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Evangelist Has Smallest Night Audience of Career
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| The citizens of the United States
1 0 don't do everything in their
LJ wer to help “their country in the
,/ against Germany are “black
i learted traitors,” according to Billy
¥ day.
“They are just as bad as the nien
1 the firing line who refuse to fire
bullet into the enemy,” continued
ly, “and they should get the pun
ment the military traitor gets.”
“But there is a difference.” The
an at the front has on a uniform
d the other has not.”
‘Billy preached a good sormon\lnd
was a pity ghere were not more
(@eople to hear him. On the few front
[ @Bats in the middlé aisle there was a
s fully small little group. The very
fPnt seat was occupied by an old
arded man, while next to him sat
o little schoolgirls, who spent most
! i thelr time working arithmetic.
f Sermon on Prayer.
lHis sermon on prayer, the need of
! javing and the power it has in the
_l jaking of Christians. Prayer, he
id, is the foundation of religion
hd the only influence that can save
e world from the clutches of the
pvil, and the United States and her
ies from the Germans.
“We can do nothing "~ without
ayer,” he said. ‘“There are some
tho pray, however, and don’t mean
; A person who prays to God, and
i‘ not willing to go out and work
have his prayer answered, tells
|8 lie ard insults/God when in his
pplicat}on he says “Thy kingdom
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‘r‘%‘vod measures your prayer by your
HNingness to work for fits fulfill
bent. Beyond this, God does not
ve a rap for it, and it is worth no
hore.
“All the great things that have
peen accomplished in this wr),rld were
hrough praver. ‘We've got to pray
if we are going to whip Germany, and
re will not win until we do pray.
: Foresees Privations.
“The people of the United States
[@re going to get down to a crust of
fread before this war is over, and
ey are going to be made to suffer.
nd even after it is over our suffer
g will not be ended.
“We will be obliged to feed the
yintries of Turope for ten years
er the war is over, and under han
caps. Most of the work is being
pne today by foreigners, by Italians
g“ Russians, 'who, when the war is
[ver, will be called back to their own
W untiies to rebuild them.
“And we are going to see .the pas
age of a law by these countries to
revent their natives from comihg to
fhis country. They will need labor
PRo bad they will not be able to have
heir citizens leave their homes, and
ome to 11nru§h9r country.
# “If we want to win we have gos to
Pray, and God will see to it that we
Peat back those black-hearted hordes
at would conquer the world.”
¥ umber Man Has
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g 2 Close Call in Fire
} VALDOSTA, Dec. 12.g9Fire of un
nown origin destroyed the office,
welling and barns of O. G, Dash' &
Lo.. at Colon, Ga. Mr. Darsh was
;%’)vercume }xy smoks while trying ta
ave records in the office, and Wwas
| lled from the burning office by
F. is partner, W. P. Howell. Dash &
%0., are contractors for supplying |
poles to the Western Union and
: Western Electric Company. Several
i hegl of miules were gotten out of the
'nos'insumnve was carried on the;
perty. |
B FIRE AT VALDOSTA. }
ALDOSTA, Dec. 12.—The home of
= Pendleton was damaged-by fire
tapday. The roof was burned off
sand Ine Contents were damaged by
“fire and water. This less is covered
by insurance. J
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The great evangelist and his wife spend many happy moments of their spare time in music a}ld song. Here ‘‘Ma’’ is seen
playing an old favorite of Billy’s—and Billy apparently is enjoying it considerably. .
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otEKWAR FUND
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‘l Drive Begins for SIOO,OOO To Be
i Devoted to Welfare Work
; at Southern Camps.
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} Active campaigning began Wednes
§day to raise SIOO,OOO among South
lern Presbyterians, for work to be
done by that church toward soldier
I welfare.
i It is planned that the. work shall
. be for protection, comfort and diver
! sion of soldiers when they leave
icamp and come into the city seeking
novelty and relaxation.
! The campaign will be pushed until
iJanuary 1, although the books will
ibe open until February 1 to receive
| belated subscriptions. A. N. Share,
i No. 1522 Hurt Building, Atlanta, is
| treasurer of the fund, to whom sub
fscriptions will be sent, marked “War
‘Work Fund.”
The campaign was planned at the
closing session Tuesday of the war
work council of the Southerm, Pres
byterian Church, over which Dr,
James L. Vance, of Nashville, presided.
A leader will be appointed in each
synod, to be called the keyman, who
]wi]l.direct the campaign for his sy
i nod. Instructions were given work
ers to use telephones, local and long
distance, without stint, and to spare
no efforts in reaching every pros
pective subscriber.
Speakers at the conference Tues
day, besides Dr. Vance, were Rev. W.
W. Alexander, secretary of the South
eastern Department of the Y. M. C.
A.; Dr. T. S. McCallie, of Chatta
nooga; Rev. Homer McMillan, Rev.
