Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Gross Campaign Expenses.

The entire gross campaign expenses,
counting this gift, We're S'S.3S2. The
Y. NJ c. a. war work council will take
over the Tabernacle, and for IT the or
ganization has paid 10000, leaving
net sum of S6S.332. Billy, as usual, had
no contract with the city. The COM
rnittee which brought him here was
under no obligation TO pay him a cent.
He was promised only what his hearers
wanted to give on the last DAY. He
got more than this. for preliminary
collections toward this sum started
I'VE days ahead
Yesterday. the last day. was the most
inspiring of the whole campaign. The
audiences were very large, the Taber-
nacie at the final sermon last night
having been packed and damned. with
a disappointed crowd hanging around
outside More than thousand hit the
trail last night. a local record for one
service.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world
can such combinations of people. dis
tinguished in varied lines of endeavor,
be seen as at a big Sunday meeting.
At one of yesterdays gatherings in a
space only a few feet square on the
platform directly behind the pulpit
could be noted the following group
in animated conversation: Secretary
Daniels and his son. Speaker Clark,
Uncle Joe Cannon. Mrs. Sunday, Lieut..
man. Capt and Mrs Anthony j.
Drexel Biddle and Battling Nelson of
the much battered visage Seated in
the front row of the press box was
Col, John Temple Graves.
Smiles Illumine the Faces.
Up the aisle arm in arm came a well
set-up, middle-aged officer in faultless
fitting uniform, and an elderly and
battereG-looking workman. The officer
was a personal worker" who had
persuaded the toilworn man TO an
nounce his acceptance of Christ as his
personal Savior. And the smiles that
illumined all three faces when Billy
reached down his hand were Identical
in character and worth walking q long
way just to see.
The sermon delivered by Sunday yes
terday morning, while not his farewell
speech, might appropriately have been
such. He concluded il as follows:
You will agree with me in closing that
I'm not a. crank. At least 1 try not to
be. I have not preached about any first
second. third or hundredth blessing. ]
have not talked about baptism or i'm
mersion. I told you that while I was
here my creed would be with Christ
you are saved; without Him You are
lost" Are you saved2 Are you lost? Co
ing to Heaven Going TO hell? | have
| tried to build every sermon around and
to answer those questions and steer
clear of anything else, but I want
/ to say to you this morning, in closing
| the secret of my earnestness. ! never
preach a sermon but that ! think it ma
/ be the last one some fellow viii hear
/ or the last I shall ever be privileged
to preach. 1t is an inspiration to me
that some day He will come, but l say
/ unto you all. Watch, for We know not
! the day or hour.
I l think when my eyes to earth's
! glories grow dim and I have gone 10
the last city and preached my last ser
man and offered my last prayer ana
| have given the last invitation to the
| unsayed; when the death dew gathers
on my brow and the death rattle sounds
! in my throat, and nay wife and little
| ones stand around my bedside and
| look into their faces. I tell you. in a
! time and an hour like that. when the
| world recedes and heaven opens and
! burst through the gates into the city
! and look into the face of Him who hav-
! ing not seen l love. whatever reward
Jesus feels that ] have earned, VIII fee
! like taking the crown off my head and
| casting il at His feet and stand anG
( gaze on His face an+ say: Jesus, it it
! reward enough for me to know that the
/ pearly gates have swung behind my
| back on their jeweied hinges and / will
| go in and out no more forever. ] lust
| want to stand and look at you, Jesus
| Look 10 yourself that We receive a
/ full reward"
Nice Things Said of Campaign.