Evening star., 1918-01-22
MORE THAN 1000 RAILWAY MEN
TO HEAR BILLY SUNDAY TONIGHT
Big Snowstorm Did Not Prevent Evangelist
From Preaching This Afternoon-F1is
Voice Much Improved.

( brother You are not in a position
to help anybody else unless you have
helped yourself. God doesn't save on
the installment plan. A man Is either
on the road to heaven or on the road
to hell God doesn't do things by halves.
The trouble with a lot of you church
i members. you spend too much time
dreaming over The Lady of the Lake
Milton. Bacon, Shakespeare. Chaucer
and a lot of such things-you can quote
Shakespeare by the yard for the devil
and he will give you the ha-ha- II
you take the word of God He will take
the crown. So many church members
know nothing about the Bible.
I'VE have cut loose from the Bible.
and any man who is living contrary
to the Bible is a sinner. whether he
feels like sinner or not. Every man
who is living contrary to the laws Is
or not, a man who breaks the law
of God is a sinner. and is on the road
to hell. whether he feels like it or like
saint. Jesus came into the world
to reveal God to man. and man re-
veals Him to man. The only rev.
elation, we have of Jesus is through
the Bible. You have got to know
Jesus to know God; that's how l get
through there. There is no revela-
ton for God to make of Himself
greater than He has made through
Jesus Christ. 1t is not possible for
the human intellect to have greater
conception of God.
Personal Need of Christ.
Every man needs Christ. Jesus is
the Savior that he needs. and he has
got to know the Bible to show what
He needs Savior and now Is the
time to accept the Savior and be saved.
That's what the Bible says.
Then you need the Holy Spirit.
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The spirit of God works through clean
hands. There are too many dirty
hands. too many dirty people trying to
preach clean gospel. I have known
men that have preached the truth ana
God has honored the truth. although
their lives were not as they should be.
But God honored the truth and not
the people who preached the truth.
But il they had been Christians them
selves then God would have honored
them more. because He would have
honored them and the truth.
Prayer. Three-fourths of the
church members have no family prayer.
will bet my life against Cancelled
postage stamp today that half the peo-
pie here did not read the Bible nor
pray before you came here. You wash
your hands. wash your face, comb your
hair. dress yourself; you get your
breakfast. your dinner. your supper.
Yes. Did you read the Bible" No. Did
you pray? No.
Needs Of the Spiritual Nature.
'If you cared for the physical man
hood and womanhood the same way
, that you care for your spiritual man
hood and womanhood you would be
just as dried up and useless and weak
physically as you are spiritually 1
have a physical nature that demands
food and care. Then, too. I have a
spiritual nature that demands food
and care, and the word of God. You
let your spiritual life starve. That is
the reason your pews are full Of drift
wood: that is the reason that religion
is but mirage.
Pray God to give you power. Pray
God to give you power to carry on His
don't preach sermon that 1 don't
pray God for help. and I never finish
a sermon that I don't thank God that
I have preached it. I never finish a
sermon but that l ask for power to
carry on the work, strength to carry it
along. So I get ready by praying. 1
never preach a sermon that / don't
soak 1t in prayer.
Pure hearts. II have any iniquity
We need a wise head. We need horse
sense in preaching. We need horse
sense in what we do. I think God is
constantly looking for q company Of
men and women that are constantly
alive. There are too many dead ones
He needs men and women that are al
ways at 1t. not only during tho revival;
we need to be full Of faith; dead in
earnest. never give up. bulldog ten
cause Of God Almighty"