The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-27
The Devils Boomerang
Or Hot Cakes Right off the Griddle
(Seon Preached Men Only Sunday Afternoon January 2f
by Rev. Billy Sunday)


the ways of thine heart. and in the
sight OF thine eyes; but know thou,
that for all these things God VIII
bring thee into judgment"
BE not deceived: God is not mock
ed; for whatever man soweth that
shall he also reap"
In other words, do just as you
please. If you want TO lie. lie
II you want TO swear. swear IL you
want TO sneer. sueer. II you want
to drink, go ahead II you want to
live in sin. so ahead. God won't stop
you. but He will bring you into judg-
ment and make you pay for II when
you are through.
I God has decreed the freedom OF the
human will and He stops Mt that de
cree. He will not coerce you. lie
will not grab you by the throat ana
choke you to make you be decent.
Mo- And II you are not man enough
to be decent and God wants you TO
be decent. YOU can live just as you
please but know that when you get
! through God will step in.
A man may start out to live life
of pleasure. gratifying his desires,
recognizing no law but his own am
hitions When he does that he faces
! two considerations at the kickoff
First, 4 life of pleasure will soon
/ live out half heir days. and there Is
a day Of judgment coming that VIII
correspond with the kind 'of life
that man lives. at is appointed
unto man once to die, but after death.
the judgment"
Some Questions.
When Il man stands up and tells
me that he is going to speak upon a
subts-.t such as have announced for
b. ~
lions that I'd like to ask him, and II
he coult give me satisfactory answers
to them "A say: go ahead"
Are you kindly disposed toward
me - Are you doing this 10 help
meo" DO you know what you are
talking about" do you practice
what YOU preach -
God knows that I am kindly dis
posed toward you, with no other OBJ
ject or aim or incentive or motive
than that what ] do and say. / do
and say because I want to make 1t
easier for man to do right and harder
to do wrong.
AS to whether I know what I am
talking about, will not pump hot
air at you.
AS to whether or net I practice
what preach. l defy and challenge
! man or northumberland It. man or
: friends. in my life in the thirty years
that I have been Christian that lie
} not up to the teaching in the book SO
far as am able to interpret 1t and
by the faith of man to live it.
Let me say another thing. | am
not one of those people that go up
and down the land talking to men and
women in all sorts of laborious dis-
sertations. funabling and meaningless
iargon &
/ was born and bred on a farm,
and / know what 1t is to go to bed
with an honest dollar in my breeches
pocket that 7 earned by the sweat
Of my brow. under the blazing sun IN
The cornfieids OF Iowa. when the
Statute OF Liberty on one side be-
came Jenny Lind and the American
ingale. and they'd sing poor home
less orphan boy to sleep,
/, And know about the hard knock.
land the dark and seamy side OF life
II am not like fellow who wher
asked Are you going up to heal
Bin7" replied. "I don't like to So
,, where can't take my wife"
Wen. the old devil has been goot
many places. guess, where he neve'
took his wife. You always keep sh.
lof those bucks
Dcscit Is Attractive.
If sin wasn't so deccitful it wouis
not be so attractive. The devil doe
not allow n man to stop and thinl
that every time he INDUCES his desire
that desire is growing stronger ant
through accumuiative force of habi
he is growing weaker in his power I,
resist IL.
Every time a man drinks that habi
!, grows stronger and ne grows weake
| In his ROVER Of resistance. my friends
iuntil the time comes when he Is hel,
lin hands stronger than steel and NOR
/: o,,durinr and he cries: "Oh, wretch
. ed man that I am, Who shall deiiv
/ or met.
I NEE, a good many people VIII
I seem To think that to be a Christia,
!. means TO be sort of dishrag kim
e of fellow. a wishwashv milksop
o want 10 tell YOU YOU never made
bigger blundcr in your life
Before I was converted I could pu
& on q pair of running shoes and hi
e the dir 100 yards in ten seconds fror
Q the crackSof the pistol. could ctrcl
G the diamond In fourteen seconds fror
n a standing start. And 1 was hand
e with my dukes, too,
o could run just as fast after | wa