,illustration3 ,,reverend ,,william ,,ashley ,,sunday1 ,d4,d4 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,the ,,man ,,and ,,his ,,message ,,with ,,his ,,own ,,words ,,which ,,have ,,won ,,thousands ,,for ,,christ ,,by ,,william ,t4 ,,ellis1 ,,ll4,d4 ,,author ,,of ,,men ,,and ,,missions ,authorized ,edition ,,philadelphia ,,the ,,john ,c4 ,,winston ,,co4 ,,publishers ,,copyright1 #aiad1 ,,by ,l4 ,t4 ,,myers ,,caution ,the entire contents of this book are protected by the stringent new copyright law1 and all persons are warned not to attempt to reproduce the text1 in whole or in part1 or any of the illustrations4 ,authorized by ,mr4 ,sunday ,this work contains the heart of ,mr4 ,sunday's gospel message arranged by subjects1 and is published by special agreement with him for the use of copyright material and photographs1 which could be used only by his permission4 ,a ,,word ,,from ,,the ,,author ,because he is the most conspicuous ,christian leader in ,america today2 because he has done an entirely unique and far-reaching work of evangelism2 and because his words have a message for all men1 ,i have written1 at the request of the publishers1 this narrative concerning ,rev4 ,william ,a4 ,sunday1 ,d4,d4 ,the final appraisal of the man and his ministry cannot1 of course1 be made while he is alive4 ,never judge unfinished work4 ,this book has endeavored to deal candidly1 though sympathetically1 with its subject4 ,mr4 ,sunday has not seen either the manuscript or proofs4 ,he has1 however1 authorized the use of the messages which he is accustomed to deliver in his meetings1 and which comprise more than half the contents of the volume4 ,the author's hope is that those of us who are just plain folks will find the book interesting and helpful4 ,he has no doubt that professional ,christian workers will get many suggestions from the story of ,mr4 ,sunday's methods4 ,i would acknowledge the assistance of ,miss ,helen ,cramp and the ,rev4 ,ernest ,bawden in collating and preparing for publication ,mr4 ,sunday's utterances4 ,,william ,t4 ,,ellis4 ,,swarthmore1 ,,pa4 ,,contents ,,page ,preface #e ,contents #g ,,chapter ,i ,one of ,god's ,tools ,god's ,man ,sent in ,god's ,time--,sunday's ,converts--,religion and the ,common ,people--,a ,great ,city ,shaken by the ,gospel--,popular ,interest in ,vital ,religion--,sunday a ,distinctively ,american ,type #ae ,,chapter ,,ii ,up from the ,soil ,sunday's ,sympathy with ,every-day ,folk--,early ,life--,the ,soldiers' ,orphanage--,the ,old ,farm--,earning a ,living--,the ,school of ,experience--,first ,baseball ,ventures #bb ,,chapter ,,iii ,a ,base-,ball ,star ,fame as a ,baseball ,player--,eagerness to ,take a ,chance--,record ,run on the ,day ,following his ,conversion--,the ,parting of the ,ways #cc ,,chapter ,,iv ,a ,curbstone ,recruit ,mrs4 ,clark and the ,pacific ,garden ,mission--,sunday's ,own ,story of his ,conversion--,winning the ,game of ,life #ci ,,chapter ,v ,playing the ,new ,game ,the ,individuality of the ,man--,his ,marriage--,mrs4 ,sunday's ,influence--,work in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4--,a ,father ,disowned--,redeeming a ,son--,the ,gambler--,a ,living ,testimony--,professional ,evangelistic ,work #de ,,chapter ,,vi ,a ,shut ,door--and an ,open ,one ,sunday ,thrown ,upon ,his ,own ,resources by ,dr4 ,chapman's ,return to ,philadelphia--,call to ,garner1 ,iowa--,this is the ,lord's ,doings #eg ,,chapter ,,vii ,campaigning for ,christ ,splendid ,organization of a ,sunday ,campaign--,church ,co-operation--,the ,power of ,christian ,publicity--,district ,prayer ,meetings--,sunday's ,army of ,workers--,the ,sunday ,tabernacle--,the ,evangelist's ,own ,compensation--,personnel of the ,sunday ,party #fa ,,chapter ,,viii ,speech--,seasoned with ,salt ,vivid ,language of the ,common ,people--,rubbing the ,fur the ,wrong ,way--,delivering the ,goods--,shakings from the ,sunday ,salt-cellar #fi ,,chapter ,,ix ,battling with ,booze ,an ,effective ,foe of the ,liquor ,business--,dry ,victories ,following ,sunday ,campaigns--,de ,brewer's ,big ,hosses--,the ,famous ,booze ,sermon--,interest in ,manhood--,does the ,saloon ,help ,business8--,the ,parent of ,crimes--,the ,economic ,side--,tragedies ,born of ,drink--,more ,economics--,the ,american ,mongoose--,the ,saloon a ,coward--,god's ,worst ,enemy--,what ,will a ,dollar ,buy8--,the ,gin ,mill--,a ,chance for ,manhood--,personal ,liberty--,the ,moderate ,drinker--,what ,booze ,does to the ,system #hj ,,chapter ,x ,give ,attendance to ,reading ,sunday's ,reverence for ,book ,learning--,no ,claim to ,originality--,some ,sources of ,his ,sermons--,god's ,token of ,love--,the ,sinking ,ship--,what ,if ,it ,had ,been ,my ,boy8--,a ,dream of ,heaven--,the ,battle with ,death--,christ or ,nothing--,calvary--,the ,world for ,god--,a ,word ,picture--,the ,faithful ,pilot #aba ,,chapter ,,xi ,acrobatic ,preaching ,platform ,gymnastics--,the ,athlete in the ,preacher--,sunday's ,sense of ,humor ,stronger than ,his ,sense of ,pathos--,his ,voice and ,manner--,personal ,side of ,sunday #ach ,,chapter ,,xii ,the ,old-,time ,religion ,sunday's ,power of ,positive ,conviction--,his ,ideas of ,theology--,the ,need of ,old-time ,revival--,the ,gospel ,according to ,sunday--,salvation a ,personal ,matter--,and ,he ,arose and ,followed ,him--,at the ,cross-roads--,he ,died for ,me #adf ,,chapter ,,xiii ,hitting the ,sawdust ,trail ,origin of the ,phrase1 ,the ,sawdust ,trail--,impressive ,scenes as ,converts by the ,hundred ,stream ,forward--,vital ,religion--,mr4 ,sunday's ,hand--,all ,sorts and ,conditions of ,people #aeh ,,chapter ,,xiv ,the ,service of ,society ,social and ,ethical ,results of ,sunday's ,preaching--,the ,potent ,force of the ,gospel--,religion in ,every-day ,life--,testimony of ,rev4 ,joseph ,h4 ,odell1 ,d4,d4--,testimony of ,rev4 ,maitland ,alexander1 ,d4,d4--,the ,garage ,bible ,class--,making ,religion a ,subject of ,ordinary ,conversation--,lasting ,results--,a ,life ,story #afg ,,chapter ,,xv ,giving the ,devil ,his ,due ,sunday's ,sense of the ,reality of the ,devil--,excoriation of the ,devil--,devil ,passages from ,sermons #ahb ,,chapter ,,xvi ,critics and ,criticism ,storm of ,criticism a ,tribute--,preaching ,christ ,crucified--,recognition from ,secretary ,bryan--,pilgrimage of ,philadelphia ,clergymen--,heaven's ,messenger--,plain ,speech from ,sunday ,himself #ahh ,,chapter ,,xvii ,a ,clean ,man on ,social ,sins ,clean-mindedness of the ,man--,a ,plain ,talk to ,men--,christian ,character--,common ,sense--,no ,excuse for ,swearing--,family ,skeletons--,nursing ,bad ,habits--,the ,leprosy of ,sin--,but the ,lord ,looketh on the ,heart--,the ,joy of ,religion--,a ,plain ,talk to ,women--,hospitality--,maternity ,out of ,fashion--,the ,girl ,who ,flirts--,the ,task of ,womanhood #bjb ,,chapter ,,xviii ,help ,those ,women ,sunday's ,honor of ,womanhood--,the ,sermon on ,mother--,a ,mother's ,watchfulness--,a ,mother's ,bravery--,good ,mothers ,needed--,god's ,hall of ,fame--,a ,mother's ,song--,a ,mother's ,love--,a ,mother's ,responsibility--,mothers of ,great ,men #bca ,,chapter ,,xix ,standing on the ,rock ,the ,old-,fashioned ,loyalty of the ,evangelist to the ,bible--,some of ,his ,utterances on the ,bible #bdi ,,chapter ,,xx ,making a ,joyful ,noise ,no ,gloom in a ,sunday ,revival--,the ,value of a ,laugh--,the ,value of ,music--,the ,tabernacle ,music--,the ,campaign ,choirs--,a ,revival of ,song #bfa ,,chapter ,,xxi ,the ,prophet and ,his ,own ,time ,the ,evangelist's ,arraignment of the ,sins of ,today--,his ,treatment of the ,church and ,society #bfg ,,chapter ,,xxii ,those ,billy ,sunday ,prayers ,unconventionality of the ,prayers--,specimen ,prayers--,teach ,us to ,pray--,learning of ,christ--,pride ,hinders ,prayer--,praying in ,secret--,praying in ,humility--,men of ,prayer #bga ,,chapter ,,xxiii ,the ,revival on ,trial ,the ,sea of ,faces--,laboratory ,tests--,the ,need of ,revivals--,what a ,revival ,does--,revival ,demands ,sacrifice--,persecution a ,godsend #bhh ,,chapter ,,xxiv ,an ,army ,with ,banners ,unique ,plans for ,reaching the ,masses of the ,people--,visiting ,delegations--,parade at ,close of ,campaign--,spiritual ,power--,derelicts in the ,church--,the ,meaning of ,power--,church ,needs ,great ,awakening--,lost ,power #bii ,,chapter ,,xxv ,a ,life ,enlistment ,some ,notable ,instances of the ,lasting ,results of ,sunday ,revivals--,gospel ,teams--,sermon on ,sharp-,shooters--,the ,value of ,personal ,work--,my ,father's ,business--,feeding the ,spiritual ,life--,the ,dignity of ,personal ,work--,five ,classes of ,people #caa ,,chapter ,,xxvi ,a ,good ,soldier of ,jesus ,christ ,astounding ,number of ,conversions--,statistics of ,campaigns in ,various ,cities--,sunday's ,consecration ,sermon--,god's ,mercies--,the ,living ,sacrifice--,a ,glass of ,champagne--,denying ,one's ,self--,thinking for ,god--,what ,god ,asks #cbf ,,chapter ,,xxvii ,a ,wonderful ,day at a ,great ,university ,visit to ,university of ,pennsylvania--,what ,shall ,i ,do ,with ,jesus8--,real ,manhood--,hot-cakes ,off the ,griddle--,comment of ,old ,penn--,opinions of ,students--,comment of ,religious ,press #cdc ,,chapter ,,xxviii ,the ,christian's ,daily ,helper ,the ,holy ,spirit--,no ,universal ,salvation--,happiest ,nation on ,earth--,ambassadors of ,god--,holy ,spirit a ,person--,the ,last ,dispensation--,little ,things--,the ,fame of a ,christian #cei ,,chapter ,,xxix ,a ,victorious ,sermon ,conquests by the ,sermon on ,the ,unpardonable ,sin--,what ,it ,is--,resisting the ,truth--,too ,late--,representative of the ,trinity--,death-bed ,confessions--,a ,forgiving ,god--,power of ,revivals #cgj ,,chapter ,,xxx ,eternity6 ,eternity6 ,what ,shall the ,end ,be8--,men ,believe in ,god--,at the ,cross--,the ,judgment of ,god--,glad ,tidings to ,all--,the ,atonement of ,christ--,god's ,word--,eternity and ,space--,god's ,infinite ,love--,preparing for ,eternity--,a ,leap in the ,dark--,the ,end ,thereof #chc ,,chapter ,,xxxi ,our ,long ,home ,heaven--,i1 ,too1 ,must ,die--,no ,substitute for ,religion--,morality ,not ,enough--,the ,way of ,salvation--,rewards of ,merit--,a ,place of ,noble ,people--,a ,place for ,you--,the ,missing #djd ,,chapter ,,xxxii ,glorying in the ,cross ,atonement--,suffering for the ,guilty--,jesus' ,atoning ,blood--,no ,argument ,against ,sin--,there is ,sin--,how ,long1 ,o ,god8 #dbd ,,chapter ,i ,one of ,god's ,tools ,i want to be a giant for ,god4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,heaven often plays jokes on earth's worldly-wise4 ,after the consensus of experience and sagacity has settled upon a certain course and type1 lo1 all the profundity of the sages is blown away as a speck of dust and we have1 say1 a shockingly unconventional ,john the ,baptist1 who does not follow the prescribed rules in dress1 training1 methods or message4 ,john the ,baptist was ,god's laugh at the rabbis and the ,pharisees4 ,in an over-ecclesiastical age1 when churchly authority had reached the limit1 a poor monk1 child of a miner's hut1 without influence or favor1 was called to break the power of the popes1 and to make empires and reshape history1 flinging his shadow far down the centuries4 ,martin ,luther was ,god's laugh at ecclesiasticism4 ,while the brains and aristocracy and professional statesmanship of ,america struggled in vain with the nation's greatest crisis1 ,god reached down close to the soil of the raw and ignored ,middle ,west1 and picked up a gaunt and untutored specimen of the common people--a man who reeked of the earth until the earth closed over him--and so saved the ,union and freed a race1 through ungainly ,abraham ,lincoln4 ,thus again ,heaven laughed at exalted procedure and conventionality4 ,in our own day1 with its blatant worldly wisdom1 with its flaunting prosperity1 with its fashionable churchliness1 with its flood of advanced theology overwhelming the pulpit1 ,god needed a prophet1 to call his people back to simple faith and righteousness4 ,a nation imperiled by luxury1 greed1 love of pleasure and unbelief cried aloud for a deliverer4 ,surely this crisis required a great man1 learned in all the ways of the world1 equipped with the best preparation of ,american and foreign universities and theological seminaries1 a man trained in ecclesiastical leadership1 and approved and honored by the courts of the ,church8 ,so worldly wisdom decreed4 ,but ,god laughed--and produced1 to the scandal of the correct and conventional1 ,billy ,sunday1 a common man from the common people1 who1 like ,lincoln1 so wears the signs and savor of the soil that fastidious folk1 to whom sweat is vulgar and to whom calloused hands are bad form1 quite lose their suavity and poise in calling him unrefined4 ,that he is ,god's tool is the first and last word about ,billy ,sunday4 ,he is a phenomenon only as ,god is forever doing phenomenal things1 and upsetting men's best-laid plans4 ,he is simply a tool of ,god4 ,for a special work he is the special instrument4 ,god called1 and he answered4 ,all the many owlish attempts to explain ,billy ,sunday on psychological and sociological grounds fall flat when they ignore the fact that he is merely a handy man for the ,lord's present use4 ,god is still1 as ever1 confounding all human wisdom by snatching the condemned baby of a ,hebrew slave out of ,egypt's river to become a nation's deliverer2 by calling a shepherd boy from his sheep to be ,israel's greatest warrior and king2 and by sending his only-begotten ,son to earth by way of a manger1 and training him in a workingman's home and a village carpenter shop4 ,my ways are not your ways1 is a remark of ,god1 which he seems fond of repeating and illustrating4 ,there is no other explanation of ,billy ,sunday needed1 or possible1 than that he is ,god's man sent in ,god's time4 ,and if ,god chooses the weak and foolish things of earth to confound the mighty1 is not that but another one of his inscrutable ways of showing that he is ,god8 ,why are we so confident that ,billy ,sunday is the ,lord's own man1 when so many learned critics have declared the contrary8 ,simply because he has led more persons to make a public confession of discipleship to ,jesus ,christ than any other man for a century past4 ,making ,christians is1 from all angles1 the greatest work in the world4 ,approximately two hundred and fifty thousand persons1 in the past twenty-five years1 have taken ,sunday's hand1 in token that henceforth their lives belong to the ,saviour4 ,that amazing statement is too big to be grasped at once4 ,it requires thinking over4 ,the huge total of dry figures needs to be broken up into its component parts of living human beings4 ,tens of thousands of those men were husbands--hundreds of whom had been separated from their wives and children by sin4 ,now1 in reunited homes1 whole families bless the memory of the man of ,god who gave them back husbands and fathers4 ,other tens of thousands were sons1 over many of whom parents had long prayed and agonized4 ,it would be hard to convince these mothers1 whose sons have been given back to clean living and to ,christian service1 that there is anything seriously wrong with ,mr4 ,sunday's language1 methods or theology4 ,business men who find that a ,sunday revival means the paying up of the bad bills of old customers are ready to approve on this evidence a man whose work restores integrity in commercial relations4 ,every conceivable type of humanity is included in that total of a quarter of a million of ,sunday converts4 ,the college professor1 the prosperous business man1 the eminent politician1 the farmer1 the lawyer1 the editor1 the doctor1 the author1 the athlete1 the man about town1 the criminal1 the drunkard1 the society woman1 the college student1 the workingman1 the school boy and girl3 the whole gamut of life is covered by the stream of humanity that has hit the sawdust trail--a phrase which has chilled the marrow of every theological seminary in the land4 ,but the trail leads home to the ,father's ,house4 ,one must reach into the dictionary for big1 strong words in characterizing the uniqueness of ,billy ,sunday's work4 ,so ,i say that another aspect of his success is fairly astounding4 ,he1 above all others in our time1 has broken through the thick wall of indifference which separates the ,church from the world4 ,church folk commonly avoid the subject of this great fixed gulf4 ,we do not like to face the fact that the mass of mankind does not bother its head about conventional religious matters4 ,even the majority of church-goers are blankly uninterested in the general affairs of religion4 ,sad to tell1 our bishops and board secretaries and distinguished preachers are really only local celebrities4 ,their names mean nothing in newspaper offices or to newspaper readers3 there are not six clergymen in the ,united ,states with a really national reputation4 ,each in his own circle1 of locality or denomination1 may be ,somebody with a big ,s4 ,but the world goes on unheeding4 ,great ecclesiastical movements and meetings are entirely unrecorded by the secular press4 ,the ,church's problem of problems is how to smash1 or even to crack1 the partition which shuts off the world from the ,church4 ,billy ,sunday has done that4 ,he has set all sorts and conditions of men to talking about religion4 ,go to the lowest dive in ,new ,york's ,tenderloin or in ,san ,francisco's ,barbary ,coast1 and mention the name ,billy ,sunday1 and everybody will recognize it1 and be ready to discuss the man and his message4 ,stand before a session of the ,american ,philosophical ,society and pronounce the words ,billy ,sunday and every one of the learned savants present will be able to talk about the man1 even though few of them know who won last season's baseball championship or who is the world's champion prize-fighter4 ,this is a feat of first magnitude4 ,all levels of society have been made aware of ,billy ,sunday and his gospel4 ,when the evangelist went to ,new ,york for an evening address1 early in the year #aiad1 the throngs were so great that the police were overwhelmed by the surging thousands4 ,even ,mr4 ,sunday himself could not obtain admittance to the meeting for more than half an hour4 ,andrew ,carnegie could not get into the hall that bears his name4 ,probably a greater number of persons tried to hear this evangelist that night than were gathered in all the churches of greater ,new ,york combined on the preceding ,sunday night4 ,to turn thousands of persons away from his meetings is a common experience of ,mr4 ,sunday4 ,more than ten thousand1 mostly men1 tried in vain to get into the overcrowded ,scranton tabernacle at a single session4 ,every thoughtful man or woman must be interested in the man who thus can make religion interesting to the common people4 ,the despair of the present-day ,church is the modern urban center4 ,our generation had not seen a great city shaken by the gospel until ,billy ,sunday went to ,pittsburgh4 ,that he did it is the unanimous report of press and preachers and business men4 ,literally that whole city was stirred to its most sluggish depths by the ,sunday campaign4 ,no baseball series or political campaign ever moved the community so deeply4 ,everywhere one went the talk was of ,billy ,sunday and his meetings4 ,from the bell boys in the hotels to the millionaires in the ,duquesne ,club1 from the workmen in the mills and the girls in the stores1 to the women in exclusive gatherings1 ,sunday was the staple of conversation4 ,day by day1 all the newspapers in the city gave whole pages to the ,sunday meetings4 ,the sermons were reported entire4 ,no other topic ever had received such full attention for so long a time at the hands of the press as the ,sunday campaign4 ,these issues of the papers were subscribed for by persons in all parts of the land4 ,men and women were converted who never heard the sound of the evangelist's voice4 ,this series of ,pittsburgh meetings1 more than anything else in his experience1 impressed the power of ,sunday upon the metropolitan centers of the nation at large2 the country folk had long before learned of him4 ,any tabulation of ,mr4 ,sunday's influence must give a high place to the fact that he has made good press copy3 he has put religion on the front pages of the dailies2 and has made it a present issue with the millions4 ,under modern conditions1 no man can hope to evangelize ,america who has not also access to the columns of the newspapers4 ,within the memory of living men1 no other man or agency has brought religion so powerfully and consecutively into the press as ,william ,a4 ,sunday1 whom some of his scholarly critics have called illiterate4 ,all of which proves the popular interest in vital1 contemporaneous religion4 ,men's ears are dulled by the shop talk of the pulpit4 ,they are weary of the worn platitudes of professional piety4 ,nobody cares for the language of ,canaan1 in which many ministers1 with reverence for the dead past1 have tried to enswathe the living truths of the ,gospel1 as if they were mummies4 ,in the colloquial tongue of the common people1 ,jesus first proclaimed his gospel1 and the common people heard him gladly1 although many of the learned and aristocratic ecclesiastics of his day were scandalized by his free and popular way of putting things1 by his common stories1 and by his disregard for the precedents of the schools4 ,whatever else may be said about ,billy ,sunday's much-discussed forms of speech1 this point is clear1 and denied by nobody3 he makes himself and his message clearly understood by all classes of people4 ,however much one may disagree with him1 nobody fails to catch his meaning4 ,he harnesses the common words of the street up to the chariot of divine truth4 ,every-day folk1 the uncritical1 unscholarly crowd of us1 find no fault with the fact that ,sunday uses the same sort of terms that we do4 ,in fresh1 vigorous1 gripping style1 he makes his message unmistakable4 ,college students like him as much as do the farmers and mechanics4 ,in a single day's work at the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 when thousands of students crowded his meetings1 and gave reverent1 absorbed attention to his message1 several hundred of them openly dedicated their lives to ,christ1 and in token thereof publicly grasped his hand4 ,dr4 ,john ,r4 ,mott1 the world's greatest student leader1 once said to me1 in commenting upon ,sunday3 ,you cannot fool a great body of students4 ,they get a man's measure4 ,if he is genuine1 they know it1 and if he is not1 they quickly find it out4 ,their devotion to ,mr4 ,sunday is very significant4 ,illustration3 ,,god ,,likes ,a ,,little ,,humor1 ,,as ,,evidenced ,,by ,,the ,,fact ,,that ,,he ,,made ,,the ,,monkey1 ,,the ,,parrot--,,and ,,some ,,of ,,you ,,people4 ,this man1 who meets life on all levels1 and proves that the gospel message is for no one particular class1 is a distinctively ,american type4 ,somebody has said that the circus is the most democratic of ,american institutions3 it brings all sorts and conditions of people together on a common plane and for a common purpose4 ,the ,sunday evangelistic meetings are more democratic than a circus4 ,they are a singular exhibit of ,american life--perhaps the most distinctive gathering to be found in our land today4 ,his appeal is to the great mass of the people4 ,the housekeepers who seldom venture away from their homes1 the mechanics who do not go to church1 the men about town who profess a cynical disdain for religion1 the down and outs1 the millionaires1 the society women1 the business and professional men1 the young fellows who feel too big to go to ,sunday school--all these1 and scores of other types1 may be found night after night in the barn-like wooden tabernacles which are always erected for the ,sunday meetings4 ,our common ,american life seems to meet and merge in this baseball evangelist1 who once erected tents for another evangelist1 and now has to have special auditoriums built to hold his own crowds2 and who has risen from a log cabin to a place of national power and honor4 ,nowhere else but in ,america could one find such an unconventional figure as ,billy ,sunday4 ,succeeding chapters will tell in some detail the story of the man and his work2 and in most of them the man will speak his own messages4 ,but for explanation of his power and his work it can only be said1 as of old1 ,there was a man sent from ,god1 whose name was--,billy ,sunday4 ,,chapter ,,ii ,up from the ,soil ,if you want to drive the devil out of the world1 hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,sunday must be accepted as a man of the ,american type before he can be understood4 ,he is of the average1 every-day ,american sort4 ,he is one of the folks4 ,he has more points of resemblance to the common people than he has of difference from them4 ,his mind is their mind4 ,the keenness of the average ,american is his in an increased degree4 ,he has the saving sense of humor which has marked this western people4 ,the extravagances and recklessnesses of his speech would be incredible to a ,britisher2 but we ,americans understand them4 ,they are of a piece with our minds4 ,like the type1 ,sunday is not over-fastidious4 ,he is not made of a special porcelain clay1 but of the same red soil as the rest of us4 ,he knows the barn-yards of the farm better than the drawing-rooms of the rich4 ,the normal1 every-day ,americanism of this son of the ,middle ,west1 whom the nation knows as ,billy ,sunday1 is to be insisted upon if he is to be understood4 ,early apprenticed to hardship and labor1 he has a sympathy with the life of the toiling people which mere imagination cannot give4 ,his knowledge of the ,american crowd is sure and complete because he is one of them4 ,he understands the life of every-day folk because that has always been his life4 ,while he has obvious natural ability1 sharpened on the grindstone of varied experience1 his perceptions and his viewpoints are altogether those of the normal ,american4 ,as he has seen something of life on many levels1 and knows city ways as well as country usages1 he has never lost his bearings as to what sort of people make up the bulk of this country4 ,to them his sermons are addressed4 ,because he strikes this medium level of common conduct and thought1 it is easy for those in all the ranges of ,american life to comprehend him4 ,horse-sense1 that fundamental ,american virtue1 is ,sunday's to an eminent degree4 ,a modern ,american philosopher defines this quality of mind as an instinctive something that tells us when the clock strikes twelve4 ,because he is rich in saving common sense1 ,sunday understands the people and trusts them to understand him4 ,his most earnest defenders from the beginning of his public life have been the rank and file of the common people4 ,his critics have come from the extreme edges of society--the scholar1 or the man whose business is hurt by righteousness4 ,the life of ,william ,a4 ,sunday covers the period of ,american history since the ,civil ,war4 ,he never saw his father1 for he was born the third son of pioneer parents on ,november #ai1 #ahfb1 four months after his father had enlisted as a private in ,company ,e1 ,twenty-third ,iowa ,infantry ,volunteers4 ,there is nothing remarkable to record as to the family4 ,they were one with the type of the middle-western ,americans who wrested that empire from the wilderness1 and counted poverty honorable4 ,in those mutually helpful1 splendidly independent days1 ,democracy came to its flower1 and the ,american type was born4 ,real patriotism is always purchased at a high price2 none pay more dearly for war-time loyalty than the women who send their husbands and sons to the front4 ,mrs4 ,sunday bade her husband answer the call of his country as only a brave woman could do1 and sent him forth to the service and sacrifices which soon ended in an unmarked grave4 ,four months after she had bidden farewell to her husband1 she bade welcome to his son4 ,to this third child she gave the name of her absent soldier husband4 ,the mother's dreams of the returning soldier's delight in his namesake child were soon shattered by the tidings that ,private ,william ,sunday had died of disease contracted in service1 at ,patterson1 ,missouri1 on ,december #bb1 #ahfb1 a little more than a month after the birth of the boy who was to lift his name out of the obscurity of the hosts of those who gave the last full measure of devotion to their nation4 ,then the mother was called upon to take up that heaviest of all burdens of patriotism--the rearing of an orphan family in a home of dire poverty4 ,the three children in the ,sunday home out at ,ames1 ,iowa--,roy1 ,edward and ,william--were unwitting participants in another aspect of war1 the lot of soldiers' orphans4 ,for years1 ,mrs4 ,sunday1 who at this writing is still living and rejoicing in the successes of her son1 was able to keep her little family together under the roof of the two-roomed log cabin which they called home4 ,in those early days their grandfather1 ,squire ,corey1 was of unmeasured help in providing for and training the three orphan boys4 ,experience is a school teacher who carries a rod1 as ,sunday could well testify4 ,he learned life's fundamental lessons in the school of poverty and toil4 ,to the part which his mother played in shaping his life and ideals he has borne eloquent tribute on many platforms4 ,when the youngest son was twelve years old1 he and his older brother were sent off to the ,soldiers' ,orphanage at ,glenwood1 ,iowa4 ,later they were transferred to the ,davenport ,orphanage1 which they left in ,june of #ahgf1 making two years spent in the orphanages4 ,concerning this experience ,sunday himself speaks3 ,i was bred and born 7not in old ,kentucky1 although my grandfather was a ,kentuckian71 but in old ,iowa4 ,i am a rube of the rubes4 ,i am a hayseed of the hayseeds1 and the malodors of the barnyard are on me yet1 and it beats ,pinaud and ,colgate1 too4 ,i have greased my hair with goose grease and blacked my boots with stove blacking4 ,i have wiped my old proboscis with a gunny-sack towel2 ,i have drunk coffee out of my saucer1 and ,i have eaten with my knife2 ,i have said 'done it1' when ,i should have said 'did it1' and ,i 'have saw' when ,i should 'have seen1' and ,i expect to go to heaven just the same4 ,i have crept and crawled out from the university of poverty and hard knocks1 and have taken postgraduate courses4 ,my father went to the war four months before ,i was born1 in ,company ,e1 ,twenty-third ,iowa4 ,i have butted and fought and struggled since ,i was six years old4 ,that's one reason why ,i wear that little red1 white and blue button4 ,i know all about the dark and seamy side of life1 and if ever a man fought hard1 ,i have fought hard for everything ,i have ever gained4 ,the wolf scratched at the cabin door and finally mother said3 ',boys1 ,i am going to send you to the ,soldiers' ,orphans' ,home4' ,at ,ames1 ,iowa1 we had to wait for the train1 and we went to a little hotel1 and they came about one o'clock and said3 ',get ready for the train4' ,i looked into mother's face4 ,her eyes were red1 her hair was disheveled4 ,i said3 ',what's the matter1 mother8' ,all the time ,ed and ,i slept mother had been praying4 ,we went to the train2 she put one arm about me and the other about ,ed and sobbed as if her heart would break4 ,people walked by and looked at us1 but they didn't say a word4 ,why8 ,they didn't know1 and if they had they wouldn't have cared4 ,mother knew2 she knew that for years she wouldn't see her boys4 ,we got into the train and said1 ',good-bye1 mother1' as the train pulled out4 ,we reached ,council ,bluffs4 ,it was cold and we turned up our coats and shivered4 ,we saw the hotel and went up and asked the woman for something to eat4 ,she said3 ',what's your name8' ',my name is ,william ,sunday1 and this is my brother ,ed4' ',where are you going8' ',going to the ,soldiers' ,orphans' ,home at ,glenwood4' ,she wiped her tears and said3 ',my husband was a soldier and he never came back4 ,he wouldn't turn any one away and ,i wouldn't turn you boys away4' ,she drew her arms about us and said3 ',come on in4' ,she gave us our breakfast and our dinner1 too4 ,there wasn't any train going out on the ',q' until afternoon4 ,we saw a freight train standing there1 so we climbed into the caboose4 ,illustration3 ,,where',s ,,your ,,money ,,or ,,ticket8 ,the conductor came along and said3 ',where's your money or ticket8' ',ain't got any4' ',i'll have to put you off4' ,we commenced to cry4 ,my brother handed him a letter of introduction to the superintendent of the orphans' home4 ,the conductor read it1 and handed it back as the tears rolled down his cheeks4 ,then he said3 ',just sit still1 boys4 ,it won't cost a cent to ride on my train4' ,it's only twenty miles from ,council ,bluffs to ,glenwood1 and as we rounded the curve the conductor said3 ',there it is on the hill4' ,i want to say to you that one of the brightest pictures that hangs upon the walls of my memory is the recollection of the days when as a little boy1 out in the log cabin on the frontier of ,iowa1 ,i knelt by mother's side4 ,i went back to the old farm some years ago4 ,the scenes had changed about the place4 ,faces ,i had known and loved had long since turned to dust4 ,fingers that used to turn the pages of the ,bible were obliterated and the old trees beneath which we boys used to play and swing had been felled by the woodman's axe4 ,i stood and thought4 ,the man became a child again and the long weary nights of sin and of hardships became as though they never had been4 ,once more with my gun on my shoulder and my favorite dog trailing at my heels ,i walked through the pathless wood and sat on the old familiar logs and stumps1 and as ,i sat and listened to the wild1 weird harmonies of nature1 a vision of the past opened4 ,the squirrel from the limb of the tree barked defiantly and ,i threw myself into an interrogation point1 and when the gun cracked1 the squirrel fell at my feet4 ,i grabbed him and ran home to throw him down and receive compliments for my skill as a marksman4 ,and ,i saw the tapestry of the evening fall4 ,i heard the lowing herds and saw them wind slowly o'er the lea and ,i listened to the tinkling bells that lulled the distant fowl4 ,once more ,i heard the shouts of childish glee4 ,once more ,i climbed the haystack for the hen's eggs4 ,once more we crossed the threshold and sat at our frugal meal4 ,once more mother drew the trundle bed out from under the larger one1 and we boys1 kneeling down1 shut our eyes and clasping our little hands1 said3 ',now ,i lay me down to sleep2 ,i pray the ,lord1 my soul to keep4 ,if ,i should die before ,i wake1 ,i pray thee1 ,lord1 my soul to take4 ,and this ,i ask for ,jesus' sake1 ,amen4' ',backward1 turn backward1 ,o time in thy flight1 ,make me a child again1 just for tonight1 ,mother1 come back from that echoless shore1 ,take me again to your heart as of yore4 ,into the old cradle ,i'm longing to creep1 ,rock me to sleep1 mother1 rock me to sleep4' ,i stood beneath the old oak tree and it seemed to carry on a conversation with me4 ,it seemed to say3 ',hello ,bill4 ,is that you8' ',yes1 it's ,i1 old tree4' ',well1 you've got a bald spot on the top of your head4 ',yes1 ,i know1 old tree4' ',won't you climb up and sit on my limbs as you used to8' ',no1 ,i haven't got time now4 ,i'd like to1 though1 awfully well4' ',don't go1 ,bill4 ,don't you remember the old swing you made8' ',yes1 ,i remember2 but ,i've got to go4' ',say ,bill1 don't you remember when you tried to play ,george ,washington and the cherry tree and almost cut me down8 ,that's the scar you made1 but it's almost covered over now4' ',yes1 ,i remember all1 but ,i haven't time to stay4' ',are you comin' back1 ,bill8' ',i don't know1 but ,i'll never forget you4' ,then the old apple tree seemed to call me and ,i said3 ',i haven't time to wait1 old apple tree4' ',i want to go back to the orchard1 ,the orchard that used to be mine1 ,the apples are reddening and filling ,the air with their wine4 ,i want to run on through the pasture ,and let down the dusty old bars1 ,i want to find you there still waiting1 ,your eyes like the twin stars4 ,oh1 nights1 you are weary and dreary1 ,and days1 there is something you lack2 ,to the farm in the valley1 ,i want to go back4' ,i tell it to you with shame1 ,i stretched the elastic bands of my mother's love until ,i thought they would break4 ,i went far into the dark and the wrong until ,i ceased to hear her prayers or her pleadings4 ,i forgot her face1 and ,i went so far that it seemed to me that one more step and the elastic bands of her love would break and ,i would be lost4 ,but1 thank ,god1 friends1 ,i never took that last step4 ,little by little ,i yielded to the tender memories and recollections of my mother2 little by little ,i was drawn away from the yawning abyss1 and twenty-seven years ago1 one dark and stormy night in ,chicago1 ,i groped my way out of darkness into the arms of ,jesus ,christ and ,i fell on my knees and cried ',god be merciful to me a sinner6' ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,and ,,pop ,,anson1 ,,former ,,captain ,,of ,,the ,,famous ,,chicago ,,white ,,sox ,,baseball ,,team1 ,,on ,,the ,,golf ,,links4 ,of formal education the boy ,sunday had but little4 ,he went to school intermittently1 like most of his playmates1 but he did get into the high school1 although he was never graduated4 ,early in life he began to work for his living1 even before he went off to the ,soldiers' ,orphanage4 ,concerning these periods of early toil he himself has spoken as follows3 ,when ,i was about fourteen years old1 ,i made application for the position of janitor in a school4 ,i used to get up at two o'clock1 and there were fourteen stoves and coal had to be carried for all them4 ,i had to keep the fire up and keep up my studies and sweep the floors4 ,i got twenty-five dollars a month salary4 ,well1 one day ,i got a check for my salary and ,i went right down to the bank to get it cashed4 ,right in front of me was another fellow with a check to be cashed1 and he shoved his in1 and ,i came along and shoved my check in1 and he handed me out forty dollars4 ,my check called for twenty-five dollars4 ,i called on a friend of mine who was a lawyer in ,kansas ,city and told him4 ,i said3 ',frank1 what do you think1 ,jay ,king handed me forty dollars and my check only called for twenty-five dollars4' ,he said1 ',bill1 if ,i had your luck1 ,i would buy a lottery ticket4' ,but ,i said1 ',the fifteen dollars is not mine4' ,he said1 ',don't be a chump4 ,if you were shy ten dollars and you went back you would not get it1 and if they hand out fifteen dollars1 don't be a fool1 keep it4' ,well1 he had some drag with me and influenced me4 ,i was fool enough to keep it1 and ,i took it and bought a suit of clothes4 ,i can see that suit now2 it was a kind of brown1 with a little green in it and ,i thought ,i was the goods1 ,i want to tell you1 when ,i got those store clothes on4 ,that was the first suit of store clothes ,i had ever had1 and ,i bought that suit and ,i had twenty-five dollars left after ,i did it4 ,years afterwards ,i said1 ',i ought to be a ,christian1' and ,i got on my knees to pray1 and the ,lord seemed to touch me on the back and say1 ',bill1 you owe that ,farmers' ,bank fifteen dollars with interest1' and ,i said1 ',lord1 the bank don't know that ,i got that fifteen dollars1' and the ,lord said ',i know it'2 so ,i struggled along for years1 probably like some of you1 trying to be decent and honest and right some wrong that was in my life1 and every time ,i got down to pray the ,lord would say1 ',fifteen dollars with interest1 ,nevada ,county1 ,iowa2 fifteen dollars1 ,bill4' ,so years afterwards ,i sent that money back1 enclosed a check1 wrote a letter and acknowledged it1 and ,i have the peace of ,god from that day to this1 and ,i have never swindled anyone out of a dollar4 ,there are other kinds of education besides those which award students a sheepskin at the end of a stated term4 ,sunday has no sheepskin--neither has he the sheep quality which marks the machine-made product of any form of training4 ,his school has been a diversity of work1 where he came face to face with the actualities of life4 ,he early had to shift for himself4 ,he learned the priceless lesson of how to work1 regardless of what the particular task might be1 whether it was scrubbing floors 7and he was an expert scrubber of floors671 or preaching a sermon to twenty thousand persons4 ,he had a long hard drill in working under authority3 that is why he is able to exercise authority like a major-general4 ,because personally he has experienced1 with all of the sensitiveness of an ,american small boy1 the bitter injustice of over-work and under-pay under an oppressive task-master1 he is a voice for the toilers of the world4 ,in this same diversified school of industry he learned the lesson of thoroughness which is now echoed by every spike in his tabernacle and every gesture in his sermons4 ,such a one as he could not have come from a conventional educational course4 ,it needed this hard school to make such a hardy man4 ,it was while a youth in ,marshalltown1 ,iowa1 playing baseball on the lots1 that ,sunday came to his own4 ,captain ,a4 ,c4 ,anson1 the famous leader of the ,chicago ,white ,sox1 chanced to see the youth of twenty1 whose phenomenal base-running had made him a local celebrity4 ,it is no new experience for ,sunday to be a center of public interest4 ,he has known this since boyhood4 ,the local baseball hero is as big a figure in the eyes of his own particular circle as ever a great evangelist gets to be in the view of the world4 ,because his ears early became accustomed to the huzzahs of the crowd1 ,sunday's head has not been turned by much of the foolish adulation which has been his since he became an evangelist4 ,a level head1 a quick eye1 and a body which is such a finely trained instrument that it can meet all drafts upon it1 is part of ,sunday's inheritance from his life on the baseball diamond4 ,most successful baseball players enter the major leagues by a succession of steps4 ,with ,sunday it was quite otherwise4 ,because he fell under the personal eye of ,pop ,anson he was borne directly from the fields of ,marshalltown1 ,iowa1 to the great park of the ,chicago team4 ,that was in #ahhc1 when ,sunday was not yet twenty-one years of age4 ,his mind was still formative--a quality it retains to this day--and his entrance into the larger field of baseball trained him to think in broad terms4 ,it widened his horizon and made him reasonably indifferent to the comments of the crowds4 ,a better equipment for the work he is doing could not have been found2 for above all else ,sunday plays ball4 ,while others discuss methods and bewail conditions he keeps the game going4 ,such a volume of criticism as no other evangelist1 within the memory of living men1 has ever received1 has fallen harmless from his head1 because he has not turned aside to argue with the umpire1 but has played ball4 ,there is no call for tears or heroics over the early experiences of ,sunday4 ,his life was normal2 no different from that of tens of thousands of other ,american boys4 ,he himself was in no wise a phenomenon4 ,he was possessed of no special abilities or inclinations4 ,he came to his preaching gift only after years of experience in ,christian work4 ,it is clear that a ,divine ,providence utilized the very ordinariness of his life and training to make him an ambassador to the common people4 ,,chapter ,,iii ,a ,base-,ball ,star ,don't get chesty over success4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,sometimes the preacher tells his people what a great journalist he might have been1 or what a successful business man1 had he not entered the ministry2 but usually his hearers never would have suspected it if he had not told them4 ,billy ,sunday's eminence as a baseball player is not a shadow cast backward from his present pre-eminence4 ,his success as a preacher has gained luster from his distinction as a baseball player1 while his fame as a baseball player has been kept alive by his work as an evangelist4 ,all the world of baseball enthusiasts1 a generation ago1 knew ,billy ,sunday1 the speediest base-runner and the most daring base-stealer in the whole fraternity4 ,wherever he goes today veteran devotees of the national game recall times they saw him play2 and sporting periodicals and sporting pages of newspapers have been filled with reminiscences from baseball fans1 of the triumphs of the evangelist on the diamond4 ,a side light on the reality of his religion while engaged in professional baseball is thrown by the fact that sporting writers always speak of him with pride and loyalty1 and his old baseball associates who still survive1 go frequently to hear him preach4 ,the baseball world thinks that he reflects distinction on the game4 ,now baseball in ,marshalltown and baseball in ,chicago had not exactly the same standards4 ,the recruit had to be drilled4 ,he struck out the first thirteen times he went to bat4 ,he never became a superior batter1 but he could always throw straight and hard4 ,at first he was inclined to take too many chances and his judgment was rather unsafe4 ,one baseball writer has said that ,sunday probably caused more wide throws than any other player the game has ever known1 because of his specialty of going down to first like a streak of greased electricity4 ,when he hit the ball infielders yelled 'hurry it up4' ,the result was that they often threw them away4 ,he was the acknowledged champion sprinter of the ,national ,league4 ,this once led to a match race with ,arlie ,latham1 who held like honors in the ,american ,league4 ,sunday won by fifteen feet4 ,illustration3 ,,his ,,slides ,,were ,,adventures ,,beloved ,,of ,,the ,,fans ,sunday was the sort of figure the bleachers liked4 ,he was always eager--sometimes too eager--to take a chance4 ,what was a one-base hit for another man was usually good for two bases for him4 ,his slides and stolen bases were adventures beloved of the fans--the spice of the game4 ,he also was apt in retort to the comments from the bleachers1 but always good-natured4 ,the crowds liked him1 even as did his team mates4 ,sunday was a man's man1 and so continues to this day4 ,his tabernacle audiences resemble baseball crowds in the proportion of men present1 more nearly than any other meetings of a religious nature that are regularly being held4 ,sunday spent five years on the old ,chicago team1 mostly playing right or center field4 ,he was the first man in the history of baseball to circle the bases in fourteen seconds4 ,he could run a hundred yards from a standing start in ten seconds flat4 ,speed had always been his one distinction4 ,as a lad of thirteen1 in the ,fourth of ,july games at ,ames1 he won a prize of three dollars in a foot-race1 a feat which he recalls with pleasure4 ,speed is a phase of baseball that1 being clear to all eyes1 appeals to the bleachers4 ,so it came about that ,sunday was soon a baseball hero1 analogous to ,ty ,cobb or ,home-,run ,baker1 or ,christy ,mathewson of our own day4 ,he himself tells the story of one famous play1 on the day after his conversion3 ,that afternoon we played the old ,detroit club4 ,we were neck and neck for the championship4 ,that club had ,thompson1 ,richardson1 ,rowe1 ,dunlap1 ,hanlon and ,bennett1 and they could play ball4 ,i was playing right field4 ,mike ,kelly was catching and ,john ,g4 ,clarkson was pitching4 ,he was as fine a pitcher as ever crawled into a uniform4 ,there are some pitchers today1 ,o',toole1 ,bender1 ,wood1 ,mathewson1 ,johnson1 ,marquard1 but ,i do not believe any one of them stood in the class with ,clarkson4 ,cigarettes put him on the bum4 ,when he'd taken a bath the water would be stained with nicotine4 ,we had two men out and they had a man on second and one on third and ,bennett1 their old catcher1 was at bat4 ,charley had three balls and two strikes on him4 ,charley couldn't hit a high ball3 but he could kill them when they went about his knee4 ,i hollered to ,clarkson and said3 ',one more and we got 'em4' ,you know every pitcher puts a hole in the ground where he puts his foot when he is pitching4 ,john stuck his foot in the hole and he went clean to the ground4 ,oh1 he could make 'em dance4 ,he could throw overhanded1 and the ball would go down and up like that4 ,he is the only man on earth ,i have seen do that4 ,that ball would go by so fast that the batter could feel the thermometer drop two degrees as she whizzed by4 ,john went clean down1 and as he went to throw the ball his right foot slipped and the ball went low instead of high4 ,i saw ,charley swing hard and heard the bat hit the ball with a terrific boom4 ,bennett had smashed the ball on the nose4 ,i saw the ball rise in the air and knew that it was going clear over my head4 ,i could judge within ten feet of where the ball would light4 ,i turned my back to the ball and ran4 ,the field was crowded with people and ,i yelled1 ',stand back6' and that crowd opened as the ,red ,sea opened for the rod of ,moses4 ,i ran on1 and as ,i ran ,i made a prayer2 it wasn't theological1 either1 ,i tell you that4 ,i said1 ',god1 if you ever helped mortal man1 help me to get that ball1 and you haven't very much time to make up your mind1 either4' ,i ran and jumped over the bench and stopped4 ,i thought ,i was close enough to catch it4 ,i looked back and saw it was going over my head and ,i jumped and shoved out my left hand and the ball hit it and stuck4 ,at the rate ,i was going the momentum carried me on and ,i fell under the feet of a team of horses4 ,i jumped up with the ball in my hand4 ,up came ,tom ,johnson4 ,tom used to be mayor of ,cleveland4 ,he's dead now4 ',here is #aj1 ,bill4 ,buy yourself the best hat in ,chicago4 ,that catch won me #a1ejj4 ,tomorrow go and buy yourself the best suit of clothes you can find in ,chicago4' ,an old ,methodist minister said to me a few years ago1 ',why1 ,william1 you didn't take the #aj1 did you8' ,i said1 ',you bet your life ,i did4' ,after his five years with the ,chicago baseball team1 ,sunday played upon the ,pittsburgh and the ,philadelphia teams1 his prestige so growing with the years that after he had been eight years in baseball1 he declined a contract at five hundred dollars a month1 in order to enter ,christian work4 ,for most of his baseball career ,sunday was an out-and-out ,christian4 ,he had been converted in #ahhg1 after four years of membership on the ,chicago team4 ,he had worked at his religion2 his team mates knew his ,christianity for the real thing4 ,on ,sundays1 because of his eminence as a baseball player1 he was in great demand for ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 talks4 ,the sporting papers all alluded frequently to his religious interests and activities4 ,because of his ,christian scruples he refused to play baseball on ,sunday4 ,during the four years of his experience as a ,christian member of the baseball profession it might have been clear to anybody who cared to study the situation carefully that the young man's interest in religion was steadily deepening and that he was headed toward some form of avowedly ,christian service4 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,in ,,national ,,league ,,uniform4 ,i had a three-year contract with ,philadelphia4 ,i said to ,god1 ',now if you want me to quit playing ball and go into evangelistic work1 then you get me my release1' and so ,i left it with ,god to get my release before the #beth day of ,march and would take that as an evidence that he wanted me to quit playing ball4 ,on the #agth day of ,march1 ,st4 ,patrick's day--,i shall never forget it--,i was leading a meeting and received a letter from ,colonel ,rogers1 president of the ,philadelphia club1 stating ,i could have my release4 ,in came ,jim ,hart1 of the ,cincinnati team1 and up on the platform and pulled out a contract for #c1ejj4 ,a player only plays seven months1 and he threw the check down for #ejj1 the first month's salary in advance4 ,he said1 ',bill1 sign up6' ,but ,i said1 ',no6' ,i told him that ,i told ,god if he wanted me to quit playing ball to get my release before the #beth day of ,march and ,i would quit4 ,there ,i was up against it4 ,i went around to some of my friends and some said1 ',take it6' ,others said1 ',stick to your promise4' ,i asked my father-in-law about it1 and he said1 ',you are a blank fool if you don't take it4' ,i went home and went to bed1 but could not sleep1 and prayed that night until five o'clock1 when ,i seemed to get the thing straight and said1 ',no1 sir1 ,i will not do it4' ,i went to work for the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 and had a very hard time of it4 ,it was during those hard times that ,i hardly had enough to pay my house rent1 but ,i stuck to my promise4 ,it was in ,march of #ahia that ,sunday made the decision which marked the parting of the ways for him4 ,he abandoned baseball forever as a profession1 although not as an interest1 and entered upon definite religious work4 ,he accepted a position in the ,chicago ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 as a subordinate secretary at #hc4cc per month--and sometimes this was six months overdue4 ,the stuff of which the young man's moral character was made is revealed by the fact that he deliberately rejected a #ejj-;a-month baseball contract in order to serve ,christ at a personal sacrifice4 ,this incident reveals the real temper of ,sunday1 and is to be borne in mind when discussion is raised concerning the large offerings which are made to him now in his successful evangelistic work4 ,that act was not the deed of a money-loving man4 ,if it does not spell consecration1 it is difficult to define what it does mean4 ,doubtless there were many who thought this ending of a conspicuous baseball career an anti-climax1 even as the flight of ,moses into the wilderness of ,sinai apparently spelled defeat4 ,out of such defeats and sacrifices as these grow the victories that best serve the world and most honor ,god4 ,,chapter ,,iv ,a ,curbstone ,recruit ,you've got to sign your own ,declaration of ,independence before you can celebrate your ,fourth of ,july victory4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,nobody this side of heaven can tell to whom the credit belongs for any great life or great work4 ,but we may be reasonably sure that the unsung and unknown women of the earth have a large part in every achievement worth while4 ,mrs4 ,clark1 saintly wife of ,colonel ,clark1 the devoted founder of the ,pacific ,garden ,rescue ,mission in ,chicago1 is one of that host of women who1 like the few who followed ,jesus in his earthly ministry1 have served in lowly1 inconspicuous ways1 doing small tasks from a great love4 ,night after night1 with a consecration which never flagged1 she labored in the gospel for a motley crowd of men and women1 mostly society's flotsam and jetsam1 many of whom found this hospitable building the last fort this side of destruction4 ,a single visit to a down-town rescue mission is romantic1 picturesque and somewhat of an adventure--a sort of sanctified slumming trip4 ,far different is it to spend night after night1 regardless of weather or personal feelings1 in coming to close grips with sin-sodden men and women1 many of them the devil's refuse4 ,a sickening share of the number are merely seeking shelter or lodging or food3 sin's wages are not sufficient to live upon1 and they turn to the mercy of ,christianity for succor4 ,never to be cast down by unworthiness or ingratitude1 to keep a heart of hope in face of successive failures1 and to rejoice with a shepherd's joy over the one rescued--this is the spirit of the consecrated rescue-mission worker4 ,such a woman was ,mrs4 ,clark1 the spiritual mother to a multitude of redeemed men4 ,of all the trophies which she has laid at the feet of her ,lord1 the redemption of ,billy ,sunday seems to human eyes the brightest4 ,for it was this woman who persuaded him to accept ,christ as his ,saviour3 he whose hand has led perhaps a quarter of a million persons to the foot of the ,cross was himself led thither by this saintly woman4 ,when we contemplate the relation of that one humble rescue mission in ,chicago1 the monument of a business man's consecration to ,christ1 to the scores of ,sunday ,tabernacles over the land2 and when we connect the streams of penitents on the sawdust trail with that one young man of twenty-five going forward up the aisle of the rude mission room1 we realize afresh that ,god uses many workers to carry on his one work2 and that though ,paul may plant and ,apollos water1 it is ,god alone who giveth the increase4 ,it was one evening in the fall of #ahhg that ,sunday1 with five of his baseball team mates1 sat on the curbstone of ,van ,buren ,street and listened to the music and testimonies of a band of workers from the ,pacific ,garden ,rescue ,mission4 ,the deeps of sentiment inherited from a ,christian mother1 and the memories of a ,christian home1 were stirred in the breast of one of the men2 and ,sunday accepted the invitation of a worker to visit the mission4 ,moved by the vital testimonies which he heard1 he went again and again2 and at length1 after conversation and prayer with ,mrs4 ,clark1 he made the great decision which committed him to the ,christian life4 ,sunday's own story of his conversion is one of the most thrilling of all the evangelist's messages4 ,it is a human document1 a leaf in that great book of ,christian evidences which ,god is still writing day by day4 ,twenty-seven years ago ,i walked down a street in ,chicago in company with some ball players who were famous in this world--some of them are dead now--and we went into a saloon4 ,it was ,sunday afternoon and we got tanked up and then went and sat down on a corner4 ,i never go by that street without thanking ,god for saving me4 ,it was a vacant lot at that time4 ,we sat down on a curbing4 ,across the street a company of men and women were playing on instruments--horns1 flutes and slide trombones--and the others were singing the gospel hymns that ,i used to hear my mother sing back in the log cabin in ,iowa and back in the old church where ,i used to go to ,sunday school4 ,and ,god painted on the canvas of my recollection and memory a vivid picture of the scenes of other days and other faces4 ,many have long since turned to dust4 ,i sobbed and sobbed and a young man stepped out and said1 ',we are going down to the ,pacific ,garden ,mission4 ,won't you come down to the mission8 ,i am sure you will enjoy it4 ,you can hear drunkards tell how they have been saved and girls tell how they have been saved from the red-light district4' ,i arose and said to the boys1 ',i'm through4 ,i am going to ,jesus ,christ4 ,we've come to the parting of the ways1' and ,i turned my back on them4 ,some of them laughed and some of them mocked me2 one of them gave me encouragement2 others never said a word4 ,twenty-seven years ago ,i turned and left that little group on the corner of ,state and ,madison ,streets and walked to the little mission and fell on my knees and staggered out of sin and into the arms of the ,saviour4 ,the next day ,i had to get out to the ball park and practice4 ,every morning at ten o'clock we had to be out there4 ,i never slept that night4 ,i was afraid of the horse-laugh that gang would give me because ,i had taken my stand for ,jesus ,christ4 ,i walked down to the old ball grounds4 ,i will never forget it4 ,i slipped my key into the wicket gate and the first man to meet me after ,i got inside was ,mike ,kelly4 ,up came ,mike ,kelly2 he said1 ',bill1 ,i'm proud of you6 ,religion is not my long suit1 but ,i'll help you all ,i can4' ,up came ,anson1 the best ball player that ever played the game2 ,pfeffer1 ,clarkson1 ,flint1 ,jimmy ,mc,cormick1 ,burns1 ,williamson and ,dalrymple4 ,there wasn't a fellow in that gang who knocked2 every fellow had a word of encouragement for me4 ,mike ,kelly was sold to ,boston for #aj1jjj4 ,mike got half of the purchase price4 ,he came up to me and showed me a check for #e1jjj4 ,john ,l4 ,sullivan1 the champion fighter1 went around with a subscription paper and the boys raised over #ab1jjj to buy ,mike a house4 ,illustration3 ,,bill1 ,i',m ,,proud ,,of ,,you6 ,they gave ,mike a deed to the house and they had #a1ejj left and gave him a certificate of deposit for that4 ,his salary for playing with ,boston was #d1gjj a year4 ,at the end of that season ,mike had spent the #e1jjj purchase price and the #d1gjj he received as salary and the #a1ejj they gave him and had a mortgage on the house4 ,and when he died in ,pennsylvania they went around with a subscription to get money enough to put him in the ground1 and each club1 twelve in all1 in the two leagues gave a month a year to his wife4 ,mike sat here on the corner with me twenty-seven years ago1 when ,i said1 ',good-bye1 boys1 ,i'm going to ,jesus ,christ4' ,a4 ,g4 ,spalding signed up a team to go around the world4 ,i was the second he asked to sign a contract and ,captain ,anson was the first4 ,i was sliding to second base one day4 ,i always slid head first1 and hit a stone and cut a ligament loose in my knee4 ,i got ,dr4 ,magruder1 who attended ,garfield when he was shot1 and he said3 ',william1 if you don't go on that trip ,i will give you a good leg4' ,i obeyed and have as good a leg today as ,i ever had4 ,they offered to wait for me at ,honolulu and ,australia4 ,spalding said1 ',meet us in ,england1 and play with us through ,england1 ,scotland and ,wales4' ,i didn't go4 ,ed ,williamson1 our old short-stop1 a fellow weighing #bbe pounds1 was the most active big man you ever saw4 ,he went with them1 and while they were on the ship crossing the ,english channel a storm arose and the captain thought the ship would go down4 ,williamson tied two life-preservers on himself and one on his wife and dropped on his knees and prayed and promised ,god to be true4 ,god spoke and the waves were stilled4 ,they came back to the ,united ,states and ,ed came back to ,chicago and started a saloon on ,dearborn ,street4 ,i would go through there giving tickets for the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 meetings and would talk with them and he would cry like a baby4 ,i would get down and pray for him1 and would talk with him4 ,when he died they put him on the table and cut him open and took out his liver and it was so big it would not go in a candy bucket4 ,kidneys had shriveled until they were like two stones4 ,ed ,williamson sat there on the street corner with me1 drunk1 twenty-seven years ago when ,i said1 ',good-bye1 ,i'm going to ,jesus ,christ4' ,frank ,flint1 our old catcher1 who caught for nineteen years1 drew #c1bjj a year on an average4 ,he caught before they had chest protectors1 masks and gloves4 ,he caught bare-handed4 ,every bone in the ball of his hand was broken4 ,you never saw such a hand as ,frank had4 ,every bone in his face was broken1 and his nose and cheek bones1 and the shoulder and ribs had all been broken4 ,he got to drinking1 his home was broken up and he went to the dogs4 ,i've seen old ,frank ,flint sleeping on a table in a stale beer joint and ,i've turned my pockets inside out and said1 ',you're welcome to it1 old pal4' ,he drank on and on1 and one day in winter he staggered out of a stale beer joint and stood on a corner1 and was seized with a fit of coughing4 ,the blood streamed out of his nose1 mouth and eyes4 ,down the street came a wealthy woman4 ,she took one look and said1 ',my ,god1 is it you1 ,frank8' and his wife came up and kissed him4 ,she called two policemen and a cab and started with him to her boarding house4 ,they broke all speed regulations4 ,she called five of the best physicians and they listened to the beating of his heart1 one1 two1 three1 four1 five1 six1 seven1 eight1 nine1 ten1 eleven1 twelve1 and the doctors said1 ',he will be dead in about four hours4' ,she told them to tell him what they had told her4 ,she said1 ',frank1 the end is near1' and he said1 ',send for ,bill4' ,they telephoned me and ,i came4 ,he said1 ',there's nothing in the life of years ago ,i care for now4 ,i can hear the bleachers cheer when ,i make a hit that wins the game4 ,but there is nothing that can help me out now2 and if the umpire calls me out now1 won't you say a few words over me1 ,bill8' ,he struggled as he had years ago on the diamond1 when he tried to reach home1 but the great ,umpire of the universe yelled1 ',you're out6' and waved him to the club house1 and the great gladiator of the diamond was no more4 ,he sat on the street corner with me1 drunk1 twenty-seven years ago in ,chicago1 when ,i said1 ',good-bye1 boys1 ,i'm through4' ,did they win the game of life or did ,bill8 ,illustration3 ,,first--,,are ,,you ,,kindly ,,disposed ,,toward ,,me8 ,,chapter ,v ,playing the ,new ,game ,it is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,if ,billy ,sunday had not been an athlete he would not today be the physical marvel in the pulpit that he is2 if he had not been reared in the ranks of the plain people he would not have possessed the vocabulary and insight into life which are essential parts of his equipment2 if he had not served a long apprenticeship to toil he would not display his present pitiless industry2 if he had not been a cog in the machinery of organized baseball1 with wide travel and much experience of men1 he would not be able to perfect the amazing organization of ,sunday evangelistic campaigns2 if he had not been a member and elder of a ,presbyterian church he could not have resisted the religious vagaries which lead so many evangelists and immature ,christian workers astray2 if he had not been trained in three years of ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 service he would not today be the flaming and insistent protagonist of personal work that he now is2 if he had not been converted definitely and consciously and quickly in a rescue mission he could not now preach his gospel of immediate conversion4 ,all of which is but another way of saying that ,sunday was trained in ,god's school4 ,god prepared the man for the work he was preparing for him4 ,only by such uncommon training could this unique messenger of the gospel be produced4 ,a college course doubtless would have submerged ,sunday into the level of the commonplace4 ,a theological seminary would have denatured him4 ,evidently ,sunday has learned the lesson of the value of individuality2 he prizes it1 preaches about it1 and practices it4 ,he probably does not know what sui generis means1 but he is it4 ,over and over again he urges that instead of railing at what we have not enjoyed1 we should magnify what we already possess4 ,the shepherd's rod of ,moses1 rightly wielded1 may be mightier than a king's scepter4 ,as we approach the development of the unique work of ,billy ,sunday1 which is without a parallel in the history of evangelism1 we must reckon with those forces which developed his personality and trace the steps which led him into his present imperial activity4 ,for he has gone forward a step at a time4 ,he followed the wise rule of the rescue mission1 that the saved should say so4 ,at the very beginning he began to bear testimony to his new faith4 ,wherever opportunity offered he spoke a good word for ,jesus ,christ4 ,in many towns and cities his testimony was heard in those early days2 and there was not a follower of the baseball game who did not know that ,billy ,sunday was a ,christian4 ,the convert who does not join a church is likely soon to be in a bad way2 so ,sunday early united with the ,jefferson ,park ,presbyterian ,church1 ,chicago4 ,he went into religious activity with all the ardor that he displayed on the baseball field4 ,he attended the ,christian ,endeavor society1 prayer-meeting and the mid-week church service4 ,this is significant2 for it is usually the church members who are faithful at the mid-week prayer-meetings who are the vital force in a congregation4 ,other rewards than spiritual awaited ,sunday at the prayer-meeting2 for there he met ,helen ,a4 ,thompson1 the young woman who subsequently became his wife4 ,between the meeting and the marriage altar there were various obstacles to be overcome4 ,another suitor was in the way1 and besides1 ,miss ,thompson's father did not take kindly to the idea of a professional baseball player as a possible son-in-law1 for he had old-fashioned ,scotch notions of things4 ,love conquers all1 and in ,september1 #ahhh1 the young couple were married1 taking their wedding trip by going on circuit with the baseball team4 ,mrs4 ,sunday's influence upon her husband has been extraordinary4 ,it is a factor to be largely considered in any estimate of the man4 ,he is a devoted husband1 of the ,american type1 and with his ardent loyalty to his wife has complete confidence in her judgment4 ,she is his man of affairs4 ,her ,scotch heritage has endowed her with the prudent qualities of that race1 and she is the business manager of ,mr4 ,sunday's campaigns4 ,she it is who holds her generous1 careless husband down to a realization of the practicalities of life4 ,he makes no important decisions without consulting her1 and she travels with him nearly all of the time1 attending his meetings and watching over his work and his personal well-being like a mother4 ,in addition ,mrs4 ,sunday does yeoman service in the evangelistic campaigns4 ,the helplessness of the evangelist without his wife is almost ludicrous3 he dislikes to settle any question1 whether it be an acceptance of an invitation from a city or the employment of an additional worker1 without ,mrs4 ,sunday's counsel4 ,frequently he turns vexed problems over to her1 and abides implicitly by her decision1 without looking into the matter himself at all4 ,four children--,helen1 ,george1 ,william and ,paul--have been born to the ,sundays1 two of whom are themselves married4 ,the modest ,sunday home is in ,winona ,lake1 ,indiana4 ,when ,mrs4 ,sunday is absent with her husband1 the two younger children are left in the care of a trusted helper4 ,the evangelist himself is home for only a short period each summer4 ,mrs4 ,sunday was the deciding factor in determining her husband to abandon baseball for distinctively religious work4 ,a woman of real ,scotch piety1 in the time of decision she chose the better part4 ,her husband had been addressing ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 meetings1 ,sunday-schools and ,christian ,endeavor societies4 ,he was undeniably a poor speaker4 ,no prophet could have foreseen the present master of platform art in the stammering1 stumbling young man whose only excuse for addressing public meetings was the eagerness of men to hear the celebrated baseball player's story4 ,his speech was merely his testimony1 such as is required of all mission converts4 ,if ,sunday could not talk well on his feet he could handle individual men4 ,his aptness in dealing with men led the ,chicago ,young ,men's ,christian ,association to offer him an assistant secretaryship in the department of religious work4 ,it is significant that the baseball player went into the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 not as a physical director but in the distinctively spiritual sphere4 ,he refused an invitation to become physical director2 for his religious zeal from the first outshone his physical prowess4 ,those three years of work in the ,chicago ,association bulk large in the development of the evangelist4 ,they were not all spent in dealing with the unconverted1 by any means4 ,sunday's tasks included the securing of speakers for noon-day prayer-meetings1 the conducting of office routine1 the raising of money1 the distribution of literature1 the visiting of saloons and other places to which invitations should be carried1 and the following up of persons who had displayed an interest in the meetings4 ,much of it was sanctified drudgery3 but it was all drill for destiny4 ,the young man saw at close range and with particular detail what sin could do to men2 and he also learned the power of the ,gospel to make sinners over4 ,the evangelist often alludes to those days of personal work in ,chicago4 ,such stories as the following have been heard by thousands4 ,a ,father ,disowned ,while ,i was in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 in ,chicago ,i was standing on the corner one night and a man came along with his toes sticking out and a ragged suit on and a slouch hat and asked me for a dime to get something to eat4 ,i told him ,i wouldn't give him a dime because he would go and get a drink4 ,he said1 ',you wouldn't let me starve1 would you8' ,i told him no1 but that ,i wouldn't give him the money4 ,i asked him to come to the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 with me and stay until after the meeting and ,i would take him out and get him a good supper and a bed4 ,he wanted me to do it right away before going to the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 but ,i told him that ,i was working for someone until ten o'clock4 ,so he came up to the meeting and stayed through the meeting and was very much interested4 ,i saw that he used excellent language and questioned him and found that he was a man who had been ,adjutant ,general of one of the ,central ,states and had at one time been the editor of two of the biggest newspapers4 ,i went with him after the meeting and got him a supper and a bed and went to some friends and we got his clothes4 ,i asked him if he had any relatives and he said he had one son who was a bank cashier but that he had disowned him and his picture was taken from the family album and his name was never spoken in the house1 all because he was now down and out1 on account of booze4 ,i wrote to the boy and said1 ',i've found your father4 ,send me some money to help him4' ,he wrote back and said for me never to mention his father's name to him again1 that it wasn't ever spoken around the house and that his father was forgotten4 ,i replied3 ',you miserable1 low-down wretch4 ,you can't disown your father and refuse to help him because he is down and out4 ,send me some money or ,i will publish the story in all of the papers4' ,he sent me five dollars and that's all ,i ever got from him4 ,i took care of the old man all winter and in the spring ,i went to a relief society in ,chicago and got him a ticket to his home and put him on the train and that was the last ,i ever saw of him4 ,redeeming a ,son ,i stood on the street one ,sunday night giving out tickets inviting men to the men's meeting in ,farwell ,hall4 ,along came a young fellow1 ,i should judge he was thirty1 who looked prematurely old1 and he said1 ',pard1 will you give me a dime8' ,i said1 ',no1 sir4' ',i want to get somethin' to eat4' ,i said1 ',you look to me as though you were a booze-fighter4' ',i am4' ',i'll not give you money1 but ,i'll get your supper4' ,he said1 ',come on4 ,i haven't eaten for two days4' ',my time is not my own until ten o'clock4 ,you go upstairs until then and ,i'll buy you a good supper and get you a good1 warm1 clean bed in which to sleep1 but ,i'll not give you the money4' ,he said1 ',thank you1 ,i'll go4' ,he stayed for the meeting4 ,i saw he was moved1 and after the meeting ,i stood by his side4 ,he wept and ,i talked to him about ,jesus ,christ1 and he told me this story3 ,there were three boys in the family4 ,they lived in ,boston4 ,the father died1 the will was probated1 he was given his portion1 took it1 started out drinking and gambling4 ,at last he reached ,denver1 his money was gone1 and he got a position as fireman in the ,denver and ,rio ,grande switchyards4 ,his mother kept writing to him1 but he told me that he never read the letters4 ,he said that when he saw the postmark and the writing he threw the letter into the firebox1 but one day1 he couldn't tell why1 he opened the letter and it read3 ',dear----3 ,i haven't heard from you directly1 but ,i am sure that you must need a mother's care in the far-off ,west1 and unless you answer this in a reasonable time ,i'm going to ,denver to see you4' ,and she went on pleading1 as only a mother could1 and closed it3 ',your loving mother4' ,he said1 ',i threw the letter in the fire and paid no more heed to it4 ,one day about two weeks later ,i saw a woman coming down the track and ,i said to the engineer3 ,that looks like my mother4 ,she drew near1 and ,i said3 ,yes1 that's mother4 ,what do you think ,i did8' ,i said1 ',why you climbed out of your engine1 kissed her and asked ,god to forgive you4' ,he said1 ',i did nothing of the kind4 ,i was so low-down1 ,i wouldn't even speak to my mother4 ,she followed me up and down the switchyard and even followed me to my boarding house4 ,i went upstairs1 changed my clothes1 came down1 and she said1 ,frank1 stay and talk with me4 ,i pushed by her and went out and spent the night in sin4 ,i came back in the morning1 changed my clothes and went to work4 ,for four days she followed me up and down the switchyards and then she said1 ,frank1 you have broken my heart1 and ,i am going away tomorrow4 ,illustration3 ,,frank1 ,,kiss ,,me ,,good-,,bye6 ',i happened to be near the depot with the engine when she got on the train and she raised the window and said1 ,frank1 kiss me good-bye4 ,i stood talking with some of my drinking and gambling friends and one man said1 ,frank ,adsitt1 you are a fool to treat your mother like that4 ,kiss her good-bye4 ,i jerked from him and turned back4 ,i heard the conductor call ,all aboard4 ,i heard the bell on the engine ring and the train started out1 and ,i heard my mother cry1 ,oh1 ,frank1 if you won't kiss me good-bye1 for ,god's sake turn and look at me6 ',mr4 ,sunday1 when the train on the ,burlington ,railroad pulled out of ,denver1 ,i stood with my back to my mother4 ,that's been nine years ago and ,i have never seen nor heard from her4' ,i led him to ,jesus4 ,i got him a position in the old ,exposition building on the lake front4 ,he gave me the money he didn't need for board and washing4 ,i kept his money for months4 ,he came to me one day and asked for it4 ,he used to come to the noon meetings every day4 ,finally ,i missed him1 and ,i didn't see him again until in ,june1 #ahic1 during the ,world's ,fair he walked into the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,i said1 ',why1 ,frank1 how do you do8' ,he said1 ',how do you know me8' ,i said1 ',i have never forgotten you2 how is your mother8' ,he smiled1 then his face quickly changed to sadness1 and he said1 ',she is across the street in the ,brevoort ,house4 ,i am taking her to ,california to fill her last days with sunshine4' ,three months later1 out in ,pasadena1 she called him to her bedside1 drew him down1 kissed him1 and said1 ',good-bye2 ,i can die happy because ,i know my boy is a ,christian4' ,the ,gambler ,i have reached down into the slime1 and have been privileged to help tens of thousands out of the mire of sin--and ,i believe that most of them will be saved1 too4 ,i've helped men in all walks of life4 ,when ,i was in ,chicago ,i helped a man and got him a position1 and so was able to restore him to his wife and children4 ,one night a fellow came to me and told me that the man was playing faro bank down on ,clark ,street4 ,i said3 ',why that can hardly be--,i took dinner with him only a few hours ago4' ,but my informant had told me the truth1 so ,i put on my coat and went down ,la,salle ,street and past the ,new ,york ,life ,building and along up the stairway to the gambling room4 ,i went past the big doorkeeper1 and ,i found a lot of men in there1 playing keno and faro bank and roulette and stud and draw poker4 ,i saw my man there1 just playing a hand4 ,in a moment he walked over to the bar and ordered a ,rhine wine and seltzer4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,pacific ,,garden ,,mission ,,in ,,chicago1 ,,where ,,billy ,,sunday ,,was ,,converted4 ,i walked over and touched him on the shoulder1 and he looked and turned pale4 ,i said1 ',come out of this4 ,come with me4' ,he said1 ',here's my money1' and pulled #add from his pocket and handed it to me4 ',i don't want your money4' ,he refused at first1 and it was one o'clock in the morning before ,i got him away from there4 ,i took him home and talked to him1 then ,i sent down into ,ohio for an old uncle of his1 for he had forged notes amounting to #b1jjj or so1 and we had to get him out of trouble4 ,we got him all fixed up and we got him a job selling relief maps1 and he made #e1jjj a year4 ,i didn't hear from him for a long time2 then one day ,jailor ,whitman called me up and told me that ,tom ,barrett1 an old ball player ,i knew well1 wanted me to come up and see a man who had been sentenced to the penitentiary4 ,i went down to the jail and the prisoner was my friend4 ,i asked him what was the matter1 and he said that he and some other fellows had framed up a plan to stick up a jewelry store4 ,he was caught and the others got away4 ,he wouldn't snitch1 and so he was going down to ,joliet on an indeterminate sentence of from one to fourteen years4 ,he said3 ',you are the only man that will help me4 ,will you do it8' ,i said3 ',i won't help you1 ,i won't spend so much as a postage stamp on you if you are going to play me dirt again6' ,he promised to do better as soon as he got out1 and ,i wrote a letter to my friend1 ,andy ,russell1 chairman of the board of pardons4 ,he took up the case and we got my friend's sentence cut down to a maximum of five years4 ,time passed again1 and one day he came in dressed fit to kill4 ,he had on an #hj overcoat1 a #ej suit1 a #d necktie1 a pair of patent leather shoes that cost #ae1 shirt buttons as big as hickory nuts and diamond cuff buttons4 ,he walked up to my desk in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 and pulled out a roll of bills4 ,there were a lot of them--yellow fellows4 ,i noticed that there was one for #ejj4 ,there was over #d1ejj in the roll4 ,he said3 ',i won it last night at faro bank4' ,he asked me to go out to dinner with him and ,i went4 ,we had everything on the bill of fare1 from soup to nuts1 and the check was #g4fj apiece for two suppers4 ,i've never had such a dinner since4 ,we talked things over4 ,he said he was making money hand over fist--that he could make more in a week than ,i could in a year4 ,i was working at the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 for #hc a month1 and then not getting it1 and baseball managers were making me tempting offers of good money to go back into the game at #ejj to #a1jjj a month to finish the season4 ,but ,i wouldn't do it4 ,nobody called me a grafter then4 ',well1' ,i said to my friend1 'old man1 you may have more at the end of the year than ,i've got--maybe ,i won't have carfare--but ,i'll be ahead of you4' ,where is he now8 ,down at ,joliet1 where there is a big walled institution and where the stripes on your clothes run crossways4 ,a ,living ,testimony ,i had a friend who was a brilliant young fellow4 ,he covered the ,chino-,japanese war for a ,new ,york paper4 ,he was on his way home when he was shipwrecked1 and the captain and he were on an island living on roots for a week and then they signaled a steamer and got started home4 ,he got word from the ,new ,york ,tribune and they told him to go to ,frisco1 so he went1 and they told him to come across the arid country and write up the prospects of irrigation4 ,and as he walked across those plains1 he thought of how they would blossom if they were only irrigated4 ,then he thought of how his life was like that desert1 with nothing in it but waste4 ,he got to ,chicago and got a job on the ,times and lost it on account of drunkenness1 and couldn't get another on account of having no recommendation4 ,so he walked out one winter night and took his reporter's book1 addressed it to his father1 and wrote something like this3 ',i've made a miserable failure of this life4 ,i've disgraced you and sent mother to a premature grave4 ,if you care to look for me you'll find my body in the ,chicago ,river4' ,he tossed aside the book and it fell on the snow4 ,he leaped to the rail of the bridge1 but a policeman who had been watching him sprang and caught him4 ,he begged him to let him leap1 but the policeman wouldn't do it and got his story from him4 ,then the policeman said1 ',well1 ,i don't know whether you're stringing me or not1 but if half of what you say is true you can make a big thing out of life4 ,i'm not much on religion1 but ,i'll show you a place where they will keep you1' and he took him to the ,pacific ,garden ,mission at #ajj ,east ,van ,buren ,street1 which for #ac1jjj nights has had its doors open every night4 ,he went in and sat down by a bum4 ,he read some of the mottos1 like ',when did you write to mother last8' and they began to work on him and he asked the bum what graft they got out of this4 ,the bum flared right up and said there was no graft1 that ,mrs4 ,clark had just mortgaged her home for #c1jjj to pay back rent4 ,then he told him he could sleep right there and go down in the morning and get something to eat free1 and if he could not land a bed by next night he could come back to one of the benches4 ,then my friend got up and told him the story of ,jesus ,christ1 and the young man went down and accepted ,christ4 ,he was so full of gold bromide cures that he tingled when he talked and he jingled when he walked4 ,he started out to give his testimony and he was a marvelous power4 ,i met him some time later in an elevator in ,chicago1 and he was dressed to kill with a silk lid and a big diamond and the latest cut ,prince ,albert1 and he said1 ',bill1 that was a great day for me4 ,i started out with not enough clothes to make a tail for a kite or a pad for a crutch and now look at me4' ,he was secretary in the firm of ,morgan ,wright1 and was drawing #age a month4 ,he is an expert stenographer4 ,a newspaper in ,new ,york had written him to take an associate editorship1 but ,i told him not to do it1 to stay where he was and tell his story4 ,the next class in the ,university of ,experience which ,sunday entered was that of professional evangelistic work1 in association with ,rev4 ,j4 ,wilbur ,chapman1 ,d4,d41 the well-known ,presbyterian evangelist4 ,this invitation came after three years of service in the ,chicago ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,not yet to platform speaking as his chief task was ,sunday called4 ,far from it4 ,he was a sort of general roustabout for the evangelist4 ,his duties were multifarious4 ,he was advance agent1 going ahead to arrange meetings1 to organize choirs1 to help the local committee of arrangements with its advertising or other preparations1 and1 in general1 tying up all loose ends4 ,when tents were used he would help erect them with his own hands2 the fists that so sturdily beat pulpits today1 have often driven home tent pegs4 ,sunday sold the evangelist's song books and sermons at the meetings2 helped take up the collection1 and1 when need arose1 spoke from the platform4 ,the persons who wonder at the amazing efficiency for organization displayed by ,sunday overlook this unique apprenticeship to a distinguished evangelist4 ,he is a practical man in every aspect of evangelistic campaigns1 from organizing a local committee and building the auditorium1 to handling and training the converts who come forward4 ,the providence of all this is clear in retrospect3 but as for ,sunday himself1 he was being led by a way that he knew not4 ,,chapter ,,vi ,a ,shut ,door--and an ,open ,one ,faith is the beginning of something of which you can't see the end but in which you believe4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,destiny's door turns on small hinges4 ,almost everybody can say out of his own experience1 ,if ,i had done this1 instead of that1 the whole course of my life would have been changed4 ,at many points in the career of ,william ,a4 ,sunday we see what intrinsically small and unrelated incidents determined his future course in life4 ,if he had not been sitting on that ,chicago curbstone one evening1 and if the ,pacific ,garden ,mission workers had failed on that one occasion alone to go forth into the highways1 ,billy ,sunday might have been only one of the multitude of forgotten baseball players4 ,if he had not gone to prayer-meeting in his new church home he would not have met the wife who has been so largely a determining factor in his work4 ,if he had not joined the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 forces in ,chicago he would not have become ,peter ,bilhorn's friend and so ,dr4 ,chapman's assistant4 ,and--here we come to a very human story--if ,dr4 ,j4 ,wilbur ,chapman had not suddenly decided to abandon the evangelistic field and return to the pastorate of ,bethany ,presbyterian ,church in ,philadelphia1 ,sunday would doubtless still be unknown to the world as a great religious leader4 ,the story came to me from the lips of the evangelist himself one morning4 ,we were discussing certain current criticisms of his work and he showed himself frankly bewildered as well as pained by the hostility displayed toward him on the part of those up to whom he looked as leaders and counselors4 ,off the platform ,sunday is one of the most childlike and guileless of men4 ,he grew reminiscent and confidential as he said to me3 ,i don't see why they hammer me so4 ,i have just gone on1 as the ,lord opened the way1 trying to do his work4 ,i had no plan for this sort of thing4 ,it is all the ,lord's doings4 ,just look how it all began1 and how wonderfully the ,lord has cared for me4 ,i had given up my ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 work1 and was helping ,chapman1 doing all sorts of jobs--putting up tents1 straightening out chairs after the meetings and occasionally speaking4 ,then1 all of a sudden1 during the holidays of #ahie-if1 ,i had a telegram from ,chapman saying that our work was all off1 because he had decided to return to ,bethany ,church4 ,there ,i was1 out of work1 knowing not which way to turn4 ,i had a wife and two children to support4 ,i could not go back to baseball4 ,i had given up my ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 position4 ,i had no money4 ,what should ,i do8 ,i laid it before the ,lord1 and in a short while there came a telegram from a little town named ,garner1 out in ,iowa1 asking me to come out and conduct some meetings4 ,i didn't know anybody out there1 and ,i don't know yet why they ever asked me to hold meetings4 ,but ,i went4 ,i only had eight sermons1 so could not run more than ten days1 and that only by taking ,saturdays off4 ,that was the beginning of my independent work2 but from that day to this ,i have never had to seek a call to do evangelistic work4 ,i have just gone along1 entering the doors that the ,lord has opened one after another4 ,now ,i have about a hundred sermons and invitations for more than two years in advance4 ,i have tried to be true to the ,lord and to do just what he wants me to do4 ,that nave bit of autobiography reveals the real ,billy ,sunday4 ,he has gone forward as the doors have been providentially opened4 ,his career has not been shrewdly planned by himself4 ,nobody has been more surprised at his success than he4 ,of him may be recorded the lines that are inscribed on ,emerson's tombstone in ,sleepy ,hollow ,cemetery1 ,concord3 ,the passive master lent his hand ,to the vast ,soul that o'er him planned4 ,from ,garner1 ,iowa1 to ,philadelphia1 with its most eminent citizens on the committee of arrangements1 seems a far cry2 but the path is plainly one of ,providence4 ,sunday has added to his addresses gleanings from many sources1 but he has not abated the simplicity of his message4 ,the gospel he preaches today is that which he heard in the ,pacific ,garden ,rescue ,mission a quarter of a century ago4 ,in childlike faith1 this man of straight and unshaded thinking has gone forward to whatever work has offered itself4 ,nobody knows better than he that it is by no powers of his own that mighty results have been achieved3 ,this is the ,lord's doing2 it is marvelous in our eyes4 ,while the ,sunday meetings have swung a wide orbit they have centered in the ,middle ,west4 ,that typically ,american section of the country was quick to appreciate the evangelist's character and message4 ,he was of them1 bone of their bone1 flesh of their flesh1 mind of their mind4 ,when news of the triumphs of this evangelist's unconventionally-phrased gospel began to be carried over the country a few years ago1 the verdict of religious leaders was1 ,billy ,sunday may do for the ,middle ,west1 but the ,east will not stand him4 ,since then1 again1 to the confusion of human wisdom1 his most notable work has been achieved in the ,east1 in the great cities of ,pittsburgh and ,scranton2 and at this writing the city of ,philadelphia is in the midst of preparations for a ,sunday campaign2 while the ,baltimore churches have also invited him to conduct meetings with them4 ,billy ,sunday is now a national figure--and the foremost personality on the day's religious horizon4 ,a recent issue of ,the ,american ,magazine carried the results of a voting contest1 ,who's the ,greatest ,man in ,america4 ,only one other clergyman 7,bishop ,vincent1 of ,chautauqua7 was mentioned at all1 but ,billy ,sunday was tied with ,andrew ,carnegie and ,judge ,lindsey for eighth place4 ,to tell the stories of the ,sunday campaigns in detail would be needless repetition2 with occasional exceptions they continue to grow in scope and efficiency and results4 ,the record of independent campaigns extends over nearly twenty years1 and in that time the evangelist has gone on from strength to strength4 ,illustration3 ,,sunday ,,posing ,,in ,,front ,,of ,,tabernacle4 ,illustration3 ,,billy',s ,,smile4 ,illustration3 ,,sunday ,,and ,,his ,,youngest ,,son ,,paul4 ,illustration3 ,,mr4 ,,and ,,mrs4 ,,sunday ,,in ,a ,,revival ,,parade4 ,,chapter ,,vii ,campaigning for ,christ ,let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to ,christ4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,his ,american birthright of plain common sense stands ,sunday in stead of theological training4 ,he is a practical man1 as mechanics say4 ,kipling's poem on ,the ,american hits off ,sunday exactly3 ,he turns a keen1 untroubled face ,home to the instant need of things4 ,so a ,sunday evangelistic campaign is a marvel of organization4 ,it spells efficiency at every turn and is a lesson to the communities which do ,christian work in haphazard1 hit-or-miss fashion4 ,work and faith are written large over every series of ,sunday meetings4 ,sunday never took a course in psychology1 but he understands the crowd mind4 ,he knows how to deal with multitudes4 ,he sees clearly where the masses must come from1 and so he sets to work to bring them out of the homes of the working people4 ,he goes beyond the church circles for his congregations1 and makes his appeal to the popular taste4 ,he frankly aims to strike the average of the common people4 ,for he is after that host which too often the preacher knows nothing about4 ,people must be set to talking about religion and about the ,sunday campaign if the latter is to succeed4 ,indifference is the foe of all foes to be feared by an evangelist4 ,even hostile criticism really serves a religious purpose1 for it directs attention to the messenger and the message4 ,knowledge of this is the reason why ,sunday always devotes his earliest sermons in a campaign to the subjects likeliest to create comment4 ,these are the discourses that contain the largest proportion of startling views and language4 ,part of the task of a man who would move a city for ,christ is to consolidate ,christian sentiment and to create a ,church consciousness4 ,sunday is at great pains to get his own crowd behind him4 ,he evokes that loyalty which alone makes organized work and war effective4 ,so he insists that churches must unite before he will visit a city4 ,also he asks that they surrender their ,sunday services1 all uniting in common worship in the ,tabernacle4 ,for these campaigns are not ,billy ,sunday meetings3 they are an effort toward a revival of religion on the part of the united ,christian forces of a community4 ,if anybody thinks the evangelist disparages the ,church1 he need but recall the particular effort ,sunday makes to solidify the ,church folk3 that reveals his real estimate of the ,church4 ,he would no more attempt a revival without church co-operation than a general would besiege a city without an army4 ,this ,christian unity which he requires first of all is a sermon in itself4 ,before one has looked very deeply into the work of ,evangelist ,sunday he perceives that it is no new message the man speaks1 but that it is his modernization of language and of methods that makes possible the achieving of great results by the old ,gospel4 ,the preacher of a generation ago would have counted it indecorous to make use of the public press4 ,sunday depends largely upon the newspapers for spreading his message and promoting interest in the meetings4 ,he does not employ a press agent2 he simply extends to the local press all the facilities and co-operation in his power4 ,he is always accessible to the reporters and ever ready to assist in their work in any proper fashion4 ,he makes public announcements frequently in his meetings of the cordial assistance he has received from the newspapers4 ,without any expense to anybody and without any scientific experience in this particular field1 ,sunday has demonstrated the power of ,christian publicity4 ,the newspapers carry his messages all over the world4 ,the ,pittsburgh dailies published special ,sunday ,editions4 ,they had thousands of subscribers for the issues containing the evangelist's sermons and many persons have been converted by reading the newspaper accounts of the ,sunday meetings4 ,one cherished story tells of a young man in ,china who had been converted thirteen thousand miles away from the spot where the evangelist was speaking4 ,sunday makes religion live news4 ,editors are glad to have copy about him and his work1 and about anything that pertains to the campaigns4 ,the uniform experience of the communities he has visited is that the ,church has had more publicity through his visit than on any other occasion4 ,after ,sunday has accepted a city's invitation and a date has been fixed for the meetings1 and the time has drawn near1 he gets the ,church people to organize4 ,before ever a hammer has struck a blow in the building of the ,sunday ,tabernacle1 the people have been meeting daily in the homes of the city for concerted prayer for the ,divine favor upon the campaign4 ,by the ,sunday system of work1 every few blocks in the city is made a center for cottage prayer-meetings4 ,no politician ever divided a community more carefully than do the ,sunday workers in arranging for these prayer-meetings4 ,every section of the city is covered and every block and street4 ,by preference1 the meetings are held in the homes of the unconverted1 and it is a normal