The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-20
CHURCH LETS
WORLD GO TO
HELL..SUNDAY
Wake Up for Gods Sake.
Church, or Quit Pleads
Evangelist as He Demands
Action.
BREAKS FIRST CHAIR

"The churches look as if they ate
too much and slept too well over the
way the world is going to hell"
shouted Billy Sunday at the Wednes
day evening meeting
Grabbing a chair from the platform
and swinging it around his head, he
roared, "The world since the war
has realized the need of Christ" and
then swinging it with a crash to the
floor, he leaned over the edge of the
platform, his face perspiring and drip
ping from his exertion, he shook his
fist at the audience
Wake up for Gods sake, church,
or quit"
81 have never yet seen city that
would not go for God if the churches
would come out and stand for God he
declared
Jacob IS Theme
Preaching on the character jacob.
Billy Sunday opened with tribute to
the Jew and to the things that the
world owed to him.
Don't forget that it was Jew that
raised the money for Washington at
the time of the Revolution, and made
it possible for us to sing My Country
'Tis of Thee instead of God Save the
King
|, Don't forget that it was a Jew thar
| loaned the money to discover Amer
| lea, and that it was Jew in Column
bus party that was the first to set
| foot on American SOIL
The first appearance of Homer
| Rodeheayer was signal for dem
| onstration from the chorus. the audi
ence meanwhile looking somewhat be-
Wildered until the song leader appear
| ed beside the piano, and took off his
| grey felt hat Then the audience broke
! into applause.
Billy Sunday appeared on the plat
form in q few minutes and was warm
| ly received
! Introduces Bodeheaver
!! In introducing Mr. Rodeheaver Rev
R. w, Stoakes said:
This afternoon | introduce Rody's
trombone to the audience, but tonight
| am introducing Rodeheaver himself =
i Almost the first song sung wa
Brighten the Corner Where You Are, /"
which was demanded by member OF
the florists delegation, the first local
delegation to visit the meetings.
:! The announcement of the famous
number, brought a round of applause.
and Mr. Rodheaver assisted with from
bone accompaniment.
!. With the advent of Mr. Rodeheaver
everything seemed to start off with
added enthusiasm Mr. Matthews al
the piano added any number of extra
thrills and fancy chords, until it
sounded like a whole battery of plan
os following the song
500 Offering
! Reading a letter attached to a 500
bill found in the afternoon collection.
Sunday demanded of the audience how
: many would promise to bring S100 on
the following night Nearly half of the
: audience stood.
The letter stated that the sender
was not Christian. but could not
see a good thing passed up, and
wanted to help 1t was unsigned.
"a man like that would not join a
church that could not put across such
project at this. because he would
think that the church was bunch OF
tightwads," declared Rev. Sunday
!, The musical numbers of the evening
+ were a duet by Rodeneaver and Mrs
!, Asher. '+Old Rugged Cross" and a
[ number by the chorus
The collection for the day. it was an
: nounced after the meeting, totaled
5 s49S.35.
Il Our Weak Spots
The only fault | have to find with
Richmond said Mr.. Sunday, lis in the
attendance and collection. The choir
is singing from the heart and getting it
4 across to the audience. Now I am
2 only talking from comparison, but
E Richmond is not doing as we'll as some
:, other towns smaller than her have
:. done in collection and attendance"
Fl Sunday closed his sermon, with
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