Evening star., 1918-01-12
PROMISES TO CHASE
] DEVIL OUT Of CAMP
Evangelist Sunday Accepts
Gen. Nicholson's Invitation
TO Visit Meade.
TALKS TO SCHOOL PUPILS

schase the devil out of the camp IL
he is Herewith we'll directed. rapid
.x fire ep,tf,ets. 1t is expected that he
! will speak before the soldiers in the
near future.
Mr.. Sunday also has been requested
10 speak at American University oy
Bishop Hamilton OF the university. lie
has consented to do so.
A large percentage of the big gath
erinS which filed the Tabernacle de-
spite the iuclsment weather last night
was composed of pupils from the va
/ rious educational institutions in the
city. Last night was students night.
The evangelist spoke on Forces TO
Win" IN which he emphasized the i'm
;, portance of the desire 10 grow to
amount to something.
Must Feel the Need"
He said: You must feel your need
like a miser wants money Feel your
need of it, We can't do any more than
furnish you with the opportunity. II
you haven't got it in you. then you are
I. at fault.
The evangelist inserted this admoni.
tion: IF your pockets are empty, MI
your hearts full of ambition ana go 70
e'~o
urged.
Three meetings are to be held tomor-
row at the Tabernacle. The nrst WIZ
be at 1880 O'Clock in the morning. the
second at o'clock in the afternoon:
and in the evening the services will
begin at ! O'Clock.
"Pharisee and the Publican"
.Pharisee and the Publican formed
the theme of the evangelist's sermon
s. thi. afternoon. He said, in part:
There are people with whom form
Rfity seems to make up for lack OF
spirituality. The Pharisees were the
: religious inwardly of any class OF
people that ever lived. and they
have been propagating their species
: with alarming rapidity in all COM
Tnunities that / have ever visited or
that / have ever heard anything about.
y They were very diligent for the out
= ward obseryances-for the forms. the
rituals and the ceremonies. They used
to stoop to tie the herbs that grew by
I the wayside and yet they neglected the
weightier matters of the laws of equity.
+ love. justice, mercy, truth, love your
neighbor as yourself, and yet they were
Just as far from the kingdom of God
as il they had been openly profane.
hear expressions Of regret that
religion is so generally neglected by
j. the majority of mankind and no reason
able man or woman can reflect upon
that truth without a great deal of an
: guisf1, 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, and reduced to
an ethical code. Perhaps that is one
8 cause go much that we offer is of the
head and not of the heart.
r. Abraham Lincoln said, at the dedi-
& cstory service at Gettysburg The world
hor yghe q Z
we say here, but 1t will never forget
what they did here
Needs Deeds, Not Talk.
>And what the world wants is a re-
Igion of deeds-not talk. Talks cheap.
Lots of people are expert windjammers,
but to get out and deliver the goods Is
{ what the world is looking for.
NOW, It was to convince such that
Jesus Christ spake this parable, and
he had two purposes in view. which
you keep In mind or you will lose the
penefit of the message day. First,
& ne wanted to show some people who
not Second. why the prayers of some
are answered and others are not.
ss he had those two purposes in view
when he spake this little parable of
tne Pharisee and the publican--lrst, to
show some who think they are right
eous that they are not: second. to show
why the prayers of some are answered
and others are not
Gratitude to God is never counIed
with defamation Of his creatures. You
! can't thank God with one breath and
turn around and assassinate your neigh
DOT 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
e never coupled with a defamation OF
his creatures
Fulfilled the Commandments.
In speaking of the Pharisees Mr.. Sun
And when Jesus came into the world
ae did not fulfill their traditions; He
3 Did fulfill the commandments Of God
ana therefore. they weren't expecting
Him to fulfill their traditions, ana IA
they were teaching traditions insfead
OF commandments and made the COM
mandments Of God of non-effect he
cause OF their traditions. and Jesus had
quarrel with them because they saw
departure from their daily civic and
social life. a'io
He went on to show them that reli.
z,on didn't consist in doing a lot OF
Iigfon, but religion Consisted in doine
everything that God wanted done Sc
ne had a quarrel with them.
Jesus was a ptous patriot: they were
0ious churchmen. They locked horn.
right from the beginning and that ras
ths crowd that killed Him. There wars
about seven thousand Phariseec IN
round numbers. They were the eccle.
siast1cal power; they ran things. tha,
{ dictated the policies. If a man didn;,
preach the way they wanted b;n 70
they put him out Of business. That va
Ine crowd that stirred UP the Roman
etirred up PLATE; that was the crou,I
esuS Christ was crucified hy-fhe
church of His day whose sins Ha ~.
= Ouked. Paul was one of them II
wasn't one of the Pharfsees that + L,1ia.
him. but he said, I am a Pha ri.aa -,
Rharisees.' So there were about ssso, y.
= thousand Of them"
monition: 1s an's az
Don't imagine that there i. an ;,.v;
Fable law of absorption going aIonS !,
fhe world. II you come too ciosa1 :,
contact with the unfortunate vn,, y,,,i Il
nave transmitted to you the virns a
tho sin that contamfnatea and infes@
and bhghts and infects them like
pestflence and mildew."
Trouble Is in the Heart.
The preacher, after telling Of m
Vaults OF the PhArisee, said: "NJoyv wei
let this old lobster alone for n liffi
Ehile-the Pharisee. There's fhe otha
3ellow-the publican.
The trouble, my friends, II I'm IN
Reart: that's what's the matter wifi
She people, and this fellow knew wher
he trouble was. God be merctfui {,
f4me sinner
.ons man said. God I'm III right. m,