experience for conversions to be reported before ever the evangelist arrives4 ,in ,scranton the city was divided into nine districts besides the suburbs and these districts were again sub-divided so that one had as many as eighty-four prayer groups4 ,the total proportions of this kind of work are illustrated by the ,pittsburgh figures3 ,between ,december #b and ,december #bf1 #d1acg prayer meetings in private houses were held1 having a combined attendance of #fh1cfj persons4 ,the following table covers eight meetings1 as follows3 ,no4 of ,attendance ,prayers ,men ,women ,meetings ,december #b #efb #h1cid #c1cfb #a1feh #f1gcf ,december #e #egi #h1iji #c1ffg #a1ica #f1igh ,december #i #ehf #aj1ffg #d1bga #b1bba #h1ddf ,december #ab #daj #f1ecb #b1gec #a1daj #e1abb ,december #af #gje #af1beg #e1ehh #c1dci #ab1fag ,december #ai #eij #h1ehj #d1fjb #b1jbg #f1eec ,december #bc #cih #f1jad #b1cdg #b1cha #c1fcc ,december #bf #cjg #e1chh #a1ihc #a1agi #d1bji ,when tens of thousands of earnest ,christians are meeting constantly for united prayer a spirit of expectancy and unity is created which makes sure the success of the revival4 ,incidentally1 there is a welding together of ,christian forces that will abide long after the evangelist has gone4 ,these preliminary prayer-meetings are a revelation of the tremendous possibilities inherent in the churches of any community4 ,with such a sea of prayer buoying him up any preacher could have a revival4 ,sagaciously1 ,sunday throws all responsibility back on the churches4 ,while he takes command of the ship when he arrives1 yet he does all in his power to prevent the campaign from being a one-man affair4 ,the local committee must underwrite the expenses2 for these campaigns are not to be financed by the gifts of the wealthy1 but by the rank and file of the church membership accepting responsibility of the work4 ,the guarantees are underwritten in the form of shares and each guarantor receives a receipt for his shares to be preserved as a memento of the campaign4 ,true1 no guarantor ever had to pay a dollar on his ,billy ,sunday campaign subscription1 for the evangelist himself raises all of the expense money in the early meetings of the series4 ,john the ,baptist was only a voice3 but ,billy ,sunday is a voice1 plus a bewildering array of committees and assistants and organized machinery4 ,he has committees galore to co-operate in his work3 a drilled army of the ,lord4 ,in the list of ,scranton workers that is before me ,i see tabulated an executive committee1 the directors1 a prayer-meeting committee1 an entertainment committee1 an usher committee1 a dinner committee1 a business women's committee1 a building committee1 a nursery committee1 a personal workers' committee1 a decorating committee1 a shop-meetings committee--and then a whole list of churches and religious organizations in the city as ex-officio workers6 ,wherever he goes ,sunday erects a special tabernacle for his meetings4 ,there are many reasons for this4 ,the very building of a tabernacle dedicated to this one special use helps create an interest in the campaign as something new come to town4 ,but1 primarily1 the evangelist's purposes are practical4 ,in the first place1 everything has to be on the ground floor4 ,converts cannot come forward from a gallery4 ,in addition1 existing big buildings rarely have proper acoustics4 ,most of all ,sunday1 who has a dread of panics or accidents happening in connection with his meetings1 stresses the point that in his tabernacle people have their feet on the ground4 ,there is nothing to give way with them4 ,the sawdust and tan bark is warm1 dustless1 sanitary1 fireproof and noiseless4 ,when a crowd gets to walking on a wooden floor1 said ,sunday--and then he made a motion of sheer disgust that shows how sensitive he is to any sort of disturbance--it's the limit4 ,one of his idiosyncrasies is that he must have a perfectly still audience4 ,he will stop in the midst of a sermon to let a single person walk down the aisle4 ,when auditors start coughing he stops preaching4 ,he never lets his crowd get for an instant out of hand4 ,the result is that there probably never were so many persons gathered together in one building at one time in such uniform quietness4 ,the possibilities of panic in a massed multitude of thousands are best understood by those who have had most to do with crowds4 ,sunday's watchfulness against this marks the shrewd ,american caution of the man4 ,his tabernacles1 no matter whether they seat five1 eight1 ten1 fifteen1 or twenty thousand persons1 are all built under the direction of his own helper1 who has traveled with him for years4 ,he knows that nothing will break down1 or go askew4 ,his tabernacles are fairly panic-proof4 ,thus every aisle1 lengthwise and crosswise1 ends in a door4 ,so careful is he of the emergency that might arise for a quick exit that no board in the whole tabernacle is fastened with more than two nails2 so that one could put his foot through the side of the wall if there was need to get out hurriedly4 ,describing the building of the choir platform ,sunday says1 with a grim shutting of his jaws3 ,you could run a locomotive over it and never faze it4 ,his own platform1 on which he does amazing gymnastic stunts at every meeting1 is made to withstand all shocks4 ,about the walls of the tabernacle are fire extinguishers1 and a squad of firemen and policemen are on duty with every audience4 ,there is nothing about a ,sunday tabernacle to suggest a cathedral4 ,it is a big turtle-back barn of raw1 unfinished timber1 but it has been constructed for its special purpose1 and every mechanical device is used to assist the speaker's voice4 ,sunday can make twenty-five thousand persons hear perfectly in one of his big tabernacles4 ,a huge sounding board1 more useful than beautiful1 hangs like an inverted sugar scoop over the evangelist's platform4 ,behind the platform is the post office1 to which the names of converts are sent for the city pastors every day2 and here also are the telephones for the use of the press4 ,adjoining the tabernacle is a nursery for babies1 and an emergency hospital with a nurse in attendance4 ,it seems as if no detail of efficient service has been overlooked by this practical westerner4 ,so well organized is everything that the collection can be taken in an audience of eight thousand persons within three minutes4 ,while touching upon collections1 this is as good a place as any to raise the point of ,mr4 ,sunday's own compensation4 ,he receives a free-will offering made on the last day4 ,the offerings taken in the early weeks are to meet the expenses of the local committee4 ,mr4 ,sunday has nothing to do with this4 ,this committee also pays approximately half of the expenses of his staff of workers1 and it also provides a home for the ,sunday party during their sojourn4 ,mr4 ,sunday himself pays the balance of the expenses of his workers out of the free-will offering which he receives on the last day4 ,these gifts have reached large figures--forty-four thousand dollars in the ,pittsburgh campaign4 ,there is a quality in human nature which will not associate money with religion1 and while we hear nobody grumble at a city's paying thousands of dollars a night for a grand opera performance2 yet an evangelist who has sweetened up an entire city1 lessened the police expense1 promoted the general happiness and redeemed hundreds of thousands of lives from open sin to godliness1 is accused of mercenariness1 because those whom he has served give him a lavish offering as he departs4 ,although much criticized on the subject of money1 ,mr4 ,sunday steadfastly refuses to make answer to these strictures or to render an accounting1 insisting that this is entirely a personal matter with him4 ,nobody who knows him doubts his personal generosity or his sense of stewardship4 ,intimate friends say that he tithes his income4 ,three important departments of the ,sunday organization are the choir1 the ushers1 and the personal-work secretaries4 ,concerning the first more will be said in a later chapter4 ,the ushers are by no means ornamental functionaries4 ,they are a drilled regiment1 each with his station of duty and all disciplined to meet any emergency that may arise4 ,in addition to seating the people and taking the collection1 they have the difficult task of assisting the officers to keep out the overflow crowds who try to press into the building that has been filled to its legal capacity4 ,for it is quite a normal condition in the ,sunday campaigns for thousands of persons to try to crowd their way into the tabernacle after the latter is full4 ,sometimes it takes foot-ball tactics to keep them out4 ,without the assistance of the personal-work secretaries the rush forward when the invitation is extended would mean a frantic mob4 ,the recruits have to be formed into line and directed to the pulpit where they take ,mr4 ,sunday's hand4 ,then they must be guided into the front benches and the name and address and church preference of each secured4 ,while the invitation is being given personal workers all over the building are busy gathering converts4 ,the magnitude of the ,sunday evangelistic meetings in their results is revealed by the necessity for systematically handling the converts as vividly as by any other one factor4 ,the tabernacle by no means houses all of the ,sunday campaign4 ,there are noon shop meetings1 there are noon meetings for business women and luncheon meetings1 there are services in the schools1 in the jails1 in the hospitals1 and there are special afternoon parlor meetings where social leaders hear the same message that is given to the men of the street4 ,in a phrase1 the entire community is combed by personal activity in order to reach everybody with the ,sunday evangelistic invitation4 ,the personnel of the ,sunday party has varied during the years4 ,the first assistant was ,fred ,g4 ,fischer1 a soloist and choir leader who continued with the evangelist for eight years4 ,at present the staff numbers about a dozen workers4 ,among past and present helpers have been ,homer ,a4 ,rodeheaver1 the chorister2 ,charles ,butler1 the soloist2 ,elijah ,j4 ,brown 7,ram's ,horn ,brown72 ,fred4 ,r4 ,seibert1 an ex-cowboy and a graduate of the ,moody ,school1 who is the handy man of the tabernacle2 ,miss ,frances ,miller1 ,miss ,grace ,saxe1 ,miss ,anna ,mac,laren1 ,mrs4 ,rae ,muirhead1 ,rev4 ,l4 ,k4 ,peacock1 ,b4 ,d4 ,ackley1 ,albert ,g4 ,gill1 ,joseph ,seipe1 the builder1 ,mrs4 and ,mr4 ,asher and ,rev4 ,i4 ,e4 ,honeywell4 ,as the magnitude of the work increases this force is steadily augmented1 so that the evangelist must not only be a prophet but a captain of industry4 ,the ,sunday ,campaign clearly reveals that as ,kipling's old engineer1 ,mc,andrew1 says1 ,ye'll understand1 a man must think o' things4 ,illustration3 ,,burning ,,words ,,of ,,mr4 ,,sunday ,,that ,,reach ,,the ,,heart4 ,,chapter ,,viii ,speech--,seasoned with ,salt ,i want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,sunday is not a shepherd1 but a soldier2 not a husbandman of a vineyard1 but a quarryman4 ,the rle he fills more nearly approximates that of the ,baptist1 or one of the ,old ,testament prophets1 than any other ,bible character4 ,the word of the ,lord that has come to him is not ,comfort ye6 comfort ye6 but ,arouse ye6 arouse ye6 and ,repent6 repent6 ,evangelist ,sunday's mission is not conventional1 nor may it be judged by conventional standards4 ,he is not a pastor2 probably he would be a failure in the pastorate4 ,neither would any sensible person expect pastors to resemble ,billy ,sunday2 for that1 too1 would be a calamity4 ,taking a reasonable view of the case1 what do we find8 ,here is a man whose clear work it is to attract the attention of the heedless to the claims of the gospel1 to awaken a somnolent ,church1 and to call men to repentance4 ,to do this a man must be sensational1 just as ,john the ,baptist was sensational--not to mention that ,greater ,one who drew the multitudes by his wonderful works and by his unconventional speech4 ,in the time of ,jesus1 as now1 religion had become embalmed in petrified phrases4 ,the forms of religious speech were set4 ,but ,christ's talk was not different from every-day speech4 ,the language of spirituality1 which once represented great living verities1 had become so conventionalized that it slipped easily into cant and shop talk4 ,it is a fact which we scarcely like to admit that myriads of persons who attend church regularly do not expect really to understand what the preacher is talking about4 ,they admire his zeal or unction1 but as for understanding him as clearly and definitely as they understand a neighbor talking over the back fence--that is not to be thought of4 ,when ,god called this man whom the common people should hear gladly1 he took him straight out of the walks of common life with no other vocabulary than that of ordinary folks4 ,we ,americans use the most vivid language of any people4 ,our words are alive1 new ones being born every hour4 ,slang we call these word pictures1 and bar them from polite speech until the crowbar of custom has jimmied a way for them into the dictionary4 ,and the most productive slang factory of our time is the realm of sports in which ,sunday was trained4 ,so he talks religion as he talked baseball4 ,his words smack of the street corners1 the shop1 the athletic field1 the crowd of men4 ,that this speech is loose1 extravagant and undignified may be freely granted3 but it is understandable4 ,any kind of a fair play that will get the runners to the home plate is good baseball2 and any speech that will puncture the shell of human nature's complacency and indifference to religion is good preaching4 ,neither ,john the ,baptist nor ,jesus was dignified1 and highly correct ,pharisees despised them as vulgarians2 but the common people heard him gladly4 ,with such examples before him on one side1 and a ,church waterlogged with dignity on the other1 ,sunday has gone the limit in popularized speech4 ,perhaps he is not as polite as is professionally proper for a preacher4 ,he seems to have recovered some of the prophet's lost art of denunciation4 ,he dares call sin by its proper name4 ,he excoriates the hypocrite4 ,he cares not for feelings of the unfaithful preacher or of the double-living church member4 ,as for the devil and all his lieutenants1 ,sunday has for them a sizzling1 blistering vocabulary that helps men to loathe sin and all its advocates4 ,his uncompromising attitude is shown by this gem1 culled from one of his sermons3 ,they say to me1 ',bill1 you rub the fur the wrong way4' ,i don't2 let the cats turn 'round4 ,again1 ,it isn't a good thing to have synonyms for sin4 ,adultery is adultery1 even though you call it affinity4 ,again1 ,paul said he would rather speak five words that were understood than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue4 ,that hits me4 ,i want people to know what ,i mean1 and that's why ,i try to get down where they live4 ,what do ,i care if some puff-eyed1 dainty little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because ,i use plain ,anglo-,saxon words4 ,two important points are to be considered in connection with ,sunday's vigorous vocabulary2 the first is that what he says does not sound as bad as it seems in cold type4 ,often he is incorrectly reported4 ,the constant contention of his friends is that he should be heard before being criticized4 ,the volume of testimony of all the men who have heard him--preachers1 professors and purists--is that his addresses which seem shocking when reported are not shocking when heard4 ,on the public square in ,scranton a great sign was displayed by the local committee3 ------------------------------------ ,,be ,,fair6 ,,don',t ,,judge ,,billy ,,sunday ,,until ,,you ,,have ,,heard ,,him ,,yourself4 ,,no ,,report1 ,,verbal ,,or ,,printed1 ,,can ,,do ,,him ,,perfect ,,justice4 ------------------------------------ ,one ,scranton business man put it this way3 ,type is cold2 his sermons are hot4 ,sunday speaks with his eyes1 with his gestures and with every muscle of his body2 and all this must be taken into account in weighing his words4 ,assuredly his message in its totality does not shock anybody4 ,that is why preachers sit through his arraignment of a deficient church and ministry and applaud him4 ,they find in his severest utterances a substantial volume of undoubted truth4 ,the second point is that the most vigorous speech is used earliest in an evangelistic campaign4 ,that is one way of stirring up the ,church1 and of attracting attention to the meetings4 ,sunday goads ,christians to an interest4 ,apparently he purposely speaks to arouse resentment1 if no other form of interest is awakened in his hearers4 ,the latter part of a ,sunday campaign is singularly free from his denunciations1 from his invective and from his slang4 ,there is a clear method in his procedure1 which is always followed in about the same course4 ,sunday would be the last man to expect everybody to approve all that he says1 either in form or in substance4 ,i don't2 and ,i know no other thinking observer of his meetings who does4 ,no more do ,i expect him to approve all that is said in this book4 ,nevertheless1 there remains the unanswerable rejoinder to all criticism of ,evangelist ,sunday's utterances and message3 he delivers the goods4 ,he does arouse communities to an interest in religion as no other preacher of our generation4 ,he helps people get right with ,god4 ,his campaigns promote righteousness1 diminish wickedness and strengthen the ,church4 ,as samples of the pungent sort of speech with which ,sunday's discourses are flavored ,i have selected these shakings from his salt-cellar3 ,live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper4 ,you can find anything in the average church today1 from a humming bird to a turkey buzzard4 ,the ,lord is not compelled to use theologians4 ,he can take snakes1 sticks or anything else1 and use them for the advancement of his cause4 ,the ,lord may have to pile a coffin on your back before he can get you to bend it4 ,don't throw your ticket away when the train goes into a tunnel4 ,it will come out the other side4 ,the safest pilot is not the fellow that wears the biggest hat1 but the man who knows the channels4 ,if a man goes to hell he ought to be there1 or he wouldn't be there4 ,i am preaching for the age in which ,i live4 ,i am just recasting my vocabulary to suit the people of my age instead of ,joshua's age4 ,the ,church gives the people what they need2 the theater gives them what they want4 ,death-bed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil1 and then blowing the smoke into the face of ,god4 ,your reputation is what people say about you4 ,your character is what ,god and your wife know about you4 ,when your heart is breaking you don't want the dancing master or saloon-keeper4 ,no1 you want the preacher4 ,don't you know that every bad man in a community strengthens the devil's mortgage8 ,pilate washed his hands4 ,if he had washed his old black heart he would have been all right4 ,it takes a big man to see other people succeed without raising a howl4 ,it's everybody's business how you live4 ,bring your repentance down to a spot-cash basis4 ,i believe that cards and dancing are doing more to dam the spiritual life of the ,church than the grog-shops--though you can't accuse me of being a friend of that stinking1 dirty1 rotten1 hell-soaked business4 ,if you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually1 you'd be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually4 ,we place too much reliance upon preaching and upon singing1 and too little on the living of those who sit in the pews4 ,the carpet in front of the mirrors of some of you people is worn threadbare1 while at the side of your bed where you should kneel in prayer it is as good as the day you put it down4 ,some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious4 ,look into the preaching ,jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats4 ,if you live wrong you can't die right4 ,you are weighed in the balance--but not by ,bradstreet's or ,dun's--you are weighed in ,god's balance4 ,a revival gives the ,church a little digitalis instead of an opiate4 ,it isn't the sawdust trail that brings you to ,christ1 it's the ,christ that is in the trail1 the ,christ that is in your public confession of sins4 ,some sermons instead of being a bugle call for service1 are nothing more than showers of spiritual cocaine4 ,theology bears the same relation to ,christianity that botany does to flowers4 ,morality isn't the light2 it is only the polish on the candlestick4 ,some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano4 ,churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over4 ,god's work is too often side-tracked1 while social1 business and domestic arrangements are thundering through on the main line4 ,a lot of people1 from the way they live1 make you think they've got a ticket to heaven on a ,pullman parlor car and have ordered the porter to wake 'em up when they get there4 ,but they'll get side-tracked almost before they've started4 ,i believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names4 ,the bars of the ,church are so low that any old hog with two or three suits of clothes and a bank roll can crawl through4 ,you will not have power until there is nothing questionable in your life4 ,you can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps4 ,the social life is the reflex of the home life4 ,there are some so-called ,christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor1 or poison within the child's reach4 ,home is the place we love best and grumble the most4 ,i don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother4 ,to train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself4 ,the man who lives for himself alone will be the sole mourner at his own funeral4 ,don't try to cover up the cussedness of your life1 but get fixed up4 ,wrong company soon makes everything else wrong4 ,an angel would never be able to get back to heaven again if he came down here for a week and put in his time going with company that some church members would consider good4 ,the devil often grinds the axe with which ,god hews4 ,i wish the ,church were as afraid of imperfection as it is of perfection4 ,whisky is all right in its place--but its place is in hell4 ,a pup barks more than an old dog4 ,character needs no epitaph4 ,you can bury the man1 but character will beat the hearse back from the graveyard and it will travel up and down the streets while you are under the sod4 ,it will bless or blight long after your name is forgotten4 ,some people pray like a jack-rabbit eating cabbage4 ,if you put a polecat in the parlor you know which will change first--the polecat or the parlor8 ,a church is not dropped down on a street corner to decorate the corner and be the property of a certain denomination4 ,many preachers are like a physician--strong on diagnosis1 but weak on therapeutics4 ,your religion is in your will1 not in your handkerchief4 ,it won't save your soul if your wife is a ,christian4 ,you have got to be something more than a brother-in-law to the ,church4 ,if every black cloud had a cyclone in it1 the world would have been blown into toothpicks long ago4 ,no man has any business to be in a bad business4 ,when you quit living like the devil ,i will quit preaching that way4 ,you can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope4 ,it lies deeper than that4 ,the seventh commandment is not3 ,thou shalt not commit affinity4 ,a saloon-keeper and a good mother don't pull on the same rope4 ,the presumptive husband should be able to show more than the price of a marriage license4 ,put the kicking straps on the old ,adam1 feed the angel in you1 and starve the devil4 ,when a baby is born1 what do you do with it8 ,put it in a refrigerator8 ,that's a good place for a dead chicken1 and cold meat1 but a poor place for babies4 ,then don't put these new converts1 'babes in ,christ1' into refrigerator churches4 ,illustration3 ,i',,ll ,,fight ,,till ,,hell ,,freezes ,,over4 ,nobody can read the ,bible thoughtfully1 and not be impressed with the way it upholds the manhood of man4 ,more chapters in the ,bible are devoted to portraying the manhood of ,caleb than to the creation of the world4 ,home is on a level with the women2 the town is on a level with the homes4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,saloon-,,keeper ,,and ,a ,,good ,,mother ,,don',t ,,pull ,,on ,,the ,,same ,,rope ,you will find lots of things in ,shakespeare which are not fit for reading in a mixed audience and call that literature4 ,when you hear some truths here in the tabernacle you will call it vulgar4 ,it makes all the difference in the world whether ,bill ,shakespeare or ,bill ,sunday said it4 ,the more oyster soup it takes to run a church1 the faster it runs to the devil4 ,the reason you don't like the ,bible1 you old sinner1 is because it knows all about you4 ,bob ,ingersoll wasn't the first to find out that ,moses made mistakes4 ,god knew about it long before ,ingersoll was born4 ,all that ,god has ever done to save this old world1 has been done through men and women of flesh and blood like ourselves4 ,nearly everybody is stuck up about something4 ,some people are even proud that they aren't proud4 ,the average young man is more careful of his company than the average girl4 ,going to church doesn't make a man a ,christian1 any more than going to a garage makes him an automobile4 ,if we people were able to have panes of glass over our hearts1 some of us would want stained glass1 wouldn't we8 ,to see some people1 you would think that the essential orthodox ,christianity is to have a face so long they could eat oatmeal out of the end of a gas pipe4 ,god likes a little humor1 as is evidenced by the fact that he made the monkey1 the parrot--and some of you people4 ,wouldn't this city be a great place to live in if some people would die1 get converted1 or move away8 ,the normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards--to put the business that makes drunkards out of business4 ,you can't shine for ,god on ,sunday1 and then be a ,london fog on ,monday4 ,i don't believe that ,god wants any man to be a hermit4 ,jesus ,christ did not wear a hair shirt and sleep upon a bed of spikes4 ,he went among the people and preached the ,gospel4 ,if you only believe things that you can understand you must be an awful ignoramus4 ,there is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter4 ,i have no doubt that there are men looking into my face tonight who will have #aiad carved on their tombstones4 ,if ,god had no more interest in this world than some of you church members have in ,johnstown1 this city would have been in hell long ago4 ,i hate to see a man roll up to church in a limousine and then drop a quarter in the collection plate4 ,give your face to ,god and he will put his shine on it4 ,no fountain under the sun can hold enough to satisfy an immortal spirit4 ,jesus ,christ came among the common people4 ,abraham ,lincoln said that ,god must have loved the common people3 he made so many of them4 ,yank some of the groans out of your prayers1 and shove in some shouts4 ,the ,bible says forgive your debtors2 the world says sue them for their dough4 ,the race will appear as far above us as we are above the harem when godly girls marry godly men4 ,it is impossible for a saloon-keeper to enjoy a good red-hot prayer-meeting4 ,i'm no spiritual masseur or osteopath4 ,i'm a surgeon1 and ,i cut deep4 ,a prudent man won't swallow a potato bug1 and then take ,paris green to kill it4 ,if you want milk and honey on your bread1 you'll have to go into the land where there are giants4 ,there is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing4 ,god pays a good mother4 ,mothers1 get your names on ,god's pay-roll4 ,the man who can drive a hog and keep his religion will stand without hitching4 ,the right preaching of the ,gospel will never hurt anything good4 ,if you would have your children turn out well1 don't turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house4 ,man was a fool in the ,garden of ,eden1 and he has taken a good many new degrees since4 ,the backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house1 while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees4 ,there would be more power in the prayers of some folks if they would put more white money in the collection basket4 ,what have you given the world it never possessed before you came8 ,temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole4 ,yielding is opening the door and inviting him in4 ,,chapter ,,ix ,battling with ,booze ,the man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil1 whether he knows it or not4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,there is a tremendous military advantage in having a definite enemy4 ,the sermons that are aimed at nothing generally hit it4 ,billy ,sunday is happiest and most successful when attacking the liquor evil4 ,down among the masses of men he learned for himself the awful malignity of strong drink1 which he deems the greatest evil of our day4 ,so he fights it4 ,everybody will admit--the saloon-keeper first of all--that ,billy ,sunday is the most effective foe of the liquor business in ,america today4 ,small wonder the brewers spend large sums of money in circulating attacks upon him1 and in going before him to every town where he conducts meetings1 spreading slanders of many sorts4 ,there is a ghastly humor in the success the brewers have in enlisting the preachers to make common cause with them in discrediting this evangelist4 ,shrewd men have come quite generally to the conclusion that they will not give aid and comfort to the enemies of righteousness whose interests are best served by criticism of ,billy ,sunday4 ,all incidental questions aside1 ,sunday does the ,lord's work and is on the ,lord's side4 ,it is a pitiable spectacle to see the ,lord's servants attacking him2 though it is quite understandable why the liquor interest should spend large sums of money in antagonizing ,sunday4 ,it would be worth a million dollars to them any day if he could be put out of action4 ,wherever ,sunday goes a great temperance awakening follows4 ,in eleven of fifteen ,illinois towns where he campaigned dry victories were won at the next election4 ,fifteen hundred saloons were put out of business in a single day in ,illinois1 largely as the result of his work4 ,with characteristic indifference to figures and tabulated results1 ,sunday has kept no record of the communities which have gone dry following his meetings4 ,that consequence is common4 ,his recent presence in ,pennsylvania is the surest token that the ,keystone ,state will not much longer be the boasted ,gibraltar of the liquor interests4 ,even up in ,pennsylvania's coal regions1 with their large foreign population1 many communities are going dry1 while individual saloons are being starved out4 ,within about a year of ,sunday's visit there1 the number of saloons was reduced by more than two hundred4 ,so intense is ,sunday's zest for temperance that he will go anywhere possible to deliver a blow against the saloon4 ,he has toured ,illinois and ,west ,virginia in special trains1 campaigning for temperance4 ,during the ,sunday campaign in ,johnstown ten thousand men in a meeting organized themselves into a ,billy ,sunday ,anti-,saloon ,league4 ,in ,iowa literally scores of towns and counties are reported as having gone dry as a direct result of the ,sunday meetings4 ,muscatine1 ,ottumwa1 ,marshalltown1 ,linwood and ,centerville are communities in point4 ,thirteen out of fifteen towns in ,illinois visited by ,sunday voted out the saloon4 ,west ,virginia's temperance leaders utilized ,sunday in a whirlwind campaign through the state4 ,he spoke in ten towns in five days1 traveling from point to point in a special car4 ,it is now history that ,west ,virginia went dry by ninety thousand majority4 ,his latest work in the ,west has been timed to precede elections where the temperance question was an issue4 ,next to his passion for the conversion of men and women is this consuming antagonism to rum4 ,more important than his own valiant blows against the saloon is the fact that ,sunday makes enemies for the liquor business4 ,practically all of his converts and friends become enthusiastic temperance workers4 ,in western ,pennsylvania he converted practical machine politicians to the old time ,gospel and to the temperance cause4 ,every campaign is full of incidents like that of the blacksmith1 a part of whose business came from a large brewery4 ,when this man became a ,sunday convert and a temperance fanatic1 as they termed him1 the brewers' business was withdrawn4 ,but the loyalty which ,sunday infuses into his followers1 rallied to the man's help1 and such a volume of ,christian business was turned his way that his conversion and the loss of the brewery trade turned out to his profit4 ,in the ,outlook of ,august #h1 #aiad1 ,lewis ,edwin ,theiss introduces a powerful article1 ,industry versus ,alcohol1 with this ,billy ,sunday story3 ,we were discussing ,billy ,sunday and the economic effect of his work4 ',the vice-president of the ,c---- ,iron ,works told me1' said a manufacturer of railway cars1 'that his company could have afforded to pay its employees a quarter of a million dollars more than their wages during the period that ,billy ,sunday was working among them4' ',the corporation concerned is one of the great steel companies of the country4 ,it employs thousands of men4 ',why was that8' ,i asked4 ',because of the increased efficiency of the men4 ,they were steadier4 ,accidents decreased remarkably4 ,they produced enough extra steel to make their work worth the quarter million additional4' ',it is interesting to find that religion has such an effect on every-day life1' ,i observed4 ',religion as such had little to do with it1' replied the car-maker1 'except that it started it4 ,the thing that made those men efficient was cutting out the drink4 ,billy ,sunday got them all on the water wagon4 ,they became sober and stayed sober4 ,they could run their machines with steady hands and true eyes4 ,the men themselves realize what a difference it makes4 ,they are strong for prohibition4 ,if the people of ,pittsburgh and its vicinity could vote on the temperance question today1 the saloons would be wiped out there4' ',the manufacturers are strong for prohibition1 too4 ,they never gave much thought to the matter before4 ,but this demonstration of ,billy ,sunday's has made us all strong for prohibition4 ,we know now that most of our accidents are due to whisky4 ,for years we have been trying to find a way to secure a high degree of efficiency among our men4 ,we never succeeded4 ,along comes this preacher and accomplishes more in a few weeks than we have ever been able to do4 ',we know now that until booze is banished we can never have really efficient workmen4 ,we're fools if we don't profit by what he has shown us4 ,take it from me1 booze has got to go4 ,we are not much interested in the moral side of the matter as such4 ,it is purely a matter of dollars and cents4 ,they say corporations have no souls4 ,from this time forth corporations are going to show mighty little soul toward the man who drinks4' ,a great parade of men marks the close of a ,sunday campaign4 ,in ,scranton the line of march was broken into by a brewer's wagon4 ,the driver was not content with trying to break the line of parade1 but he also hurled offensive epithets at ,sunday and his converts4 ,perhaps passive endurance was the virtue called for on this occasion2 but it was certainly not the virtue practiced4 ,for those husky mill workers stepped out of line for a moment1 bodily overturned the brewer's wagon1 and sent the beer kegs rolling in the street1 all to the tune of the ,sunday war song1 ,de ,brewer's ,big ,horses ,can't ,run ,over ,me4 ,illustration3 ,de ,brewer's ,big ,hosses4 7,,solo ,,and ,,chorus47 ,h4 ,s4 ,taylor4 ,j4 ,b4 ,herbert4 ,this song1 written by ,h4 ,s4 ,taylor1 is the most popular one in the ,sunday campaign4 ,it is by no means a hymn of worship1 but rather a battle-cry4 ,when thousands of men lift their voices in this militant refrain1 with whistles blowing and bells ringing in the chorus1 the effect is fairly thrilling4 ,words and music are beneath the consideration of the scholarly musician2 but they strike the common mind of the ,american who wants a battle hymn4 ,,de ,,brewer',s ,,big ,,hosses4,a ,oh1 de ,brewer's big hosses1 comin' down de road1 ,totin' all around ole ,lucifer's load2 ,dey step so high1 an' dey step so free1 ,but dem big hosses can't run over me4 ,,chorus4 ,oh1 no6 boys1 oh1 no6 ,de turnpike's free wherebber ,i go1 ,i'm a temperance ingine1 don't you see1 ,and de ,brewer's big hosses can't run over me4 ,oh1 de licker men's actin' like dey own dis place1 ,livin' on de sweat ob de po' man's face1 ,dey's fat and sassy as dey can be1 ,but dem big hosses can't run over me4--,,cho4 ,oh1 ,i'll harness dem hosses to de temp'rance cart1 ,hit 'em wid a gad to gib 'em a start1 ,i'll teach 'em how for to haw and gee1 ,for dem big hosses can't run over me4--,,cho4 ,sunday is the ,peter the ,hermit of the temperance crusade4 ,he inflames men's passions for this righteous war4 ,most critics call his sermon on booze his greatest achievement4 ,he treats the theme from all angles--economic1 social1 human1 and religious4 ,when he puts a row of boys up on the platform and offers them as one day's contribution to the saloon's grist of manhood which must be maintained1 the result is electric2 all the militant manhood of the men before him is urged to action4 ,a ,reproduced by permission4 ,copyright1 #ahhg1 by ,fillmore ,bros4 ,homer ,a4 ,rodeheaver owner4 ,international copyright secured4 ,,the ,,famous ,,booze ,,sermon ,here we have one of the strangest scenes in all the ,gospels4 ,two men1 possessed of devils1 confront ,jesus1 and while the devils are crying out for ,jesus to leave them1 he commands the devils to come out1 and the devils obey the command of ,jesus4 ,the devils ask permission to enter into a herd of swine feeding on the hillside4 ,this is the only record we have of ,jesus ever granting the petition of devils1 and he did it for the salvation of men4 ,then the fellows that kept the hogs went back to town and told the peanut-brained1 weasel-eyed1 hog-jowled1 beetle-browed1 bull-necked lobsters that owned the hogs1 that a long-haired fanatic from ,nazareth1 named ,jesus1 has driven the devils out of some men and the devils have gone into the hogs1 and the hogs into the sea1 and the sea into the hogs1 and the whole bunch is dead4 ,and then the fat1 fussy old fellows came out to see ,jesus and said that he was hurting their business4 ,a fellow says to me1 ,i don't think ,jesus ,christ did a nice thing4 ,you don't know what you are talking about4 ,down in ,nashville1 ,tennessee1 ,i saw four wagons going down the street1 and they were loaded with stills1 and kettles1 and pipes4 ,what's this8 ,i said4 ,united ,states revenue officers1 and they have been in the moonshine district and confiscated the illicit stills1 and they are taking them down to the government scrap heap4 ,jesus ,christ was ,god's revenue officer4 ,now the ,jews were forbidden to eat pork1 but ,jesus ,christ came and found that crowd buying and selling and dealing in pork1 and confiscated the whole business1 and he kept within the limits of the law when he did it4 ,then the fellows ran back to those who owned the hogs to tell what had befallen them and those hog-owners said to ,jesus3 ,take your helpers and hike4 ,you are hurting our business4 ,and they looked into the sea and the hogs were bottom side up1 but ,jesus said1 ,what is the matter8 ,and they answered1 ,leave our hogs and go4 ,a fellow says it is rather a strange request for the devils to make1 to ask permission to enter into hogs4 ,i don't know--if ,i was a devil ,i would rather live in a good1 decent hog than in lots of men4 ,if you will drive the hog out you won't have to carry slop to him1 so ,i will try to help you get rid of the hog4 ,and they told ,jesus to leave the country4 ,they said3 ,you are hurting our business4 ,interest in ,manhood ,have you no interest in manhood8 ,we have no interest in that2 just take your disciples and leave1 for you are hurting our business4 ,that is the attitude of the liquor traffic toward the ,church1 and ,state1 and ,government1 and the preacher that has the backbone to fight the most damnable1 corrupt institution that ever wriggled out of hell and fastened itself on the public4 ,i am a temperance ,republican down to my toes4 ,who is the man that fights the whisky business in the ,south8 ,it is the ,democrats6 ,they have driven the business from ,kansas1 they have driven it from ,georgia1 and ,maine and ,mississippi and ,north ,carolina and ,north ,dakota and ,oklahoma and ,tennessee and ,west ,virginia4 ,and they have driven it out of #a1gef counties4 ,and it is the rock-ribbed ,democratic ,south that is fighting the saloon4 ,they started this fight that is sweeping like fire over the ,united ,states4 ,you might as well try and dam ,niagara ,falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land4 ,the ,democratic party of ,florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the ,republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election4 ,it is simply a matter of decency and manhood1 irrespective of politics4 ,it is prosperity against poverty1 sobriety against drunkenness1 honesty against thieving1 heaven against hell4 ,don't you want to see men sober8 ,brutal1 staggering men transformed into respectable citizens8 ,no1 said a saloon-keeper1 to hell with men4 ,we are interested in our business1 we have no interest in humanity4 ,after all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic1 its influence is degrading upon the individual1 the family1 politics and business1 and upon everything that you touch in this old world4 ,for the time has long gone by when there is any ground for arguments as to its ill effects4 ,all are agreed on that point4 ,there is just one prime reason why the saloon has not been knocked into hell1 and that is the false statement that the saloons are needed to help lighten the taxes4 ,the saloon business has never paid1 and it has cost fifty times more than the revenue derived from it4 ,does the ,saloon ,help ,business8 ,i challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business1 education1 church1 morals or anything we hold dear4 ,the wholesale and retail trade in ,iowa pays every year at least #ejj1jjj in licenses4 ,then if there were no draw-back it ought to reduce the taxation twenty-five cents per capita4 ,if the saloon is necessary to pay the taxes1 and if they pay #ejj1jjj in taxes1 it ought to reduce them twenty-five cents a head4 ,but no1 the whisky business has increased taxes #a1jjj1jjj instead of reducing them1 and ,i defy any whisky man on ,god's dirt to show me one town that has the saloon where the taxes are lower than where they do not have the saloon4 ,i defy you to show me an instance4 ,listen6 ,seventy-five per cent of our idiots come from intemperate parents2 eighty per cent of the paupers1 eighty-two per cent of the crime is committed by men under the influence of liquor2 ninety per cent of the adult criminals are whisky-made4 ,the ,chicago ,tribune kept track for ten years and found that #ec1eef murders were committed by men under the influence of liquor4 ,archbishop ,ireland1 the famous ,roman ,catholic1 of ,st4 ,paul1 said of social crime today1 that seventy-five per cent is caused by drink1 and eighty per cent of the poverty4 ,i go to a family and it is broken up1 and ,i say1 ,what caused this8 ,drink6 ,i step up to a young man on the scaffold and say1 ,what brought you here8 ,drink6 ,whence all the misery and sorrow and corruption8 ,invariably it is drink4 ,five ,points1 in ,new ,york1 was a spot as near like hell as any spot on earth4 ,there are five streets that run to this point1 and right in the middle was an old brewery and the streets on either side were lined with grog shops4 ,the newspapers turned a searchlight on the district1 and the first thing they had to do was to buy the old brewery and turn it into a mission4 ,the ,parent of ,crimes ,the saloon is the sum of all villanies4 ,it is worse than war or pestilence4 ,it is the crime of crimes4 ,it is the parent of crimes and the mother of sins4 ,it is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land4 ,and to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest1 low-down1 damnable business on top of this old earth4 ,there is nothing to be compared to it4 ,the legislature of ,illinois appropriated #f1jjj1jjj in #aijh to take care of the insane people in the state1 and the whisky business produces seventy-five per cent of the insane4 ,that is what you go down in your pockets for to help support4 ,do away with the saloons and you will close these institutions4 ,the saloons make them necessary1 and they make the poverty and fill the jails and the penitentiaries4 ,who has to pay the bills8 ,the landlord who doesn't get the rent because the money goes for whisky2 the butcher and the grocer and the charitable person who takes pity on the children of drunkards1 and the taxpayer who supports the insane asylums and other institutions1 that the whisky business keeps full of human wrecks4 ,do away with the cursed business and you will not have to put up to support them4 ,who gets the money8 ,the saloon-keepers and the brewers1 and the distillers1 while the whisky fills the land with misery1 and poverty1 and wretchedness1 and disease1 and death1 and damnation1 and it is being authorized by the will of the sovereign people4 ,you say that people will drink anyway4 ,not by my vote4 ,you say1 ,men will murder their wives anyway4 ,not by my vote4 ,they will steal anyway4 ,not by my vote4 ,you are the sovereign people1 and what are you going to do about it8 ,let me assemble before your minds the bodies of the drunken dead1 who crawl away into the jaws of death1 into the mouth of hell1 and then out of the valley of the shadow of the drink let me call the appertaining motherhood1 and wifehood1 and childhood1 and let their tears rain down upon their purple faces4 ,do you think that would stop the curse of the liquor traffic8 ,no6 ,no6 ,in these days when the question of saloon or no saloon is at the fore in almost every community1 one hears a good deal about what is called personal liberty4 ,these are fine1 large1 mouth-filling words1 and they certainly do sound first rate2 but when you get right down and analyze them in the light of common old horse-sense1 you will discover that in their application to the present controversy they mean just about this3 ,personal liberty is for the man who1 if he has the inclination and the price1 can stand up at a bar and fill his hide so full of red liquor that he is transformed for the time being into an irresponsible1 dangerous1 evil-smelling brute4 ,but personal liberty is not for his patient1 long-suffering wife1 who has to endure with what fortitude she may his blows and curses2 nor is it for his children1 who1 if they escape his insane rage1 are yet robbed of every known joy and privilege of childhood1 and too often grow up neglected1 uncared for and vicious as the result of their surroundings and the example before them4 ,personal liberty is not for the sober1 industrious citizen who from the proceeds of honest toil and orderly living1 has to pay1 willingly or not1 the tax bills which pile up as a direct result of drunkenness1 disorder and poverty1 the items of which are written in the records of every police court and poor-house in the land2 nor is personal liberty for the good woman who goes abroad in the town only at the risk of being shot down by some drink-crazed creature4 ,this rant about personal liberty as an argument has no leg to stand upon4 ,the ,economic ,side ,now1 in #aiac the corn crop was #b1cgc1jjj1jjj bushels1 and it was valued at #a1ffj1jjj1jjj4 ,secretary ,wilson says that the breweries use less than two per cent2 ,i will say that they use two per cent4 ,that would make #dg1jjj1jjj bushels1 and at seventy cents a bushel that would be about #cc1jjj1jjj4 ,how many people are there in the ,united ,states8 ,ninety millions4 ,very well1 then1 that is thirty-six cents per capita4 ,then we sold out to the whisky business for thirty-six cents apiece--the price of a dozen eggs or a pound of butter4 ,we are the cheapest gang this side of hell if we will do that kind of business4 ,now listen6 ,last year the income of the ,united ,states government1 and the cities and towns and counties1 from the whisky business was #cej1jjj1jjj4 ,that is putting it liberally4 ,you say that's a lot of money4 ,well1 last year the workingmen spent #b1jjj1jjj1jjj for drink1 and it cost #a1bjj1jjj1jjj to care for the judicial machinery4 ,in other words1 the whisky business cost us last year #c1djj1jjj1jjj4 ,i will subtract from that the dirty #cej1jjj1jjj which we got1 and it leaves #c1jej1jjj1jjj in favor of knocking the whisky business out on purely a money basis4 ,and listen6 ,we spend #f1jjj1jjj1jjj a year for our paupers and criminals1 insane1 orphans1 feeble-minded1 etc41 and eighty-two per cent of our criminals are whisky-made1 and seventy-five per cent of the paupers are whisky-made4 ,the average factory hand earns #dej a year1 and it costs us #a1bjj a year to support each of our whisky criminals4 ,there are #cbf1jjj enrolled criminals in the ,united ,states and #hj1jjj in jails and penitentiaries4 ,three-fourths were sent there because of drink1 and then they have the audacity to say the saloon is needed for money revenue4 ,never was there a baser lie4 ,but1 says the whisky fellow1 we would lose trade2 the farmer would not come to town to trade4 ,you lie4 ,i am a farmer4 ,i was born and raised on a farm and ,i have the malodors of the barnyard on me today4 ,yes1 sir4 ,and when you say that you insult the best class of men on ,god's dirt4 ,say1 when you put up the howl that if you don't have the saloons the farmer won't trade--say1 ,mr4 ,whisky ,man1 why do you dump money into politics and back the legislatures into the corner and fight to the last ditch to prevent the enactment of county local option8 ,you know if the farmers were given a chance they would knock the whisky business into hell the first throw out of the box4 ,you are afraid4 ,you have cold feet on the proposition4 ,you are afraid to give the farmer a chance4 ,they are scared to death of you farmers4 ,i heard my friend ex-,governor ,hanly1 of ,indiana1 use the following illustrations3 ,oh1 but1 they say1 ,governor1 there is another danger to the local option1 because it means a loss of market to the farmer4 ,we are consumers of large quantities of grain in the manufacture of our products4 ,if you drive us out of business you strike down that market and it will create a money panic in this country1 such as you have never seen1 if you do that4 ,i might answer it by saying that less than two per cent of the grain produced in this country is used for that purpose1 but ,i pass that by4 ,i want to debate the merit of the statement itself1 and ,i think ,i can demonstrate in ten minutes to any thoughtful man1 to any farmer1 that the brewer who furnishes him a market for a bushel of corn is not his benefactor1 or the benefactor of any man1 from an economic standpoint4 ,let us see4 ,a farmer brings to the brewer a bushel of corn4 ,he finds a market for it4 ,he gets fifty cents and goes his way1 with the statement of the brewer ringing in his ears1 that the brewer is the benefactor4 ,but you haven't got all the factors in the problem1 ,mr4 ,brewer1 and you cannot get a correct solution of a problem without all the factors in the problem4 ,you take the farmer's bushel of corn1 brewer or distiller1 and you brew and distill from it four and one-half gallons of spirits4 ,i don't know how much he dilutes them before he puts them on the market4 ,only the brewer1 the distiller and ,god know4 ,the man who drinks it doesn't1 but if he doesn't dilute it at all1 he puts on the market four and a half gallons of intoxicating liquor1 thirty-six pints4 ,i am not going to trace the thirty-six pints4 ,it will take too long4 ,but ,i want to trace three of them and ,i will give you no imaginary stories plucked from the brain of an excited orator4 ,i will take instances from the judicial pages of the ,supreme ,court and the ,circuit ,court judges' reports in ,indiana and in ,illinois to make my case4 ,tragedies ,born of ,drink ,several years ago in the city of ,chicago a young man of good parents1 good character1 one ,sunday crossed the street and entered a saloon1 open against the law4 ,he found there boon companions4 ,there were laughter1 song and jest and much drinking4 ,after awhile1 drunk1 insanely drunk1 his money gone1 he was kicked into the street4 ,he found his way across to his mother's home4 ,he importuned her for money to buy more drink4 ,she refused him4 ,he seized from the sideboard a revolver and ran out into the street and with the expressed determination of entering the saloon and getting more drink1 money or no money4 ,his fond mother followed him into the street4 ,she put her hand upon him in a loving restraint4 ,he struck it from him in anger1 and then his sister came and added her entreaty in vain4 ,and then a neighbor1 whom he knew1 trusted and respected1 came and put his hand on him in gentleness and friendly kindness1 but in an insanity of drunken rage he raised the revolver and shot his friend dead in his blood upon the street4 ,there was a trial2 he was found guilty of murder4 ,he was sentenced to life imprisonment1 and when the little mother heard the verdict--a frail little bit of a woman--she threw up her hands and fell in a swoon4 ,in three hours she was dead4 ,in the streets of ,freeport1 ,illinois1 a young man of good family became involved in a controversy with a lewd woman of the town4 ,he went in a drunken frenzy to his father's home1 armed himself with a deadly weapon and set out for the city in search of the woman with whom he had quarreled4 ,the first person he met upon the public square in the city1 in the daylight1 in a place where she had a right to be1 was one of the most refined and cultured women of ,freeport4 ,she carried in her arms her babe--motherhood and babyhood1 upon the streets of ,freeport in the day time1 where they had a right to be--but this young man in his drunken insanity mistook her for the woman he sought and shot her dead upon the streets with her babe in her arms4 ,he was tried and ,judge ,ferand1 in sentencing him to life imprisonment said3 ,you are the seventh man in two years to be sentenced for murder while intoxicated4 ,in the city of ,anderson1 you remember the tragedy in the ,blake home4 ,a young man came home intoxicated1 demanding money of his mother4 ,she refused it4 ,he seized from the wood box a hatchet and killed his mother and then robbed her4 ,you remember he fled4 ,the officer of the law pursued him and brought him back4 ,an indictment was read to him charging him with the murder of the mother who had given him his birth1 of her who had gone down into the valley of the shadow of death to give him life1 of her who had looked down into his blue eyes and thanked ,god for his life4 ,and he said1 ,i am guilty2 ,i did it all4 ,and ,judge ,mc,clure sentenced him to life imprisonment4 ,now ,i have followed probably three of the thirty-six pints of the farmer's product of a bushel of corn and the three of them have struck down seven lives1 the three boys who committed the murders1 the three persons who were killed and the little mother who died of a broken heart4 ,and now1 ,i want to know1 my farmer friend1 if this has been a good commercial transaction for you8 ,you sold a bushel of corn2 you found a market2 you got fifty cents2 but a fraction of this product struck down seven lives1 all of whom would have been consumers of your products for their life expectancy4 ,and do you mean to say that is a good economic transaction to you8 ,that disposes of the market question until it is answered2 let no man argue further4 ,more ,economics ,and say1 my friends1 ,new ,york ,city's annual drink bill is #cfe1jjj1jjj a year1 #a1jjj1jjj a day4 ,listen a minute4 ,that is four times the annual output of gold1 and six times the value of all the silver mined in the ,united ,states4 ,and in ,new ,york there is one saloon for every thirty families4 ,the money spent in ,new ,york by the working people for drink in ten years would buy every working man in ,new ,york a beautiful home1 allowing #c1ejj for house and lot4 ,it would take fifty persons one year to count the money in #a bills1 and they would cover #aj1jjj acres of ground4 ,that is what the people in ,new ,york dump into the whisky hole in one year4 ,and then you wonder why there is poverty and crime1 and that the country is not more prosperous4 ,the whisky gang is circulating a circular about ,kansas ,city1 ,kansas4 ,i defy you to prove a statement in it4 ,kansas ,city is a town of #ajj1jjj population1 and temperance went into effect ,july #a1 #aije4 ,then they had #bej saloons1 #bjj gambling hells and #fj houses of ill fame4 ,the population was largely foreign1 and inquiries have come from ,germany1 ,sweden and ,norway1 asking the influence of the enforcement of the prohibitory law4 ,at the end of one year the president of one of the largest banks in that city1 a man who protested against the enforcement of the prohibitory law on the ground that it would hurt business1 found that his bank deposits had increased #a1gjj1jjj1 and seventy-two per cent of the deposits were from men who had never saved a cent before1 and forty-two per cent came from men who never had a dollar in the bank1 but because the saloons were driven out they had a chance to save1 and the people who objected on the grounds that it would injure business found an increase of #bji per cent in building operations2 and1 furthermore1 there were three times as many more people seeking investment1 and court expenses decreased #be1jjj in one year4 ,who pays to feed and keep the gang you have in jail8 ,why1 you go down in your sock and pay for what the saloon has dumped in there4 ,they don't do it4 ,mr4 ,whisky ,man1 why don't you go down and take a picture of wrecked and blighted homes1 and of insane asylums1 with gibbering idiots4 ,why don't you take a picture of that8 ,at ,kansas ,city1 ,kansas1 before the saloons were closed1 they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail4 ,now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails4 ,and the commissioner of the ,poor ,farm says there is a wonderful falling off of old men and women coming to the ,poor ,house1 because their sons and daughters are saving their money and have quit spending it for drink4 ,and they had to employ eighteen new school teachers for #fjj boys and girls1 between the ages of twelve and eighteen1 that had never gone to school before because they had to help a drunken father support the family4 ,and they have just set aside #bjj1jjj to build a new school house1 and the bonded indebtedness was reduced #bde1jjj in one year without the saloon revenue4 ,and don't you know another thing3 ,in #aijf1 when they had the saloon1 the population1 according to the directory1 was #hi1fee4 ,according to the census of #aijg the population was #ajj1hce1 or an increase of twelve per cent in one year1 without the grog-shop4 ,in two years the bank deposits increased #c1icj1jjj4 ,you say1 drive out the saloon and you kill business--,ha6 ha6 ,blessed are the dead that die in the ,lord4 ,i tell you1 gentlemen1 the ,american home is the dearest heritage of the people1 for the people1 and by the people1 and when a man can go from home in the morning with the kisses of wife and children on his lips1 and come back at night with an empty dinner bucket to a happy home1 that man is a better man1 whether white or black4 ,whatever takes away the comforts of home--whatever degrades that man or woman--whatever invades the sanctity of the home1 is the deadliest foe to the home1 to church1 to state and school1 and the saloon is the deadliest foe to the home1 the church and the state1 on top of ,god ,almighty's dirt4 ,and if all the combined forces of hell should assemble in conclave1 and with them all the men on earth that hate and despise ,god1 and purity1 and virtue--if all the scum of the earth could mingle with the denizens of hell to try to think of the deadliest institution to home1 to church and state1 ,i tell you1 sir1 the combined hellish intelligence could not conceive of or bring an institution that could touch the hem of the garment of the open licensed saloon to damn the home and manhood1 and womanhood1 and business and every other good thing on ,god's earth4 ,in the ,island of ,jamaica the rats increased so that they destroyed the crops1 and they introduced a mongoose1 which is a species of the coon4 ,they have three breeding seasons a year and there are twelve to fifteen in each brood1 and they are deadly enemies of the rats4 ,the result was that the rats disappeared and there was nothing more for the mongoose to feed upon1 so they attacked the snakes1 and the frogs1 and the lizards that fed upon the insects1 with the result that the insects increased and they stripped the gardens1 eating up the onions and the lettuce and then the mongoose attacked the sheep and the cats1 and the puppies1 and the calves and the geese4 ,now ,jamaica is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get rid of the mongoose4 ,the ,american ,mongoose ,the ,american mongoose is the open licensed saloon4 ,it eats the carpets off the floor and the clothes from off your back1 your money out of the bank1 and it eats up character1 and it goes on until at last it leaves a stranded wreck in the home1 a skeleton of what was once brightness and happiness4 ,there were some men playing cards on a railroad train1 and one fellow pulled out a whisky flask and passed it about1 and when it came to the drummer he said1 ,no4 ,what1 they said1 have you got on the water wagon8 and they all laughed at him4 ,he said1 ,you can laugh if you want to1 but ,i was born with an appetite for drink1 and for years ,i have taken from five to ten glasses per day1 but ,i was at home in ,chicago not long ago and ,i have a friend who has a pawn shop there4 ,i was in there when in came a young fellow with ashen cheeks and a wild look on his face4 ,he came up trembling1 threw down a little package and said1 ',give me ten cents4' ,and what do you think was in that package8 ,it was a pair of baby shoes4 ,my friend said1 ',no1 ,i cannot take them4' ',but1' he said1 'give me a dime4 ,i must have a drink4' ',no1 take them back home1 your baby will need them4' ,and the poor fellow said1 ',my baby is dead1 and ,i want a drink4' ,boys1 ,i don't blame you for the lump that comes up in your throat4 ,there is no law1 divine or human1 that the saloon respects4 ,lincoln said1 ,if slavery is not wrong1 nothing is wrong4 ,i say1 if the saloon1 with its train of diseases1 crime and misery1 is not wrong1 then nothing on earth is wrong4 ,if the fight is to be won we need men--men that will fight--the ,church1 ,catholic and ,protestant1 must fight it or run away1 and thank ,god she will not run away1 but fight to the last ditch4 ,who works the hardest for his money1 the saloon man or you8 ,who has the most money ,sunday morning1 the saloon man or you8 ,the saloon comes as near being a rat hole for a wage-earner to dump his wages in as anything you can find4 ,the only interest it pays is red eyes and foul breath1 and the loss of health4 ,you can go in with money and you come out with empty pockets4 ,you go in with character and you come out ruined4 ,you go in with a good position and you lose it4 ,you lose your position in the bank1 or in the cab of the locomotive4 ,and it pays nothing back but disease and damnation and gives an extra dividend in delirium tremens and a free pass to hell4 ,and then it will let your wife be buried in the potter's field1 and your children go to the asylum1 and yet you walk out and say the saloon is a good institution1 when it is the dirtiest thing on earth4 ,it hasn't one leg to stand on and has nothing to commend it to a decent man1 not one thing4 ,but1 you say1 we will regulate it by high license4 ,regulate what by high license8 ,you might as well try and regulate a powder mill in hell4 ,do you want to pay taxes in boys1 or dirty money8 ,a man that will sell out to that dirty business ,i have no use for4 ,see how absurd their arguments are4 ,if you drink ,bourbon in a saloon that pays #a1jjj a year license1 will it eat your stomach less than if you drink it in a saloon that pays #ejj license8 ,is it going to have any different effect on you1 whether the gang pays #ejj or #a1jjj license8 ,no4 ,it will make no difference whether you drink it over a mahogany counter or a pine counter--it will have the same effect on you2 it will damn you4 ,so there is no use talking about it4 ,in some insane asylums1 do you know what they do8 ,when they want to test some patient to see whether he has recovered his reason1 they have a room with a faucet in it1 and a cement floor1 and they give the patient a mop and tell him to mop up the floor4 ,and if he has sense enough to turn off the faucet and mop up the floor they will parole him1 but should he let the faucet run1 they know that he is crazy4 ,well1 that is what you are trying to do4 ,you are trying to mop it up with taxes and insane asylums and jails and ,keeley cures1 and reformatories4 ,the only thing to do is to shut off the source of supply4 ,a man was delivering a temperance address at a fair grounds and a fellow came up to him and said3 ,are you the fellow that gave a talk on temperance8 ,yes4 ,well1 ,i think that the managers did a dirty piece of business to let you give a lecture on temperance4 ,you have hurt my business and my business is a legal one4 ,illustration3 ,,should ,,he ,,let ,,the ,,faucet ,,run1 ,,they ,,know ,,that ,,he ,,is ,,crazy ,you are right there1 said the lecturer1 they did do a mean trick2 ,i would complain to the officers4 ,and he took up a premium list and said3 ,by the way1 ,i see there is a premium of so much offered for the best horse and cow and butter4 ,what business are you in8 ,i'm in the liquor business4 ,well1 ,i don't see that they offer any premium for your business4 ,you ought to go down and compel them to offer a premium for your business and they ought to offer on the list #be for the best wrecked home1 #ae for the best bloated bum that you can show1 and #aj for the finest specimen of broken-hearted wife1 and they ought to give #be for the finest specimens of thieves and gamblers you can trot out4 ,you can bring out the finest looking criminals4 ,if you have something that is good trot it out4 ,you ought to come in competition with the farmer1 with his stock1 and the fancy work1 and the canned fruit4 ,the ,saloon a ,coward ,as ,dr4 ,howard said3 ,i tell you that the saloon is a coward4 ,it hides itself behind stained-glass doors and opaque windows1 and sneaks its customers in at a blind door1 and it keeps a sentinel to guard the door from the officers of the law1 and it marks its wares with false bills-of-lading1 and offers to ship green goods to you and marks them with the name of wholesome articles of food so people won't know what is being sent to you4 ,and so vile did that business get that the legislature of ,indiana passed a law forbidding a saloon to ship goods without being properly labeled4 ,and the ,united ,states ,congress passed a law forbidding them to send whisky through the mails4 ,illustration3 ,i',,ll ,,fight ,,to ,,the ,,last ,,ditch1 ,,this ,,hellish ,,traffic4 ,i tell you it strikes in the night4 ,it fights under cover of darkness and assassinates the characters that it cannot damn1 and it lies about you4 ,it attacks defenseless womanhood and childhood4 ,the saloon is a coward4 ,it is a thief2 it is not an ordinary court offender that steals your money1 but it robs you of manhood and leaves you in rags and takes away your friends1 and it robs your family4 ,it impoverishes your children and it brings insanity and suicide4 ,it will take the shirt off your back and it will steal the coffin from a dead child and yank the last crust of bread out of the hand of the starving child2 it will take the last bucket of coal out of your cellar1 and the last cent out of your pocket1 and will send you home bleary-eyed and staggering to your wife and children4 ,it will steal the milk from the breast of the mother and leave her with nothing with which to feed her infant4 ,it will take the virtue from your daughter4 ,it is the dirtiest1 most low-down1 damnable business that ever crawled out of the pit of hell4 ,it is a sneak1 and a thief and a coward4 ,it is an infidel4 ,it has no faith in ,god2 has no religion4 ,it would close every church in the land4 ,it would hang its beer signs on the abandoned altars4 ,it would close every public school4 ,it respects the thief and it esteems the blasphemer2 it fills the prisons and the penitentiaries4 ,it despises heaven1 hates love1 scorns virtue4 ,it tempts the passions4 ,its music is the song of a siren4 ,its sermons are a collection of lewd1 vile stories4 ,it wraps a mantle about the hope of this world and that to come4 ,its tables are full of the vilest literature4 ,it is the moral clearing house for rot1 and damnation1 and poverty1 and insanity1 and it wrecks homes and blights lives today4 ,god's ,worst ,enemy ,the saloon is a liar4 ,it promises good cheer and sends sorrow4 ,it promises health and causes disease4 ,it promises prosperity and sends adversity4 ,it promises happiness and sends misery4 ,yes1 it sends the husband home with a lie on his lips to his wife2 and the boy home with a lie on his lips to his mother2 and it causes the employee to lie to his employer4 ,it degrades4 ,it is ,god's worst enemy and the devil's best friend4 ,it spares neither youth nor old age4 ,it is waiting with a dirty blanket for the baby to crawl into the world4 ,it lies in wait for the unborn4 ,it cocks the highwayman's pistol4 ,it puts the rope in the hands of the mob4 ,it is the anarchist of the world and its dirty red flag is dyed with the blood of women and children4 ,it sent the bullet through the body of ,lincoln2 it nerved the arm that sent the bullets through ,garfield and ,william ,mc,kinley4 ,yes1 it is a murderer4 ,every plot that was ever hatched against the government and law1 was born and bred1 and crawled out of the grog-shop to damn this country4 ,i tell you that the curse of ,god ,almighty is on the saloon4 ,legislatures are legislating against it4 ,decent society is barring it out4 ,the fraternal brotherhoods are knocking it out4 ,the ,masons and ,odd ,fellows1 and the ,knights of ,pythias and the ,a4 ,o4 ,u4 ,w4 are closing their doors to the whisky sellers4 ,they don't want you wriggling your carcass in their lodges4 ,yes1 sir1 ,i tell you1 the curse of ,god is on it4 ,it is on the down grade4 ,it is headed for hell1 and1 by the grace of ,god1 ,i am going to give it a push1 with a whoop1 for all ,i know how4 ,listen to me6 ,i am going to show you how we burn up our money4 ,it costs twenty cents to make a gallon of whisky2 sold over the counter at ten cents a glass1 it will bring four dollars4 ,but1 said the saloon-keeper1 ,bill1 you must figure on the strychnine and the cochineal1 and other stuff they put in it1 and it will bring nearer eight dollars4 ,yes2 it increases the heart beat thirty times more in a minute1 when you consider the licorice and potash and log-wood and other poisons that are put in4 ,i believe one cause for the unprecedented increase of crime is due to the poison put in the stuff nowadays to make it go as far as they can4 ,i am indebted to my friend1 ,george ,b4 ,stuart1 for some of the following points3 ,i will show you how your money is burned up4 ,it costs twenty cents to make a gallon of whisky1 sold over the counter at ten cents a glass1 which brings four dollars4 ,listen1 where does it go8 ,who gets the twenty cents8 ,the farmer for his corn or rye4 ,who gets the rest8 ,the ,united ,states government for collecting revenue1 and the big corporations1 and part is used to pave our streets and pay our police4 ,i'll show you4 ,i'm going to show you how it is burned up1 and you don't need half sense to catch on1 and if you don't understand just keep still and nobody will know the difference4 ,i say1 ,hey1 ,colonel ,politics1 what is the matter with the country8 ,he swells up like a poisoned pup and says to me1 ,bill1 why the silver bugbear4 ,that's what is the matter with the country4 ,the total value of the silver produced in this country in #aiab was #ci1jjj1jjj4 ,hear me6 ,in #aiab the total value of the gold produced in this country was #ic1jjj1jjj1 and we dumped thirty-six times that much in the whisky hole and didn't fill it4 ,what is the matter8 ,the total value of all the gold and silver produced in #aiab was #acb1jjj1jjj1 and we dumped twenty-five times that amount in the whisky hole and didn't fill it4 ,what is the matter with the country1 ,colonel ,politics8 ,he swells up and says1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,standpatism1 sir4 ,i say1 ,you are an old windbag4 ,oh1 says another1 revision of the tariff4 ,another man says1 ,free trade2 open the doors at the ports and let them pour the products in and we will put the trusts on the sidetrack4 ,say1 you come with me to every port of entry4 ,listen6 ,in #aiab the total value of all the imports was #a1hab1jjj1jjj1 and we dumped that much in the whisky hole in twelve months and did not fill it4 ,oh1 says a man1 let us court ,south ,america and ,europe to sell our products4 ,that's what is the matter2 we are not exporting enough4 ,last year the total value of all the exports was #b1cfb1jjj1jjj1 and we dumped that amount in the whisky hole in one year and didn't fill it4 ,one time ,i was down in ,washington and went to the ,united ,states treasury and said3 ,i wish you would let me go where you don't let the general public4 ,and they took us around on the inside and we walked into a room about twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide and as many feet high1 and ,i said1 ,what is this8 ,this is the vault that contains all of the national bank stock in the ,united ,states4 ,i said1 ,how much is here8 ,they said1 #egh1jjj1jjj4 ,and we dumped nearly four times the value of the national bank stock in the ,united ,states into the whisky hole last year1 and we didn't fill the hole up at that4 ,what is the matter8 ,say1 whenever the day comes that all the ,catholic and ,protestant churches--just when the day comes when you will say to the whisky business3 ,you go to hell1 that day the whisky business will go to hell4 ,but you sit there1 you old whisky-voting elder and deacon and vestryman1 and you wouldn't strike your hands together on the proposition4 ,it would stamp you an old hypocrite and you know it4 ,say1 hold on a bit4 ,have you got a silver dollar8 ,i am going to show you how it is burned up4 ,we have in this country #bej1jjj saloons1 and allowing fifty feet frontage for each saloon it makes a street from ,new ,york to ,chicago1 and #e1jjj1jjj men1 women and children go daily into the saloon for drink4 ,and marching twenty miles a day it would take thirty days to pass this building1 and marching five abreast they would reach #eij miles4 ,there they go2 look at them6 ,on the first day of ,january1 #ejj1jjj of the young men of our nation entered the grog-shop and began a public career hellward1 and on the #cast of ,december ,i will come back here and summon you people1 and ring the bell and raise the curtain and say to the saloon and breweries3 ,on the first day of ,january1 ,i gave you #ejj1jjj of the brain and muscle of our land1 and ,i want them back and have come in the name of the home and church and school2 father mother1 sister1 sweetheart2 give me back what ,i gave you4 ,march out4 ,i count1 and #afe1jjj have lost their appetites and have become muttering1 bleary-eyed drunkards1 wallowing in their own excrement1 and ,i say1 ,what is it ,i hear1 a funeral dirge8 ,what is that procession8 ,a funeral procession #c1jjj miles long and #aaj1jjj hearses in the procession4 ,one hundred and ten thousand men die drunkards in the land of the free and home of the brave4 ,listen6 ,in an hour twelve men die drunkards1 #cjj a day and #aaj1jjj a year4 ,one man will leap in front of a train1 another will plunge from the dock into a lake1 another will throw his hands to his head and life will end4 ,another will cry1 ,mother1 and his life will go out like a burnt match4 ,i stand in front of the jails and count the whisky criminals4 ,they say1 ,yes1 ,bill1 ,i fired the bullet4 ,yes1 ,i backed my wife into the corner and beat her life out4 ,i am waiting for the scaffold2 ,i am waiting4 ,i am waiting1 says another1 to slip into hell4 ,on1 on1 it goes4 ,say1 let me summon the wifehood1 and the motherhood1 and the childhood and see the tears rain down the upturned faces4 ,people1 tears are too weak for that hellish business4 ,tears are only salty backwater that well up at the bidding of an occult power1 and ,i will tell you there are #hfe1jjj whisky orphan children in the ,united ,states1 enough in the world to belt the globe three times around1 punctured at every fifth point by a drunkard's widow4 ,like ,hamilcar of old1 who swore young ,hannibal to eternal enmity against ,rome1 so ,i propose to perpetuate this feud against the liquor traffic until the white-winged dove of temperance builds her nest on the dome of the ,capitol of ,washington and spreads her wings of peace1 sobriety and joy over our land which ,i love with all my heart4 ,what ,will a ,dollar ,buy8 ,i hold a silver dollar in my hand4 ,come on1 we are going to a saloon4 ,we will go into a saloon and spend that dollar for a quart4 ,it takes twenty cents to make a gallon of whisky and a dollar will buy a quart4 ,you say to the saloon-keeper1 ,give me a quart4 ,i will show you1 if you wait a minute1 how she is burned up4 ,here ,i am ,john1 an old drunken bum1 with a wife and six kids4 7,thank ,god1 it's all a lie47 ,come on1 ,i will go down to a saloon and throw down my dollar4 ,it costs twenty cents to make a gallon of whisky4 ,a nickel will make a quart4 ,my dollar will buy a quart of booze4 ,who gets the nickel8 ,the farmer1 for corn and apples4 ,who gets the ninety-five cents8 ,the ,united ,states government1 the big distillers1 the big corporations4 ,i am ,john1 a drunken bum1 and ,i will spend my dollar4 ,i have worked a week and got my pay4 ,i go into a grog-shop and throw down my dollar4 ,the saloon-keeper gets my dollar and ,i get a quart of booze4 ,come home with me4 ,i stagger1 and reel1 and spew in my wife's presence1 and she says3 ,hello1 ,john1 what did you bring home8 ,a quart4 ,what will a quart do8 ,it will burn up my happiness and my home and fill my home with squalor and want4 ,so there is the dollar4 ,the saloon-keeper has it4 ,here is my quart4 ,there you get the whisky end of it4 ,here you get the workingman's end of the saloon4 ,but come on2 ,i will go to a store and spend the dollar for a pair of shoes4 ,i want them for my son1 and he puts them on his feet1 and with the shoes to protect his feet he goes out and earns another dollar1 and my dollar becomes a silver thread in the woof and warp of happiness and joy1 and the man that owns the building gets some1 and the clerk that sold the shoes gets some1 and the merchant1 and the traveling man1 and the wholesale house gets some1 and the factory1 and the man that made the shoes1 and the man that tanned the hide1 and the butcher that bought the calf1 and the little colored fellow that shined the shoes1 and my dollar spread itself and nobody is made worse for spending the money4 ,i join the ,booster ,club for business and prosperity4 ,a man said1 ,i will tell you what is the matter with the country3 it's over-production4 ,you lie1 it is underconsumption4 ,say1 wife1 the bread that ought to be in your stomach to satisfy the cravings of hunger is down yonder in the grocery store1 and your husband hasn't money enough to carry it home4 ,the meat that ought to satisfy your hunger hangs in the butcher shop4 ,your husband hasn't any money to buy it4 ,the cloth for a dress is lying on the shelf in the store1 but your husband hasn't the money to buy it4 ,the whisky gang has his money4 ,what is the matter with our country8 ,i would like to do this4 ,i would like to see every booze-fighter get on the water wagon4 ,i would like to summon all the drunkards in ,america and say3 ,boys1 let's cut her out and spend the money for flour1 meat and calico2 what do you say8 ,say6 #ejj1jjj1jjj will buy all the flour in the ,united ,states2 #ejj1jjj1jjj will buy all the beef cattle1 and #ejj1jjj1jjj will buy all the cotton at #ej a bale4 ,but we dumped more money than that in the whisky hole last year1 and we didn't fill it4 ,come on2 ,i'm going to line up the drunkards4 ,everybody fall in4 ,come on1 ready1 forward1 march4 ,right1 left1 here ,i come with all the drunkards4 ,we will line up in front of a butcher shop4 ,the butcher says1 ,what do you want1 a piece of neck8 ,no2 how much do ,i owe you8 ,three dollars4 ,here's your dough4 ,now give me a porterhouse steak and a sirloin roast4 ,where did you get all that money8 ,went to hear ,bill and climbed on the water wagon4 ,hello6 ,what do you want8 ,beefsteak4 ,what do you want8 ,beefsteak4 ,we empty the shop and the butcher runs to the telephone4 ,hey1 ,central1 give me the slaughter house4 ,have you got any beef1 any pork1 any mutton8 ,they strip the slaughter house1 and then telephone to ,swift1 and ,armour1 and ,nelson ,morris1 and ,cudahy1 to send down trainloads of beefsteaks4 ,the whole bunch has got on the water wagon4 ,and ,swift and the other big packers in ,chicago say to their salesmen3 ,buy beef1 pork and mutton4 ,the farmer sees the price of cattle and sheep jump up to three times their value4 ,let me take the money you dump into the whisky hole and buy beefsteaks with it4 ,i will show what is the matter with ,america4 ,i think the liquor business is the dirtiest1 rottenest business this side of hell4 ,come on1 are you ready8 ,fall in6 ,we line up in front of a grocery store4 ,what do you want8 ,why1 ,i want flour4 ,what do you want8 ,flour4 ,what do you want8 ,flour4 ,pillsbury1 ,minneapolis1 ',sleepy ,eye'8 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,and ,,ma ,,sunday4 ,yes1 ship in trainloads of flour2 send on fast mail schedule1 with an engine in front1 one behind and a ,mogul in the middle4 ,what's the matter8 ,why1 the workingmen have stopped spending their money for booze and have begun to buy flour4 ,the big mills tell their men to buy wheat and the farmers see the price jump to over #b per bushel4 ,what's the matter with the country8 ,why1 the whisky gang has your money and you have an empty stomach1 and yet you will walk up and vote for the dirty booze4 ,come on1 cut out the booze1 boys4 ,get on the water wagon2 get on for the sake of your wife and babies1 and hit the booze a blow4 ,come on1 ready1 forward1 march6 ,right1 left1 halt6 ,we are in front of a dry goods store4 ,what do you want8 ,calico4 ,what do you want8 ,calico4 ,what do you want8 ,calico4 ,calico2 all right1 come on4 ,the stores are stripped4 ,marshall ,field1 ,carson1 ,pirie1 ,scott ,co41 ,j4 ,v4 ,farrell1 send down calico4 ,the whole bunch has voted out the saloons and we have such a demand for calico we don't know what to do4 ,and the big stores telegraph to ,fall ,river to ship calico1 and the factories telegraph to buy cotton1 and they tell their salesmen to buy cotton1 and the cotton plantation man sees cotton jump up to #aej a bale4 ,what is the matter8 ,your children are going naked and the whisky gang has got your money4 ,that's what's the matter with you4 ,don't listen to those old whisky-soaked politicians who say stand pat on the saloon4 ,come with me4 ,now1 remember1 we have the whole bunch of booze fighters on the water wagon1 and ,i'm going home now4 ,over there ,i was ,john1 the drunken bum4 ,the whisky gang got my dollar and ,i got the quart4 ,over here ,i am ,john on the water wagon4 ,the merchant got my dollar and ,i have his meat1 flour and calico1 and ,i'm going home now4 ,be it ever so humble1 there's no place like home without booze4 ,wife comes out and says1 ,hello1 ,john1 what have you got8 ,two porterhouse steaks1 ,sally4 ,what's that bundle1 ,pa8 ,clothes to make you a new dress1 ,sis4 ,your mother has fixed your old one so often1 it looks like a crazy quilt4 ,and what have you there8 ,that's a pair of shoes for you1 ,tom2 and here is some cloth to make you a pair of pants4 ,your mother has patched the old ones so often1 they look like the map of ,united ,states4 ,what's the matter with the country8 ,we have been dumping into the whisky hole the money that ought to have been spent for flour1 beef and calico1 and we haven't the hole filled up yet4 ,a man comes along and says3 ,are you a drunkard8 ,yes1 ,i'm a drunkard4 ,where are you going8 ,i am going to hell4 ,why8 ,because the ,good ,book says3 ',no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of ,god1' so ,i am going to hell4 ,another man comes along and ,i say3 ,are you a church member8 ,yes1 ,i am a church member4 ,where are you going8 ,i am going to heaven4 ,did you vote for the saloon8 ,yes4 ,then you shall go to hell4 ,say1 if the man that drinks the whisky goes to hell1 the man that votes for the saloon that sold the whisky to him will go to hell4 ,if the man that drinks the whisky goes to hell1 and the man that sold the whisky to the men that drank it1 goes to heaven1 then the poor drunkard will have the right to stand on the brink of eternal damnation and put his arms around the pillar of justice1 shake his fist in the face of the ,almighty and say1 ,unjust6 ,unjust6 ,if you vote for the dirty business you ought to go to hell as sure as you live1 and ,i would like to fire the furnace while you are there4 ,some fellow says1 ,drive the saloon out and the buildings will be empty4 ,which would you rather have1 empty buildings or empty jails1 penitentiaries and insane asylums8 ,you drink the stuff and what have you to say8 ,you that vote for it1 and you that sell it8 ,look at them painted on the canvas of your recollection4 ,the ,gin ,mill ,what is the matter with this grand old country8 ,i heard my friend1 ,george ,stuart1 tell how he imagined that he walked up to a mill and said3 ,hello1 there1 what kind of a mill are you8 ,a sawmill4 ,and what do you make8 ,we make boards out of logs4 ,is the finished product worth more than the raw material8 ,yes4 ,we will make laws for you4 ,we must have lumber for houses4 ,he goes up to another mill and says3 ,hey1 what kind of a mill are you8 ,a grist mill4 ,what do you make8 ,flour and meal out of wheat and corn4 ,is the finished product worth more than the raw material8 ,yes4 ,then come on4 ,we will make laws for you4 ,we will protect you4 ,he goes up to another mill and says3 ,what kind of a mill are you8 ,a paper mill4 ,what do you make paper out of8 ,straw and rags4 ,well1 we will make laws for you4 ,we must have paper on which to write notes and mortgages4 ,he goes up to another mill and says3 ,hey1 what kind of a mill are you8 ,a gin mill4 ,i don't like the looks nor the smell of you4 ,a gin mill2 what do you make8 ,what kind of a mill are you8 ,a gin mill4 ,what is your raw material8 ,the boys of ,america4 ,the gin mills of this country must have #b1jjj1jjj boys or shut up shop4 ,say1 walk down your streets1 count the homes and every fifth home has to furnish a boy for a drunkard4 ,have you furnished yours8 ,no4 ,then ,i have to furnish two to make up4 ,what is your raw material8 ,american boys4 ,then ,i will pick up the boys and give them to you4 ,a man says1 ,hold on1 not that boy1 he is mine4 ,then ,i will say to you what a saloon-keeper said to me when ,i protested1 ,i am not interested in boys2 to hell with your boys4 ,say1 saloon gin mill1 what is your finished product8 ,bleary-eyed1 low-down1 staggering men and the scum of ,god's dirt4 ,go to the jails1 go to the insane asylums and the penitentiaries1 and the homes for feeble-minded4 ,there you will find the finished product for their dirty business4 ,i tell you it is the worst business this side of hell1 and you know it4 ,listen6 ,here is an extract from the ,saturday ,evening ,post of ,november #i1 #aijg1 taken from a paper read by a brewer4 ,you will say that a man didn't say it3 ,it appears from these facts that the success of our business lies in the creation of appetite among the boys4 ,men who have formed the habit scarcely ever reform1 but they1 like others1 will die1 and unless there are recruits made to take their places1 our coffers will be empty1 and ,i recommend to you that money spent in the creation of appetite will return in dollars to your tills after the habit is formed4 ,what is your raw material1 saloons8 ,american boys4 ,say1 ,i would not give one boy for all the distilleries and saloons this side of hell4 ,and they have to have #b1jjj1jjj boys every generation4 ,and then you tell me you are a man when you will vote for an institution like that4 ,what do you want to do1 pay taxes in money or in boys8 ,i feel like an old fellow in ,tennessee who made his living by catching rattlesnakes4 ,he caught one with fourteen rattles and put it in a box with a glass top4 ,one day when he was sawing wood his little five-year old boy1 ,jim1 took the lid off and the rattler wriggled out and struck him in the cheek4 ,he ran to his father and said1 ,the rattler has bit me4 ,the father ran and chopped the rattler to pieces1 and with his jackknife he cut a chunk from the boy's cheek and then sucked and sucked at the wound to draw out the poison4 ,he looked at little ,jim1 watched the pupils of his eyes dilate and watched him swell to three times his normal size1 watched his lips become parched and cracked1 and eyes roll1 and little ,jim gasped and died4 ,the father took him in his arms1 carried him over by the side of the rattler1 got on his knees and said1 ,o ,god1 ,i would not give little ,jim for all the rattlers that ever crawled over the ,blue ,ridge mountains4 ,and ,i would not give one boy for every dirty dollar you get from the hell-soaked liquor business or from every brewery and distillery this side of hell4 ,in a ,northwest city a preacher sat at his breakfast table one ,sunday morning4 ,the doorbell rang2 he answered it2 and there stood a little boy1 twelve years of age4 ,he was on crutches1 right leg off at the knee1 shivering1 and he said1 ,please1 sir1 will you come up to the jail and talk and pray with papa8 ,he murdered mamma4 ,papa was good and kind1 but whisky did it1 and ,i have to support my three little sisters4 ,i sell newspapers and black boots4 ,will you go up and talk and pray with papa8 ,and will you come home and be with us when they bring him back8 ,the governor says we can have his body after they hang him4 ,the preacher hurried to the jail and talked and prayed with the man4 ,he had no knowledge of what he had done4 ,he said1 ,i don't blame the law1 but it breaks my heart to think that my children must be left in a cold and heartless world4 ,oh1 sir1 whisky did it4 ,the preacher was at the little hut when up drove the undertaker's wagon and they carried out the pine coffin4 ,they led the little boy up to the coffin1 he leaned over and kissed his father and sobbed1 and said to his sister1 ,come on1 sister1 kiss papa's cheeks before they grow cold4 ,and the little hungry1 ragged1 whisky orphans hurried to the coffin1 shrieking in agony4 ,police1 whose hearts were adamant1 buried their faces in their hands and rushed from the house1 and the preacher fell on his knees and lifted his clenched fist and tear-stained face and took an oath before ,god1 and before the whisky orphans1 that he would fight the cursed business until the undertaker carried him out in a coffin4 ,a ,chance for ,manhood ,you men have a chance to show your manhood4 ,then in the name of your pure mother1 in the name of your manhood1 in the name of your wife and the poor innocent children that climb up on your lap and put their arms around your neck1 in the name of all that is good and noble1 fight the curse4 ,shall you men1 who hold in your hands the ballot1 and in that ballot hold the destiny of womanhood and childhood and manhood1 shall you1 the sovereign power1 refuse to rally in the name of the defenseless men and women and native land8 ,no4 ,i want every man to say1 ,god1 you can count on me to protect my wife1 my home1 my mother and my children and the manhood of ,america4 ,by the mercy of ,god1 which has given to you the unshaken and unshakable confidence of her you love1 ,i beseech you1 make a fight for the women who wait until the saloons spew out their husbands and their sons1 and send them home maudlin1 brutish1 devilish1 stinking1 blear-eyed1 bloated-faced drunkards4 ,you say you can't prohibit men from drinking4 ,why1 if ,jesus ,christ were here today some of you would keep on in sin just the same4 ,but the law can be enforced against whisky just the same as it can be enforced against anything else1 if you have honest officials to enforce it4 ,of course it doesn't prohibit4 ,there isn't a law on the books of the state that prohibits4 ,we have laws against murder4 ,do they prohibit8 ,we have laws against burglary4 ,do they prohibit8 ,we have laws against arson1 rape1 but they do not prohibit4 ,would you introduce a bill to repeal all the laws that do not prohibit8 ,any law will prohibit to a certain extent if honest officials enforce it4 ,but no law will absolutely prohibit4 ,we can make a law against liquor prohibit as much as any law prohibits4 ,or would you introduce a bill saying1 if you pay #a1jjj a year you can kill any one you don't like2 or by paying #ejj a year you can attack any girl you want to2 or by paying #ajj a year you can steal anything that suits you8 ,that's what you do with the dirtiest1 rottenest gang this side of hell4 ,you say for so much a year you can have a license to make staggering1 reeling1 drunken sots1 murderers and thieves and vagabonds4 ,you say1 ,bill1 you're too hard on the whisky4 ,i don't agree4 ,not on your life4 ,there was a fellow going along the pike and a farmer's dog ran snapping at him4 ,he tried to drive it back with a pitchfork he carried1 and failing to do so he pinned it to the ground with the prongs4 ,out came the farmer3 ,hey1 why don't you use the other end of that fork8 ,he answered1 ,why didn't the dog come at me with the other end8 ,personal ,liberty ,personal liberty is not personal license4 ,i dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others4 ,our forefathers did not fight and die for personal license but for personal liberty bounded by laws4 ,personal liberty is the liberty of a murderer1 a burglar1 a seducer1 or a wolf that wants to remain in a sheep fold1 or the weasel in a hen roost4 ,you have no right to vote for an institution that is going to drag your sons and daughters to hell4 ,if you were the only persons in this city you would have a perfect right to drive your horse down the street at breakneck speed2 you would have a right to make a race track out of the streets for your auto2 you could build a slaughter house in the public square2 you could build a glue factory in the public square4 ,but when the population increases from one to #fjj1jjj you can't do it4 ,you say1 ,why can't ,i run my auto8 ,i own it4 ,why can't ,i run my horse8 ,i own it4 ,why can't ,i build the slaughter house8 ,i own the lot4 ,yes1 but there are #fjj1jjj people here now and other people have rights4 ,so law stands between you and personal liberty1 you miserable dog4 ,you can't build a slaughter house in your front yard1 because the law says you can't4 ,as long as ,i am standing here on this platform ,i have personal liberty4 ,i can swing my arms at will4 ,but the minute any one else steps on the platform my personal liberty ceases4 ,it stops just one inch from the other fellow's nose4 ,when you come staggering home1 cussing right and left and spewing and spitting1 your wife suffers1 your children suffer4 ,don't think that you are the only one that suffers4 ,a man that goes to the penitentiary makes his wife and children suffer just as much as he does4 ,you're placing a shame on your wife and children4 ,if you're a dirty1 low-down1 filthy1 drunken1 whisky-soaked bum you'll affect all with whom you come in contact4 ,if you're a ,god-fearing man you will influence all with whom you come in contact4 ,you can't live by yourself4 ,i occasionally hear a man say1 ,it's nobody's business how ,i live4 ,then ,i say he is the most dirty1 low-down1 whisky-soaked1 beer-guzzling1 bull-necked1 foul-mouthed hypocrite that ever had a brain rotten enough to conceive such a statement and lips vile enough to utter it4 ,you say1 ,if ,i am satisfied with my life why do you want to interfere with my business8 ,if ,i heard a man beating his wife and heard her shrieks and the children's cries and my wife would tell me to go and see what was the matter1 and ,i went in and found a great1 big1 broad-shouldered1 whisky-soaked1 hog-jowled1 weasel-eyed brute dragging a little woman around by the hair1 and two children in the corner unconscious from his kicks and the others yelling in abject terror1 and he said1 ,what are you coming in to interfere with my personal liberty for8 ,isn't this my wife1 didn't ,i pay for the license to wed her8 ,you ought1 or you're a bigamist4 ,aren't these my children2 didn't ,i pay the doctor to bring them into the world8 ,you ought to1 or you're a thief4 ,if ,i want to beat them1 what is that your business1 aren't they mine8 ,would ,i apologize8 ,never6 ,i'd knock seven kinds of pork out of that old hog4 ,the ,moderate ,drinker ,i remember when ,i was secretary of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 in ,chicago1 ,i had the saloon route4 ,i had to go around and give tickets inviting men to come to the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 services4 ,and one day ,i was told to count the men going into a certain saloon4 ,not the ones already in1 but just those going in4 ,in sixty-two minutes ,i could count just #a1jjd men going in there4 ,i went in then and met a fellow who used to be my side-kicker out in ,iowa1 and he threw down a mint julep while ,i stood there1 and ,i asked him what he was doing4 ,oh1 just come down to the theater1 he said1 and came over for a drink between acts4 ,why1 you are three sheets in the wind now1 ,i said1 and then an old drunken bum1 with a little threadbare coat1 a straw hat1 no vest1 pants torn1 toes sticking out through his torn shoes1 and several weeks' growth of beard on his face1 came in and said to the bartender3 ,for ,god's sake1 can't you give an old bum a drink of whisky to warm up on8 and the bartender poured him out a big glass and he gulped it down4 ,he pulled his hat down and slouched out4 ,i said to my friend1 ,george1 do you see that old drunken bum1 down and out8 ,there was a time when he was just like you4 ,no drunkard ever intended to be a drunkard4 ,every drunkard intended to be a moderate drinker4 ,oh1 you're unduly excited over my welfare1 he said4 ,i never expect to get that far4 ,neither did that bum1 ,i answered4 ,i was standing on another corner less than eight months afterward and ,i saw a bum coming along with head down1 his eyes bloodshot1 his face bloated1 and he panhandled me for a flapjack before ,i recognized him4 ,it was ,george4 ,he had lost his job and was on the toboggan slide hitting it for hell4 ,i say if sin weren't so deceitful it wouldn't be so attractive4 ,every added drink makes it harder4 ,some just live for booze4 ,some say1 ,i need it4 ,it keeps me warm in winter4 ,another says1 ,it keeps me cool in summer4 ,well1 if it keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer1 why is it that out of those who freeze to death and are sun-struck the greater part of them are booze-hoisters8 ,every one takes it for the alcohol there is in it4 ,take that out and you would as soon drink dish water4 ,i can buy a can of good beef extract and dip the point of my knife in the can and get more nourishment on the point of that knife than in #hjj gallons of the best beer4 ,if the brewers of this land today were making their beer in ,germany1 ninety per cent of them would be in jail4 ,the extract on the point of the knife represents one and three-quarter pounds of good beefsteak4 ,just think1 you have to make a swill barrel out of your bellies and a sewer if you want to get that much nourishment out of beer and run #hjj gallons through4 ,oh1 go ahead1 if you want to1 but ,i'll try to help you just the same4 ,every man has blood corpuscles and their object is to take the impurities out of your system4 ,perspiration is for the same thing4 ,every time you work or ,i preach the impurities come out4 ,every time you sweat there is a destroying power going on inside4 ,the blood goes through the heart every seventeen seconds4 ,oh1 we have a marvelous system4 ,in some spots there are #d1jjj pores to the square inch and a grain of sand will cover #aej of them4 ,i can strip you and cover you with shellac and you'll be dead in forty-eight hours4 ,oh1 we are fearfully and wonderfully made4 ,what ,booze ,does to the ,system ,alcohol knocks the blood corpuscles out of business so that it takes eight to ten to do what one ought to do4 ,there's a man who drinks4 ,here's a fellow who drives a beer wagon4 ,look how pussy he is4 ,he's full of rotten tissue4 ,he says he's healthy4 ,smell his breath4 ,you punch your finger in that healthy flesh he talks about and the dent will be there a half an hour afterwards4 ,you look like you don't believe it4 ,try it when you go to bed tonight4 ,pneumonia has a first mortgage on a booze-hoister4 ,take a fellow with good1 healthy muscles1 and you punch them and they bound out like a rubber band4 ,the first thing about a crushed strawberry stomach is a crushed strawberry nose4 ,nature lets the public on the outside know what is going on inside4 ,if ,i could just take the stomach of a moderate drinker and turn it wrong side out for you1 it would be all the temperance lecture you would need4 ,you know what alcohol does to the white of an egg4 ,it will cook it in a few minutes4 ,well1 alcohol does the same thing to the nerves as to the white of an egg4 ,that's why some men can't walk4 ,they stagger because their nerves are partly paralyzed4 ,the liver is the largest organ of the body4 ,it takes all of the blood in the body and purifies it and takes out the poisons and passes them on to the gall and from there they go to the intestines and act as oil does on machinery4 ,when a man drinks the liver becomes covered with hob nails1 and then refuses to do the work1 and the poisons stay in the blood4 ,then the victim begins to turn yellow4 ,he has the jaundice4 ,the kidneys take what is left and purify that4 ,the booze that a man drinks turns them hard4 ,that's what booze is doing for you4 ,isn't it time you went red hot after the enemy8 ,i'm trying to help you4 ,i'm trying to put a carpet on your floor1 pull the pillows out of the window1 give you and your children and wife good clothes4 ,i'm trying to get you to save your money instead of buying a machine for the saloon-keeper while you have to foot it4 ,by the grace of ,god ,i have strength enough to pass the open saloon1 but some of you can't1 so ,i owe it to you to help you4 ,i've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this ,god-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because ,i have come out uncompromisingly against them4 ,i've taken more dirty1 vile insults from this low-down bunch than from any one on earth1 but there is no one that will reach down lower1 or reach higher up or wider1 to help you out of the pits of drunkenness than ,i4 ,,chapter ,x ,give ,attendance to ,reading ,there are some so-called ,christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor1 or poison within the child's reach4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,i never heard ,billy ,sunday use an ungrammatical sentence1 remarked one observer4 ,he uses a great deal of slang1 and many colloquialisms1 but not a single error in grammar could ,i detect4 ,some of his passages are really beautiful ,english4 ,sunday has made diligent effort to supplement his lack of education4 ,he received the equivalent of a high-school training in boyhood1 which is far more than ,lincoln ever had4 ,nevertheless he has not had the training of the average educated man1 much less of a normal minister of the gospel4 ,he is conscious of his limitations3 and has diligently endeavored to make up for them4 ,when coaching the ,northwestern ,university baseball team in the winter of '#hg and '#hh he attended classes at the ,university4 ,he has read a great deal and to this day continues his studies4 ,of course his acquaintance with literature is superficial3 but his use of it shows how earnestly he has read up on history and literature and the sciences4 ,he makes better use of his knowledge of the physical sciences1 and of historical allusions1 than most men drilled in them for years4 ,he displays a proneness for what he himself would call high-brow stuff1 and his disproportionate display of his book learning reveals his conscious effort to supply what does not come to him naturally4 ,sunday has an eclectic mind4 ,he knows a good thing when he sees it4 ,he is quick to incorporate into his discourses happenings or illustrations wherever found4 ,moody also was accustomed to do this3 he circulated among his friends interleaved ,bibles to secure keen comments on ,scripture passages4 ,all preachers draw on the storehouses of the past3 the ,church ,fathers speak every ,sunday in the pulpits of ,christendom4 ,nobody originates all that he says4 ,we are the heirs of all the ages4 ,at the opening of every one of his campaigns ,sunday repeatedly announces that he has drawn his sermon material from wherever he could find it1 and that he makes no claim to originality4 ,so the qualified critic can detect1 in addition to some sermon outlines which were bequests from ,dr4 ,chapman1 epigrams from ,sam ,jones1 flashes from ,talmage1 passages from ,george ,stuart1 paragraphs from the religious press1 apothegms from the great commentators4 ,it is no news to say that ,sunday's material is not all original2 he avows this himself4 ,in his gleanings he has had help from various associates4 ,elijah ,p4 ,brown's hand can be traced in his sermons3 the creator of the ,ram's ,horn proverbs surely is responsible for ,sunday's penchant for throwing stones at the devil4 ,sunday is not an original thinker4 ,he has founded no school of ,scriptural interpretation4 ,he has not given any new exposition of ,bible passages1 nor has he developed any fresh lines of thought4 ,nobody hears anything new from him4 ,in every one of his audience there are probably many persons who have a more scholarly acquaintance with the ,bible and with ,christian literature4 ,temperamentally a conservative1 ,sunday has taken the truth taught him by his earliest teachers and has adapted and paraphrased and modernized it4 ,in the crucible of his intense personality this truth has become ,sundayized4 ,his discourses may have a variety of origin1 but they all sound like ,billy ,sunday when he delivers them4 ,a toilsome1 painstaking worker1 he has made elaborate notes of all his sermons1 and these he takes with him in leather-bound black books to the platform and follows more or less closely as he speaks4 ,no other man than himself could use these rough notes4 ,often he interjects into one sermon parts of another4 ,he has about a hundred discourses at his command at present1 and his supply is constantly growing4 ,the early copies of ,sunday's sermons were taken down more or less correctly in shorthand1 and these have been reproduced in every city where he has gone3 consequently they lack the tang and flavor of his present deliverances4 ,he is alert to glean from all sources4 ,in conversation one morning in ,scranton ,i told him how on the previous day a lawyer friend had characterized a preacher with whom ,i had been talking by saying1 ,how much like a preacher he looks1 and how little like a man4 ,that afternoon ,sunday used this in his sermon and twiddled it under his fingers for a minute or two1 paraphrasing it in characteristic ,sunday fashion4 ,doubtless it is now part of his permanent oratorical stock in trade4 ,the absolute unconventionality of the man makes all this possible4 ,he is not afraid of the most shocking presentation of truth4 ,thus when speaking at the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 he alluded to a professor who had criticized the doctrine of hell1 saying1 ,that man will not be in hell five minutes before he knows better4 ,of course that thrust caught the students4 ,a more discreet and diplomatic person than ,sunday would not have dared to say this4 ,the gospel preached by ,sunday is the same that the ,church has been teaching for hundreds of years4 ,he knows no modifications4 ,he is fiercely antagonistic to modern scholarship4 ,he sits in ,god's judgment seat in almost every sermon and frequently sends men to hell by name4 ,all this may be deplorable1 but it is ,sunday4 ,the ,bible which he uses is an interpreted and annotated edition by one of the most conservative of ,bible teachers3 this suits ,sunday1 for he is not of the temperament to be hospitable to new truths that may break forth from the living word4 ,this state of mind leads him to be extravagant and intolerant in his statements4 ,his hearers are patient with all of this because the body of his teachings is that held by all evangelical ,christians4 ,if he were less cock-sure he would not be ,billy ,sunday2 the great mass of mankind want a religion of authority4 ,after all1 truth is intolerant4 ,although lacking technical literary training ,sunday is not only a master of living ,english and of terse1 strong1 vivid and gripping phrase1 but he is also capable of extraordinary flights of eloquence1 when he uses the chastest and most appropriate language4 ,he has held multitudes spell-bound with such passages as these3 ,god's ,token of ,love ,down in ,jacksonville1 ,florida1 a man1 ,judge ,owen1 quarreled with his betrothed and to try to forget1 he went off and worked in a yellow-fever hospital4 ,finally he caught the disease and had succumbed to it4 ,he had passed the critical stage of the disease1 but he was dying4 ,one day his sweetheart met the physician on the street and asked about the judge4 ',he's sick1' he told her4 ',how bad8' she asked4 ',well1 he's passed the critical stage1 but he is dying1' the doctor told her4 ',but ,i don't understand1' she said1 'if he's passed the critical stage why isn't he getting well8' ',he's dying1 of undying love for you1 not the fever1' the doctor told her4 ,she asked him to come with her to a florist and he went and there she purchased some smilax and intertwined lilacs and wrote on a card1 ',with my love1' and signed her given name4 ,the doctor went back to the hospital and his patient was tossing in fitful slumber4 ,he laid the flowers on his breast and he awoke and saw the flowers and buried his head in them4 ',thanks for the flowers1 doctor1' he said1 but the doctor said1 ',they are not from me4' ',then who are they from8' ',guess6' ',i can't2 tell me4' ',i think you'll find the name on the card1' the doctor told him1 and he looked and read the card1 ',with my love4' ',tell me1' he cried1 'did she write that of her free will or did you beg her to do it8' ,the doctor told him she had begged to do it herself4 ,then you ought to have seen him4 ,the next day he was sitting up4 ,the next day he ate some gruel4 ,the next day he was in a chair4 ,the next day he could hobble on crutches4 ,the next day he threw one of them away4 ,the next day he threw the cane away and the next day he could walk pretty well4 ,on the ninth day there was a quiet wedding in the annex of the hospital4 ,you laugh2 but listen3 ,this old world is like a hospital4 ,here are the wards for the libertines4 ,here are the wards for the drunkards4 ,here are the wards for the blasphemers4 ,everywhere ,i look ,i see scarred humanity4 ,nineteen hundred years ago ,god looked over the battlements of heaven and he picked a basket of flowers1 and then one day he dropped a baby into the manger at ,bethlehem4 ',for ,god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten ,son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life4' ,what more can he do8 ,but ,god didn't spare him4 ,they crucified him1 but he burst the bonds of death and the ,holy ,spirit came down4 ,they banished ,john to the isle of ,patmos and there he wrote the words3 ',behold1 ,i stand at the door and knock2 if any man hear my voice and open the door ,i shall come in to him and sup with him and he with me4' ,the ,sinking ,ship ,years ago there was a ship on the ,atlantic and a storm arose4 ,the ship sprung a leak and in spite of all the men could do they could not pump out the water fast enough4 ,the captain called the men to him and told them that he had taken observations and bearings and said unless the leak was stopped in ten hours the boat would be at the bottom of the sea4 ',i want a man who will volunteer his life to stay the intake4 ,it's in the second hold and about the size of a man's arm and some one can place his arm in the hole and it will hold back the water until we can get it pumped out enough4' ,not a man stirred4 ,they said they would go back to the pumps and they did4 ,they worked hard and when a man dropped they would drag him away and revive him and bring him back4 ,the captain called them again and told them it was no use unless it was changed4 ,they would be at the bottom before ten hours unless some one volunteered and in less time than that if a storm arose4 ,then one stepped back4 ',what6 ,my boy6' ',yes1 father1 ,i'll go4' ,he sent some endearing words to his mother1 took one last look at the sky and kissed his father and bade the sailors good-bye1 and went below4 ,he found the leak and placed his arm in it and packed rags around it and the men went back to the pumps4 ,when day broke they saw the body floating and swaying in the water1 but the arm was still in the hole4 ,and the vessel sailed into port safe4 ,there on the coast today stands a monument to perpetuate the deed4 ,nineteen hundred years ago this old world sprung a leak4 ,god asked for volunteers to stop it1 and all of the angels and seraphim stood back1 ,noah1 ,abraham1 ,elijah1 ,isaiah1 ,david1 ,jeremiah1 ,solomon1 none would go1 and then forth stepped his ,son and said3 ',father1 ,i'll go1' and descended1 and died on the cross2 but ',up from the grave he arose1 ,with a mighty triumph o'er his foes4 ,he arose a victor from the dark domain ,and he lives forever with his saints to reign4 ,hallelujah1 ,christ arose6' ,he burst the bonds of death1 and the gates of heaven1 while the angels sang and would crown him yet4 ',let me stand between ,god and the people1' and there he stands today1 the ,mediator1 with the salvation1 full1 free1 perfect1 and eternal in one hand and the sword of inflexible justice in the other4 ,the time will come when he'll come with his angels2 some day he will withdraw his offer of salvation4 ,come and accept my ,christ6 ,who'll come and get under the blood with me8 ,what ,if ,it ,had ,been ,my ,boy8 ',say1 papa1 can ,i go with you8' asked a little boy of his father4 ',yes1 son1 come on1' said the father1 as he threw the axe over his shoulder and accompanied by a friend1 went to the woods and felled a tree4 ,the little fellow said3 ',say1 papa1 can ,i go and play in the water at the lagoon8' ',yes1 but be careful and don't get into deep water2 keep close to the bank4' ,the little fellow was playing1 digging wells1 picking up stones and shells and talking to himself1 when pretty soon the father heard him cry1 ',hurry1 papa1 hurry4' ,the father leaped to his feet1 grabbed the axe and ran to the lagoon and saw the boy floundering in deep water1 hands outstretched1 a look of horror on his face as he cried1 ',hurry1 papa2 hurry2 the alligator has got me4' ,the hideous amphibious monster had been hibernating and had come out1 lean1 lank1 hungry1 voracious1 and seized the boy4 ,the father leaped into the lagoon and was just about to sink the axe through the head of the monster when he turned and swished the water with his huge tail like the screw of an ocean steamer1 and the little fellow cried out3 ',hurry1 papa2 hurry1 hurry1 hur---- ' ,the water choked him4 ,the blood-flecked foam told the story4 ,the father went and got men and they plunged in and felt around and all they ever carried home to his mother was just two handfuls of crushed bones4 ,when ,i read that1 for days ,i could not eat1 for nights ,i could not sleep4 ,i said1 ',oh1 ,god1 what if that had been my boy8' ,there are influences worse than an alligator and they are ripping and tearing to shreds your virtue1 your morality4 ,young men are held by intemperance1 others by vice1 drunkards crying to the ,church1 ',hurry1 faster1' and the church members sit on the bank playing cards1 sit there drinking beer and reading novels4 ',hurry4' ,they are splitting hairs over fool things1 criticizing me or somebody else1 instead of trying to keep sinners out of hell1 and they are crying to the ,church1 ',faster6 ,faster6 ,faster6' ',lord1 is it ,i8' ,how many will say1 ',god1 ,i want to be nearer to you than ,i have ever been before4 ,i want to renew my vows4 ,i want to get under the cross4' ,how many will say it8 ,who'll yield his heart to ,christ8 ,who'll take his stand for the ,lord8 ,who'll come out clean-cut for ,god8 ,a ,dream of ,heaven ,some years ago1 after ,i had been romping and playing with the children1 ,i grew tired and lay down1 and half awake and half asleep1 ,i had a dream4 ,i dreamed ,i was in a far-off land2 it was not ,persia1 but all the glitter and gaudy raiment were there2 it was not ,india1 although her coral strands were there2 it was not ,ceylon1 although all the beauties of that island of paradise were there2 it was not ,italy1 although the soft dreamy haze of the blue ,italian skies shone above me4 ,i looked for weeds and briars1 thorns and thistles and brambles and found none4 ,i saw the sun in all its regal splendor and ,i said to the people1 ',when will the sun set and it grow dark8' ,they all laughed and said3 ',it never grows dark in this land2 there is no night here4' ,i looked at the people1 their faces wreathed in a simple halo of glory1 attired in holiday clothing4 ,i said3 ',when will the working men go by clad in overalls8 and where are the brawny men who work and toil over the anvil8' ,they said1 ',we toil not1 neither do we spin2 there remaineth a rest for the people of ,god4' ,i strolled out in the suburbs4 ,i said1 ',where are the graveyards1 the grave-diggers8 ,where do you bury your dead8' ,they said1 ',we never die here4' ,i looked out and saw the towers and spires2 ,i looked at them1 but ,i did not see any tombstones1 mausoleums1 green or flower-covered graves4 ,i said1 ',where1 where are the hearses that carry your dead8 ,where are the undertakers that embalm the dead8' ,they said1 ',we never die in this land4' ,i said1 ',where are the hospitals where they take the sick8 ,where is the minster1 and where are the nurses to give the gentle touch1 the panacea8' ,they said1 ',we never grow sick in this land4' ,i said1 ',where are the homes of want and squalor8 ,where live the poor8' ,they said1 ',there is no penury2 none die here2 none ever cry for bread in this land4' ,i was bewildered4 ,i strolled along and heard the ripple of the waters as the waves broke against the jeweled beach4 ,i saw boats with oars dipped with silver1 bows of pure gold4 ,i saw multitudes that no man could number4 ,we all jumped down through the violets and varicolored flowers1 the air pulsing with bird song1 and ,i cried1 ',are--all--here8' ,and they echoed1 ',all--are--here4' ,and we went leaping and shouting and vied with bower and spire1 and they all caroled and sung my welcome1 and we all bounded and leaped and shouted with glee1 ',home--,home--,home4' ,the ,battle ,with ,death ,just one thing divides you people4 ,you are either across the line of safety1 or you are outside the kingdom of ,god4 ,old or young1 rich or poor1 high or low1 ignorant or educated1 white or colored1 each of you is upon one side or upon the other4 ,the young man who talked to ,jesus didn't let an infidel persuade him1 and neither should you4 ,the time will come when his head will lie on his pillow and his fevered head will toss from side to side4 ,the time will come when there will be a rap on the door4 ',who are you8' ',death4' ',i didn't send for you4 ,why do you come here8' ',nobody sends for me4 ,i choose my own time4 ,if ,i waited for people to send for me ,i would never come4' ',but don't come in now1 ,death4' ',i am coming in4 ,i have waited for a long time4 ,i have held a mortgage on you for fifty years1 and ,i've come to foreclose4' ',but1 ah1 ,death1 ,i'm not ready4' ',hush6 ,hush6 ,i've come to take you4 ,you must come4' ',death6 ,death6 ,go get my pocketbook1 there6 ,go get my bankbook6 ,go get the key to my safety deposit box6 ,take my gold watch1 my jewelry1 my lands1 my home1 everything ,i've got1 ,i'll give all to you if you'll only go4' ,illustration3 ,,but ,,death ,,says1 ',i',,ve ,,come ,,for ,,you' ,but ,death says1 ',i've come for you4 ,i don't want your money or your land or anything that you have4 ,you must come with me4' ',death6 ,death6 ,don't blow that icy breath upon me4 ,don't crowd me against the wall6' ',you must come6 ,you have a week--you have five days--you have one day--you have twelve hours--you have one hour--you have thirty minutes--you have ten minutes--you have one minute--you have thirty seconds-- you have ten seconds6 ,i'll count them--one--two--three--four--five--six-- ha6 ha6--seven--eight--nine--ten6' ,he's gone4 ,telephone for the undertaker4 ,carry him to the graveyard4 ,lay him beside his mother4 ,she died saying1 ',i'm sweeping through the gates1 washed in the blood of the ,lamb4' ,he died shrieking1 ',don't blow that cold breath in my face6 ,don't crowd me against the wall6' ,oh6 ,god1 don't let that old infidel keep you out of the kingdom of ,god4 ,who'll come into the kingdom of ,god8 ,come quick--quick--quick6 ,christ or ,nothing ',and whatsoever ye shall ask the ,father in my name1 that will ,i do1 that the ,father may be glorified in the ,son4' ,no man can be saved without ,jesus ,christ4 ,there's no way to ,god unless you come through ,jesus ,christ4 ,it's ,jesus ,christ or nothing4 ,at the close of the ,battle of ,gettysburg the country roundabout was overrun by ,federals or ,confederates1 wounded or ill1 and the people helped both alike4 ,relief corps were organized in all the little towns4 ,in one of them--,i think it was ,york--a man who had headed the committee1 resigned as chairman and told his clerk not to send any more soldiers to him4 ,there came a ,union soldier with a blood-stained bandage and with crutches that he had made for himself1 and asked to see this man4 ',i am no longer chairman of the committee1' said the man1 'and ,i cannot help you1 for if ,i were to make any exception to the rule1 ,i would be overrun with applicants4' ',but1' said the soldier1 ',i don't want to ask you for anything4 ,i only want to give you a letter4 ,it is from your son1 who is dead4 ,i was with him1 when he died4 ,when he was wounded ,i got him a canteen of water and propped him up against a tree and held his hand when he wrote4 ,i know where he lies4' ,the father took the letter1 and he read it4 ,it said1 ',treat this soldier kindly for my sake4' ,then it told how he had helped the writer--the dying boy4 ,the father said1 ',you must come with me to his mother4' ,she saw them coming and cried out1 ',have you any news of my boy8' ,the father said1 ',here is a letter--read it4' ,she read it and shrieked4 ,they took the wounded soldier into their home1 ',won't you stay with us and be our son8 ,you were his friend1 you were with him at the last1 you look like him1 your voice reminds us of him4 ,when you speak and we turn our faces away1 we can almost think he is here4 ,let us adopt you4 ,won't you do it8' ,he heard their plea1 and he was touched and he stayed4 ,so heaven will hear your prayer if it is in the name of ,christ4 ,when ,i go in the name of ,jesus ,christ1 ,god will stop making worlds to hear me4 ,lord1 teach us how to pray4 ,calvary ,there comes ,judas1 leading the devil's crowd1 the churchly gang4 ,don't forget that ,jesus was crucified by church members whose sins he rebuked4 ,judas said1 ',the fellow that ,i kiss1 that's ,jesus4' ,look at the snake on his sanctimonious countenance4 ,he said1 ',hail1 ,master1' and he kissed him4 ,jesus said1 ',judas1 betrayest thou the ,son of ,man with a kiss8' ,and they staggered back4 ',whom seek ye8' ',we are all looking for ,jesus of ,nazareth4' ',all right1 ,i am he4' ,they staggered again1 and ,judas led them on4 ,they rushed up and seized ,jesus ,christ4 ,when starting for ,calvary they put a cross on his back4 ,he was tired and he staggered and stumbled1 then fell1 but he climbed up and a fellow smote him and said1 ',ha1 ha1' and the young fellow spat upon him4 ,they cursed him and damned him4 ,what for8 ,because he came to open up a plan of redemption to keep you and me out of hell2 and yet you live a life of disgrace4 ,on he went and along came a colored man named ,simon and they put the cross on his back and he went dragging it for ,jesus4 ,the colored race has borne many a burden in the advancement of civilization1 but a grander burden has never been on the back of black or white1 than when ,simon bore the ,master's cross4 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,jr41 ,,mr4 ,,and ,,mrs4 ,,sunday ,,and ,,paul4 ,on they went and seized him1 and ,i can see his arms as they pounded the nails through his hands and his feet4 ,another fellow digs a hole1 and ,i can hear the cross as it 'chugs' in the hole1 and they lift him between heaven and earth4 ,then the disciples forsook him and fled4 ,left him all alone4 ,how many will go with ,jesus to the last ditch8 ,thousands will die for him1 but there is another set that will not4 ,the disciples followed him to the garden1 but forsook him at the cross4 ,if we had been there we might have seen the hilltops and the tree-tops filled and covered with angels1 and houses crowded4 ,as ,jesus hung on the cross and cried1 ',i thirst1' a ,jew ran and dipped a sponge in wormwood and gall and vinegar and put it on a reed and put it up to his lips4 ,then ,jesus cried1 ',my ,god1 why hast thou forsaken me8' ,there he hung1 feeling the burden of your guilt1 you booze-fighter1 you libertine1 you dead-beat4 ',my ,god1 hast thou forsaken me8' he cried1 and ,i imagine that the archangel cried1 ,oh1 ,jesus1 if you want me to come and sweep the howling1 blood-thirsty mob into hell1 lift your head and look me in the face and ,i will come4' ,but ,jesus gritted his teeth and struggled on1 and the archangel again cried1 ',oh1 ,jesus1 if you want me to come1 tear your right hand loose from the cross and wave it1 and ,i will come4' ,but ,jesus just clenched his fist over the nails4 ,what for8 ,to keep you out of hell4 ,then tell me why you are indifferent4 ,and soon he cried1 ',it is finished4' ,the ,holy ,spirit plucked the olive branch of peace back through the gates of heaven from the cross and winged his way and cried1 ',peace6 ,peace has been made by his death on the cross4' ,that is what he had to do4 ,that was his duty4 ,the ,world for ,god ,a heathen woman named ,panathea was famous for her great beauty1 and ,king ,cyrus wanted her for his harem4 ,he sent his representatives to her and offered her money and jewels to come1 but she repulsed them and spurned their advances4 ,again he sent them1 this time with offers still more generous and tempting2 but again she sent them away with scorn4 ,a third time they were sent1 and a third time she said1 ',nay4' ,then ,king ,cyrus went in person to see her1 and he doubled and trebled and quadrupled the offers his men had made1 but still she would not go4 ,she told him that she was a wife1 and that she was true to her husband4 ,he said1 ',panathea1 where dwellest thou8' ',in the arms and on the breast of my husband1' she said4 ',take her away1' said ,cyrus4 ',she is of no use to me4' ,then he put her husband in command of the charioteers and sent him into battle at the head of the troops4 ,panathea knew what this meant--that her husband had been sent in that he might be killed4 ,she waited while the battle raged1 and when the field was cleared she shouted his name and searched for him and finally found him wounded and dying4 ,she knelt and clasped him in her arms1 and as they kissed1 his lamp of life went out forever4 ,king ,cyrus heard of the man's death1 and came to the field4 ,panathea saw him coming1 careening on his camel like a ship in a storm4 ,she called1 ',oh1 husband6 ,he comes--he shall not have me4 ,i was true to you in life1 and will be true to you in death6' ,and she drew her dead husband's poniard from its sheath1 drove it into her own breast and fell dead across the body4 ,king ,cyrus came up and dismounted4 ,he removed his turban and knelt by the dead husband and wife1 and thanked ,god that he had found in his kingdom one true and virtuous woman that his money could not buy1 nor his power intimidate4 ,oh1 preachers1 the problem of this century is the problem of the first century4 ,we must win the world for ,god and we will win the world for ,god just as soon as we have men and women who will be faithful to ,god and will not lie and will not sell out to the devil4 ,a ,word ,picture ,every day at noon1 while ,ingersoll was lecturing1 ,hastings would go to old ,farwell ,hall and answer ,ingersoll's statements of the night before4 ,one night ,ingersoll painted one of those wonderful word pictures for which he was justly famous4 ,he was a master of the use of words4 ,men and women would applaud and cheer and wave their hats and handkerchiefs1 and the waves of sound would rise and fall like great waves of the sea4 ,as two men were going home from his lecture1 one of them said to the other3 ',bob certainly cleaned 'em up tonight4' ,the other man said3 ',there's one thing he didn't clean up4 ,he didn't clean up the religion of my old mother4' ,this is the word picture ,ingersoll painted3 ',i would rather have been a ,french peasant and worn wooden shoes2 ,i would rather have lived in a hut1 with a vine growing over the door and the grapes growing and ripening in the autumn sun2 ,i would rather have been that peasant1 with my wife by my side and my children upon my knees twining their arms of affection about me2 ,i would rather have been that poor ,french peasant and gone down at least to the eternal promiscuity of the dust1 followed by those who loved me2 ,i would a thousand times rather have been that ,french peasant than that imperial incarnation of force and murder 7,napoleon72 and so ,i would ten thousand times4' ,what was that8 ,simply a word picture4 ,it was only the trick of an orator4 ,let me paint for you a picture1 and see if it doesn't make you feel like leaping and shouting hallelujahs4 ,infidelity has never won a drunkard from his cups4 ,it has never redeemed a fallen woman from her unchastity4 ,it has never built a hospital for the crushed and sick4 ,it has never dried tears4 ,it has never built a mission for the rescue of the down-and-out4 ,it wouldn't take a ream1 or a quire1 or a sheet1 or even a line of paper to write down what infidelity has done to better and gladden the world4 ,what has infidelity done to benefit the world8 ,what has it ever done to help humanity in any way8 ,it never built a school1 it never built a church1 it never built an asylum or a home for the poor4 ,it never did anything for the good of man4 ,i challenge the combined forces of unbelief4 ,they have failed utterly4 ,well may ,christianity stand today and point to its hospitals1 its churches and its schools with their towers and the spires pointing to the source of their inspiration and say3 ',these are the works that ,i do4' ,i would rather have been a ,french peasant and worn wooden shoes2 ,i would rather have lived in a hut1 with a vine growing over the door and grapes growing and ripening in the autumn sun2 ,i would rather have been that peasant1 with my wife and children by my side and the open ,bible on my knees1 at peace with the world and at peace with ,god2 ,i would rather have been that poor peasant and gone down at least in the promiscuity of the dust1 with the certainty that my name was written in the ,lamb's book of life than to have been that brilliant infidel whose tricks of oratory charmed thousands and sent souls to hell4 ,the ,faithful ,pilot ,some years ago a harbor pilot in ,boston1 who had held a commission for sixty-five years 7you know the harbor pilots and the ocean pilots are different74 ,for sixty-five years he had guided ships in and out of the ,boston harbor1 but his time to die had come4 ,presently the watchers at his bedside saw that he was trying to sit up1 and they aided him4 ',i see a light1' he said4 ',is it the ,minot light8' they asked him4 ',no1 that is first white and then red2 this one is all white all the time1' and he fell back4 ,after a few moments he struggled to rise again4 ',i see a light1' he gasped4 ',is it the ,highland light8' ',no1 that one is red and then black2 this one is white all the time4' ,and he fell back again and they thought certainly he was gone1 but he came back again as if from the skies and they saw his lips moving4 ',i see a light4' ',is it the ,boston light2 the last as you pass out8' they asked4 ',no1 that one is red all the time2 this one is white all the time4' ,and his hands trembled and he reached out his feeble arms4 ,his face lighted up with a halo of glory4 ',i see a light1' he gasped1 'and it is the light of glory4 ,let the anchor drop4' ',and he anchored his soul in the haven of rest1 ,to sail the wild seas no more3 ,tho' the tempest may beat o'er the wild stormy deep1 ,in ,jesus ,i'm safe evermore4' ,that's where you ought to be4 ,will you come8 ,,chapter ,,xi ,acrobatic ,preaching ,if nine-tenths of you were as weak physically as you are spiritually1 you couldn't walk4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,if1 as has been often said1 inspiration is chiefly perspiration1 then there is no doubting the inspiration of ,rev4 ,william ,a4 ,sunday1 ,d4,d4 ,beyond question he is the most vigorous speaker on the public platform today4 ,one editor estimates that he travels a mile over his platform in every sermon he delivers4 ,there is no other man to liken him to3 only an athlete in the pink of condition could endure the gruelling exertions to which he subjects himself every day of his campaigns4 ,the stranger who sees him for the first time is certain that he is on the very edge of a complete collapse2 but as that same remark has been made for years past1 it is to be hoped that the physical instrument may be equal to its task for a long time to come4 ,people understand with their eyes as well as with their ears2 and ,sunday preaches to both4 ,the intensity of his physical exertions--gestures is hardly an adequate word--certainly enhances the effect of the preacher's earnestness4 ,no actor on the dramatic stage works so hard4 ,such passion as dominates ,sunday cannot be simulated2 it is the soul pouring itself out through every pore of the body4 ,some of the platform activities of ,sunday make spectators gasp4 ,he races to and fro across the platform4 ,like a jack knife he fairly doubles up in emphasis4 ,one hand smites the other4 ,his foot stamps the floor as if to destroy it4 ,once ,i saw him bring his clenched fist down so hard on the seat of a chair that ,i feared the blood would flow and the bones be broken4 ,no posture is too extreme for this restless gymnast4 ,yet it all seems natural4 ,like his speech1 it is an integral part of the man4 ,every muscle of his body preaches in accord with his voice4 ,be it whispered1 men like this unconventional sort of earnestness4 ,whenever they are given a chance1 most men are prone to break the trammels of sober usage4 ,i never yet have met a layman who has been through a ,billy ,sunday campaign who had a single word of criticism of the platform gymnastics of the evangelist4 ,their reasoning is something like this3 ,on the stage1 where men undertake to represent a character or a truth1 they use all arts and spare themselves not at all4 ,why should not a man go to greater lengths when dealing with living realities of the utmost importance8 ,illustration3 ,,sunday ,,is ,,for ,,an ,,instant ,,down ,,on ,,all ,,fours4 ,sunday is a physical sermon4 ,in a unique sense he glorifies ,god with his body4 ,only a physique kept in tune by clean living and right usage could respond to the terrific and unceasing demands which ,sunday makes upon it4 ,when in a sermon he alludes to the man who acts no better than a four-footed brute1 ,sunday is for an instant down on all fours on the platform and you see that brute4 ,as he pictures a man praying he sinks to his knees for a single moment4 ,when he talks of the death-bed penitent as a man waiting to be pumped full of embalming fluid1 he cannot help going through the motions of pumping in the fluid4 ,he remarks that death-bed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil1 and then blowing the smoke in ,god's face--and the last phrase is accompanied by pfouff6 ,in a dramatic description of the marathon he pictures the athlete falling prostrate at the goal and--thud6--there lies the evangelist prone on the platform4 ,only a skilled baseball player1 with a long drill in sliding to bases1 could thus fling himself to the floor without serious injury4 ,on many occasions he strips off his coat and talks in his shirt sleeves4 ,it seems impossible for him to stand up behind the pulpit and talk only with his mouth4 ,the fact is1 ,sunday is a born actor4 ,he knows how to portray truth by a vocal personality4 ,when he describes the traveler playing with a pearl at sea1 he tosses an imaginary gem into the air so that the spectators hold their breath lest the ship should lurch and the jewel be lost4 ,words without gesture could never attain this triumph of oratory4 ,a hint of ,sunday's state of mind which drives him to such earnestness and intensity in labor is found in quotations like the following3 ,you will agree with me1 in closing1 that ,i'm not a crank2 at least ,i try not to be4 ,i have not preached about my first1 second1 third or hundredth blessing4 ,i have not talked about baptism or immersion4 ,i told you that while ,i was here my creed would be3 ',with ,christ you are saved2 without him you are lost4' ,are you saved8 ,are you lost8 ,going to heaven8 ,going to hell8 ,i have tried to build every sermon right around those questions2 and also to steer clear of anything else1 but ,i want to say to you in closing1 that it is the inspiration of my life1 the secret of my earnestness4 ,i never preach a sermon but that ,i think it may be the last one some fellow will hear or the last ,i shall ever be privileged to preach4 ,it is an inspiration to me that some day ,he will come4 ',it may be at morn1 when the day is awaking1 ,when darkness through sunlight and shadow is breaking1 ,that ,jesus will come1 in the fullness of glory1 ,to receive from the world his own4 ',oh joy1 ,oh delight1 to go without dying1 ,no sickness1 no sadness1 no sorrow1 no crying6 ,caught up with the ,lord in the clouds of glory ,when he comes to receive from the world his own4' ,illustration3 ,a ,,caricature ,,of ,,billy ,,sunday',s ,,emphatic ,,way ,,of ,,preaching4 ,go straight on and break the lion's neck and turn it into a beehive1 out of which you will some day take the best and sweetest honey ever tasted1 for the flavor of a dead lion in the honey beats that of clover and buckwheat all to pieces4 ,be a man1 therefore1 by going straight on to breathe the air that has in it the smoke of battle4 ,don't spend much time in looking for an easy chair1 with a soft cushion on it1 if you would write your name high in the hall of fame where the names of real men are found4 ,the man who is willing to be carried over all rough places might as well have wooden legs4 ',he is not worthy of the honeycomb who shuns the hive because the bees have stings4' ,the true value of life lies in the preciousness of striving4 ,no tears are ever shed for the chick that dies in its shell4 ',did you tackle the trouble that came your way ,with a resolute heart and cheerful8 ,or hide your face from the light of day ,with a craven soul and fearful8 ,oh1 a trouble is a ton1 or a trouble is an ounce1 ,or a trouble is what you make it1 ,and it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts-- ,but only--,how did you take it8' ,this poem is by ,paul ,lawrence ,dunbar1 the negro poet3 ',the ,lord had a job for me1 but ,i had so much to do1 ,i said3 ,you get somebody else--or1 wait till ,i get through4 ,i don't know how the ,lord came out1 but he seemed to get along-- ,but ,i felt kinda sneakin' like1 'cause ,i know'd ,i done him wrong-- ,one day ,i needed the ,lord1 needed him myself--needed him right away-- ,and he never answered me at all1 but ,i could hear him say-- ,down in my accusin' heart--,nigger1 ,i'se got too much to do1 ,you get somebody else1 or wait till ,i get through4 ,now when the ,lord he have a job for me1 ,i never tries to shirk2 ,i drops what ,i have on hand and does the good ,lord's work2 ,and my affairs can run along1 or wait till ,i get through1 ,nobody else can do the job that ,god's marked out for you4' ,i will tell you many young people are good in the beginning1 but they are like the fellow that was killed by falling off a skyscraper--they stop too quick4 ,they go one day like a six-cylinder automobile with her carbureters working2 the next day they stroll along like a fellow walking through a graveyard reading the epitaphs on the tombstones4 ,it is the false ideals that strew the shores with wrecks1 eagerness to achieve success in realms we can not reach that breeds half the ills that curse today4 ,one hundred years from tonight what difference will it make whether you are rich or poor2 whether learned or illiterate4 ',it matters little where ,i was born1 ,whether my parents were rich or poor2 ,whether they shrunk from the cold world's scorn1 ,or lived in pride of wealth secure4 ,but whether ,i live an honest man1 ,and hold my integrity firm in my clutch2 ,i tell you--my neighbor--as plain as ,i can1 ,that matters much4' ,the engineer is bigger than the locomotive1 because he runs it4 ,do your best and you will never wear out shoe leather looking for a job4 ,do your best1 and you will never become blind reading ',help ,wanted' ads in a newspaper4 ,be like the fellow that went to college and tacked the letter ,v up over his door in his room4 ,he was asked what that stood for1 and he said valedictorian1 and he went out carrying the valedictory with him4 ',if ,i were a cobbler1 best of all cobblers ,i would be4 ,if ,i were a tinker1 no tinker beside should mend an old tea kettle for me4' ,in dealing with the unreality of many preachers1 ,sunday pictures a minister as going to the store to buy groceries for his wife1 but using his pulpit manner1 his pulpit tone of voice and his pulpit phraseology4 ,this is so true to life that it convulses every congregation that hears it4 ,in these few minutes of mimicry the evangelist does more to argue for reality and genuineness and unprofessionalism on the part of the clergy than could be accomplished by an hour's lecture4 ,another of his famous passages is his portrayal of the society woman nursing a pug dog4 ,you see the woman and you see the dog1 and you love neither one4 ,likewise1 ,sunday mimics the skin-flint hypocrite in a way to make the man represented loathe himself4 ,this suggests a second fact about ,sunday's preaching4 ,he often makes people laugh1 but rarely makes them cry4 ,his sense of humor is stronger than his sense of pathos4 ,now tears and hysterics are supposed to be part of the stock in trade of the professional evangelist4 ,not so with ,sunday4 ,he makes sin absurd and foolish as well as wicked2 and he makes the sinner ashamed of himself4 ,he has recovered for the ,church the use of that powerful weapon1 the barb of ridicule4 ,there are more instruments of warfare in the gospel armory than the average preacher commonly uses4 ,sunday endeavors to employ them all1 and his favorites seem to be humor1 satire and scorn4 ,as a physical performance the preaching to crowds of from ten to twenty-five thousand persons every day is phenomenal4 ,sunday has not a beautiful voice like many great orators4 ,it is husky and seems strained and yet it is able to penetrate every corner of his great tabernacles4 ,nor is he possessed of the oratorical manner1 the grand air of the rhetorician4 ,mostly he is direct1 informal and colloquial in his utterances4 ,but he is so dead in earnest that after every address he must make an entire change of raiment--and1 like most baseball players1 and members of the sporting fraternities1 he is fond of good clothes1 even to the point of foppishness4 ,he carries about a dozen different suits with him and ,i question whether there is a single ,prince ,albert or preacher's coat in the whole outfit4 ,a very human figure is ,billy ,sunday on the platform4 ,during the preliminaries he enjoys the music1 the responses of the delegations1 and any of the informalities that are common accessories of his meetings4 ,when he begins to speak he is an autocrat and will brook no disturbance4 ,he is less concerned about hurting the feelings of some fidgety1 restless usher or auditor than he is about the comfort of the great congregation and its opportunity to hear his message4 ,any notion that ,sunday loves the limelight is wide of the mark4 ,the fact is1 he shuns the public gaze4 ,it really makes him nervous to be pointed out and stared at4 ,that is one reason why he does not go to a hotel1 but hires a furnished house for himself and his associates4 ,here they camp out for the period of the campaign1 and enjoy something like the family life of every-day ,american folk4 ,their hospitable table puts on no more frills than that of the ordinary home4 ,the same cook has accompanied the party for months2 and when a family's religion so commends itself to the cook1 it is likely to grade ,a ,no4 #a ,hard1 like ,minnesota wheat4 ,ma1 as the whole party call ,mrs4 ,sunday1 is responsible for the home1 as well as for many meetings4 ,primarily1 though1 she looks after ,daddy4 ,sunday is the type of man who is quite helpless with respect to a dozen matters which a watchful wife attends to4 ,he needs considerable looking after1 and all his friends1 from the newspaper men to the policeman on duty at the house1 conspire to take care of him4 ,the ,pittsburgh authorities assigned a couple of plain clothes men to safeguard ,sunday2 of course he got them early1 as he gets most everybody he comes into touch with4 ,so these men took care of ,sunday as if he were the famous millionaire baby of ,washington and ,newport4 ,not a sense of official duty1 but affectionate personal solicitude animated those two men who rode in the automobile with us from the house to the ,tabernacle4 ,this sort of thing is one of the most illuminating phases of the ,sunday campaign4 ,those who come closest to the man believe most in his religion4 ,as one of the newspaper men covering the meetings said to me1 ,the newspaper boys have all 'hit the trail4' ,then he proved his religion by offering to do the most fraternal services for me4 ,from ,mrs4 ,sunday1 though1 ,i learned that there was one bright reporter who had worked on aspects of the revival who had not gone forward4 ,he avoided the meetings1 and evaded the personal interviews of the ,sunday party4 ,the evangelist's wife was as solicitous over that one young man's spiritual welfare as if he had been one of her own four children4 ,ten of the policemen stationed at the ,tabernacle went forward the night before ,i arrived in ,pittsburgh4 ,i was told that twenty others were waiting to hit the trail in a group1 taking their families with them4 ,the personal side of ,sunday is wholesome and satisfactory4 ,he is a simple1 modest chap1 marked by the ways of the ,middle ,west4 ,between meetings he goes to bed1 and there friends sometimes visit him4 ,met thus intimately1 behind the scenes1 one would expect from him an unrestrained display of personality1 even a measure of egotism4 ,surely1 it is sometimes to be permitted a man to recount his achievements4 ,never a boast did ,i hear from ,sunday4 ,instead1 he seemed absurdly self-distrustful4 ,these are his times for gathering1 and he wanted me to tell him about ,bible lands6 ,,chapter ,,xii ,the ,old-,time ,religion ,i am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion1 that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,modern to the last minute ,sunday's methods may be1 but his message is unmistakably the old-time religion4 ,he believes his beliefs without a question4 ,there is no twilight zone in his intellectual processes2 no mental reservation in his preaching4 ,he is sure that man is lost without ,christ1 and that only by the acceptance of the ,saviour can fallen humanity find salvation4 ,he is as sure of hell as of heaven1 and for all modernized varieties of religion he has only vials of scorn4 ,in no single particular is ,sunday's work more valuable than in its revelation of the power of positive conviction to attract and convert multitudes4 ,the world wants faith4 ,intolerant1 cry the scholars of ,sunday2 but the hungry myriads accept him as their spiritual guide to peace1 and joy1 and righteousness4 ,the world wants a religion with salvation in it2 speculation does not interest the average man who seeks deliverance from sin in himself and in the world4 ,he does not hope to be evoluted into holiness2 he wants to be redeemed4 ,modernists sputter and fume and rail at ,sunday and his work3 but they cannot deny that he leads men and women into new lives of holiness1 happiness and helpfulness4 ,churches are enlarged and righteousness is promoted1 all by the old1 blood-stained way of the ,cross4 ,the revivals which have followed the preaching of ,evangelist ,sunday are supplemental to the ,book of the ,acts4 ,his theology is summed up in the words ,peter used in referring to ,jesus3 ,there is none other ,name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved4 ,one of ,sunday's favorite sayings is3 ,i don't know any more about theology than a jack-rabbit does about ping-pong1 but ,i'm on the way to glory4 ,that really does not fully express the evangelist's point4 ,he was arguing that theology bears the same relation to ,christianity that botany does to flowers1 or astronomy to the stars4 ,botany is rewritten1 but the flowers remain the same4 ,theology changes 7,i have no objection to your new theology when it tries to make the truths of ,christianity clearer71 but ,christianity abides4 ,nobody is kept out of heaven because he does not understand theology4 ,it isn't theology that saves1 but ,christ2 it is not the sawdust trail that saves1 but ,christ in the motive that makes you hit the trail4 ,i believe the ,bible is the word of ,god from cover to cover4 ,i believe that the man who magnifies the word of ,god in his preaching is the man whom ,god will honor4 ,why do such names stand out on the pages of history as ,wesley1 ,whitefield1 ,finney and ,martin ,luther8 ,because of their fearless denunciation of all sin1 and because they preach ,jesus ,christ without fear or favor4 ,but somebody says a revival is abnormal4 ,you lie6 ,do you mean to tell me that the godless1 card-playing conditions of the ,church are normal8 ,i say they are not1 but it is the abnormal state4 ,it is the sin-eaten1 apathetic condition of the ,church that is abnormal4 ,it is the ',dutch lunch' and beer party1 card parties and the like1 that are abnormal4 ,i say that they lie when they say that a revival is an abnormal condition in the ,church4 ,what we need is the good old-time kind of revival that will cause you to love your neighbors1 and quit talking about them4 ,a revival that will make you pay your debts1 and have family prayers4 ,get that kind and then you will see that a revival means a very different condition from what people believe it does4 ,christianity means a lot more than church membership4 ,many an old skin-flint is not fit for the balm of ,gilead until you give him a fly blister and get after him with a currycomb4 ,there are too many ,sunday-school teachers who are godless card-players1 beer1 wine and champagne drinkers4 ,no wonder the kids are going to the devil4 ,no wonder your children grow up like cattle when you have no form of prayer in the home4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,according ,,to ,,sunday ,what does converted mean8 ,it means completely changed4 ,converted is not synonymous with reformed4 ,reforms are from without--conversion from within4 ,conversion is a complete surrender to ,jesus4 ,it's a willingness to do what he wants you to do4 ,unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records4 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 in your heart and confess him with your mouth and you will be saved4 ,god is good4 ,the plan of salvation is presented to you in two parts4 ,believe in your heart and confess with your mouth4 ,many of you here probably do believe4 ,why don't you confess8 ,now own up4 ,the truth is that you have a yellow streak4 ,own up1 business men1 and business women1 and all of you others4 ,isn't it so8 ,haven't you got a little saffron8 ,brave old ,elijah ran like a scared deer when he heard old ,jezebel had said she would have his head1 and he beat it4 ,and he ran to ,beersheba and lay down under a juniper tree and cried to the ,lord to let him die4 ,the ,lord answered his prayer1 but not in the way he expected4 ,if he had let him die he would have died with nothing but the wind moaning through the trees as his funeral dirge4 ,but the ,lord had something better for ,elijah4 ,he had a chariot of fire and it swooped down and carried him into glory without his ever seeing death4 ,so he says he has something better for you--salvation if he can get you to see it4 ,you've kept your church membership locked up4 ,you've smiled at a smutty story4 ,when ,god and the ,church were scoffed at you never peeped1 and when asked to stand up here you've sneaked out the back way and beat it4 ,you're afraid and ,god despises a coward--a mutt4 ,you cannot be converted by thinking so and sitting still4 ,illustration3 ,,every ,,muscle ,,in ,,his ,,body ,,preaches ,,in ,,accord ,,with ,,his ,,voice4 ,maybe you're a drunkard1 an adulterer1 a prostitute1 a liar2 won't admit you are lost2 are proud4 ,maybe you're even proud you're not proud1 and ,jesus has a time of it4 ,jesus said3 ,come to me1 not to the ,church2 to me1 not to a creed2 to me1 not to a preacher2 to me1 not to an evangelist2 to me1 not to a priest2 to me1 not to a pope2 ,come to me and ,i will give you rest4 ,faith in ,jesus ,christ saves you1 not faith in the ,church4 ,you can join church1 pay your share of the preacher's salary1 attend the services1 teach ,sunday school1 return thanks and do everything that would apparently stamp you as a ,christian--even pray--but you won't ever be a ,christian until you do what ,god tells you to do4 ,that's the road1 and that's the only one mapped out for you and for me4 ,god treats all alike4 ,he doesn't furnish one plan for the banker and another for the janitor who sweeps out the bank4 ,he has the same plan for one that he has for another4 ,it's the law--you may not approve of it1 but that doesn't make any difference4 ,salvation a ,personal ,matter ,the first thing to remember about being saved is that salvation is a personal matter4 ,seek ye the ,lord--that means every one must seek for himself4 ,it won't do for the parent to seek for the children2 it won't do for the children to seek for the parent4 ,if you were sick all the medicine ,i might take wouldn't do you any good4 ,salvation is a personal matter that no one else can do for you2 you must attend to it yourself4 ,some persons have lived manly or womanly lives1 and they lack but one thing--open confession of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,some men think that they must come to him in a certain way--that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that4 ,some people have a deeper conviction of sin before they are converted than after they are converted4 ,with some it is the other way4 ,some know when they are converted and others don't4 ,some people are emotional4 ,some are demonstrative4 ,some will cry easily4 ,some are cold and can't be moved to emotion4 ,a man jumped up in a meeting and asked whether he could be saved when he hadn't shed a tear in forty years4 ,even as he spoke he began to shed tears4 ,it's all a matter of how you're constituted4 ,i am vehement1 and ,i serve ,god with the same vehemence that ,i served the devil when ,i went down the line4 ,some of you say that in order to accept ,jesus you must have different surroundings4 ,you think you could do it better in some other place4 ,you can be saved where you are as well as any place on earth4 ,i say1 ,my watch doesn't run4 ,it needs new surroundings4 ,i'll put it in this other pocket1 or ,i'll put it here1 or here on these flowers4 ,it doesn't need new surroundings4 ,it needs a new mainspring2 and that's what the sinner needs4 ,you need a new heart1 not a new suit4 ,what can ,i do to keep out of hell8 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ and thou shalt be saved4 ,the ,philippian jailer was converted4 ,he had put the disciples into the stocks when they came to the prison1 but after his conversion he stooped down and washed the blood from their stripes4 ,now1 leave ,god out of the proposition for a minute4 ,never mind about the new birth--that's his business4 ,jesus ,christ became a man1 bone of our bone1 flesh of our flesh4 ,he died on the cross for us1 so that we might escape the penalty pronounced on us4 ,now1 never mind about anything but our part in salvation4 ,here it is3 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 and thou shalt be saved4 ,you say1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 the ,church is full of hypocrites4 ,so's hell4 ,i say to you if you don't want to go to hell and live with that whole bunch forever1 come into the ,church1 where you won't have to associate with them very long4 ,there are no hypocrites in heaven4 ,you say1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,i can be a ,christian and go to heaven without joining a church4 ,yes1 and you can go to ,europe without getting on board a steamer4 ,the swimming's good--but the sharks are laying for fellows who take that route4 ,i don't believe you4 ,if a man is truly saved he will hunt for a church right away4 ,you say1 ,it's so mysterious4 ,i don't understand4 ,you'll be surprised to find out how little you know4 ,you plant a seed in the ground--that's your part4 ,you don't understand how it grows4 ,how ,god makes that seed grow is mysterious to you4 ,some people think that they can't be converted unless they go down on their knees in the straw at a camp-meeting1 unless they pray all hours of the night1 and all nights of the week1 while some old brother storms heaven in prayer4 ,some think a man must lose sleep1 must come down the aisle with a haggard look1 and he must froth at the mouth and dance and shout4 ,some get it that way1 and they don't think that the work ,i do is genuine unless conversions are made in the same way that they have got religion4 ,i want you to see what ,god put in black and white2 that there can be a sound1 thorough conversion in an instant2 that man can be converted as quietly as the coming of day and never backslide4 ,i do not find fault with the way other people get religion4 ,what ,i want and preach is the fact that a man can be converted without any fuss4 ,if a man wants to shout and clap his hands in joy over his wife's conversion1 or if a wife wants to cry when her husband is converted1 ,i am not going to turn the hose on them1 or put them in a strait-jacket4 ,when a man turns to ,god truly in conversion1 ,i don't care what form his conversion takes4 ,i wasn't converted that way1 but ,i do not rush around and say1 with gall and bitterness1 that you are not saved because you did not get religion the way ,i did4 ,if we all got religion in the same way1 the devil might go to sleep with a regular ,rip ,van ,winkle snooze and still be on the job4 ,look at ,nicodemus4 ,you could never get a man with the temperament of ,nicodemus near a camp meeting1 to kneel down in the straw1 or to shout and sing4 ,he was a quiet1 thoughtful1 honest1 sincere and cautious man4 ,he wanted to know the truth and he was willing to walk in the light when he found it4 ,look at the man at the pool of ,bethesda4 ,he was a big sinner and was in a lot of trouble which his sins had made for him4 ,he had been in that condition for a long time4 ,it didn't take him three minutes to say ,yes1 when the ,lord spoke to him4 ,see how quietly he was converted4 ,and ,he ,arose and ,followed ,him ,matthew stood in the presence of ,christ and he realized what it would be to be without ,christ1 to be without hope1 and it brought him to a quick decision4 ,and he arose and followed him4 ,how long did that conversion take8 ,how long did it take him to accept ,christ after he had made up his mind8 ,and you tell me you can't make an instant decision to please ,god8 ,the decision of ,matthew proves that you can4 ,while he was sitting at his desk he was not a disciple4 ,the instant he arose he was4 ,that move changed his attitude toward ,god4 ,then he ceased to do evil and commenced to do good4 ,you can be converted just as quickly as ,matthew was4 ,god says3 ,let the wicked man forsake his way4 ,the instant that is done1 no matter if the man has been a life-long sinner1 he is safe4 ,there is no need of struggling for hours--or for days--do it now4 ,who are you struggling with8 ,not ,god4 ,god's mind was made up long before the foundations of the earth were laid4 ,the plan of salvation was made long before there was any sin in the world4 ,electricity existed long before there was any car wheel for it to drive4 ,let the wicked man forsake his way4 ,when8 ,within a month1 within a week1 within a day1 within an hour8 ,no6 ,now6 ,the instant you yield1 ,god's plan of salvation is thrown into gear4 ,you will be saved before you know it1 like a child being born4 ,rising and following ,christ switched ,matthew from the broad to the narrow way4 ,he must have counted the cost as he would have balanced his cash book4 ,he put one side against the other4 ,the life he was living led to all chance of gain4 ,on the other side there was ,jesus1 and ,jesus outweighs all else4 ,he saw the balance turn as the tide of a battle turns and then it ended with his decision4 ,the sinner died and the disciple was born4 ,i believe that the reason the story of ,matthew was written was to show how a man could be converted quickly and quietly4 ,it didn't take him five or ten years to begin to do something--he got busy right away4 ,you don't believe in quick conversions8 ,there have been a dozen men of modern times who have been powers for ,god whose conversion was as quiet as ,matthew's4 ,charles ,g4 ,finney never went to a camp meeting4 ,he was out in the woods alone1 praying1 when he was converted4 ,sam ,jones1 a mighty man of ,god1 was converted at the bedside of his dying father4 ,moody accepted ,christ while waiting on a customer in a boot and shoe store4 ,dr4 ,chapman was converted as a boy in a ,sunday school4 ,all the other boys in the class had accepted ,christ1 and only ,wilbur remained4 ,the teacher turned to him and said1 ,and how about you1 ,wilbur8 ,he said1 ,i will1 and he turned to ,christ and has been one of his most powerful evangelists for many years4 ,gipsy ,smith was converted in his father's tent4 ,torrey was an agnostic1 and in comparing agnosticism1 infidelity and ,christianity1 he found the scale tipped toward ,christ4 ,luther was converted as he crawled up a flight of stairs in ,rome4 ,seemingly the men who have moved the world for ,christ have been converted in a quiet manner4 ,the way to judge a tree is by its fruit4 ,judge a tree of quiet conversion in this way4 ,another lesson4 ,when conversion compels people to forsake their previous calling1 ,god gives them a better job4 ,luke said1 ,he left all4 ,little did he dream that his influence would be world-reaching and eternity-covering4 ,his position as tax-collector seemed like a big job1 but it was picking up pins compared to the job ,god gave him4 ,some of you may be holding back for fear of being put out of your job4 ,if you do right ,god will see that you do not suffer4 ,he has given plenty of promises1 and if you plant your feet on them you can defy the poor-house4 ,trust in the ,lord means that ,god will feed you4 ,following ,christ you may discover a gold mine of ability that you never dreamed of possessing4 ,there was a saloon-keeper1 converted in a meeting at ,new ,castle1 who won hundreds of people to ,christ by his testimony and his preaching4 ,you do not need to be in the church before the voice comes to you2 you don't need to be reading the ,bible2 you don't need to be rich or poor or learned4 ,wherever ,christ comes follow4 ,you may be converted while engaged in your daily business4 ,men cannot put up a wall and keep ,jesus away4 ,the still small voice will find you4 ,at the ,cross-roads ,right where the two roads through life diverge ,god has put ,calvary4 ,there he put up a cross1 the stumbling block over which the love of ,god said1 ,i'll touch the heart of man with the thought of father and son4 ,he thought that would win the world to him1 but for nineteen hundred years men have climbed the ,mount of ,calvary and trampled into the earth the tenderest teachings of ,god4 ,you are on the devil's side4 ,how are you going to cross over8 ,so you cross the line and ,god won't issue any extradition papers4 ,some of you want to cross4 ,if you believe1 then say so1 and step across4 ,i'll bet there are hundreds that are on the edge of the line and many are standing straddling it4 ,but that won't save you4 ,you believe in your heart--confess him with your mouth4 ,with his heart man believes and with his mouth he confesses4 ,then confess and receive salvation full1 free1 perfect and external4 ,god will not grant any extradition papers4 ,get over the old line4 ,a man isn't a soldier because he wears a uniform1 or carries a gun1 or carries a canteen4 ,he is a soldier when he makes a definite enlistment4 ,all of the others can be bought without enlisting4 ,when a man becomes a soldier he goes out on muster day and takes an oath to defend his country4 ,it's the oath that makes him a soldier4 ,going to church doesn't make you a ,christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile1 but public definite enlistment for ,christ makes you a ,christian4 ,oh1 a woman said to me out in ,iowa1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,i don't think ,i have to confess with my mouth4 ,i said3 ,you're putting up your thought against ,god's4 ,m-o-u-t-h doesn't spell intellect4 ,it spells mouth and you must confess with your mouth4 ,the mouth is the biggest part about most people1 anyhow4 ,what must ,i do8 ,philosophy doesn't answer it4 ,infidelity doesn't answer it4 ,first1 believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ and thou shalt be saved4 ,believe on the ,lord4 ,lord--that's his kingly name4 ,that's the name he reigns under4 ,thou shalt call his name ,jesus4 ,it takes that kind of a confession4 ,give me a ,saviour with a sympathetic eye to watch me so ,i shall not slander4 ,give me a ,saviour with a strong arm to catch me if ,i stumble4 ,give me a ,saviour that will hear my slightest moan4 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ and be saved4 ,christ is his resurrection name4 ,he is sitting at the right hand of the ,father interceding for us4 ,because of his divinity he understands ,god's side of it and because of his humanity he understands our side of it4 ,who is better qualified to be the mediator8 ,he's a mediator4 ,what is that8 ,a lawyer is a mediator between the jury and the defendant4 ,a retail merchant is a mediator between the wholesale dealer and the consumer4 ,therefore1 ,jesus ,christ is the ,mediator between ,god and man4 ,believe on the ,lord4 ,he's ruling today4 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus4 ,he died to save us4 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,he's the ,mediator4 ,her majesty1 ,queen ,victoria1 was traveling in ,scotland when a storm came up and she took refuge in a little hut of a ,highlander4 ,she stayed there for an hour and when she went the good wife said to her husband1 ,we'll tie a ribbon on that chair because her majesty has sat on it and no one else will ever sit on it4 ,a friend of mine was there later and was going to sit in the chair when the man cried3 ,nae1 nae1 mon4 ,dinna sit there4 ,her majesty spent an hour with us once and she sat on that chair and we tied a ribbon on it and no one else will ever sit on it4 ,they were honored that her majesty had spent the hour with them4 ,it brought unspeakable joy to them4 ,it's great that ,jesus ,christ will sit on the throne of my heart1 not for an hour1 but here to sway his power forever and ever4 ,he ,died for ,me ,in the war there was a band of guerillas--,quantrell's band--that had been ordered to be shot on sight4 ,they had burned a town in ,iowa and they had been caught4 ,one long ditch was dug and they were lined up in front of it and blindfolded and tied1 and just as the firing squad was ready to present arms a young man dashed through the bushes and cried1 ,stop6 ,he told the commander of the firing squad that he was as guilty as any of the others1 but he had escaped and had come of his own free will1 and pointed to one man in the line and asked to take his place4 ,i'm single1 he said1 while he has a wife and babies4 ,the commander of that firing squad was an usher in one of the cities in which ,i held meetings1 and he told me how the young fellow was blindfolded and bound and the guns rang out and he fell dead4 ,illustration3 ,,you ,,old ,,skeptic1 ,,we ,,are ,,counting ,,time ,,on ,,you4 ,illustration3 ,,john1 ,,the ,,drunkard1 ,,marching ,,up ,,to ,,the ,,butcher',s ,,shop4 ,time went on and one day a man came upon another in a graveyard in ,missouri weeping and shaping the grave into form4 ,the first man asked who was buried there and the other said1 ,the best friend ,i ever had4 ,then he told how he had not gone far away but had come back and got the body of his friend after he had been shot and buried it2 so he knew he had the right body4 ,and he had brought a withered bouquet all the way from his home to put on the grave4 ,he was poor then and could not afford anything costly1 but he had placed a slab of wood on the pliable earth with these words on it3 ,he died for me4 ,major ,whittle stood by the grave some time later and saw the same monument4 ,if you go there now you will see something different4 ,the man became rich and today there is a marble monument fifteen feet high and on it this inscription3 ,,sacred ,,to ,,the ,,memory ,,of ,,willie ,,lee ,,he ,,took ,,my ,,place ,,in ,,the ,,line ,,he ,,died ,,for ,,me ,sacred to the memory of ,jesus ,christ4 ,he took our place on the cross and gave his life that we might live1 and go to heaven and reign with him4 ,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 confess him with thy mouth1 and thou shalt be saved and thy house4 ,it is a great salvation that can reach down into the quagmire of filth1 pull a young man out and send him out to hunt his mother and fill her days with sunshine4 ,it is a great salvation1 for it saves from great sin4 ,the way to salvation is not ,harvard1 ,yale1 ,princeton1 ,vassar or ,wellesley4 ,environment and culture can't put you into heaven without you accept ,jesus ,christ4 ,it's great4 ,i want to tell you that the way to heaven is a blood-stained way4 ,no man has ever reached it without ,jesus ,christ and he never will4 ,,chapter ,,xiii ,hitting the ,sawdust ,trail ,come and accept my ,christ4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,pioneers are necessarily unconventional4 ,america has done more than transform a wilderness into a nation3 in the process she has created new forms of life and of speech4 ,back from the frontier has come a new1 terse1 vigorous and pictorial language4 ,much of it has found its way into the dictionaries4 ,the newer ,west uses the word trail--first employed to designate the traces left by traveling ,indians--to designate a path4 ,the lumbermen commonly call the woods roads trails4 ,imagine a lumberman lost in the big woods4 ,he has wandered1 bewildered1 for days4 ,death stares him in the face4 ,then1 spent and affrighted1 he comes to a trail4 ,and the trail leads to life2 it is the way home4 ,there we have the origin of the expression ,hitting the sawdust trail1 used in ,mr4 ,sunday's meetings as a term similar to the older stereotyped phrases3 ,going forward2 ,seeking the altar4 ,the more conventional method1 used by the other evangelists1 is to ask for a show of hands4 ,out in the ,puget ,sound country1 where the sawdust aisles and the rough tabernacle made an especial appeal to the woodsmen1 the phrase ,hitting the sawdust trail came into use in ,mr4 ,sunday's meetings4 ,the figure was luminous4 ,for was not this the trail that led the lost to salvation1 the way home to the ,father's house8 ,the metaphor appealed to the ,american public1 which relishes all that savors of our people's most primitive life4 ,besides1 the novel designation serves well the taste of a nation which is singularly reticent concerning its finer feelings1 and delights to cloak its loftiest sentiments beneath slang phrases4 ,the person who rails at hitting the trail as an irreverent phrase has something to learn about the mind of ,americans4 ,tens of thousands of persons have enshrined the homely phrase in the sanctuary of their deepest spiritual experience4 ,the scene itself1 when ,mr4 ,sunday calls for converts to come forward and take his hand1 in token of their purpose to accept and follow ,christ1 is simply beyond words4 ,human speech cannot do justice to the picture4 ,for good reason4 ,this is one of those crises in human life the portrayal of which makes the highest form of literature4 ,a ,victor ,hugo could find a dozen novels in each night's experience in the ,sunday ,tabernacle4 ,this is an hour of bared souls4 ,the great transaction between man and his ,maker is under way4 ,the streams of life are here changing their course4 ,character and destiny are being altered4 ,the old ,roman ,sacramentum1 when the soldiers gave allegiance with uplifted hand1 crying1 ,this for me6 ,this for me6 could not have been more impressive than one of these great outpourings of human life up the sawdust aisle to the pulpit1 to grasp the preacher's hand1 in declaration that henceforth their all would be dedicated to the ,christ of ,calvary4 ,the greatness of the scene is at first incomprehensible4 ,there are no parallels for it in all the history of ,protestantism4 ,this unschooled ,american commoner1 who could not pass the entrance examinations of any theological seminary in the land1 has publicly grasped the hands of approximately a quarter of a million persons1 who by that token have said1 in the presence of the great congregation1 that they thereby vowed allegiance to their ,saviour and ,lord4 ,moody1 ,whitefield1 ,finney1 have left no such record of converts as this4 ,a dramatic imagination is needed to perceive even a fragment of what is meant by this army of ,christian recruits4 ,the magnitude of the host is scarcely revealed by the statement that these converts more than equal the number of inhabitants of the states of ,delaware or ,arizona at the last census1 and far surpass those of ,nevada and ,wyoming4 ,imagine a state made up wholly of zealous disciples of ,christ6 ,of the one hundred largest cities in the ,united ,states there are only nineteen with more inhabitants than the total number of persons who have hit the trail at the ,sunday meetings4 ,break up that vast host into its component parts4 ,each is an individual whose experience is as real and distinctive as if there never had been another human soul to come face to face with ,god4 ,to one the act means a clean break with a life of open sin4 ,to another it implies a restored home and a return to respectability4 ,to this young person it signifies entrance upon a life of ,christian service2 to that one a separation from all old associations4 ,some must give up unworthy callings4 ,other must heal old feuds and make restitution for ancient wrongs4 ,one young woman in accepting ,christ knows that she must reject the man she had meant to marry4 ,to many men it implies a severance of old political relations4 ,far and wide and deep this sawdust trail runs2 and the record is written in the sweat of agonizing souls and in the red of human blood4 ,the consequences of conversion stagger the imagination3 this process is still the greatest social force of the age4 ,little wonder that persons of discernment journey long distances to attend a ,sunday meeting1 and to witness this appeal for converts to hit the trail4 ,i traveled several hundred miles to see it for the first time1 and would go across the continent to see it again4 ,for this is vital religion4 ,if a wedding casts its dramatic spell upon the imagination2 if a political election stirs the sluggish deeps of the popular mind2 if a battle calls for newspaper extras2 if an execution arrests popular attention by its element of the mystery of life becoming death--then1 by so much and more1 this critical1 decisive moment in the lives of living men and women grips the mind by its intense human interest4 ,what issues1 for time and eternity1 are being determined by this step6 ,the great romance is enacted daily at the ,sunday meetings4 ,for these converts are intent upon the most sacred experience that ever comes to mortal4 ,through what soul struggles they have passed1 what renunciations they have made1 what futures they front1 only ,god and heaven's hosts know4 ,the crowd dimly senses all this4 ,there is an instinctive appreciation of the dramatic in the multitude4 ,so the evangelist's appeal is followed by an added tenseness1 a straining of necks and a general rising to behold the expected procession4 ,a more simple and unecclesiastical setting for this tremendous scene could scarcely be devised4 ,the plain board platform1 about six feet high1 and fifteen feet long1 is covered by a carpet4 ,its only furniture is a second-hand walnut pulpit1 directly under the huge sounding board2 and one plain wooden chair1 a kitchen chair1 a housewife would call it4 ,then the invitation is given for all who want to come out on the side of ,christ to come forward and grasp ,sunday's hand4 ,see them come6 ,from all parts of the vast building they press forward4 ,nearly everyone is taking this step before the eyes of friends1 neighbors1 work-fellows4 ,it calls for courage1 for this is a life enlistment4 ,behold the young men crowding toward the platform1 where the helpers form them into a swiftly moving line--dozens and scores of boys and men in the first flush of manhood4 ,occasionally an old person is in the line2 oftener it is a boy or girl4 ,there goes a mother with her son4 ,how differently the converts act4 ,some have streaming eyes4 ,others wear faces radiant with the light of a new hope4 ,still others have the tense1 set features of gladiators entering the arena4 ,for minute after minute the procession continues4 ,when a well-known person goes forward1 the crowd cheers4 ,as ,i have studied ,mr4 ,sunday in the act of taking the hands of converts--one memorable night more than five hundred at the rate of fifty-seven a minute--the symbolism of his hand has appealed to my imagination4 ,surprisingly small and straight and surprisingly strong it is4 ,baseball battles have left no scars upon it4 ,the lines are strong and deep and clear4 ,the hand is in condition2 no flabbiness about it4 ,there are no rings on either of ,mr4 ,sunday's hands1 except a plain gold wedding ring on the left third finger4 ,no outstretched hand of military commander ever pointed such a host to so great a battle4 ,is there anywhere a royal hand1 wielding a scepter over a nation1 which has symbolized so much vital influence as this short1 firm hand of a typical ,american commoner8 ,the soldier sent on a desperate mission asked ,wellington for one grasp of your conquering hand4 ,a conquering hand1 a helping hand1 an uplifting hand1 an upward-pointing hand1 is this which once won fame by handling a baseball4 ,conceive of the vast variety of hands that have been reached up to grasp this one1 and what those hands have since done for the world's betterment6 ,two hundred thousand dedicated right hands1 still a-tingle with the touch of this inviting hand of the preacher of the gospel6 ,the picture of ,sunday's right hand belongs in the archives of contemporary religious history4 ,no stage manager could ever set so great a scene as this4 ,the vastness of it--sixteen or seventeen thousand eyes all centered on one ordinary-looking ,american on a high green-carpeted platform1 a veritable sea of faces--is not more impressive than the details which an observer picks out4 ,the multitudes are of the sort who thronged the ,galilean2 plain people1 home-keeping women1 seldom seen in public places2 mechanics1 clerks1 the great ,american commonalty4 ,again and again one is impressed from some fresh angle with the democracy of it all2 this man somehow appeals to that popular sense wherein all special tastes and interests merge4 ,the dbcle is a sight beyond words4 ,the ice of conventionality breaks up1 and the tide of human feeling floods forth4 ,from every part of the great tabernacle--from the front seats1 where you have been studying the personalities1 and from the distant rear1 where all the faces merge into an impersonal mass--persons begin to stream forward4 ,see how they come4 ,the moment is electric4 ,everybody is on the qui vive4 ,the first to take the evangelist's hand is a young colored boy4 ,the girl who follows may be a stenographer4 ,young men are a large part of the recruits2 here come a dozen fine-looking members of an athletic club in a body1 while the crowd cheers2 evidently somebody has been doing personal work there4 ,contrasts are too common to mention4 ,there is a delicate lady's kid-gloved hand reached up to that of the evangelist2 the next is the grimy1 calloused hand of a blue-shirted miner4 ,the average is of young men and women1 the choice and the mighty members of a community4 ,is the world to find a new moral or religious leader in the person of some one of these bright-faced youth who tonight have made this sign of dedication8 ,and here comes an old man1 with a strong face2 evidently a personality of force4 ,twice the evangelist pats the head bowed before him1 in pleasure over this aged recruit4 ,he seems reluctant to let the old man go2 but1 see the children crowd behind him1 and no convert can have more than a handclasp and a word4 ,all around the platform the crowd resembles a hive of bees just before swarming4 ,stir1 motion1 animation seem to create a scene of confusion4 ,but there is order and purpose in it all4 ,the occupants of the front seats are being moved out to make way for the converts1 who are there to be talked with1 and to sign the cards that are to be turned over to the local pastors4 ,personal workers are getting into action4 ,see the ministers streaming down into the fray6 ,there goes the ,young ,men's ,christian ,association secretary1 and the ,salvation ,army soldiers1 and the members of the choir1 wearing ,christian ,endeavor and ,bible class badges4 ,this is religion in action4 ,can these church members ever again lapse into dead conventionality8 ,meanwhile1 ,rodeheaver1 the chorister1 leans upon the piano and softly leads the great choir in ,almost ,persuaded4 ,the musical invitation continues while the work goes on in front4 ,it is undisturbed by an occasional appeal from the evangelist4 ,the song quickly changes to ,oh1 ,where ,is ,my ,wandering ,boy ,tonight8 and then1 as the volume of penitents increases1 into ,i ,am ,coming ,home and ,ring the ,bells of ,heaven1 ,there is ,joy ,today6 ,all this is psychological2 it fosters the mood which the sermon has created4 ,music mellows as many hearts as spoken words4 ,all the while ,sunday is shaking hands4 ,at first he leans far over1 for the platform is more than six feet high4 ,sometimes it seems as if he will lose his balance4 ,to reach down he stands on his left foot1 with his right leg extended straight behind him1 the foot higher than his head4 ,no one posture is retained long4 ,often he dips down with a swinging circular motion1 like a pitcher about to throw a ball4 ,never was man more lavish of his vital energy than this one4 ,his face is white and tense and drawn2 work such as this makes terrific draughts on a man's nerve force4 ,as the converts increase1 he lifts a trapdoor in the platform1 which permits him to stand three feet nearer the people4 ,still they come1 often each led by some personal worker4 ,i saw a ,scandinavian led forward in one meeting2 ten minutes later ,i saw him bringing his wife up the trail4 ,some of the faces are radiant with a new joy4 ,others are set at a nervous tension4 ,some jaws are grim and working1 revealing the inner conflict which has resulted in this step4 ,a collarless1 ragged1 weak-faced slave of dissipation is next in line to a beautiful girl in the dew of her youth4 ,an old1 white-wooled negro1 leaning on a staff1 is led forward4 ,then a little child4 ,here are veritably all sorts and conditions of people4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,collarless1 ,,weak-,,faced ,,slave ,,of ,,dissipation ,,is ,,next ,,in ,,line ,,to ,a ,,beautiful ,,girl ,,in ,,the ,,dew ,,of ,,her ,,youth ,in the particular session ,i am describing1 a big delegation of railroad men is present1 and the evangelist keeps turning to them1 with an occasional ,come on1 ,erie6 ,the memories of his own days as a railroad brakeman are evidently working within him1 and he seizes a green lantern and waves it4 ,a clear track ahead6 ,toward these men he is most urgent1 beckoning them also with a white railroad flag which he has taken from the decorations4 ,when the master mechanic hits the trail there is cheering from the crowd1 and ,sunday himself shows a delight that was exhibited over none of the society folk who came forward4 ,rare and remarkable as are these scenes in religious history1 they occur nightly in the ,sunday tabernacle4 ,two hundred1 three hundred1 five hundred1 one thousand converts are common4 ,anybody interested in life and in the phenomena of religion will find this occasion the most interesting scene at present to be witnessed in the whole world4 ,as for the novelist1 this is the human soul bared1 and beyond the compass of his highest art4 ,for life is at its apex when1 in new resolution1 a mortal spirit makes compact with the ,almighty4 ,,chapter ,,xiv ,the ,service of ,society ,a lot of people think a man needs a new grandfather1 sanitation1 and a new shirt1 when what he needs is a new heart4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,some day a learned university professor1 with a string of titles after his name1 will startle the world by breaking away from the present conventionalism in sociology1 and will conduct elaborate laboratory experiments in human betterment on the field of a ,billy ,sunday campaign4 ,his conclusion will surely be that the most potent force for the service of society--the shortest1 surest way of bettering the human race--is by the fresh1 clear1 sincere and insistent preaching of the ,gospel of ,jesus ,christ4 ,of course1 the ,new ,testament has been teaching that for nearly twenty centuries1 but the world has not yet comprehended the practicability of the program4 ,your learned professor may prove1 by literally thousands of incidents1 that honesty1 chastity1 brotherliness1 and idealism have been more definitely promoted by revivals of religion than by legislative or educational programs4 ,all that the social reformers of our day desire may be most quickly secured by straight-out preaching of the ,gospel4 ,the shortcut to a better social order is by way of converted men and women4 ,and when a modern scholar comes to demonstrate this he will draw largely upon the aftermath of the ,sunday campaigns for his contemporaneous evidence4 ,if there is one phrase which1 better than another1 can describe a ,billy ,sunday campaign it is restitution and righteousness4 ,in season and out1 the evangelist insists upon a changed life as the first consequence of conversion4 ,his message runs on this wise3 ,you ought to live so that every one who comes near you will know that you are a ,christian4 ,do you8 ,does your milkman know that you are a ,christian8 ,does the man who brings your laundry know that you belong to church8 ,does the man who hauls away your ashes know that you are a ,christian8 ,does your newsboy know that you have religion8 ,does the butcher know that you are on your way to heaven8 ,some of you buy meat on ,saturday night1 and have him deliver it ,sunday morning1 just to save a little ice1 and then you wonder why he doesn't go to church4 ,illustration3 ,,does ,,your ,,newsboy ,,know ,,that ,,you ,,have ,,religion8 ,if you had to get into heaven on the testimony of your washer-woman1 could you make it8 ,if your getting into heaven depended on what your dressmaker knows about your religion1 would you land8 ,if your husband had to gain admittance to heaven on the testimony of his stenographer1 could he do it8 ,if his salvation depended on what his clerks tell about him1 would he get there8 ,a man ought to be as religious in business as he is in church4 ,he ought to be as religious in buying and selling as he is in praying4 ,there are so many church members who are not even known in their own neighborhood as ,christians4 ,out in ,iowa where a meeting was held1 a man made up his mind that he would try to get an old sinner into the ,kingdom1 and after chasing him around for three days he finally cornered him4 ,then he talked to that old fellow for two hours1 and then the old scoundrel stroked his whiskers1 and what do you think he said8 ',why1 ,i've been a member of the church down there for fourteen years4' ,just think of it6 ,a member of the church fourteen years1 and a man had to chase him three days1 and talk with him two hours to find it out4 ,you have let ,jesus in8 ,yes1 but you have put him in the spare-room4 ,you don't want him in the rooms where you live4 ,take him down into the living-room4 ,take him into the dining-room4 ,take him into the parlor4 ,take him into the kitchen4 ,live with him4 ,make him one of the family4 ,then follows a ,sundayesque description of how ,jesus would find beer in the refrigerator and throw it out2 how he would find cards on the table and throw them out2 how he would find nasty music on the piano and throw it out2 how he would find cigarettes and throw them out4 ,if you haven't ,jesus in the rooms you live in1 it's because you don't want him1 he says4 ,you're afraid of one of two things3 you're afraid because of the things he'll throw out if he comes in1 or you're afraid because of the things he'll bring with him if he comes in4 ,here is how a great newspaper1 the ,philadelphia ,north ,american1 characterizes the ethical and political effectiveness of ,mr4 ,sunday3 ,billy ,sunday1 derided by many as a sensational evangelist1 has created a political revolution in ,allegheny ,county4 ,what years of reform work could not do he has wrought in a few short weeks4 ,old line practical politicians1 the men who did the dirty work for the political gang1 are now zealous for temperance1 righteousness and religion4 ,judges on the bench1 grand dames of society1 millionaire business men1 in common with the great host of undistinguished men and women in homes1 mills1 offices1 and shops1 have been fired by this amazing prophet with burning zeal for practical religion4 ,an unexpected1 unpredicted and unprecedented social force has been unleashed in our midst4 ,not to reckon with this is to be blind to the phase of ,sunday's work which bulks larger than his picturesque vocabulary or his acrobatic earnestness4 ,in the presence of this man's work all attempts to classify religious activities as either evangelistic or social service fall into confusion4 ,sunday could claim for himself that he's an evangelist1 and an evangelist only4 ,he repudiates a ,christian program that is merely palliative or ameliorative4 ,to his thinking the ,church has more fundamental business than running soup kitchens or gymnasiums or oyster suppers4 ,all his peerless powers of ridicule are frequently turned upon the frail and lonely oyster in the tureen of a money-making church supper4 ,nevertheless1 the results of ,sunday's preaching are primarily social and ethical4 ,he is a veritable besom of righteousness sweeping through a community4 ,the wife who neglects her cooking1 mending and home-making2 the employer who does not deal squarely with his workers2 the rich man who rents his property for low purposes or is tied up in crooked business in any wise2 the workman who is not on his job2 the gossip and the slanderer2 the idle creatures of fashion2 the ,christian who is not a good person to live with1 the selfish1 the sour1 the unbrotherly--all these find themselves under the devastating harrow of this flaming preacher's biting1 burning1 excoriating condemnation4 ,a scourge for morality is the way one minister described him2 he is that1 and far more4 ,after the whole field of philanthropy and reform have been traversed it still remains true that the fundamental reform of all is the cleaning up of the lives and the lifting up of the ideals of the people4 ,that is indisputably what ,sunday does4 ,he sweetens life and promotes a wholesome1 friendly1 helpful and cheerful state of mind on the part of those whom he influences4 ,assuredly it is basic betterment to cause men to quit their drunkenness and lechery and profanity4 ,all the white-slave or social-evil commissions that have ever met have done less to put a passion for purity into the minds of men and women than this one man's preaching has done4 ,the safest communities in the country for young men and young women are those which have been through a ,billy ,sunday revival4 ,one cannot cease to exult at the fashion in which the evangelist makes the ,gospel synonymous with clean living4 ,all the considerations that weigh to lead persons to go forward to grasp the evangelist's hand1 also operate to make them partisans of purity and probity4 ,put into three terse phrases1 ,sunday's whole message is3 ,quit your meanness4 ,confess ,christ4 ,get busy for him among men4 ,there are no finely spun spiritual sophistries in ,sunday's preaching4 ,he sometimes speaks quite rudely of that conception of a higher spiritual life which draws ,christians apart from the world in a self-complacent consciousness of superiority4 ,his is not a mystical1 meditative faith4 ,it is dynamic1 practical1 immediate4 ,according to his ever-recurring reasoning1 if one is not passing on the fruits of religion to somebody else--if one is not hitting hard blows at the devil or really doing definite tasks for ,god and the other man--then one has not the real brand of ,christianity4 ,sunday's preaching has hands1 with punch to them1 as well as lift2 and feet1 with kick in them1 as well as ministry4 ,like a colliery mined on many levels1 ,sunday's preaching reaches all classes4 ,everybody can appreciate the social service value of converting a gutter bum and making him a self-supporting workman4 ,is it any less social service to convert a man--,i cite an actual instance from ,pittsburgh--who had lately lost a twelve-thousand-dollar-a-year position through dissipation1 and so thoroughly to help him find himself that before the meetings were over he was back in his old office1 once more drawing one thousand dollars a month8 ,to a student of these campaigns1 it seems as if business has sensed1 better than the preachers1 the economic waste of sin4 ,a careful and discriminating thinker1 the ,rev4 ,joseph ,h4 ,odell1 ,d4,d41 formerly pastor of the ,second ,presbyterian ,church of ,scranton1 wrote an estimate of ,billy ,sunday and his work for ,the ,outlook1 in which he explains why his church1 which had been opposed to the coming of the evangelist1 reversed its vote3 ,testimony1 direct and cumulative1 reached the ears of the same refined and reverent men and women4 ,the young business men1 even those from the great universities1 paused to consider4 ,the testimony that changed the attitudes of the ,church came from judges1 lawyers1 heads of corporations and well-known society leaders in their respective communities4 ,the testimony was phenomenally concurrent in this3 that1 while it did not endorse the revivalist's methods1 or accept his theological system1 or condone his roughness and rudeness1 it proved that the preaching produced results4 ,produced results6 ,every one understood the phrase2 in the business world it is talismanic4 ,as the result of the ,billy ,sunday campaigns--anywhere and everywhere--drunkards became sober1 thieves became honest1 multitudes of people engaged themselves in the study of the ,bible1 thousands confessed their faith in ,jesus ,christ as the ,saviour of the world1 and all the quiescent righteousness of the community grew brave and belligerent against vice1 intemperance1 gambling1 and political dishonesty4 ,during the last week of ,february ,i went to ,pittsburgh for the purpose of eliciting interest in the candidacy of ,j4 ,benjamin ,dimmick for the nomination of ,united ,states ,senator4 ,billy ,sunday had closed his ,pittsburgh campaign a few days earlier4 ,my task was easy4 ,a group of practical politicians met ,mr4 ,dimmick at dinner4 ,they were the men who had worked the wards of ,allegheny ,county on behalf of ,penrose and the liquor interests for years4 ,together they were worth many thousands of votes to any candidate2 in fact1 they were the political balance of power in that county4 ,they knew everything that men could know about the ballot1 and some things that no man should know4 ,solidly1 resolutely1 and passionately they repudiated ,penrose4 ,no one can get our endorsement in ,allegheny ,county1 even for the office of dog-catcher1 who is not anti-booze and anti-,penrose1 they asserted4 ,when asked the secret of their crusader-like zeal against the alliance of liquor and politics1 they frankly ascribed it to ,billy ,sunday2 they had been born again--no idle phrase with them--in the vast whale-back tabernacle under the preaching of the baseball evangelist4 ,billy ,sunday deals with the very springs of action2 he seeks to help men get right back to the furthermost motives of the mind4 ,if you're born again1 you won't live knowingly in sin4 ,this does not mean that a ,christian cannot sin1 but that he does not want to sin4 ,this truth the evangelist illustrates by the difference between a hog and a sheep4 ,the sheep may fall into the mud1 but it hates it and scrambles out4 ,a hog loves the mud and wallows in it4 ,nobody can measure the results of the social forces which this simple-thinking evangelist sets to work4 ,his own figure of the dwarf who could switch on the electric lights in a room as easily as a giant1 comes to mind4 ,he has sent into ,christian work men who can do a kind of service impossible to ,sunday himself4 ,thus1 one of ,sunday's converts out in ,wichita1 two years ago1 was ,henry ,j4 ,allen1 editor of ,the ,beacon and ,progressive candidate for governor4 ,mr4 ,allen became a member of one of the celebrated ,gospel ,teams1 which1 since the ,sunday meetings1 have been touring ,kansas and neighboring states and have won more than eleven thousand converts4 ,it was in a meeting held by this band that ,william ,allen ,white1 the famous editor1 author and publisher1 took a definite stand for ,christ and ,christian work4 ,one of the most interesting facts about ,sunday's work is this one that the three greatest editors in the ,state of ,kansas today are his direct or indirect converts4 ,an endless chain letter would be easier to overtake than the effects of a ,sunday revival campaign4 ,in the face of the mass of testimony of this sort is it any wonder that business men deem a ,sunday campaign worth all it costs1 merely as an ethical movement8 ,the quickest and cheapest way to improve morals and the morale of a city is by a revival of religion4 ,thus it is illuminating to learn that there were #fej fewer inmates in the ,allegheny ,county jail1 during the period of the ,sunday revival meetings1 than during the same time in the preceding year4 ,from ,pittsburgh also comes the remarkable story that the ,cambria ,steel ,company1 one of the largest steel concerns in the country1 has established a religious department in connection with its plant1 and placed a regularly ordained minister in charge of it4 ,this as an avowed result of the ,sunday campaign4 ,the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,maitland ,alexander1 ,d4,d41 pastor of the ,first ,presbyterian ,church of ,pittsburgh1 is sponsor for this news1 and he also declares that nine department stores of ,pittsburgh are now holding prayer-meetings every morning at eight o'clock4 ,these two statements are taken from ,dr4 ,alexander's address to a body of ministers in ,new ,york ,city4 ,he is reported to have said also3 ,billy ,sunday succeeded in moving the city of ,pittsburgh from one end to the other4 ,that1 to my mind1 was the greatest result of the meetings4 ,it is easy to talk about religion now in ,pittsburgh4 ,men especially are thinking of it as never before1 and the great majority are no longer in the middle of the road4 ,they are on one side or the other4 ,i never knew a man who could speak to men with such telling effect as ,billy ,sunday4 ,i covet his ability to make men listen to him4 ,it was necessary in my own church1 which when packed1 holds #cbjj persons1 to hold special meetings for different groups1 such as lawyers1 doctors1 bankers1 etc41 and they were always crowded4 ,in the big tabernacle1 which was built for the campaign and holds more than #bj1jjj persons1 the men from the big steel shops1 after the second week1 came in bodies of from one to three thousand1 in many cases headed by their leading officers4 ,dr4 ,alexander said that up to the time of this address the ,sunday campaign had added #dai members to his own church4 ,one of the striking consequences of the ,sunday campaign in ,scranton was the development of the ,garage ,bible ,class4 ,this was originally a ,wilkes-,barre poker club4 ,as the story was told by ,mr4 ,william ,atherton1 a ,wilkes-,barre attorney1 to the same ,new ,york meeting that ,dr4 ,alexander addressed1 the ,garage ,bible ,class was originally a group of wealthy men meeting at different homes every week for a poker game4 ,one man bet a friend fifteen dollars that he wouldn't go to hear ,billy ,sunday4 ,one by one1 however1 the men found themselves unable to resist the lure of the ,tabernacle4 ,as a result the poker club was abandoned1 and in a garage belonging to one of the men they organized a ,bible class which now has about a hundred members4 ,they have adopted a rule that no ,christian shall be added to their ranks4 ,they make their own ,christians out of the unconverted4 ,from this episode one gets some conception of the tug and pull of the ,sunday ,tabernacle4 ,the temptation to attend becomes well nigh irresistible4 ,all the streams of the community life flow toward the great edifice where the baseball evangelist enunciates his simple message4 ,a writer in ,the ,churchman said1 following the ,pittsburgh campaign3 ,this evangelist made religion a subject of ordinary conversation4 ,people talked about their souls as freely as about their breakfast4 ,he went into the homes of the rich1 dropped his wildness of speech1 and made society women cry with shame and contrition4 ,one's eternal welfare became the topic of the dinner table1 not only in the slums but in the houses of fashion4 ,it sounds incredible1 and it is not a fact to be grasped by the mere reading of it1 but the citizens of ,pittsburgh forgot to be ashamed to mention prayer and forgiveness of sin2 the name of ,christ began to be used with simpleness and readiness and reverence by men who1 two months ago1 employed it only as a by-word4 ,city politicians came forward in the meeting and asked for prayer4 ,the daily newspapers gave more space to salvation than they did to scandal1 not for one day1 but for day after day and week after week4 ,as a mere spectacle of a whole modern city enthralled by the ,gospel it was astonishing1 unbelievable1 unprecedented1 prodigious4 ,because he preaches both to employers and to employed1 ,sunday is able to apply the healing salt of the gospel at the point of contact between the two4 ,from ,columbus it is reported that a number of business men voluntarily increased the wages of their helpers1 especially the women1 because of the evangelist's utterances4 ,a horse jockey out ,west reached the core of the matter when he said to a friend of mine concerning ,billy ,sunday1 ,he sets people to thinking about other people4 ,there you have the genesis and genius and goal of social service4 ,no other force that operates among men is equal to the inspirations and inhibitions of the ,christian religion in the minds of individuals4 ,the greatest service that can be done to any community is to set a considerable proportion of its people to endeavoring honestly to live out the ideals of ,jesus ,christ4 ,it is simply impossible to enumerate anything like a representative number of incidents of the community value of ,billy ,sunday's work4 ,they come from every angle and in the most unexpected ways4 ,a banker1 who is not a member of any church1 showed me the other day a letter he had received from a man who had defrauded him out of a small sum of money years before4 ,the banker had never known anything about the matter and did not recall the man's name4 ,what did amaze him1 and set him to showing the letter to all of his friends1 was this man's restitution1 accompanied by an outspoken testimony to his new discipleship to ,jesus ,christ1 upon which he had entered at the inspiration of ,billy ,sunday4 ,the imagination is stirred by a contemplation of what these individual cases of regeneration imply4 ,consider the homes reunited2 consider the happy firesides that once were the scene of misery2 measure1 if you can1 the new joy that has come to tens of thousands of lives in the knowledge that they have given themselves unreservedly to the service of ,jesus ,christ4 ,the dramatic1 human side of it strikes one ever and anon4 ,i chanced to see a young man hit the trail at ,scranton whose outreachings ,i had later opportunity to follow4 ,the young man is the only son of his parents and the hope of two converging family lines4 ,grandparents and parents1 uncles and aunts1 have pinned all of their expectations on this one young man4 ,he was a youth of parts and of force and a personality in the community4 ,when1 on the night of which ,i write1 he came forward up the sawdust trail to grasp the evangelist's hand1 his aged grandfather and his mother wept tears of joy4 ,the grandfather himself also hit the trail at the ,scranton meetings and has since spent his time largely in ,christian work4 ,it is impossible to say how this young man's future might have spelled sorrow or joy for the family circle that had concentrated their hopes on him4 ,but now it is clear that his conversion has brought to them all a boon such as money could not have bought nor kings conferred4 ,one of the countless instances that may be gleaned in any field of ,sunday's sowing was related to me the other evening by a business man1 who1 like others1 became a protagonist of ,sunday by going through one of his campaigns4 ,in his city there was a cultivated1 middle-aged ,german1 a well-known citizen1 who was an avowed atheist4 ,he openly scoffed at religion4 ,he was unable1 however1 to resist the allurement of the ,sunday meetings1 and he went with his wife one night merely to see the show4 ,that one sermon broke down the philosophy of years1 and the atheist and his wife became converts of ,billy ,sunday4 ,his three sons followed suit1 so that the family of five adults were led into the ,christian life by this evangelist untaught of the schools4 ,one of the sons is now a member of the ,state ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,committee4 ,a western business man1 who is interested in the ,young ,men's ,christian ,association1 told me that one cold1 rainy winter's day he happened into the ,association ,building in ,youngstown1 ,ohio4 ,he found a crowd of men streaming into a meeting1 and because the day was so unpropitious1 he asked the character of the gathering4 ,he was told that it was the regular meeting of the ,christian ,workers' ,band1 gathered to report on the week's activities4 ,the men had been converted to ,christ1 or to ,christian work1 by ,billy ,sunday1 and their meeting had continued ever since1 although it was more than a year since the evangelist's presence in ,youngstown4 ,said my friend1 ,that room was crowded4 ,one after another the men got up and told what definite ,christian work they had been doing in the previous seven days4 ,the record was wonderful4 ,they had been holding all sorts of meetings in all sorts of places1 and had been doing a variety of personal work besides1 so that there were a number of converts to be reported at this meeting ,i attended4 ,to have set that force in operation so that it would continue to work with undiminished zeal after twelve months of routine existence1 was a greater achievement than to preach one of the ,billy ,sunday sermons4 ,there is a sufficient body of evidence to show that the work of ,billy ,sunday does not end when the evangelist leaves the community4 ,he has created a vogue for religion and for righteousness4 ,the crowd spirit has been called forth to the service of the ,master4 ,young people and old have been given a new and overmastering interest in life4 ,they have something definite to do for the world and a definite crowd with which to ally themselves4 ,one result has been a tremendous growth of ,bible classes for men and women and a manifestation of the crusader spirit which makes itself felt in cleaned-up communities and in overthrown corruption in politics4 ,so far as the ,billy ,sunday campaigns may be said to have a badge1 it is the little red and white bull's eye of the ,organized ,adult ,bible ,classes4 ,six months after the ,scranton campaign five thousand persons attended a ,trail ,hitters' picnic1 where the day's events were scheduled under two headings1 athletic and prayer4 ,when wholesome recreation comes thus to be permeated with the spirit of clean and simple devotion something like an ideal state of society has come to pass for at least one group of people4 ,in more ways than the one meant by his critics1 ,sunday's work is sensational4 ,what could be more striking than the visit on ,sunday1 ,october #be1 #aiad1 of approximately a thousand trail-hitters from ,scranton to the churches of ,philadelphia1 to help prepare them for their approaching ,sunday campaign8 ,special trains were necessary to bring this great detachment of men the distance of three hundred miles4 ,they went forth in bands of four1 being distributed among the churches of the city1 to hold morning and evening services1 and in the afternoon conducting neighborhood mass meetings4 ,these men were by no means all trained speakers1 but they were witness-bearers2 and their testimony could scarcely fail to produce a powerful influence upon the whole city4 ,that1 on a large scale1 is what ,sunday converts are doing in a multitude of places4 ,to close this chapter as it began1 the truth stands out that ,billy ,sunday has set a host of people to thinking that this world's problems are to be solved1 and its betterment secured1 not by any new-fangled methods1 but along the old and tested line of transforming individual characters through the redeeming power of the crucified ,son of ,god4 ,salvation is surest social service4 ,the great evangelist's sermons are filled with the life stories of the men and women he has saved4 ,the following is only one of many3 ,i was at one time in a town in ,nebraska and the people kept telling me about one man4 ',there is one man here1 if you can get him he is good for one hundred men for ,christ4' ,i said3 ',who is he8' ',john ,champenoy4 ,he is the miller4' ,i said to ,mr4 ,preston1 who was then a minister3 ',have you been to see him8' ',no4' ,i asked another minister if he had been to see the fellow and he said no4 ,i asked the ,united ,presbyterian preacher 7they have a college out there71 and he said no1 he hadn't been around to see him4 ,i said3 ',well1 ,i guess ,i'll go around to see him4' ,i found the fellow seated in a chair teetered back against the wall1 smoking4 ,i said3 ',is this ,mr4 ,champenoy8' ',yes1 sir1 that's my name4' ,he got up and took me by the hand4 ,i said3 ',my name is ,sunday2 ,i'm down at the church preaching4 ,a good many have been talking to me about you and ,i came down to see you and ask you to give your heart to ,god4' ,he looked at me1 walked to the cupboard1 opened the door1 took out a half-pint flask of whisky and threw it out on a pile of stones4 ,he then turned around1 took me by the hand1 and as the tears rolled down his cheeks he said3 ',i have lived in this town nineteen years and you are the first man that has ever asked me to be a ,christian4' ,he said3 ',they point their finger at me and call me an old drunkard4 ,they don't want my wife around with their wives because her husband is a drunkard4 ,their children won't play with our babies4 ,they go by my house to ,sunday school and church1 but they never ask us to go4 ,they pass us by4 ,i never go near the church4 ,i am a member of the lodge4 ,i am a ,mason and ,i went to the church eleven years ago when a member of the lodge died1 but ,i've never been back and ,i said ,i never would go4' ,i said3 ',you don't want to treat the ,church that way4 ,god isn't to blame1 is he8' ',no4' ',the ,church isn't to blame1 is it8' ',no4' ',christ isn't to blame8' ',no4' ',you wouldn't think much of me if ,i would walk up and slap your wife because you kept a dog ,i didn't like1 would you8 ,then don't slap ,god in the face because there are some hypocrites in the ,church that you don't like and who are treating you badly4 ,god is all right4 ,he never treated you badly4 ,come up and hear me preach1 will you1 ,john8' ',yes1 ,i'll come tonight4' ,i said3 ',all right1 the ,lord bless you and ,i will pray for you4' ,he came2 the seats were all filled and they crowded him down the side aisle4 ,i can see him now standing there1 with his hat in his hand1 leaning against the wall looking at me4 ,he never took his eyes off me4 ,when ,i got through and gave the invitation he never waited for them to let him out4 ,he walked over the backs of the seats1 took his stand for ,jesus ,christ1 and in less than a week seventy-eight men followed him into the kingdom of ,god4 ,they elected that man chairman of the civic federation and he cleaned the town up for ,jesus ,christ and has led the hosts of righteousness from then until now4 ,men do care to talk about ,jesus ,christ and about their souls4 ',no man cares for my soul4' ,that's what's the trouble4 ,they are anxious and waiting for some one to come4 ,,chapter ,,xv ,giving the ,devil ,his ,due ,i know there is a devil for two reasons2 first1 the ,bible declares it2 and second ,i have done business with him4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,the ,prince of ,darkness was no more real to ,martin ,luther1 when he flung his ink-well at the devil1 than he is to ,billy ,sunday4 ,he seems never long out of the evangelist's thought4 ,sunday regards him as his most personal and individual foe4 ,scarcely a day passes that he does not direct his attention publicly to the devil4 ,he addresses him and defies him1 and he cites ,satan as a sufficient explanation for most of the world's afflictions4 ,there are many delicate shadings and degrees and differentiations in theology--but ,billy ,sunday does not know them4 ,he never speaks in semitones1 nor thinks in a nebulous way4 ,his mind and his word are at one with his baseball skill--a swift1 straight passage between two points4 ,with him men are either sheep or goats2 there are no hybrids4 ,their destination is heaven or hell1 and their master is ,god or the devil4 ,he believes in the devil firmly1 picturesquely2 and fights him without fear4 ,his characterizations of the devil are hair-raising4 ,as a matter of fact it is far easier for the average man1 close down to the ruck and red realities of life1 to believe in the devil1 whose work he well knows1 than it is for the cloistered man of books4 ,the mass of the people think in the same sort of strong1 large1 elemental terms as ,billy ,sunday4 ,the niceties of language do not bother them2 they are the makers and users of that fluid speech called slang4 ,william ,a4 ,sunday is an elemental4 ,sophistication would spoil him4 ,he is dead sure of a few truths of first magnitude4 ,he believes without reservation or qualification in the ,christ who saved him and reversed his life's direction4 ,upon this theme he has preached to millions4 ,also he is sure that there is a devil1 and he rather delights in telling old ,satan out loud what he thinks of him4 ,meanness1 in ,satan1 sinner or saint1 he hates and says so in the language of the street1 which the common people understand4 ,he usually perturbs some fastidious folk who think that literary culture and religion are essentially interwoven4 ,excoriation of the devil is not ,sunday's masterpiece4 ,he reaches his height in exaltation of ,jesus ,christ4 ,he is surer of his ,lord than he is of the devil4 ,it is his bed-rock belief that ,jesus can save anybody1 from the gutter bum to the soul-calloused1 wealthy man of the world1 and make them both new creatures4 ,with heart tenderness and really yearning love he holds aloft the ,crucified as the world's only hope4 ,that is why his gospel breaks hearts of stone and makes ,bible-studying1 praying church workers out of strange assortments of humanity4 ,the following passages will show how familiarly and frequently ,sunday treats of the devil3 ,,devil ,,passages ,the devil isn't anybody's fool4 ,you can bank on that4 ,plenty of folks will tell you there isn't any devil--that he is just a figure of speech2 a poetic personification of the sin in our natures4 ,people who say that--and especially all the time-serving1 hypocritical ministers who say it--are liars4 ,they are calling the ,holy ,bible a lie4 ,i'll believe the ,bible before ,i'll believe a lot of time-serving1 societyfied1 tea-drinking1 smirking preachers4 ,no1 sir6 ,you take ,god's word for it1 there is a devil1 and a big one1 too4 ,oh1 but the devil is a smooth guy6 ,he always was1 and he is now4 ,he is right on his job all the time1 winter and summer4 ,just as he appeared to ,christ in the wilderness1 he is right in this tabernacle now1 trying to make you sinners indifferent to ,christ's sacrifice for your salvation4 ,when the invitation is given1 and you start to get up1 and then settle back into your seat1 and say1 ,i guess ,i don't want to give way to a temporary impulse1 that's the real1 genuine1 blazing-eyed1 cloven-hoofed1 forked-tailed old devil1 hanging to your coat tail4 ,he knows all your weaknesses1 and how to appeal to them4 ,he knows about you and how you have spent sixty dollars in the last two years for tobacco1 to make your home and the streets filthy1 and that you haven't bought your wife a new dress in two years1 because you can't afford it2 and he knows about you1 and the time and money you spend on fool hats and card parties1 doing what you call getting into society1 while your husband is being driven away from home by badly cooked meals1 and your children are running on the streets1 learning to be hoodlums4 ,and he knows about you1 too1 sir1 and what you get when you go back of the drug-store prescription counter to buy medicine for your sick baby4 ,and he knows about you and the lie you told about the girl across the street1 because she is sweeter and truer than you are1 and the boys go to see her and keep away from you1 you miserable thrower of slime1 dug out of your own heart of envy--yes1 indeed1 the devil knows all about you4 ,when the revival comes along and the ,church of ,god gets busy1 you will always find the devil gets busy1 too4 ,whenever you find somebody that don't believe in the devil you can bank on it that he has a devil in him bigger than a woodchuck4 ,when the ,holy ,spirit descended at ,pentecost the devil didn't do a thing but go around and say that these fellows were drunk1 and ,peter got up and made him mad by saying that it was too early in the day4 ,it was but the third hour4 ,they had sense in those days2 it was unreasonable to find them drunk at the third hour of the day4 ,but now the fools sit up all night to booze4 ,when you rush forward in ,god's work1 the devil begins to rush against you4 ,there was a rustic farmer walking through ,lincoln ,park and he saw the sign1 ,beware of pickpockets4 ,what do they want to put up a fool sign like that8 ,everybody looks honest to me4 ,he reached for his watch to see what time it was and found it was gone4 ,the pickpockets always get in the pockets of those who think there are no pickpockets around4 ,whenever you believe there is a devil around1 you can keep him out1 but if you say there isn't1 he'll get you sure4 ,the ,bible says there is a devil2 you say there is no devil4 ,who knows the most1 ,god or you8 ,jesus met a real foe1 a personal devil4 ,reject it or deny it as you may4 ,if there is no devil1 why do you cuss instead of pray8 ,why do you lie instead of telling the truth8 ,why don't you kiss your wife instead of cursing her8 ,you have just got the devil in you1 that is all4 ,the devil is no fool2 he is onto his job4 ,the devil has been practicing for six thousand years and he has never had appendicitis1 rheumatism or tonsilitis4 ,if you get to playing tag with the devil he'll beat you every clip4 ,if ,i knew that all the devils in hell and all the devils in ,pittsburgh were sitting out in the pews and sneering and jeering at me ,i'd shoot ,god's truth into their carcasses anyway1 and ,i propose to keep firing away at the devils until by and by they come crawling out of their holes and swear that they were never in them1 but their old hides would assay for lead and tan for chair bottoms4 ,men in general think very little of the devil and his devices1 yet he is the most formidable enemy the human race has to contend with4 ,there is only one attitude to have toward him1 and that is to hit him4 ,don't pick up a sentence and smooth it and polish it and sugar-coat it1 but shy it at him with all the rough corners on4 ,the devil has more sense than lots of little preachers4 ,jesus said3 ,it is written4 ,he didn't get up and quote ,byron and ,shakespeare4 ,you get up and quote that stuff1 and the devil will give you the ha6 ha6 until you're gray-haired4 ,give him the ,word of ,god1 and he will take the count mighty quick4 ,it is written1 thou shall not tempt the ,lord thy ,god4 ,don't you ever think for a minute that the devil isn't on the job all the time4 ,he has been rehearsing for thousands of years1 and when you fool around in his back yard he will pat you on the back and tell you that you are ,,it4 ,i'll fight the devil in my own way and ,i don't want people to growl that ,i am not doing it right4 ,the devil comes to me sometimes4 ,don't think that because ,i am a preacher the devil doesn't bother me any4 ,the devil comes around regularly1 and ,i put on the gloves and get busy right away4 ,i owe ,god everything2 ,i owe the devil nothing except the best fight ,i can put up against him4 ,i assault the devil's stronghold and ,i expect no quarter and ,i give him none4 ,illustration3 ,i ,,am ,,against ,,everything ,,that ,,the ,,devil ,,is ,,in ,,favor ,,of ,i am in favor of everything the devil is against1 and ,i am against everything the devil is in favor of--the dance1 the booze1 the brewery1 my friends that have cards in their homes4 ,i am against everything that the devil is in favor of1 and ,i favor everything the devil is against1 no matter what it is4 ,if you know which side the devil is on1 put me down on the other side any time4 ,hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his4 ,the devil's got a lot more sense than some of you preachers ,i know1 and a lot of you old skeptics1 who quote ,shakespeare and ,carlyle and ,emerson and everybody and everything rather than the ,bible4 ,when you hear a preacher say that he doesn't believe there is a devil1 you can just bet your hat that he never preaches repentance4 ,the men who do any preaching on repentance know there is a devil1 for they hear him roar4 ,i drive the same kind of nails all orthodox preachers do4 ,the only difference is that they use a tack hammer and ,i use a sledge4 ,the preacher of today who is a humanitarian question point is preaching to empty benches4 ,i do not want to believe and preach a lie4 ,i would rather believe and preach a truth1 no matter how unpleasant it is1 than to believe and preach a pleasant lie4 ,i believe there is a hell4 ,if ,i didn't ,i wouldn't have the audacity to stand up here and preach to you4 ,if there ever comes a time when ,i don't believe in hell ,i will leave the platform before ,i will ever preach a sermon with that unbelief in my heart4 ,i would rather believe and preach a truth1 no matter how unpleasant1 than to believe and preach a lie simply for the friendship and favor of some people4 ,the man that preaches the truth is your friend4 ,i have no desire to be any more broad or liberal than ,jesus1 not a whit1 and nobody has any right1 either1 and claim to be a preacher4 ,is a man cruel that tells you the truth8 ,the man that tells you there is no hell is the cruel man1 and the man that tells you there is a hell is your friend4 ,so it's a kindness to point out the danger4 ,god's ministers have no business to hold back the truth4 ,i don't believe you can remember when you heard a sermon on hell4 ,well1 you'll hear about hell while ,i am here4 ,god ,almighty put hell in the ,bible and any preacher that sidesteps it because there are people sitting in the pews who don't like it1 ought to get out of the pulpit4 ,he is simply trimming his sails to catch a passing breeze of popularity4 ,,chapter ,,xvi ,critics and ,criticism ,some preachers need the cushions of their chairs upholstered oftener than they need their shoes half-soled4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,it is only when the bull's eye is hit that the bell rings4 ,the preacher who never gets a roar out of the forces of unrighteousness may well question whether he is shooting straight4 ,one of the most significant tributes to the ,evangelist ,sunday is the storm of criticism which rages about his head4 ,it is clear that at least he and his message are not a negligible quantity4 ,this book certainly holds no brief for the impeccability and invulnerability of ,billy ,sunday4 ,yet we cannot be blind to the fact he has created more commotion in the camp of evil than any other preacher of his generation4 ,christians are bound to say ,we love him for the enemies he has made4 ,he hits harder at all the forces that hurt humanity and hinder godliness than any other living warrior of ,god4 ,the forces of evil pay ,billy ,sunday the compliment of an elaborately organized and abundantly financed assault upon him4 ,he is usually preceded and followed in his campaigns by systematic attacks which aim to undermine and discredit him4 ,a weekly paper1 issued in ,chicago1 appears to be devoted wholly to the disparaging of ,billy ,sunday4 ,in rather startling juxtaposition to that statement is the other that many ministers have publicly attacked ,sunday4 ,this is clearly within their right4 ,he is a public issue and fairly in controversy4 ,as he claims the right of free speech for himself he cannot deny it to others4 ,some of his critics among the clergy object to evangelism in general1 some to his particular methods1 some to his forms of speech1 some to his theology2 but nobody apparently objects to his results4 ,during the past year there has arisen a tendency to abate this storm of clerical criticism1 for it has been found that it is primarily serving the enemies of the ,church4 ,whatever ,billy ,sunday's shortcomings1 he is unquestionably an ally of the ,kingdom of ,heaven and an enemy of sin4 ,his motives and his achievements are both aligned on the side of ,christ and his ,church4 ,a host of ministers of fine judgment who are grieved by some of the evangelist's forms of speech and some of his methods1 have yet withheld their voices from criticism because they do not want to fire upon the ,kingdom's warriors from the rear4 ,sunday gets results for ,god2 therefore1 reason they1 why should we attack him8 ,there is another side to this shield of criticism4 ,there is no religious leader of our day who has such a host of ardent defenders and supporters as ,billy ,sunday4 ,the enthusiasm of myriads for this man is second only to their devotion to ,christ4 ,wherever he goes he leaves behind him a militant body of protagonists4 ,he is championed valiantly and fearlessly4 ,so vigorous is this spirit which follows in the wake of a ,sunday campaign that in a certain large city where the ministers of one denomination had publicly issued a statement disapproving of ,mr4 ,sunday1 their denomination has since suffered seriously in public estimation4 ,some anonymous supporter of ,billy ,sunday has issued a pamphlet made up exclusively of quotations from ,scripture justifying ,sunday and his message4 ,he quotes such pertinent words as these3 ,and ,i1 brethren1 when ,i came to you1 came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom1 declaring unto you the testimony of ,god4 ,for ,i determined not to know any thing among you1 save ,jesus ,christ1 and him crucified4 ,and ,i was with you in weakness1 and in fear1 and in much trembling4 ,and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom1 but in demonstration of the ,spirit and of power2 ,that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men1 but in the power of ,god4 ,for ,christ sent me not to baptize1 but to preach the gospel3 not with wisdom of words1 lest the cross of ,christ should be made of none effect4 ,for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness2 but unto us which are saved it is the power of ,god4 ,for it is written1 ,i will destroy the wisdom of the wise1 and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent4 ,where is the wise8 where is the scribe8 where is the disputer of this world8 hath not ,god made foolish the wisdom of this world8 ,for after that in the wisdom of ,god the world by wisdom knew not ,god1 it pleased ,god by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe4 ,for the ,jews require a sign1 and the ,greeks seek after wisdom3 ,but we preach ,christ crucified1 unto the ,jews a stumblingblock1 and unto the ,greeks foolishness2 ,but unto them which are called1 both ,jews and ,greeks1 ,christ the power of ,god1 and the wisdom of ,god4 ,because the foolishness of ,god is wiser than men2 and the weakness of ,god is stronger than men4 ,for ye see your calling1 brethren1 how that not many wise men after the flesh1 not many mighty1 not many noble1 are called3 ,but ,god hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise2 and ,god hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty2 ,and base things of the world1 and things which are despised1 hath ,god chosen1 yea1 and things which are not1 to bring to nought things that are4 ,a great marvel is that this unconventional preacher has enlisted among his supporters a host of intellectual and spiritual leaders of our time4 ,the churches of the country1 broadly speaking1 are for him1 and so are their pastors4 ,this might be attributed to partisanship1 for certainly ,sunday is promoting the work of the ,church2 but what is to be said when ,provost ,edgar ,f4 ,smith of the ,university of ,pennsylvania comes out in an unqualified endorsement of the man and his work2 or such an acute lawyer and distinguished churchman as ,george ,wharton ,pepper of ,philadelphia1 well known in the councils of the ,protestant ,episcopal ,church1 gives his hearty approval to ,sunday8 ,consider the letter which ,secretary of ,state ,bryan wrote to ,sunday after hearing him at the ,pittsburgh ,tabernacle3 ,,the ,,secretary ,,of ,,state4 ,washington1 ,january #ab1 #aiad4 ,,my ,,dear ,,sunday3 ,having about four hours in ,pittsburgh last night1 my wife and ,i attended your meeting and so we heard and felt the powerful sermon which you delivered4 ,we noted the attention of that vast audience and watched the people1 men and women1 old and young1 who thronged about you in response to your appeal4 ,mrs4 ,bryan had never heard you1 and ,i had heard only a short afternoon address4 ,last night you were at your best4 ,i cannot conceive of your surpassing that effort in effectiveness4 ,do not allow yourself to be disturbed by criticism4 ,god is giving you souls for your hire and that is a sufficient answer4 ,christ called attention to the fact that both he and ,john the ,baptist had to meet criticism because they were so much unlike in manner4 ,no man can do good without making enemies1 but yours as a rule will be among those who do not hear you4 ,go on1 and may the ,heavenly ,father use you for many years to come1 as he has for many years past1 and bring multitudes to know ,christ as he presented himself when he said1 ,i am the way1 the truth and the life4 ,am sorry we could not see you personally1 but we left because we found that we were discovered4 ,some insisted upon shaking hands and ,i was afraid ,i might become a cause of disturbance4 ,mrs4 ,bryan joins me in regards to ,mrs4 ,sunday and yourself4 ,yours truly1 ,w4 ,j4 ,,bryan4 ,one need be surprised at nothing in connection with such a personality as ,billy ,sunday1 yet surely there is no precedent for this resolution1 adopted by the ,pittsburgh ,city ,council1 while he was in that city3 ,,whereas1 ,the ,rev4 ,william ,a4 ,sunday and his party have been in the city of ,pittsburgh for the past eight weeks1 conducting evangelistic services1 and the ,council of the city being convinced of the immense good which has been accomplished through his work for morality1 good citizenship and religion1 therefore be it ,resolved1 ,that the ,council of the city of ,pittsburgh express its utmost confidence in ,mr4 ,sunday and all of the members of his party2 and be it further ,resolved1 ,that it does hereby express to them its appreciation of all the work that has been done1 and extends to ,mr4 ,sunday its most cordial wishes for his future success4 ,while the adverse critics are doing all in their power to discredit him as he goes from place to place1 ,sunday's friends also are not idle4 ,in ,scranton1 for instance1 before the campaign opened1 men in nearly all walks of life received letters from men in corresponding callings in ,pittsburgh bearing tribute to ,billy ,sunday4 ,thus1 bankers would inclose in their correspondence from ,pittsburgh an earnest recommendation of ,sunday and a suggestion that the bankers of ,scranton stand squarely to his support4 ,the local ,scranton plumber heard from a plumbers' supply house2 labor union men heard from their fellows in ,pittsburgh2 lawyers and doctors1 and a host of business men1 had letters from personal friends in ,pittsburgh1 telling what ,sunday had done for that community1 and in many cases bearing personal testimony to what his message had meant to the writers4 ,this is nearer to effective organization than the ,christian forces of the country commonly get4 ,this form of propaganda did not bulk large in the public eye1 but it created a splendid undercurrent of sentiment2 for ,banker ,jones could say3 ,i have it straight from ,banker ,smith of ,pittsburgh1 whom ,i know to be a level-headed man1 that ,sunday is all right1 and that he does nothing but good for the city4 ,still more novel than this was the expedition sent by a great daily newspaper to hear the evangelist in ,scranton4 ,there is no parallel in the history of ,christian work for the deputation of more than two hundred pastors who went to ,scranton from ,philadelphia4 ,these went entirely at the charges of the ,philadelphia ,north ,american1 being carried in special trains4 ,the railroad company recognized the significance of this unusual occasion1 and both ways the train broke records for speed4 ,while in the city of ,scranton the ministers were the guests of the ,scranton churches4 ,they had special space reserved for them in the ,tabernacle and their presence drew the greatest crowds that were experienced during the ,scranton campaign4 ,of course thousands were turned away4 ,nobody who saw and heard it will ever forget the way that solid block of ,philadelphia pastors stood up and sang in mighty chorus ,i ,love to ,tell the ,story4 ,between sessions these ,philadelphia ministers were visiting their brethren in ,scranton1 learning in most detailed fashion what the effects of the ,sunday campaign had been4 ,whenever they gathered in public assemblies they sounded the refrain1 which grew in significance from day to day3 ,i ,love to ,tell the ,story4 ,billy ,sunday fired the evangelistic purpose of these pastors4 ,when this unique excursion was ended1 and the company had de-trained at the ,reading ,terminal1 the ministers1 without pre-arrangement1 gathered in a body in the train shed and lifted their voices in the refrain ,i ,love to ,tell the ,story1 while hundreds and thousands of hurrying city folk1 attracted by the unwonted music1 gathered to learn what this could possibly mean4 ,a new militancy was put into the preaching of these clergymen by their ,scranton visit2 and many of them later reported that the largest congregations of all their ministerial experience were those which gathered to hear them report on the ,sunday evangelistic campaign4 ,not a few of the preachers had to repeat their ,billy ,sunday sermons4 ,needless to say1 an enthusiastic and urgent invitation to ,sunday to come to ,philadelphia to conduct a campaign1 followed this demonstration on the part of the daily newspaper4 ,that there is a strategic value in rallying all the churches about one man was demonstrated by the ,methodists of ,philadelphia on this occasion4 ,bishop ,joseph ,f4 ,berry had heartily indorsed the project1 and had urged all of the ,methodist pastors who could possibly do so to accept the ,north ,american's invitation4 ,the ,methodist delegation was an enthusiastic unit4 ,when they returned to ,philadelphia a special issue of the local ,methodist paper was issued1 and in this thirty-two articles appeared1 each written by an aroused pastor who had been a member of the delegation4 ,incidentally1 all of the city papers1 as well as the religious press of a very wide region1 reported this extraordinary pilgrimage of more than two hundred pastors to a distant city to hear an evangelist preach the gospel4 ,a reflex of this was the return visit1 some months later1 of a thousand trail-hitters to speak in ,philadelphia pulpits4 ,before leaving the subject of the criticism of ,sunday1 pro and con1 it should be insisted that no public man or institution should be free from the corrective power of public opinion1 openly expressed4 ,this is one of the wholesome agencies of democracy4 ,mr4 ,sunday himself is not slow to express his candid opinion of the ,church1 the ministry1 and of society at large4 ,it would be a sad day for him should all critical judgment upon his work give way to unreasoning adulation4 ,the best rule to follow in observing the evangelist's ministry is1 ,never judge unfinished work4 ,only a completed campaign should pass in review before the critics2 only the whole substance of the man's message2 only the entire effect of his work upon the public4 ,partial judgments are sure to be incorrect judgments4 ,billy ,sunday succeeds in making clear to all his hearers--indeed he impresses them so deeply that the whole city talks of little else for weeks--that ,god has dealings with every man2 and that ,god cares enough about man to provide for him a way of escape from the terrible reality of sin1 that way being ,jesus ,christ4 ,when a preacher succeeds in lodging that conviction in the minds of the multitudes1 he is heaven's messenger4 ,whether he speak in ,choctaw1 ,yiddish1 ,bostonese or in the slang of ,chicago1 is too trivial a matter to discuss4 ,we do not inspect the wardrobe or the vocabulary of the hero who rides before the flood1 urging the people to safety in the hills4 ,,plain ,,speech ,,from ,,sunday ,,himself ,the hour is come2 come for something else4 ,it has come for plainness of speech on the part of the preacher4 ,if you have anything to antagonize1 out with it2 specify sins and sinners4 ,you can always count on a decent public to right a wrong1 and any public that won't right a wrong is a good one to get out of4 ,charles ,finney went to ,europe to preach1 and in ,london a famous free-thinker's wife went to hear him4 ,the free-thinker's wife noticed a great change in him2 he was more kind1 more affectionate1 more affable1 less abusive and she said1 ,i know what is the matter with you2 you have been to hear that man from ,america preach4 ,and he said1 ,wife1 that is an insult2 that man ,finney don't preach2 he just makes plain what the other fellows preach4 ,now the foremost preacher of his day was ,paul4 ,what he preached of his day was not so much idealism as practicality2 not so much theology1 homiletics1 exegesis or didactics1 but a manner of life4 ,i tell you there was no small fuss about his way of teaching4 ,when ,paul was on the job the devil was awake4 ,there is a kind of preaching that will never arouse the devil4 ,he that believeth not is condemned already4 ,he that has not believed in ,jesus ,christ1 the only begotten son of ,god1 is condemned where he sits4 ,too much of the preaching of today is too nice2 too pretty2 too dainty2 it does not kill4 ,too many sermons are just given for literary excellence of the production4 ,they get a nice adjective or noun1 or pronoun--you cannot be saved by grammar4 ,a little bit of grammar is all right1 but don't be a big fool and sit around and criticize because the preacher gets a word wrong--if you do that your head is filled with buck oysters and sawdust1 if that is all that you can use it for4 ,they've been crying peace4 ,there is no peace4 ,some people won't come to hear me because they are afraid to hear the truth4 ,they want deodorized1 disinfected sermons4 ,they are afraid to be stuck over the edge of the pit and get a smell of the brimstone4 ,you can't get rid of sin as long as you treat it as a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake4 ,you can't brush sin away with a feather duster4 ,go ask the drunkard who has been made sober whether he likes ,bill4 ,go ask the girl who was dragged from the quagmire of shame and restored to her mother's arms whether she likes ,bill4 ,go ask the happy housewife who gets the pay envelope every ,saturday night instead of its going to the filthy saloon-keeper whether she's for ,bill4 ,some people say1 ,oh1 he's sensational4 ,nothing would be more sensational than if some of you were suddenly to become decent4 ,i would rather be a guide-post than a tombstone4 ,i repeat that everybody who is decent or wants to be decent1 will admire you when you preach the truth1 although you riddle them when you do it4 ,the hour is come1 my friend4 ,the hour is come to believe in a revival4 ,some people do not believe in revivals2 neither does the devil2 so you are like your daddy4 ,i can see those disciples praying1 and talking and having a big time4 ,there are many fool short-sighted ministers who are satisfied if they can only draw a large crowd4 ,some are as crazy after sensations as the yellowest newspaper that ever came off the press4 ,that's the reason we have these sermons on ,the ,hobble ,skirt and ,the ,merry ,widow ,hat and other such nonsensical tommyrot4 ,if there were not so many ,march-hare sort of fellows breaking into pulpits you would have to sweat more and work harder4 ,there are some of you that have the devil in you4 ,maybe you don't treat your wife square4 ,maybe you cheat in your weights4 ,get rid of the devil4 ,what does it matter if you pack a church to the roof if nothing happens to turn the devil pale8 ,what is the use of putting chairs in the aisles and out the doors8 ,the object of the ,church is to cast out devils4 ,the devil has more sense than lots of little preachers4 ,i have been unfortunate enough to know ,d4,d4's and ,,ll4,d4's sitting around whittling down the doctrine of the personality of the devil to as fine a point as they know how4 ,you are a fool to listen to them4 ,the devil is no fool1 he is no four-flusher4 ,he said to ,christ3 ,if you are a ,god1 act like it2 if you are a man1 and believe the ,scriptures1 act as one who believes4 ,john the ,baptist wasn't that kind of a preacher4 ,jesus ,christ wasn't that kind of a preacher4 ,the apostles weren't that kind of preachers--except old ,judas4 ,john the ,baptist opened the ,bible right in the middle and preached the word of ,god just as he found it1 and he didn't care whether the people liked it or not4 ,that wasn't his business4 ,i tell you1 ,john the ,baptist stirred up the devil4 ,if any minister doesn't believe in a personal devil it's because he has never preached a sermon on repentance1 or he'd have heard him roar4 ,yes1 sir4 ,if there's anything that will make the devil roar it is a sermon on repentance4 ,you can preach sociology1 or psychology1 or any other kind of ology1 but if you leave ,jesus ,christ out of it you hit the toboggan slide to hell4 ,i'll preach against any minister who is preaching false doctrines4 ,i don't give a rap who he is4 ,i'll turn my guns loose against him1 and don't you forget that4 ,any man who is preaching false doctrines to the people and vomiting out false doctrines to them will hear from me4 ,i want to say that the responsibility for no revivals in our cities and towns has got to be laid at the doors of the ministry4 ,preachers sit fighting their sham battles of different denominations1 through their cussedness1 inquiring into fol-da-rol and tommyrot1 and there sits in the pews of the church that miserable old scoundrel who rents his property out for a saloon and is going to hell2 and that other old scoundrel who rents his houses for houses of ill fame and is living directly on the proceeds of prostitution1 and he doesn't preach against it4 ,he is afraid he will turn the men against him4 ,he is afraid of his job4 ,they are a lot of backsliders and the whole bunch will go to hell together4 ,they are afraid to come out against it4 ,i'll tell you what's the matter4 ,listen to me4 ,the ,church of ,god has lost the spirit of concern today largely because of the ministry--that's what's the matter with them4 ,i'll allow no man or woman to go beyond me in paying tribute to culture4 ,i don't mean this miserable dog business1 shaking hands with two fingers4 ,the less brains some people have the harder they try to show you that they have some1 or think they have4 ,i allow no man to go beyond me in paying tribute to real1 genuine culture1 a tribute to intellectual greatness2 but when a man stands in the pulpit to preach he has got to be a man of ,god4 ,he has got to speak with the passion for souls4 ,if you sleep in the time of a revival ,god ,almighty will wake you up4 ,there are lots of preachers who don't know ,jesus4 ,they know about him1 but they don't know him4 ,experience will do more than forty million theories4 ,i can experiment with religion just the same as ,i can with water4 ,no two knew ,him exactly alike1 but all loved ,him4 ,all would have something to say4 ,now for you preachers4 ,when a man prays ,thy ,kingdom ,come he will read the ,bible to find out the way to make it come4 ,the preacher who prays ,thy ,kingdom ,come will not get all his reading from the new books or from the magazines4 ,he will not try to please the highbrows and in pleasing them miss the masses4 ,he will not try to tickle the palates of the giraffes and then let the sheep starve4 ,he will put his cookies on the lower shelf4 ,he will preach in a language that the commonest laborer can understand4 ,one of the prolific sources of unbelief and backsliding today is a bottle-fed church1 where the whole membership lets the preacher do the studying of the ,bible for them4 ,he will go to the pulpit with his mind full of his sermon and they will come to the church with their minds filled with society and last night's card-playing1 beer-and-wine-drinking and novel-reading party and will sit there half asleep4 ,many a preacher reminds me of a great big nursing bottle1 and there are two hundred or three hundred rubber tubes1 with nipples on the end1 running into the mouths of two hundred or three hundred or four hundred great big old babies with whiskers and breeches on1 and hair pins stuck in their heads and rats in their hair1 sitting there1 and they suck and draw from the preacher4 ,some old sister gets the ,amusement nipple in her mouth and it sours her stomach1 and up go her heels and she yells4 ,then the preacher has to go around and sing psalms to that big two-hundred-and-fifty-pound baby and get her good-natured so that she will go back to church some day4 ,by and by some old whisky-voting church member gets the ,temperance nipple in his mouth and it sours his stomach and up go his heels and he lets out a yell1 throws his hands across his abdominal region1 and the preacher says1 ,whatever is the matter8 ,if ,i hit you any place but the heart or the head ,i apologize4 ,the preacher has to be wet nurse to about two hundred and fifty big babies that haven't grown an inch since they came into the church4 ,one reason why some preachers are not able to bring many sinners to repentance is because they preach of a ,god so impotent that he can only throw down card houses when all the signs are right6 ,they decline to magnify his power for fear they will overdo it6 ,and if they accidentally make a strong assertion as to his power1 they immediately neutralize it by as it were1 or in a measure1 perhaps6 ,illustration3 ,,we',,ve ,,got ,a ,,bunch ,,of ,,preachers ,,breaking ,,their ,,necks ,,to ,,please ,a ,,lot ,,of ,,old ,,society ,,dames ,you make a man feel as though ,god was stuck on him and you'll be a thirty-third degree sort of a preacher with that fellow4 ,if some preachers were as true to their trust as ,john the ,baptist1 they might be turned out to grass1 but they'd lay up treasures for themselves in heaven4 ,clergymen will find their authority for out-of-the-ordinary methods in the lowering of a paralytic through a roof1 as told of in the ,bible4 ,if that isn't sensationalism1 then trot some out4 ,if ,god could convert the preachers the world would be saved4 ,most of them are a lot of evolutionary hot-air merchants4 ,we've got churches1 lots of them4 ,we've got preachers1 seminaries1 and they are turning out preachers and putting them into little theological molds and keeping them there until they get cold enough to practice preaching4 ,the reason some ministers are not more interested in their work is because they fail to realize that theirs is a ,god-given mission4 ,we've got a bunch of preachers breaking their necks to please a lot of old society dames4 ,some ministers say1 ,if you don't repent1 you'll die and go to a place1 the name of which ,i can't pronounce4 ,i can4 ,you'll go to hell4 ,there is not a preacher on earth that can preach a better gospel than ,bill4 ,i'm willing to die for the ,church4 ,i'm giving my life for the ,church4 ,your preachers would fight for ,christ if some of you fossilated1 antiquated old hypocrites didn't snort and snarl and whine4 ,a godless cowboy once went to a brown-stone church--with a high-toned preacher--,i am a half-way house between the brown-stone church and the ,salvation ,army4 ,they are both needed and so is the half-way house4 ,well1 this fellow went to one of these brown-stone churches and after the preacher had finished the cowboy thought he had to go up and compliment the preacher1 as he saw others doing1 and so he sauntered down the aisle with his sombrero under his arm1 his breeches stuck in his boots1 a bandana handkerchief around his neck1 his gun and bowie knife in his belt1 and he walked over and said3 ,hanged if ,i didn't fight shy of you fellows--but ,i'll tell you ,i sat here and listened to you for an hour and you monkeyed less with religion than any fellow ,i ever heard in my life4 ,they have taken away the ,lord and don't know where to find him4 ,you must remember that ,jesus tells us to shine for ,god4 ,the trouble with some people and preachers is that they try to shine rather than letting their light shine4 ,some preachers put such a big capital ,i in front of the cross that the sinner can't see ,jesus4 ,they want the glory4 ,they would rather be a comet than stars of ,bethlehem4 ,,chapter ,,xvii ,a ,clean ,man on ,social ,sins ,there are a good many things worse than living and dying an old maid1 and one of them is marrying the wrong man4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,sunday's trumpet gives no uncertain sound on plain1 every-day righteousness4 ,he is like an ,old ,testament prophet in his passion for clean conduct4 ,no phase of his work is more notable than the zeal for right living which he leaves behind him4 ,his converts become partisans of purity4 ,sunday's own mind is clean4 ,he does not1 as is sometimes the case1 make his pleas for purity a real ministry of evil4 ,in the guise of promoting purity he does not pander to pruriency4 ,as outspoken as the ,bible upon social sin1 he yet leaves an impression so chaste that no father would hesitate to take his boy to the big men's meeting which ,sunday holds in every campaign2 and every woman who has once heard him talk to women would be glad to have her daughter hear him also4 ,the verdict of all ,christians who have studied conditions in a community after one of the ,sunday campaigns is that ,sunday has been like a thunder storm that has cleared the moral atmosphere4 ,life is sweeter and safer and more beautiful for boys and girls after this man has dealt plainly with social sins and temptations4 ,of course1 it is more important to clean up a neighborhood's mind than its streets4 ,even in cold print one may feel somewhat of the power of the man's message on ,the ,moral ,leper4 ,a ,,plain ,,talk ,,to ,,men ,rejoice1 ,o young man1 in thy youth2 and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth1 and walk in the ways of thine heart1 and in the sight of thine eyes3 but know thou that for all these things ,god will bring thee into judgment4 ,be not deceived2 ,god is not mocked2 for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap4 ,in other words1 do just as you please2 lie if you want to1 steal if you want to4 ,god won't stop you1 but he will hold you responsible in the end4 ,do just as you please until the end comes and the undertaker comes along and pumps the embalming fluid into you and then you are all in4 ,no one is living in ignorance of what will become of him if he does not go right and trot square4 ,he knows there is a heaven for the saved and a hell for the damned1 and that's all there is to it4 ,many men start out on a life of pleasure4 ,please remember two things4 ,first1 pleasure soon has an end1 and1 second1 there is a day of judgment coming and you'll get what's coming to you4 ,god gives every man a square deal4 ,if a man stood up and told me he was going to preach on the things ,i am this afternoon1 ,i'd want him to answer me several questions1 and if he could do that ,i'd tell him to go ahead4 ,first--,are you kindly disposed toward me8 ,second--,are you doing this to help me8 ,third--,do you know what you're talking about8 ,fourth--,do you practice what you preach8 ,that's fair4 ,well1 for the first4 ,god knows ,i am kindly disposed toward you4 ,second1 ,god knows ,i would do anything in my power to help you be a better man4 ,i want to make it easier for you to be square1 and harder for you to go to hell4 ,third1 ,i know what ,i'm talking about1 for ,i have the ,bible to back me up in parts and the statements of eminent physicians in other parts4 ,and fourth1 ,do ,i practice what ,i preach8 ,i will defy and challenge any man or woman on earth1 and ,i'll look any man in the eye and challenge him1 in the twenty-seven years ,i have been a professing ,christian1 to show anything against me4 ,if ,i don't live what ,i preach1 gentlemen1 ,i'll leave the pulpit and never walk back here again4 ,i live as ,i preach and ,i defy the dirty dogs who have insulted me and my wife and spread black-hearted lies and vilifications4 ,i was born and bred on a farm and at the age of eleven ,i held my place with men in the harvest field4 ,when ,i was only nine years old ,i milked ten cows every morning4 ,i know what hard knocks are4 ,i have seen the seamy side of life4 ,i have crawled out of the sewers and squalor and want4 ,i have struggled ever since ,i was six years old1 an orphan son of a dead soldier1 up to this pulpit this afternoon4 ,i know what it is to go to bed with an honest dollar in my overalls pocket1 when the ,goddess of ,liberty became a ,jenny ,lind and the eagle on the other side became a nightingale and they'd sing a poor1 homeless orphan boy to sleep4 ,i'm not here to explode hot air and theories to you4 ,some men here in town1 if their wives asked them if they were coming down here1 would say3 ,oh no1 ,i don't want to go anywhere ,i can't take you1 dear4 ,the dirty old dogs1 they've been many a place they wouldn't take their wife and they wouldn't even let her know they were there4 ,if sin weren't so deceitful it wouldn't be so attractive4 ,the effects get stronger and stronger while you get weaker and weaker all the time1 and there is less chance of breaking away4 ,many think a ,christian has to be a sort of dish-rag proposition1 a wishy-washy1 sissified sort of a galoot that lets everybody make a doormat out of him4 ,let me tell you the manliest man is the man who will acknowledge ,jesus ,christ4 ,christian ,character ,christianity is the capital on which you build your character4 ,don't you let the devil fool you4 ,you never become a man until you become a ,christian4 ,christianity is the capital on which you do business4 ,it's your character that gets you anything4 ,your reputation is what people say about you1 but your character is what ,god and your wife and the angels know about you4 ,many have reputations of being good1 but their characters would make a black mark on a piece of coal or tarred paper4 ,i was over in ,terre ,haute1 ,indiana1 not long ago1 and ,i was in a bank there admiring the beauty of it when the vice-president1 ,mr4 ,mc,cormick1 a friend of mine1 said3 ,bill1 you haven't seen the vault yet1 and he opened up the vaults there1 carefully contrived against burglars1 and let me in4 ,there were three1 and ,i wandered from one to another4 ,no one watched me4 ,i could have filled my pockets with gold or silver1 but no one watched me4 ,why did they trust me8 ,because they knew ,i was preaching the gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 and living up to it4 ,that's why they trusted me4 ,there was a time in my life when a man wouldn't trust me with a yellow dog on a corner fifteen minutes4 ,before ,i was converted ,i could go five rounds so fast you couldn't see me for the dust1 and ,i'm still pretty handy with my dukes and ,i can still deliver the goods with all express charges prepaid4 ,before ,i was converted ,i could run one hundred yards in ten seconds and circle the bases in fourteen seconds1 and ,i could run just as fast after ,i was converted4 ,so you don't have to be a dish-rag proposition at all4 ,when a person's acts affect only himself they can be left to the conscience of the individual1 but when they affect others the law steps in4 ,when a child has diphtheria1 you are not allowed personal liberty2 you are quarantined1 because your personal liberty could endanger others if exercised4 ,so you haven't any right to live in sin4 ,you say you'll do it anyhow4 ,all right1 you'll go to hell1 too4 ,adam and ,eve said they would eat the apple anyhow1 and the world became a graveyard1 and here's the result today4 ,i look out into the world and see a man living in sin4 ,i argue with him1 ,i plead with him4 ,i cry out warning words4 ,i brand that man with a black brand1 whose iniquities are responsible for the fall of others4 ,no man lives to himself alone4 ,i hurt or help others by my life4 ,when you go to hell you're going to drag some one else down with you and if you go to heaven you're going to take some one else with you4 ,you say you hate sin4 ,of course you do if you have self-respect4 ,but you never saw anyone who hates sin worse than ,i do1 or loves a sinner more than ,i4 ,i'm fighting for the sinners4 ,i'm fighting to save your soul1 just as a doctor fights to save your life from a disease4 ,i'm your friend1 and you'll find that ,i'll not compromise one bit with sin4 ,i'll do anything to help you4 ,no man will argue that sin is a good thing4 ,not a one who does not believe that the community would be better off if there was no sin4 ,i preach against vice to show you that it will make your girl an outcast and your boy a drunkard4 ,i'm fighting everything that will lead to this and if ,i have to be your enemy to fight it1 ,god pity you1 for ,i'm going to fight4 ,people do not fight sin until it becomes a vice4 ,you say you're not afraid of sin4 ,you ought to be1 for your children4 ,it doesn't take boys long to get on the wrong track1 and while you are scratching gravel to make one lap1 your boy makes ten4 ,we've got kids who have not yet sprouted long breeches who know more about sin and vice than ,methuselah4 ,there are little frizzled-top sissies not yet sprouting long dresses who know more about vice than did their great-grandmothers when they were seventy-five years old4 ,the girl who drinks will abandon her virtue4 ,what did ,methuselah know about smoking cigarettes8 ,i know there are some sissy fellows out there who object to my talking plain and know you shirk from talking plain4 ,if any one ever tells you that you can't be virtuous and enjoy good health1 ,i brand him as a low1 infamous1 black-hearted liar4 ,ask any afflicted man you see on the street4 ,if you could only reveal the heart of every one of them6 ,in most you would find despair and disease4 ,how little he thinks when he is nursing that lust that he is nursing a demon which1 like a vampire1 will suck his blood and wreck his life and blacken and blight his existence4 ,and if any little children are born to him1 they will be weak anemics without the proper blood in their veins to support them4 ,our young men ought to be taught that no sum they can leave to a charitable institution can blot out the deeds of an ignominious life4 ,you don't have to look far for the reason why so many young men fail2 why they go through life weak1 ambitionless1 useless4 ,common ,sense ,let's be common folks together today4 ,let's be men1 and talk sense4 ,as a rule a man wants something better for his children than he has had for himself4 ,my father died before ,i was born and ,i lived with my grandfather4 ,he smoked1 but he didn't want me to4 ,he chewed1 but he didn't want me to4 ,he drank1 but he didn't want me to4 ,he cussed1 but he didn't want me to4 ,he made wine that would make a man fight his own mother after he had drunk it4 ,i remember how ,i used to find the bottles and suck the wine through a straw or an onion top4 ,one day a neighbor was in and my grandfather asked him for a chew4 ,he went to hand it back1 and ,i wanted some4 ,he said ,i couldn't have it4 ,i said ,i wanted it anyhow1 and he picked me up and turned me across his knee and gave me a crack that made me see stars as big as moons4 ,if there is a father that hits the booze1 he doesn't want his son to4 ,if he is keeping some one on the side1 he doesn't want his son to4 ,in other words1 you would not want your son to live like you if you are not living right4 ,an old general was at the bedside of his dying daughter4 ,he didn't believe in the ,bible and his daughter said1 ,what shall ,i do8 ,you don't believe in the ,bible4 ,mamma does4 ,if ,i obey one ,i'm going against the other4 ,the old general put his arms around his daughter and said3 ,follow your mother's way2 it is the safest4 ,man wants his children to have that which is sure4 ,i have sometimes imagined that young fellow in ,luke xv4 ,he came to his father and said1 ,dig up4 ,i'm tired of this and want to see the world4 ,his father didn't know what he meant4 ,come across with the mazuma1 come clean1 divvy4 ,i want the coin1 see8 ,finally the father tumbled1 and he said1 ,i got you1 and he divided up his share and gave it to the young man4 ,then he goes down to ,babylon and starts out on a sporting life4 ,he meets the young blood and the gay dame4 ,i can imagine that young fellow the first time he swore4 ,if his mother had been near he would have looked at her and blushed rose red4 ,but he thought he had to cuss to be a man4 ,no man can be a good husband1 no man can be a good father1 no man can be a respectable citizen1 no man can be a gentleman1 and swear4 ,you can hang out a sign of gentleman1 but when you cuss you might as well take it in4 ,there are three things which will ruin any town and give it a bad name--open licensed saloons2 a dirty1 cussing1 swearing gang of blacklegs on the street2 and vile story tellers4 ,let a town be known for these three things1 and these alone1 and you could never start a boom half big enough to get one man there4 ,old men1 young men1 boys1 swear4 ,what do you cuss for8 ,it doesn't do you any good1 gains you nothing in business or society2 it loses you the esteem of men4 ,god said more about cussing than anything4 ,god said1 ,thou shalt not kill1 ,thou shalt not steal1 ,thou shalt not bear false witness1 but ,god said more about cussing than them all2 and men are still cussing4 ,thou shalt not take the name of the ,lord thy ,god in vain1 for the ,lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain4 ,no ,excuse for ,swearing ,i can see how you can get out of anything but cussing4 ,i can see how a man could be placed in such a position that he would kill and be exonerated by the law of ,god and man1 if he killed to protect his life1 or the life of another4 ,i can see how a man could be forced to steal if he stole to keep his wife from starving4 ,up in ,chicago several years ago there was a long-continued strike and the last division of the union treasury had given each man twenty-five cents4 ,a man went into the railroad yards and got a bag of coal from one of the cars4 ,they pinched him and he came up before a judge4 ,he told the judge that he had only the twenty-five cents of the last division and he spent that for food4 ,his wife and two children were at home starving and he had no fire4 ,he stole the coal to cook their food4 ,the judge thundered1 ,get out of this room and get home and build that fire as quickly as you can4 ,say1 boys1 if ,i was on a jury and you could prove to me that a father had stolen a loaf of bread to keep his wife from starving you could keep me in the room until the ants took me out through the keyhole before ,i'd stick him4 ,that may not be law1 ,i don't know2 but you'll find there is a big streak of human nature in ,bill4 ,there isn't a fellow in this crowd but what would be disgusted if his wife or sister would cuss and hit the booze like he does4 ,if she would put fifteen or twenty beers under her belt1 he'd go whining around a divorce court for a divorce right away and say he couldn't live with her4 ,why1 you dirty dog1 she has to live with you4 ,i heard of a fellow whose wife thought she would show him how he sounded around the house and give him a dose of his own medicine4 ,so one morning he came down and asked for his breakfast4 ,why you old blankety1 blank1 blank1 bald-headed1 blankety1 blankety1 blank1 you can get your own breakfast4 ,he was horrified1 but every time he tried to say anything she would bring out a bunch of lurid oaths until finally he said1 ,wife1 if you'll cut out that cussing ,i'll never swear again4 ,i have sometimes tried to imagine myself in ,damascus on review day1 and have seen a man riding on a horse richly caparisoned with trappings of gold and silver1 and he himself clothed in garments of the finest fabrics1 and the most costly1 though with a face so sad and melancholy that it would cause the beholder to turn and look a second and third time4 ,but he was a leper4 ,and a man unaccustomed to such scenes might be heard to make a remark like this3 ,how unequally ,god seems to divide his favors6 ,there is a man who rides and others walk2 he is clothed in costly garments2 they are almost naked while he is well fed1 and they contrast the difference between the man on the horse and the others4 ,if we only knew the breaking hearts of the people we envy we would pity them from the bottom of our souls4 ,i was being driven through a suburb of ,chicago by a real estate man who wanted to sell me a lot4 ,he was telling me who lived here and who lived there1 and what an honor it would be for me and my children to possess a home there4 ,we were driving past a house that must have cost #ajj1jjj and he said3 ,that house is owned by ,mr4 ,so-and-,so4 ,he is one of our multi-millionaires1 and he and his wife have been known to live in that house for months and never speak to each other4 ,they each have separate apartments1 each has a separate retinue of servants1 each a dining-room and sleeping apartments1 and months come and go by and they never speak to each other4 ,my thoughts hurried back to the little flat we called our home1 where we had lived for seventeen years4 ,i have paid rent enough to pay for it4 ,there wasn't much in it2 ,i could load it in two furniture vans1 maybe three1 counting the piano1 but ,i would not trade the happiness and the joy and the love of that little flat if ,i had to take that palatial home and the sorrow and the things that went with it4 ,family ,skeletons ,suppose you were driving along the street and a man who was intimately acquainted with the skeletons that are in every family1 should tell you the secrets of them all1 of that boy who has broken his father's heart by being a drunkard1 a blackleg gambler1 and that girl who has gone astray1 and that wife who is a common drunkard1 made so by society1 and the father himself who is also a sinner4 ,leprosy is exceedingly loathsome1 and as ,i study its pathology ,i am not surprised that ,god used it as a type of sin4 ,a man who is able to understand this disease1 its beginning and its progress1 might be approached by a man who was thus afflicted and might say to him1 ,hurry6 hurry6 ,show yourself to the priest for the cleansing of the ,mosaic law4 ,why8 says the man addressed4 ,what is the trouble8 ,the other man would say1 ,do hurry and show yourself to the priest4 ,but the man says1 ,that is only a fester1 only a water blister1 only a pimple1 nothing more4 ,i say there is no occasion to be alarmed4 ,you are unduly agitated and excited for my welfare4 ,those sores are only few now1 but it spreads1 and it is first upon the hand1 then upon the arm1 and from the arm it goes on until it lays hold of every nerve1 artery1 vein with its slimy coil1 and continues until the disintegration of the parts takes place and they drop off1 and then it is too late4 ,but the man who was concerned saw the beginning of that1 not only the end1 but the beginning4 ,he looked yonder and saw the end too4 ,if you saw a blaze you would cry1 ,fire6 ,why8 ,because you know that if let alone it will consume the building4 ,that is the reason why you hurry when you get evidence of the disease4 ,so ,i say to you1 young man1 don't you go with that godless1 good-for-nothing gang that blaspheme and sneer at religion1 that bunch of character assassins2 they will make of your body a doormat to wipe their feet upon4 ,don't go with that bunch4 ,i heard you swear1 ,i heard you sneer at religion4 ,stop1 or you will become a staggering1 muttering1 bleary-eyed1 foul-mouthed down-and-outer1 on your way to hell4 ,i say to you stop1 or you will go reeling down to hell1 breaking your wife's heart and wrecking your children's lives4 ,and what have you got to show for it8 ,what have you got to show for it8 ,god pity you for all you got to show for selling your soul to the devil4 ,you are a fool4 ,you are a fool4 ,take it from ,bill1 you are a fool4 ,don't you go1 my boy2 don't you laugh at that smutty story with a double meaning4 ,don't go with that gang4 ,but you say to me1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 you are unduly excited for my welfare4 ,i know you smell liquor on my breath1 but ,i never expect to become a drunkard4 ,i never expect to become an outcast4 ,well1 you are a fool4 ,you are a fool4 ,no man ever intended to become a drunkard4 ,every drunkard started out to be simply a moderate drinker4 ,the fellow that tells me that he can leave it alone when he wants to lies4 ,it is a lie4 ,if you can1 why don't you leave it alone8 ,you will never let it alone4 ,if you could1 you would4 ,my boy1 hear me1 ,i have walked along the shores of time and have seen them strewn with the wrecks of those who have drifted in from the seas of lust and passion and are fit only for danger signals to warn the coming race4 ,you can't leave it alone or if you can1 the time will come when it will get you4 ,take it from me4 ,my mother told me never to buy calico by lamplight1 because you can't tell whether the colors will stand or run in the wash4 ,never ask a girl to be your wife when she's got her best bib and tucker on4 ,call on her and leave at ten o'clock and leave your glove on the piano1 and go back the next morning about nine o'clock after your glove and ring the doorbell1 and if she comes to the door with her hair done up in curl papers and a slipper on one foot and a shoe on the other foot1 and that untied1 and a ,mother ,hubbard on1 take to the woods as fast as you can go4 ,never mind the glove1 let the old man have that if he can wear it4 ,but if she comes to the door nice and neat in a neat working house dress1 with her sleeves rolled up and her hair neatly done up1 and a ribbon or a flower stuck in it1 grab her quick4 ,henry ,clay ,trumbull told me years ago that he was in ,europe and in ,london he went to a theater to see a man who was going to give an exhibition of wild animals and serpents4 ,he had a royal ,bengal tiger and a ,numidian lion1 and he introduced a beast that seems to be least able of being tamed either by kindness or brutality1 a black panther4 ,he made him go through the various motions1 and after a while a wire screen was put down in front of the stage between the audience and the performer1 and to the weird strains of an oriental band the man approached from the left of the stage and a serpent from the right4 ,the eyes of the serpent and the man met and the serpent quailed before the man4 ,man was master there4 ,at his command the serpent went through various contortions1 and the man stepped to the front of the stage and the serpent wound himself round and round and round the man1 until the man and serpent seemed as one4 ,his tongue shot out1 his eyes dilated4 ,the man gave a call1 but the audience thought that part of the performance1 and that horrified audience sat there and heard bone after bone in that man's body crack and break as the reptile tightened its grasp upon his body1 and saw his body crushed before he could be saved4 ,he had bought that snake when it was only four feet long and he had watered and nursed it until it was thirty-five feet4 ,at first he could have killed it2 at last it killed him4 ,nursing ,bad ,habits ,are you nursing a habit today8 ,is it drink8 ,are you nursing and feeding that which will wreck your life and wreck you upon the shores of passion1 notwithstanding all the wrecks you have seen of those who have gone down the line8 ,i never got such a good idea of leprosy as ,i did by reading that wonderful book of the nineteenth century by ,general ,lew ,wallace1 ,ben ,hur4 ,you remember the banishment of ,ben ,hur and the disintegration of that family life and estate1 and the return of ,ben ,hur from his exile4 ,he goes past his old home4 ,the blinds are closed and drawn and all is deserted4 ,he lies down upon the doorstep and falls asleep4 ,his mother and sister have been in the leper colony and are dying of leprosy and only waiting the time when they will be covered with the remains of others who have come there4 ,so they have come to the city to get bread and secure water1 and they see their son and brother lying on the doorstep of their old home4 ,they dare not awaken him for fear anguish at learning of their fate would be more than he could bear4 ,they dare not touch him because it is against the law1 so they creep close to him and put their leprous lips against his sandal-covered feet4 ,they then go back again with the bread and water for which they had come4 ,presently ,ben ,hur awakens and rubs his eyes and sees great excitement4 7,this part of the story is mine47 ,along comes a blear-eyed1 old1 whisky-soaked degenerate and ,ben ,hur asks him what is the trouble1 what is the excitement about1 and he says3 ,a couple of lepers have been cleansed1 but there is nothing to that1 just some occult power1 it's all a fake4 ,ben ,hur goes farther on and hears about this wonder1 and they say it is nothing2 nothing1 some long-haired evangelist who says his name is ,jesus ,christ2 it's all a fake4 ,then ,ben ,hur goes farther and discovers that it is ,jesus of ,nazareth and that he has cleansed ,ben ,hur's own mother and sister4 ,he hears the story and acknowledges the ,nazarene4 ,the ,leprosy of ,sin ,the lepers had to cry1 ,unclean6 ,unclean6 in those days to warn the people4 ,they were compelled by law to do that3 also they were compelled by law to go on the side of the street toward which the wind was blowing lest the breeze bring the germs of their body to the clean and infect them with the disease4 ,and the victim of this disease was compelled to live in a lonely part of the city1 waiting until his teeth began to drop out1 his eyes to drop from their sockets1 and his fingers to drop from his hands1 then he was compelled to go out in the tombs1 the dying among the dead1 there to live until at last he was gathered to the remains of the dead4 ,that was the law that governed the leper in those days4 ,all others shrank from him2 he went forth alone4 ,alone6 ,no man of all he loved or knew1 was with him2 he went forth on his way1 alone1 sick at heart1 to die alone4 ,leprosy is infectious4 ,and so is sin4 ,sin begins in so-called innocent flirtation4 ,the old1 god-forsaken scoundrel of a libertine1 who looks upon every woman as legitimate prey for his lust1 will contaminate a community2 one drunkard1 staggering and maundering and muttering his way down to perdition1 will debauch a town4 ,some men ought to be hurled out of society2 they ought to be kicked out of lodges2 they ought to be kicked out of churches1 and out of politics1 and every other place where decent men live or associate4 ,and ,i want to lift the burden tonight from the heads of the unoffending womanhood and hurl it on the heads of offending manhood4 ,rid the world of those despicable beasts who live off the earnings of the unfortunate girl who is merchandising herself for gain4 ,in some sections they make a business of it4 ,i say commercialized vice is hell4 ,i do not believe any more in a segregated district for immoral women than ,i would in having a section for thieves to live in where you could hire one any day or night in the week to steal for you4 ,there are two things which have got to be driven out or they'll drive us out1 and they are open licensed saloons and protected vice4 ,society needs a new division of anathemas4 ,you hurl the burden on the head of the girl2 and the double-dyed scoundrel that caused her ruin is received in society with open arms1 while the girl is left to hang her head and spend her life in shame4 ,some men are so rotten and vile that they ought to be disinfected and take a bath in carbolic acid and formaldehyde4 ,shut the lodge door in the face of every man that you know to be a moral leper2 don't let him hide behind his uniform and his badge when you know him to be so rotten that the devil would duck up an alley rather than meet him face to face4 ,kick him out of church4 ,kick him out of society4 ,you don't live your life alone4 ,your life affects others4 ,some girls will walk the streets and pick up every ,tom1 ,dick and ,harry that will come across with the price of an ice-cream soda or a joy ride4 ,so with the boy4 ,he will sit at your table and drink beer1 and ,i want to tell you if you are low-down enough to serve beer and wine in your home1 when you serve it you are as low down as the saloon-keeper1 and ,i don't care whether you do it for society or for anything else4 ,if you serve liquor or drink you are as low down as the saloon-keeper in my opinion4 ,so the boy who had not grit enough to turn down his glass at the banquet and refuse to drink is now a blear-eyed1 staggering drunkard1 reeling to hell4 ,he couldn't stand the sneers of the crowd4 ,many a fellow started out to play cards for beans1 and tonight he would stake his soul for a show-down4 ,the hole in the gambling table is not very big2 it is about big enough to shove a dollar through2 but it is big enough to shove your wife through2 big enough to shove your happiness through2 your home through2 your salary1 your character2 just big enough to shove everything that is dear to you in this world through4 ,listen to me4 ,bad as it is to be afflicted with physical leprosy1 moral leprosy is ten thousand times worse4 ,i don't care if you are the richest man in the town1 the biggest taxpayer in the county1 the biggest politician in the district1 or in the state4 ,i don't care a rap if you carry the political vote of ,pennsylvania in your vest pocket1 and if you can change the vote from ,democratic to ,republican in the convention--if after your worldly career is closed my text would make you a fitting epitaph for your tombstone and obituary notice in the papers1 then what difference would it make what you had done--he was a leper4 ,he was a great politician--but ,he was a leper4 ,what difference would it make8 ,i'll tell you1 ,i was never more interested in my life than in reading the story of an old ,confederate colonel who was a stickler for martial discipline4 ,one day he had a trifling case of insubordination4 ,he ordered his men to halt1 and he had the offender shot4 ,they dug the grave and he gave the command to march1 and they had stopped just three minutes by the clock4 ,at the close of the war they made him chief of police of a ,southern city1 and he was so vile and corrupt that the people arose and ordered his dismissal4 ,then a great earthquake swept over the city1 and the people rushed from their homes and thousands of people crowded the streets and there was great excitement4 ,some asked1 ,where is the colonel8 and they said1 ,you will find him in one of two or three places4 ,so they searched and found him in a den of infamy4 ,he was so drunk that he didn't realize the danger he was in4 ,they led him out1 then put him upon a snow white-horse1 put his spurs on his boots and his regimentals on2 they pinned a star on his breast and put a cockade on his hat1 and said to him3 ,colonel1 we command you as mayor of the city to quell this riot4 ,you have supreme authority4 ,he rode out among the people to quell the riot1 dug his spurs into the white side of the horse and the crimson flowed out1 and he rode in and out among the surging mass of humanity4 ,he rode out among the people with commands here1 torrents of obscenity there1 and in twenty-five minutes the stillness of death reigned in city squares1 so marvelously did they fear him1 so wonderful was his power over men4 ,he then rode out1 dismounted1 took off his cockade1 tore the star from his breast and threw it down1 threw off his regimentals1 took off his sword2 then he staggered back to the house of infamy1 where three months later he died1 away from his wife1 away from virtue1 away from morality1 his name synonymous with all that is vile4 ,what difference did it make that he had power over men when you might sum up his life in the words1 ,but he was a leper4 ,what difference did it make8 ,i pity the boy or girl from the depths of my soul1 who if you ask are you willing to be a ,christian1 will answer3 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,i would like to be1 but if ,i tell that at home my brothers will abuse me1 my mother will sneer at me1 my father will curse me4 ,if ,i were1 ,i would have no encouragement to stand and fight the battle4 ,i pity from the depths of my soul that boy or girl1 the boy who has a father like that2 the girl that has a mother like that1 who have a joint like that for a home4 ,unclean6 ,suppose every young man who is a moral leper were impelled by some uncontrollable impulse over which he had no power to make public revelations of his sins6 ,down the street he comes in his auto and you speak to him from the curbstone and he will say3 ,unclean6 ,unclean6 ,yonder he comes walking down the street4 ,suppose that to every man and woman he meets he is impelled and compelled to make revelation of the fact that he is a leper4 ,leprosy is an infectious disease2 it is the germ of sin4 ,if there is an evil in you the evil will dwell in others4 ,when we do wrong we inspire others--and your lives scatter disease when you come in contact with others4 ,if there is sin in the father there will be sin in the boy2 if there is sin in the mother1 there will be sin in the daughter2 if there is sin in the sister1 there will be sin in the brother2 by your influence you will spread it4 ,if you live the wrong way you will drag somebody else to perdition with you as you go1 and kindred ties will facilitate it4 ,supposing all your hearts were open4 ,supposing we had glass doors to our hearts1 and we could walk down the street and look in and see where you have been1 and with whom you have been and what you have been doing4 ,a good many of you would want stained-glass windows and heavy tapestry to cover them4 ,but the ,lord ,looketh on the ,heart ,suppose ,i could put a screen behind me1 pull a string or push a button1 and produce on that screen a view of the hearts of the people4 ,i would say3 ,here is ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,a's life1 as it is1 and here1 as the people think it is4 ,here is what he really is4 ,here is where he has been4 ,here is how much booze he drinks4 ,here is how much he lost last year at horse races4 ,but these are the things that society does not take note of4 ,society takes no note of the flirtation on the street4 ,it waits until the girl has lost her virtue and then it slams the door in her face4 ,it takes no note of that young man drinking at a banquet table2 it waits until he becomes a bleary-eyed drunkard and then it will slam the door in his face4 ,it will take no note of the young fellow that plays cards for a prize2 it waits until he becomes a blackleg gambler and then it slams the door in his face4 ,god says1 ,look out in the beginning for that thing4 ,society takes no note of the beginning4 ,it waits until it becomes vice1 and then it organizes ,civic ,righteousness clubs4 ,get back to the beginning and do your work there4 ,god has planned to save this world through the preaching of men and women1 and ,god reaches down to save men2 he pulls them out of the grog shops and puts them on the water wagon4 ,i never could imagine an angel coming down from heaven and preaching to men and women to save them4 ,god never planned to save this world with the preaching of angels4 ,when ,jesus ,christ died on the cross he died to redeem those whose nature he took4 ,an angel wouldn't know what he was up against4 ,some one would say3 ,good ,angel1 were you ever drunk8 ,no6 ,good ,angel1 did you ever swear8 ,oh1 no6 ,good ,angel1 did you ever try to put up a stove-pipe in the fall8 ,oh1 no6 ,did you ever stub your toe while walking the floor with the baby at three ,a4 ,m8 ,oh1 no6 ,well1 then1 ,mr4 ,angel1 you don't know4 ,you say there is great mercy with ,god1 but you are not tempted4 ,no4 ,god planned to save the world by saving men and women and letting them tell the story4 ,the servant of ,naaman entered the hut of the prophet ,elisha and found him sitting on a high stool writing with a quill pen on papyrus4 ,the servant bowed low and said1 ,the great and mighty ,naaman1 captain of the hosts of the king of ,syria1 awaits thee4 ,unfortunately he is a leper and cannot enter your august presence4 ,he has heard of the miraculous cures that you have wrought and he hopes to become the recipient of your power4 ,the old prophet of ,god replied3 ,tell him to dip seven times in the ,jordan--beat it1 beat it1 beat it4 ,the servant came out to ,naaman1 who was sitting on his horse4 ,well1 is he at home8 ,he's at home1 but he is a queer duck4 ,naaman thought that ,elisha would come out and pat the sores and say incantations1 like an ,indian medicine man4 ,naaman was wroth1 like many a fool today4 ,god reveals to the sinner the plan of salvation and1 instead of thanking ,god for salvation and doing what ,god wants him to do1 he condemns ,god and everybody else for bothering him4 ,now here is a man who wants to be a ,christian4 ,what will he do8 ,will he go ask some old saloon-keeper8 ,will he go ask some of these old brewers8 ,will he ask some of the fellows of the town8 ,will he ask the ,county ,liquor ,dealers' ,association8 ,where will he go8 ,to the preacher1 of course4 ,he is the man to go to when you want to be a ,christian4 ,go to a doctor when you are sick1 to a blacksmith when your horse is to be shod1 but go to the preacher when you want your heart set right4 ,so ,naaman goes into the muddy water and the water begins to lubricate those old sores1 and it begins to itch1 and he says1 ,gee whizz1 like many a young fellow today who goes to a church and just gets religion enough to make him feel miserable4 ,an old fellow in ,iowa came to me and said1 ,bill1 ,i have been to hear you every night and you have done me a lot of good4 ,i used to cuss my old woman every day and ,i ain't cussed her for a week4 ,i'm getting a little better4 ,the ,joy of ,religion ,the trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable4 ,if there is no joy in religion1 you have got a leak in your religion4 ,some haven't religion enough to pay their debts4 ,would that ,i might have a hook and for every debt that you left unpaid ,i might jerk off a piece of clothing4 ,if ,i did some of you fellows would have not anything on but a celluloid collar and a pair of socks4 ,some of you have not got religion enough to have family prayer4 ,some of you people haven't got religion enough to take the beer bottles out of your cellar and throw them in the alley4 ,you haven't got religion enough to tell that proprietor of the red light1 ,no1 you can't rent my house after the first of ,june2 to tell the saloon-keeper1 ,you can't rent my house when your lease runs out2 and ,i want to tell you that the man that rents his property to a saloon-keeper is as low-down as the saloon-keeper4 ,the trouble with you is that you are so taken up with business1 with politics1 with making money1 with your lodges1 and each and every one is so dependent on the other1 that you are scared to death to come out and live clean cut for ,god ,almighty4 ,you have not fully surrendered yourself to ,god4 ,the matter with a lot of you people is that your religion is not complete4 ,you have not yielded yourself to ,god and gone out for ,god and ,god's truth4 ,why1 ,i am almost afraid to make some folks laugh for fear that ,i will be arrested for breaking a costly piece of antique bric--brac4 ,you would think that if some people laughed it would break their faces4 ,to see some people you would think that the essential of orthodox ,christianity is to have a face so long you could eat oatmeal out of the end of a gas pipe4 ,sister1 that is not religion2 ,i want to tell you that the happy1 smiling1 sunny-faced religion will win more people to ,jesus ,christ than the miserable old grim-faced kind will in ten years4 ,i pity anyone who can't laugh4 ,there must be something wrong with their religion or their liver4 ,the devil can't laugh4 ,so ,i can see ,naaman as he goes into the water and dips seven times1 and lo6 his flesh becomes again as a little child's4 ,when8 ,when he did what ,god told him to do4 ,i have seen men come down the aisle by the thousands1 men who have drank whisky enough to sink a ship4 ,i have seen fallen women come to the front by scores and hundreds1 and ,i have seen them go away cleansed by the power of ,god4 ,when8 ,when they did just what ,god told them to do4 ,i wish to ,god the ,church were as afraid of imperfection as it is of perfection4 ,i saw a woman that for twenty-seven years had been proprietor of a disorderly house1 and ,i saw her come down the aisle1 close her doors1 turn the girls out of her house and live for ,god4 ,i saw enough converted in one town where there were four disorderly houses to close their doors2 they were empty2 the girls had all fled home to their mothers4 ,out in ,iowa a fellow came to me and spread a napkin on the platform--a napkin as big as a tablecloth4 ,he said3 ,i want a lot of shavings and sawdust4 ,what for8 ,i'll tell you2 ,i want enough to make a sofa pillow4 ,right here is where ,i knelt down and was converted and my wife and four children1 and my neighbors4 ,i would like to have enough to make a sofa pillow to have something in my home to help me think of ,god4 ,i don't want to forget ,god1 or that ,i was saved4 ,can you give me enough8 ,i said1 ,yes1 indeed1 and if you want enough to make a mattress1 all right1 take it2 and if you want enough of the tent to make a pair of breeches for each of the boys1 why take your scissors and cut it right out1 if it will help you to keep your mind on ,god4 ,that is why ,i like to have people come down to the front and publicly acknowledge ,god4 ,i like to have a man have a definite experience in religion--something to remember4 ,a ,,plain ,,talk ,,to ,,women ,and ,i say to you1 young girl1 don't go with that godless1 ,god-forsaken1 sneering young man that walks the streets smoking cigarettes4 ,he would not walk the streets with you if you smoked cigarettes4 ,but you say you will marry him and reform him2 he would not marry you to reform you4 ,don't go to that dance4 ,don't you know that it is the most damnable1 low-down institution on the face of ,god's earth1 that it causes more ruin than anything this side of hell8 ,don't you go with that young man2 don't you go to that dance4 ,that is why we have so many whip-poor-will widows around the country3 they married some of these mutts to reform them1 and instead of doing that the undertaker got them4 ,i say1 young girl1 don't go to that dance2 it has proven to be the moral graveyard that has caused more ruination than anything that was ever spewed out of the mouth of hell4 ,don't go with that young fellow for a joy ride at midnight4 ,girls1 when some young fellow comes up and asks you the greatest question that you will ever be asked or called upon to answer1 next to the salvation of your own soul1 what will you say8 ,oh1 this is so sudden6 ,that is all a bluff2 you have been waiting for it all the time4 ,but1 girls1 never mind now1 get down to facts4 ,when