The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-21
HECKLER GETS
NO COMFORT
FROM CROWD
Audience Which Fills Taber-
nacle browns Person Who
Interrupts, Cheering Denun-
citation of Spiritualist.
EVOLUTION HAMMERED

Cheering his denuneiation of a spir-
itualist. and drowning with tremen-
dous applause a heckler from the au-
dience Billy Sundays biggest Rich
mona audience. nearly filled the taber-
nacle Thursday night
Gesturing and pounding the table.
Sunday dealt sledge hammer blows at
evolution, and the scientists that did
not believe in God and taught wha,
he called the courses at atheism, and
the foolishness of our descent from
the monkey"
Answers HeckIer
In the midst of an attack on Lodge
and his spiritualism a woman in the
audience, shrilly called out. What
about the dictionary. 1t is in the die
tionary'
Stopping suddenly in the midst of
his argument Sunday shot back.
This is my audience, if you want to
talk get your own audience and the
huge audience applauded for several
minutes, drowning out any reply that
could be made.
The opposition and the intensely
loyal support of the audience, stirred
Sunday to even greater bursts, and he
flayed the spiritualist and the sooth-
sayers, and their counterparts through
all the ages, with fire and yigor thai
has not been equalled in any of his
previous sermons
Calls Doyle Fool.
81 think the biggest fool in America
is Conan Doyle. His idea that he can
see into the hereafter is foolishness.
He doesn't want you to throw a boo;
jack at the cat on the fence at night,
because that is your neighbours daugh-
ter that studied music come back to
life. 1t is Theosophy''
Il have no quarrel with the individ-
| uals, but | hate your sniveling, lying
cheating spiritualists. | regard them
as workers of the devil
/ Balancing on the edge Of the plat
| form, Sunday roared his sentimen
| his face red and perspiring from his
| exertion.
Beginning his sermon with a strone
/ denunciation of the scientists WI
! denunciation of the scientists who had
! tried for ages to overthrow the truth
/ in the Bible, Sunday declared. "Some
people say you can't prove the Bible
Fthey are agnostics, l call them dog
ticks"
And as for those that say they can
! not understand the Bible" and Sun
! day spitted the scorn he showed in
/ the words when he described them
! God never intended that we should
understand all of the Bible
! IF God is so simple that | could I'M
derstand him, what a poor God he
would be-
Il wouldn't have a teacher who
! Of -
! school in the United States that was
! supported by Christian money"
Then paying a tribute 10 the in
i ventors and the scientists who made
/ famous progress, and were Christians.
| Sunday pointed out that real science
has only developed under the grace
of the Christian religion
Jonah Rode In
1t is not a question of whether OF.
not a whale swallowed Jonah" Sun
day declared balancing himself In his
! characteristic fashion on one foot. and
holding on to the desk, 'it is ques-
ton of whether or not God could Gre
ate an animal large enough to swaI-
low Jonah"
And you cannot deny that God can
do that" he added
a submarine, that was ALL And the
crowd laughed, and applauded.
Telling of descent into a natural
cave in Virginia, of how the place was
damp and cold, and of how he had
wanted to turn back, and of how the
man who led him had turned on the
electric lights and flooded the place
with myriad lights and reflections, he
j suddenly turned TO the press box
/ "You ought to get that it's a good
one"
And again the audience that fol
lowed his every mood and gesture
and bit of witticism, applauded.
| Il believe in the Bible because its
prophecies have been fulfilled. The
men that wrote that Tyre would be
leveled, that Babylon and Nineva
would be lost. that the Jewish race
would be scattered did not write be-
I cause they knew the future, for no
man knows the future, but they wrote
because God told them what the fut-
ure was
1t was just following this when he
attacked the spiritualists, as the ones
referred to in the Bible as sorcerers.
that the interruption occurred.
Calls Them Takers
"Thurston, Houdini and the others
are wonders, they can do everything
that spiritualist can do, and a To-
: that they cannot do. But they are
slight of hand men, and not takers =
You should go and see Them" he
advised the audience.
But those lying. cheating spiritu-
/, alists that work inly on hysterical
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