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BILLY POURS HOT SHOT INTO UNBELIEVERS
Darwin Theory Torn Into Shreds by the Evangelist
By WINNIE FREEMAN.
If there was anything left of the
Darwinian theory after Billy Sunday
finished preaching Tuesday night, it
was only a few scattered particles
that hadn't become disintegrated when
Billy hurled them against the walls
of the Tabernacle during the 60 min
utes that he spoke.
He took the principles of that the
ory one by one and he plucked them
to pieces one by one, and when he
was through there wasn't enough of
Mr. Darwin's argument left to send
home on a postage stamp. Nat in the
Tabernacle, at any rate.
Billy told us where Cain got his
wife, and he teld us why God made
woman out of one of the ribs of man
instead of out of the dust, and he
cited science to prove that the im
maculate conception wouldn't have
been at all impossible even without
the Holy Ghost. Thousands of people
are in hell, he said, because they
couldn’t figure out any reasonable an
®swer to these three propositions. And
he endeavored to.enlighten the people
present.
He told where Cain got his wife all
right. He got her from his father-in
law in the land of Nod. And he also
gave statisties to show that if Cain
hadn’t been keen about his wife he
might have had his choice of some
5,063 other buxom lassies, which was
half of the population at the time of
Cain's venture on the matrimonial
sea
He said (God made woman out of
one of the ribs of man for the same
reason that the woman who was mak
ing a sandwich didn't bake a new
loaf of bread every time she wanted
to make a sandwich—because it was
easier {o cut off of the loaf she had
already made.
And reverting to the subject of
Cain, he declared that some sinners
aren't half as worried about where
that gentleman of Biblical fame got
his wife as they are about where some
of their neighbors got theirs.
Cain Was a German.
And, besides, if there's any re
flection on Cain, remember he’s your
friend and not mine,” he said. “I
haven't any more use for Cain than
I have for the Kaiser. Anything that
has a German name I'm agin. I'm
not going to eat any more hot dogs,
because they smell too much like Ber
lin.
“It’s not the inconsistencies of God,
but the inconsistencies of a lot of beo
ple that think the Bible's inconsist
ent that's keeping them out of heaven.
There's only one consistent guide for
any human life, and that’s the Bible,
and if you don't live according to its
dictates when the opportunity’s of
fered to you it's because you're a
slacker and a coward.”
“] throw it in your teeth,” he hurled
at the audience. ‘“The reasan a lot of
L vou people won't accept the word of
" God is because you're slacker§ and
cowards. You're afraid—afraid it will
make of you decent meni,and women,
and vou're afraid to try to be decent.
Billv’'s sermon was preached espe
ciallv to skeptics, and if they didn’t
have all the dark places cleared away
for them it wasn’t his fault. He
picked out every conceivable alleged
inconsistency in the Bible, brushed it
away with descriptive phrases, and
backed his arguments up with cold,
convincing science.
“I've studied astronomy,” he said,
“put I've never found there anything
about the Star of Bethlehem. Tl've
studied minetalogy, but I've never
found anything there about the Rock
of Ages, and I've studied biology, but
I've never found anything there about
the body of Jesus Christ.”
Soul Saves Men.
And Billy explained another thing.
He explained why it is that a man
will go to Heaven 'when he's dead,
and a dog or an elephant or a horse
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Jersey and ran down to Atlanta Monday for a brief Thanksgiving
visit to his parents.
perhaps will only be dead. A dog and
a horse and an elephant have memory
and they have will power, and judg
ment and imagination. - Billy allows
them all these things. But what they
haven't got, and what it takes to geu
a man or women into Heaven or heli
is soul. Soul, Billy says, consists of
the three prime faculties, faith, moral
and conscience,
“And there's no quadruped on God’s
green earth that has these qualities,”
he said. “And you can tell me man
came from a monkey, but if he had
he'd have enough monkey left in him
now to graft a monkey bone, and it
can't be done. You've got to graft
human to human.”
“And conscience is no guide,” he
declared, “unless regenerated by faith
in Jesus Christ. It was g guide, but
it went down in the wreck when Adam
and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.
And the only rule of faith and prac
tice by which to regulate your life is
the Word of God.”
Then Billy came around to the
question of immortality, and it didn't
take him long to make himself plain
on that subject.
“You aon’t see me,” he explained;
“you only see the house in which I
live. And I don’t see you. I only see
the house in which you live. You're
a tenant at will—at God’s will. And
when God says ‘move on,” take it from
me, you'll hike.”
