Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1915, Page 2

THE BEE: OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915, -‘_BAilIy’ Sunday Tells What a Revival e WHEN T0 IT TRAIL Babylon, you will have the judgment of Babylon, n yof Revival ia Not Over. JUST ‘‘BILLY"’ — When UP T0 BILLY T0 SAY Evangelist Alone to Determine the Moment to Start the Great | Procession. CINCINNATI WANTS HIM NEXT| Just when “‘trall hitters” will be called for at the Sunday mrwrmmwe in Omaha is not known. “'Billy"” de- cides that for himself, and he knows just when the ‘‘psychological mo- ment has arrived. It varies greatly the first were called to “hit the saw- dust trail” the latter part of the first ! week. In some cities the time has| not been ripe until three weeks had | passed. The evenagelist decides the | time himself, and his own party wiil | be as much astonished as anyone | outside when the first call Is given. | Special for Friday Night. | A big erowd Is expected at the taber- | nacle on Friday evening whon the ovan- | gelist will preach for the special bencfit | of the young folks on “Forces That | Win" The high school students are ex- | pecicd to be there with their yells and banners and the ovangolist has given the word that the meeting will be theirs and they can yell to thoir hearts con- tent und march and fling their banners In Philadelphia | Another special night will be Thurs- day night when his famous sermon on “The Home' will be delivered. Dea Mofhes St Interested. The following telegram was recoived from Des Moines: “Bll, Ma and Party: Oreetings from | twenty high nschool gospel tam en- | thusiasts. Are we glad you came to Des | Molnes? Yea, bo. Are we coming to Omaha Soptember 19?7 Yea, bo. We are having a tabernacle songfest at Goodell's home. Our motto is: ‘Prayer Plus Push Eaquals Power' We wish you godspeed. With love, “YOUR BUNCH." Cinctnnati Wants Him Next, | Cincinnati wants Billy Sunday and | ‘wants him with all its might. F. N. Riale, | & represontative layman of Cincinnati, | arrived In Omaha Tuesday morning and called at the Sunday headquarters where | he talked for an hour with Mrs. Sunday | presenting Cincinnati's case and pleading | to Lave it put on the schedule. The sched- | ule is filed for nearly two years ahead. Syracuse, N. Y.; Baltimore, Md.; Trenton, N. J.,, and Louisville, Ky., coming after the Omaha campaign. Mr. Bunday Is reluctant to go to Cincinnat! but there Is . @ possibility of his belng won over. B. Fay Miiss calls, B. Fay Mills, famous evangelist of | twenty years ago, stopped in Omaha o Mr. Mills held a big revival in Omaha | in the old Exposition bullding which stood on the very spot where the Sunday tab- ernacle now stands. That was twenty- two years ago. “Blly" was in Youns Mef's Christian’ assoclation work in Chi- Cago at that tinie and hls neme was un- known to fame except In base ball " had just resigned a $4,00 job on bse ball team to accept | the Chicago Young Men's | away from the Presby- and got interested in Uni- tsm., But he “eaw | His request was granted. evening he came from his train hotel, where “Bllly" re- bed, as he recelves many GERMANS NEED "PORT ON BALTIC | FOR SUPPLY BASE, e el 5 4 i : H i ¥ § i HH] i il llh.mpnm Has No Depressing Effect ' ¥its race with Barney Oldfield was & hair he works up a full head of steam and gets a'going Evangelist Talks on God’s Orders to Christians to Get Out and Work Personally. |IDEA OF SABBATH OBSERVANCE Mr. Sunday's sermon yesterday after. {noon at the Tabernacle was as follows What s a revival? “It 18 & purely philosophical result of the right use of the divinely appointec means. It is not a miracle; It 1s not de- pendent upon & miracle. Religlon s the most common sense thing in the world today, ‘“There is a cause for evtrything. You have a headache, the cause Is generally in the stomach, and the pain in your head s just a signal that something is wrong. All the stuff you rub on your head won't take away the cause. Religlon can be traced to a cause, “Do you know there is only about twelve months provisions between the peopls and starvation? 