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BILLY POURS HOT SHOT INTO UNBELIEVERS
Darwin Theory Torn Into Shreds by the Evangelis
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By WINNIE FREEMAN.,
If there was anything left of the
Darwinian- theory after B'lly Sunday
finithed 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. Not in the
Tabernacle, at any rate.
Billy told us where Cain got his
wife, and he tc!d us why God made
woman out ¢f one of the ribs of man
instead of out oi 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 statistics to show that if Cain
hadn’t been keen_ about his wife he
might have had his choice of some
5,563 other buxom lassies, which was
half of the population at the time of
(‘ain’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 to cut off of the loaf she had
already made.
And reverting to the subject of
C'ain, 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 peo
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 vou 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.”
«I throw it in your teeth,” he hurled
at the audience. ‘“The reason a lot of
you people won’t accept the word of
God is because you're slackers and
cowards. You're afraid—afraid it will
make of you decent men and women,
and you're afraid to try to be decent.
Billy’s sermon was preached espe
cially 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,
convineing science.
“I've studied astronomy,” he said,
“hut I've never found there anything
about the Star of Bethlehem. I've
studied mineralogy, but I've never
founq anything there about the Rock
of Aged, and I've studied biology, but
I've neves 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,
“‘emd a dog or an elephant or a horse
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Billy Sunday, Jr., son of the famous evangelist and just ex
actly like him. Billy, Jr., is a student at a boys’ school in New
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 get
a man or women into Heaven or hell
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 gulde,” he
declared, “unless regenerated by faith
in Jesus Christ. It was a 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 don’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 he'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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you’ve said all there is to say. You
may go now and rest.’ I don't see
how I can say any more. I 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 physlcally exhausted, I'll always
reach the same point I've reached to
night.”
He turned and faced the choir, ana
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 1
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 various
parts of the audience to shake the
hand of the evangelist.
Billy made an especial appeal to the
delegations present, the Baraca-Phil
athea City [Union, the United States
Tire Company, the Round Table Club,
the Ford Motor Company, the At
lantic Steel Company, McClure's Ten-
Cent Store, the Norris Candy Com
pany, the Southern Warehouse Furni
ture Men's Association and the L. W.
Rogers Company. And he got a few
recruits for Christ out of each of
them.
Tuesday night was officially “hetel
men’s” night, but it probably miggnt
better have been “Philathea-Baraca”
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 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 %e, 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 first 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, on a field
argent (he needs this stuff for his
labors in the Lord’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 for
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 tn
the past two decades.
For ten months of the year, twice a
day, three times 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,6oo—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 has 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.
night, because for every hotel or trav
eling man attending there were about
ten or twentv 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
platforrn 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.”
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Wilson Plans to Put
D ic Prob
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ToC for Acti
o Longressfor Activn
(By international vews Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—
President Wilson began writing
his message to Congress today.
For several weeks he has been
making notes and revolving the
various subjects to be touched
upon in his mind.
The President’s message will
not be devoted entirely tt the
war, it became known authori
tatively today, but will give at
tention to several domestic prob
lems he believes to be of pressing
importance.
The Webb export bill, suspend
ing the anti-trust laws to permit
American manufacturers to com
bine for foreign trade probably
will be recommended for passage
by the President. Conservation
legislation will be touche dupon
and railroad legislation desired by
the Administration probably will
be outlined.
The President was expected to
recommend action on the Susan
B. Anthony amendment giving
the vote to women. But that he
will recommend affirmative action
is doubtful.
14 Towns To Be Represented in
Sam Jones Tabernacle When
Sunday Speaks.
They’'re planning a great reception
for Billy Sunday up Cartersville way.
The noted evangelist and his party
will visit the home town of the re
nowned Sam Jones next Monday,
making the trip from Atlanta by au
tomobile over the Dixie Highway.
