Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-14
BOB" JONES IS HEARD IN FIRST
 REVIVAL. TALKS
Speaker Impresses With His Sin cerity-Defends Purpose and
 Value of RevivaiS.
RAIN REDUCES CROWD
 AT EVENING SERVICE
Opening Sermons Sunday Are Heard by Several Hundred-Musical Part of Program PleaseS
 Congregation.
lBV J. II. SorrellSl

(By J. H. Sorrells)
 With a steady downpour of rain beating continuously on the roof of the tabernacle, ana rendering the voice of the speaker almost inaudible beyond the center of the building, Bob Jones, evangelist, conducted the sec- ond of his services of revival services before a comparatively small audi ence last night. He took as his sub- ject, "Revivals." Admitting at the start, the antagonism which existed in every community toward revivals, his sermon was an explanation of why that antagonism existed, ending with an explanation of why there should be revivals.
 Preceding the sermon, there was a thirty minute song service in which the choir and the audience shared equally, but in which Loren Jones, choir leader of the Bob Jones party was the predominating figure. This man has well-trained voice, and more, the personality to put a song over. The infection soon caught the audience, and before the end of the singing, the 800 or more who were present last night were singing lust fly.
 Whether one be a cynic, a pessi- mist, an enthusiast, an aethist, or an infedel, there is one paramount thought after hearing Bob Jones' That is that the man himself is dead serious, and terribly in earnest. Whether one believes in hell-fire-and- damnation, whether one prefer the puritan view, or be one modernist, or futurist, there exists little doubt, that Bob Jones is sincere in what he believes. His belief is in revivals.
 "Organized Dissertation"
 He stated at the opening of the sermon that in every community, he found certain elements of people all- tagonistic to revivals.
 "I find" he said. "that in some communities, the whiskey interests are opposed to them. There must be a reason.
 "In other places, find the crooked politicians are opposed to revivals: I find the gamblers, the prostitutes are never among those who support re- vivals. There must be some reason.
 ''In some cases, there are good men and good women who honestly oppose revival services. These people have only superficially investigated the matter"
 Jones stated there was an organ ized effort in America to desecrate the Sabbath. described by him as one of the ideals of Christianity Peo- pie who supported this movement, he said, were against revivals. He said he was in favor of revivals. "I am for any kind of revival" he said. (which brings men to God And," he continued impressively, "anything that the crook, the gambler, the whis- key dealer, the prostitute. the hypo- crit church member. the pleasure lov- ing woman, thinking only of the flesh and the pleasures thereof are against, am for"
 Some of the opponents to the re- vival argue that it's cost is great, he stated. "The thing," he said. (which people of this earth pay the least for is religion" He cited the case of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw who performed a week at a theatre in Chicago, and at the end of which time, the theatre cleared S50,OOO. "Compare this to the cost of Christianity" he said.
 When the greed of money is grip ping the world, he stated, it was time for the world to get down on it's knees and give some consideration to God Answering the theory that the majority of those who were con- verted at revivals did not remain Christians. he said, "If should take a gun and kill those preachers in the United States who were converted at a revival, two-thirds of the pulpits of the country would be vacant next Sunday"
 People frequently sav revivals are abnormal. he said. "Some people have an idea that normal means dead," he stated. "The trouble is that Christianity today is it is sub- normal"
 The troubles Of the present day was ascribed by Bob Jones to the fact that there is no dividing line between the world and the church. "The church draws it's pleasures from the same well the world drinks from" he said.
 "People tell me frequently" he said. "that am not keeping up with the ace. We'll, it's is not the business of a Christian to keep up with the age: it is his business to keep mp with God in the midst of his age"
 Home religion. that universally practiced by our grandtathers. he stated, is becoming a thing of the past. The purpose of the revival, he stated. is to put God back in the Americar home.
 "The church of the living God has been playing on the job," he said.