The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-05
. Ye Must Be Born Again
eached by Rev Billy Sunday at City Auditorium Afternoon
s@rsx Of February ~

( y = 81 nstA "
! IN Matthew. the fourth chapter and
The 'wenty-thirf verse. Jesus gives
the beginning OF his ministry. where
ne went and said to them these
words: -And Jesus went about ali
| Gaiilee, teaching IN their synagogues
and preaching the gospel Of the king
dom, and healing all manner OF sick
ness and sill ms rner OF disease among
the people. But when He saw the
muititudeS He was moved with COM
/ passion, because they were faint and
7 scattered abroad as sheep having
no shepherds" He said TO the disci-
I r'es, THE harvest truly is pienteoua,
I but the Ia.borers are few. Pray ye
! therefore the Lord of the harvest,
that He viii send forth iabor~rs into
! His harvest"
Motive That S>rmnpted Jesus
Now that was The motive that caus-
ed Him to send out Hts disciples, when
He saw the harvest truly IN plenteouy
| but the laborers are few. He saw the
| people as He went from place to place
| He saw them as no one efse saw them.
! The life He lived WIS in the immediate
I presence OF God. therefore. He was
| looking at things from the divine
standpoint And il the church was
divine. then they'd look at things
from Gods dpoint
/ You wouldn't hear n peep nor q
criticism from the lips Of any man or
woman. my friends, In the church, ii
they were looking at things from
Gods standpoint. What business has
anybody to stand up and aay they
! that got to do wit itf That oughtn't
TO cut any ice with them. am not
preachin~ to themi
They gay. Il don't rks his man
nerisTns"
IT'S none Of your business II
God likes It what's II to you then
| None. ia it? Not at stl---no. sir!
| And If the life you now live In the
flesh, YOU live by the faith OF the
Son of God, then you'd be doing what
the Son of God would do II He lived
here. You can't get around the argu-
i ment-~not on your lifei
He saw the temptations, Hs SAW the
! Z fHcultles. He saw The multitude4
not AS the multitudes saw themselves
If the mul,itudes would only see
themselves as God sees them. there
wouldn't be a sinner on earth. be.
cause they'd all rush to Jesus Chris
TO he saved
So the work I'm the church b TO tr,
and get the muititudes to see them.
selves as God sees them. We ar<
STANDPOINT because we profess tina
the life we now live In the life we liv,
by the faith of the Son OF God. 81
we are looking at that from God'l
standpoint
He saw the nuitftuder. my friend.
not as the multitudes saw themselves
II the muititudes saw themselves a
God, there wouldn't be anybody liv
ing In sim He saw them. not as tn
rulers---oh. no! Not a. the Pharisee
oh. NOT
They Couldn't Fee I'm.
The Pharisees couldn't see any
, body that wasn't Pharisee. TIL
Sadducees couldn't see anybody tina
wasn't n Sadducee. Not as the Ro
, mans--tf1ey looked upon the Jew
as their meal-ticketa The Roman
; were lazy bat the Jews were thrifty
, They were hard working people s.
tho Jews earned the most Of tn
money that ran The Roman govern
ment-
And this wisdom of the multitude
from the divine standpoint cause
. him to send out his discipleA III
said. The harvest truly In planteous
but the laborers are few"
was up In Boston and met IN
friend, Professor Phelps. of Yale.
was talking to him along the lima
! had read little pamphlet that h
. Interested me very much and one O
! the favortte que6tions. both In publ
discussion and In private debate NOVA
. days, IL: why do not moro men &
. regularly to church, And like q
church questions II In = good des
easier to ask than It IL to answer. an
.. the pewe undoubtedly contain NOR
!. women than men. but this fAct nee
, not occasion any alarm. ! think.
,, II dc esn't prove that the churc
III losing hold or that mon have aban
doned the church. Women have al
ways taken more interest In religion
/, organizations and they have NOR
time, and II seems to appeal moro I
: their nature. perhapa don't know.
Now II the mere fact that the min
lister gees more feathers than he doe
, whiskers. and more fAlse hair than h
/, does bald heads. II that be q sign tina
religion doesn't appeal to the mascu
. line proportion of humanity, the
,, neither does tho symphony. nor ar,
, nor the museum. For the mAsculin
|. proportion. my friends. Of listener
at q high CLASH musicale. or among tn
. visitors at an art gallery. y even les
than 1t 10 1T church Isn't that = TACT
, Sure 1t Isl
Women 20 dairy ovu9 pictures
, men don't much. Women listen 1
music and say. "Oh. IL h divine.
Man listens and nays. That u punk
, But wait minute, don't get ex
/, cited 1t In rather interesting to not
that at any public gathering. the mum
. Der of men present ~ sort Of In In
verse ratio to the intellectual vaiu
of the performance. At = vaudeville
J tho men outnumber the womsn--Al
waysi
See what enormous crowds are q
prize hght Go down TO . base
ball game and see how many nae
there are More than the womer
but the fact that the seats 1T . prtz
nght are crowded. my friends. Wit
men, while the pews Of the churcl
with women. that doesn't prove tha
the church is on the down grade,
4 dor't tnfSa--not at all g 't
u Is Unfortunate.
Stiii 1t is unfortunate. We WIN ad
mit hat more msn do not atten'
church. 1t is more unfortunate 10
the men than it liz for the church
because, tell you. men need tn
church a darn sight mora than tn
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