Thirteen towns, in addition to Car
tersville, wil] be represented in the
great throng of approximately 25,000
persons who plan to hear Billy talk
in the old Sam Jones Tabernacle. Or
dinarily, the Tabernacle isn't open
except in the summer months, but
with Billy Sunday in town Carters
ville wil] put on its holiday attire and
make the visit of the evangelist and
his party one of the big stunts of the
year.
A big committee will meet the Sun
day revivalists when they get to Car
tersville. The visitors will be taken
at once to the Sam Jones Tabernacle
and there Billy will be formally in
troduced to the citizens of Carters
ville and of Dalton, Rockmart, Ce
dartown, Chatsworth, Kingston,
Adairsville, Emerson, Acworth, Mari
etta, Calhoun, Rome C(Canton and
Stilesboro, all of which have an
nounced their intention of being rep
resented at the big gathering.
Following the address, which is
scheduled for 10:30 a. m., Billy and his
party will be guests of Mrs. Sam
Jones, widow of the revivalist, at an
“old-fashioned Southern dinner” in
the Jones home. A batch of promi
nent citizens for miles around have
been asked to meet Billy at the Jones
home. Among the latter will be Mrs.
W. H. Felton, who taught Sam Jones
at school, and Mrs. Corra Harris, tne
noted author.
The Sundayites will leave Carters
ville for Rome, where they will spend
the night as the guests of Miss Mar
tha Berry, head of Miss Berry’s
School. Tuesday morning Billy will
talk to the students of the school, and
then the party will leave for Atlanta,
arriving in time for the regular Tues
day afternoon service at the Taber
nacle.
Mrs. George Sunday
.
Goes to Washington
Mrs. George M. Sunday left At
lanta Wednesday for Washington. She
will be gone several days. George is
now in Washington conferring with
officials of the War Department con
cerning a commission in the United
States army.
Billy Sunday, Jr., second son of the
noted evangelist, also left Atlanta
Wednesday following a short visit to
his parents. He will return to the
Blair School at Blairstown, N. J.,
where he is a student.
ILLY BSUNDAY preached Wed-
B nesday afternoon at the Tab
ernacle on “Follow Me and 1
Will Make You Fishers of Men.” The
Sermon in full follows:
Mark, first chapter and the
16th verse: “Follow Me and I
Will Make You Fishers of Men.”
“Jesus did not say follow Me
and T will make you feeders of
sheep. In many churches nine
tenths of the expended energy is
in feeding the sheep. Fifty
weeks in the year are spent
preaching to sheep in the church
and two weeks to the people out
side,
Some 6ne says, “The sheep
need to be fed, don't they?”
Surely, but the best way to feed
the ninety-and-nine is to forget
them and go out after the one
that is lost.
The church that spends all of
its time conserving its doctrine
and membership may become an
evangelical church, but not an
evangelistic church, The church
that is simply evangelical is the
church on ice—the church that
Is evangelistic is the church on'
fire.
A church couldn’t be evangelis
tic without being evangelistical,
but a church could be evangelical
without being evangelistic.
There are thousands of church
members who seem to think the®
preacher’s sole duty is to pro
vide them with predigested relig
ious food, which from Sunday to
Sunday they may be able .o bolt,
being themselves relieved of the
process of mastication and di
gestion. That's the reason so
many who take this attitude to
ward the ministry die of fatty de
generation of the soul.
Jesus did not say “Follow Me
and T will make you feeders of
goats,” and yet certain men seem
under the delusicn that the one
great task of religion is to take
the goat, to feed and cultivate it
that he will ultimately become
sheep in the master's lock. You
can not convert a goat into a
sheep by any process of diet or
culture.
No Cookie Route.
The thousand and one make
shifts the people now use in the
place of atonement are well and
good in their place, but their
place is not here. You can not
bathe anybody into the Kingdom
of God. You can not give peo
ple a cracker, a cookie, a plate
of soup and cup of coffee and get
them into the Kingdom. You
can not change their heart by
changing their sanitation.
I have no qguarrel with social
service, education or the institu
tional methods in which the mod
ern church engages, provided such
work is not put in the place of
the real work of the kingdom, that
of saving souls.
