The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12

sin and the devil" the evangelist
cried But you might as well say.
then, that I'm throwing back at you
when / preacb against the Kaiser and
the dirty bunch OF his"
There are mot ten million people
In this old country Mr.. Sunday went
on. who know what II is to live a
really good, fully surrendered
Christian life. What they need is
to so do"n TO Gods hath house ana
turn the hose on"
And speaking of some of the self
compliment sort Of Christian self -suf-
ficient in their professions of god
Illness. and uncomprumising minister
declared. They think they've got "a
through ticket to heaven in a Pull
man palace car, and have given tho
lportar orders TO wake them UP when
they head into the yards OF the New
Jerusalem"
Put on Gods gas mask" ne cried.
and go over the top to help beat the
devil hack"
Hundreds were touched when Sum
day, asking pardon for a personal Ill
| iustration, told the gra phic story %
! tae struggles Of his early boyhood, Hls
| father Union soldier. went to war
but never returned He sleeps be-
meath the palmettos OF your south :
land Billy tcid Then the wolf be-
gan to scratch at The door OF the sun
day home, and l}iIly, who was sig years
old, with his brother. Ed. were sent
| TO the Soldiers' Orphans home Their
/ mother took then. to the nearest town
/ to the station, and all night she
stayed awake in the hotel 10 pray.
Then she took her boys TO the train,
and hade them goodbye.
| Drawing on the best of his dramatic
! Ia .,st fa ,s.te AL
| blessed, the evangelist held this 5000
people in state OF breathiessuess.
until the only sound in the gre :
/ cement structure was the sound OF his
voice, He had item in tears, which ia
rare. for he pride in self on the ract
| that the gospel he breaches la a srnii-
ing enc and one that brings JOY and
not tears
Il arm rube of tho rubes, "a hayseed
lof the hayseeds," be declared, land the
maiodors of thu barnyard are on mo
Iyet | am proud of it, 1 have creased
my hair with goose grease, I have
/ BACKED my boots with stove polish 1
have drunk my coffee out of saucer.
have said don't" when I should have
said doesn't" seen" when should
have said saw" ! am a graduate from
! The university Of poverty and hard
knocks NY autobiography can be
summed up in one line from Crews
Aiegy in Country Churchyard," The
snort and simple annals OF the poor"
The evangelist did not demonstrate
mary OF his athletic feats in his morn
ing service, and II was evident that he
as saving his strength and his voice
, for the arduous task OF preaching four
sermons In one DAY. AT the be ginning
OF the sermon, he was compelled to
call Rody back to the platform to
demonstrate with persons WHO wouIc
not refre in from coughing aloud. The
ssinger demonstrated the little cough
ing stunt he has parfec.aa. in which
= person compelled TO cough may cover
mis- mouth with his handkerchief and
drown the noise. Such an insignifs-
cant thing as person coughing In the
big auditorium. when thc-e are 5000
people present. amounts to a great deal
IN the combative force when the
evangelist is trying to make himself
heard against the multitude % sounds
that come from II big crowd He is 6e~
coming more and more Jealous of his
voice because he realizes that once
his voice Is gone. his greatest power
leaves him
He 'ook another rap at the INDECENT
Of the f"rrch. before be concluded his
address, "Ail that some people do"
he asserted SIS to go to church and
keep spot seventeen riches square
wsrm for thirty minutes, hear SER
monette, drop a little money in the coll !
lection plate. 70 home and think they've
been serving the Lord. The church
could lose one-haIf Of its members and
never lose thing spiritually
Cn''s on Caur-h.
Come on, church" he called in CIV !
Ing the Invitation II call on you.
This Ia your day. like 20 see cour- /
age and bravery for Cod" And he
sprung the trap door while the choir |
sang. But the church ecen1ed reluctant |
70 come down and take their stand
with hSfa against the devil. Sunday !
did not conceal his irritation.
II won't preach four times day
and hin myself" he said In Il half un-
oertone. II won't do IL. II they're not
going tc take moro interest than this
And he continued talking 20 himself,
hAlf In prayer il seemed, for he kept
calling. almost in whisper, Come on,
come on. corae on" And finally they
started coming. by twos and threes He
d3d not wait long for the trail bit
ttrs'" and scarcely hundred had lined
up on his side when he slgnaied the
nansic to stop. and took his place ON
the platform again. He waved thAui
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