The Washington times., 1918-01-30
BILLY DENOUNCES
BILLIARD SHOOTING
Y. NJ. c. A. LIZARDS

A cracker, a plate Of soup. sfnker,
and a cup of coffee will get no one
into the Kingdom OF Heaven. accord
ing to Billy. who preached this aft
ernoon at the Tabernacle on Union
Station plaza.
Atonement was the theme OF his
sermon. and 1t was entitled, FISHERS
OF Men" He rode the Goddess and
the lawless with equal severity. The
sermon follows:
Mark. FIRST chapter and the six
teenth verse: Follow Ne and / VIII
Make You Fishers OF Men,
Jesus did not say, Follow Me and
I will make you feeders OF sheep.
In many churches nine-tenths OF the
expended energy Is in feeding the
sheep. Fifty weeks in the year are
spent preaching to. sheep in the
church and two weeks to the people
outside.
Some one says. The sheep need to
be fed. don't theyT Surely, but the
best way to feed the ninety-and-nine
is to forget them and so out after
the one that Is lost.
Fatty Degeneration Of Soul.
THE church that spends all OF its
time conserving its doctrine and
membership may become an evangeli-
cal Ahurch. but not an evangelistic
church. The church that is simply
evangelical Is the church on ice-the
church that Is evangelistic Is the
church on Ore.
"a church couldn't be evangelistic
without being evangelical, but
church could be evangelical without
being evangelistic.
There are thousands OF church
members who seem to think the
preachers sole duty Is to provide
them with predigested religious FOOD
which from Sunday to Sunday they
may be able to bolt. being themselves
relieved of the process of mastication
and digestion. That's the reason 80
many who take this attitude toward
the ministry die OF fatty degeneration
OF the soul.
"Jesus did not say, Follow Ne and
I will make you feeders OF goats, and
yet certain men seem under the delu-
sion that the one great task OF relig-
ion f. to take the goat, to feed and
cultivate Il that he will ultimately
become. sheep in, the masters flock.
You cannot convert a goat into
W any pAONNee "a 49, -
ture.
"No Cookie ROute.@
1.-The thousand and one makeshifts
the people now use in the place OF
atonement are well and good in their
place. but their place IL not here You
cannot battle anybody into the King
dom OF God. You cannot give people
q cracker. a cookie, a plate OF soup,
fRsNn
the kingdom. You cannot change their
heart by changing their sanitation.
II have no quarrel with social serv-
ice. education, or the institutional
methods In which the modern church
engages. provided such work is not
put In the place of the real work CT
the kingdom, that of saving souls.
IF have 20 yank down my stan
dard because you let those things in
terfere with your belief in the atone
ment, wen night right there II j
have to yank down my methods OF
preaching to please some old chap
with his collar buttoned in the back
OF his neck. then I'll stop. I'll go out
and sweep rhe streets for a living be-
fore III do that.
oh. Billiards, Listen.
81 have never been in sympathy
with q Y. NJ. C. A. with q billiard
room. I'm :Or the Y. n. c. A. and
think it's one Of the best institutions
on the face of the earth, but I'm
against the billiard room. I consider
a billiard room or a pool room the
second COUSIN OF the saloon. I'm for
the gymnasiums and the Libraries and
the swimming pools. but I'm against
the billiard and pool games.
1T is an entirely good Christian
thing to give the down -and-outer Q
bath, a bed and a job-it is an en-
tirely Christina thing to establish and