When he’d finished preaching Billy
felt like be'd said all there was to say.
He admitted it when he prayed.
Preached Until Exhausted.
“Say, Jesus,” and that was the first
intimation the audience had that the
sermon was ended. “Say, Jesus, 1
don’'t see why the members of the ex
ecutive committee, Dr. Flinn, and Mr.
Outlaw, and Mr. Orr, and all of them
don’'t come to me and say, ~‘Billy,
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may go now and rest’ I don’t see
‘how I can say any more, 1 might
‘expatiate, and touch up a few points
here and there, and illuminate, but
after I've finished, and when my
clothes are wet with perspiration, and
I am physically exhausted, I'll always
reach the same point I've reached to
night.”
He turned and faced the choir, and
continued:
“Come up here on the platform,
Holy Ghost. Come up here and go
out among these people, and help
them to walk down and give their
hearts to God.”
Billy opened his eyes, and stood
silent, expectant.
Nobody came.
“You can't make me believe that
there isn’t somebody here that doesn't
want to do God’s will,” he pleaded. “I
don’t believe there's a city in the
United States where 8,000 people could
be gathered together and none of
them want to forsake sin and follow
Christ.”
And that from Billy brought them
forth—that and “Almost Persuaded,”
softly sung by Rody and the choir.
About 175 persons came from varicus
parts of the audience to shake the
hand of the evangelist.
Billy made an especial appeal to the
delegations presemt, the Baraca-Phil
athea City Union, the United States
Tire Company, the Round Table Club,
the TFord Motor Company, the At
lantic Steel Company, McClure’'s Ten-
Cent Store, the Norris Candy Com
pany, the Southern Warehouse Furni
ture Men's Assoclation and the L. W,
Rogers Company. And he got a few
recruits for Christ out of each of
them.
Tuesday night was officially “hotel
men’s” night, but it probably might
better have been ‘“Philathea-Baraca”
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER: 28, 1917
Billy of the Glad Hand! Or Billy of
the Valiant Grip! . Is there any reader
who doesn’t guess who this is?
It used to be, in days of old, that en
tire families were named in memory
of some doughty deed, brave or wick
ed, kindly or impressive.
Also they were named, so we have
read, after their varied professions,
trades, or sometimes traits.
You either went to war magnificent
ly or toiled industriously.
No one ever has gone to the trouble
to work out what their names were
before they changed them or how and
why they got their first ones.
It has never been established why,
in the morning of life, the flrst lady
of the land should be called Eve, and
the first gentleman a name easily
amenable to swearing.
Certainly Billy Sunday might have'
%got his surname from the fact that his
family tree felt, from the roots up,
‘that the better the day the better the
deed. A little moral slogan which our
friend seems to have changed into
“the better the deed, the better the
day.”
However this may be, on his coat
of-arms might be traced, ort a field
argent (he needs this stuff for his
labors in the ILord's vineyards), a
glad hand, outstretched firmly, yet in
all friendliness, toward the whole
world, and maybe tucked away in one
corner, might be a nice, friendly smile.
Disliking higher mathematics fér
the usual reason that people dislike
things—because they are too much for
me, from calculus to Euclid—the writ
er should hesitate to tell you just how
many hands have shaken Sunday's in
the past two decades.
For ten months of the year, twice a
day, three tirnes on Sunday, that gen
tleman has been shook, literally, by
from one to five thousand people a
day—more than any President or
servant of public life ever has.
The hands of Billy Sunday have,
averaging ten months of the year,
been eagerly clasped by some millions
of people.
In the ten months are 300 days.
Over I,soo—often over 2,ooo—people
at each performance insist on shaking
hands with him.
At 3,000 per day, which is putting it
low, you have, in ten months, 900,000
people.
And even ten years of this would
make 9,000,000 people with whom this
soul-gatherer n.s clasped hands.
For good measure we’ll just throw
in the first ten years of it, without
counting, so that you'll see we are far
from exaggerating—rather the con
trary.
But-—those days are over!
Billy Sunday lets no man shake
hands with him any more.
He beats 'em to it.
He shakes hands with them.
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night, because for every hotel or trav
eling man attending there were about
ten or twenty members of the Baraca-
Philathea Union.
There was a large crowd present—
about as large as any that has attend
ed one of the weekly meetings.
