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PASTORS HOLD DAILY RALLY FOR REVIVAL
Ministers Report Fine Results From Billy’s Visit
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J. K. Orr, chairman of the Atéanta
campagn committee in charge of the
Billy Sunday revival, told the mem
bers of the committee at a eeting
in the Y. M. C. A. Monday afternoon
that he is well pleased with the re
sults of the capaign so far and that
the revival should go through the
seven weeks originally planned.
There was some talk of curtailing
the meetings to six weeks because of
the possible interference with the
gatherings of the usual Christmas
preparations and celebrations. It
was thought by some of the commit
teemen that there would be too much
doing in the way of Christmas shop
ping to expect the Tabernacle meet
ings to be crowded the week before
Christmas and the suggestion was
made that the pre-Christmas week
campaign be called off in consequence.
The committeemen discussed the
matter thoroughly, but no official ac
tion was taken in the matter. The
general opinion is, however, that the
campaign go the six weeks, as origi
nally planned, and that December 23
be officially scheduled as the “last
dfl,‘,’."
Ministers and laymen active in the
revival Teiterate Mr. Orr's declara
tions of the remarkable good that has
followed the campaign. They are
strong for having Atlanta get the
greatest possible gocd out of the re
vival, and want Billy to stay here just
as long as he possibly can.
Real Southern 'Cue
For Two Governors
WAYCROSS, Nov. 27.—Governor
Stuart, of Virginia, and Governor
Dorsey, of Georgia, will have an op
portunity of.eating some real Georgia
barbecue, prepared in the good old
Southern style, if the cook employed
by E. M. Thorpe, of Townsend, lives
up to his reputation whén he pre
pares the barbecue for the South
Georgia live stock rally at Pine Har
bor, Saturday.
President Sessoms, of the Georgia
Land Owners’ Association, has been
officially notified by Mrs. Nellie Peters
Black, president of the Georgia Fed
eration of Women’'’s Clubs, that she
will be present.
Decatur Club Gets
Squirrels and Fish
Members of /the Ford Barrington
Huuting and Fishing Club, of Deca
tur, were home again Tuesday, filled
to the brim with yarns, old and new,
and bringing back vast quantities of
squirrels and fish. Six of the hunters
bagged 96 squirrels in fifteen minutes,
tehy reported.
Among the hunters were V. S. Mor
gan, Sr, V. 8. Morgan, Jr.; U, 8.
Johnson, J. O. Norris, W. 8. McCurdy
and A. S. Aleln,
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No Opposition to
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Albany Officials
ALBANY, Nov. 27.—1 n one of the
quietest primaries ever held here,
Mavor M. W. Tift and Aldermen Jo
seph Ehrlich, R. L. Jones and H. A.
Peacock were renominated yesterday
without opposition. The nomination
amounts to election, and they will
begin new terms January 1. Only a
very light vote was polled, and very
little scratching was done.
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Church to Support 2
Foreign Missionaries
GAINESVILE, Nov. 27.—After an im
ressive serr;on by Rev. J. M. Haymore,
The First Baptisi Church of this city,
{n less than three minutes, raised $1,500
for the support of {wo missionaries in
the foreign field B. H. Merck volun
teered to suport one missionary alone
and contribute SIOO toward the support
of another. Other laymen immediately
joined him. The, action was taken
Quickly and spontaneously.
Prayer. -
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This is one of the popular Billy Sunday hymns which the
members of the Sunday party delight to refer to as the ‘‘trail
hitters’’ hymn. It tells the story of a Christian reborn, and is
often sung at the Tabernacle when those who determine to accept
Christ and start into the ‘‘better life’’ walk down the sawdust
aisles to shake the hand of Billy.
Preachers to Give Up Seats on
Platform and Sit Down Among
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the Audience.
If you look around the Tabernacle
platform at any of the subsequent
Billy Sunday meetings and you can't
locate the ministers, don't for a mo
ment think they have forsaken the re
vival gatherings. Not a bit of it!
They probably will be down in the
big audiences somewhere, scattered
throughout the building. They have
decidad to give up their space on the
platform to those who haven’'t been
regular atendants at the meetings.
