The Washington herald., 1918-01-13

Graphic contrast, touched with his
inimitable slang modernisms, was
given by Billy Sunday yesterday after
ished Biblical story Of the Pharisee
and the Publican.
In part. the Rev. Sunday said:
In the eighteenth chapter Of Luke
I'm not going TO take my strength
and your time TO read you the story
OF the Pharisee and the Publican for
1t is a very familiar portion of the
Word of God. But want to talk a
little while tonight about true religion.
and not about a sham substitute.
Abraham Lincoln said. at the dedi-
catory service at Gettysburg, The
world will little note nor long re-
member what We say here. but il will
ntver forget what they did here"
Religion of Deeds.
And what the world wants is a re-
ligion of deeds-not talk. Talks
cheap! Lots OF people are expert
windjammers, but to Eet out and de-
liver the goods is what the world is
looking for.
Now. it was to convince such that
Jesus Christ spake this parable. and
he had two purposes in view, which
you keep in mind or you will lose
the benefit of the message tonight.
First, he wanted to show some people
who think they are righteous that
they are not Second, why the prayers
of some are answered and others
are not.
He had those two purposes in view
when he spake this little parable OF
the Pharisee and the publican-firsts
TO show some who think they are
righteous that they are not: second.
to show why the prayers of some are
answered and others are not.
Gratitude TO God is never coupled
with a defamation Of his creatures
You can't thank God with one breath
and turn around and assassinate your
neighbor with the next; you can't
thank God with one breath and lie
about somebody the next; you can't
put that over on God-no. sir, Graft
tude to God is never coupled with a
defamation of his creatures
He thinks he il righteous. He puts
himself in a class here. puts an the
rest in a class by themselves, and
says. II thank YOU, God. 1 am not as
other men are"
Now he lied at the very beginning
of his prayer. Mind you. Jesus had
two purposes in view: First. TO show
some who think they are righteous
that they are not: second, to show
why the prayers of some are answered
and others are not.
Prayer Was a Lie.
This man lied at the beginning OF
his prayer. II you will read the first
seventeen chapters of Luke. By the
way, you ought to know the contents
OF the frs. seventeen chapters before
you attempt TO find out what's in
the eighteenth-thats the way you do
with a novel, I suppose, but that's
the way YOU don't do with the Bible
and il you read the novel in the same
slip-shod. happy-go-lucky, good-lord-
good-devil, milk, cider. chalk and
vinegar way you do the Bible. you d
know no more about the novel than
you do about the Bible
So If you will read the first seven
teen chapters of Luke YOU will find
that the Pharisees hated everybody.
Oh. they despised the Greeks: they
hated the Romans: they despised John
the Baptist; and above everybody they
despised Jesus Christ. He told that
bunch of ecclesiastical crooks where
10 head in. Jesus Christ proved him
self an iconoclast.
He went on to show them that re-
ligion didn't consist in doing a lot of
special things, although branded as
religion, but religion consisted in do
ing everything that God wanted done.
So he had a quarrel with them.
He talked about his good deeds. He
said. ''I fast twice a week"
Ha, Ha! Gosh, He was a better
man than the Lord wanted him to be.
If you will read the sixteenth CHAPTER
Of Leviticus. il you will read the
fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth chapters of
Isaiah, you will find that God asked
the Jew to fast once a year-that was
on the great day OF atonement. COM
memorating the passing over Of the
destroying angel throughout the land
of Egypt when God set them free from
the slavery and serfdom of old
Pharaoh where they used to bare their
backs and make bricks without straw.
and for 435 years the Jew was the
meal ticket for the Egyptian.
So, it makes all the difference IN
the world whether you feel you owe
God something or whether YOU feel
God is in your debt. All the differ
ence in the world,
He was uncharitatle. He poured
contempt upon others. He said, God,
1 thank YOU that 1 am not as other
men are"
Now, suppose what he said was