Richard Orme Flinn, Dr. William R.
Dobyns, religious work director at
Camp Gordon; Mrs. W._S. Winns
boro, chairman of the Atlanta Wo
man’'s War Work auxiliary, and
Lieutenant J. Sprole Lyon, Jr, a
chaplain at Camp Seyier. Greenville,
8 C T o b acaniiied
o ot P A —— e ' ;
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For the first time in three days
the Billy Sunday party mustered
its full strength in Atlanta
Wednesday, following the return
from Milledgeville of Homer
Rodeheaver, Bob Matthaws afd
Mrs. George Sunday, who, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Rus
sell Bridges, of Atlanta, went
down to entertain the students
/ of the CGeorgia Normal and In
dustrial Coliege.
" The entertainment was given in
the college chaepl Monday eve
ning, but the party remained in
Milledgeville much of Tuesday,
returning Tuesday afternoon.
Rody sang and played his trom
bone and was generally the hero
before college girls. Bob Mat
thews showed the audience some
new wrinkles ir piano playing,
and Mrs. George Sunday won the
crowd with a short speech.
On the way to Milledggvi"e Bob
Matthews and Russell Br(?es
missed train connections at Ma
con, due altogether, it was ru
qpored, t othe pianist’s delay in
selecting &4 brilliant tie in a Ma
con haberdashery, and in pausing
too long before a mirror in antic
ipation of the treat the girls were
going to have. Neither of the
pair has yet tola how they
reached Milledgeville, 35 miles
away, only 30 minutes after the
party on the train.
Decatur Odd Fellows
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To Hear Billy Sunday
Decatur Lodgé, No. 194, 1. O.’O. F,,
is to attend the Billy Sunday meet
ing next Sunday :fternooa and with
the members those of all the oOdd
Fellow lodges in DeKalb County are
invited to attend.
Information as to ti 2 titme »f as
semhly and the meecting place may he
had from Past Master M.'D. Googer,
of Deecatur.
ATLANTA, GA.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1917
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Hancock Soldiers Show Great
Progress in Grenade Throwing
and Trench Digging,
AUGUSTA, Dec. 12.—Major General
Clement, commander of the Twenty
eighth Division of the United States
army at Camp Hancock, is gratified at
the great progress the Pennsylvanians
are making in grenade throwing. The
commander was surrrised to see men
score three out of five times with
the dummy grenade yesterday. After
the inspection he said:
“It was gratifying to see the men of
the division eghibit such marked skill.
These lads are showing a remarkable
zeal for the new tactics, and it pleases
me greatly to find the division at such
an advanced stage.”
General Clement also inspected the
entrenchments under construction in
various parts of the camp, and on
more than one occasion stopped to
ask the soldiers where they acquired
their skill in “digging in,” He was
astonished when informed that they
knew nothing about it prior to b\e'-
ginning training here.
No longer will the Pennsylvania
soldier sent to the base hospital be
lonely. Yesterday 48 women nurses
arrived. They form the advance de
tail of a detachment to be sent here,
All are graduates of Eastern hos
pitals.
Macon Shriners to
Stage Big Ceremonial
WMATON, Dec. 12.—Al Sihad Temple
of Shriners is planning to stage a big
ceremonial in Macon on December 19.
Potentate C. L. Bartlett is in charge
of the arrangements. Between forty
and fifty candidates will make the
trip across the hot sands. They come
from various places in South and
Middle Georgia.
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- Said To Be Hoarding
500,000 Lbs. of Sugar
SAVANNAH, Dec. 12.—District ‘
Chairman Geiger, of the Federal |
Food Administration, has receiv - |
ed information that a certain ‘
firm in Savannah ig hoarding a |
store of 5,000 100-pound bags of
- sugar for a prospective advance
in the market price. He has ap
plied to State Administrator
Soule for instructions in the case.
Pending instructions and an in- ‘
vestigation, Mr. Geiger declines ‘
to divulge the identity of the |
party.
This is the first case of this
character which has come to
light in Savannah, and if the
food administrator instructs the
district agent according to the
precedent established by the Gov
ernment in similar cases else
where, the store will be seized
and ‘the guilty party probably
prosecuted.
The sugar supply is so short
here that retail stores are limit
ing sales to two pounds per fam
ily and tem pounds to hotels.
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Trust Co. of Georgia—
The Trust Company of Georgia now
is a member of the Federal banking
system, lits admission having been
announced at a meeting of the board
of directors Tuesday.
The company was organized 'in
1891. It has a capital of $1,000,000,
and surplus and undivided profits of
$1,250,000, being one of the oldest
and strongest trust companies in the
South. Its union with the Federal
banking system at this time, the di«
rectors state, is due mainly to the
request of President Wilson that all
the banking resources of the nation
be mobilized; heretofore the directo-“
rate of the Trust Company of Geor
gia has alwa‘y;s held firmly to what it
considered the fundamental distine
tions between a trust company and
a bank. Thus no special need was
seen of joining the Federal reserve
system until the change in conditions
recently and the appeal of the Presi
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Evangelist Preaches Strong Ser
mon at the Tabernacle Wed
nesday Night.