If T have to yank down my
standard because you let these
things interfere with your belief
in the atonement, we’ll fight right
there. If T have to yank down
my methods of preaching to
please some old chap with his
collar buttoned in the back of his
neck, then I'll stop. I'll go out
and sweep the streets for a living
before I'll do that.
I have never been in sympathy
with a Y. M. C. A. with a billiard
room: I'm fTor the Y. M. C. A.
and think it's one of the best in
stitutions on the face of the earth.
but I'm against the billiard room.
I consider a billiard room or a
pool ruom sthe second cousin of
the saloon. I'm for the gymna
siums and the libraries and the
swimming pools, but I'm against
the billiard and pool games.
It is an entirely good Chris
tian thing to give the down-and
outer a bath, a bed and a job—
it is an entirely Christian thing
to estahlish and maintain schools
and universgities, but the road in
to the Kingdom of God is not
by the bathtub, the university,
the gymnasium or social service,
but by the blood-red road of the
crosg of Christ
Someone says human nature is
radically good, that the power ‘to
uplift and ability to rise to the
highest excellence is independent
of any external force—something
inherent within us. The Bible
declares that humna nature |is
radicaly bad, and that the pow
er to uplift is purely external.
Man has not the power to sup
press vice except as he develops
virtue.A That power is not in any
man oiwoman or system. It is
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THE church that is simply |
evangelical is the church on
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the church on fire.
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'I‘HOUSANDS of church mem
bers seem to think a preach
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them with predigested religion, §
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who frequently die of fatty
degeneration of the soul.
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THERE is no “cookie route” to
the Kingdom of Heaven,
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world in crime, divorce and
é the social evil.
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not in Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Milton, Baker, Shakespeare or
Emerson, but by the blood-red
road of Calvary.
Remedy For World’s Woes.
On comes the statesman. He
says the remedy for the world’s
misery and woe is to change
' conditions by wise universal sys
~ tem of government. He assumes
that vice flows from ignorance
and economic conditions; that
virtue is the offspring of know
ledge and plenty. It is in the
power of constitution and laws to
restrain and protect, but not to
change man’s nature. The law
can punish for breaking the law,
but the gospel of Jesus Christ
steps In and takes out of the
heart that which made you break
the laws, and puts into the heart
that which makes a man keep
the laws. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is the remedy for the
worid’'s woes. '
All Governments have failed.
Take the fraternal government of
Jewish days—it failed. Take the
Roman Government—it failed.
These countries did not fail be
cause they had any aprticular
form of Government, but because
they were without the right kind
of religion. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the hope of the world
of today. So you can understand
why I've got to fight with you
when I see you're taking the
wrong path. Are we any better
than Russia and Turkey? Some
times I think that we lead the
whole world, and I am always
proud that T was born in Ameri
ca. But it makes my heart ache
when I think the United States
leads the world in crime, divorce
and soclal evils.
The scolar says the remedy
~ for the world’s vice is a universal
system of education. He assumes
that people are made purer in
proportion as they are made wise.
- Did the children of Israel wander
40 years in the wilderness because
of intellectudl error?
| Knowledge didn't save Solo
mon, Bacon, Poe or Byron.
Are people going to hell be
. cause they don't know? Are they
becoming drunkards because
~ they don’t know? Are people
~ libertines because they don’t know
~ better? The question we must
solve is not one of intellect, but
~ of morals. The world is not dying
~ for want of knowledge, but for
~ want of Christ.
\ The twentieth century has wit
' nessed two apparently contradic
tory facts: The decline of the
church and the growth of relig
fous hunger in the masses. The
world during the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries passed
through a period of questioning
and doubts, during which every
thing in heaven and earth was
put into a crucible and melted
down into constituent elements.
Moorings Lost.
During that period many lay
men and preachers lost their
moorings. The definite challeng
ing note was lost out of the life
of the ministry. The preacher to
day is ofttimes a human intero
gation point, preaching to empty
pews. The hurrying, busy crowd
. in the street is saying to the
preacher and the church “When
you have something definite to
say about the issues of life, heav
en, hell and salvation, we will
listen: till then we have no time
for you.”