he asks you the greatest question1 the most important one that any girl is ever asked1 next to the salvation of her soul1 just say1 ,sit down and let me ask you three questions4 ,i want to ask you these three questions and if ,i am satisfied with your answer1 it will determine my answer to your question4 ',did you believe me to be virtuous when you came here to ask me to be your wife8' ,oh1 yes1 ,i believed you to be virtuous4 ,that's the reason ,i came here4 ,you are like violets dipped in dew4 ,the second question3 ,have you as a young man lived as you demand of me as a girl that ,i should have lived8 ,the third question3 ,if ,i1 as a girl1 had lived and done as you1 as a young man1 and you knew it1 would you ask me to marry you8 ,they will line up and nine times out of ten they will take the count4 ,you can line them up1 and ,i know what ,i am talking about1 and ,i defy any man on ,god's earth successfully to contradict me4 ,i have the goods4 ,the average young man is more particular about the company he keeps than the average girl4 ,i'll tell you4 ,if he meets somebody on the street whom he doesn't want to meet he will duck into the first open doorway and avoid the publicity of meeting her1 for fear she might smile or give an indication that she had seen him somewhere and sometime before that4 ,yet our so-called best girls keep company with young men whose character would make a black mark on a piece of anthracite4 ,their characters are foul and rotten and damnable4 ,i like to see a girl who has a good head1 and can choose right because it is right1 never minding the criticism4 ,choose the good and be careful of good company and good conduct1 and keep company with a good young fellow4 ,don't go with the fellow whose reputation is bad4 ,everybody knows it is bad1 and if you are seen with him you will lose your reputation as well1 although your virtue is intact2 and they might as well take you to the graveyard and bury you1 when your reputation is gone4 ,when a man like that asks you to go with him1 say to him that if he will live the way you want him to you will go with him4 ,if he would take a stand like that there wouldn't be so many wrecks4 ,if our women and girls would take higher stands and say1 ,no1 no1 we will not keep company with you unless you live the way ,i want you to1 there would be better men4 ,a lot of you women hold yourselves too cheaply4 ,you are scared to death for fear you will be what the world irreverently calls an old maid4 ,hospitality ,you remember the prophet ,elisha and his journey to the school of prophets up to ,mount ,carmel4 ,there was a woman who noticed the actions and conduct of the man of ,god and she said to her husband1 ,let us build a little room and place therein a bed1 and bowl and pitcher1 that he may make it his home4 ,the suggestion evidently met with the approval of the husband1 because ever afterward the man of ,god enjoyed this hospitality4 ,i sometimes thought she might have been a new woman of the olden times1 because no mention is made of the husband4 ,you never hear of some old lobsters unless they are fortunate enough to marry a woman who does things and their name is always mentioned in connection with what the wife does4 ,you know there are homes in which the advent of one1 two and possibly three children is considered a curse instead of a blessing4 ,god1 in his providence1 has often denied the honor of maternity to some women4 ,but there are married women who shrink from maternity1 not because of ill health1 but simply because they love ease1 because they love fine garments and ability to flirt like a butterfly at some social function4 ,crimes have been and are being committed2 hands are stained with blood2 and that very crime has made ,france the charnel house of the world4 ,and ,america1 we of our boasted intelligence and wealth1 we are fast approaching the same doom1 until or unless it behooves somebody with grit and courage to preach against the prevailing sins and run the risk of incurring the displeasure of people who divert public attention from their own vileness rather than condemn themselves for the way they are living4 ,they say the man who is preaching against it is vulgar1 rather than the man who did it4 ,i am sure there is not an angel in heaven that would not be glad to come to earth and be honored with motherhood if ,god would grant her that privilege4 ,what a grand thing it must be1 at the end of your earthly career1 to look back upon a noble and godly life1 knowing you did all you could to help leave this old world to ,god and made your contributions in tears and in prayers and taught your offspring to be ,god-fearing1 so that when you went you would continue to produce your noble character in your children4 ,maternity ,out of ,fashion ,society has just about put maternity out of fashion4 ,when you stop to consider the average society woman ,i do not think maternity has lost anything4 ,the humbler children are raised by their mothers instead of being turned over to a governess4 ,illustration3 ,,society ,,has ,,just ,,about ,,put ,,maternity ,,out ,,of ,,fashion ,there are too many girls who marry for other causes than love4 ,i think ambition1 indulgence and laziness lead more girls to the altar than love--girls not actuated by love1 but simply willing to pay the price of wifehood to wear fine clothes4 ,they are not moved by the noble desires of manhood or womanhood4 ,some girls marry for novelty and some girls marry for a home4 ,some fool mothers encourage girls to marry for ease so they can go to the matinee and buzz around4 ,some fool girls marry for money and some girls marry for society1 because by connecting their name with a certain family's they go up a rung in the social ladder1 and some girls marry young bucks to reform them--and they are the biggest fools in the bunch1 because the bucks would not marry the girls to reform them4 ,you mothers are worse fools to encourage your daughter to marry some old lobster because his father has money and when he dies1 maybe your daughter can have good clothes and ride in an auto instead of hoofing it4 ,look at the girls on the auction block today4 ,look at the awful battle the average stenographer and average clerk has to fight4 ,you cannot work for six dollars a week and wear fine duds and be on the square as much as you are without having the people suspicious4 ,in a letter to ,miss ,borson1 ,president ,roosevelt said3 ,the man or woman who avoids marriage and has a heart so cold as to know no passion and a brain so shallow as to dislike having children is1 in fact1 a criminal4 ,is it well with thee8 ,is it well with your husband8 ,the best man in the world1 you answer4 ,very well2 is it well with the child8 ,i think its responsibilities are equal1 if they don't outweigh its privileges1 and when ,god is in the heart of the child1 ,i don't wonder that that home is a haven of peace and rest4 ,i have no motive in preaching except the interest ,i have in the moral welfare of the people4 ,there is not money enough to hire me to preach4 ,i tell you1 ladies1 we have to do something more than wipe our eyes1 and blow our nose1 and say ,come to ,jesus4 ,go out and shell the woods and make them let you know why they don't come to ,jesus4 ,i believe the time will come when sex hygiene will form part of the high-school curriculum4 ,i would rather have my children taught sex hygiene than ,greek and ,latin4 ,a lot of the high-school curriculum is mere fad4 ,i think the time will come when our girls will be taught in classes with some graduated woman physician for an instructor4 ,women live on a higher plane1 morally1 than men4 ,no woman was ever ruined that some brute of a man did not take the initiative4 ,women have kept themselves purer than men4 ,i believe a good woman is the best thing this side of heaven and a bad woman the worst thing this side of hell4 ,i think woman rises higher and sinks lower than man4 ,i think she is the most degraded on earth or the purest on earth4 ,our homes are on the level with women4 ,towns are on the level with homes4 ,what women are our homes will be2 and what the town is1 the men will be1 so you hold the destiny of the nation4 ,i believe there is something unfinished in the make-up of a girl who does not have religion4 ,the average girl today no longer looks forward to motherhood as the crowning glory of womanhood4 ,she is turning her home into a gambling shop and a social beer-and-champagne-drinking joint1 and her society is made up of poker players1 champagne1 wine and beer drinkers1 grass-widowers and jilted jades and slander-mongers--that comprises the society of many a girl today4 ,she is becoming a matinee-gadder and fudge-eater4 ,the ,girl ,who ,flirts ,i wish ,i could make a girl that flirts see herself as others see her4 ,if you make eyes at a man on the street he will pay you back4 ,it doesn't mean that you are pretty4 ,it means that if you don't care any more for yourself than that why should he8 ,the average man will take a girl at her personal estimate of herself4 ,it takes a whole lot of nerve for a fellow to look a girl in the face and say1 ,will you be my wife and partner1 and help me fight the battle during life8 but ,i think it means a whole lot more to the girl who has to answer and fight that question4 ,but the fool girl loafs around and waits to be chosen and takes the first chance she gets and seems to think that if they get made one1 the laws of man can make them two again4 ,the divorce laws are damnable4 ,america is first in many things that ,i love1 but there are many things that are a disgrace4 ,we lead the world in crime2 and lead the world in divorce--we who boast of our culture4 ,many a girl has found out after she is married that it would have been a good deal easier to die an old maid than to have said yes1 and become the wife of some cigarette-smoking1 cursing1 damnable libertine4 ,they will launch the matrimonial boat and put the oars in and try it once for luck1 anyway1 and so we have many women praying for unconverted husbands4 ,illustration3 ,,who ,,will ,,lead ,,the ,,way8 ,illustration3 ,,ha6 ,,ha6 ,,old ,,devil1 ,i',,ve ,,got ,,you ,,beat6 ,i preached like this in a town once and the next day ,i heard of about five engagements that were broken4 ,i can give you advice now1 but if the knot is tied1 the thing is done4 ,i am a ,roman ,catholic on divorce4 ,there are a whole lot of things worse than living and dying an old maid and one of them is marrying the wrong man4 ,so don't be one to do that4 ,now1 girls1 don't simper and look silly when you speak about love4 ,there is nothing silly about it1 although some folks are silly because they are in love4 ,love is the noblest and purest gift of ,god to man and womankind4 ,don't let your actions advertise ,man ,wanted1 ,quick4 ,that is about the surest way not to get a man4 ,you might get a thing with breeches on1 but he is no man4 ,many a woman is an old maid because she wanted to do her share of the courting4 ,don't get excited and want to hurry things along4 ,if a man begins to act as though he is after you1 the surest way to get him is just to make him feel you don't want him1 unless you drive him off by appearing too indifferent4 ,and1 girls1 don't worry if you think you are not going to get a chance to marry4 ,some of the noblest men in the world have been bachelors and some of the noblest women old maids4 ,and1 woman1 for ,god's sake1 when you do get married1 don't transfer the love ,god gave you to bestow on a little child to a ,spitz dog or a brindle pup4 ,the ,task of ,womanhood ,all great women are satisfied with their common sphere in life and think it is enough to fill the lot ,god gave them in this world as wife and mother4 ,i tell you the devil and women can damn this world1 and ,jesus and women can save this old world4 ,it remains with womanhood today to lift our social life to a higher plane4 ,mothers1 be more careful of your boys and girls4 ,explain these evils that contaminate our social life today4 ,i have had women say to me1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 don't you think there is danger of talking too much to them when they are so young8 ,not much2 just as soon as a girl is able to know the pure from the impure she should be taught4 ,oh1 mothers1 mothers1 you don't know what your girl is being led to by this false and mock modesty4 ,don't teach your girls that the only thing in the world is to marry4 ,why1 some girls marry infidels because they were not taught to say ,i would not do it4 ,a girl is a big fool to marry an infidel4 ,god says1 ,be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers4 ,i believe there is a race yet to appear which will be as far superior in morals to us as we are superior to the morals in the days of ,julius ,csar2 but that race will never appear until ,god-fearing young men marry ,god-fearing girls and the offspring are ,god-fearing4 ,culture will never save the world4 ,if these miserable human vampires who feed and fatten upon the virtue of womanhood can get off with impunity2 nay1 more1 be feasted and petted and coddled by society1 we might as well back-pedal out and sink in shame1 for we can never see to the heights nor command the respect of the great and good4 ,what paved the way for the downfall of the mightiest dynasties--proud and haughty ,greece and imperial ,rome8 ,the downfall of their womanhood4 ,the virtue of womanhood is the rampart wall of ,american civilization4 ,break that down and with the stones thereof you can pave your way to the hottest hell1 and reeking vice and corruption4 ,,chapter ,,xviii ,help ,those ,women ,if the womanhood of ,america had been no better than its manhood1 the devil would have had the country fenced in long ago4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,the average ,american is somewhat of a sentimentalist4 ,home1 ,sweet ,home1 is an ,american song4 ,no people1 except possibly the ,irish1 respond more readily to the note of ,mother than the ,americans4 ,no other nation honors womanhood so greatly4 ,we are really a chivalrous people4 ,in this respect1 as in so many others1 ,sunday is true to type4 ,his sermons abound with passages which express the best ,american sentiment toward womanhood4 ,it is good for succeeding generations that such words as the following should be uttered in the ears of tens and hundreds of thousands of young people1 and reprinted in scores and hundreds of newspapers4 ,,mother ,the story of ,moses is one of the most beautiful and fascinating in all the world4 ,it takes a hold on us and never for an instant does it lose its interest1 for it is so graphically told that once heard it is never forgotten4 ,i have often imagined the anxiety with which that child was born1 for he came into the world with the sentence of death hanging over him1 for ,pharaoh had decreed that the male children should die4 ,the mother defied even the command of the king and determined that the child should live1 and right from the beginning the battle of right against might was fought at the cradle4 ,moses' mother was a slave4 ,she had to work in the brickyards or labor in the field1 but ,god was on her side and she won1 as the mother always wins with ,god on her side4 ,before going to work she had to choose some hiding place for her child1 and she put his little sister1 ,miriam1 on guard while she kept herself from being seen by the soldiers of ,pharaoh1 who were seeking everywhere to murder the ,jewish male children4 ,for three months she kept him hidden1 possibly finding a new hiding place every few days4 ,it is hard to imagine anything more difficult than to hide a healthy1 growing baby1 and he was hidden for three months4 ,now he was grown larger and more full of life and a more secure hiding place had to be found1 and ,i can imagine this mother giving up her rest and sleep to prepare an ark for the saving of her child4 ,i believe the plan must have been formulated in heaven4 ,i have often thought ,god must have been as much interested in that work as was the mother of ,moses1 for you can't make me believe that an event so important as that1 and so far-reaching in its results1 ever happened by luck or chance4 ,possibly ,god whispered the plan to the mother when she went to him in prayer and in her grief because she was afraid the sword of ,pharaoh would murder her child4 ,and how carefully the material out of which the ark was made had to be selected6 ,i think every twig was carefully scrutinized in order that nothing poor might get into its composition1 and the weaving of that ark1 the mother's heart1 her soul1 her prayers1 her tears1 were interwoven4 ,oh1 if you mothers would exercise as much care over the company your children keep1 over the books they read and the places they go1 there would not be so many girls feeding the red-light district1 nor so many boys growing up to lead criminal lives4 ,and with what thanksgiving she must have poured out her heart when at last the work was done and the ark was ready to carry its precious cargo1 more precious than if it was to hold the crown jewels of ,egypt4 ,and ,i can imagine the last night that baby was in the home4 ,probably some of you can remember when the last night came when baby was alive2 you can remember the last night the coffin stayed1 and the next day the pall-bearers and the hearse came4 ,the others may have slept soundly1 but there was no sleep for you1 and ,i can imagine there was no sleep for ,moses' mother4 ,there are whips and tops and pieces of string ,and shoes that no little feet ever wear2 ,there are bits of ribbon and broken wings ,and tresses of golden hair4 ,there are dainty jackets that never are worn ,there are toys and models of ships2 ,there are books and pictures all faded and torn ,and marked by finger tips ,of dimpled hands that have fallen to dust-- ,yet we strive to think that the ,lord is just4 ,yet a feeling of bitterness fills our soul2 ,sometimes we try to pray1 ,that the ,reaper has spared so many flowers ,and taken ours away4 ,and we sometimes doubt if the ,lord can know ,how our riven hearts did love them so4 ,but we think of our dear ones dead1 ,our children who never grow old1 ,and how they are waiting and watching for us ,in the city with streets of gold2 ,and how they are safe through all the years ,from sickness and want and war4 ,we thank the great ,god1 with falling tears1 ,for the things in the cabinet drawer4 ,a ,mother's ,watchfulness ,others in the house might have slept1 but not a moment could she spare of the precious time allotted her with her little one1 and all through the night she must have prayed that ,god would shield and protect her baby and bless the work she had done and the step she was about to take4 ,some people often say to me3 ,i wonder what the angels do2 how they employ their time8 ,i think ,i know what some of them did that night4 ,you can bet they were not out to some bridge-whist party4 ,they guarded that house so carefully that not a soldier of old ,pharaoh ever crossed the threshold4 ,they saw to it that not one of them harmed that baby4 ,at dawn the mother must have kissed him good-bye1 placed him in the ark and hid him among the reeds and rushes1 and with an aching heart and tear-dimmed eyes turned back again to the field and back to the brickyards to labor and wait to see what ,god would do4 ,she had done her prayerful best1 and when you have done that you can bank on ,god to give the needed help4 ,if we only believed that with ,god all things are possible no matter how improbable1 what unexpected answers the ,lord would give to our prayers6 ,she knew ,god would help her some way1 but ,i don't think she ever dreamed that ,god would help her by sending ,pharaoh's daughter to care for the child4 ,it was no harder for ,god to send the princess than it was to get the mother to prepare the ark4 ,what was impossible from her standpoint was easy for ,god4 ,pharaoh's daughter came down to the water to bathe1 and the ark was discovered1 just as ,god wanted it to be1 and one of her maids was sent to fetch it4 ,you often wonder what the angels are doing4 ,i think some of the angels herded the crocodiles on the other side of the ,nile to keep them from finding ,moses and eating him up4 ,you can bank on it1 all heaven was interested to see that not one hair of that baby's head was injured4 ,there weren't devils enough in hell to pull one hair out of its head4 ,the ark was brought and with feminine curiosity the daughter of ,pharaoh had to look into it to see what was there1 and when they removed the cover1 there was lying a strong1 healthy baby boy1 kicking up his heels and sucking his thumbs1 as probably most of us did when we were boys1 and probably as you did when you were a girl4 ,the baby looks up and weeps1 and those tears blotted out all that was against it and gave it a chance for its life4 ,i don't know1 but ,i think an angel stood there and pinched it to make it cry1 for it cried at the right time4 ,just as ,god plans4 ,god always does things at the right time4 ,give ,god a chance2 he may be a little slow at times1 but he will always get around in time4 ,the tears of that baby were the jewels with which ,israel was ransomed from ,egyptian bondage4 ,the princess had a woman's heart and when a woman's heart and a baby's tears meet1 something happens that gives the devil cold feet4 ,perhaps the princess had a baby that had died1 and the sight of ,moses may have torn the wound open and made it bleed afresh4 ,but she had a woman's heart1 and that made her forget she was the daughter of ,pharaoh and she was determined to give protection to that baby4 ,faithful ,miriam 7the ,lord be praised for ,miriam7 saw the heart of the princess reflected in her face4 ,miriam had studied faces so much that she could read the princess' heart as plainly as if written in an open book1 and she said to her3 ,shall ,i go and get one of the ,hebrew women to nurse the child for you8 and the princess said1 ,go4 ,i see her little feet and legs fly as she runs down the hot1 dusty road1 and her mother must have seen her coming a mile away1 and she ran to meet her own baby put back in her arms4 ,and she was being paid ,egyptian gold to take care of her own baby4 ,see how the ,lord does things8 ,now you take this child and nurse it for me and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,it was a joke on ,pharaoh's daughter1 paying ,moses' mother for doing what she wanted to do more than anything else--nurse her own baby4 ,how quickly the mother was paid for these long hours of anxiety and alarm and grief1 and if the angels know what is going on what a hilarious time there must have been in heaven when they saw ,moses and ,miriam back at home1 under the protection of the daughter of ,pharaoh4 ,i imagine she dropped on her knees and poured out her heart to ,god1 who had helped her so gloriously4 ,she must have said3 ,well1 ,lord1 ,i knew you would help me4 ,i knew you would take care of my baby when ,i made the ark and put him in it and put it in the water1 but ,i never dreamed that you would put him back into my arms to take care of1 so ,i would not have to work and slave in the field and make brick and be tortured almost to death for fear that the soldiers of ,pharaoh would find my baby and kill him4 ,i never thought you would soften the stony heart of ,pharaoh and make him pay me for what ,i would rather do than anything else in this world4 ,i expect to meet ,moses' mother in heaven1 and ,i am going to ask her how much old ,pharaoh had to pay her for that job4 ,i think that's one of the best jokes1 that old sinner having to pay the mother to take care of her own baby4 ,but ,i tell you1 if you give ,god a chance1 he will fill your heart to overflowing4 ,just give him a chance4 ,a ,mother's ,bravery ,this mother had remarkable pluck4 ,everything was against her but she would not give up4 ,her heart never failed4 ,she made as brave a fight as any man ever made at the sound of the cannon or the roar of musketry4 ,the bravest battle that was ever fought1 ,shall ,i tell you where and when8 ,on the maps of the world you'll find it not-- ',twas fought by the mothers of men4 ,nay1 not with cannon or battle shot1 ,with sword or noble pen1 ,nay1 not with the eloquent word or thought1 ,from the mouths of wonderful men4 ,but deep in the walled-up woman's heart-- ,of women that would not yield4 ,but1 bravely1 silently bore their part-- ,lo1 there is the battle-field4 ,no marshaling troops1 no bivouac song1 ,no banner to gleam and wave2 ,but oh1 these battles they last so long-- ,from babyhood to the grave4 ,mothers are always brave when the safety of their children is concerned4 ,illustration3 ,,don',t ,,give ,a ,,pug-,,nosed ,,bulldog ,,the ,,love ,a ,,baby ,,ought ,,to ,,be ,,getting4 ,this incident happened out ,west4 ,a mother was working in a garden and the little one was sitting under a tree in the yard playing4 ,the mother heard the child scream2 she ran1 and a huge snake was wrapping its coils about the baby1 and as its head swung around she leaped and grabbed it by the neck and tore it from her baby and hurled it against a tree4 ,fathers often give up4 ,the old man often goes to boozing1 becomes dissipated1 takes a dose of poison and commits suicide2 but the mother will stand by the home and keep the little band together if she has to manicure her finger nails over a washboard to do it4 ,if men had half as much grit as the women there would be different stories written about a good many homes4 ,look at her work6 ,it is the greatest in the world2 in its far-reaching importance it is transcendently above everything in the universe--her task in molding hearts and lives and shaping character4 ,if you want to find greatness don't go to the throne1 go to the cradle2 and the nearer you get to the cradle the nearer you get to greatness4 ,now1 when ,jesus wanted to give his disciples an impressive object lesson he called in a college professor1 did he8 ,not much4 ,he brought in a little child and said3 ,except ye become as one of these1 ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of ,god4 ,the work is so important that ,god will not trust anybody with it but a mother4 ,the launching of a boy or a girl to live for ,christ is greater work than the launching of a battleship4 ,moses was a chosen vessel of the ,lord and ,god wanted him to get the right kind of a start1 so he gave him a good mother4 ,there wasn't a college professor in all ,egypt that ,god would trust with that baby6 so he put the child back in its mother's arms4 ,he knew the best one on earth to trust with that baby was its own mother4 ,when ,god sends us great men he wants to have them get the right kind of a start4 ,so he sees to it that they have a good mother4 ,most any old stick will do for a daddy4 ,god is particular about the mothers4 ,good ,mothers ,needed ,and so the great need of this country1 or any other country1 is good mothers1 and ,i believe we have more good mothers in ,america than any other nation on earth4 ,if ,washington's mother had been like a ,happy ,hooligan's mother1 ,washington would have been a ,happy ,hooligan4 ,somebody has said3 ,god could not be everywhere1 so he gave us mothers4 ,now there may be poetry in it1 but it's true that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world1 and if every cradle was rocked by a good mother1 the world would be full of good men1 as sure as you breathe4 ,if every boy and every girl today had a good mother1 the saloons and disreputable houses would go out of business tomorrow4 ,a young man one time joined a church and the preacher asked him3 ,what was it ,i said that induced you to be a ,christian8 ,said the young man3 ,nothing that ,i ever heard you say1 but it is the way my mother lived4 ,i tell you an ounce of example outweighs forty million tons of theory and speculation4 ,if the mothers would live as they should1 we preachers would have little to do4 ,keep the devil out of the boys and girls and he will get out of the world4 ,the old sinners will die off if we keep the young ones clean4 ,the biggest place in the world is that which is being filled by the people who are closely in touch with youth4 ,being a king1 an emperor or a president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother or the teacher of children1 whether in a public school or in a ,sunday school1 and they fill places so great that there isn't an angel in heaven that wouldn't be glad to give a bushel of diamonds to boot to come down here and take their places4 ,commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street or pounding an anvil compared with the training of a boy or girl4 ,the mother of ,moses did more for the world than all the kings that ,egypt ever had4 ,to teach a child to love truth and hate a lie1 to love purity and hate vice1 is greater than inventing a flying machine that will take you to the moon before breakfast4 ,unconsciously you set in motion influences that will damn or bless the old universe and bring new worlds out of chaos and transform them for ,god4 ,god's ,hall of ,fame ,a man sent a friend of mine some crystals and said3 ,one of these crystals as large as a pin point will give a distinguishable green hue to sixteen hogsheads of water4 ,think of it6 ,power enough in an atom to tincture sixteen hogsheads of water4 ,there is power in a word or act to blight a boy and1 through him1 curse a community4 ,there is power enough in a word to tincture the life of that child so that it will become a power to lift the world to ,jesus ,christ4 ,the mothers will put in motion influences that will either touch heaven or hell4 ,talk about greatness6 ,oh1 you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity1 then read the mothers' names in ,god's hall of fame1 and see what they have been in this world4 ,wait until you see ,god's hall of fame2 you will see women bent over the washtub4 ,i want to tell you women that fooling away your time hugging and kissing a poodle dog1 caressing a ,spitz1 drinking society brandy-mash and a cocktail1 and playing cards1 is mighty small business compared to molding the life of a child4 ,tell me1 where did ,moses get his faith8 ,from his mother4 ,where did ,moses get his backbone to say3 ,i won't be called the son of ,pharaoh's daughter8 ,he got it from his mother4 ,where did ,moses get the nerve to say1 ,excuse me1 please1 to the pleasures of ,egypt8 ,he got it from his mother4 ,you can bank on it he didn't inhale it from his dad4 ,many a boy would have turned out better if his old dad had died before the kid was born4 ,you tell your boy to keep out of bad company4 ,sometimes when he walks down the street with his father he's in the worst company in town4 ,his dad smokes1 drinks and chews4 ,moses got it from his mother4 ,he was learned in all the wisdom of ,egypt1 but that didn't give him the swelled head4 ,when ,god wants to throw a world out into space1 he is not concerned about it4 ,the first mile that world takes settles its course for eternity4 ,when ,god throws a child out into the world he is mighty anxious that it gets a good start4 ,the ,catholics are right when they say3 ,give us the children until they are ten years old and we don't care who has them after that4 ,the ,catholics are not losing any sleep about losing men and women from their church membership4 ,it is the only church that has ever shown us the only sensible way to reach the masses--that is1 by getting hold of the children4 ,that's the only way on ,god's earth that you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses4 ,you get the boys and girls started right1 and the devil will hang a crape on his door1 bank his fires1 and hell will be for rent before the ,fourth of ,july4 ,a friend of mine has a little girl that she was compelled to take to the hospital for an operation4 ,they thought she would be frightened1 but she said3 ,i don't care if mama will be there and hold my hand4 ,they prepared her for the operation1 led her into the room1 put her on the table1 put the cone over her face and saturated it with ether1 and she said3 ,now1 mama1 take me by the hand and hold it and ,i'll not be afraid4 ,and the mother stood there and held her hand4 ,the operation was performed1 and when she regained consciousness1 they said3 ,bessie1 weren't you afraid when they put you on the table8 ,she said3 ,no1 mama stood there and held my hand4 ,i wasn't afraid4 ,there is a mighty power in a mother's hand4 ,there's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter4 ,and there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss--inspiration1 courage1 hope1 ambition1 in a mother's kiss4 ,one kiss made ,benjamin ,west a painter1 and the memory of it clung to him through life4 ,one kiss will drive away the fear in the dark and make the little one brave4 ,it will give strength where there is weakness4 ,i was in a town one day and saw a mother out with her boy1 and he had great steel braces on both legs1 to his hips1 and when ,i got near enough to them ,i learned by their conversation that that wasn't the first time the mother had had him out for a walk4 ,she had him out exercising him so he would get the use of his limbs4 ,he was struggling and she smiled and said3 ,you are doing finely today2 better than you did yesterday4 ,and she stooped and kissed him1 and the kiss of encouragement made him work all the harder1 and she said3 ,you are doing nobly1 son4 ,and he said3 ,mama1 ,i'm going to run2 look at me4 ,and he started1 and one of his toes caught on the steel brace on the other leg and he stumbled1 but she caught him and kissed him1 and said3 ,that was fine1 son2 how well you did it6 ,now1 he did it because his mother had encouraged him with a kiss4 ,he didn't do it to show off4 ,there is nothing that will help and inspire life like a mother's kiss4 ,if we knew the baby fingers pressed against the window pane1 ,would be cold and still tomorrow1 never trouble us again1 ,would the bright eyes of our darling catch the frown upon our brow8 ,let us gather up the sunbeams lying all around our path1 ,let us keep the wheat and roses1 casting out the thorns and chaff6 ,we shall find our sweetest comforts in the blessings of today1 ,with a patient hand removing all the briars from our way4 ,a ,mother's ,song ,there is power in a mother's song1 too4 ,it's the best music the world has ever heard4 ,the best music in the world is like biscuits--it's the kind mother makes4 ,there is no brass band or pipe organ that can hold a candle to mother's song4 ,calve1 ,melba1 ,nordica1 ,eames1 ,schumann,heinck1 they are cheap skates1 compared to mother4 ,they can't sing at all4 ,they don't know the rudiments of the kind of music mother sings4 ,the kind she sings gets tangled up in your heart strings4 ,there would be a disappointment in the music of heaven to me if there were no mothers there to sing4 ,the song of an angel or a seraph would not have much charm for me4 ,what would you care for an angel's song if there were no mother's song8 ,the song of a mother is sweeter than that ever sung by minstrel or written by poet4 ,talk about sonnets6 ,you ought to hear the mother sing when her babe is on her breast1 when her heart is filled with emotion4 ,her voice may not please an artist1 but it will please any one who has a heart in him4 ,the songs that have moved the world are not the songs written by the great masters4 ,the best music1 in my judgment1 is not the faultless rendition of these high-priced opera singers4 ,there is nothing in art that can put into melody the happiness which associations and memories bring4 ,i think when we reach heaven it will be found that some of the best songs we will sing there will be those we learned at mother's knee4 ,a ,mother's ,love ,there is power in a mother's love4 ,a mother's love must be like ,god's love4 ,how ,god could ever tell the world that he loved it without a mother's help has often puzzled me4 ,if the devils in hell ever turned pale1 it was the day mother's love flamed up for the first time in a woman's heart4 ,if the devil ever got cold feet it was that day1 in my judgment4 ,you know a mother has to love her babe before it is born4 ,like ,god1 she has to go into the shadows of the valley of death to bring it into the world1 and she will love her child1 suffer for it1 and it can grow up and become vile and yet she will love it4 ,nothing will make her blame it1 and ,i think1 women1 that one of the awful things in hell will be that there will be no mother's love there4 ,nothing but black1 bottomless1 endless1 eternal hate in hell--no mother's love4 ,and though he creep through the vilest caves of sin1 ,and crouch perhaps1 with bleared and bloodshot eyes1 ,under the hangman's rope--a mother's lips ,will kiss him in his last bed of disgrace1 ,and love him e'en for what she hoped of him4 ,i thank ,god for what mother's love has done for the world4 ,oh1 there is power in a mother's trust4 ,surely as ,moses was put in his mother's arms by the princess1 so ,god put the babes in your arms1 as a charge from him to raise and care for4 ,every child is put in a mother's arms as a trust from ,god1 and she has to answer to ,god for the way she deals with that child4 ,no mother on ,god's earth has any right to raise her children for pleasure4 ,she has no right to send them to dancing school and haunts of sin4 ,you have no right to do those things that will curse your children4 ,that babe is put in your arms to train for the ,lord4 ,no mother has any more right to raise her children for pleasure than ,i have to pick your pockets or throw red pepper in your eyes4 ,she has no more right to do that than a bank cashier has to rifle the vaults and take the savings of the people4 ,one of the worst sins you can commit is to be unfaithful to your trust4 ,a ,mother's ,responsibility ,take this child and nurse it for me4 ,that is all the business you have with it4 ,that is a jewel that belongs to ,god and he gives it to you to polish for him so he can set it in a crown4 ,who knows but that ,judas became the godless1 good-for-nothing wretch he was because he had a godless1 good-for-nothing mother8 ,do you know8 ,i don't4 ,what is more to blame for the crowded prisons than mothers8 ,who is more to blame for the crowded disreputable houses than you are1 who let your children gad the streets1 with every ,tom1 ,dick and ,harry1 or keep company with some little jack rabbit whose character would make a black mark on a piece of tar paper8 ,i have talked with men in prisons who have damned their mothers to my face4 ,why8 ,they blame their mothers for their being where they are4 ,take the child and nurse it for me1 and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,god pays in joy that is fireproof1 famine-proof and devil-proof4 ,he will pay you1 don't you worry4 ,so get your name on ,god's pay-roll4 ,take this child and nurse it for me1 and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,if you haven't been doing that1 then get your name on ,god's pay-roll4 ,take this child and nurse it for me1 and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,then your responsibility6 ,it is so great that ,i don't see how any woman can fail to be a ,christian and serve ,god4 ,what do you think ,god will do if the mother fails8 ,i stagger under it4 ,what1 if through your unfaithfulness1 your boy becomes a curse and your daughter a blight8 ,what1 if through your neglect1 that boy becomes a ,judas when he might have been a ,john or ,paul8 ,down in ,cincinnati some years ago a mother went to the zoological garden and stood leaning over the bear pit1 watching the bears and dropping crumbs and peanuts to them4 ,in her arms she held her babe1 a year and three months old4 ,she was so interested in the bears that the baby wriggled itself out of her arms and fell into the bear pit1 and she watched those huge monsters rip it to shreds4 ,what a veritable hell it will be through all her life to know that her little one was lost through her own carelessness and neglect6 ,take this child and raise it for me1 and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,will you promise and covenant with ,god1 and with me1 and with one another1 that from now on you will try1 with ,god's help1 to do better than you ever have done to raise your children for ,god8 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,ideal ,,mother ,,is ,,the ,,product ,,of ,a ,,civilization ,,that ,,rose ,,from ,,the ,,manger ,,of ,,bethlehem4 ,i once read the story of an angel who stole out of heaven and came to this world one bright1 sunshiny day2 roamed through field1 forest1 city and hamlet1 and as the sun went down plumed his wings for the return flight4 ,the angel said3 ,now that my visit is over1 before ,i return ,i must gather some mementos of my trip4 ,he looked at the beautiful flowers in the garden and said3 ,how lovely and fragrant1 and plucked the rarest roses1 made a bouquet1 and said3 ,i see nothing more beautiful and fragrant than these flowers4 ,the angel looked farther and saw a bright-eyed1 rosy-cheeked child1 and said3 ,that baby is prettier than the flowers2 ,i will take that1 too1 and looking behind to the cradle1 he saw a mother's love pouring out over her babe like a gushing spring1 and the angel said3 ,the mother's love is the most beautiful thing ,i have seen6 ,i will take that1 too4 ,and with these three treasures the heavenly messenger winged his flight to the pearly gates1 saying3 ,before ,i go ,i must examine the mementos of my trip to the earth4 ,he looked at the flowers2 they had withered4 ,he looked at the baby's smile1 and it had faded4 ,he looked at the mother's love1 and it shone in all its pristine beauty4 ,then he threw away the withered flowers1 cast aside the faded smile1 and with the mother's love pressed to his breast1 swept through the gates into the city1 shouting that the only thing he had found that would retain its fragrance from earth to heaven was a mother's love4 ,take this child and nurse it for me1 and ,i will pay you your wages4 ,when ,napoleon ,bonaparte was asked1 ,what do you regard as the greatest need of ,france8 he replied1 ,mothers1 mothers1 mothers4 ,you women can make a hell of a home or a heaven of a home4 ,don't turn your old ,gatling-gun tongue loose and rip everybody up and rip your husbands up and send them out of their homes4 ,if ,i were going to investigate your piety ,i would ask the girl who works for you4 ,this talk about the land of the free is discounted when the children look like a rummage sale in a second-hand store2 with uncombed hair1 ripped pants1 buttons off1 stockings hanging down4 ,it doesn't take the wisdom of truth to see that mother is too busy with her social duties1 clubs1 etc41 to pay much attention to the kids4 ,mothers of ,great ,men ,the mother of ,nero was a murderess1 and it is no wonder that he fiddled while ,rome burned4 ,the mother of ,patrick ,henry was eloquent1 and that is the reason why every school boy and girl knows1 ,give me liberty or give me death4 ,coleridge's mother taught him ,biblical stories from the old ,dutch tile of the fireplace4 ,in the home authority is needed today more than at any time in the history of this nation4 ,i have met upon the arena of the conflict every form of man and beast imaginable to meet1 and ,i am convinced that neither law nor gospel can make a nation without home authority and home example4 ,those two things are needed4 ,the boy who has a wholesome home and surroundings and a judicious control included does not often find his way into the reformatory4 ,susanna ,wesley was the mother of nineteen children1 and she held them for ,god4 ,when asked how she did it she replied1 ,by getting hold of their hearts in their youth1 and never losing my grip4 ,if it had not been for the expostulations of the mother of ,george ,washington1 ,george ,washington would have become a midshipman in the ,british navy1 and the name of that capital yonder would have been some other4 ,john ,randolph said in the ,house of ,representatives1 ,if it had not been for my godly mother1 ,i1 ,john ,randolph1 would have been an infidel4 ,gray1 who wrote the ,elegy in a ,country ,churchyard1 said he was one of a large family of children that had the misfortune to survive their mother4 ,and ,i believe the ideal mother is the product of a civilization that rose from the manger of ,bethlehem4 ,i am sure there is not an angel in heaven that would not be glad to come to earth and be honored with motherhood if ,god would grant that privilege4 ,what a grand thing it must be1 at the end of your earthly career1 to look back upon a noble and godly life1 knowing you did all you could to help leave this old world to ,god1 and made your contributions in tears and in prayers and taught your offspring to be ,god-fearing1 so that when you went you would continue to produce your noble character in your children4 ,i believe in blood2 ,i believe in good blood1 bad blood1 honest blood1 and thieving blood2 in heroic blood and cowardly blood2 in virtuous blood1 in licentious blood1 in drinking blood and in sober blood4 ,the lips of the ,hapsburgs tell of licentiousness2 those of the ,stuarts tell of cruelty1 bigotry and sensuality1 from ,mary1 queen of ,scots1 down to ,charles the ,first and ,charles the ,second1 ,james the ,first--who showed the world what your fool of a ,scotchman can be when he is a fool--down to ,king ,james the ,second4 ,scotch blood stands for stubbornness4 ,they are full of stick-to-it-iveness4 ,i know1 ,mrs4 ,sunday is full-blooded ,scotch4 ,english blood speaks of reverence for the ,english4 ,that is shown by the fact that ,england spent #ej1jjj1jjj recently to put a crown on ,george's head4 ,danish blood tells of love of the sea4 ,welsh blood tells of religious fervor and zeal for ,god4 ,jewish blood tells of love of money1 from the days of ,abraham down until now4 ,you may have read this story3 ,down in ,new ,york was a woman who said to her drunken son3 ,let's go down to the police court and have the judge send you over to the island for a few weeks4 ,maybe you'll straighten up then and ,i can have some respect for you again4 ,down they went to the police court and appeared before the judge4 ,he asked who would make the charge and the mother sprang forward with the words on her lips4 ,then she stopped short1 turned to her son and throwing her arms about his neck cried out3 ,i can't6 ,i can't6 ,he is my son1 ,i love him and ,i can't4 ,then she fell at his feet dead4 ,as dearly as she had loved her drunken1 bloated1 loafing son she couldn't stand in judgment4 ,,chapter ,,xix ,standing on the ,rock ,if a doctor didn't know any more about ,materia ,medica than the average church member knows about the ,bible1 he'd be arrested for malpractice4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,a publisher remarked to me that a ,billy ,sunday campaign did not create a demand for religious books in general4 ,with rather an air of fault-finding he said1 ,you can't sell anything but ,bibles to that ,billy ,sunday crowd4 ,that remark is illuminating4 ,billy ,sunday does not create a cult3 he simply sends people back to the ,bibles of their mothers4 ,his converts do not become disciples of any particular school of interpretation3 the ,bible and the hymn book are their only armory4 ,it cannot be gainsaid that it is better to read the ,bible than to read books about the ,bible4 ,the work of ,billy ,sunday is not done with a convert until he has inspired that person to a love and loyalty for the old ,book4 ,,the ,,story ,,of ,,the ,,brazen ,,serpent ,,bible ,,version #e4 ,and the people spake against ,god and against ,moses1 ,wherefore have ye brought us up out of ,egypt to die in the wilderness8 for there is no bread1 neither is there any water2 and our soul loatheth this light bread4 #f4 ,and the ,lord sent fiery serpents among the people1 and they bit the people2 and much people of ,israel died4 #g4 ,therefore the people came to ,moses and said1 ,we have sinned1 for we have spoken against the ,lord1 and against thee2 pray unto the ,lord that he take away the serpents from us4 ,and ,moses prayed for the people4 #h4 ,and the ,lord said unto ,moses1 ,make thee a fiery serpent1 and set it upon a pole3 and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten1 when he looketh upon it1 shall live4 #i4 ,and ,moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole and it came to pass1 that if a serpent had bitten any man1 when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived4 ,,sunday',s ,,version ,the ,jews were in ,egyptian bondage for years4 ,god said he would release them1 but he hadn't come4 ,but ,god never forgets4 ,so he came and chose ,moses to lead them1 and when ,moses got them out in the wilderness they began to knock and said1 ,who is this ,moses anyway8 ,we don't know him4 ,were there not enough graves in ,egypt8 and they said they didn't like the white bread they were getting and wanted the onions and the leeks and the garlic and melons of ,egypt1 and they found fault4 ,and ,god sent the serpents and was going to kill them all1 but ,moses interceded and said1 ,now see here1 ,god4 ,but the ,lord said1 ,get out of the way1 ,moses1 and let me kill them all4 ,but ,moses said1 ,hold on there1 ,lord4 ,that bunch would have the laugh on you if you did that4 ,they'd say you brought them out here and the commissary stores ran out and you couldn't feed them1 so you just killed them all4 ,so ,god said1 ,all right1 for your sake1 ,moses1 ,i won't1 and he said1 ,moses1 you go and set up a brazen serpent in the wilderness and that will be the one thing that will save them if they are bitten4 ,they must look or die4 ,such passages as this show the uncompromising loyalty of ,sunday to the ,bible3 ,here is a book1 ,god's ,word1 that ,i will put up against all the books of all the ages4 ,you can't improve on the ,bible4 ,you can take all the histories of all the nations of all the ages and cut out of them all that is ennobling1 all that is inspiring1 and compile that into a common book1 but you cannot produce a work that will touch the hem of the garment of the ,book ,i hold in my hand4 ,it is said1 ',why cannot we improve on the ,bible8 ,we have advanced everything else4' ,no1 sir4 ',heaven and earth shall pass away1 but ,my ,word shall not4' ,and so this old ,book1 which is the ,word of ,god1 the ,word of ,jesus ,christ1 is the book ,i intend to preach by everywhere4 ,the religion that has withstood the sophistry and the criticism of the ages1 the sarcasm of ,voltaire1 the irony of ,hume1 the blasphemy of ,ingersoll1 the astronomer's telescope1 the archologist's spade and the physician's scalpel--they have all tried to prove the ,bible false1 but the old ,book is too tough for the tooth of time1 and she stands triumphant over the grave of all that have railed upon her4 ,god ,almighty is still on the job4 ,some people act as though they had sent for the undertaker to come to embalm ,god and bury him4 ,but it is the truth2 it is not an accident that places the ,christian nations in the forefront of the world's battles4 ,it is something more than race1 color1 climate1 that causes the difference between the people that dwell on the banks of the ,congo and those in this valley4 ,the scale of civilization always ascends the line of religion2 the highest civilization always goes hand in hand with the purest religion4 ,rigid as he is in literal interpretation of the ,bible1 ,sunday is celebrated for his paraphrases of favorite passages1 a recasting of the familiar form of words into the speech of the day4 ,some of these slang versions of the old ,book make one gasp2 but generally the evangelist gets the innermost meaning of the ,book itself4 ,he is not an interpreter of the ,bible but a popularizer of it4 ,he does not expound the ,scripture as much as he pounds in the ,scripture4 ,the ,bible and its place in the life of the ,christian are often on the ,evangelist's lips4 ,here1 for instance1 is his interpretation of the story of ,david and ,goliath3 ,all of the sons of ,jesse except ,david went off to war2 they left ,david at home because he was only a kid4 ,after a while ,david's ma got worried4 ,she wondered what had become of his brothers1 because they hadn't telephoned to her or sent word4 ,so she said to ,david1 ',dave1 you go down there and see whether they are all right4' ,so ,david pikes off to where the war is1 and the first morning he was there out comes this big ,goliath1 a big1 strapping fellow about eleven feet tall1 who commenced to shoot off his mouth as to what he was going to do4 ',who's that big stiff putting up that game of talk8' asked ,david of his brothers4 ',oh1 he's the whole works2 he's the head cheese of the ,philistines4 ,he does that little stunt every day4' ',say1' said ,david1 'you guys make me sick4 ,why don't some of you go out and soak that guy8 ,you let him get away with that stuff4' ,he decided to go out and tell ,goliath where to head in4 ,so ,saul said1 ',you'd better take my armor and sword4' ,david put them on1 but he felt like a fellow with a hand-me-down suit about four times too big for him1 so he took them off and went down to the brook and picked up a half dozen stones4 ,he put one of them in his sling1 threw it1 and soaked ,goliath in the coco between the lamps1 and he went down for the count4 ,david drew his sword and chopped off his block1 and the rest of the gang beat it4 ,,sunday ,,utterances ,,on ,,the ,,bible ,the ,bible is the ,word of ,god4 ,nothing has ever been more clearly established in the world today1 and ,god blesses every people and nation that reverence it4 ,it has stood the test of time4 ,no book has so endured through the ages4 ,no book has been so hated4 ,everything the cunning of man1 philosophy1 brutality1 could contrive has been done1 but it has withstood them all4 ,there is no book which has such a circulation today4 ,bibles are dropping from the press like the leaves in autumn4 ,there are #bjj1jjj1jjj copies4 ,it is read by all nations4 ,it has been translated into five hundred languages and dialects4 ,no book ever came by luck or chance4 ,every book owes its existence to some being or beings1 and within the range and scope of human intelligence there are but three things--good1 bad1 and ,god4 ,all that originates in intellect1 all which the intellect can comprehend1 must come from one of the three4 ,this book1 the ,bible1 could not possibly be the product of evil1 wicked1 godless1 corrupt1 vile men1 for it pronounces the heaviest penalties against sin4 ,like produces like1 and if bad men were writing the ,bible they never would have pronounced condemnation and punishment against wrong-doing4 ,the holy men of old1 we are told1 spake as they were moved by the ,holy ,ghost4 ,men do not attribute these beautiful and matchless and well-arranged sentences to human intelligence alone1 but we are told that men spake as they were inspired by the ,holy ,ghost4 ,the only being left1 to whom you1 or ,i1 or any sensible person could ascribe the origin of the ,bible1 is ,god4 ,illustration3 ,,biting1 ,,blistering1 ,,blasting ,,condemnation ,,of ,,sin4 ,,this ,,rare ,,photograph ,,shows ,,the ,,tremendous ,,earnestness ,,of ,,mr4 ,,sunday ,,and ,,the ,,energy1 ,,zeal ,,and ,,fire ,,he ,,puts ,,into ,,his ,,message ,,which ,,has ,,warmed ,,this ,,cold ,,world ,,more ,,than ,,that ,,of ,,any ,,other ,,apostle ,,of ,,righteousness ,,in ,,this ,,generation4 ,men have been thrown to beasts and burned to death for having a ,bible in their possession4 ,there have been wars over the ,bible2 cities have been destroyed4 ,nothing ever brought such persecution as the ,bible4 ,everything vile1 dirty1 rotten and iniquitous has been brought to bear against it because it reveals man's cussedness4 ,but it's here1 and its power and influence are greater today than ever4 ,saloons1 bawdy houses1 gambling hells1 every rake1 every white-slaver1 every panderer and everything evil has been against it1 but it is the word of ,god1 and millions of people know it4 ,this being true1 it is of the highest importance that you should think of the truths in it4 ,i'll bet my life that there are hundreds of you that haven't read ten pages of the ,bible in ten years4 ,some of you never open it except at a birth1 a marriage or a death1 and then just to keep your family records straight4 ,that's a disgrace and an insult4 ,i repeat it1 it's a disgrace and an insult4 ,don't blame ,god if you wind up in hell1 after ,god warned you1 because you didn't take time to read it and think about it4 ,it is the only book that tells us of a ,god that we can love1 a heaven to win1 a hell to shun and a ,saviour that can save4 ,why did ,god give us the ,bible8 ,so that we might believe in ,christ4 ,no other book tells us this4 ,it tells us why the ,bible was written1 that we might believe and be saved4 ,you don't read a railroad guide to learn to raise buckwheat4 ,you don't read a cook book to learn to shoe horses4 ,you don't read an arithmetic to learn the history of the ,united ,states4 ,a geography does not tell you about how to make buckwheat cakes4 ,no1 you read a railroad guide to learn about the trains1 a cook book to learn to make buckwheat cakes1 an arithmetic for arithmetic and a geography for geography4 ,if you want to get out of a book what the author put in it1 find out why it was written4 ,that's the way to get good out of a book4 ,read it4 ,it was written that you might read and believe that ,jesus is the ,son of ,god4 ,the ,bible wasn't intended for a history or a cook book4 ,it was intended to keep me from going to hell4 ,the greatest good can be had from anything by using it for the purpose for which it was intended4 ,a loaf of bread and a brick may look alike1 but try and exchange them and see4 ,you build a house with brick1 but you can't eat it4 ,the purpose of a time table is to give the time of trains1 the junctions1 the different railroads4 ,a man that has been over the road knows more about it than a man who has never been over it4 ,a man who has made the journey of life guided by the ,bible knows more about it than any high-browed lobster who has never lived a word of it4 ,then whom are you going to believe1 the man who has tried it or the man who knows nothing about it8 ,the ,bible was not intended for a science any more than a crowbar is intended for a toothpick4 ,the ,bible was written to tell men that they might live1 and it's true today4 ,one man says3 ,i do not believe in the ,bible because of its inconsistencies4 ,i say the greatest inconsistency is in your life--not in the ,bible6 ,i bring up before you the memory of some evil deed1 and you immediately begin to find fault with the ,bible6 ,go to a man and talk business or politics and he talks sense4 ,go to a woman and talk society1 clubs or dress1 and she talks sense4 ,talk religion to them1 and they will talk nonsense6 ,i want to say that ,i believe that the ,bible is the ,word of ,god from cover to cover4 ,not because ,i understand its philosophy1 speculation1 or theory4 ,i cannot2 wouldn't attempt it2 and ,i would be a fool if ,i tried4 ,i believe it because it is from the mouth of ,god2 the mouth of ,god has spoken it4 ,there is only one way to have the doubts destroyed4 ,read the ,bible and obey it4 ,you say you can't understand it4 ,there's an ,a1 ,b1 ,c in religion1 just as in everything else4 ,when you go to school you learn the ,a1 ,b1 ,c's and pretty soon can understand something you thought you never could when you started out4 ,so in religion4 ,begin with the simple things and go on and you'll understand4 ,that's what it was written for1 that you might read and believe and be saved4 ,i'm willing to stand here and take the hand of any man or woman if you are willing to come and begin with the knowledge you have4 ,in ,south ,africa there are diamond mines and the fact has been heralded to every corner of the world4 ,but only those that dig for them get the diamonds4 ,so it is with the ,bible4 ,dig and you'll find gold and salvation4 ,you have to dig out the truths4 ,years ago in ,sing ,sing prison there was a convict by the name of ,jerry ,mc,cauley and one day an old pal of his came back to the prison and told him how he had been saved1 and quoted a verse of ,scripture4 ,mc,cauley didn't know where to find the verse in the ,bible1 so he started in at the first and read through until he came to it4 ,it was away over in the ninth chapter of ,hebrews4 ,but he found ,jesus ,christ while he was reading it4 ,he lived a godly life until the day he died4 ,supposing a man should come to you and say1 ,the title to your property is no good and if some one contests it you will lose8 ,would you laugh and go on about your business8 ,no1 sir6 ,you would go to the court house and if you could find it in only one book there1 the book in the recorder's office1 you'd search and find it1 and if the recorder said the deed was all right you could laugh at whatever any one else said4 ,there is only one book in the world that tells me about my soul4 ,it says if you believe you're saved1 if you don't you are damned4 ,god said it and it's all true4 ,every man who believes in the ,bible shall live forever4 ,the ,bible says heaven or hell1 so why do you resist8 ,no words are put in the ,bible for effect4 ,the ,bible talks to us so we can understand4 ,god could use language that no one could understand4 ,but we can not understand all by simply hearing and reading4 ,when we see we will know4 ,i stood one day beside a blacksmith's door1 ,and heard the anvil beat and the bellows chime2 ,looking in1 ,i saw upon the floor ,old hammers worn out with beating years and years of time4 ',how many anvils have you had8' said ,i1 ',to wear and batter all these hammers so8' ',just one1' said he1 then said with twinkling eye1 ',the anvil wears the hammers out1 you know4' ,so methought1 the anvils of ,god's word-- ,of ,jesus' sacrifice--have been beat upon-- ,the noise of falling blows was heard-- ,the anvil is unharmed--the hammers are all gone4 ,julian the apostate was a hammer4 ,gone6 ,voltaire1 ,renan1 hammers4 ,gone6 ,in ,germany1 ,goethe1 ,strauss1 ,schleiermacher--gone4 ,in ,england1 ,mill1 ,hume1 ,hobbes1 ,darwin1 ,huxley and ,spencer--the anvil remains2 the hammer is gone4 ,in ,america1 ,thomas ,paine1 ,parker1 ,ingersoll1 gone4 ,the anvil remains4 ,listen4 ,in ,france a hundred years ago or more they were printing and circulating infidel literature at the expense of #d1ejj1jjj a year4 ,what was the result8 ,god was denied1 the ,bible sneered at and ridiculed1 and between #agib and #agie one million twenty thousand and fifty-one hundred people were brought to death4 ,the ,word of ,god stood unshaken amidst it all4 ,josh ,billings said3 ,i would rather be an idiot than an infidel2 because if ,i am an infidel ,i made myself so1 but if ,i am an idiot somebody else did it4 ,oh1 the wreckers' lights on the dangerous coasts that try to allure and drag us away from ,god have all gone out1 but ,god's words shine on4 ,the vital truths of the ,bible are more believed in the world today than at any other time4 ,when a man becomes so intelligent that he can not accept the ,bible1 too progressive to be a ,christian1 that man's influence for good1 in society1 in business or as a companion1 is at an end4 ,some think that being a doubter is an evidence of superior intellect4 ,no6 ,i've never found a dozen men in my life who disbelieved in the ,bible but what they were hugging some secret sin4 ,when you are willing to give up that pet sin you will find it easy to believe in the ,bible4 ,it explains to me why ,saul of ,tarsus1 the murderer1 was changed to ,paul1 the apostle4 ,it explains to me why ,david ,livingstone left his ,highland home to go to darkest ,africa4 ,it explains to me why the ,earl of ,shaftesbury was made from a drunkard into a power for ,god in ,london for sixty-five years4 ,it explains why missionaries leave home and friends to go into unknown lands and preach ,jesus ,christ1 and perhaps to die at the hands of the natives4 ,i can see in this book ,god revealed to man and when ,i do and accept1 ,i am satisfied4 ,it is just what you need to be satisfied4 ,god knows your every need4 ,this explains to me why ,jesus ,christ has such influence on men and women in the world today4 ,no man ever had such influence to teach men and women virtue and goodness as ,christ4 ,this influence has been in the world from #b1jjj years ago to the present time4 ,the human heart is to ,jesus like a great piano4 ,first he plays the sad melodies of repentance and then the joyful hallelujahs4 ,the ,bible has promises running all through it and ,god wants you to appropriate them for your use4 ,they are like a bank note4 ,they are of no value unless used4 ,you might starve to death if you have money in your pockets1 but won't use it4 ,so the promises may not do you any good because you will not use them4 ,the ,bible is a galaxy of promises like the ,milky ,way in the heavens4 ,when you are in trouble1 instead of going to your ,bible1 you let them grow1 and they grow faster than ,jonah's gourd vine4 ,you're afraid to step out on the promises4 ,there are many exceedingly great and precious promises in the ,bible4 ,here is one3 ,whatsoever ye shall ask in my name1 that will ,i do1 that the ,father may be glorified in the ,son4 ,if some of you would receive such a promise from ,john ,d4 ,rockefeller or ,andrew ,carnegie1 you'd sit up all night writing out checks to be cashed in the morning4 ,and yet you let the ,bible lie on the table4 ,but the infidel says3 ,mr4 ,sunday1 why are there so many intelligent people in the world that don't believe the ,bible8 ,do you wonder that it was an infidel who started the question3 ,is life worth living8 ,do you wonder that it was some fool woman1 an infidel woman1 that first started the question3 ,is marriage a failure8 ,a fool1 infidel woman4 ,christians do not ask such fool questions4 ,would you be surprised to be reminded that infidel writers and speakers have always and do always advocate and condone and excuse suicide8 ,do you know that in infidelity the gospel is suicide8 ,that is their theory and ,i don't blame them1 and the sooner they leave the world the better the world will be4 ,the great men of the ages are on the side of the ,bible4 ,a good many infidels talk as though the great minds of the world were arrayed against ,christianity and the ,bible4 ,great statesmen1 inventors1 painters1 poets1 artists1 musicians1 have lifted up their hearts in prayer4 ,watt1 the inventor of the steam engine1 was a ,christian2 ,fulton1 the inventor of the steamboat1 was a ,christian2 ,cyrus ,mc,cormick1 who first invented the self-binder1 was a ,christian2 ,morse1 who invented the telegraph1 and the first message that ever flashed over the wire was from ,deuteronomy--',what hath ,god wrought'4 ,edison1 although a doubter in some things1 said that there was evidence enough in chemistry to prove the existence of a ,god1 if there was no evidence besides that4 ,george ,washington was a ,christian4 ,abraham ,lincoln was a ,christian1 and with ,bishop ,simpson knelt on his knees in the ,white ,house1 praying ,god to give victory to the ,army of the ,blue4 ,john ,hay1 the brightest ,secretary of ,state that ever managed the affairs of state1 in my judgment1 was a ,christian4 ,william ,jennings ,bryan1 a man as clean as a hound's tooth2 ,garfield1 ,mc,kinley1 ,grover ,cleveland1 ,harrison1 ,theodore ,roosevelt1 ,woodrow ,wilson--all ,christians4 ,the poets drew their inspiration from the ,bible4 ,dante's ,inferno1 ,milton's ,paradise ,lost1 two of the greatest works ever written1 were inspired by the ,word of ,god4 ,lord ,byron1 although a profligate1 drew his inspiration from the ,word of ,god4 ,shakespeare's works abound with quotations from the ,bible4 ,john ,g4 ,whittier1 ,longfellow1 ,michael ,angelo1 who painted ,the ,last ,judgment1 ,raphael1 who painted the ,madonna of the ,chair1 ,da ,vinci1 who painted ,the ,last ,supper1 all dipped their brushes in the light of heaven and painted for eternity4 ,the great men of the world of all ages1 of science1 art1 or statesmanship1 have all believed in ,jesus ,christ as the ,son of ,god4 ,twenty-seven years ago1 with the ,holy ,spirit for my guide1 ,i entered this wonderful temple that we call ,christianity4 ,i entered through the portico of ,genesis and walked down through the ,old ,testament's art gallery1 where ,i saw the portraits of ,joseph1 ,jacob1 ,daniel1 ,moses1 ,isaiah1 ,solomon and ,david hanging on the wall2 ,i entered the music room of the ,psalms and the ,spirit of ,god struck the keyboard of my nature until it seemed to me that every reed and pipe in ,god's great organ of nature responded to the harp of ,david1 and the charm of ,king ,solomon in his moods4 ,i walked into the business house of ,proverbs4 ,i walked into the observatory of the prophets and there saw photographs of various sizes1 some pointing to far-off stars or events--all concentrated upon one great ,star which was to rise as an atonement for sin4 ,then ,i went into the audience room of the ,king of ,kings1 and got a vision from four different points--from ,matthew1 ,mark1 ,luke and ,john4 ,i went into the correspondence room1 and saw ,peter1 ,james1 ,paul and ,jude1 penning their epistles to the world4 ,i went into the ,acts of the ,apostles and saw the ,holy ,spirit forming the ,holy ,church1 and then ,i walked into the throne room and saw a door at the foot of a tower and1 going up1 ,i saw ,one standing there1 fair as the morning1 ,jesus ,christ1 the ,son of ,god1 and ,i found this truest friend that man ever knew2 when all were false ,i found him true4 ,in teaching me the way of life1 the ,bible has taught me the way to live1 it taught me how to die4 ,so that is why ,i am here1 sober and a ,christian1 instead of a booze-hoisting infidel4 ,,chapter ,,xx ,making a ,joyful ,noise ,don't look as if your religion hurt you4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,he hath put a new song in my mouth4 ,that is real religion which sets the saints to singing4 ,gloomy ,christians are a poor advertisement of the ,gospel4 ,there is nothing of gloom about a ,billy ,sunday revival4 ,shrewd students of the campaigns have often remarked that there are so few tears and so much laughter at the evangelist's services4 ,there is scarcely one of ,sunday's sermons in which he does not make the congregation laugh4 ,all of his work is attuned to the note of vitality1 robustness and happiness4 ,concerning the long-faced ,christian ,sunday says3 ,some people couldn't have faces any longer if they thought ,god was dead4 ,they ought to pray to stop looking so sour4 ,if they smile it looks like it hurts them1 and you're always glad when they stop smiling4 ,if ,paul and ,silas had had such long faces as some church members have on them when they went into the ,philippian jail1 the jailer would never have been saved4 ,there never was a greater mistake than to suppose that ,god wants you to be long-faced when you put on your good clothes4 ,you'd better not fast at all if you give the devil all the benefit4 ,god wants people to be happy4 ,the matter with a lot of you people is that your religion is not complete4 ,you have not yielded yourself to ,god and gone out for ,god and ,god's truth4 ,why1 ,i am almost afraid to make some folks laugh for fear that ,i will be arrested for breaking a costly piece of antique bric--brac4 ,you would think that if some people laughed it would break their faces4 ,i want to tell you that the happy1 smiling1 sunny-faced religion will win more people to ,jesus ,christ than the miserable old grim-faced kind will in ten years4 ,i pity any one who can't laugh4 ,there must be something wrong with their religion or their liver4 ,the devil can't laugh4 ',oh1 laugh and the world laughs with you1 ,weep and you weep alone2 ',tis easy enough to be pleasant ,when life moves along like a song2 ,but the man worth while is the man who can smile ,when everything goes dead wrong4' ,don't look as if religion hurt you4 ,don't look as if you had on a number two shoe when you ought to be wearing a number five4 ,i see some women who look as if they had the toothache4 ,that won't win anyone for ,christ4 ,look pleasant4 ,look as if religion made you happy1 when you had it4 ,then there is music4 ,when you get to heaven you'll find that not all have been preached there4 ,they have been sung there4 ,god pity us when music is not for the glory of ,god4 ,some of you will sing for money and for honor1 but you won't sing in the church4 ,much of the church music today is all poppycock and nonsense4 ,some of these high-priced sopranos get up in church and do a little diaphragm wiggle and make a noise like a horse neighing4 ,i don't wonder the people in the congregation have a hard time of it4 ,so ,sunday sets the city to singing4 ,his sermons are framed in music--and not music that is a performance by some soloist1 but music that ministers to his message4 ,his gospel is sung as well as preached4 ,the singing is as essential a part of the service as the sermon4 ,everybody likes good music1 especially of a popular sort4 ,sunday sees that this taste is gratified4 ,the ,tabernacle music in itself is enough to draw the great throngs which nightly crowd the building4 ,the choir furnishes not only the melodies but also a rare spectacle4 ,this splendid regiment of helpers seated back of the speaker affects both the eyes and the ears of the audiences4 ,without his choirs ,sunday could scarcely conduct his great campaigns4 ,these helpers are all volunteers1 and their steadfast loyalty throughout weeks of strenuous meetings in all kinds of weather is a ,christian service of the first order4 ,illustration3 ,,some ,,of ,,these ,,high-,,priced ,,sopranos ,,get ,,up ,,in ,,church ,,and ,,make ,a ,,noise ,,like ,a ,,horse ,,neighing4 ,true1 membership in a ,sunday choir is in itself an avocation1 a social and religious interest that enriches the lives of the choir members4 ,they belong to something big and popular4 ,they have new themes for conversation4 ,new acquaintances are made4 ,the associations first formed in the ,sunday choir have in many cases continued as the most sacred relations of life4 ,the brightest spot in the monotony of many a young person's life has been his or her membership in the ,billy ,sunday choir4 ,the choir also has the advantage of a musical drill and experience which could be secured in no other fashion4 ,all the advantages of trained leadership are given in return for the volunteer service4 ,incidentally1 the choir members know that they are serving their churches and their communities in a deep and far-reaching fashion4 ,many visitors to the ,sunday ,tabernacle are surprised to find that the music is of such fine quality4 ,there is less religious rag-time than is commonly associated with the idea of revival meetings4 ,more than a fair half of the music sung is that which holds an established place in the hymnody of all churches4 ,there is more to the music of a campaign than the volume of singing by the choir1 with an occasional solo by the chorister or some chosen person4 ,a variety of ingenious devices are employed to heighten the impression of the music4 ,thus a common antiphonal effect is obtained by having the choir sing one line of a hymn and the last ten rows of persons in the rear of the ,tabernacle sing the answering line4 ,the old hymn ,for ,you ,i am ,praying is used with electrical effect in this fashion4 ,part singing is employed in ways that are possible only to such a large chorus as the musical director of the ,sunday campaigns has at his command4 ,a genius for mutuality characterizes the ,sunday song services4 ,the audiences are given a share in the music4 ,not only are they requested to join in the singing1 but they are permitted to choose their favorite hymns1 and frequently the choir is called upon to listen while the audience sings4 ,various delegations are permitted to sing hymns of their own choice4 ,diversity1 and variety and vim seem to be the objective of the musical part of the program4 ,from half an hour to an hour of this varied music introduces each service4 ,when the evangelist himself is ready to preach1 the crowd has been worked up into a glow and fervor that make it receptive to his message4 ,if some stickler for ritual and stateliness objects that these services are entirely too informal1 and too much like a political campaign1 the partisan of ,mr4 ,sunday will heartily assent4 ,these are great ,american crowds in their every-day humor4 ,these evangelistic meetings are not regular church services4 ,it has already been made plain that there is no dim religious light about the ,sunday ,tabernacle meetings4 ,it is a tribute to the comprehensiveness of the ,sunday method that they bring together the most representative gatherings imaginable every day under the unadorned rafters of the big wooden shell called the ,tabernacle4 ,shrewdly1 the evangelist has made sure of the democratic quality of his congregation4 ,he has succeeded in having the gospel sing its way into the affection and interest of every-day folk4 ,it is no valid objection to the ,sunday music that it is so thoroughly entertaining4 ,the ,tabernacle crowds sing1 not as a religious duty1 but for the sheer joy of singing4 ,one of the commonest remarks heard amid the crowd is ,i never expect to hear such singing again till ,i get to ,heaven4 ,it is real ,christian ministry to put the melodies of the ,gospel into the memories of the multitudes1 and to brighten with the songs of salvation the gray days of the burden-bearers of the world4 ,boys and men on the street whistle ,gospel songs4 ,the echoes of ,tabernacle music may be heard long after ,mr4 ,sunday has gone from a community in ten thousand kitchens and in the shops and factories and stores of the community4 ,this is the strategy of the expulsive power of a new affection4 ,these meetings give to ,christians a new and jubilant affirmation1 instead of a mere defense for their faith4 ,the campaign music carries the campaign message farther than the voice of any man could ever penetrate4 ,upon the place of music in the ,christian life ,sunday says3 ,for sixteen years there had been no songs in ,jerusalem4 ,it must have been a great loss to the ,jews1 for everywhere we read we find them singing4 ,they sang all the way to the ,red ,sea1 they sang when ,jesus was born1 they sang at the ,last ,supper and when ,jesus was arisen4 ,song has always been inseparably associated with the advancement of ,god's word4 ,you'll find when religion is at low ebb the song will cease4 ,many of the great revivals have been almost entirely song4 ,the great ,welsh revival was mostly song4 ,in the movements of ,martin ,luther1 ,wesley1 ,moody and ,torrey you will find abundance of song4 ,when a church congregation gets at such low ebb that they can't sing and have to hire a professional choir to sing for them1 they haven't got much religion4 ,and some of those choir members are so stuck up they won't sing in a chorus4 ,if ,i had a bunch like that they'd quit or ,i would4 ,take the twenty-fourth ,psalm1 ',lift up your heads1 ,o ye gates1' and the thirty-third ,psalm4 ,they were written by ,david to be sung in the temple4 ,i can imagine his singing them now4 ,they were ,david's own experiences4 ,look at them4 ,now you hear an old lobster get up to give an experience1 ',forty years ago ,i started forth--4' ,the same old stereotyped form4 ,there's many a life today which has no song4 ,the most popular song for most of you would be1 ',where is that joy which once ,i knew1 ,when first ,i loved the ,lord8' ,right behind you where you left it when you went to that card party2 right where you left it when you began to go to the theater2 right where you left it when you side-stepped and backslid2 right where you left it when you began paying one hundred dollars for a dress and gave twenty-five cents to the ,lord2 right where you left it when you began to gossip4 ,,chapter ,,xxi ,the ,prophet and ,his ,own ,time ,there wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,a prophet to his own generation is ,billy ,sunday4 ,in the speech of today he arraigns the sins of today and seeks to satisfy the needs of today4 ,a man singularly free and fearless1 he applies the ,gospel to the conditions of the present moment4 ,knowing life on various levels1 he preaches with a definiteness and an appropriateness that echo the prophet ,nathan's ,thou art the man4 ,by the very structure of ,billy ,sunday's mentality it is made difficult for him to be abstract4 ,he has to deal definitely with concrete sins4 ,now a pastor would find it difficult to approach1 in the ruthless and reckless fashion of ,billy ,sunday1 the shortcomings of his members and neighbors4 ,he has to live with his congregation1 year in and year out2 but the evangelist is as irresponsible as ,john the ,baptist on the banks of the ,jordan4 ,he has no affiliations to consider and no consequences to fear1 except the ,kingdom's welfare4 ,his only concern is for the truth and applicability of his message4 ,he is perfectly heedless about offending hearers4 ,those well-meaning persons who would compare ,billy ,sunday with the average pastor should bear this in mind4 ,a rare gift of satire and scorn and invective and ridicule has been given to ,sunday4 ,he has been equipped with powerful weapons which are too often missing from the armory of the average ,gospel soldier4 ,his aptitude for puncturing sham is almost without a peer in contemporary life4 ,few orators in any field have his art of heaping up adjectives to a towering height that overwhelms their objective4 ,nor does the ,church escape ,sunday's plain dealing4 ,he treats vigorously her shortcomings and her imperfections4 ,usually1 the persons who hear the first half dozen or dozen sermons in one of his campaigns are shocked by the reckless way in which the evangelist handles the ,church and church members4 ,others1 forewarned1 perceive the psychology of it4 ,it is clear that in ,sunday's thinking the purity of the ,church is all-important4 ,complacency with any degree of corruption or inefficiency on her part he would regard as sin4 ,so he unsparingly belabors the ,church and her ministry for all the good that they have left undone and all amiss that they have done4 ,the net result of this is that the evangelist leaves on the minds of the multitudes1 to whom the ,church has been a negligible quantity1 a tremendous impression of her pre-eminent importance4 ,it is true that sometimes1 after a ,sunday campaign1 a few ministers have to leave their churches1 because of the new spirit of efficiency and spirituality which he has imparted4 ,they have simply been unable to measure up to the new opportunity4 ,on the whole1 however1 it is clear that he imparts a new sense of dignity and a new field of leadership to the ministers of the ,gospel in the communities he has served4 ,testimony on this point seems to be conclusive4 ,given prophets of today1 with the conviction that both ,church and social life should square with the teaching of ,jesus ,christ1 and you have revolutionary possibilities for any community4 ,fair samples of ,sunday's treatment of the ,church and of society are these3 ,there is but one voice from the faithful preacher about the ,church--that is she is sick4 ,but we say it in such painless1 delicate terms2 we work with such tender massage1 that she seems to enjoy her invalidism4 ,i'm coming with my scalpel to cut into the old sores and ulcers and drive them out4 ,i feel the pulse and say it's pus temperature4 ,the temperature's high4 ,i'm trying to remove from the ,church the putrefying abscess which is boring into its vitals4 ,about four out of every five who have their names on our church records are doing absolutely nothing to bring anybody to ,christ and the ,church is not a whit better for their having lived in it4 ,christians are making a great deal of ,lent4 ,i believe in ,lent4 ,i'll tell you what kind1 though4 ,i believe in a ,lent that is kept #cfe days in the year for ,jesus ,christ4 ,that is the kind ,i like to see4 ,some people will go to hell sure if they die out of the ,lenten season4 ,i hate to see a man get enough religion in forty days to last him and then live like the devil the rest of the year4 ,if you can reform for forty days you can reform for the year4 ,the ,jewish ,church ran up against this snag and was wrecked4 ,the ,roman ,catholic ,church ran up against it and split4 ,all of the churches today are fast approaching the same doom4 ,the dangers to the ,church1 as ,i see them1 are assimilation with the world1 the neglect of the poor1 substitution of forms for godliness2 and all summed up mean a fashionable church with religion left out4 ,formerly ,methodists used to attend class meetings4 ,now these are abandoned in many churches4 ,formerly shouts of praise were heard4 ,now such holy demonstration is considered undignified4 ,once in a while some good1 godly sister forgets herself and pipes out in a falsetto1 apologetic sort of a key3 ',amen1 ,brother ,sunday4' ,i don't expect any of those ossified1 petrified1 dyed-in-the-wool1 stamped-on-the-cork ,presbyterians or ,episcopalians to shout1 ',amen1' but it would do you good and loosen you up4 ,it won't hurt you a bit4 ,you are hidebound4 ,i think about half the professing ,christians amount to nothing as a spiritual force4 ,they have a kind regard for religion1 but as for evangelical service1 as for a cheerful spirit of self-denial1 as for prevailing prayer1 willingness to strike hard blows against the devil1 they are almost a failure4 ,i read the other day of a shell which had been invented which is hurled on a ship and when it explodes it puts all on board asleep4 ,i sometimes think one of these shells has hit the ,church4 ,what are some people going to do about the ,judgment8 ,some are just in life for the money they get out of it4 ,they will tell you north is south if they think they can get a dollar by it4 ,they float get-rich-quick schemes and anything for money4 ,i haven't a word to say about a man who has earned his money honestly1 uses it to provide for his family and spends the surplus for good4 ,you know there is a bunch of mutts that sit around on stools and whittle and spit and cuss and damn and say that every man who has an honest dollar ought to divide it with them1 while others get out and get busy and work and sweat and toil and prepare to leave something for their wives and families when they die1 and spend the rest for good4 ,old ,commodore ,vanderbilt had a fortune of over #bjj1jjj1jjj1 and one day when he was ill he sent for ,dr4 ,deems4 ,he asked him to sing for him that old song3 ',come1 ye sinners1 poor and needy1 ,come1 ye wounded1 sick and sore4' ,the old commodore tossed from side to side1 looked around at the evidence of his wealth1 and he said3 ',that's what ,i am1 poor and needy4' ,who8 ,commodore ,vanderbilt poor and needy with his #bjj1jjj1jjj8 ,the foundation of that fabulous fortune was laid by him when he poled a yawl from ,new ,york to ,staten ,island and picked up pennies for doing it4 ,the foundation of the immense ,astor fortune was laid by ,john ,jacob ,astor when he went out and bought fur and hides from trappers and put the money in ,new ,york real estate4 ,the next day in the street one man said to another3 ',have you heard the news8 ,commodore ,vanderbilt is dead4' ',how much did he leave8' ',he left it all4' ,naked you came into this world1 and naked you will crawl out of it4 ,you brought nothing into the world and you will take nothing out1 and if you have put the pack screws on the poor and piled up a pile of gold as big as a house you can't take it with you4 ,it wouldn't do you any good if you could1 because it would melt4 ,,chapter ,,xxii ,those ,billy ,sunday ,prayers ,i never preach a sermon until ,i have soaked it in prayer4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,concerning the prayers of ,sunday there is little to be said except to quote samples of them and let the reader judge for himself4 ,that they are unconventional no one will deny2 many have gone farther and have said that they are almost sacrilegious4 ,the charge has often been made that the evangelist addresses his prayers to the crowd instead of to ,god4 ,no one criticism has oftener been made of ,mr4 ,sunday by sensitive and thoughtful ministers of the ,gospel1 than that his public prayers seem to be lacking in fundamental reverence4 ,the defender of ,sunday rejoins1 ,he talks to ,jesus as familiarly as he talks to one of his associates4 ,really1 though1 there is deep difference4 ,his fellow-workers are only fellow-workers1 but of the ,lord1 ,holy and reverend is his name4 ,many of the warmest admirers of the evangelist do not attempt to defend all of his prayers4 ,probably ,sunday does not know that in all the ,oriental1 and some ,european1 languages there is a special form of speech reserved for royalty2 and that it would be an affront to address a king by the same term as the commoner4 ,the outward signs of this mental attitude of reverence in prayer are unquestionably lacking in ,sunday4 ,his usual procedure is to begin to pray at the end of a sermon1 without any interval or any prefatory remarks1 such as ,let us pray4 ,for an instant1 the crowd does not realize that he is praying4 ,he closes his eyes and says1 ,now ,jesus1 you know1 and so forth1 just as he would say to the chorister1 ,rody1 what is the name of that delegation8 ,indeed1 ,i have heard him interject just this inquiry into a prayer4 ,or he will mention that ,bible class over to my right1 near the platform4 ,he will use the same colloquial figures of speech in a prayer--baseball phrases1 for instance--that he does in his sermons4 ,sometimes it is really difficult to tell whether he is addressing the ,lord or the audience4 ,more direct familiar1 childish petitions were never addressed to the ,deity than are heard at the ,sunday meetings4 ,they run so counter to all religious conceptions of a reverential approach to the throne of grace that one marvels at the charity of the ministers in letting him go unrebuked4 ,but they say ,it's ,billy1 and so it is4 ,that is the way the man prays in private1 for ,i have heard him in his own room1 before starting out to preach2 and in entirely the same intimate1 unconventional fashion he asks the help of ,jesus in his preaching and in the meetings4 ,but to the prayers themselves3 ,o ,god1 help this old world4 ,may the men who have been drunkards be made better2 may the men who beat their wives and curse their children come to ,jesus2 may the children who have feared to hear the footsteps of their father1 rejoice again when they see the parent coming up the steps of the home4 ,bring the ,church up to help the work4 ,bless them1 ,lord4 ,bless the preachers3 bless the officials of the ,church and bless everyone in them4 ,save the men in the mines4 ,save the poor breaker boys as they toil day by day in dangers2 save them for their mothers and fathers and bring them to ,jesus4 ,bless the policemen1 the newspapermen and the men1 women and children2 the men and girls from the plants1 factories1 stores and streets4 ,go into the stores every morning and have prayer meetings so that the clerks may hear the ,word of ,god before they get behind the counters and sell goods to the trade4 ,visit this city1 ,o ,lord1 its schools and scholars1 and bless the school board4 ,bless the city officials4 ,go down into the city hall and bless the mayor1 directors and all the rest4 ,we thank thee that the storm has passed4 ,we believe that we will learn a lesson of how helpless we are before thee4 ,how chesty we are when the sun shines and the day is clear1 but1 oh6 how helpless when the breath of ,god comes and the snowflakes start to fall2 when the floods come we get on our knees and wring our hands and ask mercy from thee4 ,oh1 help us1 ,o ,lord4 ,when the people get to hell--,i hope that nobody will ever go there and ,i am trying my best to save them--they will know that they are there because they lived against ,god4 ,i am not here to injure them2 ,i am not here to wreck homes2 ,i am here to tell them of the blessing you send down when they are with you4 ,we pray for the thousands and thousands that will be saved4 ,thank you1 ,jesus4 ,i came to you twenty-seven years ago for salvation and ,i got salvation4 ,thank the ,lord ,i can look in the face of every man and woman of ,god everywhere and say that for all those years ,i have lived in salvation4 ,not that ,i take any credit to myself for that2 it was nothing inherent in me2 it was the power of ,god that saved me and kept me4 ,o ,lord1 sweep over this town and save the business men of this community1 the young men and women4 ,o ,god1 save us all from the cesspools of hell and corruption4 ,help me1 ,lord1 as ,i hurl consternation into the ranks of that miserable1 ,god-forsaken crew who are feeding1 fattening and gormandizing on the people6 ,get everybody interested in honesty and decency and sobriety and make them fight to the last ditch for ,god4 ,there are too many cowards1 four-flushers in the ,church4 ,o ,jesus1 we thank ,god that you came into this old world to save sinners4 ,keep us1 ,lord4 ,hear us1 ,o ,god1 ere we stumble on in darkness4 ,lead the hundreds here to thy throne4 ,help the professing ,christians who have not done as they should in the past1 to come down this trail and take a more determined stand for thee4 ,help the official boards1 the trustees of our churches1 to show the way to hundreds by themselves confessing sin4 ,help them to say1 ',o ,lord1 ,i haven't been square with thee4 ,it is possible for me to improve my business and ,i can certainly improve my service to thee4 ,i know and ,i believe in ,god and ,i believe in hell and heaven4' ,lead them down the trail1 ,lord4 ,o ,lord1 there are a lot of people who step up to the collection plate at church and fan4 ,and ,lord1 there are always people sitting in the grandstand and calling the batter a mutt4 ,he can't hit a thing or he can't get it over the base1 or he's an ice wagon on the bases1 they say4 ,o ,lord1 give us some coachers out at this ,tabernacle so that people can be brought home to you4 ,some of them are dying on second and third base1 ,lord1 and we don't want that4 ,lord1 have the people play the game of life right up to the limit so that home runs may be scored4 ,there are some people1 ,lord1 who say1 ',yes1 ,i have heard ,billy at the ,tabernacle and oh1 it is so disgusting3 really it's awful the way he talks4' ,lord1 if there weren't some grouches and the like in the city ,i'd be lost4 ,we had a grand meeting last night1 ,lord1 when the crowd come down from ,dicksonville 7or what was that place1 ,rody871 ,dickson ,city1 ,lord1 that's right4 ,it was a great crowd4 ,there's an undercurrent of religion sweeping through here1 ,lord1 and we are getting along fine4 ,there are some dandy folks in ,scranton1 lots of good men and women that are with us in this campaign1 and ,lord1 we want you to help make this a wonderful campaign4 ,it has been wonderful so far4 ,lord1 it's great to see them pouring in here night after night4 ,god1 you have the people of the homes tell their maids to go to the meeting at the ,y4 ,w4 ,c4 ,a4 ,thursday afternoon1 and ,god1 let us have a crowd of the children here ,saturday4 ,rody is going to talk to them1 ,lord4 ,he can't preach and ,i can't sing1 but the children will have a big time with him1 ,lord4 ,lord1 ,i won't try to stop people from roasting and scoring me4 ,i would not know what to do if ,i didn't get some cracks from people now and then4 ,well1 ,jesus1 ,i don't know how to talk as ,i would like to talk4 ,i am at a loss as to just what to say tonight4 ,father1 if you hadn't provided salvation1 we'd all be pretty badly off4 ,knowing the kind of life ,i live and the kind of lives other people live1 ,i know you are very patient and kind1 but if you can do for men and women what you did for me1 ,i wish it would happen4 ,i wouldn't dare stand up and say that ,i didn't believe in you4 ,i'd be afraid you'd knock me in the head4 ,i'd be afraid you'd paralyze me or take away my mind4 ,i'm afraid you'd do that4 ,there are hundreds here tonight who don't know you as their ,saviour4 ,the ,bible class believes you are ,jesus of ,nazareth1 but they don't know you as their personal ,saviour4 ,and these other delegations1 ,lord1 help them all to come down4 ,well1 well1 well1 it's wonderful--',i find no fault in ,him4' ,amen4 ,oh1 devil1 why do you hit us when we are down8 ,old boy1 ,i know that you have no time for me and ,i guess you have about learned that ,i have no time for you4 ,i will never apologize to you for anything ,i have done against you4 ,if ,i have ever said anything that does not hurt you1 tell me about it and ,i will take it out of my sermon4 ,we thank thee1 ,jesus1 for that manifestation of thy power in one of the big factories of the city4 ,lord1 we are told that of eighty men who used to go to a saloon for their lunch seventy-nine go there no more4 ,all these men heard the 'booze' sermon4 ,lord1 they are working on the one man who is standing out and they'll get him1 too4 ,the saloon-keeper is standing with arms akimbo behind the bar1 but his old customers give the place the go-by4 ,thank you1 ,jesus4 ,well1 ,jesus1 ,i've been back in ,capernaum tonight4 ,i've been with you when you cast the devil out of that man4 ,they all said1 ',we know you're helping us1 but you're hurting the hog business4' ,i've been with you when you got in the boat4 ,and ,jesus arose and said to the sea3 ',peace1 be still4' ,ah1 look at her4 ,bless her heart4 ,there comes that poor1 crying woman4 ,say1 ,jesus1 here are men who have been drunkards4 ,they have been in our prayers4 ,they have been in our sermons4 ,if ,i could just touch ,him4 ,he's here4 ,well1 thank you1 ,lord4 ,it's all true4 ,i expect this sermon has caused many men and women to look into their hearts4 ,perhaps they are powerless1 helpless for the ,church4 ,o ,god1 what it will mean to people in the cause of ,christ all over this city6 ,we appreciate their kind words1 but we wish they would do more4 ,o ,god1 may some deacons1 elders1 vestrymen1 come out for ,god this afternoon4 ,may they come down these aisles and publicly acknowledge themselves for ,god4 ,help them1 then1 we pray1 for ,jesus' sake4 ,amen4 ,now1 ,lord1 ,i'm not here to have a good time4 ,i am here to show what you are doing for these people and to tell them that you are willing to save them and to bear their burdens if they will give their hearts to you4 ,well1 ,jesus1 ,i'm not up in heaven yet4 ,i don't want to go1 not yet4 ,i know it's an awful pretty place1 ,lord4 ,i know you'll look after me when ,i get there4 ,but1 ,jesus1 ,i'd like to stay here a long time yet4 ,i don't want to leave ,nell and the children4 ,i like the little bungalow we have out at the lake4 ,i know you'll have a prettier one up there4 ,if you'll let me1 ,jesus1 ,i'd like to stay here1 and ,i'll work harder for you if ,i can4 ,i know ,i'll go there1 ,jesus1 and ,i know there's lots of men and women here in this ,tabernacle tonight who