The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12
ABANDON W|RlOlY
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to show your real true manhood than
when you stand up and openly and
bravely and truly acknowledge God
and his truth he asserted.
All other institutions are going to
fall, says Sunday, but the church of
God has for its foundation the Rock
of Ages. AIS charler Is the evetias dng
years. its keys are held by the univer
sal proprietor, It's dividend Is heaven
and its president Is God.
The church needs men, says Sun
day, but men needs the church more
Are the saloons fuli OF men or women.
he asks, and answers, full of men.
Are the penitentiaries full of men or
women? Full OF men. Are the prts-
ons full of men or women? Full of
men. Are the gambl a. dens full OF
men or women? Fun of men. Are
the churches full of men OF women
Full of women.
bership OF the church liz made up Of
women. according to Sunday.
IT'S a disgrace to our manhood
that the institutions that stand for
God and purity should he almost
empty of men. while the haunts of
dam nation and vice and sin are
crowded and thronged with men" he
said
Sunday told his hearers that they
were under just AZ much obligation
to be decent as he WAS It's dis
grace for you to sit out there this
afternoon and say. I'm not IA mem
Der OF any church. That's no com
pltment to any man on Gods earth.
Its an insult and it's a disgrace to
an intelligent American citizen for
him to say, Tn not IA member Of a
church and / don't 10 TO church.
You are under 3ust as nuch OBJ
legation to be Christian as the
preacher. You are under just az
much ohIiga ton TO serve God as I
am.
Some Day"
! Il think most men expect to be-
Christians some day. asser they have
squeeze this old world like you would
a lemon and then. at the end of a
misspent life. Just before they phone
| for the undertaken. call for the
preacher and pray and creep into the
Kingdom OF God because of his Ions
suffering and mercy Oh, l am tired
OK seeing God have to take the tag
end OF things
| DO you think that because God
has been patient with you, he will
continue to be7 Do you thing that
because God hasn't struck you down,
that he won't do Il? Do you think
that because God will let some OF
you men live to be thirty. forty. fifty
sixty years OF age and come in here
you that are not Christians. do you
think that Coo will continue to be
Az patient with you ia the future IA
he has been in the past l hope he
will, but / beg OF you, In the name
Of God don't put the Lord to any
such test. my friends as that. Done
tIampie Gods law beneath your feet
If you've done II up to now, may this
be the last day that you live In re-
betlion against God"
1t pays for a man 10 go square
with God, says Sunday, He says hi
would rather have standing room In
heaven than 10 own the world and
sgo 10 hell.
At the close OF ms sermon, Billy
shouted, Come on. boys; line up for
God. Come on, Junior Order How
many of you will say. Put me down
for the Lord. d? Come on, old klCh-
mond: make this a memorial day foi
the Lord in Old Virginia"
AS the choir sang, stand Up for
Jesus" the vanguard of what finally
turned out to be- between seventy-five
and one hundred came down me
aisles and grasped the evangelist $
hand for God and his truth. Among
/ the converts was u policeman led by
Pop" Tate. A number of soldiers
and Juniors were in the throng.
Following the trail-hitting. Frank
Goodman, reformed gambler and
book ". aker ono Of Billy Sundays
converts, told the story of his life and
of his conversion.