The Washington times., 1918-01-09
BILLY TAKES NEW
SHOTS AT BOTH
! KAISER AND DEVIL

"If you want to pull a gun on me,
all right" Billy Sunday shouted to
his audience, but don't pull a watch"
Preaching before an enthusiastic
audience today, Billy Sunday chose
for his subject the revival at Pente-
cost. He had his hearers going be-
fore the sermon was half completed,
and after a few shots at the Kaiser
and a few more at the devil, Billy
started in to tell washington about
the Pentecostal revival and just ex-
actly why Washington ought to have
such a revival. even in this day Of
modern thought.
Text Of Sermon.
He said:
Just before his ascension the Lord
made known to His disciples the work
that He wanted them to do and the
teachings He wanted them TO spread
broadcast throughout the world. II
il recorded in Matthew. He said:
go We therefore, and teach all ma.
tions, baptiEing them in the name of
the Father. and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to OBJ
serve all things Whatsoever i have
commanded you; and, 10, l am with
you always, even unto the END OF
the world" And in Mark He said:
go We into all the world, and preach
the gospel TO every creature, every
creature that is white black, rich,
or poor. illiterate OF wise. And In
Luke He said: Behold, l send the
promise Of my Father upon you: but
tarry We in the city OF Jerusalem,
until We be endued with power from
on high And in Acts l, s: I'VE
shall be witnesses unto mo both In
Jerusalem, and in Judea, and in Sa-
maria, and unto the utteEmost parts
of the earth" We see how faithfully
they followed out these instructions
in the famous ten days prayer meet
ing at Pentecost
Not Gotten Up by MeH.
My subject this afternoon Is THE
Revival at Pentecost" and in what
way 1t can be analogous to one in.
this city. In the first place, this was
not a man-gotten-up revival but
one that God sent down, and 50 Is
every true revival OF religion; put
there are conditions which human be.
inEs must fulfill before God will even
send IL down. A revival IL something
different from q rainstorn--you have
nothing to do with q rainStorn. God
will exercise His sovereignty and
will make n rain whether you like II
or not: and He will make IL snow In
April when you think II ought to
snow in February; II He takes . no
ton He will make II snow in June,
and so the Lord runs the weather
bureau on that proposition
1 hear people pray God for power
when their lives are so directly op-
posed to God that God can't answer
that prayer, and He won't answer II,
and yet they are inclined to turn
around and blame God when the
blame is upon themselves, for they
are not living in a way that God
could give them the Holy Spirit. And
il is your fault and not the Lords.
II God provides food and you are too
lazy to cook il, II you starve TO
death It is UP to you and not the
Lord.
Better Prayer Meetings-
! think we would have better prayer
meetings and church services II the
people only went there looking for
something, and not go simply because
Il is Sunday morning and they rang
the bell and opened the door. Go
there looking for something; not
simply to kill" time. And you often
get nothing because you expect moth
ing. Well, you are not disappointed,
never in the world. And. they can
make prayers, but they seemingly
don't expect them TO be answered.
have got a perfect right. to Gsk
your cooperation, absolutely. So IL
God Is being represented by anybody
today He lie fJeing represented by the
church; and il we are not doing 1t,
who is?
Church Represents Him
Tell me and ] will turn to them.
Do the breweries represent Christ?
DO you want me to turn to the
Liquor Dealers Association? Do you
want me to turn to the distillers and
the barkeepers? Do you want me to
go to the red light district and let