1If summer or winter should continue several months | longer than thelr usual period the people would starve to death within a year. There I8 only a year's provisions .botween the people and starvation. See how de- pendent upon God we are, yet we don't stop to think about it. We plow and we iplant In the spring, hopeful for good |crops, and we care for them in a com- {mon sense way. Promoting religion is {Just as common sense ms plowing and | planting. “A revival always includes a convie- tion of sin first in the church, & new be- ginning of tho old obedience, the re- newal of faith that breaks the power of the world over the church, of #in and the devil over the church, mo that God can muster more at prayer meeting than {the devil at a card party. Some people {are carrying their religion in their clothes, anyway. Many Are Afral | “Some people scem to fraid of |tackling & revival. They seem to be afrald that the Lord might revive them too much. Others are too lasy to fall in with God's ylans. ‘“There are just as many people in the churches as out of them who don't like to get a move on and jump Into the mid- dle of a revival. Bay, you folks, don't you know that there are a lot of hulks who don't want to go to the trouble of saving their souls? “Then therc are a lot of folks who don't know how to use plain, unvar- nished, dyed-in-the-wool, straight-from- the-shoulder, horse sense in dealing with' God. “There are a lot of stalr, petrified, mil- dewed, up-stage religlous know-nothings who think they can go to church, hold 'down a seat, throw a dime in the collec- tion plate and then spend the rest of the | day on the golf links or sittng in the parior in front of & fire with their eyes fixed on the windows at their nelghbors’ | millinery, “When is & revival needed? You take Is and&’hy It is Needed at This Time chapter of Deuteronomy. 1f you dom't mind it, you're bound to lose out. “When people are willing to make sac- rifices, then there will be a revival. Sup- pose some one has slandered you, called you a backbiter and gossip. Stand out for Jesus. Forget what your neighbor says and think of them with charity, The church is one blg family. Don't dlow anybody to insult the church. The ord loves to see Christians with grit wnd backbone. “You can tell when a town needs a re- vival when Christians are willing to lot God go ahead as He sees fit, and when those Christians will not balk at FHis orders to get out and work personally. We are only the earthen vessels for these rovival fulfiliments. It is a great honor | to be ambassadors of God. If God should send His Son to this town and He should ask, ‘Do you want a revival? Are you wiliing to let me promote it as I see fit?" | there would be the greptest stirring up this city has ever seen and the biggest | religlous awakening. i Must Prepare Ahead. “But there would needs be some preparations for a revival. First, it would be necessary to break the fallow ground. Do you know what fallow ground {s? It is ground that has never been plowed under—spots where old shoes, old corsets, rubbish and junk heaps lie. | Thia fallow ground must be stirred up in & religlous sense to give God a chance to do something. “Look into your past life, see your| sins. You don't go to prayer meeting, | you do this, that and the other thing that s worldly. Confess your sins; confeas them one by one—you committed them one by one. Confess them just as publicly as | you committed them. | “Hindrances to a revival? First of all, #ins of omission, things you don't do that God commands you to do. You say, ‘I| don’t lle, T don't steal, T don't do this and | that But do you ‘love thy God with thy heart, with all thy soul, and ‘thy neighbor as thyself? This is one of the greatest faults of the church. Neglect of the Bible. “Hindrances? Neglect of the Bible. For weeks or months yqu never read the Bible. You take great care of your fhys- feal health, but not of your spiritual | health. You never pray. No wonder the | church has become merely four walls, | with a roof and an organ backed into the | | corner. You go to church and stand when you should, sit when you should, sing Men say the day of the revival ia over. Fellows harp on that in the Methodist conterence, in the Presbyterian meetings, in the Baptist associations, in the Con- gregational associations—the day of re- vival is over. No, it is not. No, only with the fellow who vomits out the senti- ment; but It is not over with God. Their day of revival Is over. God Almighty leaned over the battlements of heaven and looked down into the coal mines of | Wales and sald, “Oh, Roberts!” and out of the depths of the coal mine came that| grimy, sofled man, with dirty face, with | & little lamp in his cap, and he said,! ‘What s it, God? And God said, ‘T want you to go and shake up Wales,' and he gave Wales the greatest revival that ever swept over this land since the days of Pentecost. There was not a college pro- fessor or preacher in Wales that God 1ld trust with the job. “The days of revivai are over, they eaid—then God called Tony Alexander and told him to go, and he wént to Taa- mania, Ireland, Japan, China, England, Sootland; he went around the world. Agninst False Doctrine. “The days of revival are over—then | God called Gip out of his Mttle tent in England and out came that Gipsy boy and shook New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles. My friends, the days of re- vival are not over. ‘“No man has ever heard me say an unkind word against the