ILLY SUNDAY took for his tert
B Wednesday night “The Bon of
Man Is Come to Seek and to Save
That Which Is Lost.” The sermon, in
full, was as follows:
Luke the nineteenth chapter
and the tenth verse: “The Son
of Man is come to seek and to
save that which was lost.” )
"« The division of the Bible into
chapterg and wverses sometimes
appears confusing. The original
Bible was not thus sub-divided.
All the words and sentences were
joined together. The translater
had to separate it up into sen
tences, verges and chapters. In
the original there were no py-’
riods, colons or semicolons. All
this breaking up into sentences
was man-made and for conveni
ence sake to aid us in memoriz
ing.
Sometimes a chapter beging in
the middle of an interesting
story, and not infrequently it ends
opportunely and quite often it
’ ends inopportunely.
~, If you would understand one
chapter it would be necessary for
you to read the chapter that pre
cedes as well as the one that fol
lows. Particularly is that true
of the eighteenth and nineteenth
chapters of Luke, which should
always be read together, for the
nineteenth, is simply the conclu
sion -of the story begun in the
eighteenth chapter.
Jesus is on his final journey to
Jerusalem. He is now going to
Jerusalem for the last time, and
when he arrived there shortly
afterwards he was crucified, and
he had been answering the ques
tions of the Scribes and Pharisees
respecting divorce, and he had
‘been blessing little children. They
came to him and tried to ball him
up. They said, “Look here, ac
cording to the Mosaic Law, if a
man- died his brother would have
to marry his widow to raise up
seed to the name so it would not
be lost. Here was a woman
whose husband died and he had
seven brothers™ which was it to
be?”
And Jesus said, “There is no
flesh relationship in heaven.
There is neither any marryving or
giving in marriage. There arg no
male or female, for they are equal
with the angels, so there is no
relationship in heaven, like they |
have on earth.”
So he had been answering the
questions of the Scribes and
Pharisees respecting divorce and '
blessing the little children and as
soon as he finished this latter act
of grace, a rich young ruler said
to him, “Good Master, what good
thing must I do to inherit eternal
life 7"
Jesus turned to him and said,
“Why do you call me good?
There is only one good and that
is God.”
That used to puzzle me when I
was a young Christian, for I used
to say if Jesug Christ was naot
good where will 1 go to find one
that is?
There was a little touch of sar
casm about that. “You had been
saying I am a fraud when I told
you that I had fulfilled the pro
phecy. You say lam a fraud and
yvet you come to me and ask me
what to do to inherit eternal
life.” .
Jesus continued saying, “Do not
bother to ask me ‘Good Master
what shall 1T do? for I am not
even good if I am not what I
claim to be, therefore my opinion
is worth nothing to you. So
don’t you bother me. You go to
God and ask him about it.”
Here were two young men at
the climax of the world. Here *
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CAMDAIT A
CAMPAIGN
No. 3-=Men Putting
Across Big Revival |
J. K. Orr, ead
pfithe J. K, Orr
Company, which
makes the Red
Seal Shoes, s
chairman of the
executive com
mittee in charge
of the Billy Sun
day campaign.
lie is one of the
most active
workers in the
revival cam -
paign and it is
largely through
his efforts ihat
the- meerings
here have bheen
so successful,
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. One feature of the Billy Sunday
Icnmpaign will come to a close #his
]wook»«that is, so far as the actual
'work the members of the Billy Sun
lrlay party will do, is concerned. But
' this is one of the cases where “the
!work that men do lives after them,”
and the “Business Girls' Council” will
stand as a permanent organization in
Atlanta, and as a testimonial to the
’work that has been done by Miss
’F‘rances Miller duMng Mr. Sunday's
icampaign in Atlanta.
This week the last of the noonday
luncheons which have been held four
times a weck at the Y. W. C. A. will
take place. The Iluncheons will be
held Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, as usual, and special programs
will be arranged to make the last
three days the most successful of any
of the campaign.
Tuesday Miss Frances Miller spoke
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to several hundred girls, and gave a
resume of the work that has been ac
complished here. Despite the very
cold weather, hundreds of girls went |
to the Y. W. C. A. to hear Miss Miller \
speak, and remained until time to re
port to work for the afternoon.‘
Equally large crowds are egpected
during the remaining three days. l
Although everybody doesn't>know
it—because the women's part of the
Billy Sunday campaigns does not, of
course, get as much publicity as the
doings of Billy himself—the work that
Miss ‘Mileir has been doing among
the business women of Atlanta is one
of the most remarkable features of
the entire campaign. She has enlist
ed under her guidance hundreds of
girls to whom the theater is an every
day friend and the church an un
known quantity. She has recelved
many letters telling of concrete in
stances where good has been wrought
among the girls in the stores and
shops and factories, and where the
conversion of one girl through the
noonday meetings has served to bring
others to t he Tabernacle and to
Christ.
