The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22
GOT To STAY
Until END ON
JUDGMENT DAY
Chain Lightning Evangelist
Rips Coat and Sweating in
Every Pore, Describes Day
of Reckoning.
VERDICT is DESCRIBED

Coatless. sweating, and preaching
under high pressure, Billy Sunday
told an audience of $500 at the tab
ernacle Sunday night there would be
one meeting at which everyone in
Richmond would attend and stay to
the end, and that was the judgment
day.
Describing the final judgment, the
session when God would judge the
sinners and the saints. Sunday told
of his meeting with God
well Bill, the books say that you
have been pretty bad?" said Sunday,
telling of the meeting.
Eyes, l was"
1T says you got drunk
yes, sometimes
ut says you stole corn and water
melons"
yes"
1T tells of lot of things you did
that we just won't mention here"
Thank you, Lord
1t also tells that one day in the Pa
cific Garden mission that you fell on
your knees and give your heart to God.
and that you went up and down the
land preaching the word of God, and
salvation through the blood of my
own beloved Son.
Yes"
We'll, Bill. enter thou the King
dom of Heaven"
And" said Sunday. Sin will goi"
Scathes InfideIs
Scathing the infidels and those that
preach unbelief. telling of the courts
on the earth and comparing them with
the final judgment, which he declared
was for everyone irrespective o.
their belief or disbelief in God. Sun
day threw himself into his sermon
with an abandon and recklessness of
energy that astounded
Ending his sermon with a fervent
prayer for those who were in the au-
dience to come forward and confess
their belief in Jesus Christ while the
opportunity was still with them, Sun
day gave the invitation and 35 per-
sons came down the shaVings trail,
shook Billy's hand and signed pledges
of belief in Jesus Christ
Before the sermon, Mrs Asher and
Mr.. Rodeheayer sang one of Bob
Matthews's new songs, There is a
Haven of Refuge"
Mr.. William Asher, husband of Mrs.
Virginia Asher, was then called to the
platform to be introduced, and re
ceived a round of applause.
The City Unseen" duet by HON.
er Rodeheaver and his brother Will
lam Rodeheaver was so strongly ap-
plauded that when Mr. Rodeheaver
tried to get the chorus to sing a song
the applause of the audience drowned
out the piano. The two brothers had
| to sing the second verse before the
regular program could be continued
Rev. ]. j Rae, in telling the audi
J ence of the benefit that Billy Sunday
| had done to Richmond said 81 thank
| God for the awakening of the con-
science of need. and the growth of
| spiritual power that | have had since
| Sunday came here. Rev Sunday has
| hit me hard, and have a good many
dents that he has given me, without
| even the semblance of an apology =
Many Hit Hard
| Many of you have been dented
hard, and you owe it to Sunday for
! your awakening
: Now those that are not to be hero
next Sunday Just make your offering
| to Billy Sunday tonight, so that he
will be sure and get it And make it
big"
DR.. Rae was sitting in one of the
newspaper boxes when called on TO
make his talk Getting up on his
chair he walked from the top of the
press table to the platform
you see if l had been a bleared
eyed booze fighter. / could not have
come out of there" he announced as
he reached the pulpit, as his hearers
applauded
Don't be afraid that you VIII not
get to hear me on the last Sunday, I"
j Rev Billy Sunday said. after Dr. Rae
had returned to his seat by the same
way that he had come up 'I have
preached as many as five or six times
on the last Sunday so that all could
get in to hear me-"
4 Willing to Preach
81 am not fearing that | will have
to preach that many times here" he
added, for most of the hearers come
} in the afternoon and have to return
to their farms, and cannot stay for the
! night services. but if necessary shall
preach four times
There are many things that we will
: learn in Heaven after we get there,
that we do not know now" SUNDAY
told his listeners, "and there are some
things that | am going to ask about
1 want to know why prize fighter
| gets such large wages for just little
time, while preacher has to work
= and preach for full year to get
: $4,000"
: Dashing across the platform, his
fists shaking in the air, with the
: sweat scattering from his nose and
forehead like drops of rain, Sunday
leaned over the far corner of the plat
J form. and shouted. Il don't know why
but I'm going to know"
: THE Love of God is the full tide
: that take you across the bar" he de
? clared, telling of the sand bars thai
| are to be found in the mouths Of some
rivers, keeping only the smallest boats
from entering harbor except at high
7 tide
? THAT sand bar represents your sir. ;
Sunday roared, but it is the forgive
/, ness of Christ that you can depend
5 upon to make the water deep enough
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