The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-25
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little longer might have been fatal
70 her. He applied this story to per-
sors OF ne present day. who are
tirnid and Will not approach the
Saviour
You don't lose anything by wait
ing on Jesus" he declared. IF he
understands your cases he will see
you through to the last ditch. De
pend upon H." He told the story of
the hog-raisers who rose up against
Jesus because he cast out the devils
from the boy and drove them into the
bodies of the gwine and hurled them
into the sea This was also an
plicaole TO life at tho present, the
great preacher pointed out, In the
case of persons who can't take time
TO live for Jesus because it may cost
them too much.
In illustrating his remarks with a
story of tho West, in which man
lost on tho plains. hungry. tired.
thirsty, foun at last n bubbling pool
or water, Sunday lay fat upon the
floor II the platform and initiated
the man drinking from the pool over
the edge of the stage.
JESUS Is SENSITIVE.
In the crowd when the woman
h'beiitG tAIii, DtSuS turned 10 tbs ulS-
ciPies and exclaimed, Who touched
ne?" And they were surprised, sun
day said But Jesus is sensitive" he
insisted, He Is not steiid, Indifferent,
preoccupied."
let God run this old world" he
demanded. You keep out OF it. He
made it before YOU ever saw the light
of day and he'll be running 1t long
af,er you've croaked."
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for in the Providence of God. and
Jesus Christ is leading this campaign
as surely AS he walked at the head
of the throngs in Jerusalem" Sunday
exclaimed In hrs most emphatic
manner.
Something is going TO happen in
Richmond that will make hell howl"
the evangelist cried out God is with
t us" And a wide applause followed
J his exclamation.
Referring again TO the woman who
+ was healed of dread disease by
! touching the hem of the garment
Jesus wore. the preacher said: You
! touch Christ and Christ will touch
you. God Almighty can do something
for you II you will only give him a
chance. II you are, doing what God
wants YOU to do you are great in the
! sight OF God
Going to Wrong Doctors
In every church. In every crowd
here are a lot of, people who have
been going to the wrong doctors, like
this timid woman" Sunday said They
have been going TO Old Doc Unitari-
anism, Old Doc Spiritualism, Old Doc
| Universa1ism. Old Doc Christian Sci
ence. Old Doc New Thought ism. Old
Doc Philosophical Research ism" he
enumerated, and applause followed
his speech. when you bring me
some other religion. some expurgated
edition of the Bible. and ask me to be-
iieve in 1t, You bring me some results
and maybe I'll listen TO you. Unless
you can bring me n religion that will
do more for struggling humanity than
our religion I won't accept IL unless
I'm tughouse."
! Sunday declared that he would moi
allow men TO take theudivinity away
! from Jesus Christ and declared to his
opponents that the task Jesus came &c
earth TO do was not a mans task and
could not have been performed by q
man.
He referred to the event of his own
conversion, when he blundered into a
Chicago mission and accepted the
teaching OF the Nazarene as the guild
ing light of his life. "venturing or
III N1Ic uay y WOTk YOU ever
did In your life," ne assured his hear
ers. ''for the plan that puts Jesus in
the middle always works.
Raps Theology.
He took another rap at theology
and gave its relation to Christianity
the same AS the relation botany bears
TO bowers or as physiology bears to
i the body. You can change theology, -
he said. but you"can't change Chris
tianity. Now preachers. have no OBJ
/ lection to new theology, II It makes
o't truths more easily understood. But
nobody in ever kept out OF heaven be-
| cause he can't understand"
Touch the thing that Jesus In In, p
nc declared was the way to go to
heaven. He drew the example from
! the timid woman OF the crowd. and
brought Its Significance to this and to
ali ages. as the only way In which to
gam salvation Touch the thing
that Jesus is In and you'll 60 to
heaven Touch the thing the devil is
IN. and you'll go to hell" was the SIM
pie explanation he gave
The auditorium was packed to the
last foot of space before Billy Sunday
arrived. Several sections in the
building were occupied by special del
egations, among them a group OF
wounded men from the debarkation
hospital at Westhampton When
Rodeheaver asked them to stand up,
the crowd cheered them and applaud
ed, and when tho ovation seemed to
die down they broke out again in an
other wave OF cheering to signify to
The fighters that their heroism was
appreciated.
Delegations Welcomed.
other delegations there were mem
ners Of the City Normal school,
group OF. teachers from Petersburg.
students from the Medical College OF
Virginia, Westhampton college. a del