1 believe we are on the eve of a
great national revival. The mis
sion of the church is to carry the
gospel of Christ to the world.
The whole movement toward
mothers’ pension, anti-child labor
laws and the like have bheen
started by the Church of Jesus
Christ.
For every reform started by an
agnostic, 999 have been started
by the church.
If a man won't do God's will he
will be stripped of his power.
The Lord is with thee to save. |
What do you want, you fools?
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Billy Sunday has figured t
about 200,000 persons have heard &
preach at the Tabernacle since
started his Atlanta campaign. |
There are some Christians ass &
ated with Atlanta churches ¥
haven't yet darkened this Tak
nacle, and I've been here four weelig
is what Billy told his afternoon au’
ence at the Tabernacle Wednesd
The building was less than one-tE™
filled and most of those in the ad
ence were women. There eret
batch of children, too, and freq ~
ly Billy stopped in the middle of §
sermon to caution mothers notf
let their children play in the sg
dust aisles. 5
Once, when a woman who camé
late for the meeting, was mally
her way toward the platform, B
shouted to the usher near the ¢ g
through which she entered: &
- "Don’t let anybody come G
here while I'm preaching; net: :i;
the mayor of the city!” v
The 200,000 persons who haveshel
Billy haven’t left as much mo v i
hind them in the Tabernacles Bt
declared, as a circus would take P
of Atlanta in two days. ;
Billy was apparently very “mg
peeved Wednesday afternoon. ' L
clared the revival is lagging and t
the one big weakness of the Atlal
campaign is the lack of persa
work. v o
“There’s nobody to lift a ?
shouted Billy, “to urge a man op !
man to come to Christ. You ,’ 3 §
me to do all the preaching amd &
down and plead with men and Wont
to accept Christianity while y‘;pné
around and wistfully look on./* &
What the revival needs just nf
Billy emphasized, is more praye 1§
Billy declared an angel couldn '”7,
spend a week in Atlanta with th
“so-called church people” and g€
back again to Heaven witho B
first having to fumigate its wgn 0
He rapped those who “keep. ;
in tneir homes” and referred to ti .
as “saloon keepers.” He plea’d‘pd[ a 2
a revival in literature and de ,}
that if all the objectionable *be 7
now stacked up in the prlmj
braries of Atlanta were taken @t i
burned, there wouldn't be noy
paper left in some of the ho"?
“bang your hair or kindle a fires%
Billy, in his opening ray
thanked God “for 30 cent cottofi" %
for Georgia’s prosperity. He deel
ed Atlanta shouldn’t let a day® 4 -
without praying for the sucees 5
the Allies. He insisted that "'li
not saving enough food, but afe ;
mandizing while our soldiers - "
need of food.” He urged th&t,
lantans eat one potato instead of ti
that they eat less sugar and m
and that they stand behind the !
tional government in its conser{
tion plans so that the food so ned
sary for the successfal prosecution
the war might be saved and sent
“our allies across the seas.” f
Billy predicted that “unless we Eg
busy right now and save morg fg ‘
stuffs, we will be on rations # :
of a year.” He prayed for defe i;:
“that horde of Huns, who have oif
raged women and killed children ‘""
their Godless warfare” and he -%’(
with this:
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that & &
draw your sword and jab it _ml'};fi
through that bunch of cut-th 4
George Brewster conducted the's g:
service before Billy’s arrival 14
Peterson, custodian of the Tabern ;
was at the piano. 3
ALASKAN FOOD CHIEF. |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 —Herl f‘t
Hoover today named Judge Roy Ly
Gunnison, of Juneau, Federal ¥
Administrator of Alaska. Judge G
nison is head of the Juneau food €€
mittqe. which has undertaken ,l
paigngto sign up all fa.mille‘.ol_j
TerrifAiry as members of the_
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