The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-21

like it was a nail in an auto tire and
when he runs the scale from tin.
lizzies to Packards, its just the same,
full of that contagious Billy Sunday /
pep-great stuff. A hard shelled crab
would turn into jellyfsh before the
attack.
Mr.. Sunday got down to business
last night with the usual flying start,
and picked out particularly favo.
rite text from the Bible, the sixth
verse from the fourteenth chapter Of
Nehemiah-"The people had q mind
to work"
Do Not Leave All the Work for God,
He counseIs
"The people had mind to work.
Billy Sunday practices what he
breaches. He worked on the crowd
last night until the sweat rolled off
his brow He set great living ex.
ample Of the very things he preached,
a strange sight to the old mossback
who goes through the same old pray.
ers in the same old way, day in and
day out; an inspiration to the little
woman and the big man, earnest In
their prayers.
The people had mind to work"
not sidestep, he shouted at the
start. It was Billy Sunday calling for
the people on earth to get up on
their hind legs and help themselves
and help each other on the principle
that God put things at the doorsteps
Of the people, for them to reap, to
dig for and to take up. II there was
any one under the great tent who
came in with the idea that God was
supposed to do it all, Billy Sunday put
him right before he got out. He
gave the devil his due and the sin
ners theirs and blamed the bad in
the world-fifty-fifty on the church
J members and the ministers who
didn't do their part in making things
what they should be.
God doesn't save people on the in
, stallment plan like you buy furni
ture," he said. "What we want l,
! stewards that will stew and not make
! muss out of the stew; and deacon,
i. that will deac for Jesus Christ; ant
t church dignitaries that will dig TO
7 God, and not for the devil
8 He kept the crowd hanging be
tween laughter and tears with a mix
: ture of original expression and base
t ball talk fed up in Billy Sunday styl
:, on a platter of individualism, 80 ney
8 and so welcome here, that folks wer
6 hilarious at times in their applause
h When Sunday slams an uppercut q
{. the devil and promises the prince Q
n darkness will be in the hospital In 81
D. months he doesn't mean It, LITERAL!
II It's his way of translating the test
mony of old broadcloth preacher VIII
might say, Nov, brethren and ST.
tiers, perhaps II We can find strengt
to look about and see what good "
might do, the world may becom
better, ETC."
Sunday No Temporizer
The mays" and the "can'ts" ar
the "shoulds" are all wills" ar
"cans" and "shalls" with Villa
Asher Sunday. He's as individual |
sunlight, bit Of red pepper, tabasc
! and hot Goals mixed up into hit
pressure human, as unconscious
himself as a lamppost-and who
y lot brighter. He's one man who CT
put his hat on in church and
away with 1t. Why? Because tho
= ever-moving hands cant bear to no
] hat. When he's ready to go
Z dons the lid and IL someone holds hi
4 up in his tracks-that's somebody
J hard luck IL the lid stays on.
] After preaching that sermon Ia
Z night that would take regular M
= lister many hours to get out OF
J system, and using up energy enou
( to put the average man In the h,
Z pital for fourteen days, he dropp
! over the cool drink stand at the
I trance to the grounds, dashed do
"a iitney's worth OF pop, and tn