The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08
LAST COMING OF CHRIST FOR JUDGMENT
WILL BE The GREATEST MEETING OF ALL
BELIEVERS IN HISTORY OF WHOLE WORLD


of the reign of Christ, and finally of /
would be given, Billy Sunday preached /
Saturday night on THE Second Com !
ing of Christ" to an audience of 1000. !
Making an unexpected call for con-
verts at the close of the sermon, IL |
men "hit the trair' for a Christian !
life.
His sermon bristling with quota |
lions from the Bible, Sunday devel-
oped picture of the coming world
as graphic in its elements as Dante's
great works or Millions poems on
Paradise.
When l get to Heaven, I'm going to
say Hello Moses and Say, Solomon
you had some time with all those
wives tell you it is going to be great
to know intimately those great char
acters of the Bible, and of the world"
Would Get Even
Telling of the time when the Lord
would reign on the earth, Sunday de-
clared, Maybe / shall come back to
Richmond to reign. Suppose the Lord
says to me, Bill, I'd like to have you
reign over Indiana and I'd show In
diana sweet time. Also I'd get even
with some of the people here.
Right now" he declared, I'm after
the devil wherever he hobs up his
head" And Sunday swung on his
mighty foe with all the effort of a
"hay maker" while broad grin
spread over his face as he completed
the whirl that his mighty blow into
the air had caused.
Roaring and tearing the air, Sunday
told of the acts of Nero that had
brought him to hell. He described the
Christians burned at the stake, of
the feasts of the Roman emperor
when the dying martyrs gave up their
lives.
"Such will be the days of the anti
I Christ" he shouted
"Ma" Sunday Present
Mrs. Sunday was present at the
service, her first since the campaign
] was gotten under way. Her presence
was noted quickly and she was hearth
ly applauded AS she came on to the
plat form she said. 81 wondered who
were applauding when I came in, but
/ want to thank you for the many
| things that you have done for Mr.. Sun
! day. His room is full of flowers. and
| that picture which many of you have
seen, is most beautiful"
! The text-"Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up to-
/ gether with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air; and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. Where
fore comfort one another with these
words."-l Thes. 4th chapter, 17-1Sth
verses.
In his sermon at the tabernacle
Rev. w. A. Sunday on Saturday night
said:
| The meeting here mentioned is to
be the greatest meeting the Bible tells
us anything about. There have been
some wonderful meetings, but never
has there been one to compare with
this. 1t was a wonderful meeting.
The children of Israel stood on the
shore of the Red sea, after Pharaoh's
pursuing host had been destroyed in
the angry waters, and Miriam, the
prophecies, with her timbrel, led the
people in singing, Sing We to the
Lord, for He hath triumphed glorious
ly; the horse and his rider He hath
Ithrown into the sea-" eek. xv:21.) And
1t was another great meeting they
had at the foot of Mt. Sinai, when the
law of God was given to them amid
thunders and lightnings, and fire and
smoke. That was great meeting, too
on Mt. Carmel, when Elijah, the
sturdy Tishbite, defied the prophet of
Baal; and that was a great meeting
where David Tanced before the ark
of God, as it was borne into Jerusa-
lem.
i 1t was a great meeting when Solo.
mon dedicated the temple, and the
glory of the Lord came upon the peo-
pie; and those were great meetings
that were held on the banks of the
Jordan, when Jerusalem and all Ju.
dea went out to hear the man who
dressed in camers hair and wore a
linen girdle and lived on locusts and
wild honey. 1t was a wonderful meet
ing when Jesus preached the sermon
On the mount, and another when he
fed the multitude with five loaves and
two fishes. And that was great
meeting on the day of Pentecost
when the Spirit came like a rushing
mighty wind, and under Peters preach
ing about 5000 were converted
Great Meetings
Have Been Held
All these were great meetings and
a.y number of others have been held
both in former times and in our own
day. Those were great meetings in
the early days of Methodism, when
Wesley and Whitfield preached to
great multitudes in the fields Those
were great meetings when multitudes
were flocking to hear Finney and
, Moody; and great meetings have since
been held by other great evangelists
all around the world. But no meeting
has been held anywhere or in any
time that could begin to compare in
Importance with the greatest of all
meetings that is to be held in the air
when our Lord comes to make up his
jewels. That meeting is the one fol
which all others have been preparing
the way. 1t will be the browning meet
ing of all history. The purpose of al
, that has been done in this world VI
to the present time has been to pre-
pare for that great meeting in the air
From Adam mankind has beer
!, marching, step by step. up a grand
. stairway leading direct to that meet
!; ing in the air. The call of Abraham
was one step toward it, and Jacot
and his II sons were another. JOSEPH
ruling in Egypt was another; the de
, liverance under Moses another; the
conquest of Canaan under Joshua an
other, and so on with every event il
sacred history 1t was for this Jesus
suffered on the cross to make atone
ment for sin 1t was for this He arose
J from the dead and assembled into
| hoaVcu Uhorp He took his nIacp a