Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1915, Page 3

- SECRETARIES TAKE NAMES ON “TRAIL" | must be alert, quick and sympathetic. They will be provided with cards, on | which they will write the names, ad- | dresses and church preferences of the | | converts, With a large number of secretaries the names of several hundred converts can Forty-Four Prominent Omaha Men | “ritten in a very few minutes each Selected to Assist Sunday in Work at Tabernacle, G. C. EDGERLY IS IN CHARGF Forty-four secretaries have bheen appointed and have agreed to serve at the “Billy” Sunday meetings. It will be the duty of these men tc be in front of the evangelist's plat- | evening Tho secretaries will be |ot G. C. Bagerly, under direction and among them are | many well known business and profes sional men of the city. They are as follows J. H. McMillan, R. A. Finlay, Dr. H B. Hamilton, C. L. 8chne der, E. G. Solomon, George Mickel, C. W. Caln, W. N. Halsey N. Crosby, W. P, Knapp, John K. Collins, Wyman, Hall, B form at every service, particularly Earl Kenworthy, the evening meetings, to take the | H. Itewr names of the ‘‘trail hitters” just |leslle Gritfith, | Lester Tadd, after they have grasped Mr. Sun. |George Crosty. ries Brown, | . + [ Colonel Patt James Buleck, day's hand and acknowledged their C. H. Wal Al Kennedy, Jr.; intentions to turn a new leaf |M. L. Cany B scharatt, “ y . | James Hodge. Harry C. Me- acknowledge Christ and lead o|T I, Weirick, Cleilan, | E. P. Sweeley, Judee Sutton, Christian life. L. R. Wallace, J. W. Rasp, The men are all carefully picked. They |J. il. Keady, L. W. Devalon. :Sunday Pl_eadrsfifoir Mére Worker:s to Help in the Church of the Savior. “Billy" Sunday preached at the Tabeg- tellect would exhaust it in two or tares | nacle yesterday afternoon on how to win souls to Christ His text was Prov. 11:30: “He that winneth souls is wise.” There are many people who win somebody for Je: and willing to be told how to do it. 1 believe there are hundreds and thousands of people who are willing to work and who know something must be done, but they are waiting for help; I mean from men and women of ordinary ability. Many people are sick and tired and disgusted with just professing relizion; they are tired of trotting to churcn and trotting home again. They sit In a pew and lis- ten to a sermon; they are tired of that, not speaking to anybody and not engag- ing in personal work:; they are getting tired of it and the church is dying be- cause of it; there is nothiny to that. A lot should wake up and go to the fescue and win for Jesus Christ. want to they are 18 Personal Work at Home. 1 want to say to the deacons, stewards, vestrymen, prudential committee that they should work and the place to begin is at your own home. Sit down anq write the names of five or sen of your friends, and many of them members of Your own church, and two or three of those not members of any church; yet you mingle with these people In (he club, in business, in your home in a friendly way. You meet them every week, some of them every day, and you never speak to them on the subject of religion; you never bring it to their attention at all; you should be up and doing something for God and God's truth. There are always opportunities for u Christian to work for God. There is always a chance to speak to some one about God. I am not going to theorize; we are dealing too much In theories and speculations. This or that interpretation of some dogma or doctrine is not going to give you spirituat power. You carry your religion with you by the bare truth. Be out and out for God. Have a heart to heart talk with some people and win them to Christ The first recorded words of Jesus are these: “Wist yet not I must be about My Father's business?” He was lost and they found him sitting in the tem- ple and he had the old Pharisees and doctors of the law tied up in a bunch That whole bunch had brain'fever trying to keep up with him and he was only twelve years old. His mother found him and sald: been searching for you He answered, Wist yet not 1 must be about My Father's business?' and from then until now he has been calling us to go forth end do his work. Mothers should plead with their children, and they in turn #hould plead with their friends for reli- gion ““Son, don't you know we have Church Too Indifferent. The trouble is we are too lackadaisical in religion, indifferent and dead and life- less. That is the spirit of the committees today in the church. I think the multi- tude in the church will have to get com- verted themselves before they can lead anyone else to Christ. It is my firm conviction after sixteen years of exper- ience fn the work that half the people in the church have never been con- verted, have never been born again. ! take up a bottle of water, uncork it and take a drink, That is experimental. One sip of water can convince me more of iis power to slake thirst than 40,00 books written on the subject. You know quinine is bitter because you have ex- perimented; you kmow fire will burn be- cause you have experimented; you know fce will freeze; it is cold, you have ex- verimented. A man must exoerience religion to know God. All you know of God is what you read In some book or what you heard somebody else talk about; you haven't lived so that you could learn first handed, so most of your re- ligivn is second handed. There is t) much second hand stuff in the church. It is your privilege to know and to have salvation, Jeusu sald to Peter: ‘““When you are converted, strengthen thy brotker.” You are not in a'p.si- tion to help anybody else unless you bave helped yourself. God doesn't save on the installment plan. A man is either on the road/to heaven or on the road to hell, God doesn't do things by halves Need Bible in Personal Work. It bas been sald that God made the birds without wings and they hopp.