The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-14
He> Are My Witnesses
Ion, Pxeaehed by Billy Sunday al City Auditorium 11
Aassaay Aaefaoon, f elr1aars II, 81

tbts city to do something by your in
g,uence 70 help rewrite the history OF
America
There never has been a tfryse Tn the
history of Christia nifty, my friends,
whom the great cities opened their
minds and hearts so toward God They
had n Idea that tho gospel WAS
good tntr~ for the rural community
and all q at but that they were I'm
menc IN Dig eisies- / am glad that
movements like this Yet the man IN tho
country know that you arc common
folks wheth her you live in = palace. or
in s. dugoat or a log cabin on the
mountain sides OF Tennessee. The eyes
of the ung~dfy ara turned toward the
geGly everywhere. the congregation.
the home, the office the store and So
etety.
There were Peter and John. They
walked by the Gate Beautiful and
fellow lying there begged aims ana
Peter said:
~SIfver and gold have we noxe, but
such as we have we are Wiling 10
give you In the name Of Jesus Christ.
Arise and walk r.
Ieeps TO Hts Feet
I And the man leaped to hkH FIRST nRv
/ A hart painting after line water brooks
and when they that stood By saw II
they believed in Christ through the
power Of God. through Peter and
11hn, re- reake a lame man walk.
But il Peter had been out hitting
he Aooze, huwging some other mans
wife. the spirit OF God couldn't have
been manifested through him
And there was Joseph Joseph mad
a dream, and You rem emher his broth
erw saw him coming and they said:
~Tal Hal Ha. Tonoer comes that
dreamer Wen fix him. and SO they
Rirlet! lid and they took his coat
and dir ped II IN the blood and sent it
hack herne 10 his father and said:
/ I'VE found this cor.t- We DON'T
know whether It belongs to Joe or
not"
/ IAarx1 Tney knew all about IT,
The old man commenced to cry. He
said: IAN evil beast hath devoured
him. lily gray hairs shall go down
INTO the grave
And then voc know how along
carne the Ishmae'fte~ and they sold Jo-
seph down into Egypt He went down
there and that miserable oLd God-tor-
wife. tried to pat one over on him.
But tell you he stood pat for God
and decencv, and she failed. and
framed II uron him and they threw
ham in Jail. He iay there for four
years Then you remember the
dream and how he Interpreted IT.
lie came out then and they made
him prime minister. The famine
sygept the land: they gathered into
year seven times more. and his breth-
rem came down there to buy corn and
on one OF the trips he made himself
known to them and not only gave them
corn to Ill the wagons that they
brought down with them. but gave
them Egyptian wagons and loaded
them with corn and sent them back
hcme, and they rushed in and they
said 10 their old father:
Joseph In yet alivel Joseph In YET
alivel'
The ord man said: TIN from Mrs
souri,: show me"
They said: Come on oot here
Come here" And ley took him out
to the barn sec that corn7 We did
not take money enough down there
to buy that Joseph gave 1t to ua"
And the old man saw the wagons
fuh of the yellow corn and the tears
triclded down his checks and he said:
My son Joseph il yet alive"
So ears OF corn were powerfxd TIC
convince the old man whesre words
were impotent
Get out and deliver tsv~ goods. ax-
press charges prepaid! Get cut and
deliver Them
rye are my witnesses. saith the
Lord God OF hosts
Oh, il Is serious thing to fx2sffy
the word of the living God
'~Ye are living epistlss. knowA sz,d
read of all nasm-"
Bible Written Ep4af1rA
) The Bible is the written epask1eH
but when there in n cotraSt between
them, then the world win turn up it1
- -.
I there is nothing I'm the life OF the Nv
ing epistle which would lead . man "a
< turn To the written
: So the divine philosophy ~ demon
xrated by multttudes in the church
Is breeding more infideiA aEno1ticf
and other '+tieS' than all the Paynea
: parkers and Ingersoils put together
That's what's the matter.
. Now a friend Of mine. passed BY q
beautiful Gothic church up In New
! England where the treea archod above
) the streets. There were stained gaasl
windows from Tiffany's, and the en-
trance TO the church w&s an Archwny
and over 1t were the words. Gate
= way to heaven and he stepped in.
side and saw xign % the church
Closed for the summer"
i You bet the devils always on thu
: job, whether it's hot or cold. /,
| =
find n church shut Up, CLOSED for tn.
sumrncrs~-and he'll gntng NJ high
) gear.
r. ldow mary eoust~ stand sxs4 m,
with the apostle Paul Those thing
, which We have heard and seen and
! learned OF me, dot
Everybody could say thaA How
many of you can ada these Words
, And the God Of peace shan bs with
\ you.~--~,
) Wen. / don't believe Chat 0od Al
> mighty gave Paul the only power Il
do that I think you can 20 1.-Two tina
you can say with Paul The thing
? you hear and see and learn Of nne
! voc do. and God win be on1nipreSer1
= he will bless you
II is the power unto me II = In21
!, or woman hates sin. ] am not ego
tistical, nobody ever came to Thu
town that loves a sinner more than
= But / hate sin. When the doctO
4 comes to your home he doesn't hat
you. he hates the disease that threat
: ems TO nut You In the coffin with you
veins fun OF embaIming fiufd. He'
:, your friend: he's doing HIS beast Il
: help you beat the decii. He's you
= friend. and II you viii cry out, tn.