The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-03
Thy Kingdom Come
1EAymon Preached by Billy Sunday the City Auditorium
ss Sunday Morning, February p

the multitude 90 Ana because tncI
~ > >,.r''f>v ~ >ssuts N.Y. ~ a@f1
tan male more noise than a whale
Two or three frogs in one pond Will
& make go much noise you viii think
( q ere are tuo or three hundred.
That's nonsense, They do want God
tnsy want the Bible. they wan, Christ
They are not hostile. but they hate
sns us; so do ' Thew hate cariratures
but they don't hate Jesus Christ. No
S income riding through the streets
London with Ruskln ono day said,
w a. disgusting stun this mud and
-,9t Is" and RuSIsiu said,
we'll, In that mud arc tire sand and
H e s,ot and the water and the lime
out Of which COG makes diamonds and
sanphires and opalr"
t0d what was disgusting 20 him.
God could take md make something
mat cnu'd sciutiilate.
AM t3o1 can make diamonds ont ot
hvmsrity dwar'"d. twisted. crooked,
never had chance There's many an
"rcut diamond. my friend, in this city
There's many an uncut diamond around
in 'he DARK rot,!nx. fostering spots
wa'tirp for the e',rch of Cod to come
and by the influence Of Jesus Christ
ouch their lives until the fazzie this
nd sjn-cursed world with their bril-
tiarcv. with Their testimony ard tina
sweetness Of their ives
or. there are rnuTt'sudes % children
In fNts old city cursed from their birth,
drunk on their own. mothers milk
damned. never has a cha nc~f But Jesus
Christ dfrd FOR the worst as well as
S0f the best II died FOR no class he
clcF tor everybody and nis invitation
! 20. "WhosoevHr wfIt NAV CONS"
Salvation ea All p~nit~nts.
Te~us Christ offers salvation 70 all
that viii repent He never t1N"E into
D consideration what man or woman
tas done or what they have hesr. Tire
b they ever Ala ~ And DO they look
20 M for forgiveness of their aims"
TIN Kingdom come" And II means
tfot w want the kingdoms Of this
world to become the Kingdoms OF our
Lord and Of Christ no matter what ~
will cost IN self denial, in hard work,
o. N 81 erifce.
I THY KINGDOM come" n means wF
want the Ribie translated in evrry
tongue: Il means that we want Church ae
and schoolhouscs everywhere: Il mes rs
that we arc net go!rr to sh!rk ou'
. share of the expense; II means as tonr
as there is n heather wa are going ~
4try and ret the gospel 10 TINT heather
and ii means that tire glad news 81 sal
walton is going TO be told in sermon art
IT,. song 10 those that ere held bound
by lni2uity and transr-oSsion.
II means to ast God for the CONVEX
sion ~ this world before yon eat ycul
trenkrast Jesus Christ taught us u
sav THY Kingdom come" before M
tsr,pNt ~ 20 sav, "Giv~ us this day on
saVv bread" Therefore. n ia more I'm
pnrtant that .he world sSonid ne saved
than that we should cat n ~ more
- a
t. Christ than that we should have on'
dinner
: How many people ever missed a inca
TRYING go rrnvT Trying to help scrne
body to Cod No true child Of Coz
vii, pray. 'Tenra vou take care Of n'
! fore you help ANYBODY else"
II means an open Bible, II moan
ringing church bells everywhere. Whc'
we rrav. ''TNv KINGDOM come"
means lord, begin in my heart an
reign from sea to sea- 1t means 4
pray for China and Japan. II mean
to rrav for those IN sin no matte
where they are or who they ere.
Jesus Christ never authorized any
body to make a PRAYER for the saliva
ton OF rnen that can be measured h.
aovare mites JIe never Taught the peo
nie beneath the Stars and Stripes L
,~sy. God. you save tbs people tina
live in that Part of the country bounf
cd on the north by Canada. on tn
south by the Gulf OF MEXICO, on IN
cast nv tte Atlantic. on the west h.
IRE Pacific and let the rest go 20 hell.
He mover taught the peor'e OF fhi
country To rray for themselves STONE
He never taught YOU 10 pray for you
wife and your son and his wife an
nobody else.
want 10 tell you. the dsv OF seifsh
ness is past You can't live % your
self alone. You we duty tn othe
neopIc The day Of national Individual
,tv is past No nation can live unit
3.teoY One great trouble with Ger
r.an~ In tfat rhe h~s been living 70
herself and she's been trying In max
the world fall on It's knees to Ger
runrv.
rverwtring she has been doing ha
hrcn done for Germany, while the al
ties are sxhtfng FOR the wortd ara 70
for themselves nnd they are nghtn'
FOR the benefit and the good OF the uni
verse,
rNuv~h Cwwss he sesa~N.
The individual can't be s"lhsh. IN
church cart be selfish. The nation
NJ this world can no ionrer he selfish
tn give you ar nluStrntion---wne'
tNev had the troahir with China ri
the nationr tNat were there. Engiane
Germany, France and Janan fnah
China give them snrN &ShhVu.NV" w HI
Identities They gave tire United state
t2t. zoe ona and we gave II bncN TO then
and what did trey dos They wen
10 work and invested that money an
they took che interest from that In
yeatrnent and they have taken IN
ihrirhtrst Of their young rren from N
universisies and Bcaoois and college
and sent them TO Yafs, Harvard
Princeton, Cornen 20 become inocuiate
with American iteas.
Ana those toung men have Sen
T. l,ack and they have propaga'ed thns
IDEAS .hrourhout Chira. ard the re
suit is that the dynasty Of China ha
been overthrown and they have re
publican form OF government In Chin
now
When we fought Spain we said
I'VE don't want Cuba. Cuba is IN
most beautiful and the most fertil
spot on the globe. but" we said, Nv
don't want e. We simpiy want tn
principles ot liberty FOR the pecpfe"
We said: I'VE don't want your Phil
.rpines We Will give you whateVe
you ask.
They said: I'VE are satistied witt
twenty million dollars" and so W
bought the Islands instead OF takin
them by force.
So. no longer can the individual, n