Christ upon
the earth, who came to teach US love
and the atonement of sin through His
blood. No matter what He said or did
to dlsprove that He came to fulfill the
Messianic prophecy the Jews and Cen
tiles stopped their ears and conspired
to murder Him and caused Him to be
nalied to the cross. although he was
blameless in the eyes of the law.
NOW, Plate had manv difficulties
II you give up you are a nonentity
Everything the devil does is to keep
you out of Heaven. PLATE had many
things to encourage him to do the
manly thing with Him. To his ever
lasting shame he chose to do the thing
Which was wrong. and to the end OF
time MS name will reek with ignominy
ana Will be stencil in the noStrils of
all who like a fair deal Every man
IN hell tonight. is there because he
hadnt manhood enough to take a
stand for Christ.
Among the things encouraging Pi
late 10 right decision was the dream
or his wife. We don't know much about
her. 1t was proof of her possession
OF womanly qualities that God revealed
Hlmseif to her in dream. for he so
~ assealeu hlmseif to Pharaoh and Nebu-
chadnezzar. Yet for all we know she
may have been a good woman and a
reverent one. N &
PLATE Given Warning.
1T may have been because of this
that she was given the visnon. or it
may nave been her overwhelming love
for her husband that put her in touch
with Things unseen. We do not know
just what she dreamed. but it seems
proba bic that God had revealed to her
a picture of the murder of Jesus. in
which her husband should have a part
and SO Mrs. PLATE gave her husba nd
the message of warning to have moth
ing to do with that just man. for
have suffered many things this night
in dream concerning Him. So Pilate
had his wife's warning as an influence
against an evil decision in the case of
Jesus.
Second-Pilate had the personality
OF Jesus to influence him against Civ
ing Christ into the hands of his enc
mics. Never before had such a char
acter been taken before Plate as a
prisoner He stood there quiet and
calm, silent among His accusers. one
of the grandest and most dignified fig
ureS the human eye ever saw or rhe
imagination of man can conceive If l
was judge. the personality of a pris-
oner would have big drag with me.
''Third-Pilate had the miracles that
Jesus worked as a reason why he
should not find against the prisoner.
He may not have witnessed any of
the miracles Of Jesus himself, but he
had heard OF them. They were the
talk OF the whole region. There was
hardly town or village in which there
was not 4 man whose eyes had not
been opened from blindness. or whose
ears lad not been unstopped from
deafness, or who had not been healed
from iameness, or from whom a devil
had not been cast out; or If there
were not these, there were their rela-
tives and their friends who knew of
the wonders done by Jesus PLATE
lad heard of these things, and there
is no doubt that he was curious to
see this man, about whom the people
talked SO much. He had the miracles
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