won't go4 ,solomon found it was all vanity and vexation of spirit4 ,they're living that way today1 ,jesus4 ,i say that to you here tonight1 banker2 to you1 ,commercial ,club2 to you1 men from the stockyards4 ,if you want to live right1 choose ,jesus as your ,saviour1 for man's highest happiness is his obedience to ,jesus ,christ4 ,and now1 while we're all still1 who'll come down and say ',i'm looking above the world8' ,solomon said it was all vanity4 ,why certainly1 you poor fool4 ,he knew4 ,but ,i'm glad you saw the light1 ,solomon1 and spread out your wings4 ,o ,lord1 bend over the battlements of glory and hear the cry of old ,pittsburgh4 ,o ,lord1 do you hear us8 ,lord1 save tens of thousands of souls in this old city4 ,lord1 everybody is helping4 ,lord1 they are keeping their churches closed so tight that a burglar couldn't get in with a jimmy4 ,lord1 the angels will shout to glory and the old devil will say1 ',what did they shut up the churches of ,pittsburgh for1 when they have so many good preachers1 and build a ,tabernacle and bring a man on here to take the people away from me8 ,o ,lord1 we'll win this whisky-soaked1 vice-ridden old city of ,pittsburgh and lay it at your feet and purify it until it is like paraffine4 ,sunday's sermon on prayer is entitled1 ,,teach ,,us ,,to ,,pray ,we live and develop physically by exercise4 ,we are saved by faith1 but we must work out our salvation by doing the things ,god wills4 ,the more we do for ,god1 the more ,god will do through us4 ,faith will increase by experience4 ,if you are a stranger to prayer you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings4 ,if we cared for our physical life in the same lackadaisical way that we care for our spiritual1 we would be as weak physically as we are spiritually4 ,you go week in and week out without prayer4 ,i want to be a giant for ,god4 ,you don't even sing2 you let the choir do it4 ,you go to prayer-meeting and offer no testimony4 ,you are a stranger to the great privilege that is offered to human beings4 ,some of the greatest blessings that people enjoy come from prayer4 ,in earnest prayer you think as the ,lord directs1 and lose yourself in him4 ,some people say3 ,it's no use to pray4 ,the ,lord knows everything1 anyway4 ,that's true4 ,he does4 ,he is not limited1 as ,i am limited4 ,he knows everything and has known it since before the world was4 ,we don't know everybody who is going to be converted at this revival1 but that doesn't relieve us of our duty4 ,we don't know1 and we must do the work he has commanded us to do4 ,others say3 ,but ,i don't get what ,i pray for4 ,well1 there's a cause for everything4 ,get at the cause and you'll be all right4 ,if you are sick and send for the doctor1 he pays no attention to the disease1 but looks at what produced it4 ,if you have a headache1 don't rub your forehead4 ,in ,matthew it is written1 ,ask and it shall be given you2 seek and ye shall find2 knock and it shall be opened unto you4 ,if your prayers are not answered you are not right with ,god4 ,if you have no faith1 if your motive is wrong1 then your prayers will be in vain4 ,many times when people pray they are selfish4 ,they are not gripping the word4 ,i believe that when many a wife prays for the conversion of her husband it isn't because she really desires the salvation of his soul1 but because she thinks if he were converted things would be easier for her personally4 ,pray for your neighbors as well as your own family4 ,the pastor of one church does not pray for the congregation of another denomination4 ,i'm not saying anything against denominations4 ,i believe in them4 ,i believe they are of ,god4 ,denominations represent different temperaments4 ,a man with warm emotions would not make a good ,episcopalian1 but he would make a crackerjack ,methodist4 ,oh1 the curse of selfishness6 ,the ,church is dying for religion1 for religion pure and undefiled4 ,pure religion and undefiled is visiting the widow and the fatherless and doing the will of ,god without so much thought of yourself4 ,i tell you1 a lot of people are going to be fooled the ,day of ,judgment4 ,isaiah says the hand of ,god is not shortened and his ear is not deaf4 ,no1 his hand is not shortened so that it cannot save4 ,he has provided agencies by which we can be saved4 ,if he had made no provision for your salvation1 then the trouble would be with ,god2 but he has1 so if you go to hell the trouble will be with you4 ,in ,ezekiel we read that men have taken idols into their hearts and put stumbling-blocks before their faces4 ,god is not going to hear you if you place clothes1 money1 pride of relationship before him4 ,you know there is sin in your life4 ,many people know there is sin in their lives1 yet ask ,god to bless them4 ,they ought first to get down on their knees and pray1 ,god be merciful to me a sinner4 ,some people are too contemptibly stingy for ,god to hear them4 ,god won't hear you if you stop your ears to the cries of the poor4 ,you drag along here for three weeks and raise a paltry sum that a circus would take out of town in two hours4 ,when they give things to the poor they rip off the buttons and the fine braid4 ,some people pick out old clothes that the moths have made into sieves and give them to the poor and think they are charitable4 ,that isn't charity1 no sir2 it's charity when you'll give something you'll miss4 ,it's charity when you feel it to give4 ,and when you stand praying1 forgive if you have aught against anyone4 ,it's no use to pray if you have a mean1 miserable disposition1 if you are grouchy1 if you quarrel in your home or with your neighbors4 ,it's no use to pray for a blessing when you have a fuss on with your neighbors4 ,it doesn't do you any good4 ,you go to a sewing society meeting to make mosquito netting for the ,eskimo and blankets for the ,hottentots1 and instead you sit and chew the rag and rip some woman up the back4 ,the spirit of ,god flees from strife and discord4 ,people say3 ,she is a good woman1 but a worldly ,christian4 ,what8 ,might as well speak of a heavenly devil4 ,might as well expect a mummy to speak and bear children as that kind to move the world ,godward4 ,prayer draws you nearer to ,god4 ,learning of ,christ ,teach us to pray1 implies that ,i want to be taught4 ,it's a great privilege to be taught by ,jesus4 ,a friend of mine was preaching out in ,cedar ,rapids1 ,iowa1 and had to go to a hospital in ,chicago for an operation1 and ,i was asked to go and preach in his place4 ,alexander was leading the singing1 and one night ,charles called a little girl out of the audience to sing4 ,she didn't look over four or five years of age1 though she might have been a little older4 ,i thought1 ,what's the use8 ,her little voice can never be heard over this crowd4 ,but ,charlie stood her up in a chair by the pulpit and she threw back her head and out rolled some of the sweetest music ,i have ever heard4 ,it was wonderful4 ,i sat there and the tears streamed down my cheeks4 ,that little girl was the daughter of a ,northwestern engineer and he took her to ,chicago when her mother was away4 ,some one took her to ,patti4 ,patti took the little girl to one of her suite of rooms and told her to stand there and sing4 ,then she went to the other end of the suite and sat down on a divan and listened4 ,the song moved her to tears4 ,she ran and hugged and kissed the little girl and sat her down on the divan and said to her3 ,now you sit here and ,i'll go over there and sing4 ,she took up her position where the child had stood1 and she lifted her magnificent voice and she sang ,home1 ,sweet ,home and ,the ,last ,rose of ,summer--sang them for that little girl6 ,and ,patti used to get a thousand dollars for a song1 too4 ,she always knew how many songs she was to sing1 for she had a check before she went on the platform4 ,it was a great privilege the little daughter of that ,northwestern engineer had1 but it's a greater privilege to learn from ,jesus ,christ how to pray4 ,a friend of mine told me he went to hear ,paganini1 and the great violinist broke one of the strings of his instrument1 then another1 then another1 until he had only one left1 and on that one he played so wonderfully that his audience burst into terrific applause4 ,it was a privilege to hear that1 but it's a greater privilege to have ,jesus teach you to pray4 ,let us take a few examples from the life of ,christ4 ,in ,mark we learn that he rose up early in the morning and went out to a solitary place and prayed4 ,he began every day with prayer4 ,you never get up without dressing4 ,you never forget to wash your face and comb your hair4 ,you always think of breakfast4 ,you feed your physical body4 ,why do you starve your spiritual body8 ,if nine-tenths of you were as weak physically as you are spiritually1 you couldn't walk4 ,when ,i was assistant secretary of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 at ,chicago1 ,john ,g4 ,paton came home from the ,new ,hebrides and was lecturing and collecting money4 ,he was raising money to buy a sea-going steam yacht1 for his work took him from island to island and he had to use a row-boat1 and sometimes it was dangerous when the weather was bad1 so he wanted the yacht4 ,we had him for a week1 and it was my privilege to go to lunch with him4 ,we would go out to a restaurant at noon and he would talk to us4 ,sometimes there would be as many as fifteen or twenty preachers in the crowd1 and now and then some of us were so interested in what he told us of the work for ,jesus in those far-away islands that we forgot to eat4 ,i remember that he said one day3 ,all that ,i am ,i owe to my ,christian father and mother4 ,my father was one of the most prayerful men ,i ever knew4 ,often in the daytime he would slip into his closet1 and he would drop a handkerchief outside the door1 and when we children saw the white sentinel we knew that father was talking with his ,god and would go quietly away4 ,it is largely because of the life and influence of that same saintly father that ,i am preaching to the cannibals in the ,south ,seas4 ,it is an insult to ,god and a disgrace to allow children to grow up without throwing ,christian influences around them4 ,seven-tenths of professing ,christians have no family prayers and do not read the ,bible4 ,it is no wonder boys and girls are going to hell4 ,it is no wonder the damnable ball-rooms are wrecking the virtue of our girls4 ,in the fourteenth chapter of ,matthew it is told that when ,jesus had sent the multitudes away he went up into the mountain and was there alone with ,god4 ,jesus ,christ never forgot to thank ,god for answering his prayers4 ,jesus asked him to help him feed the multitude1 and he didn't neglect to thank him for it4 ,next time you pray don't ask ,god for anything4 ,just try to think of all the things you have to be thankful for1 and tell him about them4 ,pride ,hinders ,prayer ,pride keeps us from proper prayer4 ,being chesty and big-headed is responsible for more failures than anything else in this world4 ,it has spoiled many a preacher1 just as it has spoiled many an employee4 ,some fellows get a job and in about two weeks they think they know more about the business than the boss does4 ,they think he is all wrong4 ,it never occurs to them that it took some brains and some knowledge to build that business up and keep it running till they got there4 ,here's two things to guard against4 ,don't get chesty over success1 or discouraged over a seeming defeat4 ,and when he prayed he said3 ',lazarus1 come forth'2 and he that was dead came forth4 ,if we prayed right we would raise men from sin and bring them forth into the light of righteousness4 ,and as he prayed the fashion of his countenance was altered4 ,ladies1 do you want to look pretty8 ,if some of you women would spend less on dope and cold cream and get down on your knees and pray1 ,god would make you prettier4 ,why1 ,i can look into your faces and tell what sort of lives you live4 ,if you are devoting your time and thoughts to society1 your countenances will show it4 ,if you pray1 ,i can see that4 ,every man who has helped to light up the dark places of the world has been a praying man4 ,i never preach a sermon until ,i've soaked it in prayer4 ,never4 ,then ,i never forget to thank ,god for helping me when ,i preach4 ,i don't care whether you read your prayers out of a book or whether you just say them1 so long as you mean them4 ,a man can read his prayers and go to heaven1 or he may just say his prayers and go to hell4 ,we've got to face conditions4 ,when ,i read ,i find that all the saintly men who have done things from ,pentecost until today1 have known how to pray4 ,it was a master stroke of the devil when he got the church to give up prayer4 ,one of the biggest farces today is the average prayer-meeting4 ,praying in ,secret ,matthew says1 ,but thou1 when thou prayest1 enter into thy closet1 and when thou hast shut thy door1 pray to thy ,father1 which is in secret2 and thy ,father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly4 ,two men came to the ,temple to pray--the first was the ,pharisee4 ,he was nice and smooth1 and his attitude was nice and smooth4 ,he prayed3 ,god1 ,i thank thee that ,i am not as other men are1 extortioners1 unjust1 adulterers1 or even as this publican4 ,i fast twice in the week1 ,i give tithes of all ,i possess1 and he went out4 ,i can imagine a lot of people sitting around the church and saying3 ,that is my idea of religion2 that is it4 ,i am no sensationalist2 ,i don't want anything vulgar1 no slang4 ,why don't you use a little1 bud1 so that something will come your way8 ,and it will come as straight as two and two make four4 ,services rendered in such opposite directions cannot meet with the same results4 ,if two men were on the top of a tall building and one should jump and one come down the fire escape they couldn't expect to meet with the same degree of safety4 ,the ,pharisee said1 ,thank ,god1 ,i am not as other men are1 and the publican said1 ,god be merciful to me1 a sinner4 ,the first man went to his house the same as when he came out of it4 ,god be merciful to me1 a sinner4 ,that man was justified4 ,i am justified in my faith in ,jesus ,christ4 ,i am no longer a sinner4 ,i am justified as though ,i had never sinned by faith in the ,son of ,god4 ,that man went down to his house justified4 ,praying in ,humility ,how many people pray in a real sense8 ,how many people pray in humility and truth8 ,some men pray for humility when it is pride they want4 ,many a man gets down on his knees and says3 ,our ,father1 who art in heaven1 hallowed be thy name3 thy kingdom come-- ,that is not so2 they don't want ,god's kingdom to come4 ,it is not so with half the people that pray4 ,i say to you when you pray in the church pew and say that1 it don't count a snap of my finger if you don't live it4 ,you pray1 ,thy kingdom come1 and then you go out and do something to prevent that kingdom from coming4 ,no man can get down and pray ,thy kingdom come1 and have a beer wagon back up to his door and put beer in the ice box4 ,no man can get down on his knees and pray ,thy kingdom come1 and look through the bottom of a beer glass4 ,god won't stand for it4 ,if you wanted ,god's will done you would do ,god's will1 even if it took every drop of blood in your body to do it4 ,thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven4 ,when you say this in your pew on ,sunday it means nothing unless you live it on ,monday4 ,you say ,thy kingdom come1 and then go out and do the very thing that will prevent ,god's kingdom from coming4 ,your prayers or anything you do in the church on ,sunday mean nothing if you don't do the same thing in business on ,monday4 ,i don't care how loud your wind-jamming in prayer-meeting may be if you go out and skin somebody in a horse deal the next day4 ,the man who truly prays1 ,thy kingdom come1 cannot take his heart out of his prayer when he is out of the church4 ,the man who truly prays ,thy kingdom come1 will not be shrinking his measures at the store2 the load of coal he sends to you won't be half slate4 ,the man who truly prays ,thy kingdom come won't cut off his yardstick when he measures you a piece of calico4 ,it will not take the pure-food law to keep a man who truly prays ,thy kingdom come from putting chalk in the flour1 sand in the sugar1 brick dust in red pepper1 ground peanut shells in breakfast food4 ,the man who truly prays ,thy kingdom come cannot pass a saloon and not ask himself the question1 ,what can ,i do to get rid of that thing that is blighting the lives of thousands of young men1 that is wrecking homes1 and that is dragging men and women down to hell8 ,you cannot pray ,thy kingdom come1 and then rush to the polls and vote for the thing that is preventing that kingdom from coming4 ,you cannot pray ,thy kingdom come and then go and do the things that make the devil laugh4 ,for the man who truly prays ,thy kingdom come it would be impossible to have one kind of religion on his knees and another when he is behind the counter2 it would be impossible to have one kind of religion in the pew and another in politics4 ,when a man truly prays ,thy kingdom come he means it in everything or in nothing4 ,a lot of church members are praying wrong4 ,you should pray first1 ,god be merciful to me a sinner1 and then ,thy kingdom come4 ,saying a prayer is one thing3 doing ,god's will is another4 ,both should be synonymous4 ,angels are angels because they do ,god's will4 ,when they refuse to do ,god's will they become devils4 ,many a man prays when he gets in a hole4 ,many a man prays when he is up against it4 ,many a man prays in the time of trouble1 but when he can stick his thumbs in his armholes and take a pair of scissors and cut his coupons off1 then it is ,good-bye1 ,god2 ,i'll see you later4 ,many a man will make promises to ,god in his extremity1 but forget them in his prosperity4 ,many a man will make promises to ,god when the hearse is backed up to the door to carry the baby out1 but will soon forget the promises made in the days of adversity4 ,many a man will make promises when lying on his back1 thinking he is going to die1 and load up just the same when he is on his feet4 ,men of ,prayer ,every man and every woman that ,god has used to halt this sin-cursed world and set it going ,godward has been a ,christian of prayer4 ,martin ,luther arose from his bed and prayed all night1 and when the break of day came he called his wife and said to her1 ,it has come4 ,history records that on that very day ,king ,charles granted religious toleration1 a thing for which ,luther had prayed4 ,john ,knox1 whom his queen feared more than any other man1 was in such agony of prayer that he ran out into the street and fell on his face and cried1 ,o ,god1 give me ,scotland or ,i'll die4 ,and ,god gave him ,scotland and not only that1 he threw ,england in for good measure4 ,when ,jonathan ,edwards was about to preach his greatest sermon on ,sinners in the ,hands of an ,angry ,god1 he prayed for days2 and when he stood before the congregation and preached it1 men caught at the seats in their terror1 and some fell to the floor2 and the people cried out in their fear1 ,mr4 ,edwards1 tell us how we can be saved6 ,the critical period of ,american history was between #aghd and #aghi4 ,there was no common coinage1 no common defense4 ,when the colonies sent men to a constitutional convention1 ,benjamin ,franklin1 rising with the weight of his four score years1 asked that the convention open with prayer1 and ,george ,washington there sealed the bargain with ,god4 ,in that winter in ,valley ,forge1 ,washington led his men in prayer and he got down on his knees to do it4 ,when the battle of ,gettysburg was on1 ,lincoln1 old ,abe ,lincoln1 was on his knees with ,god2 yes1 he was on his knees from five o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the morning1 and ,bishop ,simpson was with him4 ,and whatsoever ye shall ask the ,father in ,my name1 that will ,i do1 that the ,father may be glorified in the ,son4 ,no man can ever be saved without ,jesus ,christ4 ,there's no way to ,god unless you come through ,jesus ,christ4 ,it's ,jesus ,christ or nothing4 ,lord1 teach us to pray4 ,,chapter ,,xxiii ,the ,revival on ,trial ,one spark of fire can do more to prove the power of powder than a whole library written on the subject4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,what ,evangelist ,sunday says to his congregations is sometimes less significant than what he helps his congregation to say to the world4 ,let us take a sample meeting in the ,pittsburgh campaign1 with the tremendous deliverance which it made upon the subject of revivals and conversions4 ,a sea of faces is a petrified phrase1 which means nothing to most readers4 ,anybody who will stand on the platform behind ,billy ,sunday at one of his great tabernacles understands it4 ,more than twenty thousand faces1 all turned expectantly toward one man1 confront you4 ,the faces rather than the hair predominate4 ,there are no hats in sight4 ,like the billows along the shore1 which may be observed in detail1 the nearer reaches of this human sea are individualized4 ,what a ,madonna-face yonder girl has6 ,see the muscles of that young man's jaw working1 in the intensity of his interest4 ,the old man who is straining forward1 so as not to miss a word1 has put a black and calloused hand behind his ear4 ,that gray-haired woman with the lorgnette and rolls of false hair started out with the full consciousness that she was a somebody3 watch her wilt and become merely a tired1 heart-hungry old woman4 ,and the rows and rows of undistinguished commonplace people1 just like the crowds we meet daily in the street cars4 ,somehow1 though1 each seems here engaged in an individual transaction4 ,a revival meeting accents personality4 ,twenty or thirty rows down the big congregation begins to blurr in appearance1 and individual faces are merged in the mass4 ,the host1 which is but an agglomeration of individuals1 is impressive4 ,the sea of faces is more affecting than old ocean's expanse4 ,where else may one so see the people2 or fundamental human nature so expressing itself8 ,one compares these crowds with the lesser throngs that followed ,jesus when he walked the earth1 and recalls that greater works than these shall they do4 ,there is a sermon in every aspect of the ,billy ,sunday meetings4 ,curiously1 people will reveal more of themselves1 be more candid concerning their inner experiences1 in a crowd than when taken one by one4 ,thus this congregation is a rare laboratory4 ,tonight the evangelist is going to make an experiment upon revivals and their value4 ,it is common to object to revivals and to revivalists4 ,billy ,sunday's reply to this is simply unanswerable3 he appeals to the people themselves for evidence4 ,by a show of hands--and he conducts this experiment in practically every community he visits--he gives a convincing demonstration that it is by special evangelistic efforts that most ,christians have entered the ,church of ,christ4 ,by the same method1 he shows that youth is the time to make the great decision4 ,when this question is put to a test a dramatic moment1 the significance of which the multitude quickly grasps1 ensues4 ,on this occasion there are more than twenty thousand persons within the ,tabernacle4 ,first the evangelist asks the confessed ,christians to rise4 ,the great bulk of the congregation stands on its feet4 ,then he asks for those who were converted in special meetings1 revivals of some sort or other1 to raise their hands4 ,from three-fourths to four-fifths of the persons standing lift their hands in token that they were converted during revivals4 ,then--each time elaborating his question so that there may be no misunderstanding--,sunday asks those who were converted before they were twenty to indicate it4 ,here again the majority is so large as to be simply overwhelming4 ,it almost seems that the whole body of ,christians had become such before they attained their legal majority4 ,of the few hundreds that are left standing1 ,sunday asks in turn for those who were converted before they were thirty1 those who were converted before they were forty1 before they were fifty1 before they were sixty4 ,when it comes to this point of age the scene is thrilling in its significance4 ,usually there are only one or two persons standing who have entered the ,christian life after reaching fifty years of age4 ,the conclusion is irresistible4 ,unless a person accepts ,christ in youth the chances are enormously against his ever accepting ,him subsequently4 ,the demonstration is an impressive vindication of revivals1 and of the importance of an early decision for ,christ4 ,after such a showing as this1 everybody is willing to listen to a sermon upon revivals and their place in the economy of the ,kingdom of ,heaven4 ,,the ,,need ,,of ,,revivals ,somebody asks3 ,what is a revival8 ,revival is a purely philosophical1 common-sense result of the wise use of divinely appointed means1 just the same as water will put out a fire2 the same as food will appease your hunger2 just the same as water will slake your thirst2 it is a philosophical common-sense use of divinely appointed means to accomplish that end4 ,a revival is just as much horse sense as that4 ,a revival is not material2 it does not depend upon material means4 ,it is a false idea that there is something peculiar in it1 that it cannot be judged by ordinary rules1 causes and effects4 ,that is nonsense4 ,above your head there is an electric light2 that is effect4 ,what is the cause8 ,why1 the dynamo4 ,religion can be judged on the same basis of cause and effect4 ,if you do a thing1 results always come4 ,the results come to the farmer4 ,he has his crops4 ,that is the result4 ,he has to plow and plant and take care of his farm before the crops come4 ,religion needs a baptism of horse sense4 ,that is just pure horse sense4 ,i believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the ,church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things4 ,if you preach that to the farmers--if you go to a farmer and say ,god is a sovereign1 that is true2 if you say ,god will give you crops only when it pleases him and it is no use for you to plow your ground and plant your crops in the spring1 that is all wrong1 and if you preach that doctrine and expect the farmers to believe it1 this country will starve to death in two years4 ,the churches have been preaching some false doctrines and religion has died out4 ,illustration3 ,you ,sit in ,your ,pews so ,easy that ,you ,become ,mildewed ,some people think that religion is a good deal like a storm4 ,they sit around and fold their arms1 and that is what is the matter4 ,you sit in your pews so easy that you become mildewed4 ,such results will be sure to follow if you are persuaded that religion is something mysterious and has no natural connection between the means and the end4 ,it has a natural connection of common sense and ,i believe that when divinely appointed means are used spiritual blessing will accrue to the individuals and the community in greater numbers than temporal blessings4 ,you can have spiritual blessings as regularly as the farmer can have corn1 wheat1 oats1 or you can have potatoes and onions and cabbage in your garden4 ,i believe that spiritual results will follow more surely than temporal blessings4 ,i don't believe all this tommyrot of false doctrines4 ,you might as well sit around beneath the shade and fan yourself and say ,ain't it hot8 as to expect ,god to give you a crop if you don't plow the ground and plant the seed4 ,until the ,church resorts to the use of divinely appointed means it won't get the blessing4 ,what a ,revival ,does ,what is a revival8 ,now listen to me4 ,a revival does two things4 ,first1 it returns the ,church from her backsliding and second1 it causes the conversion of men and women2 and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the ,church4 ,what a spell the devil seems to cast over the ,church today6 ,i suppose the people here are pretty fair representatives of the ,church of ,god1 and if everybody did what you do there would never be a revival4 ,suppose ,i did no more than you do1 then no people would ever be converted through my efforts2 ,i would fold my arms and rust out4 ,a revival helps to bring the unsaved to ,jesus ,christ4 ,god ,almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the ,church4 ,he never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over ,christianity4 ,and if you think that anybody is going to frighten me1 you don't know me yet4 ,when is a revival needed8 ,when the individuals are careless and unconcerned4 ,if the ,church were down on her face in prayer they would be more concerned with the fellow outside4 ,the ,church has degenerated into a third-rate amusement joint1 with religion left out4 ,when is a revival needed8 ,when carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep4 ,it is as much the duty of the ,church to awaken and work and labor for the men and women of this city as it is the duty of the fire department to rush out when the call sounds4 ,what would you think of the fire department if it slept while the town burned8 ,you would condemn them1 and ,i will condemn you if you sleep and let men and women go to hell4 ,it is just as much your business to be awake4 ,the ,church of ,god is asleep today2 it is turned into a dormitory1 and has taken the devil's opiates4 ,illustration3 ,i ,,never ,,look ,,at ,a ,,child ,,or ,,an ,,older ,,person ,,without ,,thinking1 ',,there ,,is ,a ,,casket ,,of ,,locked-,,up ,,possibilities4 ,,only ,,the ,,key ,,of ,,salvation ,,is ,,needed ,,to ,,open ,,it4' ,illustration3 ,,samson ,,with ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit ,,could ,,take ,,the ,,jawbone ,,of ,,an ,,ass ,,and ,,lay ,,dead ,a ,,thousand ,,philistines4 ,when may a revival be expected8 ,when the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the ,christian4 ,sometimes people don't seem to mind the sins of other people4 ,don't seem to mind while boys and girls walk the streets of their city and know more of evil than gray-haired men4 ,you are asleep4 ,when is a revival needed8 ,when the ,christians have lost the spirit of prayer4 ,when is a revival needed8 ,when you feel the want of revival and feel the need of it4 ,men have had this feeling1 ministers have had it until they thought they would die unless a revival would come to awaken their people1 their students1 their deacons and their ,sunday-school workers1 unless they would fall down on their faces and renounce the world and the works and deceits of the devil4 ,when the ,church of ,god draws its patrons from the theaters the theaters will close up1 or else take the dirty1 rotten plays off the stage4 ,when the ,church of ,god stops voting for the saloon1 the saloon will go to hell4 ,when the members stop having cards in their homes1 there won't be so many black-legged gamblers in the world4 ,this is the truth4 ,you can't sit around and fold your arms and let ,god run this business2 you have been doing that too long here4 ,when may a revival be expected8 ,when ,christians confess their sins one to another4 ,sometimes they confess in a general way1 but they have no earnestness2 they get up and do it in eloquent language1 but that doesn't do it4 ,it is when they break down and cry and pour out their hearts to ,god in grief1 when the flood-gates open1 then ,i want to tell you the devil will have cold feet4 ,revival ,demands ,sacrifice ,when may a revival be expected8 ,when the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the ,church4 ,when you are willing to make a sacrifice for the revival2 when you are willing to sacrifice your feelings4 ,you say1 ,oh1 well1 ,mr4 ,sunday hurt my feelings4 ,then don't spread them all over his tabernacle for men to walk on4 ,i despise a touchy man or woman4 ,make a sacrifice of your feelings2 make a sacrifice of your business1 of your time1 of your money2 you are willing to give to help to advance ,god's cause1 for ,god's cause has to have money the same as a railroad or a steamship company4 ,when you give your influence and stand up and let people know you stand for ,jesus ,christ and it has your indorsement and time and money4 ,somebody has got to get on the firing line4 ,somebody had to go on the firing line and become bullet meat for #ac a month to overcome slavery4 ,somebody has to be willing to make a sacrifice4 ,they must be willing to get out and hustle and do things for ,god4 ,when may a revival be expected8 ,a revival may be expected when ,christian people confess and ask forgiveness for their sins4 ,when you are willing that ,god shall promote and use whatever means or instruments or individuals or methods he is pleased to use to promote them4 ,yes4 ,the trouble is he cannot promote a revival if you are sitting on the judgment of the methods and means that ,god is employing to promote a revival4 ,the ,god ,almighty may use any method or means or individual that he pleases in order to promote a revival4 ,you are not running it4 ,let ,god have his way4 ,you can tell whether you need a revival4 ,you can tell if you will have one and why you have got one4 ,if ,god should ask you sisters and preachers in an audible voice1 ,are you willing that ,i should promote a revival by using any methods or means or individual language that ,i choose to use to promote it8 what would be your answer8 ,yes4 ,then don't growl if ,i use some things that you don't like4 ,you have no business to4 ,how can you promote a revival8 ,break up your fallow ground1 the ground that produces nothing but weeds1 briars1 tin cans and brick-bats4 ,fallow ground is ground that never had a glow in it4 ,detroit had a mayor1 ,pingree1 when ,detroit had thousands and thousands of acres of fallow ground4 ,this was taken over by the municipal government and planted with potatoes with which they fed the poor of the city4 ,there are individuals who have never done anything for ,jesus ,christ1 and ,i have no doubt there are preachers as well1 who have never done anything for the ,god ,almighty4 ,there are acres and acres of fallow ground lying right here that have never been touched4 ,look over your past life1 look over your present life and future and take up the individual sins and with pencil and paper write them down4 ,a general confession will never do4 ,you have committed your sins1 one by one1 and you will have to confess them one by one4 ,this thing of saying1 ,god1 ,i am a sinner1 won't do4 ,god1 ,i am a gossiper in my neighborhood4 ,god1 ,i have been in my ice-box while ,i am here listening to ,mr4 ,sunday4 ,confess your sins4 ,how can you promote a revival8 ,you women1 if you found that your husband was giving his love and attention to some other woman and if you saw that some other woman was encroaching on his mind and heart1 and was usurping your place and was pushing you out of the place1 wouldn't you grieve8 ,don't you think that ,god grieves when you push him out of your life8 ,you don't treat ,god square4 ,you business men don't treat ,god fair4 ,you let a thousand things come in and take the place that ,god ,almighty had4 ,no wonder you are careless4 ,you blame ,god for things you have no right to blame him for4 ,he is not to blame for anything4 ,you judge ,god4 ,the spirit loves the ,bible2 the devil loves the flesh4 ,if you don't do your part1 don't blame ,god4 ,how many times have you blamed ,god when you are the liar yourself4 ,you are wont to blame him for the instances of unbelief that have come into your life4 ,when should we promote a revival8 ,when there is a neglect of prayer8 ,when your prayers affect ,god8 ,you never think of going out on the street without dressing4 ,you would be pinched before you went a block4 ,you never think of going without breakfast1 do you8 ,i bet there are multitudes that have come here without reading the ,bible or praying for this meeting4 ,you can measure your desire for salvation by means of the amount of self-denial you are willing to practice for ,jesus ,christ4 ,you have sinned before the ,church1 before the world1 before ,god4 ,don't the ,lord have a hard time8 ,own up1 now4 ,persecution a ,godsend ,there are a lot of people in church1 doubtless1 who have denied themselves--self-denial for comfort and convenience4 ,there are a lot of people here who never make any sacrifices for ,jesus ,christ4 ,they will not suffer any reproaches for ,jesus ,christ4 ,paul says1 ,i love to suffer reproaches for ,christ4 ,the ,bible says1 ,woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you4 ,blessed are you when your enemies persecute you4 ,that is one trouble in the churches of ,god today4 ,they are not willing to suffer reproach for ,god's sake4 ,it would be a godsend if the ,church would suffer persecution today2 she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years4 ,she is growing rich and lagging behind4 ,going back4 ,pride6 ,how many times have you found yourself exercising pride8 ,how many times have you attempted pride of wealth8 ,proud because you were related to some of the old families that settled in the ,colonies in #aggf4 ,that don't get you anything2 not at all4 ,i have got as much to be proud of as to lineage as anyone2 my great-grandfather was in the ,revolutionary ,war1 lost a leg at ,brandywine2 and my father was a soldier in the ,civil ,war4 ,envy6 ,envy of those that have more talent than you4 ,envious because someone can own a limousine ,packard and you have to ride a ,brush runabout2 envious because some women can wear a sealskin coat and you a nearseal4 ,then there is your grumbling and fault-finding4 ,when speaking of people behind their backs1 telling their faults1 whether real or imaginary1 and that is slander4 ,when you sit around and rip people up behind their backs at your old sewing societies1 when you rip and tear and discuss your neighbors and turn the affair into a sort of a great big gossiping society1 with your fault-finding1 grumbling and growling4 ,there is a big difference between levity and happiness1 and pleasure1 and all that sort of thing4 ,make up your mind that ,god has given himself up for you4 ,i would like to see something come thundering along that ,i would have more interest in than ,i have in the cause of ,god ,almighty6 ,god has a right to the first place4 ,god is first1 remember that4 ,multitudes of people are willing to do anything that doesn't require any self-denial on their part4 ,i am not a member of any lodge1 and never expect to be1 but if ,i were a member of a lodge and there were a prayer-meeting and a lodge-meeting coming on ,wednesday night1 ,i would be at the prayer-meeting instead of at the lodge-meeting4 ,i am not against the lodges2 they do some good work in the world1 but that doesn't save anyone for ,god4 ,god is first and the lodge-meeting is second4 ,god is first and society second4 ,god is first and business is second4 ,in the beginning1 ,god6 ,that is the way the ,bible starts out and it ought to be the way with every living being4 ,in the beginning1 ,god4 ,seek you first ,god and everything else shall be added unto you4 ,christianity is addition2 sin is subtraction4 ,christianity is peace1 joy1 salvation1 heaven4 ,sin takes away peace1 happiness1 sobriety1 and it takes away health4 ,you are robbing ,god of the time that you misspend4 ,you are robbing ,god when you spend time doing something that don't amount to anything1 when you might do something for ,christ4 ,you are robbing ,god when you go to foolish amusements1 when you sit around reading trashy novels instead of the ,word of ,god4 ,oh1 ,lord1 revive thy work6 ,i have only two minutes more and then ,i am through4 ,bad temper4 ,abuse your wife and abuse your children2 abuse your husband2 turn your old gatling-gun tongue loose4 ,a lady came to me and said1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,i know ,i have a bad temper1 but ,i am over with it in a minute4 ,so is the shotgun1 but it blows everything to pieces4 ,and1 finally1 you abuse the telephone girl because she doesn't connect you in a minute4 ,bad temper4 ,i say you abuse your wife1 you go cussing around if supper isn't ready on time2 cussing because the coffee isn't hot2 you dig your fork into a hunk of beefsteak and put it on your plate and then you say3 ,where did you get this1 in the harness shop8 ,take it out and make a hinge for the door4 ,then you go to your store1 or office1 and smile and everybody thinks you are an angel about to sprout wings and fly to the imperial realm above4 ,bad temper6 ,you growl at your children2 you snap and snarl around the house until they have to go to the neighbors to see a smile4 ,they never get a kind word--no wonder so many of them go to the devil quick4 ,,chapter ,,xxiv ,an ,army with ,banners ,the man who is right with ,god will not be wrong with anything that is good4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,the oldest problem of the ,christian ,church1 and the latest problem of democracy1 is how to reach the great mass of the people4 ,frequently the charge is made that the ,church merely skims the surface of society1 and that the great uncaring masses of the people lie untouched beneath it4 ,commonly1 a revival reaches only a short distance outside the circumference of church circles4 ,the wonder and greatness of the ,billy ,sunday campaigns consist in the fact that they reach to the uttermost rim of a community1 to its greatest height and its lowest depth4 ,there can be no question that he stirs a city as not even the fiercest political campaign stirs it4 ,sunday touches life on all levels1 bringing his message to bear upon the society woman in her parlor and the humblest day laborer in the trench4 ,this does not come to pass by any mere chance4 ,organized activity achieves it4 ,the method which produces the greatest results is what is called the ,delegation ,idea1 whereby detachments of persons from various trades1 callings and organizations and communities attend in a body upon the services of the ,sunday ,tabernacle4 ,by pre-arrangement1 seats are reserved every night for these visiting delegations4 ,sometimes there will be as many as a dozen delegations present in one evening4 ,as the campaign progresses towards its conclusion real difficulty is experienced in finding open dates for all the delegations that apply4 ,at the outset1 ,mr4 ,sunday's assistants have to work up these delegations4 ,later1 the delegations themselves besiege the workers4 ,in variety the delegations range from a regiment of ,boy ,scouts to a post of old soldiers2 from the miners of a specified colliery to the bankers of the city2 from the telephone girls to the members of a woman's club2 from an athletic club to a ,bible class4 ,not only the community in which the meetings are being held furnish these delegations1 but the surrounding territory is drawn upon4 ,it is by no means an unknown thing for a single delegation1 numbering a thousand or fifteen hundred men1 to come a distance of fifteen or twenty-five miles to attend a ,sunday ,tabernacle service4 ,almost every evening there are lines of special cars waiting for these deputations who have come from afar1 with their banners and their badges and their bands1 all bent upon hearing and being heard at the ,tabernacle4 ,the crowd spirit is appealed to by this method4 ,the every-day instinct of loyalty to one's craft or crowd is aroused4 ,each delegation feels its own identity and solidarity1 and wants to make as good a showing as possible4 ,there is considerable wholesome emulation among the delegations representing the same craft or community4 ,of course1 the work of making ready the delegation furnishes a topic for what is literally shop talk among working men2 and naturally each group zealously watches the effect of its appearance upon the great congregation4 ,delegations get a very good idea of what their neighbors think of them by the amount of applause with which they are greeted4 ,thus when the whole force of a daily newspaper appears in the ,tabernacle its readers cheer vociferously4 ,every delegation goes equipped with its own battle cry1 and prepared to make as favorable a showing as possible4 ,all this is wholesome for the community life4 ,it fosters loyalty in the varied groups that go to make up our society4 ,any shop is the better for its workers1 led by their heads of departments and by their employers1 having gone in a solid phalanx to a ,tabernacle meeting4 ,every incident of that experience becomes an unfailing source of conversation for long days and weeks to follow4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,tabernacle ,,at ,,scranton1 ,,pennsylvania1 ,,typical ,,of ,,the ,,auditoriums ,,that ,,are ,,erected ,,wherever ,,campaigns ,,are ,,conducted4 ,,to ,,deaden ,,sound ,,the ,,floor ,,is ,,covered ,,with ,,sawdust1 ,,whence ,,the ,,name ,,sawdust ,,trail4 ,,to ,,prevent ,,the ,,possibility ,,of ,a ,,panic1 ,,no ,,board ,,is ,,fastened ,,with ,,more ,,than ,,two ,,nails1 ,,and ,,there ,,is ,a ,,door ,,at ,,the ,,end ,,of ,,every ,,aisle4 ,naturally1 too1 each delegation1 delighted with the showing it has made at the ,tabernacle1 and with the part it has borne in the meeting1 becomes one more group of partisans for the ,billy ,sunday campaign4 ,men who would not go alone to the ,tabernacle1 cannot in loyalty well refuse to stand by their own crowd4 ,so it comes to pass that the delegation idea penetrates every level and every section of the community4 ,a shrewder scheme for reaching the last man could scarcely be devised4 ,thousands who are impervious to religious appeals quickly respond to the request that they stand by their shop-mates and associates4 ,participation in the meetings makes the people themselves feel the importance of their own part4 ,they are not merely a crowd coming to be talked at2 they share in the meetings4 ,the newspapers comment upon them even as upon the sermon4 ,all are uplifted by the glow of geniality and camaraderie which pervades the ,tabernacle4 ,for the songs and slogans and banners of the delegations greatly help to swell the interest of the meetings4 ,all this is wholesome1 democratic and typically ,american4 ,this good-natured crowd does not become unreal or artificial simply because it is facing the fundamental verities of the human soul4 ,outspokenness in loyalty1 a characteristic of ,sunday converts1 expresses itself through many channels4 ,taught by the delegation idea1 as well as by the sermon1 the importance of standing up to be counted1 the friends and converts of the evangelist are always ready for the great parade which usually is held toward the close of the campaign4 ,the simple basis for this street demonstration is found in the old ,scripture1 ,let the redeemed of the ,lord say so4 ,the idea of the ,roman imperial triumph survives in the ,billy ,sunday parade4 ,it is a testimony to the multitudes of the loyalty of ,christians to the ,gospel4 ,beyond all question1 a tremendous impression is made upon a city by the thousands of marching men whom the evangelist first leads and then reviews4 ,a street parade is a visualization of the forces of the ,church in a community4 ,many a man of the street1 who might be unmoved by many arguments1 however powerful1 cannot escape the impression of the might of the massed multitudes of men who march through the streets1 thousands strong4 ,some twenty thousand men were in the ,sunday parade at ,scranton4 ,nobody who witnessed them1 be he never so heedless a scoffer1 could again speak slightingly of the ,church4 ,religion loses whatever traits of femininity it may have possessed1 before the ,sunday campaign is over4 ,those most practical of men1 the politicians1 are quick to take cognizance of this new power that has arisen in the community's life4 ,they know that every one of these men not only has a vote1 but is a center of influence for the things in which he believes4 ,the heartening effect of such a great demonstration as this upon the obscure1 lonely and discouraged saints is beyond calculation4 ,the great hosts of the ,billy ,sunday campaign are returning to first principles by taking religion out into the highways and making it talked about1 even as the ,founder of the ,church created a commotion in the highways of ,capernaum and ,jerusalem4 ,these marching men are a sermon one or two miles long4 ,the impression made upon youth is not to be registered by any means in the possession of men4 ,every ,christian the world around must be grateful to this evangelist and his associates for giving the sort of demonstration1 which cannot be misunderstood by the world at large1 of the virility and the immensity of the hosts of heaven on earth4 ,many of the utterances of ,billy ,sunday are attuned to this note of valiant witness-bearing for ,christ4 ,,spiritual ,,power ,samson didn't realize that the ,spirit of the ,lord had departed from him2 he walked out and shook himself as aforetime2 he weighed as much2 he was as strong physically2 his mind was as active1 but although he possessed all that1 there was one thing that was necessary to make him as he had been3 ,he wist not that the ,spirit of the ,lord had left him4 ,a man may have a fine physique2 he may have strength2 he may have greatness2 he may have a beautiful home2 and a church may be magnificent and faultless in its equipment2 the preacher may be able to reason2 the choir may rival the angels in music2 but if you have not the ,spirit of the ,lord you are1 as ,paul says1 as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals1 and the church is merely four walls with a roof over it4 ,nothing in the world can be substituted for the ,spirit of ,god2 no wealth1 culture nor anything in the world4 ,by power we do not mean numbers2 there never has been a time when there were more members in the ,church than today2 yet we haven't kept progress in the number of members in the ,church with the increased number of people in the nation4 ,our nation has grown to over #ij1jjj1jjj of people1 but we are not correspondingly keeping pace with the number of church members4 ,god's ,church has not increased correspondingly in power as it has in numbers2 while increasing in numbers it has not increased in spiritual power4 ,i am giving you facts1 not fancies4 ,we are not dealing with theories4 ,i am not saying anything against the ,church2 you never had a man come into this community who would fight harder for the ,church of ,god ,almighty than ,i would4 ,i am talking about her sins and the things that sap her power--and by power ,i do not mean numbers4 ,if you had an army of #ajj1jjj and increased it another #ajj1jjj it ought to be doubled in power4 ,derelicts in the ,church ,in the ,church of ,god today you know there are a lot of people who are nothing but derelicts and nothing but driftwood4 ,by power ,i do not mean wealth4 ,we are the richest people on the earth2 nineteen-twentieths of all the wealth or all the money in the ,united ,states today is in the hands of professing ,christians1 ,catholic and ,protestant4 ,that ought to mean that it is in ,god's hands2 but it doesn't4 ,they are robbing ,god4 ,i was in a church in ,iowa that had three members who were worth #bjj1jjj each and they paid their preacher the measly salary of #fjj a year1 and ,i will be hornswaggled if they did not owe him #djj then4 ,if ,i ever skinned any old fellows ,i did those old stingy coots4 ,a man who doesn't pay to the church is as big a swindler as a man who doesn't pay his grocery bill and he is dead-beating his way to hell4 ,you let somebody else pay your bills1 you old dead-beat4 ,god hasn't any more use today for a dead-beat in the church than he has for the man who doesn't pay his grocery bill--not a bit6 ,by power ,i do not mean culture4 ,there never was a time when the people of ,america were better informed than they are today2 they have newspapers1 telephones1 telegraphs1 rural delivery1 fast trains4 ,you can leave home and in five days you are in ,europe4 ,if something happens in ,china or ,japan tonight you can read it before you go to bed4 ,the islands of the sea are our neighbors4 ,a stranger once asked3 ,what is the most powerful and influential church in this town8 ,that big stone ,presbyterian church on the hill4 ,how many members has it8 ,i don't know1 my wife is a member4 ,how many ,sunday-school members8 ,i don't know2 my children go4 ,how many go to prayer-meetings8 ,i don't know2 ,i have never been there4 ,how many go to communion8 ,i don't know1 ,i never go2 my wife goes4 ,then the stranger said3 ,will you please tell me why you said it was the most powerful and influential church in the community8 ,yes1 sir2 it is the only church in the town that has three millionaires in the church4 ,that was why he thought it was a great church4 ,the ,church in ,america would die of dry rot and sink forty-nine fathoms in hell if all members were multi-millionaires and college graduates4 ,that ought not to be a barrier to spiritual power4 ,by power ,i do not mean influence4 ,i'd hate to have to walk back nineteen hundred years to ,pentecost4 ,there were #abj at ,pentecost who saved #c1jjj souls4 ,some of the most powerful churches ,i have ever worked with were not the churches that had the largest number or the richest members4 ,out in a town in ,iowa there were three women who used to pray all night every ,thursday night1 one of them a colored woman4 ,people used to come under her windows at night and listen to her pray4 ,she murdered the king's ,english five times in every sentence1 but oh1 she knew ,god4 ,they had #ejj names on their list for prayer and when the meetings closed they had checked off #cig of them4 ,every ,friday ,i would be called over the telephone or receive a letter or meet those women and they would tell me what assurances ,god gave them as to who would be saved4 ,i have never met three women that were stronger in faith than those three4 ,that town was ,fairfield1 ,iowa1 one of the brightest1 cleanest1 snappiest little towns ,i ever went into4 ,the ,meaning of ,power ,samson wist not the ,spirit of the ,lord had departed4 ,so might we have money1 so might we have members1 so might we have increase in culture2 but we have not increased in power4 ,i mean spiritual power2 power to bring things to pass by way of reform4 ,what do ,i mean by power8 ,i have told you what ,i did not mean4 ,by power ,i mean when the power of ,god comes upon you and enables you to do what you could not do without that power4 ,that comes to you through confidence and faith in the ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,there was a time when the ,church had more spiritual power than she has today2 there never was a time when she had more members than she has today2 there never was a time when she had more money than she has today2 more culture2 but there was a time when she had more spiritual power than today4 ,and when she had more spiritual power she was a separate institution4 ,she was not living for the devil as she is today4 ,and the ,church had not become a clearing house for the forces of evil4 ,we are told that at ,pentecost tongues of fire came upon the expectant worshipers4 ,i don't mean this gabby stuff they have got today that they call the things of the spirit2 ,i don't mean that jabbering and froth and foaming at the mouth when you can't understand a word they say4 ,try the ,spirit1 whether it be of ,god1 and in all ages when the ,church has stood for something she has had power4 ,so few of us dream of the tremendous power at our command4 ,at the ,world's ,fair at ,chicago the door to one of the great buildings was without doorknob or latch1 for these were not needed4 ,there was a great mat at the entrance1 and as you stepped upon it your weight would cause an electrical connection to be made and the great doors would swing open4 ,i take this old ,book and stand upon it1 and all the wonders of life and eternity are opened to me4 ,the power of the ,holy ,spirit is at my command4 ,church ,needs ,great ,awakening ,let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to ,christ4 ,we need a ,pentecost today4 ,the ,church needs a great awakening4 ,now1 ,i'll not stand anyone's saying anything against the ,church as an institution2 but ,i will rebuke its sins and point out its shortcomings4 ,nobody who loves the ,church can be silent when so much needs to be said4 ,i love the ,church4 ,i want to explode that old adage that ,love is blind2 ,i tell you1 love has an eagle's eyes4 ,lots of churches are wrong in their financial policy4 ,it is a wrong that the churches have to resort to tricks that would shame the devil in order to filch a quarter out of a fellow's pocket to help pay the preacher's back salary4 ,there is hardly a church in this country that couldn't have abundant funds if the people would only give of their means as they are commanded by ,god4 ,then1 too often you put the wrong men in places of authority in the church4 ,you elect some old fellow who would look better in a penitentiary suit1 just because he had a drag somewhere4 ,we must quit putting such men in church offices4 ,when ,i was a boy ,i was taught how to put glass knobs on the feet of a chair and charge the chair with electricity4 ,so long as ,i didn't touch anything but the chair ,i was all right1 but if ,i touched the wall or something else ,i got a shock4 ,the power passed through and from me4 ,as ,christians we cannot come into touch with defiling things without suffering a loss of spiritual power4 ,you can't go to the dance and the card party and the cheap-skate show without losing power4 ,yes1 you can do those things and be a church member4 ,but you can be a church member without being a ,christian4 ,there's a difference4 ,i read in the ,bible that ,lot first pitched his tents near ,sodom4 ,next ,i read that ,lot moved right into ,sodom1 and lived there for twenty years4 ,he lost his power there1 too4 ,when ,god warned him to get out of the city he went and told his sons and daughters1 but they wouldn't heed him4 ,he had lost his power over them4 ,he warned his sons-in-law1 but they wouldn't heed him4 ,he even lost power over his own wife1 for he told her not to look back as they fled1 and she rubbered4 ,if you have lost spiritual power it is because you have disobeyed some clear command of ,god4 ,maybe you're stingy4 ,god requires tithes4 ,he commands you to give one tenth of your income to him1 and maybe you don't do it4 ,it may be your temper4 ,it may be that you have neglected to read the ,bible and haven't prayed as you should4 ,the ,church is a failure because she is compromising with the men that sit in the seats and own saloons whom she never rebukes2 she is compromising with the men who rent their property for disorderly houses1 and whom she never rebukes4 ,they are living off the products of shame and if they buy food and clothes for their wives and children from such money1 they1 too1 are living off this product of shame4 ,we have lost our power because we have compromised4 ,when ,i played baseball ,i used to attend every theater in the country4 ,since ,i was converted ,i have not darkened a theater's door1 except to preach the ,gospel4 ,we've lost our power because we've lost our faith4 ,our leading members are leaders in nothing but card parties and society2 they are not leaders in spiritual things4 ,a man comes to me and says1 ,mrs4 ,so-and-,so is one of my leading members4 ,i ask3 ,does she get to prayer-meetings8 ,no4 ,does she visit the sick8 ,no4 ,does she put her arms around some poor sinner and try to save her for ,christ8 ,no4 ,and ,i find she is a leader in nothing but society1 card parties1 dances and bridge-whist clubs4 ,i don't call that kind a leading woman in the church2 she is the devil's bell-wether4 ,that is true4 ,i tell you people what ,i call your leading woman3 ,she is the one who gets down on her knees and prays2 she is the one that can wrap her arms around a sinner and lead her to ,christ2 that is a leading church member4 ,you have it doped out wrong4 ,did ,martin ,luther trim his sails to the breeze of his day8 ,if he had1 you would never have had a ,reformation4 ,i will tell you why we have lost our power2 ,i have told you what ,i don't mean by power4 ,lost ,power ,we have lost our power because we have failed to insist on the separation of the ,church from the world4 ,the ,church is a separate body of men and women2 we are to be in the world1 but not of the world4 ,she is all right in the world1 all wrong when the world is in her1 and the trouble with the ,church today is that she has sprung a leak4 ,the flood tides of the world have been swept in until even her pews are engulfed1 yes1 even the choir loft is almost submerged4 ,we have become but a third-rate amusement bureau4 ,the world has got to see a clean-cut line of demarkation between the ,church and the world4 ,so ,i believe4 ,if there's anything the ,church of ,god needs it's to climb the stairs and get in an upper room4 ,come out from the things of the world4 ,when you hand out a pickle and a bunch of celery for the cause of good1 then will my ,father not be glorified2 nor will he be glorified when you sell oyster soup at twenty-five cents a dish1 when one lone oyster chases around the dish to find his brother4 ,it doesn't require much power to do that1 for two dollars would hire a girl to dish up ice-cream4 ,that does not get you spiritual power4 ,there is deep heart hungering in the ,church today for the old-time ,pentecostal power4 ,now1 ,i do not know that the ,spirit will ever come to us as he came to ,pentecost1 for you must remember that he came to usher in the new dispensation1 or the dispensation of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,it is true he was present in the ,old ,testament4 ,he was in ,abraham and ,moses4 ,you'll have power when there is nothing questionable in your life4 ,you'll have power when you testify in a more positive manner4 ,do as the disciples did1 believe and receive the ,holy ,spirit by waiting4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is ours4 ,he is the promise of ,jesus from the ,father as a gift to the prayers of the ,son4 ,god can no more fill you with the ,spirit if you are not right1 willing and waiting to receive ,him1 than he can send the sunshine into your house if you have the blinds and shutters all closed4 ,you can pray till you are black in the face and bald-headed1 but you're wasting your time unless you agree with ,god4 ,there can be no wedding unless two parties are agreed4 ,if the girl says ,no1 that ends it4 ,don't think you are walking with ,god just because your name is on a church record4 ,walk in the path of righteousness even if it leads to a coffin and the graveyard4 ,jesus gave his disciples power to perform miracles4 ,that same power can be delegated to you and me today4 ,he always spoke of the ,holy ,spirit in the future4 ,he was not there4 ,he didn't have to be4 ,they had ,jesus1 but the ,church needs him today4 ,it needs a baptism of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,there are no substitutes4 ,you can organize1 prepare1 hire the best singers and preachers in the universe1 but you'll get no power4 ,no matter what ,scriptural knowledge he may have1 no matter if he prays so that it reaches the stars1 no matter if his sermons sway the congregation with their word pictures1 no matter if the singers warble faultlessly and to beat the band--the preacher and the singers will produce no more effect than the beating of a drum or the running of a music box4 ,the preacher who murders the king's ,english four times to every sentence and has the ,holy ,ghost will get the revival4 ,the ,church today needs power4 ,it has plenty of wealth1 culture and numbers4 ,there is no substitute for the ,holy ,spirit and you cannot have power without the ,holy ,spirit4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is ours by the promise of ,christ4 ,to receive him we must give up all sin and walk in the path of righteousness even if it carries us to our graves or across the seas as a missionary4 ,give up everything the ,lord forbids even if it is as important to you as your hand or your eye4 ,illustration3 ,facsimile of ,page ,one of ,circular ,handed to ,every ,convert4 ,dear ,friend3 ,you have by this act of coming forward publicly acknowledged your faith in ,jesus ,christ as your personal ,saviour4 ,no one could possibly be more rejoiced that you have done this1 or be more anxious for you to succeed and get the most joy out of the ,christian life1 than ,i4 ,therefore1 ,i ask you to read carefully this little tract4 ,paste it in your ,bible and read it frequently4 ,w4 ,sunday4 #b ,tim3#b3ae ,,what ,,it ,,means ,,to ,,be ,a ,,christian ,a ,christian is any man1 woman or child who comes to ,god as a lost sinner1 accepts the ,lord ,jesus ,christ as their personal ,saviour1 surrenders to ,him as their ,lord and ,master1 confesses ,him as such before the world1 and strives to please ,him in everything day by day4 ,have you come to ,god realizing that you are a lost sinner8 ,have you accepted the ,lord ,jesus ,christ as your personal ,saviour2 that is1 do you believe with all your heart that ,god laid all your iniquity on ,him8 7,isa4 #ec3e-f7 and that ,he bore the penalty of your sins 7#a ,peter #b3bd71 and that your sins are forgiven because ,jesus died in your stead8 ,have you surrendered to ,him as your ,lord and ,master8 ,that is1 are you willing to do ,his will even when it conflicts with your desire8 ,have you confessed to ,him as your ,saviour and ,master before the world8 ,is it your purpose to strive to please ,him in everything day by day8 ,if you can sincerely answer ,,yes to the foregoing questions1 then you may know on the authority of ,god's ,word that you are ,,now a child of ,god 7,john #a3ab71 that you have ,,now eternal life 7,john #c3cf72 that is to say1 if you have done your part 7i4e41 believe that ,christ died in your place1 and receive ,him as your ,saviour and ,master7 ,god has done ,,his part and imparted to you ,his own nature 7,,ii ,peter #a3d74 ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,success ,,of ,,the ,,christian ,,life ,now that you are a child of ,god your growth depends upon yourself4 ,it is impossible for you to become a useful ,christian unless you are willing to do the things which are absolutely essential to your spiritual growth4 ,to this end the following suggestions will be found to be of vital importance3 #a4 ,,study ,,the ,,bible3 ,set aside at least fifteen minutes a day for ,bible ,study4 ,let ,god talk to you fifteen minutes a day through ,his ,word4 ,talk to ,god fifteen minutes a day in prayer4 ,talk for ,god fifteen minutes a day4 ,as new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the ,word1 that ye may grow thereby4--#a ,peter #b3b4 ,the word of ,god is food for the soul4 ,commit to memory one verse of ,scripture each day4 ,join a ,bible class4 7,psa4 #aai3aa47 #b4 ,,pray ,,much3 ,praying is talking to ,god4 ,talk to ,him about everything--your perplexities1 joys1 sorrows1 sins1 mistakes1 friends1 enemies4 ,be careful for nothing1 but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto ,god4 ,phil4 #d3f4 #c4 ,,win ,,someone ,,for ,,christ3 ,for spiritual growth you need not only food 7,bible study7 but exercise4 ,work for ,christ4 ,the only work ,christ ever set for ,christians is to win others4 ,go ye into all the world and preach the ,gospel to every creature4 ,mark #af3ae4 ,when ,i say unto the wicked1 thou shalt surely die2 and thou givest him not warning1 nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way1 to save his life2 the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity2 but his blood will ,i require at thine hand4--,ezek4 #c3ah4 #d4 ,,shun ,,evil ,,companions3 ,avoid bad people1 bad books1 bad thoughts4 ,read the ,first ,psalm4 ,be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers3 for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness1 and what communion hath light with darkness--what part hath he that believeth with an infidel--wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate1 saith the ,lord4--,,ii ,cor4 #f3ad-ag4 ,try to win the wicked for ,god1 but do not choose them for your companions4 #e4 ,,join ,,some ,,church3 ,be faithful in your attendance at the ,sabbath and mid-week services4 ,not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together1 as the manner of some is4--,heb4 #aj3be4 ,co-operate with your pastor4 ,god has appointed the pastor to be a shepherd over the church and you should give him due reverence and seek to assist him in his plans for the welfare of the church4 #f4 ,,give ,,to ,,the ,,support ,,of ,,the ,,lord',s ,,work3 ,give as the ,lord hath prospered you4--,i ,cor4 #af3b4 ,give not grudgingly or of necessity1 for ,god loveth a cheerful giver4--,i ,cor4 #i3g4 #g4 ,,do ,,not ,,become ,,discouraged3 ,expect temptations1 discouragement and persecution2 the ,christian life is warfare4 ,yea and all who will live godly in ,christ ,jesus shall suffer persecution4--,,ii ,tim4 #c3ab4 ,the eternal ,god is thy refuge4 ,we have the promises that all things1 even strange and hard unaccountable obstacles1 work together for our good4 ,many of ,god's brightest saints were once as weak as you are1 passed through dark tunnels and the hottest fire1 and yet their lives were enriched by their experiences1 and the world made better because of their having lived in it4 ,read often the following passages of ,scripture3 ,romans #h3ah2 ,james #a3ab2 ,i ,corinthians #aj3ac4 ,,chapter ,,xxv ,a ,life ,enlistment ,when a man1 after starting to be a ,christian1 looks back1 it is only a question of time until he goes back4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,professor ,william ,james1 the philosopher1 contended that there was a scientific value to the stories of ,christian conversions2 that these properly belonged among the data of religion1 to be weighed by the man of science4 ,harold ,begbie's notable book1 ,twice-,born ,men1 was recognized by ,professor ,james as a contribution to the science of religion2 for it was simply a collection of the stories of men whose lives had been transformed by the gospel which the ,salvation ,army had carried to them4 ,a whole library of such books as ,twice-,born ,men could be written concerning the converts of ,billy ,sunday4 ,his converts not only right-about-face but they keep marching in the new direction4 ,their enlistment is for life4 ,this point is one of the most critical in the whole realm of the discussion of revivals4 ,times without number it has been charged that the converts of evangelists lose their religion as quickly as they got it4 ,a perfectly fair question to ask concerning these ,billy ,sunday campaigns is1 ,are they temporary attacks of religious hysteria1 mere effervescent moods of spiritual exaltation1 which are dissipated by the first contact with life's realities8 ,here is opportunity for the acid test4 ,billy ,sunday has been conducting revival meetings long enough to enable an investigator to go back over his trail and trace his results4 ,after years have passed1 are there still evidences of the presence and work of the evangelist8 ,to this only one answer can be made4 ,the most skeptical and antagonistic person cannot fail to find hundreds and thousands of ,billy ,sunday converts in the churches of the towns where the evangelist has conducted meetings during the past twenty years4 ,not all of the converts have held fast2 we cannot forget that one of the ,twelve was a complete renegade1 and that the others were for a time weak in the faith4 ,alas1 this condition is true of ,christian converts1 however made4 ,the terrible record revealed in each year's church statistics1 of members who are missing--entirely lost to the knowledge of the ,church--is enough to restrain every pastor from making uncharitable remarks upon the recruits won by an evangelist4 ,the fact to be stressed at this present moment is that ,billy ,sunday converts are to be found in all departments of church work1 in the ministry itself1 and on the foreign field4 ,one reason for the conservation of the results of the ,sunday campaigns is that all the powers of the evangelist and his organization are exerted to lead those who have confessed ,christ in the tabernacles to become members of the church of their choice1 at the earliest possible date4 ,sunday says candidly that converts cannot expect to grow in grace and usefulness outside the organized ,church of ,christ4 ,thus it comes about that before a ,sunday campaign closes1 and for months afterwards1 the church papers report wholesale accessions to the local congregations of all denominations4 ,three thousand new church members were added in a single ,sunday in the city of ,scranton4 ,what these campaigns mean in the way of rehabilitating individual churches is illustrated by what a ,scranton pastor said to me toward the close of the ,sunday campaign3 ,you know my church burned down a short time ago4 ,we have been planning to rebuild4 ,now1 however1 we shall have to rebuild to twice the size of our old church1 and we have enough new members already to make sure that our financial problem will be a simple one4 ,in other words1 the coming of the evangelist had turned into a triumph and a new starting point for this congregation what might have otherwise been a time of discouragement and temporary defeat4 ,for a moment the reader should take the viewpoint of the pastors who have been struggling along faithfully1 year after year1 at best getting but a few score of new members each year4 ,then ,billy ,sunday appears4 ,the entire atmosphere and outlook of the church is transformed within a few days4 ,optimism reigns4 ,lax church members become ,christian workers1 and enthusiasm for the kingdom pervades the entire membership4 ,the churches of the community find themselves bound together in a new solidarity of fellowship and service4 ,then1 to crown all1 into the church membership come literally hundreds of men and women1 mostly young1 and all burning with the convert's ardent zeal to do service for the ,master4 ,can anybody but a pastor conceive the thrill that must have come to the minister of a ,wilkes-,barre church which added one thousand new members to its existing roll1 as a result of the ,billy ,sunday campaign in that city8 ,six months after the ,sunday meetings in ,scranton ,i visited ,carbondale1 a small town sixteen miles distant from ,scranton1 and talked with two of the resident pastors4 ,there are four ,protestant churches in ,carbondale1 which have already received a thousand new members within five months4 ,all these converts are either the direct result of ,billy ,sunday's preaching1 or else the converts of converts4 ,out of a ,protestant population of nine thousand persons1 the ,carbondale churches have received one-ninth into their membership within six months4 ,these bare figures do not express the greater total of ,christian service and enthusiasm which permeates the community as an abiding legacy of the ,billy ,sunday campaign4 ,these converts consider that they have been saved to serve4 ,asked to fix a period after which he would expect a reaction from the ,sunday meetings1 a critic would probably say about one year4 ,on this point we learn that when the evangelist visited the city of ,scranton1 which is within an hour's ride of ,wilkes-,barre1 he found that the influence of the meetings which he had held a year previously in ,wilkes-,barre were perhaps the most potent single factor in preparing the people of ,scranton for his coming4 ,night after night ,wilkes-,barre sent delegations of scores and hundreds over to the ,scranton ,tabernacle4 ,investigators from afar who came to look into the ,scranton meetings were advised to go to the neighboring city to ascertain what were the effects of the campaign after a year4 ,the result was always convincing4 ,when the evangelist was in ,pittsburgh1 ,mc,keesport1 where he had been six years before1 sent many delegations to hear him and on one occasion fifteen hundred persons made the journey from ,mc,keesport to ,pittsburgh to testify to the lasting benefits which their city had received from the evangelist's visit4 ,usually some organization of the trail-hitters is effected after the evangelist's departure4 ,these are bands for personal ,christian work4 ,the most remarkable of them all is reported from ,wichita1 ,kansas1 where the aftermath of the ,sunday meetings has become so formidable as to suggest a new and general method of ,christian service by laymen4 ,the ,sunday converts organized themselves into ,gospel ,teams1 who announce that they are ready to go anywhere and conduct religious meetings1 especially for men4 ,they offer to pay their own expenses1 although frequently the communities inviting them refuse to permit this4 ,sometimes these ,gospel ,teams travel by automobiles or street cars and sometimes they make long railway journeys4 ,the men have so multiplied themselves that there are now more than three hundred ,gospel ,teams in this work and they have formed ,the ,national ,federation of ,gospel ,teams of which ,claude ,stanley of ,wichita is president and ,west ,goodwin of ,cherryvale1 ,kansas1 is secretary4 ,up to date1 the tremendous total of eleven thousand conversions is reported by these unsalaried1 self-supporting gospel workers1 who joyously acclaim ,billy ,sunday as their leader4 ,they represent his teachings and his spirit in action4 ,the most celebrated of these gospel teams is ,the ,business ,men's ,team of ,wichita1 an interdenominational group4 ,it comprises such men as ,henry ,allen1 the editor of the ,wichita ,beacon and one of the foremost public men of the state2 the president of the ,inter-urban ,railway2 the president of the ,kansas ,mutual ,bank1 and other eminent business men4 ,this team has visited eleven states in its work1 all without a penny of cost to the ,church1 and with results exceeding those achieved by many great and expensive organizations4 ,the ,billy ,sunday converts not only stick but they multiply themselves and become effective servants of the ,church and the kingdom4 ,nobody is left to conjecture as to the sort of counsel that ,mr4 ,sunday gives his converts4 ,every man1 woman and child who hits the trail is handed a leaflet1 telling him how to make a success of the ,christian life4 ,a trumpet call to ,christian service by every confessed disciple of ,jesus ,christ is sounded by the evangelist4 ,the following is an appeal of this sort3 ,,sharp-,,shooters ,the twentieth century has witnessed two apparently contradictory facts3 ,the decline of the ,church and the growth of religious hunger in the masses4 ,the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries passed through a period of questioning and doubts1 during which everything in heaven and earth was put into a crucible and melted down into constituent elements4 ,during that period many laymen and preachers lost their moorings4 ,the definite challenging note was lost out of the life of the ministry4 ,the preacher today is oftentimes a human interrogation point1 preaching to empty pews4 ,the hurrying1 busy crowd in the street is saying to the preacher and the ,church1 ,when you have something definite to say about the issues of life1 heaven1 hell and salvation1 we will listen2 till then we have no time for you4 ,i believe we are on the eve of a great national revival4 ,the mission of the ,church is to carry the gospel of ,christ to the world4 ,i believe that lack of efficient personal work is one of the curses of the ,church today4 ,the people of the ,church are like squirrels in a cage4 ,lots of activity1 but accomplishing nothing4 ,it doesn't require a ,christian life to sell oyster soup or run a bazaar or a rummage sale4 ,last year many churches reported no new members on confession of faith4 ,why these meager results with this tremendous expenditure of energy and money8 ,why are so few people coming into the kingdom8 ,i will tell you what is the matter--there is not a definite effort put forth to persuade a definite person to receive a definite ,saviour at a definite time1 and that definite time is now4 ,i tell you the ,church of the future must have personal work and prayer4 ,the trouble with some churches is that they think the preacher is a sort of ecclesiastical locomotive1 who will snort and puff and pull the whole bunch through to glory4 ,a politician will work harder to get a vote than the ,church of ,god will work to have men brought to ,christ4 ,watch some of the preachers go down the aisles4 ,they drag along as if they had grindstones tied to their feet4 ,no political campaign is won by any stump speaker or any spell-binder on the platform4 ,it is won by a man-to-man canvass4 ,the ,value of ,personal ,work ,the children of this generation are wiser than the children of light4 ,you can learn something from the world about how to do things4 ,personal work is the simplest and most effective form of work we can engage in4 ,andrew wins ,peter4 ,peter wins three thousand at ,pentecost4 ,a man went into a boot and shoe store and talked to the clerk about ,jesus ,christ4 ,he won the clerk to ,christ4 ,do you know who that young man was8 ,it was ,dwight ,l4 ,moody1 and he went out and won multitudes to ,christ4 ,the name of the man who won him was ,kimball1 and ,kimball will get as much reward as ,moody4 ,kimball worked to win ,moody and ,moody worked and won the multitude4 ,andrew wins ,peter and ,peter wins three thousand at ,pentecost4 ,that is the way ,god works today4 ,charles ,g4 ,finney1 after learning the name of any man or woman1 would invariably ask3 ,are you a ,christian8 ,there isn't any one here who hasn't drag enough to win somebody to ,christ4 ,personal work is a difficult form of work2 more difficult than preaching1 singing1 attending conventions1 giving your goods to feed the poor4 ,the devil will let you have an easy time until ,god asks you to do personal work4 ,it is all right while you sing in the choir1 but just as soon as you get out and work for ,god the devil will be on your back and you will see all the flimsy excuses you can offer for not working for the ,lord4 ,if you want to play into the hands of the devil begin to offer your excuses4 ,there are many people who want to win somebody for ,jesus and they are waiting to be told how to do it4 ,i believe there are hundreds and thousands of people who are willing to work and who know something must be done1 but they are waiting for help2 ,i mean men and women of ordinary ability4 ,many people are sick and tired and disgusted with just professing religion2 they are tired of trotting to church and trotting home again4 ,they sit in a pew and listen to a sermon2 they are tired of that1 not speaking to anybody and not engaging in personal work2 they are getting tired of it and the church is dying because of it4 ,a lot should wake up and go to the rescue and win souls for ,jesus ,christ4 ,i want to say to the deacons1 stewards1 vestrymen1 prudential committees1 that they should work1 and the place to begin is at your own home4 ,sit down and write the names of five or ten friends1 and many of them members of your own church1 and two or three of those not members of any church2 yet you mingle with these people in the club1 in business1 in your home in a friendly way4 ,you meet them every week1 some of them every day1 and you never speak to them on the subject of religion2 you never bring it to their attention at all2 you should be up and doing something for ,god and ,god's truth4 ,there are always opportunities for a ,christian to work for ,god4 ,there is always a chance to speak to some one about ,god4 ,where you find one that won't care1 you'll find one thousand that will4 ,my ,father's ,business ,be out and out for ,god4 ,have a heart-to-heart talk with some people and win them to ,christ4 ,the first recorded words of ,jesus are these3 ,wist ye not that ,i must be about my ,father's business8 ,the trouble is we are too lackadaisical in religion1 indifferent and dead and lifeless4 ,that is the spirit of the committees today in the ,church4 ,i think the multitude in the ,church will have to get converted themselves before they can lead any one else to ,christ4 ,it is my firm conviction1 after many years of experience in the work1 that half the people in the ,church have never been converted1 have never been born again4 ,i take up a bottle of water1 uncork it and take a drink4 ,that is experimental4 ,one sip of water can convince me more of its power to slake thirst than #dj1jjj books written on the subject4 ,you know quinine is bitter because you have experimented2 you know fire will burn because you have experimented2 you know ice will freeze2 it is cold2 you have experimented4 ,a man must experience religion to know ,god4 ,all you know of ,god is what you read in some book or what you heard somebody else talk about2 you haven't lived so that you could learn first-handed1 so most of your religion is second-handed4 ,there is too much second-hand stuff in the ,church4 ,it is your privilege to know and to have salvation4 ,jesus said to ,peter3 ,when you are converted strengthen your brethren4 ,you are not in a position to help anybody else unless you have been helped yourself4 ,so many church members know nothing about the ,bible4 ,a preacher will take a text from the ,bible and get as far from it as the ,east is from the ,west4 ,a young preacher just out of the seminary said3 ,must ,i confine myself in my preaching to the ,bible8 ,just like a shrimp who would say1 ,must ,i confine my roaming to the ,atlantic ,ocean8 ,imagine a little minnow saying3 ,must ,i confine myself to the ,atlantic ,ocean8 ,must ,i confine myself to the ,bible8 ,just as if his intellect would exhaust it in two or three sermons4 ,we have cut loose from the ,bible1 and any man who is living contrary to the ,bible is a sinner1 whether he feels like a sinner or not4 ,every man who is living contrary to the laws is a criminal1 whether he feels like it or not4 ,a man who breaks the law of ,god is a sinner1 and is on the road to hell1 whether he feels like it or like a saint4 ,jesus came into the world to reveal ,god to man1 and man reveals him to man4 ,the only revelation we have of ,jesus is through the ,bible4 ,you have got to know ,jesus to know ,god2 that's how ,i get through there4 ,there is no revelation for ,god to make of himself greater than he has made through ,jesus ,christ4 ,it is not possible for the human intellect to have a greater conception of ,god4 ,every man needs ,christ4 ,jesus is the ,saviour that he needs and he has got to know the ,bible to show what it is that makes ,jesus the ,saviour4 ,he needs a ,saviour and now is the time to accept the ,saviour and be saved4 ,that's what the ,bible says4 ,whatever the ,bible says1 write finish after it and stop4 ,feeding the ,spiritual ,life ,then you need the ,holy ,spirit4 ,without him you cannot do anything4 ,the spirit of ,god works through clean hands4 ,there are too many dirty hands1 too many dirty people trying to preach a clean gospel4 ,i have known men that have preached the truth and ,god has honored the truth1 although their lives were not as they should be4 ,but ,god honored the truth and not the people who preached the truth4 ,but if they had been ,christians themselves then ,god would have honored them more1 because he would have honored them and the truth4 ,prayer4 ,three-fourths of the church members have no family prayer4 ,they let spiritual life starve4 ,that is the reason the pews are full of driftwood2 that is the reason that religion is but a mirage to many4 ,pray ,god to give you power4 ,pray ,god to give you power to carry on his work after you have become converted4 ,i don't preach a sermon that ,i don't pray ,god for help1 and ,i never finish a sermon that ,i don't thank ,god that ,i have preached it4 ,then ,i say3 ,lord1 you take care of the seed ,i have sown in that sermon4 ,i think the ,church needs a baptism of good1 pure horse sense4 ,pure hearts4 ,if ,i have any iniquity in my heart the ,lord will not come in4 ,we need a wise head4 ,we need horse sense in preaching4 ,we need horse sense in what we do4 ,i think ,god is constantly looking for a company of men and women that are constantly alive4 ,there are too many dead ones4 ,he needs men and women that are always at it1 not only during the revival2 we need to be full of faith2 dead in earnest1 never give up1 a bulldog tenacity and stick-to-it-iveness for the cause of ,god ,almighty4 ,the ,dignity of ,personal ,work ,if it is beneath your dignity to do personal work then you are above your ,master4 ,if you are not willing to do what he did1 then don't call him your ,lord4 ,the servant is not greater than the owner of the house4 ,the chauffeur is not greater than the owner of the automobile4 ,the servant on the railroad is not greater than the owners of the road4 ,certainly they are not greater than our ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,it requires an effort to win souls to ,christ4 ,there is no harder work and none brings greater results than winning souls4 ,you'll need courage4 ,it is hard to do personal work and the devil will try to oppose you4 ,you'll seek excuses to try to get out of it4 ,many people who attend the meetings regularly now will begin to stay at home when asked to do personal work4 ,it will surprise you to see them lie to get out of doing personal work4 ,we need enthusiasm for ,god4 ,if there is any place on ,god's earth that needs a baptism of enthusiasm1 it is the church and the prayer-meetings4 ,it is not popular in some communities and in some churches to be enthusiastic for ,god4 ,you'll never accomplish anything without pure enthusiasm1 and don't be afraid of being a religious enthusiast4 ,religion is too cold4 ,formality is choking it in the pews4 ,there is nothing accomplished in war1 politics or religion1 without enthusiasm4 ,admiral ,decatur once gave this toast3 ,my country3 ,may she always be right1 but right or wrong1 my country6 ,that's enthusiasm4 ,perseverance is needed to conquer in this old life4 ,perseverance is contagious1 not an epidemic4 ,religion is contagious4 ,roman soldiers shortened their swords and added to their kingdom4 ,you shorten the distance between you and the sinner and you'll add to the kingdom of ,god4 ,the trouble is you have been trying to reach them with a ten-foot pole4 ,drop your dignity and formality and walk up to them2 take them by the hand4 ,you are too dignified4 ,you sit in your fine homes and see the town going to hell4 ,we need carefulness to win souls4 ,the way to win souls is to be careful what you say4 ,study the disposition of the person with whom you talk4 ,we need tact4 ,personal work is the department of the church efficient to deal with the individual and not the masses4 ,it is analogous to the sharpshooter in the army so dreaded by the opposing forces4 ,the sharpshooter picks out the pivotal individual instead of shooting at the mass4 ,the preacher shoots with a siege gun at long range4 ,you can go to the individual and dispose of his difficulties4 ,i shoot out there two or three hundred feet and you sit right beside people4 ,if ,i were a physician and you were sick ,i'd not prescribe en masse1 ,i'd go down and see you individually4 ,i'd try to find out what was the matter and prescribe what you needed4 ,all medicine is good for something1 but not for everything4 ,we need sympathy4 ,one of the noblest traits of the human character is sympathy4 ,it levels mountains1 warms the broken heart and melts the iceberg4 ,have sympathy with the sinner4 ,not with sin1 but the fact that he is one4 ,god hates sin and the devil4 ,he will not compromise4 ,have sympathy with the girl who sins1 but not with the sin that ruined her4 ,get down on the ground where the others are4 ,you are away up there saved1 but you must get down and help the sinner4 ,five ,classes of ,people ,there are five classes of people and this classification will touch every man and woman1 whether in ,scranton1 ,new ,york or ,london4 ,first1 those who can not attend church1 and you will always find some4 ,some are sick1 shut in2 some have to work in hotels and restaurants2 the maids in your house have to get your meals1 the railroad men have to go out1 the furnaces must be kept going in the steel works4 ,second1 those who can attend and who do not attend church4 ,there are millions of people that can and don't attend church4 ,some fellows never darken the church door until they die1 and they carry their old carcass in to have a large funeral4 ,it is no compliment to any man1 and it is an insult to manhood1 and disgrace to the individual1 that he never darkens the church door4 ,but he darkens the door of the grog shop any day4 ,third1 those who can and do attend church and who are not moved by the preaching4 ,there are lots of people who come out of curiosity4 ,fourth1 those who can go to church and those who do go to church and are moved by the preaching and convicted but not converted4 ,every man that hears the truth is convicted4 ,talk to those men about ,jesus ,christ4 ,get them to take their stand for righteousness4 ,fifth1 those who can and do go to church and are convicted by the preaching and converted4 ,they need strengthening4 ,they are converted now1 but they need the benefit of your experience4 ,you say1 ,where will ,i find these people to talk to them8 ,where won't you find them8 ,where can you find a place where they are not8 ,you will only find one place where they are not and that is in the cemetery4 ,right in your neighborhood1 right in your block1 how many are ,christians8 ,is your husband a ,christian8 ,are your children ,christians8 ,if they are1 let them alone and get after somebody else's husband and children4 ,don't sit down and thank ,god that your husband and children are ,christians4 ,suppose ,i were to say3 ,my family1 my ,george1 my ,nell1 my ,paul1 my ,helen are ,christians6 ,we are all ,christians1 let the rest of the world go to the devil4 ,there is too much of that spirit in the ,church today4 ,go from house to house4 ,go to the people in your block1 in your place of business4 ,have you said anything to the telephone girl when you called her up8 ,you are quick enough to jump on her when she gives you the wrong number4 ,have you said anything to the delivery boy--to the butcher8 ,have you asked the milkman8 ,have you said anything to the newsboy who throws your paper on the doorstep at night8 ,have you called them up at the newspaper office8 ,have you said anything to the girl who waits on you at the store2 to the servant who brings your dinner in at home2 to the woman who scrubs your floors8 ,where will you find them8--where won't you find them8 ,the ,privilege of ,personal ,work ,personal work is a great privilege4 ,not that ,god needs us1 but that we need him4 ,jesus ,christ worked4 ,i must do the works of ,him that sent me4 ,so must you4 ,he didn't send me to work and you to loaf4 ,honor the ,god that gives you the privilege to do what he wants4 ,jesus worked4 ,please ,god and see how it will delight your soul4 ,if you'll win a soul you will have a blessing that the average church member knows nothing about4 ,they are absolute strangers to the higher ,christian life4 ,we need an aroused church4 ,an anxious church makes anxious sinners4 ,if all the ,methodist preachers would each save a soul a month there would be #dfj1jjj souls saved in a year4 ,if all the ,baptist preachers would each save a soul a month there would be #dbf1jjj souls saved in a year4 ,if all the other evangelical preachers would save a soul a month there would be #a1dbe1jjj souls saved a year4 ,over #g1jjj ,protestant churches recently made report of no accessions on confession of faith4 ,christ said to preach the gospel to all the world and that means every creature in the world4 ,illustration3 ,,my ,,god1 ,i',,ve ,,got ,,two ,,boys ,,down ,,there6 ,listen to this3 ,there are #ac1jjj1jjj young men in this country between the ages of sixteen and thirty years2 #ab1jjj1jjj are not members of any church1 ,protestant or ,catholic2 #e1jjj1jjj of them go to church occasionally2 #g1jjj1jjj never darken a church door from one year's end to another4 ,they fill the saloons and the houses of ill fame1 the haunts of vice and corruption1 and yet most young men have been touched by some ,sunday-school influences2 but you don't win them for ,god and they go into the world never won for ,god4 ,illustration3 ,,you ,,old ,,hypocrite6 ,illustration3 ,,it',s ,,up ,,to ,,you4 ,i want to tell you if you want to solve the problem for the future get hold of the young men now4 ,get them for ,god now4 ,save your boys and girls4 ,save the young man and woman and you launch a life-boat4 ,at the ,iroquois fire in ,chicago six hundred people were burned to death4 ,one young woman about seventeen years of age fought through the crowd1 but her hair was singed from her head1 her clothes were burned1 her face blistered4 ,she got on a street car to go to her home in ,oak ,park4 ,she was wringing her hands and crying hysterically1 and a woman said to her3 ,why1 you ought to be thankful you escaped with your life4 ,i escaped--but ,i didn't save anybody2 there are hundreds that died4 ,to think that ,i escaped and didn't save anybody4 ,in ,pennsylvania there was once a mine explosion1 and the people were rushing there to help4 ,up came an old miner seventy or eighty years of age1 tired1 tottering and exhausted4 ,he threw off his vest1 his coat and hat and picked up a pick and shovel4 ,some of them stopped him and said3 ,what is the matter8 ,you are too old2 let some of the younger ones do that4 ,stand back4 ,the old fellow said3 ,my ,god1 ,i've got two boys down there6 ,so you see it seems to make all the difference when you've got some boy down there4 ,who is wise8 ,you say ,andrew ,carnegie1 the millionaire1 is wise1 the mayor1 the judge1 the governor1 the educator1 the superintendent of schools1 the principal of the high school1 the people who don't worry or don't live for pleasure1 the inventor4 ,but what does the ,lord say8 ,the ,lord says1 ,he who winneth souls is wise4 ,,chapter ,,xxvi ,a ,good ,soldier of ,jesus ,christ ,i'd rather undertake to save ten drunkards than one old financial ,shylock--it would be easier4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,sympathetic observers comment in distressed tones upon the physical exhaustion of ,sunday after every one of his addresses4 ,he speaks with such intensity and vigor that he is completely spent by every effort4 ,to one who does not know that he has worked at this terrific pace for near a score of years it seems as if the evangelist is on the verge of a complete collapse4 ,he certainly seems to speak as a dying man to dying men4 ,the uttermost ounce of his energy is offered up to each audience4 ,billy ,sunday is an unsparing worker4 ,for a month or six weeks of every year he gives himself to rest4 ,the remainder of the year he is under a strain more intense than that of a great political campaign4 ,even his ,monday rest day1 which