The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-01
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hit TRAIL' ON
SUNDAY NIGHT.
Evangelist Uses Question Of
.Pontius Plate to Jews to 5
Arouse Audience From,
Sinful State. /
TABERNACLE PACKED.

GTedcnlng one OF his best sermons Il
Sunday night, to an audience that 4
jammed the tabernacle to the doors,
and stood outside packed beyond the, :
doors and windows, Billy Sunday
brought every man to his feet for a
declaration that he believed in Christ
and his teachings, and brought Is per s
sons to hit the trail" in a reconse-
Grafton of their lives for Jesus R5i
Preaching on the famous words of y
Plate, What shall l do with Christ
Sunday swept his hearers with one OF
the strongest orations that he has yet /.
delivered to Richmond audience.
Says Christ Divine ..- 8 =, z
I'll never admit on Gods dirt that
Christ was not divine" roared the
evangelist as he swung across the
platform, dashing off on to one of the
press tables with bang, and roaring
into the ministerial stands, and to the
platform. .e.,.i
IF you accept the historical fact Of
Christ, you have to accept his dfvin- {,
ity" gs6trls 4Of
Bursting into flood of oratory he
pictured the future that would adore
the Christ 8i Iaun
I'VE shall have future Raphaels, we
shall have future Michael Angeles
he shouted, the words falling from his
lips with the speed of a machine gun.
Eve shall have, future preachers and
future believers proclaiming the faith
of Jesus as great as those OF the ages
gone by .s--s -
Swinging his chair up to the back
of the pulpit, Sunday mounted, swung
his foot to the top of the desk, and
! with his hands to his lips. shouted into
! the sounding board above his head
Il challenge all the infidels on the
earth to find one fault in Jesus"
1t was sermon filled with action.
Only On rare occasion did Sundays
/ humor find any vent and then it was
| only for moment. Before the audi
ence would have chance to laugh, e
would be swinging off in full force
| upon some other subject, roaring his
words, with all the vigor that charact-
! er1Zes his most earnest efforts
Sunday Perspires .
| Sparing himself not jolt. he per
/ spired and dripped, while the flow o.
words never ceased the endles rush
He paced the platform. as constantly
IN action as any Gagged lion.
many. The rapidity of his movement
was so great at all times that actions
that might have been dramatic in oth-
/; the restless motion he wrung from
himself during the entire sermon.
PLATE, Sunday declared, was a typ
ical machine politician, who feared for
his job, and turned over the Christ to
the Jews because he feared their in
fluence at Rome with Caesar Jesus"
he said, was man of the common
people as no other man in the world :
Must Settle Question
Just as PLATE had 20 settle for him.
self when the question came up be
fore him. in spite of his efforts to pass
the buck, so do you have to settle
these matters for yourself.
There is no compromise, neutral,
lily is impossible"
Ending his sermon with a descrip-
ton of the cry of the Italians, when
after Savonarola's speeches they had
gone out crying, Jesus Christ Is our
King our Saviour and saved Italy as
Christian, Sunday asked everyone in
the audience who believed in Christ
and wanted to follow His teachings
to arise.
The response of the audience was
like huge wave, that beginning at
the front and middle, surged into the
sides, and curled like little eddies
around the places where men were
slow to rise, but in its main sweep.
unhindered swept clear to the back Of
the tabernacle, as regular as the
breaking surf
It's not in every town that 7 con
see every person in an audience come
TO their feet like that" declared Mr.
Sunday, there are usually a few that
: still sit It's great sight to see every
man up"
Audience Early
Because the audience was early at
the tabernacle, the musical program
began before o'clock AT that hour
the tabernacle was packed, and there
were already little groups around the
doors and windows
Miss Ruth Rodeheaver, sister of HON.
er Rodeheaver, was in Richmond for
the day on the way to concert Mon
| day in Cincinnati She sang one of
: Bob Matthews own songs, "Oh Hear
; Him Calling Thee"
The audience so insisted on an en-
core that she sang the chorus for
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