Billy, Jr., who spent Tuesday here
with his parents, was seated on the
platform with Ma Sunday, and after
the meeting was introduced to the
scores of friends the Sundays have
made in Atlanta. Ma explained to
everybody that while Billy would like
to claim voting age, he was in reality
only 16, and everybody agreed with
her that he was such a fine-looking
boy he might easily pass for 21.
Billy took a crimp out of the people
in Atlanta who have been criticizing
him, saying that he shocks and alarms
them.
“Why, I could no more astonish and
alarm some men and women in At
lanta by my remarks than I could
make a skunk smell sweet by pouring
'perfume on it,” he said. And he add
ed:
“I think you've got some of the
finest people in Atlanta I ever met.
But I think you've got also some of
the meanest, lowest-down, liquor
drinking, hog-jowled old hypocrites
I've ever come across.” |
Villa Bandits Loot
Train and Kill Fifty
(By International News Service.)
EL PASO, TEXAS, Nov. 28.—Villa
bandits have held up a Carranza
troop train en route from Juarez to
Chihuahua City south of Villa Ahu
mada last night, killing 50 soldiers
and wounding a large number, ac
cording to advices received here. The
bandit losses are reported to have
been slight.
It is belleved that Martin Lopez,
Villa’s second in command, was the
leader of the bandits.
The Government forces attacked
were the advance guard of a force
leaving Juarez to reinforce the gar
rison at Chihuahua City. The train
was looted of its guns and ammuni
tion, the report said.
Other trains following were not
attacked by the bandits.
A large force of troops, including
those who evacuated Ojinaga and
were sent to Juarez, have been or
dered to Chihuahua City. General
Juan Cordova, commander of the
troops who fled from Ojinaga when
the Villistas attacked, will be tried
by court-martial.
Dalton Red Cross
Working for Sammies
DALTON, Nov. 28.—The Dalton
chapter of the Red Cross has sent an-“
other large box o fsurgical dressings
to headquarters, the box containing
1,842 pileces. The chapter has decid
ed to devote the next few weeks ex
clusively to the making of supplies
which the division headqaurters has
called for, to be sent for immediate
use in France.
In addition to the vast amount of
work being done in the local work
rooms, the chapter {s organizing aux
illaries in the small towns of the
county, the latest having been or
ganized in Cohutta. ,
. .
Presbyterians Plan
For Union Servi
or IllOl_l ervlce§
A union service of all Presbyterian
churches of Atlanta will be held
Thanksgiving morning at 10:30
o'clock 'at the Central Presbyterian
Church. Dr. R. F. Kirkpatrick, of the
West End Presbyterian Church, will
deliver the address. A special of
fering to be taken will be divided be
tween the Nacoochee School in North
Georgia and the Thornwell Orphan
age, In South Carolina. ‘
All the Presbyterian pastors are‘
urged to meet with Dr. Dunbar Og-}
den, pastor of the church, at 10:15
o’clock, to enter the church in a body. 4
Annual Banquet Fund
Goes to Red Cross
DALTON, Nov. 28.—For the first
time in nine years the Business Men's
Class of the First Methodist Sunday
school will not entertain at a banquet
in compliment to the class’ founder,
the Rev. R. A. Edmondson, of At
lanta. This decision was reached in
view of the food conservation work,
and the money customarily spent for
the banquet—approximately sloo—
— be given by the members of the
class to the Red Cross work. ,
John R. Dortch Is
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LAVONIA, GA. Nov. 27.—1 n the!
municipal election here today John
R. Dortch defeated R. C. Davis by
32 majority for Mayor. Dortch re
ceived 99 and Davis received 67 votes.
For Councilman T. C. Pulllam, J.
T. Beasley, Roush Barton and W, 8.
Macomson were elected without op
position, all of them being Council
men for 1917. J, W. Maullin was re
elected clerk,
West Wants Some
.
of Big War Orders
(By Internutional News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Presi
dent Wilson was asked Tuesday to
use his efforts to divert the placing of
some of the large war orders from the
}-]aflt'to the West by a committee of
business men from Davenport, lowa.
The Davenport men allege that
practically all of the large war con
tracts are placed with Eastern man
ufacturers, and a marked flow o!'
skilled labor from the West has re
sulted.
Billy Sunday has figured that
about 200,000 persons have heard him
preach at the Tabernacle since he
started his Atlanta campaign.