is supposed to be devoted to recuperation1 is oftener than not given to holding special meetings in some other city than the one wherein he is campaigning4 ,speaking twice or oftener every day1 to audiences averaging many thousands1 is a tax upon one's nerve force and vitality beyond all computation4 ,in addition to this1 ,sunday has his administrative work1 with its many perplexities and grave responsibilities4 ,withal1 the evangelist1 like every other man pre-eminent in his calling1 suffers a great loneliness2 he has few intimates who can lead his mind apart from his work4 ,what says ,kipling1 in his ,song of ,diego ,valdez1 the lord high admiral of ,spain1 who pined in vain for the comradeship of his old companions1 but who1 in the aloneness of eminence1 mourned his solitary state8 ,they sold ,diego ,valdez ,to bondage of great deeds4 ,the computable aggregate of ,sunday's work is almost unbelievable4 ,his associates say that his converts number more than a quarter of a million persons4 ,that is a greater total than the whole membership of the entire ,christian ,church1 decades after the resurrection of our ,lord4 ,imagine a city of a quarter of a million inhabitants1 every one of whom was a zealous disciple of ,jesus ,christ4 ,what a procession these trail-hitters would make could they all be gathered into one great campaign parade6 ,of course these converts are not all trophies of ,billy ,sunday's preaching power4 ,he has not won them alone4 ,he has merely stood in the forefront1 as the agent of the ,church1 with vast co-operative forces behind him4 ,nevertheless1 he has been the occasion and the instrument for this huge accomplishment in the ,church's conquest4 ,when it comes to counting up the aggregate size of ,sunday's audiences1 one is tempted not to believe his own figures1 for the total runs up into the millions1 and even the tens of millions4 ,probably no living man has spoken to so great numbers of human beings as ,billy ,sunday4 ,more eloquent than any comment upon the magnitude and number of his meetings is the following summary of his campaigns gathered from various sources4 ,sunday himself does not keep records of his work4 ,his motto seems to be1 ,forgetting those things which are behind4 ,in #aijd-e ,billy ,sunday visited various cities of ,illinois1 where conversions ranged in numbers from #fej to #a1hjj2 in ,iowa1 where conversions ranged from #djj to #a1jjj2 and in a few other towns4 ,in #aije-f numerous campaigns in ,illinois1 ,iowa and ,minnesota produced converts ranging from #eej to #b1djj1 the highest number being reached in ,burlington1 ,iowa4 ,in #aijf-g the converts numbered over #ab1jjj1 with a maximum of #c1jjj in ,kewanee1 ,illinois4 ,in #aijg-h campaigns in ,illinois and ,iowa1 and one in ,sharon1 ,pennsylvania1 reported over #bd1jjj converts in all1 with a maximum of #f1gjj in ,decatur1 ,illinois4 ,in #aijh-i the total number of converts reached over #ah1jjj1 with #e1cjj in ,spokane1 ,washington1 and #d1gjj in ,springfield1 ,illinois4 ,in #aijh-i campaigns in various cities reported a total of #ce1jjj converts1 with #f1fjj in ,newcastle1 ,pennsylvania1 #e1ijj in ,youngstown1 ,ohio1 and #e1jjj in ,danville1 ,illinois4 ,in #aiaa-ab campaigns in cities of ,ohio1 in ,erie1 ,pennsylvania1 and in ,wichita1 ,kansas1 reported a total of #cf1jjj converts1 with #g1fjj in ,toledo1 and #f1hjj in ,springfield4 ,in #aiab-ac campaigns in other ,ohio and ,pennsylvania cities and in ,fargo1 ,north ,dakota2 ,south ,bend1 ,indiana2 and ,wheeling1 ,west ,virginia1 brought #ha1jjj converts1 with a minimum in ,fargo of #d1jjj1 and a maximum of #ah1jjj in ,columbus4 ,the ,lutheran ,observer gives the following table of statistics for eighteen of the largest cities in which campaigns have been conducted3 ,population ,conversions ,pittsburgh1 ,pa #ecc1ije #bf1fja ,steubenville1 ,ohio #bb1cia #g1hhh ,columbus1 ,ohio #aha1eaa #ah1acg ,mc,keesport1 ,pa #db1fid #aj1jbb ,toledo1 ,ohio #afh1dig #g1fhf ,wheeling1 ,w4 ,va #da1fda #h1cjj ,springfield1 ,ohio #df1iba #f1hjd ,newcastle1 ,pa #cf1bhj #f1fhc ,erie1 ,pa #ff1ebe #e1cab ,portsmouth1 ,ohio #bc1dha #e1bbd ,canton1 ,ohio #ej1bag #e1fdj ,youngstown1 ,ohio #gi1jff #e1iae ,south ,bend1 ,ind #ec1fhd #f1cih ,wilkes-,barre1 ,pa #fg1aje #af1ehd ,beaver ,falls1 ,pa #ab1aia #f1jjj ,lima1 ,ohio #cj1ejh #e1fei ,east ,liverpool1 ,ohio #bj1chg #f1ced ,johnstown1 ,pa #ee1dhb #aa1hbi ------ ------- ,total #afg1jcf ,included in the #ah1jjj converts in ,columbus were the chief of police and all the policemen who had been detailed to duty at the tabernacle4 ,a notable work was also done in the penitentiary4 ,wilkes-,barre's #af1jjj conversions bore an extraordinary relation to the population of the city1 which is but #fg1aje4 ,the sheriff was among the ,wilkes-,barre converts and he has since proved his faith by his works in prosecuting law-breakers4 ,the statistics show that there were #f1jjj converts at ,south ,bend1 ,indiana1 in the spring of #aiac1 but they do not reveal the fact that immediately afterwards there was inaugurated an era of civic reform which cleaned up the city for the first time in fifteen years1 and elected as mayor one of the ,billy ,sunday converts4 ,prior to the ,sunday campaign in ,steubenville1 ,ohio1 ,september and ,october1 #aiac 7where the converts numbered #h1jjj71 the town had gone wet by #a1djj majority1 after the meetings it went dry by #cjj majority4 ,johnstown1 ,pennsylvania1 with a campaign held ,november and ,december1 #aiac1 reported #ab1jjj conversions1 and a ,billy ,sunday ,anti-saloon ,league of #aj1jjj men4 ,the fame of the ,pittsburgh campaign1 ,january and ,february1 #aiad1 is in all the churches2 #bg1jjj converts were reported4 ,mrs4 ,sunday is my authority for these and the following details of recent meetings3 ,the ,scranton campaign 7,march and ,april1 #aiad7 was unusual in several respects4 ,it not only reported #ah1jjj converts1 but it also held the greatest industrial parade1 under distinctively ,christian auspices1 that the country has ever seen4 ,in preparation for the ,sunday meetings #aj1jjj adults were enlisted in ,bible classes1 and this number grew steadily during and after the campaign4 ,in ,may and ,june of #aiad the evangelist worked in ,huntingdon1 ,west ,virginia1 where the conversions were #f1ejj4 ,from there he went to ,colorado ,springs and a total of #d1ejj persons hit the trail4 ,the ,colorado ,springs meetings were unusual in that the attendants were from all parts of the country1 and so the revival fire was carried far4 ,the organization of adult ,bible classes followed the ,colorado ,springs campaign4 ,this promises to be one of the distinctive features of ,billy ,sunday's meetings4 ,in reading such a compiled record as the foregoing1 it is to be remembered that in all things that affect spiritual values the only true record is that which is kept in another world4 ,enough has been shown1 however1 to make clear that ,sunday practices what he preaches when he urges ,christians to whole-hearted service4 ,,sunday',s ,,consecration ,,sermon ,i beseech you1 therefore1 brethren1 by the mercies of ,god1 that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice1 holy1 acceptable unto ,god1 which is your reasonable service4 ,the armies of ,god are never made up of drafted men and women1 ordered into service whether willing or not4 ,god never owned a slave4 ,god doesn't want you to do anything that you can't do without protest4 ,this is not a call to hard duty1 but an invitation to the enjoyment of a privilege4 ,it is not a call to hired labor to take the hoe and go into the field1 but the appeal of a loving father to his children to partake of all he has to give4 ,if there is nothing in you that will respond to ,god's appeal when you think of his mercies1 ,i don't think much of you4 ,the impelling motive of my text is gratitude1 not fear4 ,it looks to ,calvary1 not to ,sinai4 ,we are being entreated1 not threatened4 ,that's the amazing thing to me4 ,to think that ,god would entreat us--would stand to entreat us6 ,he is giving me a chance to show ,i love him4 ,if you are not ready to offer it in gratitude1 ,god doesn't want you to serve him through fear1 but because you realize his love for you1 and appreciate and respond to it4 ,a business man who loves his wife will never be too busy to do something for her1 never too busy to stop sometimes to think of how good she has been and what she has done for him4 ,if men would only think of the things ,god has done for them there would be less card-playing1 less thought of dinners and of concerts and other diversions of the world4 ,god wants us to sit down and think over his goodness to us4 ,the man who doesn't isn't worth a nickel a punch4 ,has ,god done anything for us as a nation1 has he done anything for us as individuals1 that commands our gratitude8 ,astronomers have counted three hundred and eighty million stars1 and they have barely commenced4 ,why1 you might as well try to count those countless stars as to try to count ,god's mercies4 ,you might as well try to count the drops of water in the sea or the grains of sand upon the shore4 ,if we only think1 we shall say with ,david3 ,according to ,thy tender mercies4 ,god's ,mercies ,an old lady said one morning that she would try to count all ,god's mercies for that one day1 but at noon she was becoming confused1 and at three o'clock she threw up her hands and said3 ,they come three times too fast for me to count4 ,just think of the things we have to be thankful for6 ,a visitor to an insane asylum was walking through the grounds and as he passed one of the buildings he heard a voice from a barred window high up in the wall and it said3 ,stranger1 did you ever thank ,god for your reason8 ,he had never thought of that before1 but he says that he has thought of it every day since4 ,did you ever think that thousands of people who were just as good as you are1 are beating their heads against the walls of padded cells8 ,did you ever think what a blessed thing it is that you are sane and you go about among men and follow your daily duties1 and go home to be greeted by your wife and have your children climb about you8 ,did you ever thank ,god for your eyes8 ,did you ever thank him that you can see the sunrise and the sunset and can see the flowers and the trees and look upon the storm8 ,did you ever thank ,god that you have two good eyes while so many others less fortunate than you must grope their way in blindness to the coffin8 ,did you ever thank ,god for hearing8 ,that you can hear music and the voices of friends and dear ones8 ,that you can leave your home and business1 and come here and hear the songs and the preaching of the word of ,god8 ,did you ever think what it would mean to be deaf8 ,did you ever thank ,god for the blessing of taste8 ,some people can't tell whether they are eating sawdust and shavings or strawberries and ice cream4 ,think of the good things we enjoy6 ,others have tastes so vicious that they find it almost impossible to eat4 ,god might have made our food taste like quinine4 ,did you ever thank ,god that you can sleep8 ,if not1 you ought to be kept awake for a month4 ,think of the thousands who suffer from pain or insomnia so that they can sleep only under opiates4 ,did you ever wake up in the morning and thank ,god that you have had a good night's rest8 ,if you haven't1 ,god ought to keep you awake for a week1 then you'd know you've had reason to be thankful4 ,did you ever thank ,god for the doctors and nurses and hospitals8 ,for the surgeon who comes with scalpel to save your life or relieve your sufferings8 ,if it had not been for them you'd be under the grass4 ,for the nurse who watches over you that you may be restored to health8 ,did you ever thank ,god for the bread you eat1 while so many others are hungry8 ,did you ever thank him for the enemy that has been baffled1 for the lie against you that has failed8 ,out in ,elgin1 ,illinois1 ,i was taken driving by a friend1 and he said that he wanted me to go with him to see a man4 ,he took me to see a man who was lying in bed1 with arms most pitifully wasted by suffering4 ,the poor fellow said he had been in bed for thirty-two years1 but he wasn't worrying about that4 ,he said he was so sorry for the well people who didn't know ,jesus4 ,i went out thanking ,god that ,i could walk4 ,if your hearts are not made of stone or adamant they will melt with gratitude when you think of the many mercies1 the tender mercies1 of ,god4 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,and ,,his ,,staff ,,at ,,scranton4 ,,from ,,left ,,to ,,right3 7,,standing7 ,f4 ,r4 ,,seibert1 ,a4 ,g4 ,,gill3 7,,sitting7 ,b4 ,d4 ,,ackley1 ,,miss ,,frances ,,miller1 ,,miss ,,grace ,,saxe1 ,,mr4 ,,sunday4 ,the ,living ,sacrifice ,brethren--that's what ,god calls his true followers4 ,no speaking from the loft4 ,if there's any lesson we need to learn it is that of being brethren4 ,sinners are not called brethren in the ,bible4 ,god commands sinners4 ,they are in rebellion4 ,he entreats ,christians4 ,when ,lincoln called for volunteers he addressed men as citizens of the ,united ,states1 not as foreigners4 ,the man who is appreciative of ,god's mercies will not have much mercy on himself4 ,don't stand up and say3 ,i'll do what ,jesus bids me to do1 and go where he bids me to go1 then go to bed4 ,present your bodies--not mine--not those of your wives2 you must present your own4 ,present your bodies2 not your neighbor's2 not your children's2 it is their duty to do that4 ,do you trust ,god enough to let him do what he wants to do8 ,henry ,varley said to ,moody1 when that great ,american was in ,england1 that ,god is waiting to show this world what one man could do for him4 ,moody said3 ,varley1 by the grace of ,god ,i'll be that man2 and ,god took hold of ,moody and shook the world with him4 ,god would shake the world with us today if only we would present our bodies as a living sacrifice to him1 as ,moody did4 ,are you willing to present yourself8 ,i am tired of a church of five hundred or seven hundred members without power enough to bring one soul to ,christ4 ,at the opening of the ,civil ,war many a man was willing that the country should be saved by able-bodied male relatives of his wife1 who made themselves bullet-men1 but he didn't go himself4 ,god isn't asking for other men's bodies4 ,he's asking for yours4 ,if you would all give to ,god what rightfully belongs to him1 ,i tell you he would create a commotion on earth and in hell4 ,if ,god had the feet of some of you he would point your toes in different ways from those you have been going for many years4 ,if he had your feet he would never head you into a booze joint4 ,if he had your feet he would never send you into a ball-room4 ,if he had the feet of some of you he would make you wear out shoe leather lugging back what you've taken that doesn't belong to you4 ,if ,god had your feet he would take you to prayer-meeting4 ,i'm afraid the preacher would have nervous prostration1 for he hasn't seen some of you there in years4 ,if ,god had your feet you'd find it harder to follow the devil4 ,some of you preachers have your children going to dancing school and ,i hear some of you go to dances4 ,he would make your daily walk conform to the ,golden ,rule and the ,sermon on the ,mount4 ,some people work only with their mouths4 ,god wants that part that's on the ground4 ,some soldiers sit around and smell the coffee and watch the bacon frying4 ,if ,god had your hands he would make you let go a lot of things you hold on to with a death-like grip4 ,if you don't let go of some of the things you hold so tightly they will drag you down to hell4 ,he would have you let go some of the things you pay taxes on1 but don't own1 and he would make you let go of money to pay taxes on some that you do own4 ,some people are so busy muck-raking that they will lose a crown of glory hereafter4 ,if ,god had your hands1 how many countless tears you would wash away4 ,a friend of mine bought a typewriter1 and when he tried to use it his fingers seemed to be all sticks1 but now he can write forty-five words a minute4 ,let ,god have your hands and he will make them do things that would make the angels wonder and applaud4 ,a ,glass of ,champagne ,a young man went down to ,thomasville1 ,alabama1 and while there was invited to a dress ball--or rather an undress ball1 if what ,i have read about such affairs properly describes the uniforms4 ,a young lady--a young lady with eyes like the dove and with beautiful tresses--came up to him and said to the young man1 ,won't you pledge a glass of champagne with me8 ,the young man thanked her1 but said3 ,no1 ,i don't drink4 ,not with me8 she said1 and smiled2 and he repeated his answer1 ,no4 ,then she said3 ,if ,i had thought you would refuse me ,i would not have asked you and exposed myself to the embarrassment of a refusal4 ,i did not suppose you would think me bold for speaking to you in this way1 and ,i thought you might be lonely4 ,a little later she came back to him and repeated her invitation4 ,again he said3 ,no4 ,others came up and laughed4 ,he took it and hesitated4 ,she smiled at him and he gave in and drank the champagne1 then drank another glass and another1 until he was flushed with it4 ,then he danced4 ,at two o'clock the next morning a man with a linen duster over his other clothes walked back upon the railroad-station platform1 waiting for a train for the ,north2 and as he walked he would exclaim1 ,oh ,god6 and would pull a pint flask from his pocket and drink4 ,my ,god1 he would say1 what will mother say8 ,four months later in his home in ,vermont1 with his weeping parents by him and with four strong men to hold him down1 he died of delirium tremens4 ,the ,epworth ,league's motto is3 ,look up1 lift up4 ,but you'll never lift much up unless ,god has hold of your hands4 ,unless he has1 you will never put your hands deep in your pocket1 up to the elbows1 and bring them up full of money for his cause4 ,a man who was about to be baptized took out his watch and laid it aside2 then he took out his knife and bankbook and laid them aside4 ,better give me your pocketbook to put aside for you1 said the minister4 ,no1 said the man1 ,i want it to be baptized1 too4 ,there's no such thing as a bargain-counter religion4 ,pure and undefiled religion will do more when ,god has something besides pennies to work with4 ,god doesn't run any excursions to heaven4 ,you must pay the full fare4 ,your religion is worth just what it cost you4 ,if you get religion and then lie down and go to sleep1 your joints will get stiff as ,rip ,van ,winkle's did1 and you'll never win the religious marathon4 ,denying ,one's ,self ,a man said to his wife that he had heard the preacher say that religion is worth just what it costs1 and that he had determined to give more for religion and to deny himself as well4 ,what will you give up8 she asked4 ,he said that he would give up coffee--for he dearly loved coffee--used to drink several cups at every meal1 the very best4 ,she said that she would give up something1 too--that she would give up tea4 ,then their daughter said she would give up some of her little pleasures1 and the father turned to his son ,tom1 who was shoveling mashed potatoes1 covered with chicken gravy1 into his mouth4 ,he said1 ,i'll give up salt mackerel4 ,i never did like the stuff1 anyway4 ,there are too many salt-mackerel people like that in the pews of our churches today4 ,they will take something that they don't like1 and that nobody else will have1 and give it to the ,lord4 ,that isn't enough for ,god4 ,he wants the best we have4 ,god wants your body with blood in it4 ,cain's altar was bigger than ,abel's1 but it had nothing valuable on it1 while ,abel's had real blood4 ,god rejected ,cain's and accepted ,abel's4 ,god turns down the man who merely lives a moral life and does not accept the religion of ,jesus ,christ4 ,you must come with ,jesus' blood4 ,how thankful you are depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice4 ,i don't believe that the most honored angel in heaven has such a chance as we have4 ,angels can't suffer4 ,they can't make sacrifices4 ,they can claim that they love ,god1 but we can prove it4 ,what would you think of a soldier if when he was ordered ,present arms1 he would answer1 ,tomorrow2 if he would say1 ,when the man next to me does2 if he would say1 ,when ,i get a new uniform8 ,present--that means now4 ,it is in the present tense4 ,god wants us to make a present of our bodies to him--because we love him4 ,a little girl showed a man some presents she had received and he asked her1 ,how long may you keep them8 ,how long8 she answered4 ,why1 they were given to me4 ,they are mine6 ,many a man gives his boy a colt or a calf1 then when it has grown to a horse or a cow he sells it and pockets the money4 ,some of you fellows need to do a little thinking along that line4 ,when we give our bodies1 they ought to be ,his for keeps4 ,thinking for ,god ,if when you make a present you do not mean to give it outright1 you are not honest4 ,will a man rob ,god8 ,you bet he will--a heap quicker than he will rob any one else4 ,your body1 that takes the head as well as hands4 ,god wants brains as well as bones and muscles4 ,we ought to do our best thinking for ,god4 ,god is in the greatest business there is1 and he wants the best help he can get4 ,some of you old deacons and elders make me sick4 ,if you used such methods in business as you do in the work of the ,church the sheriff's sale flag would soon be hanging outside your door4 ,i don't ask any of you business men to curtail any of your business activities1 but ,i do ask that you give more of your energy to the things of religion4 ,you want to use good business methods in religion4 ,the ,republicans and the ,democrats and the ,socialists use good business methods in politics4 ,the farmer who hasn't any sense is still plowing with a forked stick4 ,the farmer who has sense uses a modern plow4 ,use common sense4 ,bishop ,taylor promised ,god that he would do as much hard thinking and planning for him as he would do for another man for money4 ,he did it4 ,so did ,wesley and ,whitefield and ,savonarola1 and look what they did for ,god6 ,if there is any better way of doing ,god's business than there was one hundred years ago1 for ,god's sake do it6 ,he's entitled to the best there is4 ,this thing of just ringing the church bell to get people to come in is about played out4 ,in business1 if they have a machine that is out of date and doesn't produce good results1 it goes onto the scrap heap4 ,if a man can produce a machine that can enlarge the product or better it1 that machine is adopted at once4 ,but in religion we have the same old flint-lock guns1 smooth-bore2 the same old dips and tallow candles2 the same old stage coaches over corduroy roads2 and if a protest is made some of you will roll your eyes as if you had on a hair shirt1 and say3 ,surely this is not the ,lord's set time for work4 ,i tell you any time is ,god's time4 ,now is ,god's time4 ,it was ,god's time to teach us about electricity long before ,franklin discovered it1 but nobody had sense enough to learn4 ,it was ,god's time to give us the electric light long before ,edison invented it1 but nobody had sense enough to understand it4 ,it was ,god's set time to give us the steam engine long before ,watts watched the kettle boil and saw it puff the lid off1 but nobody had sense enough to grasp the idea4 ,if ,god ,almighty only had possession of your mouths1 he'd stop your lying4 ,if he had your mouths he'd stop your knocking4 ,if he had your mouths1 he'd stop your misrepresentations4 ,if he had your mouths1 he'd stop your swearing4 ,if he had your mouths1 he'd stop your back-biting4 ,if he had your mouths1 he'd stop your slanders4 ,there would be no criticizing1 no white lies1 no black lies1 no social lies1 no talking behind backs4 ,if ,god had your mouths1 so much money wouldn't go up in tobacco smoke or out in tobacco spit4 ,if ,god had your mouths1 there would be no thousands of dollars a year spent for whisky1 beer and wine4 ,you wouldn't give so much to the devil and you would give more to the ,church4 ,many of you church pillars wouldn't be so noisy in politics and so quiet in religion4 ,so many of you fellows wouldn't yell like ,comanche ,indians at a ratification meeting and sit like a bump on a log in prayer-meeting4 ,if ,god had our eyes he'd bring the millennium4 ,his eyes run to and fro through the world seeking for men to serve him2 and if he had our eyes1 how our eyes would run to and fro looking for ways to help bring men to ,christ4 ,how hard it would be for sinners to get away4 ,we would be looking for drunkards1 and the prostitutes and down-and-outs1 to lift and save them4 ,how many sorrowful hearts we would find and soothe1 how many griefs we would alleviate6 ,great ,god6 ,how little you are doing4 ,don't you feel ashamed8 ,aren't you looking for a knot-hole to crawl through8 ,if ,god had our eyes how many would stop looking at a lot of things that make us proud and unclean and selfish and critical and unchristian4 ,what ,god ,asks ,god wants you to give your body4 ,are you afraid to give it to him8 ,are you afraid of the doctor when you are sick8 ,your body--that thing that sits out there in the seat1 that thing that sits up there in the choir and sings1 that thing that sits there and writes editorials1 that body which can show ,jesus ,christ to fallen sons of ,adam better than any angel--that's what ,god wants4 ,god wants you to bring it to him and say3 ,take it1 ,god1 it's yours4 ,if he had your body1 dissipation1 overeating and undersleeping would stop1 for the body is holy ground4 ,we dare not abuse it4 ,a friend of mine paid #aj1jjj for a horse4 ,he put him in a stable and there the animal had care-takers attending him day and night1 who rubbed him down1 and watched his feet to take care that they should not be injured1 and put mosquito netting on the windows1 and cooled him with electric fans1 and sprinkled his oats and his hay4 ,they wanted to keep him in shape1 for he was worth #aj1jjj and they wanted him for the race-track4 ,give your body to ,god1 and the devil will be welcome to anything he can find4 ,god wants your body as a living sacrifice1 not a dead one4 ,there are too many dead ones4 ,a time was when ,god was satisfied with a dead sacrifice4 ,under old ,jewish law a dead sheep would do4 ,he wants my body now when ,i'm alive and not when ,i am dead and the undertaker is waiting to carry it out to the cemetery4 ,the day of that dispensation is past1 and now he wants you1 a living sacrifice1 a real sacrifice4 ,a traveling man who wants to make his wife a present1 and sits up all night in the train instead of taking a berth for three dollars and uses the three dollars to buy a present for his wife1 makes a real sacrifice for her4 ,there never was a victory without sacrifice4 ,socrates advanced the doctrine of immortality and died with a cup of poisoned hemlock4 ,jesus ,christ paid with a crown of thorns4 ,abraham ,lincoln paid with a bullet in his body4 ,if you mean to give yourself as a sacrifice to ,god1 get out and work for him4 ,ask men to come to him4 ,illustration3 ,,no ,,more ,,of ,,you ,,old ,,deacons ,,coming ,,down ,,the ,,aisles ,,stroking ,,your ,,whiskers ,a holy sacrifice4 ,some men shy at that word holy like a horse at an automobile4 ,holy vessels were set apart for use in the worship of ,god4 ,to be holy is to be set apart for ,god's use--that's all4 ,to be holy isn't to be long-faced and never smile4 ,acceptable unto the ,lord4 ,if that were true then this old desert would blossom like ,eden4 ,if that were taken as our watchword1 what a stampede of short yardsticks1 shrunken measures1 light weights1 adulterated foods1 etc41 there would be6 ,what a stopping of the hitting up of booze6 ,there would be no more living in sin and keeping somebody on the side1 no more of you old deacons coming down the aisles stroking your whiskers and renting your buildings for houses of ill fame1 and newspapers would stop carrying ads for whisky and beer4 ,illustration3 ,,close ,,that ,,window1 ,,please4 ,illustration3 ,,break ,,away ,,from ,,the ,,old ,,bunch ,,of ,,the ,,damned4 ,reasonable ,service ,your reasonable service4 ,god never asks anything unreasonable4 ,he is never exacting4 ,he only asks rights when he asks you to forsake sin4 ,a man must be an idiot if he does not see that man is unreasonable when unrighteous4 ,god never made a law to govern you that you wouldn't have made if you had known as much as ,god knows4 ,you don't know that much and never can1 so the only sensible thing to do is to obey ,god's laws4 ,faith never asks explanation4 ,god asks some things that are hard1 but never any that are unreasonable4 ,i beseech you1 brethren4 ,it was hard for ,abraham to take his son up on the mountain and prepare to offer him up as a sacrifice to ,god1 but ,god had a reason4 ,abraham understands tonight1 and ,abraham is satisfied4 ,it was hard for ,joseph to be torn from his own people and to be sold into ,egypt and to be lied about by that miserable woman1 torn from his mother and father1 but ,god had a reason4 ,joseph knows tonight1 and ,joseph is satisfied4 ,it was hard for ,moses to lead the ,jews from ,egypt1 following the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and make that crossing of the ,red ,sea1 only to have ,god call him up to ,mount ,pisgah and show him the ,promised ,land and say3 ,moses1 you can't go in4 ,it was hard1 but ,god had a reason4 ,moses understands tonight1 and ,moses is satisfied4 ,it was hard for ,job to lose his children and all that he possessed and to be afflicted with boils1 and to be so miserable that only his wife remained with him4 ,but ,god had a reason4 ,job understands tonight1 and ,job is satisfied4 ,it was a hard thing ,god asked of ,saul of ,tarsus--to bear witness to him at ,rome and ,ephesus1 to face those jeering heathen1 to suffer imprisonment and be beaten with forty stripes save one1 and finally to put his head on the block and have it severed by the order of old ,nero1 but ,god had a reason4 ,paul understands tonight1 and ,paul is satisfied4 ,it was a hard thing ,god asked of ,jesus--to leave the songs of the angels and the presence of the redeemed and glorified and come down to earth and be born amid the malodors of a stable1 and be forced to flee from post to post1 and dispute with the learned doctors in the temple at twelve years of age and confute them1 and to still the storm and the troubled waters1 and to say to the blind1 ,be whole1 and finally to be betrayed by one of his own followers and to be murdered through a conspiracy of ,jews and ,gentiles2 but now he sits on the throne with the ,father1 awaiting the time to judge the world4 ,jesus understands and ,jesus is satisfied4 ,it was a hard thing for me when ,god told me to leave home and go out into the world to preach the gospel and be vilified and libeled and have my life threatened and be denounced1 but when my time comes1 when ,i have preached my last sermon1 and ,i can go home to ,god and the ,lamb1 he'll say1 ,bill1 this was the reason4 ,i'll know what it all meant1 and ,i'll say ,i'm satisfied1 ,god1 ,i'm satisfied4 ,,chapter ,,xxvii ,a ,wonderful ,day at a ,great ,university ,the higher you climb the plainer you are seen4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,billy ,sunday has had many great days in his life--mountain-top experiences of triumphant service2 exalted occasions when it would seem that the climax of his ministry had been reached4 ,doubtless1 though1 the greatest day of his crowded life was the thirtieth of ,march1 #aiad1 which he spent with the students of the ,university of ,pennsylvania at ,philadelphia4 ,the interest not alone of a great university but also of a great city was concentrated upon him on this occasion4 ,an imposing group of discriminating folk took the opportunity to judge the much discussed evangelist and his work4 ,in this respect1 the day may be said to have proved a turning point in the public career of the evangelist4 ,it silenced much of the widespread criticism which had been directed toward him up to this time2 and it won for him the encomiums of a host of intellectual leaders4 ,what ,sunday's own impressions of that day were may be understood from the prayer he offered at the close of the night meeting4 ,oh1 ,jesus1 isn't this a fine bunch8 ,did you ever look down on a finer crowd8 ,i don't believe there is a mother who is any prouder of this lot of boys than ,i am tonight4 ,i have never preached to a more appreciative crowd1 and if ,i never preach another sermon1 ,i am willing to go home to glory tonight1 knowing that ,i have helped save the boys at the ,university of ,pennsylvania4 ,help them to put aside temptations1 and to follow in the paths in which ,doctor ,smith is trying to guide their feet4 ,back of the visit of the evangelist to the ,university lies a story1 and a great principle4 ,the latter is that materialism has no message for the human soul or character4 ,the authorities of the ,university1 in common with a wide public1 had been deeply disturbed over the suicide of several students during the winter of #aiac-ad4 ,sensational stories1 largely unwarranted1 in the daily press had reported an epidemic of suicides1 due to infidelity4 ,underneath all this yellow portrayal of conditions lay the truth1 realized by nobody more clearly than by the ,university head1 ,provost ,edgar ,fahs ,smith1 that the character of young manhood needs to be fortified by spiritual ideals4 ,in his rle of religious leader of the ,university1 and counselor to the young men1 ,provost ,smith had heard confessions of personal problems which had wrung his soul4 ,none knew better than he that it takes more than culture to help a man win the battle of life4 ,looking in every direction for succor in this deepest of all problems1 the sight of ,billy ,sunday at ,scranton indicated a possible ray of hope4 ,led by ,thomas ,s4 ,evans1 the secretary of the ,christian ,association of the ,university1 a deputation of student leaders went to ,scranton1 heard the evangelist1 and conveyed to him an invitation to spend a day with the ,university4 ,the call of the need of young men in particular is irresistible to ,sunday1 and he gladly accepted the invitation for a day in ,philadelphia--going1 it may be added parenthetically1 entirely at his own expense1 and insisting that the offering made be devoted to ,university ,christian ,association work4 ,there is a thorough organization of the ,christian work of the ,university2 so careful plans were laid for the visit of the evangelist4 ,the meetings were made the subject of student prayer groups1 and all that forethought could do to secure the smooth running of the day's services was carefully attended to4 ,students were to be admitted by their registration cards1 and a few hundred other guests1 mostly ministers and persons identified with the ,university1 were given special admission cards4 ,there is no such rush for grand opera tickets in ,philadelphia as was experienced for these coveted cards of admission to the ,billy ,sunday meetings at the ,university4 ,the noon meeting and the night meetings were exclusively for men1 but in the afternoon a few score favored women were admitted4 ,the result was that in these three services the evangelist talked to representatives of the best life of the conservative old city of ,philadelphia4 ,he never before had faced so much concentrated culture as was represented that day within the walls of the great gymnasium4 ,this improvised auditorium could be made to hold about three thousand persons1 especially when the hearers were students1 and skilful in crowding and utilizing every inch of space1 such as window sills and rafters4 ,the line of ticket holders that gathered before the opening of the doors itself preached a sermon to the whole city4 ,as one of the ,philadelphia newspapers remarked1 in the title it gave to a section of its whole page of ,billy ,sunday pictures1 ,wouldn't think they were striving for admittance to a religious service1 would you8 ,the newspapers1 by pen and camera1 chronicled this ,billy ,sunday day at the ,university as the city's most important news for that issue4 ,the evangelist's chorister1 ,homer ,rodeheaver1 led the introductory service of music4 ,he set the college boys to singing and whistling familiar gospel hymns1 and ,mrs4 ,de ,armond's ,if ,your ,heart ,keeps ,right--a refrain which was heard for many weeks afterward in ,university corridors and campus4 ,from the first the students1 than whom there are no more critical hearers alive1 were won by ,billy ,sunday4 ,provost ,smith1 who has the men's hearts1 introduced him in this happy fashion3 ,billy ,sunday is a friend of men4 ,he is a friend of yours and a friend of mine1 and that's why we are glad to have him here today to tell us about his other friend1 ,jesus ,christ4 ,his is the spirit of friendship1 and we are glad to extend to him our fellowship while we have the opportunity4 ,the three addresses given on that day were ,what ,shall ,i ,do with ,jesus8 ,real ,manhood1 and ,hot-cakes off the ,griddle4 ,these fragments of the three addresses culled from the newspaper reports give the flavor of the messages heard by the students3 ,what shall ,i do with ,jesus8 ,this question is just as pertinent to the world today as it was to ,pilate1 he said4 ,pilate had many things to encourage and discourage him1 but no man ever sought to do anything without meeting difficulties4 ,pilate should have been influenced by his wife's dream1 the speaker continued1 whimsically suggesting that he didn't care what sort of wife ,pilate had4 ,she may have been one of those miserable1 pliable1 plastic1 two-faced1 two-by-four1 lick-spittle1 toot-my-own-horn sort of women1 but ,pilate should have heeded her warning and set ,jesus free1 he asserted4 ,pilate had the personality of ,jesus before him and should have been influenced by this4 ,he had also heard of the miracles of ,jesus1 even if he had never seen them4 ,why1 ,jesus was cussed and discussed from one end of the land to the other4 ,all he had to do was to say ',come forth1' and the graves opened like chestnut burrs in the fall1 he added4 ,i have no use for the fellow that sneers and mocks at ,jesus ,christ4 ,if the world is against ,christ1 ,i am against the world1 with every tooth1 nail1 bit of skin1 hair follicle1 muscular molecule1 articulation joint--here the evangelist paused for breath before adding--yes1 and even my vermiform appendix4 ,but ,pilate was just one of those rat-hole1 pin-headed1 pliable1 standpat1 free-lunch1 pie-counter politicians4 ,he was the direct result of the machine gang in ,jewish politics1 and he was afraid that if he released ,christ he would lose his job4 ,say1 boys1 he demanded1 leaning so far over the platform it seemed he must have fallen1 are you fellows willing to slap ,jesus ,christ in the face in order to have some one come up and slap you on the back and say you are a good fellow and a dead-game sport8 ,that is the surest way to lose out in life4 ,i am giving you the experience of a life that knows4 ,pilate had his chance and he missed it4 ,his name rings down through the ages in scorn and contempt because he had not the courage to stand up for his convictions and ,jesus ,christ4 ,aren't you boys doing the same thing8 ,you are convinced that ,jesus ,christ is the son of ,god1 but you are afraid of the horse-laugh the boys will give you4 ,god will have nothing to do with you unless you are willing to keep clean1 he said4 ,some people think they are not good enough to go to heaven and not bad enough to go to hell1 and that ,god is too good to send them to hell1 so they fix up a little religion of their own4 ,god isn't keeping any half-way house for any one4 ,the man who believes in that will change his theology before he has been in hell five minutes4 ,there's just one enemy that keeps every one from accepting ,christ1 and that is your stubborn1 miserable will power4 ,you are not men enough to come clean for ,jesus4 ,i don't care whether you have brains enough to fill a hogshead or little enough to fill a thimble1 you are up against this proposition3 ,you must begin to measure ,christ by the rules of ,god instead of the rules of men4 ,put him in the ,god class instead of in the man class2 judge ,christ by his task and the work he performed1 and see if he was only a man4 ,the ,university of ,pennsylvania would be turning out bigger men than ,jesus ,christ1 he said1 if ,christ were not the son of ,god4 ,the conditions and the opportunities are so much greater in these days1 he showed1 that a real superman should be the product of our day if education1 society1 business1 politics and these varied interests could produce such a thing4 ,jesus ,christ is just as well known today as old ,cleopatra1 the flat-nosed enchantress of the ,nile1 was known hundreds and hundreds of years ago4 ,don't swell up like a poisoned pup and say that 'it doesn't meet with my stupendous intellectual conception of what ,god intended should be understood4' ,god should have waited until you were born and then called you into counsel1 ,i suppose4 ,say1 fellows1 ,i don't like to think that there are any four-flushing1 excess-baggage1 lackadaisical fools like that alive today1 but there are a few4 ,on the square1 now1 if you want to find a man of reason1 would you go down in the red-light district1 where women are selling their honor for money1 or through the beer halls or fan-tan joints8 ,you don't find intellect there1 he continued4 ,in contrast to these places1 the evangelist described with remarkable accuracy and emotion the scenes surrounding the death of ,president ,mc,kinley and the burial ceremony at ,canton1 ,ohio2 how the great men of the nation1 all ,christian men1 passed by the flag-covered casket and paid their silent tribute to the man who had died with ,christian confidence expressed in his last words4 ,when ,i came out of that court-house at ,canton1 ,i said3 ',thank ,god1 ,i'm in good company1 for the greatest men of my nation are on the side of ,jesus ,christ1' he added4 ,from the farthest corner of the auditorium there came a fervent ,amen1 which found many repetitions in the brief silence that followed4 ,mr4 ,sunday reached a powerful climax when he described the possibilities of the ,judgment ,day1 and the efforts of the evil one to lead into the dark1 abysmal depths souls of men who have been popular in the world4 ,to those who have accepted ,christ1 the ,saviour will appear on that day as an advocate at the heavenly throne1 he argued1 and the saved ones can turn to the devil and say3 ,illustration3 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,and ,,his ,,family ,,at ,,home1 ,,mount ,,hood1 ,,winona ,,lake1 ,,indiana4 ',beat it1 you old skin-flint4 ,i have you skinned to a frazzle4 ,i have taken ,jesus ,christ and he's going to stand by me through all eternity4' ,wherein does ,jesus ,christ fail to come up to your standard and the highest conception of the greatest ,god-like spirit8 ,show me one flaw in his character4 ,i challenge any infidel on earth to make good his claims that ,christ was an ordinary man4 ,the name of ,jesus ,christ1 the son of ,god1 is greater than any4 ,it is the name that unhorsed ,saul of ,tarsus1 and it is holding #ejj1jjj1jjj of people by its majestic spell and enduring power4 ,if you can't understand what this means1 just take a walk out into some cemetery some day and look at the tombstones4 ,you'll find that the name of the man who had a political drag twenty-five years ago is absolutely forgotten1 continued the challenge4 ,do you fellows know what sacrifice means8 suddenly asked the speaker4 ,some of your fathers are making sacrifices and wearing old clothes just to keep you here in school4 ,he wants you to have an education because he can't even handle the multiplication table4 ,if ,jesus ,christ should enter this gymnasium we would all fall to our knees4 ,we have that much reverence in our hearts for him4 ,i would run down and meet him1 and would tell him how much ,i love him and that ,i am willing to go wherever he would have me go4 ,in closing1 the evangelist told the story of a man who recklessly tossed a valuable pearl high into the air1 reaching over the side of a ship to catch it as it fell4 ,time and again he was successful1 but finally the ship swerved to one side and the gem disappeared beneath the waves4 ,boys1 that man lost everything just to gain the plaudits of the crowd4 ,are you doing the same thing8 ,that is the condition of thousands of people beneath the ,stars and ,stripes today--losing everything just to hear the clamor of the people1 and get a little pat on the back for doing something the mob likes4 ,mr4 ,sunday suddenly abandoned his dramatic attitude1 and lowered his voice4 ,there was an instantaneous bowing of heads1 although he had given no suggestion of a prayer4 ,it seemed proper at that time1 and one of the evangelist's heart-to-heart talks with ,christ1 asking a blessing on the ,christian workers of the ,university1 and an earnest effort1 on the part of every student1 to live a ,christian life1 accompanied the great audience as it filed from the gymnasium4 ,real ,manhood ,be thou strong1 therefore1 and show thyself a man1 the ,bible verse reads1 and ,mr4 ,sunday promptly added3 ,don't be a mutt6 ,don't be a four-flusher--a mere cipher on the sea of human enterprise4 ,god is a respecter of character1 even if he isn't a respecter of persons1 continued the speaker4 ,abraham towers out1 like a mountain above a molehill1 and beside him some of our modern gimlet-eyed1 heel-worn fellows shrink like ,edward ,hyde in ,doctor ,jekyll's clothes4 ,when those fellows over in ,babylon offered booze to ,daniel1 although he was only seventeen years old1 he said1 ',nothing doing4' ,he told them where to head in4 ,moses pushed aside the greatest scepter of any kingdom and did what his heart told him was right4 ',be thou strong and show thyself a man4' ,david was a man of lofty purposes and his life was influenced by those that had preceded him4 ,it wasn't an accident that made ,david a king4 ,the big job is always looking for big men4 ,a round peg will not fit into a square hole1 even if he is a university professor4 ,the young buck who inherits a big fortune without working for it1 continued ,mr4 ,sunday1 is going down the line so fast you can't see him for the fog4 ,the man who has real1 rich1 red blood in his veins1 instead of pink tea and ice water1 when the lions of opposition roar1 thinks it is only a call for dinner in the dining car1 and he goes ahead and does things4 ,there are some going around disguised as men who ought to be arrested1 the evangelist interposed4 ,to know some men is an invitation to do right2 to know others is an invitation to know dirty booze and to blot the family escutcheon1 insult your mothers and sisters4 ,the size of the man depends on his mind1 not on his muscle4 ,there is lots of bulk but little brains in some men4 ,it's a sad day for a young man when ,bill ,taft's overcoat wouldn't make him a vest1 he added1 amid shouts of laughter1 in which even staid1 stern-faced professors joined with the students4 ,too many fellows look like men from across the street1 but when you get close to them they shrivel up4 ,it makes a difference what kind of an example you follow4 ,if ,thomas ,edison should say to his boy1 ',be an inventor1' the boy would know what he meant1 but if some red-nosed1 beer-soaked old reprobate should tell his boy to 'be a man1' the boy would be all in4 ,lots of fellows today turn out bad because their fathers' talk and walk do not agree4 ,the best thing that can happen to a young man1 said ,mr4 ,sunday1 is to come under the influence of a real man4 ,every one has a hero1 whether it be on the foot-ball field or in the classroom1 and if every one would lead right today1 there would be no going astray tomorrow4 ,there are some men in this world that when they are around you turn up your collar1 feel chills running up and down your back and when you look at the thermometer1 you find the temperature is about #fj degrees below zero4 ,then followed the evangelist's famous story of how ,david killed ,goliath1 considerably tempered to suit the culture of his audience4 ,he told how ,david boldly asked who the big lobster was1 and why he was strutting around as if he was the whole cheese1 the head guy of the opposition party4 ,david put down the sword that ,saul had given him1 for he felt like a fellow in a hand-me-down suit two sizes too large4 ,he picked up one of his little pebbles1 slung it across the river and hit poor old ,goliath on the koko4 ,some fellows are working so hard to become angels they forget to be men4 ,if you will study your ,bible you will find that the men of old were subject to the same temptations as the men of today1 but they didn't let their temptations get the best of them4 ,if your manhood is buried in doubt and cheap booze1 dig it out4 ,you have to sign your own ,declaration of ,independence and fight your own ,revolutionary wars before you can celebrate the ,fourth of ,july over the things that try to keep you down4 ,the best time for a man to sow his wild oats is between the age of eighty-five and ninety years4 ,a six-ply drunk is about as good a passport into commercial life as a record for housebreaking1 and the youth who goes to the mat with a half-pint of red-eye in his stomach1 will be as beneficial to humanity as a one-legged man in a hurdle race4 ,if ,i knew1 when the undertaker pumps that pink stuff into me and embalms me1 that the end of all had come1 ,i would still be glad ,i lived a ,christian life1 because it meant a life of decency1 he said4 ,i would rather go through the world without knowing the multiplication table than never to know the love of ,christ4 ,i don't underestimate the value of an education1 boys1 but just try living on oatmeal porridge4 ,get your education1 but don't lose sight of ,jesus4 ,once you have made your plan1 cling to it4 ,be a man1 even in situations of great danger4 ,the man whose diet is swill will be at home with the hogs in any pen4 ,he's bound to have bristles sticking through his skin4 ,if ,abraham ,lincoln had read about ,alkali ,ike1 or ,three ,fingered ,pete1 do you think he would ever have been ,president8 ,while other young men were waking up with booze-headaches1 he was pulling up his old-fashioned galluses and saying1 ',i'm going to be a man4' ,and one morning the world awoke1 rubbed its sleepy eyes and looked around for a man for a certain place4 ,it found ,abraham ,lincoln and raised him from obscurity to the highest pinnacle of popular favor4 ,he was a man and his example should be a guiding influence in the life of every ,american citizen4 ,booze1 evil women1 licentious practices1 cigarettes--all these came under the ban of ,mr4 ,sunday's system of ,christian living4 ,he spared no words2 he called a spade a spade and looked at modern affairs without colored glasses4 ,you can't find a drunkard who ever intended to be a drunkard1 argued ,mr4 ,sunday4 ,he just intended to be a moderate drinker4 ,he was up against a hard game1 a game you can't beat4 ,he asserted that he could get more nourishment from a little bit of beef extract1 placed on the edge of a knife blade1 than can be obtained from #hjj gallons of the best beer brewed4 ,talking about riches1 he suggested that ,king ,solomon1 with his wealth1 could have hired ,andrew ,carnegie as a chauffeur or ,j4 ,pierpont ,morgan to cut the lawns around his palace4 ,money isn't all there is in this world1 but neither is beer1 he said4 ,i don't want to see you students get the booze habit1 just because we are licensing men at so much per year to make you staggering1 reeling1 drunken sots1 murderers1 thieves and vagabonds4 ,the double standard of living was bitterly attacked by the revivalist1 who said one of the crying needs of ,america was the recognition of a single standard of living4 ,it makes no difference to ,god whether the sinner wears a plug hat and pair of suspenders or a petticoat and a willow plume4 ,no man who deliberately drugs a girl and sends her into a life of shame ought to be permitted in good society4 ,he ought to be shot at sunrise4 ,this sentiment evoked a tremendous round of applause1 and cries of ,amen6 and ,good1 ,bill6 were not infrequent4 ,the avenging ,god is on his trail and the man who wrecks women's lives is going to crack brimstone on the hottest stone in hell1 praise ,god1 the speaker continued4 ,if we are to conciliate this unthinkable and unspeakable practice of vampires feeding on women's virtue1 we might as well back-pedal in the progress of the nations4 ,the virtue of womanhood is the rampart of our civilization and we must not let it be betrayed4 ,when the invitation was given after the night meeting1 for men who wanted to dedicate themselves to cleaner1 nobler manhood to rise1 nearly the entire body1 visibly moved by the words of the preacher1 rose to its feet4 ,then1 with a daring which prim and conservative ,philadelphia had not thought possible in this citadel of intellectuality and conventionality1 ,sunday gave the invitation to the students who would begin a new life by confessing ,christ to come forward4 ,accounts vary as to the number who went up and grasped the evangelist's hand4 ,all reporters seemed to be carried away by the thrill of the occasion4 ,many reported that hundreds went forward4 ,the most conservative report was that #age young men took this open stand of confession of ,jesus ,christ4 ,the ,university weekly1 ,old ,penn1 in its issue of the following ,saturday summarized the ,billy ,sunday visit in pages of contributions4 ,these three paragraphs are the sober judgment of those best informed from the ,university standpoint3 ,the results of ,mr4 ,sunday's visit within the ,university have been nothing short of marvelous4 ,the ,provost has been receiving congratulations from trustees1 business men1 lawyers1 members of the faculty and prominent undergraduates4 ,several whole fraternities have taken action leading to higher living in every line4 ,drink has been completely excluded from class banquets4 ,students are joining the churches1 and religion has been the paramount topic of conversation throughout the entire ,university4 ,under the leadership of the ,university ,christian ,association1 the church leaders of ,philadelphia of all denominations have been canvassing their own students in the ,university and have found most hearty response to everything that has to do with good living4 ,the effect is really that of a religious crusade1 and the result is of that permanent sort which expresses itself in righteousness of life4 ,at the close of the night meeting on ,monday1 about #a1jjj students arose to their feet in answer to ,mr4 ,sunday's invitation to live the ,christian life in earnest1 or to join for the first time the ,christian way of life4 ,those who have called upon the students who took this stand have found that it was genuine1 and not in any sense due to a mere emotional movement4 ,mr4 ,sunday's appeal seems to be almost wholly to the will and conscience1 but it is entirely based upon the movement of the ,holy ,spirit of ,god4 ,no one who has ever addressed the students of the ,university of ,pennsylvania on vital religion has ever approached the success which was attained by ,mr4 ,sunday in reaching the students1 and without doubt this visit is only the opening up of a marvelous opportunity for ,mr4 ,sunday to reach the students of the entire country1 especially those of our great cosmopolitan universities4 ,the editor of ,old ,penn asked opinions from members of the faculty and undergraduate body4 ,dean ,edward ,c4 ,kirk1 ,m4,d41 ,d4,d4,s41 of the ,dental ,department1 said in his appraisal of the ,sunday visit3 ,if1 as according to some of the critics1 the impression that he has made is but temporary and the enthusiasm which he has created is only a momentary impulse1 even so1 the success of his accomplishment lies in the fact that he has produced results where others have failed to make a beginning4 ,the ,university ought to have the uplifting force not only of a ,billy ,sunday1 but a ,billy ,monday1 ,tuesday1 ,wednesday and every other day in the week4 ,of the students who testified in print1 one1 a prominent senior1 wrote3 ,mr4 ,sunday awoke in me a realization of my evil practices and sins so forcefully that ,i am going to make a determined effort to give them up and to make amends for the past4 ,from my many conversations with fellow-students ,i find that this is what ,mr4 ,sunday did4 ,if he did not directly cause the student to come forward and take a stand1 every student at least was aroused to think about this all-important question in a light that he had not seriously considered it in before4 ,the undergraduate body1 as a whole1 is glad that ,mr4 ,sunday came to ,philadelphia4 ,a ,christian worker from the ,law ,school gave his opinion as follows3 ,i have been connected with the ,university of ,pennsylvania for six years1 and for the greater part of this time have been in close touch with the work of the ,christian ,association4 ,the influence of the ,association seems to be increasing constantly1 but ,billy ,sunday accomplished in one day what the ,association would be proud to have accomplished in one year4 ,to my mind1 ,mr4 ,sunday's visit marks the beginning of a new epoch--the ,renaissance of religious work of the ,university4 ,that is the sort of thing that occupied pages of the official publication of the ,university1 following the evangelist's visit4 ,this day's work attracted the attention not only of ,philadelphia newspapers1 but the religious press throughout the country quite generally commented upon it4 ,dr4 ,mosley ,h4 ,williams graphically reviewed it in the ,congregationalist4 ,the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 founded by ,benjamin ,franklin in #agdi1 is the fourth in age of ,american universities1 antedated only by ,harvard1 ,yale1 and ,princeton by one year4 ,it is located in a city of a million and three-quarters people4 ,it now enrolls #f1fcb students1 representing every state in the ,union1 and fifty-nine foreign countries4 ,there are #bej from ,europe and ,asia1 and #aej from ,latin ,america2 so that in the cosmopolitanism of its make-up1 probably no ,american university equals it4 ,its ,young ,men's ,christian ,association employs twenty-seven secretaries1 its ,bible classes on week days gather #fej students1 and every ,fraternity ,house has its own ,bible ,class4 ,but attendance upon daily prayers is not obligatory1 and less than a hundred1 on an average1 are seen at those services4 ,into this cosmopolitan ,university ,billy ,sunday came like a cyclone4 ,after preaching in ,scranton three times on the ,sabbath1 to audiences aggregating #cj1jjj people1 he traveled all night1 reached ,philadelphia ,monday morning1 took an automobile spin to the baseball park1 where he was a famous player twenty years ago1 and preached three times in the ,university of ,pennsylvania gymnasium1 which was seated with chairs1 and accommodated #c1jjj hearers4 ,there were three services--noon1 afternoon and evening4 ,tickets were issued1 red1 white and blue1 each good for one service1 and that one exclusively4 ,not a person was admitted without a ticket4 ,the long lines reached squares away1 and the police kept the people moving in order4 ,what does such a spectacle mean in a great old university1 in a great city8 ,such a student body knows slang1 and athleticism1 and all sorts of side plays4 ,no doubt there was plenty of criticism and questioning2 but a spectator who had his eyes and ears and mind open1 would say1 that in getting a response to the religious appeal1 ,billy ,sunday's ,monday in the ,university of ,pennsylvania scored high4 ,this effort for quickening religious interests in the ,university was not a spasmodic effort for one day2 there had been the most careful preparations beforehand1 in consultation with leading ministers of all denominations in the city1 to seek out students of every denomination4 ,lists were carefully made and cards put in the hands of ministers and ,christian workers1 with the understanding that all the young men of the ,university should be visited in a friendly and ,christian spirit by representatives of various churches4 ,the results1 of course1 remain to be seen1 but after this effort1 no student need say1 ,no man cares for my soul4 ,the conclusion of the whole matter1 of course1 is that the old-time religion1 the gospel of our fathers and our mothers1 is still the deepest need of all sorts and conditions of men4 ,the religion that saved the outcast in the gutter is adequate to redeem the man in the university4 ,,chapter ,,xxviii ,the ,christian's ,daily ,helper ,too much of the work of the ,church today is like a squirrel in a cage--lots of activity1 but no progress4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,in the course of one of his campaigns1 ,sunday sweeps the arc of the great ,christian doctrines4 ,while he stresses ever and again the practical duties of the ,christian life1 yet he makes clear that the reliance of the ,christian for all that he hopes to attain in character and in service is upon the promised ,helper sent by our ,lord1 the ever-present ,holy ,spirit4 ,one of the evangelist's greatest sermons is upon this theme1 and no transcript of his essential message would be complete without it4 ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit ,the personality1 the divinity and the attributes of the ,holy ,ghost afford one of the most inspiring1 one of the most beneficial examples in our spiritual life4 ,we are told that when the ,holy ,spirit came at ,pentecost1 he came as the rushing of a mighty wind and overurging expectancy4 ,when ,jesus was baptized in the ,river ,jordan1 of ,john1 out from the expanse of heaven was seen to float the ,spirit of ,god like a snowflake1 and they heard a sound as of whirring wings1 and the ,holy ,spirit in the form of a dove hovered over the dripping locks of ,christ4 ,neither your eyes nor mine will ever behold such a scene2 neither will our ears ever hear such a sound again4 ,you cannot dissect or weigh the ,holy ,spirit1 nor analyze him as a chemist may analyze material matter in his laboratory1 but we can all feel the pulsing of the breath of his eternal love4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is a personality2 as much a personality as ,christ1 or you or ,i4 ,howbeit1 when he1 the ,spirit of truth1 is come1 he will guide you into all truth3 for he shall not speak of himself4 ,he is to us what ,jesus was when he was on earth4 ,jesus always speaks of the ,holy ,spirit in the future tense4 ,he said1 ,it is expedient that ,i go away2 if ,i go not away the ,spirit will not come4 ,it is expedient for you that ,i go away1 but when ,i am gone1 then ,i will send ,him unto you who is from the ,father4 ,so we are living today in the beneficence of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,no ,universal ,salvation ,i do not believe in this twentieth-century theory of the universal fatherhood of ,god and the brotherhood of man4 ,we are all made of one blood--that is true1 physically speaking2 we are all related4 ,i am talking about the spiritual1 not the physical4 ,you are not a child of ,god unless you are a ,christian2 then you are a child of ,god--if you are a ,christian4 ,samson with the ,holy ,spirit upon him could take the jawbone of an ass and lay dead a thousand ,philistines4 ,samson without the ,holy ,spirit was as weak as a new-born babe1 and they poked his eyes out and cut off his locks4 ,and so with the ,church and her members4 ,without the ,holy ,spirit you are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals1 simply four walls and a roof1 and a pipe organ and a preacher to do a little stunt on ,sunday morning and evening4 ,i tell you1 ,christian people1 that with the ,holy ,spirit there is no power on earth or in hell that can stand before the ,church of ,jesus ,christ4 ,and the damnable1 hell-born1 whisky-soaked1 hog-jowled1 rum-soaked moral assassins have damned this community long enough4 ,now it is time it was broken up and it is time to do something4 ,there are three classes in the ,church1 as ,i have looked at it from my standpoint4 ,the first are those in the ,church personally who want to be saved1 but they are not concerned about other people4 ,they do not give any help to other people2 they don't lie awake at night praying for other people that they may be brought to the ,lord4 ,the second class are going to depend upon human wisdom4 ,there is no such thing as latent power1 expressed or implied--power is just as distinctive in an individual as the electricity in these lights4 ,if these globes are without a current they would be nothing but glass bulbs1 fit for nothing but the scrap heap4 ,without the ,holy ,spirit you are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals1 and a third-rate amusement parlor1 with religion left out4 ,the third class are church members not from might and honor and power1 but from the ,spirit4 ,while at ,pentecost one sermon saved #c1jjj people1 now it takes #c1jjj sermons to get one old buttermilk-eyed1 whisky-soaked blasphemer4 ,happiest ,nation on ,earth ,we have our churches1 our joss houses1 our tabernacles2 we have got the wisdom of the orientals1 the ginger1 vim1 tabasco sauce1 peppering of the twentieth century2 we have got all of that1 and ,i do not believe that there are any people beneath the sun who are better fed1 better paid1 better clothed1 better housed1 or any happier than we are beneath the stars and stripes--no nation on earth4 ,there are lots of things that could be eliminated to make us better than we are today4 ,we are the happiest people in ,god's world4 ,out in ,iowa1 a fellow said to me3 ,mr4 ,sunday1 we ought to be better organized4 ,just think of that1 we ought to be better organized4 ,now listen to me1 my friends6 ,listen to me6 ,there is so much machinery in the churches today that you can hear it squeak4 ,drop into a young people's meeting4 ,the leader will say in a weak1 effeminate1 apologetic1 minor sort of way1 that there was a splendid topic this evening but he had not had much time for preparation4 ,it is superfluous for him to say that2 you could have told that4 ,he goes along and tells how happy he is to have you there to take part this evening1 making this meeting interesting4 ,some one gets up and reads a poem from the ,christian ,endeavor ,world and then they sing ,no4 #ch4 ,they get up and sing3 ,oh1 to be nothing--nothing1 ,only to lie at ,his feet4 ,we used to sing that song1 but ,i found out that people took it so literally that ,i cut it out4 ,then a long pause1 and some one says1 ,let us sing ,no4 #eb4 ,so they get up and then some one starts1 ,throw out the life line1 ,throw out the life line4 ,they haven't got strength enough to put up a clothesline4 ,another long pause1 and then you hear1 ,have all taken part that feel free to do so8 ,we have a few minutes left4 ,so let us sing ,no4 #bc4 ,then another long pause4 ,i hear the organ prelude2 it is time for us to close1 now let us all repeat together1 ',the ,lord keep watch between me and thee1 while we are absent one from another4' ,i tell you ,god has got a hard job on his hands4 ,ever hear anything like that8 ,ambassadors of ,god ,believe that ,god ,almighty can do something4 ,don't whine around as though ,god were a corpse1 ready for the undertaker4 ,god is still on the job4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is needed to bring man into spiritual touch with ,god2 to make man realize that he is a joint representative of ,god on earth today4 ,do you ever realize that you are ,god's representative--,god's ambassador8 ,and as we are ,god's ambassadors why should we fear what the devil may do8 ,can it be that you fail to realize his power8 ,or are you so blind to the spiritual that you can't see that you need ,god's help8 ,let me ask you one question3 ,are you ready to surrender to him8 ,a man said to me3 ,it was a mighty little thing to drive ,adam and ,eve out of the ,garden of ,eden because they ate an apple4 ,it wasn't the fruit4 ,it was the principle1 whether man should bow to ,god or ,god bow to man4 ,that act was an act of disobedience4 ,you may say it was a mighty little thing for ,england to go to war with us because we threw some tea into ,boston harbor4 ,we didn't go to war over the tea4 ,we said3 ,you can't brew tea in the ,east ,india ,company and pour it down our throats4 ,it was the principle we went to war about1 not the price of tea1 and we fought it out4 ,are you ready to surrender8 ,you1 who are in rebellion against ,god8 ,you1 who are in rebellion against the authority of ,god's government8 ,are you ready to do his will8 ,a good many people suppose that when they have accepted ,jesus ,christ as their ,saviour and joined the ,church that is all there is to the ,christian life4 ,as well might a student who has just matriculated imagine that he has finished his education4 ,nobody has reached a stage in the ,christian life from which he cannot go further unless he is in the coffin--and then it's all over4 ,to accept ,christ1 to join the ,church1 is only to begin4 ,it is the starting of the race1 not the reaching of the goal4 ,there are constant and increasing blessings if you are willing to pay the price4 ,i don't care when or where you became a church member1 if the ,comforter1 who is the ,holy ,ghost1 is not with you1 you are a failure4 ,this power of the ,spirit is meant for all who are ,christians4 ,it is a great blessing for the ,presbyterian elder as well as for the preacher4 ,i know some ,methodist stewards who need it4 ,deacons would deak better if they had it4 ,it is a great blessing for the deacon and the members of the prudential committee1 and it is just as great a blessing for the man in the pew who holds no office4 ,to hear some people talk you would think that the ,holy ,spirit is only for preachers4 ,god sets no double standard for the ,christian life4 ,there's nothing in the ,bible to show that the people may live differently from the man in the pulpit4 ,holy ,spirit a ,person ,i once heard a doctor of divinity pray for the ,holy ,spirit1 and he said3 ,send it upon us now4 ,he was wrong1 doubly wrong4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is not an impersonal thing4 ,he is a person1 not an it4 ,and the ,holy ,spirit has always been here since the days of ,pentecost4 ,he does not come and go4 ,he is right here in the world and his power is at the command of all who will put themselves into position to use it4 ,a university professor was greeted by a friend of mine who took him by the hand1 and said3 ,what do you think of the ,holy ,spirit8 ,the professor answered that he regarded the ,holy ,spirit as an influence for good1 a sort of emanation from ,god4 ,my friend talked to him and tried to show him his mistake1 and a few months later he met him again4 ,what do you think of the ,holy ,spirit now8 he asked4 ,the professor answered3 ,well1 ,i know that the ,holy ,spirit is a person4 ,since ,i talked with you and have come to that conviction1 ,i have succeeded in bringing sixty-three students to ,christ4 ,a great many people think the ,holy ,spirit comes and goes again1 and quote from the ,acts1 where it says that ,peter was filled with the ,holy ,spirit4 ,well1 if you will find that ,peter had been doing things right along1 that showed he had been filled with the ,holy ,spirit all the time4 ,acts1 second chapter and fourth verse1 we read3 ,and they were all filled with the ,holy ,spirit4 ,you have no right1 nor have ,i1 to say that the ,holy ,spirit ever left any one4 ,we have no right to seek to find ,scripture to bolster up some little theory of our own4 ,we must take the ,word of ,god for it1 just as we find it written there4 ,now1 at ,pentecost1 ,peter had said3 ,repent1 and be baptized for the remission of sins4 ,then he promised them that the ,holy ,spirit would come and fill them4 ,now we have the fulfilment of the promise4 ,who were filled with the ,holy ,spirit8 ,peter and ,james and ,john8 ,no--the people4 ,that is the record of the filling with the ,holy ,spirit of the three thousand who were converted at ,pentecost1 not the filling of ,peter and ,james and ,john4 ,if the ,spirit remains forever1 why doesn't his power always show itself8 ,why haven't you as much power with ,god as the one hundred and twenty had at ,pentecost8 ,there are too many frauds1 too much trash in the ,church4 ,it is because the people are not true to ,god4 ,they are disobeying him4 ,they are not right with him yet4 ,i don't know just how the ,holy ,spirit will come1 but ,jesus said we should do even greater works than he did4 ,what are you doing8 ,you are not doing such works now4 ,the ,last ,dispensation ,we find the ,holy ,spirit in the ,old ,testament4 ,when the prophets spoke they were moved by him4 ,god seems to have spoken to man in three distinct dispensations4 ,once it was through the covenant with ,abraham1 then it was through ,moses and under the ,mosaic dispensation1 and finally it is through his own son1 ,jesus ,christ4 ,jesus ,christ came into the world1 proved that he is the ,son of ,god1 suffered1 died and was buried1 rose again1 and sent his ,holy ,comforter4 ,this is the last dispensation4 ,there is no evidence that after the ,holy ,spirit once came1 he ever left the world4 ,he is here now1 ready to help you to overcome your pride1 and your diffidence that has kept you from doing personal work1 and is willing and ready to lead you into a closer relationship with ,jesus4 ,but you say1 some are elected and some are not4 ,on that point ,i agree with ,henry ,ward ,beecher4 ,he said3 ,the elect are those who will and the non-elect are those who won't4 ,but you go in for culture--culchah4 ,if you are too cultured to be a ,christian1 ,god pity you4 ,you may call it culture4 ,i have another name for it4 ,is there anything about ,christianity that is necessarily uncultured8 ,i think the best culture in the world is among the followers of ,jesus ,christ4 ,but you say3 ,ignorance is a bar to some4 ,no sir4 ,billy ,bray1 the ,cornish miner1 was an illiterate man4 ,he was asked if he could read writing1 and he answered3 ,no1 ,i can't even read readin'4 ,yet ,billy ,bray did a wonderful work for ,god in ,wales and ,england4 ,ignorance is no bar to religion1 or to usefulness for ,jesus4 ,some time ago1 over in ,england1 a man died in the poor house4 ,he had had a little property1 just a few acres of land1 and it hadn't been enough to support him4 ,after he died the new owner dug a well on it1 and at a depth of sixty-five feet he found a vein of copper so rich that it meant a little fortune4 ,if the man who died had only known of that vein1 he need not have lived in poverty4 ,there are many who are just as ignorant of the great riches within their reach4 ,lots of people hold checks on the bank of heaven1 and haven't faith enough to present them at the window to have them cashed4 ,little ,things ,you may say1 ,i have failed in something1 but it is a little thing4 ,oh1 these little things6 ,bugs are little things1 but they cost this country #hjj1jjj1jjj in one year4 ,birds are little enemies of the bugs1 and birds are little things1 and if it weren't for the birds we would starve in two years4 ,if there's anything that makes me mad it is to see a farmer grab a shotgun and kill a chicken hawk4 ,that hawk is worth a lot more than some old hen you couldn't cook tender if you boiled it for two days4 ,that chicken hawk has killed all the gophers1 mice and snakes it could get its claws on and it has come to demand from the farmer the toll that is rightfully due to it1 for what it has done to rid the land of pests4 ,why is it that with all our universities and colleges we haven't produced a book like the ,bible8 ,it was written long ago by people who lived in a little country no bigger than some of our states4 ,the reason was that ,god was behind the writers4 ,the book was inspired4 ,when good old ,dr4 ,backus1 of ,hamilton ,college1 lay dying the doctor whispered to ,mrs4 ,backus1 saying1 ,dr4 ,backus is dying4 ,the old man heard and looked up with a smile on his face and asked3 ,did ,i understand you to say that ,i am dying8 ,sadly the doctor said3 ,yes1 ,i'm sorry1 you have no more than half an hour to live4 ,dr4 ,backus smiled again4 ,then it will soon be over1 he said4 ,take me out of bed and put me on my knees4 ,i want to die praying for the students of ,hamilton ,college4 ,they lifted him out and he knelt down and covered his face with his transparent hands1 and prayed ,oh1 ,god1 save the students of ,hamilton ,college4 ,for a time he continued to pray1 then the doctor said1 ,he is getting weaker4 ,they lifted him back upon the bed1 and his face was whiter than the pillows4 ,still his lips moved4 ,oh1 ,god1 save---- ,then the light of life went out1 and he finished the prayer in the presence of ,jesus4 ,what did his dying prayer do8 ,why1 almost the entire student body of ,hamilton ,college accepted ,jesus ,christ4 ,if you haven't the power of the ,spirit you have done something wrong4 ,i don't know what it is--it's none of my business4 ,it's between you and ,god4 ,it is only my duty to call upon you to confess and get right with him4 ,a man went to a friend of mine and said3 ,i don't know what is wrong with me4 ,i teach a ,sunday-school class of young men1 and ,i have tried to bring them to ,jesus1 and ,i have failed4 ,can you tell me why8 ,yes1 was the answer4 ,there's something wrong with you4 ,you've done something wrong4 ,the man hesitated1 but finally he said1 ,you're right4 ,years ago ,i was cashier in a big business house1 and one time the books balanced and there was some money left over4 ,i took that money and ,i have kept it4 ,that was twelve years ago4 ,here is the money in this envelope4 ,take it back to the owner1 said my friend4 ,it's not yours1 and it's not mine4 ,but ,i can't do that1 said the man4 ,i am making a salary of #bb1jjj a year now1 and ,i have a wife and daughters1 and my firm will never employ a dishonest man4 ,well1 that's your business1 said my friend4 ,i have advised you1 and that's all ,i can do2 but ,god will never forgive you until you've given that money back4 ,the man sank into a chair and covered his eyes for a while4 ,then he got up and said1 ,i'll do it4 ,he took a ,chesapeake and ,ohio train and went to ,philadelphia1 and went to a great merchant prince in whose employ he had been1 and told his story4 ,the merchant prince shut and locked the door4 ,let us pray1 he said4 ,they knelt together1 the great merchant's arm about his visitor2 and when they got up the great merchant said3 ,go in peace4 ,god bless you4 ,illustration3 ,i',,ve ,,walked ,,sixty ,,miles ,,to ,,look ,,upon ,,her ,,face ,,again ,on the next ,sunday the man who had confessed took the ,bible on his knee as he sat before his class and said to them3 ,young men1 ,i often wondered why ,i couldn't win any of you to ,christ4 ,my life was wrong1 and ,i've repented and made it right4 ,that man won his entire class for ,christ1 and they joined ,dr4 ,mc,kibben's church at ,walnut ,hills1 ,cincinnati1 ,ohio4 ,if you would get right with ,god what would be the result8 ,why1 you would save your city4 ,the ,fame of a ,christian ,some time ago the funeral of a famous woman was held in ,london4 ,edward1 who was king then1 came with his consort1 ,alexandra1 to look upon her face1 and dukes and duchesses and members of the nobility came4 ,then the doors were opened and the populace came in by thousands4 ,down the aisle came a woman whose face and dress bore the marks of poverty4 ,by one hand she led a child1 and in her arms she carried another4 ,as she reached the coffin she set down the child she was carrying and bent her head upon the glass above the quiet face in the coffin1 and her old fascinator fell down upon it4 ,come1 said a policeman1 you must move on4 ,but the woman stood by the coffin4 ,i'll not move on1 she said1 for ,i have a right here4 ,the policeman said1 ,you must move on4 ,it's orders2 but the woman said1 ,no1 ,i've walked sixty miles to look upon her face again4 ,she saved my two boys from being drunkards4 ,the woman in the coffin was ,mrs4 ,booth1 wife of the great leader of the ,salvation ,army4 ,i'd rather have some reclaimed drunkard1 or some poor girl redeemed from sin and shame1 stand by my coffin and rain down tears of gratitude upon it1 than to have a monument of gold studded with precious stones1 that would pierce the skies4 ,if ye love me keep my commandments4 ,and ,i will pray the ,father1 and he shall give you another ,comforter1 that he may abide with you forever4 ,,chapter ,,xxix ,a ,victorious ,sermon ,if you fall into sin and you're a sheep you'll get out2 if you're a hog you'll stay there1 just like a sheep and a hog when they fall into the mud4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,on the walls of ,sir ,walter ,scott's home at ,abbottsford hangs the claymore of the redoubtable ,rob ,roy1 one of the most interesting objects in that absorbing library of the great novelist4 ,a peculiar interest attaches to the instruments of great achievement1 as the scimitar of ,saladin1 or the sword of ,richard the ,lion-,hearted1 or the rifle of ,daniel ,boone4 ,something of this same sort of interest clings to a particular form of words that has wrought wondrously4 ,apart altogether from its contents1 ,sunday's sermon on ,the ,unpardonable ,sin is of peculiar interest to the reader4 ,this is the message that has penetrated through the indifference and skepticism and self-righteousness and shameless sin of thousands of men and women4 ,many thousands of persons have1 under the impulse of these words1 abandoned their old lives and crowded forward up the sawdust trail to grasp the preacher's hand1 as a sign that they would henceforth serve the ,lord ,christ4 ,the ,unpardonable ,sin is a good sample of ,sunday's sermons4 ,it shows the character of the man's mind1 and that quality of sound reasonableness which we call common sense4 ,there are no excesses1 no abnormalities1 no wrenchings of ,scripture in this terrific utterance4 ,,the ,,unpardonable ,,sin ,wherefore ,i say unto you1 ,all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men3 but the blasphemy against the ,holy ,ghost shall not be forgiven unto men4 ,and whosoever speaketh a word against the ,son of man1 it shall be forgiven him3 but whosoever speaketh against the ,holy ,ghost1 it shall not be forgiven him1 neither in this world1 neither in the world to come4 ,i'd like to know where anybody ever found any authority for a belief in future probation4 ,jesus ,christ was either human or he was divine4 ,and if he was only human then ,i am not obligated to obey his word any more than ,i am that of any other philosopher4 ,the ,pharisees charged ,jesus with being in league with the devil4 ,they said to him1 ,you have a devil4 ,they grew bolder in their denunciation and said3 ,you do what you do through ,beelzebub1 the prince of devils4 ,jesus said3 ,how is that so8 ,if what ,i do ,i do through the devil1 explain why it is ,i am overthrowing the works of the devil4 ,if ,i am a devil and if what ,i do is through the devil1 then ,i wouldn't be working to hurt the works of the devil4 ,i would not be doing what ,i am doing to destroy the works of the devil1 but ,i would be working to destroy the works of ,god4 ,from that day forth they dared not ask him any questions4 ,i know there are various opinions held by men as to what they believe constitutes the sin against the ,holy ,ghost4 ,there are those who think it could have been committed only by those who heard ,jesus ,christ speak and saw him in the flesh4 ,if that be true then neither you nor ,i are in danger1 for neither has ever seen ,jesus in the flesh nor heard him4 ,another class think that it has been committed since the days of ,jesus1 but at extremely rare intervals2 and still a third class think they have committed it and they spend their lives in gloom and dread and are perfectly useless to themselves and the community4 ,and yet ,i haven't the slightest doubt but that there are thousands that come under the head of my message1 who are never gloomy1 never depressed1 never downcast2 their conscience is at ease1 their spirits are light and gay1 they eat three meals a day and sleep as sound as a babe at night2 nothing seems to disturb them1 life is all pleasure and song4 ,what ,it ,is ,if you will lay aside any preconceived ideas or opinions which you may have had or still have as to what you imagine1 think or believe constitutes the sin against the ,holy ,ghost1 or the unpardonable sin1 and if you will listen to me1 for ,i have read every sermon ,i could ever get my hands upon the subject1 and have listened to every man ,i have ever had an opportunity to hear preach1 and have read everything the ,bible has taught on the subject4 ,i do not say that my views on the subject are infallible1 but ,i have wept and prayed and studied over it1 and if time will permit and my strength will allow and your patience endure1 ,i will try and ask and answer a few questions4 ,what is it8 ,why will ,god not forgive it8 ,it is not swearing4 ,if swearing were the unpardonable sin1 lots of men in heaven would have to go to hell and there are multitudes on earth on their way to heaven who would have to go to hell4 ,it is not drunkenness4 ,there are multitudes in heaven that have crept and crawled out of the quagmires of filth and the cesspools of iniquity and drunkenness4 ,some of the brightest lights that ever blazed for ,god have been men that ,god saved from drunkenness4 ,it's not adultery4 ,jesus said to the woman committing adultery and caught in the very act3 ,neither do ,i condemn thee2 go and sin no more4 ,it isn't theft4 ,he said to ,zaccheus1 ,this day is salvation come upon thy house4 ,zaccheus had been a thief4 ,it's not murder4 ,men's hands have been red with blood and ,god has forgiven them4 ,the ,apostle ,paul's hands were red with blood4 ,what is it8 ,to me it is plain and simple4 ,it is constant and continual1 and final rejection of ,jesus ,christ as your ,saviour4 ,god's offer of mercy and salvation comes to you and you say1 ,no1 and you push it aside4 ,i do know that there is such a thing as the last call to every man or woman4 ,god says that his spirit will not always strive with man1 and when a man or woman says ,no as ,god's spirit strives for the last time it forever seals your doom4 ,it is no special form of sin1 no one act4 ,it might be swearing1 it might be theft4 ,any one becomes unpardonable if ,god keeps calling on you to forsake that sin and you keep on refusing to forsake it1 and if you don't then he will withdraw and let you alone and that sin will become unpardonable1 for ,god won't ask you again to forsake it4 ,it is no one glaring act1 but the constant repetition of the same thing4 ,there will come a time when you commit that sin once too often4 ,it is a known law of mind that truth resisted loses its power on the mind that resists it4 ,you hear a truth the first time and reject it4 ,the next time the truth won't seem so strong and will be easier to resist4 ,god throws a truth in your face4 ,you reject it4 ,he throws again2 you reject again4 ,finally ,god will stop throwing the truth at you and you will have committed the unpardonable sin4 ,there is a line by us unseen2 ,it crosses every path2 ,it is ,god's boundary between ,his patience and his wrath4 ,to cross that limit is to die1 ,to die as if by stealth4 ,it may not dim your eye1 ,nor pale the glow of health1 ,your conscience may be still at ease2 ,your spirits light and gay2 ,that which pleases still may please1 ,and care be thrown away2 ,but on that forehead ,god hath set ,indelibly a mark1 ,unseen by man2 for man as yet ,is blind and in the dark4 ,indeed1 the doomed one's path below ,may bloom as ,edens bloom2 ,he does not1 will not know1 ,nor believe that he is doomed4 ,over in ,scotland there are men who earn their living by gathering the eggs of birds1 laid upon ledges on rocks away below the cliff top4 ,they fasten a rope to a tree1 also to themselves1 then swing back and forth and in upon the ledge of rock4 ,when a man was doing that same thing years ago1 the rope beneath his arms became untied1 and the protruding rock caused the rope to hang many feet beyond his reach4 ,the man waited for help to come1 but none came4 ,darkness came1 the light dawned1 and he gave himself up to the fate of starvation1 which he felt inevitably awaiting him1 when a breeze freshened and the dangling rope began to vibrate4 ,as the wind increased in velocity it increased the vibration of the rope and as it would bend in1 he said3 ,if ,i miss it1 ,i die2 if ,i seize it1 it's my only chance1 and with a prayer to ,god as the rope bent in1 he leaped out of the chasm and seized it and made his way hand over hand to the top1 and when he reached it his hair was as white as the driven snow4 ,there is one cord that swings through this old world today--the ,holy ,spirit4 ,with every invitation it swings farther away4 ,we are living in the last dispensation1 the dispensation of the ,holy ,spirit1 and ,god is speaking to the world through the ,holy ,spirit today4 ,resisting the ,truth ,by every known law of the mind1 conversion must be effected by the influence of the truth on the mind4 ,every time you resist the truth the next time you hear it1 it loses its force on your mind4 ,and every time you hear a truth and withstand it1 then you become stronger in your power to resist the truth4 ,we all know this1 that each resistance strengthens you against the truth4 ,when a man hears the truth and he resists it1 the truth grows weaker and he grows stronger to resist it4 ,no matter what ,jesus ,christ did the ,jews refused to believe4 ,he had performed wonderful deeds but they wouldn't believe1 so when ,lazarus was dead1 he said3 ,lazarus1 come forth1 and then turned to the ,jews and said3 ,isn't that evidence enough that ,i am the ,son of ,god8 and they cried3 ,away with him4 ,one day he was walking down the hot dusty road and he met a funeral procession4 ,the mourners were bearing the body of a young man and his mother was weeping4 ,he told them to place the coffin on the ground and said3 ,young man arise1 and he arose4 ,then he asked the ,pharisees3 ,is that not proof enough that ,i am the ,son of ,god1 that ,i make the dead to arise8 and they cried3 ,away with him4 ,so no matter what ,jesus did1 the ,jews refused to believe him4 ,no matter what ,jesus ,christ says or does today1 you'll refuse to accept1 and continue to rush pell-mell to eternal damnation4 ,too ,late ,jesus ,christ gives you just as much evidence today4 ,down in ,indiana1 my friend1 ,mrs4 ,robinson1 was preaching4 ,i don't remember the town1 but ,i think it was ,kokomo1 and ,i remember the incident1 and the last day she tried to get the leader of society there to give her heart to ,god4 ,she preached and then went down in the aisle and talked to her4 ,then she went back to the platform and made her appeal from there4 ,again she went to the girl1 but she still refused4 ,as ,mrs4 ,robinson turned to go she saw her borrow a pencil from her escort and write something in the back of a hymn book4 ,a few years afterward ,mrs4 ,robinson went back to the town and was told the girl was dying4 ,they told her the physicians had just held a consultation and said she could not live until night4 ,mrs4 ,robinson hurried to her home4 ,the girl looked up1 recognized her and said3 ,i didn't send for you4 ,you came on your own account1 and you're too late4 ,to every appeal she would reply3 ,you're too late4 ,finally she said3 ,go look in the hymn book in the church4 ,they hurried to the church and looked over the hymn books and found in the back of one her name and address and these words1 ,i'll run the risk2 ,i'll take my chance4 ,that was the last call to her4 ,not any one sin is the unpardonable sin1 but it may be that constant repetition1 over and over again until ,god will say3 ,take it and go to hell4 ,who can commit it8 ,i used to think that only the vile1 the profane were the people who could commit it4 ,whom did ,jesus warn8 ,the ,pharisees4 ,and who were they8 ,the best men1 morally1 in ,jerusalem4 ,who can commit it8 ,any man or woman who says ,no to ,jesus ,christ4 ,you may even defend the ,bible4 ,you may be the best man or woman1 morally1 in the world4 ,your name may be synonymous with virtue and purity1 but let ,god try to get into your heart1 let him try to get you to walk down the aisle and publicly acknowledge ,jesus ,christ1 and your heart and lips are sealed like a bank vault1 and ,god hasn't been able to pull you to your feet4 ,and ,god won't keep on begging you to do it4 ,something may say to you1 ,i ought to be a ,christian4 ,this is the dispensation of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,god spoke in three dispensations4 ,first1 through the old ,mosaic law4 ,then ,jesus ,christ came upon this earth and lived and the ,jews and ,gentiles conspired to kill him4 ,then the ,holy ,spirit came down at ,pentecost and ,god is speaking through the ,holy ,spirit today4 ,the ,holy ,spirit is pressing you to be a ,christian4 ,it takes the combined efforts of the ,trinity to keep you out of hell--,god the ,father to provide the plan of salvation1 the ,holy ,spirit to convict1 ,jesus ,christ to redeem you through his blood1 and your acceptance and repentance to save you4 ,sin is no trifle4 ,representative of the ,trinity ,the only representative of the ,trinity in the world today is the ,holy ,ghost4 ,jesus has been here1 but he is not here now--that is1 in flesh and blood4 ,the ,holy ,ghost is here now4 ,when he leaves the world1 good-bye4 ,there was an old saint of ,god1 now in glory4 ,he was holding meetings one time and a young man came down the aisle and went so far as to ask him to pray for him4 ,he said3 ,let's settle it now1 but the young man refused and told him to pray for him4 ,years afterwards1 in ,philadelphia1 the old saint was in a hotel waiting for his card to be taken up to the man he wanted to see4 ,he looked in the bar-room door4 ,there was a young man ordering a drink4 ,the two saw each other's reflections in the ,french plate behind the bar1 and the young man came out and said3 ,how do you do8 ,the old man spoke to him4 ,the young fellow said3 ,i suppose you don't remember me8 and the old saint had to admit that he did not4 ,the young fellow asked him if he remembered the meeting eleven years before in ,new ,york when a young man came down the aisle and asked him to pray for him4 ,he said he was the young man4 ,the old saint said3 ,from what ,i have just seen ,i would suppose that you did not settle it4 ,the young fellow said3 ,i did not and ,i never expect to4 ,i believe there is a hell and ,i'm going there as fast as ,i can go4 ,the old man begged him to keep still1 but he said3 ,it is true4 ,if ,jesus ,christ would come through that door now ,i would spit in his face4 ,the old man said3 ,don't talk that way4 ,i would not stand to have you talk about my wife that way1 and ,i will not stand it to have you talk about ,christ that way4 ,the young fellow said it was all true4 ,the old fellow said3 ,maybe it is all true1 but ,i do not like to hear it4 ,the young fellow said it was true1 and that if he had a ,bible he would tear it up4 ,with a string of oaths he went to the bar1 took two or three drinks and went out the door4 ,sometimes it may be utter1 absolute indifference4 ,some can hear any sermon and any song and not be moved4 ,i'll venture that some of you have not been convicted of sin for twenty-five years4 ,back yonder the ,spirit of ,god convicted you and you didn't yield4 ,the first place ,i ever preached1 in the little town of ,garner1 in ,hancock county1 ,iowa1 a man came down the aisle4 ,i said1 ,who's that8 and someone told me that he was one of the richest men in the county4 ,i asked him what ,i had said to help him1 and he said nothing4 ,then he told me that twenty-one years ago he had gone to ,chicago and sold his stock four hours before he had to catch a train4 ,moody was in town and with a friend he had gone and stood inside the door1 listening to the sermon4 ,when ,moody gave the invitation he handed his coat and hat to his friend and said he was going down to give ,moody his hand4 ,the friend told him not to do it1 that he would miss his train1 and then the railroad pass would be no good after that day4 ,he said he could afford to pay his way home4 ,his friend told him not to go up there amid all the excitement1 but to wait and settle it at home4 ,he said he had waited thirty-five years and hadn't settled it at home1 but the friend persisted against his going forward and giving his heart to ,god4 ,finally the time passed and they had to catch the train and the man hadn't gone forward4 ,he told me that he had never had a desire to give his heart to ,god until that time1 twenty-one years later1 when he heard me preach4 ,the ,spirit called him when he heard ,moody1 and then the ,spirit did not call him again until twenty-one years later1 when he heard me4 ,i have never said and ,i never will say that all unbelievers died in agony4 ,man ordinarily dies as he has lived4 ,if you have lived in unbelief1 ninety-nine cases out of one hundred you'll die that way4 ,if ,christianity is a good thing to die with it is a good thing to live with4 ,death-bed ,confessions ,i don't go much on these death-bed confessions4 ,a death-bed confession is like burning a candle at both ends and then blowing the smoke in the face of ,jesus4 ,a death-bed confession is like drinking the cup of life and then offering the dregs to ,christ4 ,i think it is one of the most contemptible1 miserable1 low-down1 unmanly and unwomanly things that you can do1 to keep your life in your own control until the last moment and then try to creep into the kingdom on account of the long-suffering and mercy of ,jesus ,christ4 ,i don't say that none is genuine4 ,but there is only one on record in the ,bible1 and that was the first time the dying thief had ever heard of ,christ1 and he accepted at once4 ,so your case is not analogous to this4 ,you have wagon loads of sermons dumped into you1 but it's a mighty hard thing to accept in the last moment4 ,if you've lived without conviction1 your friends ought not to get mad when the preacher preaches your funeral sermon1 if he doesn't put you in the front row in heaven1 with a harp in your hands and a crown on your head4 ,god can forgive sins but you have got to comply with his requirements4 ,he is not willing that any shall perish1 but he has a right to tell me and you what to do to be saved4 ,a doctor had been a practitioner for sixty years and he was asked how many ,godless men he had seen show any trace of concern on their death-bed4 ,he said he had kept track of three hundred and only three had shown any real concern4 ,that is appalling to me4 ,you