The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-25
Personal Work-No. z
mon Preached by Rev Billy Sunday at City Auditorium
sa%.t Afternoon of January 24)

, and VAIL, tf you VIII DO has VIII anG
!. help bring somebody TO the Lord.
l.. trnArs w u xsp;Hh An,s \ yrtarfey
8 WAS looked upon aS a sort OF All eccie-
1 siastic locomotive, ana they thought
his whis;linE and blowing OF steal!
and cin6ers Was enough TO bring the
whole bunch 10 glory. 1t won't do 1t!
, Eyerybody's got to Go something TO
help,
Now the majority of Christians
never speak a word or DO IA thiag To
br ns Tie interests OF religion before
The Estnd of the individual. Personal
work is the business OF every minis
Ter ana deacon and every member OF
the church. and you ought to begin
a home among your own friends and
your own faTnily loo.
! How sfauy Have Passed tho Wortir
How many of you have spoken to
7 anybody about religion since these
meetings have been In progress. The
| majority Of you would be compelled
! TO admit that you mol with people
. day by day in your club. in your lodge.
! Ia YOUR literary, n our home. and you
casually talk about everything under
, soaven except about their soul. And
people ass why 40 many people are
out of the church. / think the re-
I sponsibilig for IL must be largely
I placed at the door of the church
That's what / think
am getting sick of hearing about
/ the non-church roer. I am talking
about the ron-.,3ing church after the
or A2rch goer. That's what I'm
( talking about.
Let's get the thing Strengthened
/ around right. Don't crowd out the
fellow hat doesn't come, when your
own bunch never asks n!m to come
nd ktt,. l,sEV \ tyrA
: 10 The Lord. Get them 10 do their part
and :hen when they DO heir part, it .
up 10 the other fellow il lie don't do
has.
SO if / stand up and preach the
truth and you sit there and reject IT,.
and You go 10 hell, that's up to youi
It's not Up to mo at all what /
prcach s. the truth. md you reject it,.
:. then God viii damn YOU II it isn't
>, The truth. then God will damn me.
You come and show me that what |
preach isn't the truth. not from the
standpoint of some old theological!
bell-wether. but the word of God
Come and show Tne that what
preach hasn't the word Of God back OF
it The Christian people. / think. are
, responsible that thousands of people
T ASS out into darkncSa and are lost
The opportunity 10 do something for
, Jesus Christ is never absent / will
r be personal / am not going to be q
, iheorist- too: there is too much theo-
riZinr and not enough pract ice in the
7 church today. Deb ug over this o,
! that dogma Will never give spiritual
!, life or power--neYer: and real effect
i've rva~lts are obtained by persona
o. contact When you ask an indivia
a ua, rect the Individual, and SPEAK
with that individual That's wher,
: The great work is TO be zone -
. many of them Ito nothing. That.
the reason we are not accomplishing
more. they are doing nothing at ali
a they are dead ones
= He that w!nneth souls In wise" S.
:, carry your religion with you and every
whore you go and do your share
! Carry your religion with you Just "a
you do your hair and clio hes. Don
:, think that religion Is good deal lik
= n cloak; ou put II on OF n Sunda.
morning, trot out 70 church. thei
. hang ii in the closet for the rest o
: the week. Carry religion with Vol
. wherever you go Take it with vo,
y az all tmes--to the hotel. the restau
,, rant the train. oh. you will I'm
- somebody every day shat doesn't knoS
God and would give their -aSeart f
= Jesus If you'd open your lips nd shov
:, Il little interest In them, I think tn
:, ministers and l think the official
= ought to get out OF the churcu. and n
:, church members and officers ought I
= get out among the people and try AM
- help win them for Jesus Christ. Tha
= Is what you ought 10 do.
y Now, tell them of Christ, tell then
of his power to cav tell them of tn
secret of the happy TIE tell them III
= wav 10 win In life. Everybody want
TO win: everybody Isl looking for iii
best IN life. Nobody would rather b
sick than well: nobody would rathe
be deaf than hear; nobody woul'
= rather ba blind than see; nobod,
!, would rather go to the penitentiar
than be free, r0hody would rather n,
;, TO he'll than - heaven. Everybod
- is lo3king for tte best No man will
" get out ard work for tive co''ars n da.
II he can work for ten dollars a day
:, Not on your life, Every fellow i
= looking for the best.
), All right, II you are hooking fol
;, the best. Christi nifty IS best II /,
y better to be honest Than 1t is TO be-
a th.ef: better to love the Lord than i
is t. hate him. So, you are looking
: for the best Well. religion is this
best. The Lord don't want you to dc
anything hat isn't for your good
You are & big fool not To want to &C
a what God wants you TO DO, take Il
from me- on IRE a Dig 1901 mol &c
}. want u 80 what God wants you "a
. do. for he never wants lou to dc
= anything that wouldn't better you II
{ you did It. If you ever did anything
r that Cod told yor not TO do, you were
y "a big fool. You let the Lord alone: he
knows what you need.
8 A Iasst Arr
l I think that sol l-seek ng is becom-
, ing Lost art today. Woridliress and
selfishness nave absorbed ne minis
ters and the members and taken them
away from the work. Mum berless
organizations and endless machinery
have cTept in to take from the indi-
i vidual the responsibility TO do 1t for
, God No wonder. when many of our
: seplinarIes minimize. If they do not
, ignore this altogether; or when they
. % turn out preachers they are a lot
, of, little two by -four intidels who get
ur and spout something--some stuff
that they have gotten down there
from some Goddess old professor
They blight the faith az the people.
: blame them for il. and three fourths
Of The teachers in our seminaries
} never nad any experience in winning
- anybody for Christ. and the poorest
, personal worker you ever looked at