Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-24
SEEKS AGGRESSIVE
CHURCH MEMBERS
Billy Sundays Call Causes AL
most 100 Men to Renew
Their Vows.
FLAYS SPINELESS PREACHERS
Declares Micaiah Did Not In
spect Pews Before He Deliv-
cred His Truthful Sermons.
FLAYS SPINELESS PREACHERS
Alr. Sundays sermon OF last night
VIII be FOUND complete ON page of
this Issue Of The Times Dispatch.

- -'u'Hds ih pup4!c acknowledgment en- [
oil Il renewal Of their church vows.
The call was not for unbelievcrs. but
for church members, to thus renew
their covenant with God
The men present last night repre-
sented the membership OF mems Bible
classes in more than seventy churches
Of the city which are cooperating in
the Sunday campaign.
Tonight come out before Rich
mond, said Mr.. Sunday In closing q
particularly forccfui sermon on the
need OF tie aggressive type of Chris
tiahitE, and in the name Of God /
wave the cross of Jesus Christ, and
Old virginia Will follow. Have you
got the grit to do it?'' he demanded.
Come on, old Richmond." he shouted.
Come on. you Epscopalians. Come on.
you Presbyterians; you Methodists, and
you Baptists!
CALLS ON CHURCH MEMBERS
TO RENEW THEIR COVENANT
There ought to be 500 men in this
auaience who would come forward in
the men hung back, If Gods people
are not willing to come out and renew
their covenant with God, you needn't
expect sinners to do It,"
Step in. gentlemen" cried Mr. Sun
daE TO the secretaries, who did not
move forward with sufficient alacrity
to please him in taking the names Of
those who had come forward. You
move IKE you mad millstones tied TO
you! II seems that all the speed in
Richmond is in something else besides
the church members,'
In h:s prayer at the close of the
service, Mr.. Sunday prayed that church
members might stop their pussy foot
ing and gum-shoeing for Jesus Christ. -
and that IL the churches hadn't learned
lesson or aggressive Christianity
rom the boys in FRANCE. then they
should "yank down their signs" He
ended with the customary "a menIsIIal-
lelujah!. Good -rightr" and jnmped dow n
from his platform.
SCATHING DENUNCIATION
OF SLOW CHRISTIANS
Mr.. Sundays sermon last nigh, was
4 scathsng denunciation of the nom
preached from the text: "As the Lord
iiveth. even what my God saith, that
VIII j speak"
cir These These declared Mr.. Sunday. in be-
OF man OF God who didn't put on his
glasses and look TO see who OCCUPIED
the pews before he announced his text
'Micaiah was man whose sermons
were not written on the head Of his
Hour barrel; his preaching didn't hinge
on what he had to eat. The condition
his liberty in the pulpit. He was not
afraid of being out of n job by taxi
ing dead aim at old sinners on the
oh" he exclaimed vehemently in the
course OF his sermon. I'VE want fight
! ing preachers who won't skrk in the
presence of some old sinner that sits
in the pews because he has got a little
dough We want editors who will not
shirs when the old brewer blows his
nose. and will send for the circulation
manager before they write an editorial
We want fathers who won't allow hell
to crush their boys without fight.
WANT MOTHERS TO FIGHT
TO SAVE THEIR CHILDREN
We want mothers that won't allow
in the form of devil of a fellow to
come in and take their girl away with
out IT,! protest and fight.
You let preacher get into the pull
pit who will tear the mask off the
devils face. and some church members
are shocked to death. You let him
mention thing vulgar as helifire
and brimstoae. why. they are thrown
into Mysteries.
Heaven save America. cried Mr..
Sunday. seizing his chair and bringing
it down with n resounding blow on
his platform, from this soft-handed.
iiabby checked, brittle boned, weak.
kneed. thin skinned. pliable, plastic
IKE. spittle. rat-hole tin-horn, pea
nut-sort of spineless. jelly-fsh reli-
SUNDAY JOINS IN LAUGH
At EXPENSE OF REPORTER
AS he whirIed around. STOPPING low.
Mr. Sunday swept his fingers through
the sleek hair Of a reporter, who sat in
the prcss-boX. and joined in the laugh
which followed at the young mans
perturbation.
$50. the demand of to-day" he de-
ciared in conclusion, "is for consecrated
effort for Jesus Christ, and TO do His
wili-preachers, fathers and mothers
that are going to keep on the right
side.
.'And no lonr os ,.ou 80
mat you are marching to the step OF
heaven, no matter who sneers or BIAS
phemes; you will never yield an inch
ana by the saints of the early dawn of
christ or the saints Of imperial Rome:
saints OF the cloistered Middle Ages,
oL the frozen seas. saints of the isles
that wave their palms in the far-off
and anddsodes. saes sa saints Of the sGuald lands
OF the prairies and of the plains. You'll
be on Gods side"
Liberia lism was f1ayed and stripped
,a,i,, ol al, lis trappings at the City Audi
sundays singing sarcasm. and hall
up TO the audience with ali the grin
hinE ..l, homes OF its skeleton exposed.
rhe biggest fools that ever lived. -
declared Mr.. Sunday recognized as
one of the greatest living eXponents Of
es,y,anGnlical Christianity as opposed TO
exploiting this bunk to-day.
When man breaches humanitar-
ianism, progress. culture and sociology
as tho way OF salvation ne is in the
dcvils pasture" said Mr.. Sunday you
cannot change the nature Of a scrp-
cnt's eggs by Matching them in n
robins nest: The pulpit that preaches
liberal religion gives people African
jsslerning disease. and they perish mis-
erably."
PREACHER DECLARES LIBERTY
! IN LOVE MEANS LTBERTINI,
Thdre Is no Liberalism In nature"
| he went on to say. Seeds grow to-
day under the same conditions as nj
the beginning. The same-elements tina I
constitute food and drink Will consti
| tute food and drink for ages TO come.