There are some Christians associ
ated with Atlaite churches who
haven't yet darkensd this Taber
nacle, and I've been here four weeks,”
?ls what Billy told his afternoon audi
‘ence at the Tabernacle Wednesday.
The building was less than one-third
filled and most of those in the audi
‘ence were women. There were a
batch of children, too, and frequent
ly Billy stopped in the middle of his
sermon to caution mothers not to
let their children play in the saw
dust aisles.
- Once, when a woman who came in
late for the meeting, was making
her way toward the platform, Billy
’shouted to the usher near the door
' through which she entered:
~ “Don’t let anybody come down
‘here while I'm preaching; not even
the mayor of the city!”
The 200,000 persons who have heard
Billy haven't left as much money be
hind them in the Tabernacle, Billy
declared, as a circus would take out
of Atlanta in two days.
Billy was apparently very much
peeved Wednesday afternoon. He de
clared the revival is lagging and that
the one big weakness of the Atlanta
campaign {s the lack of personal
work.
“There’s nobody to lift a finger,”
shouted Billy, “to urge a man or wo
man to come to Christ. You expect
me to do all the preaching and get
down and plead with men and women
to accept Christianity while you sit
around and wistfully look on.”
What the revival needs just now,
Billy emphasized, {8 more prayers.”
Billy declared an angel couldn’t
spend a week in Atlanta with the
“so-called church people” and get
back again to Heaven without
first having to fumigate its wings.
He rapped those who “keep booze
in their homes” and referred to them
as “saloon keepers.” He pleaded for
a revival in literature and declared
that if all the objectionable books
now stacked up in the private li
braries of Atlanta were taken out and
burned, there wouldn’t be enough
paper left In some of the homes to
“bang your hair or kindle a fire.”
Billy, in his opening prayer,
thanked God “for 30 cent cotton” and
for Georgia's prosperity. He declar
ed Atlanta shopldn't let a day go by
without praving for the success of
the Allies. He insisted that “we are!
not saving enough food, but are gor
mandizing while our soldiers are in
need of food.” He urged that At
lantans eat one potato instead of two.‘
that they eat less sugar and meat
and that they stand behind the .ml.-‘
tional government in its mnm-rva-l
tion plans so that the food so nc-u-s-]
sary for the successfal prosecution of
the war might be saved and sent to
“our allies across the seas.” {
Billy predicted that “uniess we get
busy right now and save more food-‘
stuffs, we will be on rations inside |
of a year.” He prayed for defeat of
“that horde of Huns, who have out
raged women and killed children in
their Godless warfare” and he closed
with this:
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that you
draw your sword and jab it right
through that bunch of cut-throats.”
George Brewster conducted the song
service before Billy’'s arrival. Al
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernacle,
was at the plano.
ALASKAN FOOD CHIEF.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Herbert
Hoover today named Judge Royal A.
Gunnison, of Juneau, Federal Food
Administrator of Alaska. Judge Gun
nison is head of the Juneau food com
mittee, which has undertaken a cam
paign to sign up all families of Lhel
Territory as members of the Food
Administration.
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0 I the Tabernacle Wednesday
s night. Several hundred
gsmincn. wearing their fez, will
¢ be in special reservations and the 0
; Yaarab Chanters will sing.
g Bily Sunday will preach at the 2
o'clock service on “Fishers of
Men.” His subject for the 7:30 p. }
m. meeting will be “Seolomon.” ‘;
Meetings Wednesday in connec
s tion with the Billy Sunday cam- E
§ paign:
3 Noonday meetings for men, di
rection of Dr. Isaac Ward, Conti
nental Gin Company, Georgia
Railway and Power Company,
Fulton County plant, Southern
Railway (South shops), Atlanta
Joint Terminals and Dowman-Do- ;
2 zier Manufacturing Company,
{ Boys' and girls' meetings, direc- {
! tion Miss Alice Miriam Gamlin.g
{ St. John's Methodist Church, 24
§ East Georgia avenue, 2:15 p. m. s
Fulton High School girls’ meet
s ing, direction Miss Florence Kin- s
ney, First Christian Church, 2:15 }
i
Bible Study classes, direction
$ Miss Grace Saxe, Tabernacle, 3 p.
§ m., Decatur 8 p. m.
Business women's noonday
meeting, direction Miss Frances
Miller, Y. W. C. A., Peachtree Ar- ¢
cade, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Noonday meeting for women
workers, direction Mrs. William
| Asher, Gate City Cotton Mills,
% East Point, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Southern Wholesalers, in Session
Here, Say Company Would
Shift War Tax.