At the suggestion of the Rev. W. H.
Cooper, pastor of St. John's Metho
dist Church, the ministers agreed
unanimously to go out into the high
ways, look up the men and women
who haven’t been over to the Taber
nacle, give the invitation to go and
hear Billy preach, and then hand the
person their ministerial ticket that
carries with it the right to a reserva
tion in the “ministers section” on the
big choir platform.
The ministers met Monday with the
Atlanta campaign committee in
charge of the Sunday revival, and
they spoke encouragingly of the re
markable effects ¢of the meetings on
their congregations. They agreed that
church attendance had been much
stimulated, that additional members
have arranged to associate themselves
with the church, and that meetings of
the various church societies generally
are more successful because of the
larger attendance
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Pleasant Surprise for the Evan
gelist and Ma When Young
Son Arrives.
Billy Sunday and Ma got the sur
prise of their life Monday morning
when in“ walked Billy Sunday, Jr.,
fresh from the Blair School, in
Blairstown, N. J.
Billy, Jr.,, is a husky young chap,
fll of vim and ready for most any
emergency. The members of the Sun
day party knew all about young Bil
ly's proposed visit to Atlanta. But
they didn't mention it to “the boss”
or to Ma. They wanted to surprise
Billy, Jr.'s, parents. And they did.
Mrs. George Sunday was in on the
secret and she was down at the Ter
minal Station early Monday morning
to greet Billy, Jr. .Then Billy, Sr.,
and Ma were awokened. There was
a happy reunion and everybody had
breakfast. It was a sort of “Thanks
giving dinner,’ since Billy, Jr., has
only a day or two off from school and
he expects to rush back to the class
room Wednesday.
Billy, Jr., is the evangelist's sec
ond son. He's still in his *“teens.”
Another son, Paul Sunday, is in Chi
cago with his married sister. Ma
Sundy i{s planning to go home for a
short visit next week.
ELKS' MEMQRIAL SPEAKER.
ALBANY, Nov. 27.~——Judge Edward
R. Hines, of Milledgeville, will deliver
the annual oration at the Elks’ me
morial exercises here next Sunday
afternoon in the Municipal Audito
rium. Judge Hines takes the place of
Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledgevilel, who
could not appear on account of the
serious illnes of his only daughter in
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
Preaches at Tabernacle Tuesday
Afternoon on Things Denied
People Who Do Wrong.
ILLY SUNDAY preached Tues-
B day afternoon at the Tabernacle
on the twenty-fifth verse of the
fifth chapter of Jeremiah, *“Your
iniquities have turned away these
things and your sins have withholden
good things from you.” The sermon,
in full, follows: .
Copyright, 1917, by Willilam Ashley
Sunday. ;
In Jeremiah the fifth chapter,
twenty-fifth verse, “Your iniqui
ties have turned away these
things, and your sins have with
holden good things from you.”
In that verse of the scriptures,
Jeremiah s giving the explana
tion for the existence of a sad
state and condition of things in
his day. He came as the prophet
of God, the Just, to whom cer
tain things had been promised.
.~ When God entered into a cove
- nant with them He promised them
ample provision for their needs.
He sald: “I will pour down the
énrly and the latter rains upon
your lands.”
He promised them peace, “Peace
I leave with you, My peace I
give unto you; not as the world .
giveth, give 1 unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid.”
He promised them joy and
gladness, “Because thou servedst
not the Lord thy God with joy
fulness, and with gladness of
heart, for the abundance of all
things.”
He promised them prosperity,
“This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is writ
ten therein; for then thou shalt
have good 'success.”
He promised them victory,
“How should one chas ea thou
sand and two put ten thousand to
flight, except their rock had sold
them, and the Lord had shut them
up?”
He promised them honor, “And
it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the Lord thy God, to ob
serve and to do all His command
ments which I command thee this
day that the Lord thy God will
set thee on high above all na
tions of the earth.”
“And the Lord shall make thee '
the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and
thou shalt not be beneath; if that
thou hearken unto the command
ments of the Lord thy God, which
I command thee this day, to ob
serve and to do them.”
