The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-13
"No Man Cared for My SOUL" Was
Text Of Sermon Saturday
Night
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about their souls" said Rev.. Billy
Sunday here Saturday night when he
took for the text of his sermon the
fourth verse of the 142nd Psalm
mo man cared for my SOUL" The
evangelist said that hardly any life in
history showed so many contrasts as
that Of David, the writer of the text
David had been a sheep tender, @
musician, king and was known to
the world now as the sweet singer OF
Israel. Mr. Sunday spoke of Saul's
jealousy toward David because the
latter was superior warrior, and
said that Saul was not so successful
as David because Saul was not man
!, of God The reason America and the
Allies had licked the tar" out of the
kaiser and his crowd, Mr. Sunday
said, was because God was not on the
other side of the Hindenburg line and
never had been.
Rev. Billy spoke of the great con.
Germ mankind always manifests for
people in physical distress "Ameri
ca has never let people suffer" he
said, when the quake broke the wa
ter mains in Frisco and there was no
pressure with which to quench the
flames and he fire added to the de,
struction of the earth shocks, render.
ing thousands homeless and without
food, an endless chain of gold went
across the continent to alleviate the
suffering in the western metropolis.
When Italy suffered its worst earth
quake, the United States was the first
to send relief ship loaded to the
waters edge with food and clothing,
and without even the consent of Con-
gress sent vessels of lumber to the
Italians with which to rebuild their
homes"
The preacher handled without
gloves the parents who never tell
their children about Christ, whose
sons and daughters have not heard
their parents voices in prayer, who
never as much as say grace before
the meals that God gives them. He
cited instance after instance of young
men who had been converted in his
meetings and had told him that the
immediate members of their families
had never semed to care for their
souls DO you think I'm lost, one
young man tearfully had asked Mr..
Sunday. mo man cared for my
soul" he quoted. IF the children of
some of you here tonight are saved"
said Mr.. Sunday, 1T will be because
some stranger was more interested in
them and more kind to them than you
have been"
"The preachers alone cannot save
you" he continued, leach man must
do his own praying just as he must
eat his own food and take his own
medicine. Dewey couldn't have won
the battle of Manila alone, nor could
Pershing have broken the linden.
burg line alone. Other men realized
there was work to be done, and the
brave lads went over the top and
across No Mans Land, and thousands
OF them tonight sleep under white
crosses in France. But they accom-
plished what was before them. If
the prayers of another could save
you, there wouldn't be a lost soul in
the world tomorrow morning. am
praying for you and your mothers
have been praying for you since the
day you were born, but salvation is
worth asking for. If you don't ask for
it, you won't get it, By permission Of
the supreme court of New York,
which is necessary to visit the death
chamber of Sing Sing prison. Rode
and went in there. Nineteen men
sentenced to the chair were sitting
there in sight of the little green door
from which no man who has entered
has ever returned, knowing tina:
shortly they were to go through that
door and not come back. Lieutenant
Becker was one of the men we saw
there, and he went through the door
and never returned. Those men we're
every one hoping for pardon, hop.
ing their sentences might be com.
muted to life Imprisonment. hoping
that the condemnation might be lifted
from them. And you ought to be
hoping that the condemnation will be
lifted from you for the scripture says
that he who believeth not is damned
already, You are condemned already
if you have not accepted Christ and
His word"
The evangelist told of prominent
man who had admitted he was not
Christian. How can you be a thirty.
second degree Mason and not be