Resolutions protesting against the
increase of 10 per cent in express
rates which the Southern Express
Company has asked of the Interstate
Commerce Commission were adopted
Tuesday afternoon by the Southern
Wholesale Dry Goods Assoclation in
session in Atlanta.
Norman Johnson, secretary and
counsel, declared the express com
pany was merely trying to force the
public to shoulder the war tax on its
profits.
“This {sn't an expense, but a charge
which every business must expect to
pay,” said Mr. Johnson. “The express
company already is making the public
'pay b per cent on everything shipped,
a charge the Government intended the
company to pay.”
Mr. Johnson took up the record of
the company showing that only 150,~
000 had ever been invested in the
Southern Express Company, which
hag pald enormous dividends.
" The third division of the dry goods
organization, consisting of dealers
from South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, met at the Chamber of Com
merce to discuss market conditions
and tax questions. An advance in
prices was predicted by them as a
certainty. ,
. .
Prof. King Outlines
Engineering Course
A special course of engineering for
operating engineers of Atlanta was
outlined Tuesday night by Professor
R. S. King, of the experimental de
partment of Georgia Tech, at a meet
ing of Atlanta stationary engineers
at No. 81-2 West Alabama street. The
meeting was called to discuss ways
of aiding the Fuel Administrator of
the Government in the conservation
of coal. ]
Other speakers of the evening were |
Oscar Mills, County Commissioner;
H. D. Cousina, of Newark, N. J.,
founder and first president of the
National Association of Stationary
Engineers, and T. W. Douglas, chief
engineer of the Louisville and Nash-‘
ville Joint Terminals.
j
ILLY SUNDAY preached Tues-
B day night to a large crowd at
the Tabernacle on “If Any Man
Will.” The sermon in full follows:
Copyright, 1917, by Willlam Ashley
Sunday.
In the seventh chapter of John
and the seventeenth verse: “If
any man will do his wlill, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether I speak of
myself.”
The 'revised version simplifies
that verse and says: “If any man
willeth he shall know whether I
speak of myself or for the Lord.”
I have now, and I hope and
pray that I always will have sym
patny with any man or woman
that has difficulties, intellectual,
spiritual or moral, and if by any
word or advice of mine, I can
sweep the cobwebs from your vis
ion and cause you to see, I ac
count the work done just as val
uable as though I have been
privileged to aid some man or
woman already a believer into a
clear conception of his or her
responsibility and obligations to
God and the Word.
The skeptics =aid, “We know
you, we know your mother, your
brothers, your sisters and we
know where you were born. How
do we know that you are the Son
of God? How do we know that
you are true instead of false?”
Jesus sald, “I say I am the Son
of God. You say I am a liar, a
fraud, a devil and a prince of
devils. Would you like to know
whether you are right or wrong?
If you do God's will you will
know that what you say is a lie
and that what I say is true.”
Will to do God’s will and you
will know of the teaching, s
whether it be from God or just I,
myself, talking.
A Georgia preacher one time
paraphrased his text by saying,
“If you want religion do it. It
won’t be long until you have it.”
In other words start out and
do what any honest man wili do *
and you will not be in the dark.
Now the proof of the pudding is
not in sealing the bag or chewing '
the string but it is in the eat
ing. Yet we have a lot of peo
ple trying to prove the inspira- .
tions of Christianity by chewing':
the rag. B
Well, that requires no amount s
of brains nor sense nor reading ®
but it requires a great deal more
to put the words of my text into
practice—“lf any man willeth
then he shall know.”
I suppose as long as the United
States mints stamp coins and make
them worth one hundred cents on
the dollar, there will be found
men who will counterfeit them.
But that does not destroy the
value of the genuine. You think
all the more of it.
You find as long as God's
cause is going along, you will
find men that will counterfeit it.
I went to Washington one time
years ago and I met my friend
John Wilkey, he used to be a re
porter on the Chicago Tribune
when I was playing ball. We be
came fast friends. I went to his
room one time to see him and
he showed me thousands of dol
lars made by counterfeiters. I
had a good dollar in my poqket
and I wasn’'t fool enough to
throw it away on the White
House grounds. That one good
dollar would buy more than all
the hundreds of counterfeits that
I had looked at. It made me
think more of it because we only
counterfeit good things nowadays.
Now Jesus Christ foretold all ’
this in his prophecy about the
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