Such were a few of the num
berless promises that God,
through the prophets of old had
given to the people and the peo
ple desired these promises.
So desirable were they, that no
sane man or woman could fail to
long for their fulfillment, and yet
by the people these things were
not possessed, Instead of God
pouring down the early and latter
rain for three years and six
months, it did not rain a drop and
the dew never fell.
Instead of peace, there was
trouble; instead of joy, there was
sorrow and affliction; instead of
prosperity, there was adversity;
instead of victory, there was de
feat; and instead of honor, there
was dishonor.
They went into captivity and
paid tribute to a foreign nation.
What was the reason for this?
Was God bankrupt? Did God
make promises intending to ful
fill them and then conditions arose
. that made it impossible for Him
Sunday Worker Says
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Movies Rob Children
‘Of Proper Ideals’
The Sunday school teachers of
Atlanta heard a crisp and vigor
ous discourse Monday evening,
delivered by Miss Alice Miriam
Gamlin, a member of the Billy
Sunday party, at the First Bap
tist Church.
Miss Gamlin said that the
trend of the movies was to rob
children of proper ideals.
“I don’'t believe censorship
helps much,” Miss Gamlin said.
“I believe in canning the whole
business, except for films of the
educational type.”
Miss Gamlin also stated her
belief that the doing away of the
old custom of personal testimony
in the church was a very bad
thing, depriving children of some
wonderful opportunities.
to do it? Oh, no! A thousand
times no!
You've got to look for the ex
planation of the fallure from a
different source than that, and
Jeremiah knew where it belonged,
and he laid the blame in the right
place, when he said, in the words
- of my text, as he addressed it to
the people: “Your iniquities have
turned away these things, and
- Yyour sins have withholden good
things from you.”
| If you want to know why it
; doesn’t rain—it is your fault. If
~ you want to know why there is
‘ no joy, it is your fault. If you
} want to know why there is no
| peace, it is your fault. If you want
- to know why there is no prosper-.
ity, it is your fault. If you want
- to know why there's no victory,
it is your fault. If you want to
know why you are in captivity, it
is ycur fault,
If you want to know why you
are iniquitous, it is your fault.
I you want to know why God
kKeeps the good things from you,
it's your fault. It's not unfaith
fulness on God's part. But in the
sins of the people was found the
explanation for the failure.
Now »s ministers of the gospel
of Jesus Christ, we are sent to
prcclaim God's message to the
people, and as messengers of God,
we are asked to come and speak
God's message. Now, I find cer
tain things promised for us to
proclaim.
For example. God has promised
forgiveness, “Verily, verily, 1 say
unto you, He that heareth My
word, and believeth on Him that
sent Me, hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condem
nation; but is passed from death
unto life.”
\ God has promised peace, “These
' joy. “The God of hope fill you
that in Me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribu
lation; but be of good cheer; I
~ have overcome the world.”
‘ God has promised fullness of
‘ joy, “The God of hope fill you
- with joy and peace in believing.”
‘ He has promised emancipation
from sin, “For sin shall not have
} dominion over you; for ye are
not under the law, Hut under
grace.”
He has promised victory, “There
hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man: but
God is faithful, who will not suf
fer you to be tempted above that
ve are able; but® will with the
temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to
bear it.”
He has promis2d provision for
every need, “But my God shall
supply all your need according to
His riches in Glory by Christ
Jesus.” Not all you want! You
may want a great many things
you don’t need. God says, “I will
supply all your need according to
my riches in Glory.” You may
want ice cream, but you can get
along without it. See? “I will
supply all your need according to
My riches in Glory.”
Such ar2 a few of the number
less promises which make the life
of the believer full of glory and
full of peace. To us, as believers,
they are promised; as believers
they should be desired with a
yearning which daily and hourly
increases with intensity. We
ought (o long for the fulfillment
of these things, and let me ask
you, are they possessed?
There are thousands of people
Two Thousand Special Invitations
Issued to Guests of Atlanta Inns
for Tuesday Evening.