® and crept around, but didn't sing, and after & while Ged *put wings on them and they commenced to slug. N.t on your life! When God made the byds he made them all. God does not have to double on the trall and back-tra k. When the Lord does a job he finishes it right and you can't improve on it. The trouble with a lot of you church members, you spend too much time dreaming over “The Lady of the Lake," Milten, Bacon, Shakespeare, Chaucer and & lot of such things—you can quote Shakespeare by the yard for the devil and he will give you the ha-ha. If you take the word of God he will take the erown. B¢ many church members know nothing about the Bible, A preacher will take a text from the Bible and get as far from It as the east is from the west. A young prea. her J s out of the seminary said: “Mist*} co fine mywelf, my preaching, to the Bible lantie gcean.” Imagine a little minnow saying: ‘“Must I confine myse.f to the Atlantle Ocean?" ' “Must I confine my- oelf to the BibleT Just as if his in- sermons. Know God Through Bible. We have cut loose from the Bible, and | lany man who is living contrary to the Bible is a sinner, whether he feels ke a |sinner or not. Every man who s living |contrary to the laws is a criminal | | whether he feels like it or not. A man {who breaks the law of God s a sinne |and is on the road to hell, whether he feels like it or like a saint. Jesus came | linto the worlg to reveal God to man, and | man reveals him to man, The only reve- lation we have of Jesus is through the | ! Bible. You have got to know the Bible to know Jesus. You have got to know |Jesus to know God; that's how I ket through here. Tuere 1s no revelation for God to make of himself greater than he | has made through Jesus Christ. It is not {tmpossible for the human Intellect to have a greater conception of God. Every {man needs Christ. Jesus 1s the savior that he needs and he has got to know the Bible to show what it Is that makes Jesus the savior. He needs a savior and now is the time to accept a savior and be saved. That's what the Bible says. ! Holy Spirit Necen ¥ Then you need the Holy Spirit; without him you ean not do anything. The spirit of God works thretigh clean hands. There are too many dirty. hands, too many dirty people trying to preach a clean gos- pel. 1 have known inen that have preached the truth and God has honored the truth, although their lives were not as they should be, but God honored the truth and not the people who preached Ithe truth. But if they had been Chris- tlans themselves then God would have honored them more because He would have honored them and the truth, If you don’'t believe me, then belleve the truth itself. By their frults ye shall know them. You bet your life the devil had nothing to do with my coming here, he had nothing to do with sending me to Omaha, or the devil's gang. I didn't come by the invitatiom-of the brewers, the saloonkeepers, the madames and the gamblers. That gang didn’t invite me to town, They had nothing to do with it. They have mo use for me. Nor I for them. No Family Prayer. Prayer, three-fourths of the church |members have no family prayer. 1 will |bet my life agalnst a cancelled postage stamp today that half the people here did not read the Bible nor pray before |you came here today. You wash your |hands, wash your face, drees yourself, {you get your breakfast, your dinner, yes. {Did you read the Bible? No. DId you {prav? No. 1f you cared for the physi- cal manhood and womanhood the same way that you care for your spiritual manhood and womanhoed, you would be Just as dried up, and uscless, and weak physically as you are spiritually. I have a physical nature that demands food and {care. Then, too, I have a spiritual na- ture that demands focd and care, and the word of God. You let your spiritual life starve. That is the reason your pews are full of driftwood; that is the reason that religion is but a mirage, Pray God to give you power. Pray God {to give your power to carry on His work after you have become converted I don’'t preech a sermon that I don't [pray God for help, and I never finish a | sermon that T don’t thank God that 1 |nave preached it. 1 never finish a ser- mon but that 1 ask for power to carry on | the work, strength to carry it along. 8> 1 get ready by praying. 1 never preach a sermon that I don't soak it in prayer, Howrse Serse in Preaching. Pure hearts. If I have any iniquity In my heart the Lord will not come in. We need a wise head. We need horse sense In preaching. We need horse sense in what we do. 1 think God is constantly looking for a company of men and women that are constantly alive. There |are o many dead ones. He needs men nd women that are always at it, not | only during the revival; we need to be | full of faith; dead in earnest, never give up, a bulldog tenacity and stick-to-it- iveness for the cause of God Almighty, That is what God is looking for. Many have done things just for the applause of the world. Newton would study all night {to ®et a sentence to embody a thought. Reynolds would sit for % hours without | food to get the right word to write an ode. Wesley used to travel from 5000 to 7000 miles a year on horseback in the | days of itinerant Methodiem and get most of his rest and sleep right in the saddle. Beacher Cartwright, an itinerant preacher in Illinols in the days of Lin- goln, traveled from Cairo to Heland, Il riding horeeback—what would he do?