Evening star., 1918-01-16

| day party headquarters today that this
| feature of the campaign would probably
start at this evenings meeting, when
the evangelist will preach on THE Hour
Is Come"
After missing for the second time the
afternoon service in twenty-one years
yesterday afternoon Billy Sunday was
back on the job at last nights meeting
1t was said at the headquarters in
Mount Alto Inn that this morning the
evangelists voice was a little better
and that he would preach his sermon on
Casting Out the Devil at this after
Moons meeting
Billy Sunday has never missed an
evening service at which he was sched-
uled to preach and the first afternoon
service he missed was when he made
a trip up the Hudson with the French
mission on 4 visit to this country. The
Sunday party was then in New York
conducting a campaign.
The first of the series of meetings in
private homes that the evangelist usu-
tally conducts in every city that he holds
his campaign will be held Friday morn
ing at IL o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Robert Lansing. wife of the Secretary
of State. At these meetings the evan
gelist usually breaches on little diff
ferent themes than those he chooses for
MS IHDefnaClS sermons.
Meeting for Men Only.
The Stevenson Bible class will join
with the Bloomingdale section. which.
under the direction of NJ. Is. Speelman
of the Lincoln Road NJ. E. Church, with
the cooperation of pastors and teach
erS of the organized mems Bible classes,
expects to bring at least one thousand
men from Bloomingdale to attend the
ing at the Tabernacle, according to an
nouncement made by Charles ID.
Shackelford. president of the class
The Stevenson Bible class and MEM
bers of the various mems organizations
of Bethany Baptist Church will leave
the church promptly at $50 o'clock,
escorted by band. They will be Joined
by the men from the Rhode Is
land NJ. T. Church. st. Paul NJ. F..
Church South. Lincoln Road NJ L.
Church, United Brethren and Ecking-
ton Presbyterian Churches at the last
two churches
The classes for all of the churches
will be escorted by the Eloomingdale
Sunday School Band. The officers of
the Stevenson Bible class extend an in
vitation to all men of the community
and the city who are without member
ship i'll another class and who desire
to attend the meeting.
Miss Grace SAKE of the Billy Sum
Bible lectures in Mount Pleasant to-
morrow evening at 7:45 o'clock at Inn
manuel Baptist Church, 18th street and
Columbia road. The public is invited
Casting Out the Devil,
The object of the church is to cast
out DEVILS" asserted the evangelist in
his sermon on Casting Out the Devil'
at this afternoons services. He said,
in part:
The Lord cannot only drive the devil
out, but He can keep him from COM
ing back Salvation is a double bar
relied proposition. The Lord can save
you and make you stay saved.
The deepest sorrow comes through
our own flesh and blood. The highest
JOY also comes through the successes
and high achievements of our own flesh
and blood, of our friends.
Christianity is not a mere system of
teaching. Christianity is a system of
teaching. plus living. Be not hearers
of the word only, but doers of the word.
Christianity is not a Scripture and
creed. but Scripture and creed, plus
Jesus. See?
christianity is a new mind What
we see of evil we despise when we have
new mind.
christianity is a new will You will
do the good and hate the wrong.
christ is new attraction, I love
L q.
Don't tell me that you are a Christian
when you love lewd show more than
you do prayer meeting.
New Motive Power.
christianity is a new motive power
Man Will never rise higher than his
ideals. Man will never go farther than
his dynamic force. There was an old
steamer on the Mississippi which al
ways brought up the rear when the
boats came in, and the people used to
come down and watch her behind all
of the others. One day she failed to
appear, and they waited and waited
In she was leading them all. She
was under full steam and had a
brand-new coat of paint Hey, cap
tain.' some one yelled. does that new
Not on your life was the answer.
She's got a new boiler and a new en-
gine. That's what makes her CO. So
with Christianity. Christianity is a
new motive power. 1t gives a man
power to pass booze and say, Not on
your life
Il think that the worst thing that
ever wriggled out of the pit of hell is
church scrap. What hinders re-
vivalss 1t isn't the saloon keepers
the red light district. It's the quarrels
and selfishness of Gods people. o God
pity you. If I didn't have enough re-
ligion in me to stop quarreling and
stay stopped. I'd get 1t or I'd quit the
church. What could the disciples think
of preaching. Each wanted to have
the best chance, each wanted to be the
biggest duck in the puddle; each want
ed to get In the spotlight.
Must Cast Aside Pride.
why could they not cast him out?
Because they were scrapping with each
others: in their selfish ambition they
could not see Gods will. God will
never hear a prayer when pride is the
handspring.
"I believe that some time in the life
of every man and woman there will
come time when they will pray. When
the Titanic went down every man
prayed. 1 say there will come a time
in the life of every one of you when
you will pray.
"But God won't hear a selfish prayer
simply because you want to bribe God
and think He will hear it. My ears
are brass. Look at the Pharisee strut
ting up the temple like a peacock, pre-
senting himself like a bird of paradise
and in the sonorous oratory bellowine
out: I thank Thee. God. I am not as
other men. I thank Thee that l am
not as this publican here Right then
the recording angel dropped his pen
and gave up in despair. But when
you come like a publican, God be mer-
ciful to me. a sinner then God will
hear your prayer. Every man who