Tuesday night will be “Hotel
Night” at the Billy Sunday Taberna
cle. Two thousand speclal invita
tions to Atlanta’s hotel guests were
issued Monday night through the
Atlanta Hotel Men's Asoclation and
there will be reservations at the Ta
bernacle for all who take this ad
vantage of the opportunity to hear
Billy preach. The tickets will be dis
tributed through the various hotels.
Billy Sunday will resume hig serv
ices Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
when he will preach to everybody.
He wlill be on the job Tuesday night
at 7:30 o'clock. In the audience Tues
day night will be a number of special
delegations representing various in
dustrial plants throughout the city.
Tuesday morning Billy Sunday and
‘his party will be guests, along with
Governor Dorsey and Mayor Candler,
at a review of the Georgia Military
Academy Cadets. He will talk to
the boys following the military in
spection.
All of the workers In the Sunday
campaign will begin Tuesday their
regular weekly programs. Monday
was ‘rest day” with the party and
they spent it in Toccoa, Ga.
today who have had the higher
and richer experiences ur a Chris
tian life who are absolute stran
gers to the church. They do not
know the A. B. C.'s out of which
to write God's peace; they do not
know perfect forgiveness; they
have no personal assurance of
salvation; they have no perfect
peace. Their lives are a constant
prey to anxlety; circumstances
upset them; they have no experi
ence as to the keeping power of
Jesus Christ; in the hour of temp
tation they are not filled with
Jjoy, but they are gloomy.
They are not victorious, but
they are defeated, and their cry
seems to be, “Oh, wretched man
that I am! Who shall deliver me?”
“For the law of the spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made mo
free from the law of sin and
death,” It is just the opposite
from that.
And let me ask you another
question. Why is it that the life
lived by the average Christian af
fords such a sad and bitter con
trast to that pictured on the
pages of the New Testament?
Let me ask you another ques
tion. Is the Christian life as pic
tured in the Bible too high for
human attainment? Oh, no! Did
God tell you to do something that
He knew you could never achleve?
Don’'t you have the audacity to
say that is true. That is a lie!
God did not put the Christ life
too high for human attainment,
When God commands all men to
repent, God knows all men can re
pent, or God would not com
mand them to do it. God's prom
ises are never meant to be un
fulfilled. Is God trifling with His
people? No!
Is the Christ life an ideal to
ward which you must always long
and approximate but never real
ize? Must it be something that
I'd lik» to possess, but it is too
high for me to reach? No! It is
something that I would like to
own, that I have not the ability
to own? No!
But the explanation i{s in the
text. Let me read 1t again.
“Your iniquities have turned away
those things, and your sins have
withholden good things from
you.”
Failure with ourselves, not with
God. Then that means self-ex
amination to find out why ycu
have failed. Isn't that right? Cer
tainly!
Let me ask you another ques-
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George M. Sunday, who is
seeking a place in:the transpor
tation service of the army that
he may get overseas at the
earliest possible moment, |
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If George Sunday, son and |
business manager of the famous .
Billy. is successful in his appli
cation ‘for a commission in the
United States army and gets over
to France with General Per
shing's army, as he plans, Mrs.
George Sunday is planning to fol
low him to France and probably
go in for nursing wounded sol
diers.
Mrs. Sunday is every bit as
patriotic as George or Billy. She,
too, wants to do her “bit” for her
- country. When George left At
lanta for Washingtcn to talk with
War Department oflicials regard
ing his proposei commission, he
said he would arrange for Mrs., |
George Sunday and the two chil
. dren to go to Los Angeles to live |
until he returns from the “front.”
But Mrs. George isn't strong for
~ staying “over here” while George
is pluggirg. away ‘over there.! |
She says if George goes she’ll
- follow him.
George is expected back in At
lanta in a few days with a com
' misgsion in the army tucked un
. der his arm. «He has volunteered
' his services to Uncle Sam in
whatever capacity hls country
sees fit to place him. He pre
fers, however, association with
the motor transportation corps of
General Pershing’'s army because
of his familiarity with motor
driven trucks. }
Shriners to Hear
Billy on Wednesday
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It will be “Shriner’s Night” at the
Billy Sunday Tabernacle Wednesday
night. ‘
Members of Yaarab Temple will|
turn out in a body, and it is expected
there will be several hundred in the
delegation. Each Shriner will wear
his fez and the members will be ac
companied by their wives and rela
tives and sweethearts.
