Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-29
Third week OF
REVIVAL 0PENS;
INTEREST HIGH
Rev. Billy Sunday breaches Three
Sermons and a Total OF 737
Renew Religious Vows.
BIZ GOTTA BARTHOLOMEW.


eyangelistic campaign opened aus
I piciously yesterday when tie
evangelist conducted three ser
vices, morning, afternoon and
evening, the afternoon session ex-
clusiVely for men-and at each of
the latter two meetings there were
near capacity houses.
1t was the greatest day of the
! campaign so far and Rev. Mr.. Sun
day last night said he was tired,
terribly tired after his days exer-
ton. A total of 1871 persons yes
terday came forward and shook his
hand and made their pledge to hive
better lives, or to renew their al
| legiance TO their church VOWS. No
! wonder Sunday was tired, he was
keyed to a high pitch of enthus-
| iasm, tore off his coat and delivered
| his afternoon and evening sermons
| in his shirt sleeves, Its too hot any
way to put it back on" he said,
and repeatedly climbed on his chair
and mounted the pulpit. And then
| shaking the hands of 737 people is
some task in addition to preaching
three rousing sermons. The morn
ting theme was The Three
Groups" the afternoon for men
only The Devils Boomerang Up to
! Date or Hot Cakes Right OF the
Griddle,' and the evening What
| Shall l Do With Jesus?'
Christ Not Man.
IL his sermon last evening Rev.
Mr.. Sunday said Il do not present
Jesus Christ TO you as the highest
type of manhood. No l wouldn't
insult Him that way. present
Him as the Son of God, the Savior
of the world.
"You have difficulty in believing
His divinity? I will tell you that
is because you measure Him by
the rules you apply to men and you
always will. You just put him in
the God class and it won't be a
difficult thing for you to under
stand it. You measure Jesus by
the task he came to perform, and
the task he came to perform was
not a mans task. No man could
do it, no man ever has or ever
will. No man aspiring to be a God
could, hut God cOndescending to
be a man could do it," he said, and
then continued:
What are you to do with the
Christ when from the north, the
south, the east and the west the
trumpet of Gabriel sounds and
tired, sleeping immortals creep
out Of their graves like tired SOL
diers bivoUaciHg for the night, and
they Will come clamboring up the
coral ree's. y hich are but the
tombstones erected in the land of
tomorrow, and the dark lowering
clouds. and the inhabitants of the
deep for the only eyewitness to
the heart-rendering obsequies-
then shall the devil, the arch
enemy Of our souls, be there TO
accuse US. When God will arise
and say:
Advocate With Father.
Hey, demon of the pit of hell,
loose that man and let him GO.
Don't you see he has an advocate
with the Father, even Jesus Christ,
My Son? Loose him and let him
gol'
And then the anegl choir. shall
rise tier Oh tier and sing Loose
him and let him go
And then the devil will take his
last and fatal plunge down into the
remotest recesses of the abyss of
eternal hell and up from the in
ferno below will come the hopeless
wall, Lost! LOST We have no ad-
vocate in hell
Lost! What will you do then? !
You can sit out there and sneer
at me, you can damn me, call me
crude, illiterate, but, old man, .
have got you beat to a fragile; ,
have got you beat.
NOW, our acceptance with God /
is going to depend on what we do /
with Jesus The violent sinner on
earth if he. accepts Jesus Christ
Christ will be accepted; and the
very moment you accept Jesus
Christ your sins are forgiven. If |
you reject Jesus, God will spurn
and reject you"
The Three Groups.
Comparing the people of the
world today to the three groups
present at the crucifixion of Christ,
Billy Sunday preached one of his
best gospel sermons yesterday
founded on Matt. 1922,
Lord, is it II" First taking the
mob, then the eight disciples, and
then the three chosen ones, Peter,
James and John, he applied the
lesson to the church people of to-
day with those in these groups
-Four out of five with their
names on the church records, are
doing nothing to bring the world to
Christ" said Rev. Mr.. Sunday. 20,
the church is counting the world,
and is bringing her down to the
level Of the ungodly: and IL I had
4 hundred tongues and every
tongue was speaking a different
language in a different key at the
same time. could not do justice to
he splendid chaos that the worldly
Indifferent people have brought to +
he cause OF Jesus Christ and the
ruth. l tell you there Is but one
Toice from faithful preachers and
.aithful church members; faithful
about the church, and
hat is. she is sick. /,
First he brought out the differ
nee in the position of the thraA I