minister. I'll preach against any minister who is preaching false doctrines. I don't give a rap who he Ia. I'll turn my guns loose egainst him, and don’t yoy forget that. Any man who is preaching & false doc- trine to them will bear from me. “Nobody ever heard me ridicule the ministry, but I want to say that the re- sponsibility for no revivals in our cities and towns has got to be lald at the doors of the ministry. Preachers sit fighting their sham battles of different denomina- tions through their cussedness, inquiring into fol-da~rol and tommyrot, and there sits in the pews of the church that mis: erable old scoundrel who rents his prop. erty out for a saloon and is going ta hell; and that other old scoundrel who rents his houses for houses of {li fame and i» living directly on the proceeds of prow- titution; and he doesn’t preach against it. He is afraid of his job. They are a lot of backsliders and the whole bunch will go to hell together. They are afraid to come out against it. (Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday.) when you should and then go home. But you don’t pray. It makes me sick. “Hindrances? Neglect of prayer. There | are times when you omit your prayers, times when you are not in the spirit of | prayer. You see men and women golng i to the devil and you never protest. There is & want of love for the souls of men. | No wonder the community is going to the devil. The trouble isn’t to get the fellow | outside the church, but the one inside. “Hindrances.. In your own life. You| sin openly. “Hindrances? Pride. Pride Is ancestry. | | | medicine thy fire on fire, dirty—or revival? FAIR IS POPULAR [ NEBRA%A BROBE S . e S ovararine, o when you are sick, you call company when your house is thirsty, When do you need a ‘When you are going to the you have gotten far from God. Nowa- |days people are trying e divert atten- tion from thelr own pusillanimous pus- Ullanimity by knocking other people, Upon Attendance at the Thore is really more wrong with the knockers than the ones they knock. Big Show. — “When Is a revival needed? When it is manifest that the church standara THOMPSON PROVES ATTRACTION ' "L e) (o i Butier county e last year helping the temperance people. (From & Btaff Correspondent.) '¥he candidate of the whisky sang s o wlf::wa' IN::;. B-v'-' ;‘v—‘sl"“m-l"'chumh member, yes, a Bunday school 4l MI;;‘.“ rain "'t“‘" oy y‘ t:: Stormy superintendent. When is & revival most Mon record needed ? for the first day of the falr exceeded, that of the first day of last year and ':mu":'::“':h.‘:'“r" ":':""" ,church people are falling into gross through the wates. The records for the | #D% IR0 oben transgressions. When first day for the past five years are: 1), | YO Mr. Church Man, are keeping a ;1912 13.314; 1013, 13,4%; 1014, 14,480, YOTOAR on the side, buying fines clothes e e g A J0ER L tor her, and treating her better than you do your wite, Dbl e Lo ne ettor " “When 1a & revival needed? When sin- Forty-five bables are examined every DT @re carcless and unconcerned. What morning and then the rest of the day Wil happen if the church is not aroused? is devoted by the examiners and their as- WHat would you say if a fire company sistants in checking up the examinations, %t around & table and played The examinations will close Thursday Played seven-up, when an alarm was and after that it will be deter- %0unding? You would say the men wers are the lucky kiddies. no good. What about yourselves? You superintendent of Play cards, go to theaters, sit around and by Mre, ®at fudge, and the sinners are becoming and several as- More unconcerned. “When may a revival be expected? When the wickedest of the wicked be- FRNP T Wiad. 'rieve and distress the church. You church e s nflornoon the rounde people glve a cold, callous, - apologetic tadady, mls Al “‘Mm‘.'l excuse, blaming economics rather than 2 v ooy downright cussedness. God never changes ts early In the afterncon and a 5 Yefore the day vor His attitude toward sin, but you change Talks of Affinity, ““When is a revival needed? When the ‘“The people talk as if I haa something i new, Certainly it is; it is so old that it Al ldepartments of the fair were i ' ew. Because this is the twentieth Some O ihe century people think God ousht to make @ new dispensation. God never changes His attitude, but the people change theirs. Way He Preaches. “Some folks seem to be scared to death at the way I preach. I want to tell you that I only preach the way that bunch (Uves. I haven't got started yet. I am Invln‘ you & chance to get your mental | Btock judging began yesterday and is being carried on as fast as poasible. With the large entries it is considerable of & Job for the judges to get over the list, but they will finish in good time. Good Machinery Display. “When I begin to hand out