Through Miss Miller's efforts hun
dreds of girls have joined the “Busi
ness Giris’ Council,” which will con
tinue to meet at frequent intervals
when the Sundays have left Atlanta.
Although no complete roster of the
club is obtainable, it is known to con
tain the names of hundreds of girls
who work in Atlanta’s stores and of
fices and shops. As soon as the per
manent organization of the council is
perfected arrangements will be made
for holding prayer services in various
downtown buildings before office
hours each morning, and, where the
consent of the managers can be ob
tained, in the big departmet stores
and shops.
Brenan Girls Make
Kits for Sammi
GAINESVILLE, Dec. 12.—The
Gainesville Red Cross Chapter has
just shipped 105 Xmas kits to Sam
mies in France. Thirty-five of these
kits were collected by the young
ladies of Brenau College. The Gaines~
ville chapter of the Red Cross was
asked to give 73 Xmas kits and with
the aid of the Brenau students re
sponded with 105.
Another large consignment of ban
dages and other surgical material also
has been expressed to headquarters.
l g ‘
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I “There's mno use talking, Atlanta
folks have cold feet,” declared Billy
Sunday as he gazed in d)sgust at
the 9,700 empty seats in the great
Tabernacle Tuesday night. While
about/ 300 of the faithful heard the
great evangelist, more than half of
this number indicated that they were
ltrom out of town by holding up
their hands when a poll was taken,
l Billy was “plumb sore)’ He de
clared that this crowd was the
smallest he had faced in a meeting
in the 21 years of his ministry, and
was a disgrace to Atlanta.
“After that sermon I'm going to
preach to the ladies };;iday night
I've a good mind to quit trying to
help people who don't want to be
,helped. I'll censider going to the
soldiers. I'm tired of talking to
empty seats and the few faithful ones
who brave this inclement weather
are not the kind of folks who mneed
my preaching. Yes, sir, I've a good
mind just to cut my meeting short
and go where I can do some good.”
And Billy wasn’'t joking, either.
It was evident that the great
evangelist was peeved because At
lanta folks wouldn’t brave a little
sleet to hear the gospel of Jesus
Christ preached.
“The warm weather Christians ex
pect me to be on the job, and I'm
here, but they don’'t show up them
‘}selves," he said. “If so many of the
folks here hadn’t come two or three
lhundred miles to hear thig sermon
I'd just shut up shop and go home
for the night, but if I did you’d hear
& big howl from about fifteen thou
sand people who ought to be here
but are not.”
‘ Tabernacle Comfortable,
The Tabernacle was comfortable
and the sermon Billy preached didn't
strain his voice because a conversa
tional tone could be distinctly heard
by the little band ‘that occupied the
front seats in the vast building,
“I'm going to do the best I can for
those who are here, and if anyone is
reached by my words I will be re
warded for my work,” he began.
While the singing by the choir and'
the audience wasn't very strong, the
music was better than usual. “Rody”
played the “Rosqry"—and that was
some music. Thete were a number of
old-time songs.
Dr. Ferry, of Philadelphia, one of
Billy's aides in the great campaign in
the City of Brotherly Love, was called
upon to testify as to the results
achieved there,
“I can't tell what the results are
because the final returns are not all
in yet,” he said. “But I can say that
ever since Billy left there has been a
change for the better in old Philadel
phia. His influence is still being felt
there. If Atlanta people will come to
near him the good Billy’s sermons will
do here can not be estimated.”
Must Believe Unseen Things.
After Billy cited his text, John 7,
17, he launched into one of the most
eloquent and logical sermons of his
series. He said that a man who be
lieved only what he saw was a fool
andr asserted that while he hadn’t
seen the Allies capture ‘Jerusalem, he
didn’t doubt it, but accepted the
statements of others as to the vic
tory as published in the newspapers.
He then gave a fhumber of illustra
tions» showing the necessity of be
lieving without seeing and made the
point that sinners should believe in
the Lord, Jesus Christ, repent and
be saved, without having seen Him.
“You have faith 1 temporal things
which you are told of but don’t see.”
he argued. “Why don’'t you believe
in the vastly rhore important spiritual
things that you are told of, but don't
see?”
At the conclusion of the sermeon,
a number of trail hitters came up and
gave their hand to Billy, signifying
that they wanted to change their
ways of living and were willing to
believe without seeing.
“Ma” Sunday was on hand and said
that the weather couldr’t keep her
nor any other real believer away
from the services.