The Yaarab Chanters will accom
pany the Shriners and will sing. It
will be impossible to bring along the
famous band, since some of its mem
bers have gone to Montgomery for a
special ceremonial.
The Shriners will meet at the corner
of Edgewood avenue and Jackson
street at 7 o'clock, and will march in a
body to the Tabernacle, where special
seats will be reserved for them in the
center section.
S|NG [H E N
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Every evening, for about flfteci'}
minutes before the usual Tabernacle
service, there gather in a small room
under the choir, platform in the big
building a group of Atlanta minifi
ters. The object of the gathering {8
ostensibly for prayer for the succe?
of the revival. o
There are prayers, and the minig
ters invoke blessings on Billy and his
co-workers, the audience and thp
whole city. Then come some informal
talks on the results 9f the Sunday
campaign in Atlanta as seen by the
indlvidual ministers. -
Over in the postoffice at the Tabs
ernacle are little mail boxes assigned
to each of the churches in Atlanta,
And into these boxes are put each
‘night the cards which are signed by
‘the “trail hitters” at the meetings,
| On the cards are the “church prefer=
'ences" of the hitters. The ministers
are reached through the “‘preferences”
luf the converts, - 1
- To get back to the ministers,
i Experiences Are Told.
' Following the prayers they infore
mally relate some of their experiences
with the “trail hitters” reached
through the little cards in the post
office boxes. The pastor of a promt
nent church in Peachtree street told
how one man reached by Billy at \fio
meetings hud come to him and Had
promised to quit peddling liquop be
cause, sald the clergyman, thé man
'had been “touched” by Billy's fr'q.
uent tales of the wrecked lives and
homes that follow booze drinking,. *
' “This man told me he wasn’t goll&
to be risponsible for the smashing
10( any person’s home,” said the min-
Ister, “and that he wag determined
to quit peddling booze and go into &
business that was more uplifting:’
"I asled him if he had made & habig
of that sort of thing and he told me
he has sold booze imllscrimlnately for
about four months, and that he wx
making a good living at it. But he
added that Billy had reached his heart
one night at the Tabernacle and here
after he's going to cut it out and
bring his family to church. That
man is arranging now to become &
member of my Bible class.”
Another minister from the W
End told of a young man and hig W
who had “hit the trail”’ in the Dig
wooden building and whom he
reached through one of the “conver~
sion cards.” He found, he s-!q, that
neither of them had been iuside &
church for years, and that their tk}l‘”
children had never been to Sabbath
school
“I arranged to take them into my
church,” said the minister, “and I be=
lieve they will stick to the “strald
land narrow." To Billy Sunday’s ine
fluence they attribute their determis
nation to seek Christ for themselves
and their children.” &
Remarkable Good Done.
Several other ministers told of hav=
ing reached men and women who had
handed their cards to the Tabernacle
ushers, and it was the general opinion
of the clergymen that. the revival is
showing tangible evidences of great
good.
Dr. Isaac Ward, who attends the
meetings of the ministers each night,
asked the pastors if, in their opinion,
the persons they have reached
through the “trail hitters'” cards were
really sincere in their determination
to lead the “better life."
The ministers generally agreed that
not in one instance where they had
been brought in contact with a “trai}
hitter” had there been shown the least
inclination to insincerity. It was their
' opinion that those who walk the saw
'dust aisles are determined to do the
right thing, and that in every instance
the persons they have reached were
whole-heartedly influenced and were
determined to not only “get right with
God,” but to “stay right.”
rs' Employees to
Rogers’ Employees to
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Hear Sunday Tonight
For the purpose of permitting about’
300 employees of the Rogers' steo 4
to attend the Billy Sunday revival
at the Tabernacle Tuesda nifht, th
management announces that all of
the ninety-one stores in Atlanta il
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