ordinarily die as you have lived4 ,a minister was called to a house of shame to be with a dying girl in her last moments4 ,he prayed and then looked at her face and saw no signs of hope of repentance4 ,he was led to pray again and this time he was led to put in a verse of scripture1 ,isaiah #a3ah3 ,come now and let us reason together1 saith the ,lord3 ,though your sins be as scarlet1 they shall be as white as snow2 though they be red like crimson1 they shall be as wool4 ,is that what the ,bible says8 the girl asked4 ,he said it was4 ,would you let me see it8 and the minister pointed it out to her4 ,would you pray again and put in that verse8 the girl asked and as he started she called1 ,stop6 ,let me put my finger on that verse4 ,the minister prayed and when he looked again1 he saw hope and pardon and peace in the girl's face4 ,i'm so glad ,god made that 'scarlet1' she said1 for that means me4 ,all manner of sins ,god will forgive4 ,then tell me why you will not come when ,god says1 ,all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men4 ,great heavens6 ,i can't understand how you sit still4 ,but a man says3 ,bill1 will ,he forgive a murderer8 ,my hands are red with blood1 although no one knows it4 ,didn't ,i say he forgave ,paul8 ,a ,forgiving ,god ,a friend of mine was preaching in ,lansing1 ,michigan1 one time1 and in the middle section of the church there was a man who made him so nervous he couldn't watch him and preach4 ,nothing seemed to attract him until he said1 ,supposing there were a murderer here tonight1 ,god would forgive him if he accepted ,christ1 and the man grabbed the chair in front of him at the word murderer and sat rigid throughout the sermon1 never taking his eyes from my friend4 ,at the end of the meeting my friend went down to him and asked him what was the matter1 telling him that he had made him so nervous he could hardly preach4 ,the man said3 ,i'm a murderer4 ,i escaped through a technicality and ,i'm supporting the widow and children1 but ,i am a murderer4 ,my friend brought him to ,jesus ,christ and now that man is a power in the ,church4 ,all manner of sins ,god says he will forgive4 ,some say3 ,mr4 ,sunday1 why is it that so few aged sinners are converts8 ,infidels when asked this1 seize upon it as a plan of attack4 ,when ,god begins to show his power1 then the devil and all of the demons of hell get busy4 ,that's the best evidence in the world that these meetings are doing good1 when that bunch of knockers gets busy4 ,infidels sneer and say3 ,how does it happen that when a man's mind has developed through age and experience and contact with the world1 and he has passed the period of youthful enthusiasm1 how does it happen that so few of them are converted8 ,religion makes its appeal to your sensibility1 not to your intellect4 ,the way into the kingdom of heaven is heart first1 not head first4 ,god is not an explanation2 ,god is a revelation4 ,a grain of corn is a revelation1 but you can't explain it4 ,you know that if you put the vegetable kingdom in the mineral kingdom the vegetable will be born again1 but you can't explain it4 ,some of the greatest things are revelations4 ,therefore1 instead of being an argument against religion1 it is an argument for it4 ,don't you know that sixteen out of twenty who are converted are converted before they are twenty years old8 ,don't you know that eighteen out of thirty who are converted are converted before they are thirty years old8 ,don't you know that8 ,what does that prove8 ,it proves that if you are not converted before you are thirty years old the chances are about #ajj1jjj to one that you never will be converted4 ,power of ,revivals ,most people are converted at special revival services4 ,i want to hurl this in the teeth1 cram it down the throats of those who sneer at revival efforts--preachers included4 ,almost nine-tenths of the ,christians at this meeting were converted at a revival4 ,what does that show8 ,it shows that if you are thirty and have not been converted1 the chances are that if you are not converted at this revival you never will be converted4 ,if it weren't for revivals1 just think of what hell would be like4 ,then think of any low-down1 ,god-forsaken1 dirty gang knocking a revival4 ,god says3 ,you can spurn my love and trample the blood under your feet1 but if you seek my pardon ,i will forgive you4 ,you might have been indifferent to the appeals of the minister1 you might have been a thief1 or an adulterer1 or a blasphemer1 or a scoffer1 and all that1 but ,god says3 ,i will forgive you4 ,you might have been indifferent to the tears of poor wife and children and friends1 but if you will seek ,god he will forgive you4 ,but when ,he came down and revealed himself as the ,son of ,god through the ,holy ,spirit1 if you sneer and say it is not true1 your sin may become unpardonable4 ,if you don't settle it here you never will settle it anywhere else4 ,i will close with a word of comfort and a word of warning4 ,if you have a desire to be a ,christian it is proof that the devil hasn't got you yet4 ,that is the comfort4 ,now for the warning3 ,if you have that desire thank ,god for it and yield to it4 ,you may never have another chance4 ,,chapter ,,xxx ,eternity6 ,eternity6 ,i tell you a lot of people are going to be fooled on the ,day of ,judgment4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,only a man to whom has been given eloquence and a dramatic instinct can drive home to the average mind the realities of eternity and its relation to right living in this world and time4 ,under the title ,what ,shall the ,end ,be8 ,sunday has widely circulated his message upon this theme3 ,,what ,,shall ,,the ,,end ,,be8 ,no book ever came by luck or chance4 ,every book owes its existence to some being or beings1 and within the range and scope of human intelligence there are but three things--good1 bad and ,god4 ,all that originates in intellect2 all which the intellect can comprehend1 must come from one of the three4 ,this book1 the ,bible1 could not possibly be the product of evil1 wicked1 godless1 corrupt1 vile men1 for it pronounces the heaviest penalties against sin4 ,like produces like1 and if bad men were writing the ,bible they never would have pronounced condemnation and punishment against wrong-doing4 ,so that is pushed aside4 ,the holy men of old1 we are told1 spake as they were moved by the ,holy ,ghost4 ,men do not attribute these beautiful and matchless and well-arranged sentences to human intelligence alone1 but we are told that men spake as they were inspired by the ,holy ,ghost4 ,the only being left1 to whom you1 or ,i or any sensible person could ascribe the origin of the ,bible1 is ,god1 for here is a book1 the excellence of which rises above other books1 like mountains above molehills--a book whose brilliancy and life-giving power exceed the accumulated knowledge and combined efforts of men1 as the sun exceeds the lamp1 which is but a base imitation of the sun's glory4 ,here is a book that tells me where ,i came from and where ,i am going1 a book without which ,i would not know of my origin or destiny1 except as ,i might glean it from the dim outlines of reason or nature1 either or both of which would be unsatisfactory to me4 ,here is a book that tells me what to do and what not to do4 ,men ,believe in ,god ,most men believe in ,god4 ,now and then you find a man who doesn't1 and he's a fool1 for ,the fool hath said in his heart1 there is no ,god4 ,most men have sense4 ,occasionally you will find a fool1 or an infidel1 who doesn't believe in ,god4 ,most men believe in a ,god that will reward the right and punish the wrong2 therefore it is clear what attitude you ought to assume toward my message tonight1 for the message ,i bring to you is not from human reason or intelligence1 but from ,god's ,book4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,now listen1 and ,i will try to help you4 ,israel's condition was desperate4 ,peter told them that if they continued to break ,god's law1 they would merit his wrath4 ,i can imagine him crying out in the words of ,jeremiah3 ,what will you do in the swelling of the ,jordan8 ,i hear him cry in the words of ,solomon3 ,the way of the transgressor is hard4 ,that seems to have moved him1 and ,i can hear him cry in the words of my text3 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,there are those who did obey4 ,peter knew what their end would be--blessings here and eternal life hereafter--but he said1 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not8 ,a man said1 ,i cannot be a ,christian4 ,i cannot obey ,god4 ,that is not true4 ,that would make ,god out a demon and a wretch4 ,god says if you are not a ,christian you will be doomed4 ,if ,god asked mankind to do something1 and he knew when he asked them that they could not do it1 and he told them he would damn them if they didn't do it1 it would make ,god out a demon and a wretch1 and ,i will not allow you or any other man to stand up and insult my ,god4 ,you can be a ,christian if you want to1 and it is your cussedness that you are unwilling to give up that keeps you away from ,god4 ,supposing ,i should go on top of a building and say to my little baby boy1 ,fly up to me4 ,if he could talk1 he would say1 ,i can't4 ,and supposing ,i would say1 ,but you can2 if you don't1 ,i'll whip you to death4 ,when ,i asked him to do it1 ,i knew he couldn't1 yet ,i told him ,i would whip him to death if he didn't1 and in saying that ,i would1 as an earthly father1 be just as reasonable as ,god would be if he should ask you to do something you couldn't do1 and though he knew when he asked you that you couldn't do it1 nevertheless would damn you if you didn't do it4 ,don't tell ,god you can't4 ,just say you don't want to be a ,christian1 that's the way to be a man4 ,just say1 ,i don't want to be decent2 ,i don't want to quit cussing2 ,i don't want to quit booze-fighting2 ,i don't want to quit lying2 ,i don't want to quit committing adultery4 ,if ,i should be a ,christian ,i would have to quit all these things1 and ,i don't want to do it4 ,tell ,god you are not man enough to be a ,christian4 ,don't try to saddle it off on the ,lord4 ,you don't want to do it1 that's all2 that's the trouble with you4 ,at the ,cross ,a man in a town in ,ohio came and handed one of the ministers a letter1 and he said1 ,i want you to read that when you get home4 ,when the minister got home he opened it and it read like this3 ,i was at the meeting last night1 and somehow or other1 the words ',what shall the end be8' got hold of me1 and troubled me4 ,i went to bed1 but couldn't sleep4 ,i got up and went to my library4 ,i took down my books on infidelity and searched them through and searched through the writings of ,voltaire1 and ,darwin1 and ,spencer1 and ,strauss1 and ,huxley1 and ,tyndall1 and through the lectures of ,ingersoll1 but none of them could answer the cry and longing of my heart1 and ,i turn to you4 ,is there help8 ,where will ,i find it8 ,and that man found it where every man ever has1 or ever will find it1 down at the ,cross of ,jesus ,christ1 and ,i have been praying ,god that might be the experience of many a man and woman in this ,tabernacle4 ,ever since ,god saved my soul and sent me out to preach1 ,i have prayed him to enable me to pronounce two words1 and put into those words all they will mean to you2 if they ever become a reality1 ,god pity you4 ,one word is ,lost1 and the other is ,eternity4 ,ten thousand years from now we will all be somewhere4 ,ten thousand times ten thousand times ten thousand years1 the eternity has just begun4 ,increase the multiple and you will only increase the truth4 ,if ,god should commission a bird to carry this earth1 particle by particle1 to yonder planet1 making a round trip once in a thousand years1 and if1 after the bird had performed that task ,god should prolong its life1 and it would carry the world back1 particle by particle1 making a round trip once in a thousand years1 and put everything back as it was originally1 after it had accomplished its task1 you would have been five minutes in eternity2 and yet you sit there with just a heart-beat between you and the judgment of ,god4 ,i have been praying that ,god would enable me to pronounce those two words and put in them all they will mean to you1 that ,i might startle you from your lethargy4 ,i prayed ,god1 too1 that he might give me some new figure of speech tonight1 that he might impress my mind1 that ,i1 in turn1 might impress your mind in such a manner that ,i could startle you from your indifference and sin1 until you would rush to ,jesus4 ,the ,judgment of ,god ,what is your life8 ,a hand's breadth--yes1 a hair's breadth--yes1 one single heart-beat1 and you are gone1 and yet you sit with the judgment of ,god hovering over you4 ,what shall the end be8 ,i never met any man or woman in my life who disbelieved in ,christianity but could not be classified under one of these two headings4 ,first--,they who1 because of an utter disregard of ,god's claims upon their lives1 have1 by and through that disregard1 become poltroons1 marplots or degenerate scoundrels1 and have thrown themselves beyond the pale of ,god's mercy4 ,second--,men and women with splendid1 noble and magnificent abilities1 which they have allowed to become absorbed in other matters1 and they do not give to the subjects of religion so much as passing attention4 ,they have the audacity to claim for themselves an intellectual superiority to those who believe the ,bible1 which they sneeringly term 'that superstition4' ,but1 listen6 ,i will challenge you4 ,if you will bring to religion or to the divinity of ,jesus1 or the salvation of your soul1 the same honest inquiry you demand of yourself in other matters1 you will know ,god is ,god2 you will know the ,bible is the ,word of ,god1 and you will know that ,jesus ,christ is the ,son of ,god4 ,you will know that you are a sinner on the road to hell1 and you will turn from your sins4 ,but you don't give to religion1 you don't demand of yourself1 the same amount of research that you would demand of yourself if you were going to buy a piece of property1 to find out whether or not the title was perfect4 ,you wouldn't buy it if you didn't know the title was without a flaw1 and yet you will pass the ,bible by and claim you have more sense than the person who does investigate and finds out1 accepts and is saved4 ,glad ,tidings to ,all ,what is the ,gospel that the people ought to obey it8 ,it is good news1 glad tidings of salvation1 through ,jesus ,christ4 ,oh1 but somebody says1 do you call the news of that book that ,i am on the road to hell1 good news8 ,no1 sir2 that in itself is not good news1 but since it is the truth1 the sooner you find out the better it will be for you4 ,supposing you are wandering1 lost in a swamp1 and a man would come to you and say3 ,you are lost4 ,that wouldn't help you4 ,but supposing the man said3 ,you are lost2 ,i am a guide2 ,i know the way out4 ,if you put yourself in my care1 ,i will lead you back to your home1 back to your loved ones4 ,that would meet your condition4 ,now ,god doesn't tell you that you are lost1 and on the road to hell1 and then leave you1 but he tells you that you are on the road to hell1 and he says1 ,i have sent a guide1 my ,son1 to lead you out1 and to lead you back to peace and salvation4 ,that's good news1 that ,god is kind enough to tell you that you are lost1 and on the road to hell1 and that he sends a guide1 who1 if you will submit1 will lead you out of your condition and lead you to peace and salvation4 ,that's gospel2 that's good news that tells a man that he needn't go to hell unless he wants to4 ,when the ,israelites were bitten by the serpents in the wilderness1 wasn't it good news for them to know that ,moses had raised up a brazen serpent and bid them all to look and be healed8 ,when the flood came1 wasn't it good news for ,noah to know that he would be saved in the ark8 ,when the city of ,jericho was going to fall1 wasn't it good news to ,rahab4 ,she had been kind and had hid two of ,god's servants who were being pursued as spies4 ,they were running across the housetops to get away to the wall to drop down1 and ,rahab covered them1 on top of her house1 with grass and corn1 and when the men came they could not find them4 ,after the men had gone1 ,rahab gave them cord and lowered them down the wall1 and ,god said to her1 ,because you did that for my servants1 ,i will save you and your household when ,i take the city of ,jericho4 ,what ,i want you to do is to hang a scarlet line out of your window and ,i will save all that are under your roof4 ,wasn't it good news to her to know that she and all her household would be saved by hanging a scarlet line out of the window8 ,never has such news been published4 ,thou shalt call his name ,jesus1 for he shall save his people from their sins4 ,it was good news1 but never has such news reached the world as that man need not go to hell1 for ,god has provided redemption for them that will accept of it and be saved4 ,illustration3 ,,rev4 ,l4 ,k4 ,,peacock1 ,,one ,,of ,,mr4 ,,sunday',s ,,assistants1 ,,preaching ,,in ,a ,,machine ,,shop ,,in ,,one ,,of ,,the ,,noonday ,,meetings ,,that ,,form ,,an ,,important ,,part ,,of ,,all ,,campaigns4 ,supposing a man owed you #e1jjj and he had nothing to pay it with4 ,you would seize him and put him in jail1 and supposing while there1 your own son would come and say3 ,father1 how much does he owe you8 ,five thousand dollars4 ,and your son would pay it and the man would be released4 ,ah1 my friends1 hear me6 ,we were all mortgaged to ,god1 had nothing with which to pay1 and inflexible justice seized upon us and put us in the prison of condemnation4 ,god took pity on us4 ,he looked around to find some one to pay our debts4 ,jesus ,christ stepped forward and said3 ,i'll go2 ,i'll become bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh4 ,god gave man the ,mosaic law4 ,man broke the law4 ,if a ,jew violated the law he was compelled to bring a turtle dove1 or pigeon1 or heifer1 or bullock to the high priest for a sacrifice1 and the shedding of its blood made atonement for his sins4 ,once a year the high priest would kill the sacrifice1 putting it on the altar4 ,that made atonement for the sins of the people during the year4 ,then they would put their hand on the head of the scape-goat1 and lead it out into the wilderness4 ,the ,atonement of ,christ ,jesus ,christ came into the world1 born of a woman4 ,when he shed his blood1 he made atonement for our sins4 ,god says1 ,if you will accept ,jesus ,christ as your ,saviour1 ,i will put it to your credit as though you kept the law4 ,and it's ,jesus ,christ or hell for every man or woman on ,god ,almighty's dirt4 ,there is no other way whereby you can be saved4 ,it's good news that you don't have to go to hell1 unless you want to4 ,when the ,north ,german ,lloyd steamer1 the ,elbe1 went down in the ,north ,sea1 years and years ago1 only nineteen of her passengers and crew were saved4 ,among them was a county commissioner who lived in ,cleveland1 ,ohio1 and when he reached the little ,english town he sent a cablegram to his wife1 in which he said1 ,the ,elbe is lost2 ,i am saved4 ,she crumpled that cablegram1 ran down the street to her neighbors1 and as she ran she waved it above her head and cried1 ,he's saved6 ,he's saved6 ,that cablegram is framed1 and hangs upon the walls of their beautiful ,euclid ,avenue home4 ,it was good news to her that he whom she loved was saved4 ,good news ,i bring you4 ,good news ,i bring you1 people4 ,you need not go to hell if you will accept the ,christ that ,i preach to you4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel8 ,and the gospel of ,god is1 ,repent or you will go to hell4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel8 ,what is the gospel1 and what is it to obey the gospel8 ,we have seen that it is good news2 now what is it to obey8 ,what was it for ,israel to obey8 ,look at the brazen serpent on the pole4 ,what was it for ,noah to obey8 ,build the ark and get into it4 ,what was it for ,rahab to obey8 ,hang a scarlet line out of the window1 and ,god would pass her by when he took the city of ,jericho4 ,all that was obeying4 ,it was believing ,god's message and obeying4 ,ah6 ,i see a man4 ,he walks to the banks of the ,seine1 in ,paris1 to end his life4 ,he walked to the bank four times1 but he didn't plunge in4 ,he filled a cup with poison1 three times raised it to his lips1 but he did not drink4 ,he cocked the pistol1 put it against his temple4 ,he did that twice1 but he didn't pull the trigger4 ,he heard the story of ,jesus ,christ and dropped on his knees1 and ,william ,cowper wrote3 ,god moves in a mysterious way1 ,his wonders to perform2 ,he plants his footsteps in the sea1 ,and rides upon the storm4 ,there is a fountain filled with blood1 ,drawn from ,immanuel's veins2 ,and sinners plunged beneath that flood1 ,lose all their guilty strains4 ,so that's what you found1 is it1 ,cowper8 ,i go to ,bridgeport1 ,connecticut4 ,i rap at a humble home and walk into the presence of ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby1 the blind hymn-writer4 ,she has written over six thousand hymns4 ,she never saw the light of day1 was born blind1 and ,i say to her1 ,oh1 ,miss ,crosby1 tell me that ,i may tell the people what you have found by trusting in the finished work of ,jesus ,christ8 ,you have sat in darkness for ninety-four years2 tell me1 ,miss ,crosby4 ,and that face lights up like a halo of glory2 those sightless eyes flash1 and she cries3 ,blessed assurance1 ,jesus is mine2 ,oh1 what a foretaste of glory divine6 ,pass me not1 ,o gentle ,saviour1 ,hear my humble cry6 ,jesus keep me near the cross1 ,there's a precious fountain4 ,once ,i was blind1 but now ,i can see1 ,the light of the world is ,jesus4 ,and ,i shall see ,him1 face to face1 ,and tell the story1 ,saved by ,grace4 ,i go to ,wesley as he walks along the banks of a stream1 while the storm raged1 the lightning flashed and the thunder roared4 ,the birds were driven1 in fright1 from their refuge in the boughs of the trees4 ,a little bird took refuge in his coat4 ,wesley held it tenderly1 walked home1 put it in a cage1 kept it until morning1 carried it out1 opened the door and watched it as it circled around and shot off for its mountain home4 ,he returned to his house and wrote3 ,jesus1 lover of my soul1 ,let me to thy bosom fly4 ,what have you found by trusting in the finished work of ,jesus ,christ8 ,god's ,word ,it is said of ,napoleon that one day he was riding in review before his troops1 when the horse upon which he sat became unmanageable1 seized the bit in his teeth1 dashed down the road and the life of the famous warrior was in danger4 ,a private1 at the risk of his life1 leaped out and seized the runaway horse1 while ,napoleon1 out of gratitude1 raised in the stirrups1 saluted and said1 ,thank you1 captain4 ,the man said1 ,captain of what1 sir8 ,captain of my ,life ,guards1 sir1 said he4 ,illustration3 ,,captain ,,of ,,my ,,life ,,guards1 ,,sir ,the man stepped over to where the ,life ,guards were in consultation and they ordered him back into the ranks4 ,he refused to go and issued orders to the officer by saying1 ,i am ,captain of the ,guards4 ,thinking him insane1 they ordered his arrest and were dragging him away1 when ,napoleon rode up and the man said1 ,i am ,captain of the ,guards because the ,emperor said so4 ,and ,napoleon arose and said1 ,yes1 ,captain of my ,life ,guards4 ,loose him1 sir2 loose him4 ,i am a ,christian because ,god says so1 and ,i did what he told me to do1 and ,i stand on ,god's ,word and if that book goes down1 ,i'll go down with it4 ,if ,god goes down1 ,i'll go with him1 and if there were any other kind of ,god1 except that ,god1 ,i would have been shipwrecked long ago4 ,twenty-seven years ago in ,chicago ,i piled all ,i had1 my reputation1 my character1 my wife1 children1 home2 ,i staked my soul1 everything ,i had1 on the ,god of that ,bible1 and the ,christ of that ,bible1 and ,i won4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,hear me6 ,there are three incomprehensibilities to me4 ,don't think there are only three things ,i don't know1 or don't you think that ,i think there are only three things ,i don't know4 ,i say1 there are three things that ,i cannot comprehend4 ,eternity and ,space ,first--,eternity2 that something away off yonder1 somewhere4 ,you will think it will end4 ,it leads on1 on1 on and on4 ,i can take a billion1 ,i can subtract a million2 ,i can take a million or a billion1 or a quadrillion1 or a septillion of years from eternity1 and ,i haven't as much as disturbed its original terms4 ,minds trained to deal with intricate problems will go reeling back in their utter inability to comprehend eternity4 ,and there is space4 ,when you go out tonight1 look up at the moon1 #bdj1jjj miles away4 ,walking forty miles a day1 ,i could reach the moon in seventeen years1 but the moon is one of our near neighbors4 ,ah1 you saw the sun today1 #ib1ijj1jjj miles away4 ,i couldn't walk to the sun4 ,if ,i could charter a fast train1 going fifty miles an hour1 it would take the train two hundred and fifteen years to reach the sun4 ,in the early morn you will see a star1 near the sun--,mercury--#ia1jjj1jjj miles away2 travels around the sun once in eighty-eight days1 going at the speed of #aaj1jjj miles an hour1 as it swings in its orbit4 ,next is ,venus2 she is beautiful2 #afj1jjj1jjj miles away1 travels around the sun once in #bbd days1 going at the rate of #gi1jjj miles an hour1 as she swings in her orbit4 ,then comes the earth1 the planet upon which we live1 and as you sit there1 this old earth travels around the sun once in #cfe days1 or one calendar year1 going at the speed of #fh1jjj miles an hour1 and as you sit there and ,i stand here1 this old planet is swinging in her orbit #fh1jjj miles an hour1 and she is whirling on her axis nineteen miles a second4 ,by force of gravity we are held from falling into illimitable space4 ,yonder is ,mars1 #bfj1jjj1jjj miles away4 ,travels around the sun once in #fhg days1 or about two years1 going at the speed of #di1jjj miles an hour4 ,who knows but that it is inhabited by a race unsullied by sin1 untouched by death8 ,yonder another1 old ,jupiter1 champion of the skies1 sashed and belted around with vapors of light4 ,jupiter1 #dhj1jjj1jjj miles away1 travels around the sun once in twelve years1 going at the speed of #cj1jjj miles an hour4 ,i need something faster than an express train1 going fifty miles an hour1 or a cyclone1 going one hundred miles an hour4 ,if ,i could charter a ,pullman palace car and couple it to a ray of light1 which travels at the speed of #aib1jjj miles a second--if ,i could attach my ,pullman palace car to a ray of light1 ,i could go to ,jupiter and get back tomorrow morning for breakfast at nine o'clock1 but ,jupiter is one of our near neighbors4 ,yonder is old ,saturn1 #hhe1jjj1jjj miles away4 ,travels around the sun once in twenty years1 going at the speed of #ba1jjj miles an hour4 ,away yonder1 ,i catch a faint glimmer of another stupendous world1 as it swings in its tireless and prodigious journey4 ,old ,uranus1 #a1ghj1jjj1jjj miles away4 ,travels around the sun once in eighty-four years1 going at the speed of two hundred and fifty miles an hour4 ,as the distance of the planets from the sun increases1 their velocity in their orbit correspondingly decreases4 ,i say is that all8 ,i hurry to ,chicago and take the ,northwestern4 ,i rush out to ,lake ,geneva1 ,wisconsin1 ,i climb into the ,yerkes observatory1 and ,i turn the most ponderous telescope in the world to the skies1 and away out on the frontier of the universe1 on the very outer rim of the world1 ,i catch a faint glimmer of ,neptune1 #b1gij1jjj1jjj miles away4 ,travels around the sun once in one hundred and sixty-four years1 going at the speed of two hundred and ten miles an hour4 ,if ,i could step on the deck of a battleship and aim a #ac-;inch gun1 and that projectile will travel #a1ejj miles in a minute1 it would take it three hundred and sixty years to reach that planet4 ,away out yonder is ,alpha ,centauri4 ,if ,i would attach my palace car to a ray of light and go at the speed of #aib1jjj miles a second1 it would take me three years to reach that planet4 ,an express train1 going thirty miles an hour1 would be #hj1jjj1jjj years pulling into ,union depot at ,alpha ,centauri4 ,yonder1 the ,polar or the ,north star4 ,traveling at a rate of speed of #aib1jjj miles a second1 it would take me forty-five years to reach that planet4 ,and if ,i would go to the depot and buy a railroad ticket to the ,north star1 and pay three cents a mile1 it would cost me #gbj1jjj1jjj for railroad fare to go to that planet4 ,oh1 ,god1 what is man1 that thou art mindful of him8 ,and the fool1 the fool1 the fool hath said in his heart1 ,there is no ,god4 ,i'm not an infidel1 because ,i am no fool4 ,the ,heavens declare the glory of ,god and the firmament showeth his handiwork4 ,i don't believe an infidel ever looked through a telescope or studied astronomy4 ,what is man1 that thou are mindful of him8 ,these are days when it is ,big man1 little ,god4 ,these are days when it is gigantic ,i1 and pigmy ,god4 ,these are days when it is ,ponderous man1 infinitesimal ,god4 ,there are #a1djj1jjj1jjj people on earth4 ,you are one of that number1 so am ,i4 ,none of us amount to much4 ,what do you or ,i amount to out of #a1djj1jjj1jjj people8 ,if ,i could take an auger and bore a hole in the top of the sun1 ,i could pour into the sun #a1djj1jjj1jjj worlds the size of the planet upon which we live1 and there would be room in the sun for more4 ,then think of the world1 and ,god made that world1 the ,god that you cuss1 the ,god that wants to keep you out of hell1 the ,god whose ,son you have trampled beneath your feet4 ,if you take #a1djj1jjj1jjj1 multiply it by #a1djj1jjj1 multiply that by #a1jjj1jjj1 multiply that by millions1 multiply that by infinity1 that's ,god4 ,if you take #a1djj1jjj1jjj1 subtract #a1djj1jjj1 subtract millions1 subtract1 subtract1 subtract1 subtract on down1 that's you4 ,if ever a man appears like a consummate ass and an idiot1 it's when he says he don't believe in a ,god or tries to tell ,god his plan of redemption don't appeal to him4 ,god's ,infinite ,love ,and the third3 ,the third is the love of ,god to a lost and sin-cursed world and man's indifference to ,god's love4 ,how he has trampled ,god's love beneath his feet1 ,i don't understand4 ,i don't understand why you have grown gray-haired1 and are not a ,christian4 ,i don't understand why you know right from wrong1 and still are not a ,christian4 ,i don't understand it4 ,listen6 ,what is it to obey the ,gospel8 ,the ,gospel is good news1 and to obey it is to believe in ,jesus4 ,what is it not to obey8 ,what was the end of those who weren't in the ark with ,noah8 ,they found a watery grave4 ,what was the end of those who didn't look at the brazen serpent in the wilderness8 ,they died4 ,what was the end of those who were not with ,rahab when she hung out the scarlet line8 ,they perished4 ,when a man starts on a journey he has one object in view--the end4 ,a journey is well1 if it ends well4 ,we are all on a journey to eternity4 ,what will be the end8 ,my text doesn't talk about the present4 ,your present is1 or may be1 an enviable position in church1 club life1 or commercial life1 lodge1 politics2 your presence may be sought after to grace every social gathering4 ,god doesn't care about that4 ,what shall the end be8 ,when all that is gone1 when pleasures pass away1 and sorrow and weeping and wailing take their place1 what shall the end be8 ,illustration3 ,,snowballing ,,in ,,june4 ,,billy ,,sunday ,,and ,,party ,,on ,,pike',s ,,peak4 ,some people deny that their suffering in the other world will be eternal fire4 ,do you think your scoffs can extinguish the flames of hell8 ,do you think you can annihilate hell because you don't believe in it8 ,we have a few people who say1 ,matter is non-existent1 but that doesn't do away with the fact that matter is existent1 just because we have some people who haven't sense enough to see it4 ,you say1 ,i don't believe there is a hell4 ,well1 there is1 whether you believe it or not4 ,you say1 ,i don't believe ,jesus ,christ is the ,son of ,god4 ,well1 he is1 whether you believe it or not4 ,some people say1 ,i don't believe there is a heaven4 ,there is1 whether you believe it or not4 ,you say1 ,i don't believe the ,bible is the ,word of ,god4 ,well1 it is1 and your disbelief does not change the fact1 and the sooner you wake up to that the better for you4 ,i might say that ,i don't believe ,george ,washington ever lived4 ,i never saw him1 but it wouldn't do away with the fact that he did live1 and ,george ,washington lies buried on the banks of the ,potomac4 ,you say you don't believe there is a hell1 but that doesn't do away with the fact that there is a hell4 ,what difference does it make whether the fire in hell is literal1 or the fittest emblem ,god could employ to describe to us the terrible punishment8 ,do you believe the streets of heaven are paved with literal gold8 ,do you believe that8 ,when we talk about gold we all have high and exalted ideas4 ,how do you know but that ,god said streets of gold in order to convey to us the highest ideal our minds could conceive of beauty8 ,it doesn't make any difference whether the gold on the streets in heaven is literal or not4 ,what difference does it make whether the fire in hell is literal or not8 ,when we talk about fire everybody shrinks from it4 ,suppose ,god used that term as figurative to convey to you the terror of hell4 ,you are a fool to test the reality of it4 ,it must be an awful place if ,god loved us well enough to give ,jesus to keep us out of there4 ,i don't want to go there4 ,preparing for ,eternity ,i said to a fellow one time1 ,don't you think that possibly there is a hell8 ,he said1 ,well1 yes1 possibly there may be a hell4 ,i said1 ,it's pretty good sense1 then1 to get ready for the maybe4 ,well1 just suppose there is a hell4 ,it's good sense to get ready1 then1 even for the maybe4 ,i don't look like a man that would die very quickly1 do ,i8 ,i have just as good a physique as you ever gazed at4 ,i wouldn't trade with any man ,i know4 ,a lot of you fellows are stronger than ,i1 but ,i have as good a physique as ever you looked at4 ,i have been preaching at this pace for fourteen years1 and ,i've stood it1 although ,i begin to feel myself failing a little bit4 ,but ,i don't look like a man who would die quickly1 do ,i8 ,but ,i may die1 and on that possibility ,i carry thousands of dollars of life insurance4 ,i don't believe that any man does right to himself1 his wife or his children if he doesn't provide for them with life insurance1 so when he is gone they will not be thrown upon the charity of the world4 ,and next to my faith1 if ,i should die tonight1 that which would give me the most comfort would be the knowledge that ,i have in a safe deposit vault in ,chicago life insurance papers1 paid up to date1 and my wife could cash in and she and the babies could listen to the wolves howl for a good many years4 ,i don't expect to die soon1 but ,i may die1 and on that may ,i carry thousands of dollars in life insurance4 ,i take a train to go home1 ,i don't expect the train to be wrecked1 but it may be wrecked1 and on that maybe ,i carry #aj1jjj a year in an accident policy4 ,it may go in the ditch4 ,that's good sense to get ready for the maybe4 ,are you a business man8 ,do you carry insurance on your stock8 ,yes4 ,on the building8 ,yes4 ,do you expect it to burn8 ,no1 sir4 ,but it may burn1 so you are ready for it4 ,every ship is compelled1 by law1 to carry life-preservers and life-boats equal to the passenger capacity4 ,they don't expect the ship to sink1 but it may sink and they are ready for the may4 ,all right4 ,there may be a hell4 ,i'm ready2 where do you get off at8 ,i have you beat any way you can look at it4 ,suppose there is no hell8 ,suppose that when we die that ends it8 ,i don't believe it does4 ,i believe there is a hell and ,i believe there is a heaven1 and just the kind of a heaven and hell that book says4 ,but suppose there is no hell8 ,suppose death is eternal sleep8 ,i believe the ,bible2 ,i believe its teachings2 ,i have the best of you in this life4 ,i will live longer1 be happier1 and have lost nothing by believing and obeying the ,bible1 even if there is no hell4 ,but suppose there is a hell8 ,then ,i'm saved and you are the fool4 ,i have you beat again4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,what will some do8 ,some will be stoical1 some will whimper1 some will turn for human sympathy4 ,let ,god answer the question4 ,you would quarrel with me4 ,a lake of fire and a furnace of fire4 ,in hell he lifted up his eyes1 being in torment4 ,eternal damnation4 ,the smoke of their torment ascendeth forever and ever4 ,let ,god answer the question4 ,what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,will you say1 ,god1 ,i didn't have time enough8 ,behold6 ,now is the accepted time4 ,will you say1 ,god1 ,i had no light8 ,but light is come into the world1 and men love darkness rather than light4 ,i stand on the shores of eternity and cry out1 ,eternity6 ,eternity6 ,how long1 how long art thou8 ,back comes the answer1 ,how long8 ,how long sometimes a day appears and weeks1 how long are they8 ,they move as if the months and years would never pass away2 ,but months and years are passing by1 and soon must all be gone1 ,day by day1 as the moments fly1 eternity comes on4 ,all these must have an end2 eternity has none1 ,it will always have as long to run as when it first begun4 ,what shall be the end of them that obey not the ,gospel of ,god8 ,when ,voltaire1 the famous infidel1 lay dying1 he summoned the physician and said1 ,doctor1 ,i will give you all ,i have to save my life six months4 ,the doctor said1 ,you can't live six hours4 ,then said ,voltaire1 ,i'll go to hell and you'll go with me4 ,a ,leap in the ,dark ,hobbes1 the famous ,english infidel1 said3 ,i am taking a leap into the night4 ,when ,king ,charles ,,ix1 who gave the order for the massacre of ,st4 ,bartholomew's day1 when blood ran like water and #acj1jjj fell dead1 when ,king ,charles lay dying1 he cried out1 ,o ,god1 how will it end8 ,blood1 blood1 rivers of blood4 ,i am lost6 ,and with a shriek he leaped into hell4 ,king ,philip of ,spain said2 ,i wish to ,god ,i had never lived1 and then in a sober thought he said3 ,yes1 ,i wish ,i had1 but that ,i had lived in the fear and love of ,god4 ,wesley said1 ,i shall be satisfied when ,i awake in ,his likeness4 ,florence ,a4 ,foster said1 ,mother1 the hilltops are covered with angels2 they beckon me homeward2 ,i bid you good-bye4 ,frances ,e4 ,willard cried1 ,how beautiful to die and be with ,god4 ,moody cried3 ,earth recedes1 heaven opens1 ,god is calling me4 ,this is to be my coronation day4 ,going to the ,world's ,fair in ,chicago1 a special train on the ,grand ,trunk1 going forty miles an hour1 dashed around a curve at ,battle ,creek1 and headed in on a sidetrack where a freight train stood4 ,the rear brakeman had forgotten to close the switch and the train rounded the curve1 dashed into the open switch and struck the freight train loaded with iron1 and there was an awful wreck4 ,the cars telescoped and the flames rushed out4 ,pinioned in the wreck1 with steel girders bent around her1 was a woman who lived in ,new ,york4 ,her name was ,mrs4 ,van ,dusen4 ,she removed her diamond ear-rings1 took her gold watch and chain from about her neck1 slipped her rings from her fingers and handing out her purse gave her husband's address1 and then said3 ,gentlemen1 stand back6 ,i am a ,christian and ,i will die like a ,christian4 ,they leaped to their task4 ,they tore like demons to liberate her and she started to sing1 ,my heavenly home is bright and fair4 ,i'm going to die no more4 ,strong men1 who had looked into the cannon's mouth1 fainted4 ,she cried out1 above the roar of the wind and the shrieks of the dying men1 ,oh1 men1 don't imperil your lives for me4 ,i am a ,christian and ,i will die like a ,christian6 ,stand back1 men1 and then she began to sing1 ,nearer1 ,my ,god1 to ,thee4 ,the ,end ,thereof ,there is a way that seemeth right unto man1 but the end thereof are the ways of death4 ,moses may have made some mistakes1 but ,i want to tell you ,moses never made a mistake when he wrote these words3 ,their rock is not as our ,rock1 even our enemies themselves being the judges4 ,he never made a mistake when he wrote these words4 ,i say to you1 you are going to live on and on until the constellations of the heavens are snuffed out4 ,you are going to live on and on until the rocks crumble into dust through age4 ,you are going to live on and on and on1 until the mountain peaks are incinerated and blown by the breath of ,god to the four corners of infinity4 ,what shall the end be8 ,listen6 ,listen6 ,i used to live in ,pennsylvania and of the many wonderful things for which this wonderful state has been noted1 not the least is the fact that most always she has had godly men for governors1 and one of the most magnificent examples of godly piety that ever honored this state was ,governor ,pollock4 ,when he was governor1 a young man1 in a drunken brawl1 shot a companion4 ,he was tried and sentenced to be executed4 ,they circulated a petition1 brought it to ,harrisburg to the governor1 and the committee that waited upon the governor1 among them some of his own friends1 pleaded with him to commute the sentence to life imprisonment4 ,governor ,pollock listened to their pleadings and said1 ,gentlemen1 ,i can't do it4 ,the law must take its course4 ,then the ministers--,catholic and ,protestant--brought a petition1 and among the committee was the governor's own pastor4 ,he approached him in earnestness1 put a hand on either shoulder1 begged1 prayed to ,god to give him wisdom to grant the request4 ,governor ,pollock listened to their petition1 tears streamed down his cheeks and he said1 ,gentlemen1 ,i can't do it4 ,i can't2 ,i can't4 ,at last the boy's mother came4 ,her eyes were red1 her cheeks sunken1 her lips ashen1 her hair disheveled1 her clothing unkempt1 her body tottering from the loss of food and sleep4 ,broken-hearted1 she reeled1 staggered and dragged herself into the presence of the governor4 ,she pleaded for her boy4 ,she said1 ,oh1 governor1 let me die4 ,oh1 governor1 let him go2 let me behind the bars4 ,oh1 governor1 ,i beg of you to let my boy go2 don't1 don't hang him6 ,and ,governor ,pollock listened4 ,she staggered to his side1 put her arms around him4 ,he took her arms from his shoulder1 held her at arms' length1 looked into her face and said to her3 ,mother1 mother1 ,i can't do it1 ,i can't1 and he ran from her presence4 ,she screamed and fell to the floor and they carried her out4 ,governor ,pollock said to his secretary1 ,john1 if ,i can't pardon him ,i can tell him how to die4 ,he went to the cell1 opened ,god's ,word1 prayed1 talked of ,jesus4 ,heaven bent near1 the angels waited1 and then on lightning wing sped back to glory with the glad tidings that a soul was born again4 ,and the governor left1 wishing him well for the ordeal4 ,shortly after he had gone1 the prisoner said to the watchman1 ,who was that man that talked and prayed with me8 ,he said1 ,great ,god1 man1 don't you know8 ,that was ,governor ,pollock4 ,he threw his hands to his head and cried3 ,my ,god6 ,my ,god6 ,the governor here and ,i didn't know it8 ,why didn't you tell me that was the governor and ,i would have thrown my arms about him1 buried my fingers in his flesh and would have said1 ',governor1 ,i'll not let you go unless you pardon me2 ,i'll not let you go4' ,a few days later1 when he stood at the scaffold1 feet strapped1 hands tied1 noose about his neck1 black cap and shroud on1 just before the trap was sprung he cried1 ,my ,god6 ,the governor there and ,i-- ,he shot down4 ,you can't stand before ,god in the ,judgment and say1 ,jesus1 were you down there in the tabernacle8 ,in my home8 ,in my lodge8 ,did you want to save me8 ,behold6 ,behold6 ,a greater than the governor is here4 ,jesus ,christ1 the ,son of ,god1 and he waits to be gracious4 ,what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,,chapter ,,xxxi ,our ,long ,home ,don't let ,god hang a ,for ,rent sign on the mansion that has been prepared for you in heaven4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,vivid1 literal and comforting1 is ,sunday's portrayal of the ,christian's long home4 ,he is one of the few preachers who depict heaven so that it ministers to earth4 ,countless thousands of ,christians have been comforted by his realistic pictures of the land that is fairer than day4 ,,heaven ,what do ,i want most of all8 ,a man in ,chicago said to me one day1 ,if ,i could have all ,i wanted of any one thing ,i would take money4 ,he would be a fool1 and so would you if you would make a similar choice4 ,there's lots of things money can't do4 ,money can't buy life2 money can't buy health4 ,andrew ,carnegie says1 ,anyone who can assure men ten years of life can name his price4 ,if you should meet with an accident which would require a surgical operation or your life would be despaired of1 there is not a man here but would gladly part with all the money he has if that would give him the assurance that he could live twelve months longer4 ,if you had all the money in the world you couldn't go to the graveyard and put those loved ones back in your arms and have them sit once more in the family circle and hear their voices and listen to their prattle4 ,illustration3 ,,ha6 ,,ha6 ,,old ,,skeptic1 ,i',,ve ,,got ,,you ,,beat4 ,a steamer tied up at her wharf1 having just returned from an expedition1 and as the people walked down the plank their friends met them to congratulate them on their success or encourage them through their defeat4 ,down came a man ,i used to know in ,fargo1 ,s4 ,d4 ,friends rushed up and said1 ,why1 we hear that you were very fortunate4 ,yes1 wife and ,i left here six months ago with hardly anything4 ,now we have #cej1jjj in gold dust in the hold of the ship4 ,then somebody looked around and said1 ,mr4 ,l----1 where is your little boy8 ,the tears rolled down his cheeks and he said1 ,we left him buried on the banks of the ,yukon beneath the snow and ice1 and we would gladly part with all the gold1 if we only had our boy4 ,but all the wealth of the ,klondike could not open the grave and put that child back in their arms4 ,money can't buy the peace of ,god that passeth understanding4 ,money can't take the sin out of your life4 ,is there any particular kind of life you would like8 ,if you could live one hundred years you wouldn't want to die1 would you8 ,i wouldn't4 ,i think there is always something the matter with a fellow that wants to die4 ,i want to stay as long as ,god will let me stay1 but when ,god's time comes for me to go ,i'm ready1 any hour of the day or night4 ,god can waken me at midnight or in the morning and ,i'm ready to respond4 ,but if ,i could live a million years ,i'd like to stay4 ,i don't want to die4 ,i'm having a good time4 ,god made this world for us to have a good time in4 ,it's nothing but sin that has damned the world and brought it to misery and corruption4 ,god wants you to have a good time4 ,well1 then1 how can ,i get this life that you want and everybody wants1 eternal life8 ,if you are ill the most natural thing for you to do is to go for your doctor4 ,you say1 ,i don't want to die4 ,can you help me8 ,he looks at you and says1 ,i have a hundred patients on my hands1 all asking the same thing4 ,not one of them wants to die4 ,they ask me to use my skill and bring to bear all ,i have learned1 but ,i can't fight back death4 ,i can prescribe for your malady1 but ,i can't prevent death4 ,i1 ,too1 ,must ,die ,well1 go to your philosopher4 ,he it is that reasons out the problems and mysteries of life by the application of reason4 ,say to him1 ,good philosopher1 ,i have come to you for help4 ,i want to live forever and you say that you have the touch-stone of philosophy and that you can describe and solve4 ,can you help me8 ,he says to you1 ,young man1 my hair and my beard have grown longer and as white as snow1 my eyes are dim1 my brows are wrinkled1 my form bent with the weight of years1 my bones are brittle and ,i am just as far from the solution of that mystery and problem as when ,i started4 ,i1 too1 sir1 must soon die and sleep beneath the sod4 ,in my imagination ,i have stood by the bedside of the dying ,pullman-palace-car magnate1 ,george ,m4 ,pullman1 whose will was probated at #be1jjj1jjj1 and ,i have said1 ,oh1 ,mr4 ,pullman1 you will not die1 you can bribe death4 ,and ,i see the pupils of his eyes dilate1 his breast heaves1 he gasps--and is no more4 ,the undertaker comes and makes an incision in his left arm1 pumps in the embalming fluid1 beneath whose mysterious power he turns as rigid as ice1 and as white as alabaster1 and they put his embalmed body in the rosewood coffin1 trimmed with silver and gold1 and then they put that in a hermetically sealed casket4 ,the grave-diggers go to ,graceland ,cemetery1 on the shore of ,lake ,michigan1 and dig his grave in the old family lot1 nine feet wide1 and they put in there ,portland cement four and a half feet thick1 while it is yet soft1 pliable and plastic4 ,a set of workmen drop down into the grave a steel cage with steel bars one inch apart4 ,they bring his body1 in the hermetically sealed casket all wrapped about with cloth1 and they lower it into the steel cage1 and a set of workmen put steel bars across the top and another put concrete and a solid wall of masonry and they bring it up within eighteen inches of the surface2 they put back the black loamy soil1 then they roll back the sod and with a whisk broom and dust pan they sweep up the dirt1 and you would never know that there sleeps the ,pullman-palace-car magnate1 waiting for the trumpet of ,gabriel to sound2 for the powers of ,god will snap his steel1 cemented sarcophagus as though it were made of a shell and he will stand before ,god as any other man4 ,what does your money amount to8 ,what does your wealth amount to8 ,i summon the three electrical wizards of the world to my bedside and ,i say1 ,gentlemen1 ,i want to live and ,i have sent for you to come1 and they say to me1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 we will flash messages across the sea without wires2 we can illuminate the homes and streets of your city and drive your trolley cars and we can kill men with electricity1 but we can't prolong life4 ,and ,i summon the great ,queen ,elizabeth1 queen of an empire upon which the sun never sets4 ,three thousand dresses hung in her wardrobe4 ,her jewels were measured by the peck4 ,dukes1 kings1 earls fought for her smiles4 ,i stand by her bedside and ,i hear her cry ,all my possessions for one moment of time6 ,i go to ,alexander the ,great1 who won his first battle when he was eighteen1 and was ,king of ,macedonia when he was twenty4 ,he sat down on the shore of the gean sea1 wrapped the drapery of his couch about him and lay down to eternal sleep1 the conqueror of all the known world1 when he was thirty-five years of age4 ,i go to ,napoleon ,bonaparte4 ,victor ,hugo called him the archangel of war4 ,he arose in the air of the nineteenth century like a meteor4 ,his sun rose at ,austerlitz2 it set at ,waterloo4 ,he leaped over the slain of his countrymen to be first consul2 and then he vaulted to the throne of the emperor of ,france4 ,but it was the cruel wanton achievement of insatiate and unsanctified ambition and it led to the barren ,st4 ,helena isle4 ,as the storm beat upon the rock1 once more he fought at the head of his troops at ,austerlitz1 at ,mt4 ,tabor1 and the ,pyramids4 ,once more he cried1 ,i'm still the head of the army1 and he fell back1 and the greatest warrior the world has known since the days of ,joshua1 was no more4 ,tonight on the banks of the ,seine he lies in his magnificent tomb1 with his marshals sleeping where he can summon them1 and the battle flags he made famous draped around him1 and from the four corners of the earth students and travelers turn aside to do homage to the great military genius4 ,i want to show you the absolute and utter futility of pinning your hope to a lot of fool things that will damn your soul to hell4 ,there is only one way3 ,as ,moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness1 even so must the ,son of ,man be lifted up1 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish1 but have eternal life4 ,for ,god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten ,son1 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish1 but have everlasting life4 ,search the annals of time and the pages of history and where do you find promises like that8 ,only upon the pages of the ,bible do you find them4 ,you want to live and so do ,i4 ,you want eternal life and so do ,i1 and ,i want you to have it4 ,the next question ,i want to ask is1 how can you get it8 ,you have seen things that won't give it to you4 ,how can you get it8 ,all you have tonight or ever will have you will come into possession of in one of three ways--honestly1 dishonestly1 or as a gift4 ,honestly3 ,you will work and sweat and therefore give an honest equivalent for what you get4 ,dishonestly3 ,you will steal4 ,third1 as a gift1 you will inherit it4 ,and eternal life must come to you in one of these three ways4 ,no ,substitute for ,religion ,a great many people believe in a high moral standard4 ,they deal honestly in business and are charitable1 but if you think that is going to save you1 you are the most mistaken man on ,god's earth1 and you will be the biggest disappointed being that ever lived4 ,you can't hire a substitute in religion4 ,you can't do some deed of kindness or act of philanthropy and substitute that for the necessity of repentance and faith in ,jesus ,christ4 ,lots of people will acknowledge their sin in the world1 struggle on without ,jesus ,christ1 and do their best to live honorable1 upright lives4 ,your morality will make you a better man or woman1 but it will never save your soul in the world4 ,supposing you had an apple tree that produced sour apples and you wanted to change the nature of it1 and you would ask the advice of people4 ,one would say prune it1 and you would buy a pruning hook and cut off the superfluous limbs4 ,you gather the apples and they are still sour4 ,another man says to fertilize it1 and you fertilize it and still it doesn't change the nature of it4 ,another man says spray it to kill the caterpillars1 but the apples are sour just the same4 ,another man says introduce a graft of another variety4 ,when ,i was a little boy1 one day my grandfather said to me3 ,willie1 come on1 and he took a ladder1 and beeswax1 a big jackknife1 a saw and some cloth1 and we went into the valley4 ,he leaned the ladder against a sour crab-apple tree1 climbed up and sawed off some of the limbs1 split them and shoved in them some little pear sprouts as big as my finger and twice as long1 and around them he tied a string and put in some beeswax4 ,i said1 ,grandpa1 what are you doing8 ,he said1 ,i'm grafting pear sprouts into the sour crab4 ,i said1 ,what will grow1 crab apples or pears8 ,he said1 ,pears2 ,i don't know that ,i'll ever live to eat the pear--,i hope ,i may--but ,i know you will4 ,i lived to see those sprouts which were no longer than my finger grow as large as any limb and ,i climbed the tree and picked and ate the pears4 ,he introduced a graft of another variety and that changed the nature of the tree4 ,and so you can't change yourself with books4 ,that which is flesh is flesh1 no matter whether it is cultivated flesh1 or ignorant flesh or common1 ordinary flesh4 ,that which is flesh is flesh1 and all your lodges1 all your money on ,god ,almighty's earth can never change your nature4 ,never4 ,that's got to come by and through repentance and faith in ,jesus ,christ4 ,that's the only way you will ever get it changed4 ,we have more people with fool ways trying to get into heaven1 and there's only one way to do and that is by and through repentance and faith in ,jesus ,christ4 ,here are two men4 ,one man born with hereditary tendencies toward bad1 a bad father1 a bad mother and bad grandparents4 ,he has bad blood in his veins and he turns as naturally to sin as a duck to water4 ,there he is1 down and out1 a booze fighter and the off-scouring scum of the earth4 ,i go to him in his squalor and want and unhappiness1 and say to him3 ,god has included all that sin that he may have mercy on all4 ,all have sinned and come short of the glory of ,god4 ,will you accept ,jesus ,christ as your ,saviour8 ,whosoever cometh unto me ,i will in no wise cast out1 and that man says to me1 ,no1 ,i don't want your ,christ as my ,saviour4 ,here is a man with hereditary tendencies toward good1 a good father1 a good mother1 good grandparents1 lived in a good neighborhood1 was taught to go to ,sunday school and has grown up to be a good1 earnest1 upright1 virtuous1 responsible business man2 his name is synonymous with all that is pure and kind1 and true4 ,his name is as good as a government bond at any bank for a reasonable amount4 ,everybody respects him4 ,he is generous1 charitable and kind4 ,i go to your high-toned1 cultured1 respectable man and say to him3 ,god hath included all under sin that he might have mercy upon all4 ,all have sinned and come short of the glory of ,god4 ,whosoever cometh unto me ,i will in no wise cast out4 ,will you accept ,jesus ,christ as your ,saviour8 ,will you give me your hand8 ,he says3 ,no1 sir2 ,i don't want your ,christ4 ,what's the difference between those two men8 ,absolutely none4 ,they are both lost4 ,both are going to hell4 ,god hasn't one way of saving the one and another way of saving the other fellow4 ,god will save that man if he accepts ,christ and he will do the same for the other fellow4 ,that man is a sinner and this man is a sinner4 ,that man is lower in sin than this man1 but they both say1 ,no to ,jesus ,christ and they are both lost or ,god is a liar4 ,you don't like it8 ,i don't care a rap whether you do or not4 ,you'll take it or go to hell4 ,stop doing what you think will save you and do what ,god says will save you4 ,morality ,not ,enough ,morality doesn't save anybody4 ,your culture doesn't save you4 ,i don't care who you are or how good you are1 if you reject ,jesus ,christ you are doomed4 ,god hasn't one plan of salvation for the millionaire and another for the hobo4 ,he has the same plan for everybody4 ,god isn't going to ask you whether you like it or not1 either4 ,he isn't going to ask you your opinion of his plan4 ,there it is and we'll have to take it as ,god gives it4 ,you come across a lot of fools who say there are hypocrites in the ,church4 ,what difference does that make8 ,are you the first person that has found that out and are you fool enough to go to hell because they are going to hell8 ,if you are1 don't come to me and expect me to think you have any sense4 ,not at all4 ,not for a minute4 ,a good many people attend church because it adds a little bit to their respectability4 ,that is proof positive to me that the ,gospel is a good thing4 ,this is a day when good things are counterfeited4 ,you never saw anybody counterfeiting brown paper4 ,no1 it isn't worth it4 ,you have seen them counterfeiting ,christians8 ,yes4 ,you have seen counterfeit money8 ,yes4 ,you never saw a counterfeit infidel4 ,they counterfeit religion4 ,certainly4 ,a hypocrite is a counterfeit4 ,but there is one class of these people that ,i haven't very much respect for4 ,they are so good1 so very good1 that they are absolutely good for nothing4 ,a woman came to me and said3 ,mr4 ,sunday1 ,i haven't sinned in ten years4 ,i said3 ,you lie1 ,i think4 ,well1 a man says3 ,look here1 there must be something in morality1 because so many people trust in it4 ,would vice become virtue because more people follow it8 ,simply because more people follow it doesn't make a wrong right2 not at all4 ,the ,way of ,salvation ,there was an old ,spaniard1 ,ponce de ,leon1 who searched through the glades of ,florida4 ,he thought away out there in the midst of the tropical vegetation was a fountain of perpetual youth1 which1 if he could only find and dip beneath its water would smooth the wrinkles from his brow and make his gray hair turn like the raven's wing4 ,did he ever find it8 ,no1 it never existed4 ,it was all imagination4 ,and there are people today searching for something that doesn't exist4 ,salvation doesn't exist in morality1 in reformation1 in paying your debts4 ,it doesn't exist in being true to your marriage vows4 ,it is only by repentance and faith in the atoning blood of ,jesus ,christ1 and some of you fellows have searched for it until you are gray-haired1 and you will never find it because it only exists in one place--repentance and faith in ,jesus ,christ4 ,supposing ,i had in one hand a number of kernels of wheat and a number of diamonds equal in number and size to the kernels of wheat4 ,i would say3 ,take your choice4 ,nine of ten would take the diamonds4 ,i would say3 ,diamonds are worth more than wheat4 ,so they are now1 but you take those diamonds1 they will never grow1 never add4 ,but ,i can take a handful of wheat1 sow it1 and1 fecundated by the rays of the sun and the moisture1 it will grow and in a few years ,i have what's worth all the diamonds in the world1 for wheat contains the power of life2 wheat can reproduce and diamonds can't2 they're not life4 ,a diamond is simply a piece of charcoal changed by the mysterious process of nature1 but it has no life4 ,wheat has life4 ,wheat can grow4 ,you can take a moral man2 he may shine and glisten and sparkle like a diamond4 ,he may outshine in his beauty the ,christian man4 ,but he will never be anything else4 ,his morality can never grow4 ,it has no life1 but the man who is a ,christian has life4 ,he has eternal life4 ,your morality is a fine thing until death comes1 then it's lost and you are lost4 ,your diamond is a fine thing to carry until it's lost1 and of what value is it then8 ,of what value is your morality when your soul is lost8 ,illustration3 ,,judas ,,bought ,a ,,ticket ,,to ,,hell ,,with ,,thirty ,,pieces ,,of ,,silver ,,and ,,it ,,wasn',t ,a ,,round ,,trip ,,either4 ,supposing ,i go out in the spring and ,i see two farmers1 living across the road from each other4 ,one man plows his field and then harrows and puts on the roller1 gets it all fine and then plants the corn or drills in the oats4 ,i come back in the fall and that man has gathered his crop into the barn and the granaries and has hay stacked around the barn4 ,the other fellow is plowing and puts the roller on and gets his ground in good shape4 ,i come back in the fall and he is still doing the same thing4 ,i say1 ,what are you doing8 ,he says3 ,well1 ,i believe in a high state of cultivation4 ,i say3 ,look at your neighbor1 see what he has4 ,a barn full of grain4 ,yes4 ,more stock4 ,yes4 ,but he says3 ,look at the weeds4 ,you don't see any weeds like that on my place4 ,why1 he had to burn the weeds before he could find the potatoes to dig them4 ,the weeds were as big as the corn4 ,i said3 ,i'll agree with you that he has raised some weeds1 but he has raised corn as well4 ,what is that ground worth without seed in it8 ,no more than your life is worth without having ,jesus ,christ in it4 ,you will starve to death if you don't put seed in the ground4 ,plowing the ground without putting in the seed doesn't amount to a snap of the finger4 ,rewards of ,merit ,when ,i was a little boy out in ,iowa1 at the end of the term of school it was customary for the teachers to give us little cards1 with a hand in one corner holding a scroll1 and in that scroll was a place to write the name3 ,willie ,sunday1 good boy4 ,willie ,sunday never got hump-shouldered lugging them home1 ,i can tell you4 ,i never carried off the champion long-distance belt for verse-quoting1 either4 ,if you ever saw an ,american kid1 ,i was one4 ,illustration3 ,i ,,feel ,,sorry ,,for ,,the ,,little ,,lord ,,fauntleroy ,,boys ,,with ,,long ,,curly ,,hair ,,and ,,white ,,stockings ,i feel sorry for the little ,lord ,fauntleroy boys with long curly hair and white stockings4 ,yank 'em off and let them go barefoot4 ,a friend of mine told me he was one time being driven along the banks of the ,hudson and they went past a beautiful farm1 and there sitting on the fence in front of a tree1 in which was fastened a mirror about twelve inches square1 sat a bird of paradise that was looking into the mirror1 adjusting his plumage and admiring himself1 and the farmer who had driven my friends out said that every time he passed those birds were doing that4 ,i thought1 ,well1 that reminds me of a whole lot of fools ,i'm fortunate enough to meet everywhere4 ,they sit before the mirror of culture1 and their mirror of money1 and their mirror of superior education and attainments2 they are married into some old families4 ,what does ,god care about that8 ,i suppose some of you spent a whole lot of money to plant a family tree1 but ,i warrant you keep to the back the limbs on which some of your ancestors were hanged for stealing horses4 ,you are mistaken in ,god's plan of salvation4 ,some people seem to think ,god is like a great big bookkeeper in heaven and that he has a whole lot of angels as assistants4 ,every time you do a good thing he writes it down on one page and every time you do a bad deed he writes it down on the opposite page1 and when you die he draws a line and adds them up4 ,if you have done more good things than bad1 you go to heaven2 more bad things than good1 go to hell4 ,you would be dumfounded how many people have sense about other things that haven't any sense about religion4 ,as though that was ,god's plan of redemption4 ,your admission into heaven depends upon your acceptance of ,jesus ,christ2 reject him and ,god says you will be damned4 ,back in the time of ,noah1 ,i have no doubt there were a lot of good folks4 ,there was ,noah4 ,god says3 ,look here1 ,noah1 ,i'm going to drown this world with a flood and ,i want you to go to work and make an ark4 ,and ,noah started to make it according to ,god's instructions and he pounded1 and sawed1 and drove nails and worked for #abj years1 and ,i have often imagined the comments of the gang in an automobile going by4 ,they say3 ,look at the old fool ,noah building an ark4 ,does he ever expect ,god's going to get water enough to flood that8 ,along comes another crowd and one says3 ,that ,noah bunch is getting daffy on religion4 ,i think we'd better take them before the commission and pass upon their sanity4 ,along comes another crowd and they say3 ,well1 there's that ,noah crowd4 ,i guess we won't invite them to our card party after ,lent is over4 ,they said3 ,why1 they're too religious4 ,we'll just let them alone4 ,noah paid no heed to their criticism1 but went on working until he got through4 ,god gave the crowd a chance1 but they didn't heed4 ,it started to rain and it rained and rained until the rivers and creeks leaped their banks and the lowlands were flooded4 ,then the people began to move to the hilltops4 ,the water began to creep up the hills4 ,then ,i can see the people hurrying off to lumber yards to buy lumber to build little rafts of their own1 for they began to see that ,noah wasn't such a fool after all4 ,the hilltops became inundated and it crept to the mountains and the mountains became submerged4 ,until the flood came that crowd was just as well off as ,noah1 but when the flood struck them ,noah was saved and they were lost1 because ,noah trusted ,god and they trusted in themselves4 ,you moral men1 you may be just as well off as the ,christian until death knocks you down1 then you are lost1 because you trust in your morality4 ,the ,christian is saved because he trusts in ,jesus4 ,do you see where you lose out8 ,without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin4 ,you must accept the atonement ,christ made by shedding his blood or ,god will slam the gate of heaven in your face4 ,some people1 you know1 want to wash their sins and they whitewash them1 but ,god wants them white1 and there's a lot of difference between being white-washed and washed white4 ,supposing ,i was at one of your banks this morning and they gave me #be in gold4 ,supposing ,i would put fifty of your reputable citizens on this platform and they would all substantiate what ,i say1 and supposing ,i would be authorized by bank to say that they would give every man and woman that stands in line in front of the bank at #i o'clock in the morning1 #be in gold4 ,if ,i could stand up there and make that announcement in this city with confidence in my word1 people would line the streets and string away back on the hills1 waiting for the bank to open4 ,i can stand here and tell you that ,god offers you salvation through repentance and faith in ,jesus ,christ and that you must accept it or be lost1 and you will stand up and argue the question1 as though your argument can change ,god's plan4 ,you never can do it4 ,not only has ,god promised you salvation on the grounds of your acceptance of ,jesus ,christ as your ,saviour1 but he has promised to give you a home in which to spend eternity4 ,listen6 ,in my ,father's house are many mansions2 if it were not so ,i would have told you4 ,i go to prepare a place for you4 ,some people say heaven is a state or condition4 ,i don't believe it4 ,it might possibly be better to be in a heavenly state than in a heavenly place4 ,it might be better to be in hell in a heavenly state than to be in heaven in a hellish state4 ,that may be true4 ,heaven is as much a place as the home to which you are going when ,i dismiss the meeting is a place4 ,i go to prepare a place for you4 ,heaven is a place where there are going to be some fine folks4 ,abraham will be there and ,i'm going up to see him4 ,noah1 ,moses1 ,joseph1 ,jacob1 ,isaiah1 ,daniel1 ,jeremiah the weeping prophet1 ,paul1 ,john1 ,peter1 ,james1 ,samuel1 ,martin ,luther1 ,spurgeon1 ,calvin1 ,moody4 ,oh1 heaven is a place where there will be grand and noble people1 and all who believe in ,jesus will be there4 ,suppose instead of turning off the gas at bedtime ,i blew it out4 ,then when ,nell and ,i awoke choking1 instead of opening the window and turning off the gas ,i got a bottle of cologne and sprinkled ourselves4 ,the fool principle of trying to overcome the poison of gas with perfumery wouldn't work4 ,the next day there would be a coroner's jury in the house4 ,your principle of trying to overcome sin by morality won't work either4 ,i'm going to meet ,david and ,i'll say3 ,david1 ,i'm not a ,u4 ,p41 but ,i wish you'd sing the twenty-third psalm for me4 ,a ,place of ,noble ,people ,the booze fighter won't be in heaven2 he is here4 ,the skeptic won't be there2 he is here4 ,there'll be nobody to run booze joints or gambling hells in heaven4 ,heaven will be a place of grand and noble people1 who love ,jesus4 ,the beloved wife will meet her husband4 ,mother1 you will meet your babe again that you have been separated from for months or years4 ,heaven will be free from everything that curses and damns this old world here4 ,wouldn't this be a grand old world if it weren't for a lot of things in it8 ,can you conceive anything being grander than this world if it hadn't a lot of things in it8 ,the only thing that makes it a decent place to live in is the religion of ,jesus ,christ4 ,there isn't a man that would live in it if you took religion out4 ,your mills would rot on their foundations if there were no ,christian people of influence here4 ,there will be no sickness in heaven1 no pain1 no sin1 no poverty1 no want1 no death1 no grinding toil4 ,there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of ,god4 ,i tell you there are a good many poor men and women that never have any rest4 ,they have had to get up early in the morning and work all day1 but in heaven there remaineth a rest for the people of ,god4 ,weary women that start out early to their daily toil1 you won't have to get out and toil all day4 ,no toil in heaven1 no sickness4 ,god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes4 ,you will not be standing watching with a heart filled with expectation1 and doubt1 and hope4 ,no watching the undertaker screw the coffin lid over your loved one1 or watching the pall-bearers carrying out the coffin and hearing the preacher say1 ,ashes to ashes1 dust to dust4 ,none of that in heaven4 ,heaven--that is a place ,he has gone to prepare for those who will do his will and keep his commandments and turn from their sin4 ,isn't it great8 ,everything will be perfect in heaven4 ,down here we only know in part1 but there we will know as we are known4 ,it is a city that hath foundation4 ,here we have no continuing state4 ,look at your beautiful homes4 ,you admire them4 ,the next time you go up your avenues and streets look at the homes4 ,but they are going to rot on their foundations4 ,every one of them4 ,where are you tonight1 old ,eternal ,city of ,rome on your seven hills8 ,where are you8 ,only a memory of your glory4 ,where have they all gone8 ,the homes will crumble4 ,enoch walked with ,god and was not1 for ,god took him4 ,that is a complete biography of ,enoch4 ,elijah was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire and ,elisha took up the mantle of the prophet ,elijah and smote the ,jordan and went back to the seminary where ,elijah had taught and told the people there4 ,they would not believe him1 and they looked for ,elijah1 but they found him not4 ,centuries later it was the privilege of ,peter1 ,james and ,john in the company of ,jesus ,christ1 on the ,mount of ,transfiguration1 to look into the face of that same ,elijah who centuries before had walked the hilltops and slain four hundred and fifty of the prophets of ,baal4 ,a ,place for ,you ,stephen1 as they stoned him to death1 with his face lighted up saw ,jesus standing on the right of ,god the ,father1 the place which he had designated before his crucifixion would be his abiding place until the fulfilment of the time of the ,gentiles in the world4 ,among the last declarations of ,jesus is1 ,in my ,father's house are many mansions4 ,what a comfort to the bereaved and afflicted4 ,not only had ,god provided salvation through faith in ,jesus ,christ as a gift from ,god's outstretched hand1 but he provided a home in which you can spend eternity4 ,he has provided a home for you4 ,surely1 surely1 friends1 from the beginning of the history of man1 from the time ,enoch walked with ,god and was not1 until ,john on the island of ,patmos saw the new ,jerusalem let down by ,god out of heaven1 we have ample proof that heaven is a place4 ,although we cannot see it with the natural eyes1 it is a place1 the dwelling place of ,god and of the angels and of the redeemed through faith in the ,son of ,god4 ,he says1 ,i go to prepare a place for you4 ,people sometimes ask me1 ,who do you think will die first1 ,mr4 ,sunday1 you or your wife1 or your children or your mother8 ,i don't know4 ,i think ,i will4 ,i never expect to be an old man1 ,i work too hard4 ,i burn up more energy preaching in an hour than any other man will burn up in ten or twelve hours4 ,i never expect to live to be an old man4 ,i don't expect to1 but ,i know this much1 if my wife or my babies should go first this old world would be a dark place for me and ,i would be glad when ,god summoned me to leave it2 and if ,i left first ,i know they would be glad when ,god called them home4 ,if ,i go first1 ,i know after ,i go up and take ,jesus by the hand and say1 ,jesus1 thank you4 ,i'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your ,gospel2 ,i wish ,i could have done it better1 but ,i did my best1 and now1 ,jesus1 if you don't care1 ,i'd like to hang around the gate and be the first to welcome my wife and the babies when they come4 ,do you care1 ,jesus1 if ,i sit there8 ,and he will say1 ,no1 you can sit right there1 ,bill1 if you want to2 it's all right4 ,i'll say1 ,thank you1 ,lord4 ,if they would go first1 ,i think after they would go up and thank ,jesus that they are home1 they would say1 ,jesus1 ,i wish you would hurry up and bring papa home4 ,he doesn't want to stay down there because we are up here4 ,they would go around and put their grips away in their room1 wherever it is1 and then they would say1 ,can we sit here1 ,jesus8 ,yes1 that's all right4 ,i don't know where ,i'll live when ,i get to heaven4 ,i don't know whether ,i'll live on a main street or an avenue or a boulevard4 ,i don't know where ,i'll live when ,i get to heaven4 ,i don't know whether it will be in the back alley or where1 but ,i'll just be glad to get there4 ,i'll be thankful for the mansion wherever ,god provides it4 ,i never like to think about heaven as a great1 big tenement house1 where they put hundreds of people under one roof1 as we do in ,chicago or other big cities4 ,in my ,father's house are many mansions4 ,and so it will be up in heaven1 and ,i'll be glad1 awfully glad1 and ,i tell you ,i think if my wife and children go first1 the children might be off some place playing1 but wife would be right there1 and ,i would meet her and say1 ,why1 wife1 where are the children8 ,she would say1 ,why1 they are playing on the banks of the river4 7,we are told about the river that flows from the throne of ,god47 ,we would walk down and ,i would say1 ,hello1 ,helen6 ,hey1 ,george4 ,hey1 ,willsky2 bring the baby2 come on4 ,and they would come tearing as they do now4 ,i would say1 ,now1 children1 run away and play a little while4 ,i haven't seen mother for a long time and we have lots of things to talk about1 and ,i think we would walk away and sit down under a tree and ,i would put my head in her lap as ,i do now when my head is tired1 and ,i would say1 ,wife1 a whole lot of folks down there in our neighborhood in ,chicago have died2 have they come to heaven8 ,the ,missing ,well1 ,i don't know4 ,who has died8 ,mr4 ,s4 ,is he here8 ,i haven't seen him4 ,no8 ,his will probated five million4 ,bradstreet and ,dun rated him ,aa,g4 ,isn't he here8 ,i haven't seen him4 ,is ,mr4 ,j4 here8 ,i haven't seen him4 ,haven't seen him1 wife8 ,that's funny4 ,he left years before ,i did4 ,is ,mrs4 ,n4 here8 ,no4 ,you know they lived on ,river street4 ,her husband paid #h1jjj for a lot and #fj1jjj for a house4 ,he paid #b1jjj for a bathroom4 ,mosaic floor and the finest of fixtures4 ,you know1 wife1 she always came to church late and would drive up in her carriage1 and she would sweep down the aisle and you would think all the perfume of ,arabia had floated in1 and she had diamonds in her ears as big as pebbles4 ,is she here8 ,i haven't seen her4 ,well6 ,well6 ,well6 ,is ,aunty ,griffith here8 ,yes2 aunty lives next to us4 ,i knew she would be here4 ,god bless her heart6 ,she had two big lazy1 drunken louts of boys that didn't care for her1 and the church supported her for sixteen years to my knowledge and they put her in the home for old people4 ,hello1 yonder she comes4 ,how are you1 ,aunty8 ,she will say1 ,how are you1 ,william8 ,i'm first rate4 ,mon1 ye look natural just the same4 ,yes4 ,and when did ye leave ,chicago1 ,wally8 ,last night1 ,aunty4 ,i'm awfully glad to see you1 and1 ,wally1 ,i live right next door to you1 mon4 ,good1 ,aunty1 ,i knew ,god would let you in4 ,my1 where's mother1 wife8 ,she's here4 ,i know she's here2 ,i wish she would come4 ,helen1 is that mother coming down the hill8 ,yes4 ,i would say1 ,have you seen ,fred1 or ,rody1 or ,peacock1 or ,ackley1 or any of them8 ,yes4 ,they live right around near us4 ,george1 you run down and tell ,fred ,i've come1 will you8 ,hunt up ,rody1 and ,peacock and ,ackley and ,fred1 and see if you can find ,frances around there and tell them ,i've just come in4 ,and they would come and ,i would say1 ,how are you8 ,glad to see you4 ,feeling first-rate4 ,and1 oh1 what a time we'll have in heaven4 ,in heaven they never mar the hillsides with spades1 for they dig no graves4 ,in heaven they never telephone for the doctor1 for nobody gets sick4 ,in heaven no one carries handkerchiefs1 for nobody cries4 ,in heaven they never telephone for the undertaker1 for nobody dies4 ,in heaven you will never see a funeral procession going down the street1 nor crpe hanging from the doorknob4 ,in heaven1 none of the things that enter your home here will enter there4 ,sickness won't get in2 death won't get in1 nor sorrow1 because ,former things are passed away1 all things have become new4 ,in heaven the flowers never fade1 the winter winds and blasts never blow4 ,the rivers never congeal1 never freeze1 for it never gets cold4 ,no1 sir4 ,say1 don't let ,god be compelled to hang a ,for ,rent sign in the window of the mansion he has prepared for you4 ,i would walk around with him and ,i'd say1 ,whose mansion is that1 ,jesus8 ,why1 ,i had that for one of the rich men1 but he passed it up4 ,who's that one for8 ,that was for a doctor1 but he did not take it4 ,that was for one of the school teachers1 but she didn't come4 ,who is that one for1 ,jesus8 ,that was for a society man1 but he didn't want it4 ,who is that one for8 ,that was for a booze fighter1 but he wouldn't pass up the business4 ,don't let ,god hang a ,for ,rent sign in the mansion that he has prepared for you4 ,just send up word and say1 ,jesus1 ,i've changed my mind2 just put my name down for that1 will you8 ,i'm coming4 ,i'm coming4 ,in my ,father's house are many mansions2 if it were not so ,i would have told you2 ,i go to prepare a place for you4 ,,chapter ,,xxxii ,glorying in the ,cross ,it's ,jesus ,christ or nothing4--,,billy ,,sunday4 ,pauline in more than one characteristic is ,billy ,sunday4 ,but in none so much as in his devotion to the cross of ,jesus ,christ4 ,his life motto may well be ,paul's1 ,i am resolved to know nothing among you1 save ,jesus ,christ and him crucified4 ,his preaching is entirely founded on the message that the blood of ,jesus ,christ cleanseth us from all sin4 ,there are no modern theories of the atonement in his utterances4 ,to the learned of the world1 as to the ,greeks of old1 the ,cross may seem foolishness1 but ,sunday knows and preaches it as the power of ,god unto salvation4 ,as his closing and most characteristic message to the readers of this book we commend his sermon on ,christ and him crucified4 ,,atonement ,for if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean1 sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh--,paul argued in his letter to the ,hebrews--how much more shall the blood of ,christ1 who through the eternal ,spirit offered himself without spot to ,god1 purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living ,god4 ,no more of this turtle-dove business1 no more offering the blood of bullocks and heifers to cleanse from sin4 ,the atoning blood of ,jesus ,christ--that is the thing about which all else centers4 ,i believe that more logical1 illogical1 idiotic1 religious and irreligious arguments have been fought over this than all others4 ,now and then when a man gets a new idea of it he goes out and starts a new denomination4 ,he has a perfect right to do this under the thirteenth amendment1 but he doesn't stop here4 ,he makes war on all of the other denominations that do not interpret as he does4 ,our denominations have multiplied by this method until it would give one brain fever to try to count them all4 ,the atoning blood6 ,and as ,i think it over ,i am reminded of a man who goes to ,england and advertises that he will throw pictures on the screen of the ,atlantic coast of ,america4 ,so he gets a crowd and throws pictures on the screen of high bluffs and rocky coasts and waves dashing against them until a man comes out of the audience and brands him a liar and says that he is obtaining money under false pretense1 as he has seen ,america and the ,atlantic coast and what the other man is showing is not ,america at all4 ,the men almost come to blows and then the other man says that if the people will come tomorrow he will show them real pictures of the coast4 ,so the audience comes back to see what he will show1 and he flashes on the screen pictures of a low coast line1 with palmetto trees and banana trees and tropical foliage and he apologizes to the audience1 but says these are the pictures of ,america4 ,the first man calls him a liar and the people don't know which to believe4 ,what was the matter with them8 ,they were both right and they were both wrong1 paradoxical as it may seem4 ,they were both right as far as they went1 but neither went far enough4 ,the first showed the coast line from ,new ,england to ,cape ,hatteras1 while the second showed the coast line from ,hatteras to ,yucatan4 ,they neither could show it all in one panoramic view1 for it is so varied it could not be taken in one picture4 ,god never intended to give you a picture of the world in one panoramic view4 ,from the time of ,adam and ,eve down to the time ,jesus ,christ hung on the cross he was unfolding his views4 ,when ,i see ,moses leading the people out of bondage where they for years had bared their backs to the taskmaster's lash2 when ,i see the lowing herds and the high priest standing before the altar severing the jugular vein of the rams and the bullocks on until ,christ cried out from the cross1 ,it is finished1 ,god was preparing the picture for the consummation of it in the atoning blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,a sinner has no standing with ,god4 ,he forfeits his standing when he commits sin and the only way he can get back is to repent and accept the atoning blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,i have sometimes thought that ,adam and ,eve didn't understand as fully as we do when the ,lord said1 ,eat and you shall surely die4 ,they had never seen any one die4 ,they might have thought it simply meant a separation from ,god4 ,but no sooner had they eaten and seen their nakedness than they sought to cover themselves1 and it is the same today4 ,when man sees himself in his sins1 uncovered1 he tries to cover himself in philosophy or some fake4 ,but ,god looked through the fig leaves and the foliage and ,god walked out in the field and slew the beasts and took their skins and wrapped them around ,adam and ,eve1 and from that day to this when a man has been a sinner and has covered himself it has been by and through faith in the shed blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,every ,jew covered his sins and received pardon through the blood of the rams and bullocks and the doves4 ,an old infidel said to me once1 ,but ,i don't believe in atonement by blood4 ,it doesn't come up to my ideas of what is right4 ,i said1 ,to perdition with your ideas of what is right4 ,do you think ,god is coming down here to consult you with your great intellect and wonderful brain1 and find out what you think is right before he does it8 ,my1 but you make me sick4 ,you think that because you don't believe it that it isn't true4 ,i have read a great deal--not everything1 mind you1 for a man would go crazy if he tried to read everything--but ,i have read a great deal that has been written against the atonement from the infidel standpoint--,voltaire1 ,huxley1 ,spencer1 ,diderot1 ,bradlaugh1 ,paine1 on down to ,bob ,ingersoll--and ,i have never found an argument that would stand the test of common sense and common reasoning4 ,and if anyone tells me he has tossed on the scrap heap the plan of atonement by blood ,i say1 ,what have you to offer that is better8 and until he can show me something that is better ,i'll nail my hopes to the cross4 ,suffering for the ,guilty ,you say you don't believe in the innocent suffering for the guilty4 ,then ,i say to you1 you haven't seen life as ,i have seen it up and down the country4 ,the innocent suffer with the guilty1 by the guilty and for the guilty4 ,look at that old mother waiting with trembling heart for the son she has brought into the world4 ,and see him come staggering in and reeling and staggering to bed while his mother prays and weeps and soaks the pillow with her tears over her godless boy4 ,who suffers most8 ,the mother or that godless1 maudlin bum8 ,you have only to be the mother of a boy like that to know who suffers most4 ,then you won't say anything about the plan of redemption and of ,jesus ,christ suffering for the guilty4 ,look at that young wife1 waiting for the man whose name she bears1 and whose face is woven in the fiber of her heart1 the man she loves4 ,she waits for him in fright and when he comes1 reeking from the stench of the breaking of his marriage vows1 from the arms of infamy1 who suffers most8 ,that poor1 dirty1 triple extract of vice and sin8 ,you have only to be the wife of a husband like that to know whether the innocent suffers for the guilty or not4 ,i have the sympathy of those who know right now4 ,this happened in ,chicago in a police court4 ,a letter was introduced as evidence for a criminal there for vagrancy4 ,it read1 ,i hope you won't have to hunt long to find work4 ,tom is sick and baby is sick4 ,lucy has no shoes and we have no money for the doctor or to buy any clothes4 ,i manage to make a little taking in washing1 but we are living in one room in a basement4 ,i hope you won't have to look long for work1 and so on1 just the kind of a letter a wife would write to her husband4 ,and before it was finished men cried and policemen with hearts of adamant were crying and fled from the room4 ,the judge wiped the tears from his eyes and said3 ,you see1 no man lives to himself alone4 ,if he sins others suffer4 ,i have no alternative4 ,i sympathize with them1 as does every one of you1 but ,i have no alternative4 ,i must send this man to ,bridewell4 ,who suffers most1 that woman manicuring her nails over a washboard to keep the little brood together or that drunken bum in ,bridewell getting his just deserts from his acts8 ,you have only to be the wife of a man like that to know whether or not the innocent suffer with the guilty4 ,so when you don't like the plan of redemption because the innocent suffer with the guilty1 ,i say you don't know what is going on4 ,it's the plan of life everywhere4 ,from the fall of ,adam and ,eve till now it has always been the rule that the innocent suffer with the guilty4 ,it's the plan of all and unless you are an idiot1 an imbecile and a jackass1 and gross flatterer at that1 you'll see it4 ,jesus' ,atoning ,blood ,jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe4 ,we're not redeemed by silver or gold4 ,jesus paid for it with his blood4 ,when some one tells you that your religion is a bloody religion and the ,bible is a bloody book1 tell them yes1 ,christianity is a bloody religion1 the gospel is a bloody gospel1 the ,bible is a bloody book1 the plan of redemption is bloody4 ,it is4 ,you take the blood of ,jesus ,christ out of ,christianity and that book isn't worth the paper it is written on4 ,it would be worth no more than your body with the blood taken out4 ,take the blood of ,jesus ,christ out and it would be a meaningless jargon and jumble of words4 ,if it weren't for the atoning blood you might as well rip the roofs off the churches and burn them down4 ,they aren't worth anything4 ,but as long as the blood is on the mercy seat the sinner can return1 and by no other way4 ,there is nothing else4 ,it stands for the redemption4 ,you are not redeemed by silver or gold1 but by the blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,though a man says to read good books1 do good deeds1 live a good life and you'll be saved1 you'll be damned4 ,that's what you will4 ,all the books in the world won't keep you out of hell without the atoning blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,it's ,jesus ,christ or nothing for every sinner on ,god's earth4 ,illustration3 ,,say1 ,,boss1 ,,why ,,didn',t ,,you ,,chuck ,,that ,,nickel ,,in ,,the ,,sewer8 ,without it not a sinner will ever be saved4 ,jesus has paid for your sins with his blood4 ,the doctrine of universal salvation is a lie4 ,i wish every one would be saved1 but they won't4 ,you will never be saved if you reject the blood4 ,i remember when ,i was in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 in ,chicago ,i was going down ,madison ,street and had just crossed ,dearborn ,street when ,i saw a newsboy with a young sparrow in his hand4 ,i said3 ,let that little bird go4 ,he said1 ,aw1 g'wan with you1 you big mutt4 ,i said1 ,i'll give you a penny for it1 and he answered1 ,not on your tintype4 ,i'll give you a nickel for it1 and he answered1 ,boss1 ,i'm from ,missouri2 come across with the dough4 ,i offered it to him1 but he said1 ,give it to that guy there1 and ,i gave it to the boy he indicated and took the sparrow4 ,i held it for a moment and then it fluttered and struggled and finally reached the window ledge in a second story across the street4 ,and other birds fluttered around over my head and seemed to say in bird language1 ,thank you1 ,bill4 ,the kid looked at me in wonder and said3 ,say1 boss1 why didn't you chuck that nickel in the sewer8 ,i told him that he was just like that bird4 ,he was in the grip of the devil1 and the devil was too strong for him just as he was too strong for the sparrow1 and just as ,i could do with the sparrow what ,i wanted to after ,i had paid for it because it was mine4 ,god paid a price for him far greater than ,i had for the sparrow1 for he had paid it with the blood of his ,son and he wanted to set him free4 ,no ,argument ,against ,sin ,so1 my friend1 if ,i had paid for some property from you with a price1 ,i could command you1 and if you wouldn't give it to me ,i could go into court and make you yield4 ,why do you want to be a sinner and refuse to yield8 ,you are withholding from ,god what he paid for on the cross4 ,when you refuse you are not giving ,god a square deal4 ,i'll tell you another4 ,it stands for ,god's hatred of sin4 ,sin is something you can't deny4 ,you can't argue against sin4 ,a skilful man can frame an argument against the validity of religion1 but he can't frame an argument against sin4 ,i'll tell you something that may surprise you4 ,if ,i hadn't had four years of instruction in the ,bible from ,genesis to ,revelation1 before ,i saw ,bob ,ingersoll's book1 and ,i don't want to take any credit from that big intelligent brain of his1 ,i would be preaching infidelity instead of ,christianity4 ,thank the ,lord ,i saw the ,bible first4 ,i have taken his lectures and placed them by the side of the ,bible1 and said1 ,you didn't say it from your knowledge of the ,bible4 ,and ,i have never considered him honest1 for he could not have been so wise in other things and such a fool about the plan of redemption4 ,so ,i say ,i don't think he was entirely honest4 ,but you can't argue against the existence of sin1 simply because it is an open fact1 the word of ,god4 ,you can argue against ,jesus being the ,son of ,god4 ,you can argue about there being a heaven and a hell1 but you can't argue against sin4 ,it is in the world and men and women are blighted and mildewed by it4 ,some years ago ,i turned a corner in ,chicago and stood in front of a police station4 ,as ,i stood there a patrol dashed up and three women were taken from some drunken debauch1 and they were dirty and blear-eyed1 and as they were taken out they started a flood of profanity that seemed to turn the very air blue4 ,i said1 ,there is sin4 ,and as ,i stood there up dashed another patrol and out of it they took four men1 drunken and ragged and bloated1 and ,i said1 ,there is sin4 ,you can't argue against the fact of sin4 ,it is in the world and blights men and women4 ,but ,jesus came to the world to save all who accept him4 ,how ,long1 ,o ,god8 ,it was out in the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 in ,chicago4 ,what is your name and what do you want8 ,i asked4 ,i'm from ,cork1 ,ireland1 said he1 and my name is ,james ,o',toole4 ,here is a letter of introduction4 ,i read it and it said he was a good ,christian young man and an energetic young fellow4 ,i said1 ,well1 ,jim1 my name is ,mr4 ,sunday4 ,i'll tell you where there are some good ,christian boarding houses and you let me know which one you pick out4 ,he told me afterwards that he had one on the ,north ,side4 ,i sent him an invitation to a meeting to be held at the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 and he had it when he and some companions went bathing in ,lake ,michigan4 ,he dived from the pier just as the water receded unexpectedly and he struck the bottom and broke his neck4 ,he was taken to the morgue and the police found my letter in his clothes1 and told me to come and claim it or it would be sent to a medical college4 ,i went and they had the body on a slab1 but ,i told them ,i would send a cablegram to his folks and asked them to hold it4 ,they put it in a glass case and turned on the cold air1 by which they freeze bodies by chemical processes1 as they freeze ice1 and said they would save it for two months1 and if ,i wanted it longer they would stretch the rules a little and keep it three4 ,i was just thinking of what sorrow that cablegram would cause his old mother in ,cork when they brought in the body of a woman4 ,she would have been a fit model of ,phidias1 she had such symmetry of form4 ,her fingers were manicured4 ,she was dressed in the height of fashion and her hands were covered with jewels and as ,i looked at her1 the water trickling down her face1 ,i saw the mute evidence of illicit affection4 ,i did not say lust1 ,i did not say passion1 ,i did not say brute instincts4 ,i said1 ,sin4 ,sin had caused her to throw herself from that bridge and seek repose in a suicide's grave4 ,and as ,i looked1 from the saloon1 the fan-tan rooms1 the gambling hells1 the opium dens1 the red lights1 there arose one endless cry of ,how long1 ,o ,god1 how long shall hell prevail8 ,you can't argue against sin4 ,it's here4 ,then listen to me as ,i try to help you4 ,when the ,standard ,oil ,company was trying to refine petroleum there was a substance that they couldn't dispose of4 ,it was a dark1 black1 sticky substance and they couldn't bury it1 couldn't burn it because it made such a stench2 they couldn't run it in the river because it killed the fish1 so they offered a big reward to any chemist who would solve the problem4 ,chemists took it and worked long over the problem1 and one day there walked into the office of ,john ,d4 ,rockefeller1 a chemist and laid down a pure white substance which we since know as paraffine4 ,you can be as black as that substance and yet ,jesus ,christ can make you white as snow4 ,though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow4 99 99 99 99 99 ,transcriber's ,notes ,obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected4 ,base ball1 base-ball and baseball have been variously used throughout the original1 these have been standardised to baseball4 ,other variations in hyphenation have been standardised1 but variations in punctuation and spelling remain4 ,italics are represented thus italic and bold thus bold4