The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

were put on a pedestal---not because
their virtue had put them there, bu
because OF their vice.
NEED TIDAL WAVE.
The name of wffe--oh, that was
mockery; and the name of mother
was derided and sneered at. Oh. heal
me! You can have. your cuItur,
clubs, you can have your literaries
YOU can have your Kelley cures. 20,
can have your Hull House settle
ments. you can have sociology and yol
can build university In the middle
of every block; Andrew Carnegie car
stick library on every street corner
In Richmond, you can put a public
school on every corner, you can erect
your museums, but you will never
prevent Richmond from rotting into
~, r+s' t7rt t,TsJ arss w az oIa- tizHs
Frensson. II can't be done. y
III girls skirt is too short, stici;
a little on 1t: IL 1t rs cut off too much
at the top add couple of stories.
But that won't purify her heart.
WHEN HE PARTS COMPANY.
81 believe In your libraries, l be-
ieve in your social work. believe in
your sociology. believe in your social
settlements, and ! am with you heart
and So | in everything that has for its
object the uplift of humanity. But
when You part company with Jesus
Christ. that's when / part company
with you.
worldly and Cody life won't
mix. Sunday says so. Listen to him /:
DO you think the Holy Ghost
eyes that are bloodshot from last
nights dehauchery and beer and
champagne guzzIe. Do W think the
Holy Ghost wants the feet to go to
church that the devil used yesterday
to go to some haunt of sin or down
on some ballroom floor?
oh, do you think the Holy Spirit
wants to speak out through lips that
will drink at some banquet or in some
homer DO you think the Holy Spirit
wants 70 nestle in the hands that one
day will reach out and touch the
Bible and another day the things for
hidden Of this old world? No.
ALPHABETICALLY, NO!
Would you think of worshipping
God In church where a lazy janitor
had made the aisles a dumping place
for the cinders and ashes and where
the rats had gnawed holes in the car
pet. where the choir loft WAS deserted
and spiders had spun their webs, and
where the doors were broken off their
hinges. and browsing cattle might
wander in and lie down In the aisIes?
Would you think OF worshipping God
in place like that7 No! No!
DO you expect, then, the Holy
Spirit wants to dwell in dirty man
or dirty woman? / believe that
God Almighty wants to he worship
ped ought to be worshipped. in the
finest buildings that the wealth and
skill of man can erect"
Song. Sunday said. has always play
ed an important part in the advance
and Wesley, and Whitfield, and
Moody. and Sankey, and Torrey and
Alexandria. and Chapman, and Gfpsy
Smith all SANG. You will always find
that song has been inseparably con-
nected with the advancement of Gods
cause.
81 always look for two things neces-
rary for rising tide tn spiritual things
the amount OF money you throw into
The collection plate. and how many Of
you sing"
Faith. declared Sunday. claims In :
slant deliverance from the power OF
he devil and the power OF sin. IF you
ere not being saved from your tenn
per-" ne said, IF you are not being
saved from your pride; IL you are not
y,
bling. crochety, knocking. fault-finding
disposition; IL you are not being saved
from those qualities which develop the
mean. sordid characteristics. then
there IL something wrong with you
not with the Lord
Sunday again declared that he had
nothing against the theater as an insti-
tuition Il never have duarreied with
the theater as an institution" ne said.
Il only quarrel with the mean. con-
things they allow and per-
NIT on the stage. and as long as they
DO they can't expect anything from me
but a scrap"
Sunday says he has not darkened the
doors Of theater In thirty-one years.
I'm not crank" ne added. II
can have good time without going
TO see a woman who hasn't got enough
clothes on her to make q tail for a
kite
IL person performs good act and
the motive that prompted the act was
he will be condemned, and
justly So" Sunday said. Your acts
never rise higher than the motive
which prompts you"
You are here this Astronomical
knows the motive that prompted your
presence, but ! will say this: I've got
more TCSpttt IoF the man OF WOuudti
who will go to church than have for
the fellow who won't, because they
show they've got n good streak In
them or they wouldn't go that far to-
ward God
so never mind what prompted
your presence. If you wanted to look
at me from curiosity. it's all the same
TO me. / don't care what brought you
here. ! have more respect for those
whose curiosity brought them here
than I have for those whom prejudice
kept away. Billy Sunday has always
done the beet he knows how and al
ways will. You can take that form
me-"
Sunday took a rap at these preach
ers " HON ne described as having "gone
down" Some OF them think more
OF drawing their salaries and their
breath than they do anything else" he
said. They never put up a scrap for
Jesus Christ against the devil. They
never make statement but they neu-
traliZe It.
Blames Preache1N
II don't blame the people ~ much
as / do the preachers for not preach
ing the truth. There are q lot Of
preachers here preaching tho biggest
lot of tommyrot and nonsense that
ever went abroad. They arc standing
in orthodox puipits, too