the hot shot W. B superintendent of the | you'll either be not afraid of it or you'll machinery exhibit, says that his depart. ' beat it. When there is & want of ment is filled better than before in the brotherly love or you have gotten far history of the fair. The big fellows who &way from God you are afraid to examine stayed away last year are still conspiou- | your hearts. It's then you are afraid to ous by their absence, but their places face the plain talk I am handing you, bhave been filled by others and nothing &nd that I am going to keep on handing has been lost by thelr being away, ex-(you. ©ept possibly what they may have lost| “T am getting tired of you folks trying themselves by thelr actions. to saddle things on God, things he has centers around the | nothing to do with, Some of you seem to Wwrestling contest which will come off|think that the church is & third-rate tomorrow evening. Gus Guestensen, the smusement bureau. sdjustments. “'Some of the biggest devils 1 have ever known were in the church and some of anything, is .(’Ih- biggest four-flushers this side of be can make Joe Stecher perdition in the church are the ones who If before the match is over. | Pray the loudest. I know guys who know \ their catechism backwards and front- BUFFM counn FA'R wards and yet they don't trot square HAS ADDED ATTRACTIONS | with the Lord. KEARNEY, Neb, Sept. 7.-(Special)— “Some of these fellows think I am vul- #ar. They won't be in it when they get The county fair this year promised to up there; they'il find out that all Ged ‘ants is the truth. “bacrifice In business. you use water when you are |because of that, My ancestors fought in Don’t puff up because you can trace your ancestry back to the revolutionary war. God won't open the door of heaven to you the revolution. I'm proud of that, sure I {am, but I don't put that pride above pride | {In God. You pin a B. P. O. E. button on 'yourself and strut. Good night! When your husband works for & living you talk | like common people, but when he gets a little money you swell up, you shake hands with two fingers. That kind of peo- ple have a brain of bulk oysters and saw- dust. Be llke common folks. God likes them. The devil likes you when you are Where he Omaha Bee— Uni ersal Animated Weekly May Be Seen FARNAM THEATRE CAMERAPHONE GEM LOYAL PASTIME » * MAGIC HANSOOM Y. LYRIC ARBOR DIAMOND ALMO BENSON - PALACE BURT OMAHA, FLORENUE puffed up. Rob God of Your Time. | “Why don't we have a revival? I won der that God does as well as He does with the crowd He has. You rob God of your time by squandering hours in vain things. We've got to have amusement, |Yes, but Great God, when the theate: |and a leg show can muster more than a | prayer meeting, what is the old world coming to? “‘You have a temper. ‘Oh,’ you say, 'it's quick, all over in a minute.’ So is a shotgun, but it blows everything before it. The telephone girl gives you the | wrong number, and you fly off the | handle. You get after the butcher if he sends you and fat on it. Why, meut, bone and fat, ““Why don't we have & revival? Because we lack the prevalling spirit of prayer. Confess to God your sins against God; confess to man your sins against man. When you do that then you will know what prevailing prayer js, then you will (know from experience the answer to prayer.” * he had to pay for it, | | | Copyright by Willlam A. Sunday. [ | FURTHER NEEDS OF | RELIGIOUS REVIVAL (Continued from Page One.) you never see them again until Sunday morning. T tell you, I believe half of the church members could die and the church wouldn't lose anything of its spiritual force; it would lose them in numbers, but it wouldn't lose anything in spiritual power. I tell' you, my friends, we need & panic in religion; the world don't need information, it needs reforming. We are golng to the devil over culture clubs, as | it the world needed Informing: it don't need anything of the kind. There are people who go to church and go to a cer- tain denomination because their wife goes there. They got thelr religion and thelr property in their name. They go to that church. Feeler for the Ohurch, “Look at the Sunday school. The Sun- day school ought to be a constant feeder i Into the church. Why isn't ft? Because we have Sunday school teachers who are absolutely good for nothing; they help (nobody but the publishers. They don't sit down to study, They don't prepare. teach, and on Monday they are at some leg show, and on Tuesday night they are at some dance, and they don't gome near the church agaln until Sunday morning. “l want to say if a public school teacher knew no more about the work roll fifteen minutes. “Go down to the dance halls, nickelodeons, the picture show, the spiritual destitution of the multitude. 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