| He used to have to swim rivers five to| seven times a day; he would have to find & foot log and cross the foot log; take off | his clothes and leave them on the opposite | bank, come back and get his horse and | swim aoross; night would overtake him and he would sicep on the prairies, lying | down there without anything to eat. Chureh Apathede to Loss. The church of God has not smelled gunpowder for 150 years; that is what is the matter with it; it has become proud, | haughty, arrogant, self-centered and| apathetic to men's lost condition; there | is not a church in Christendom that has | not occasion to thank God for Lyman Beecher. He preached and John Newton Wwas converted. Scott heard Newton and Scott was converted. A peddler went to & home and sold a Bible where there| was a litile boy named Richard, who read OMAHA, WED Sundayisms at the Tab as Caught by Our Staff Artist A GUIDE POST THAN A TOMBSTONE " MOTHERS WRINHLES Progress of Religlon" gnd he wrote “Practical View of Christianity.” Doctor Chalmer read “Practical View of Chris- tianity” and he wrote the “‘Expulsive Power of New Affections.” Doctor Chal- mer got the idea for his book when riding in a western stage coach and he noticed that the driver whipped the off mule whenever he came near a projecting ledge or rock when they were going along the Borge of 2,000 feet deep and he beat him, He sald: “Why do you abuse that mule?' and the driver pointed to the ledge of rocks in the path, “I am afrald he will shy ang fall over and if I beat him just be- fore we come to it it takes his mind off it and he goes by,” and thus Dr. Chalmer ®ot the ldea of expulsive power of new affections. Get Jesus Christ and the cards will go out, you won't need to do the cheap skate leg shows. Let the Bible come in and the novels will go out. Classes of People to Help, There are five classes of people and this classification will touch every man and woman whether in Omaha, New York or London. Many work in every community who cannot nttend church, 1f you get in a raflroad t there are lots of people who must work on Sunday Certain work must be done on the Sab- bath. Christ recognized that fact when he walked through the corn field and plucked an ear of corn and the gang that walked after him saw him pluck and eat the corn and cried out: “He breaks the Sabbath; he eats corn on the Sabbath.' Those old scoundrels would not give him anything to eat, but they tagged along there and he turned around and said: “If you had oxen and they fall in a pit on the Sabbath, will you leave them = Get Jesus Christ and | there or will you take them out? Don't vou lead your horse to water on the Sab- bath or any other day, then have a little horse sense.” Some people think if they don’'t bulld a fire on the Sabbath, but it around and eat a cold lunch they are honoring God, If somebody smiles, they say: “Oh, don't smile orr the Sabbath." Doesn’t the Lord have a hard time of it? But for the five classes which include all of you: First, those who cannot attend church and vou will alwavs find some are sick, shut in, some have to work iIn hotels and restaurants, the malds your house have to get your meals, the rallroad men have to go out, the fur. naces must be kept golng in the steel worke. Can Attend Church and Down't. Second, those who can attend and who do not attend church, ‘There are 1,000,000 people that can and don't attend church. Some fellows never darken the chugch door until they dle and they carry thelr old carcass In to have a large funeral; that it is no compliment to any man and it 1s an insult to manhood, and disgrace to the individual that he never darkens the church door, But he darkens the door of the grog shop any day. Third, those who can and do attend church and who are moved by the preach- Ing. There are lots of people who come out of curiosity; some one tells a lle and they say, “Let's go down and hear that fellow, ‘Billy’ " and they come down to fina somebody stringing them; they find T am preaching the truth to them, for a fellow knows the truth when he hears it. A saloonkeeper down here sald dare not go, dare not hear him any more, if T.do I will lose my job.” He knows what I preach s the trutn and he knows oy | 3, 1015, IBER 1 he {8 dead wrong and t are mu titudes ke that Fourth, those who can ko church and those who do ®o to church and A moved by the preaching and convicte! but not converted. Every man that hears the truth Is convicted. That saloon keeper 1a convicted, he knows what I preach is the truth and he knows he cannot do that and be a Christian. Talk | to those men about Jesus Christ Get them to take thelr stand for righteous nesa ! Fifth, those who ecan and do go to | church and are convicted by tng and converted. They ening. They are converted now the preach need strength but they the benefit of your experience. You “Where will I find these people to | [talk to them?' Where won't you find them? Where can you find a place | where they are not? You will only find | |one place where they are not and that is | {In the cemetery. Right in your neigh- | {borhood, right n your block, how many {are Christians? 1s your husband a | |Christian? Are your children Chris- | |tions? If they are let them alone amd | get after somebody else's husband and | |children. Don't sit down and thank God | that your husband and children are {Christians. Suppose T were to say to my family, my George, my Nell, my Paul {my Uelen are Christians. We are all | Christians, let the rest of the world go [to the devil. There fs too much of that |#ptrit In the church today | Work All the Time, | Go from house to house Qo to the |people In your block, In your place "tl [business. Have you said anything to the |telephone girl when you ealled her up? | | You are quick enough to jump on her {when she gives you the wrong number, Have you sald anything to the delivery | boy-~to the butcher? Have you asked the | |milkman? Have you sald anything to the newsboy that throws vour paper on the doorstep? Have you called them up at | [the newspaper office? Have sald anything to the girl that you |t the store, to the servant who hrings | your dinner in at home, to the woman| iwho serube your floors? Where will you [find them—where won't you find them? | Notice these facts: First, out of Jesus | Christ there 18 no salvation: second, that | all have sinned; and that all who came |to repent shall not be cast out. None are saved unless they are born again, Re- | you walts on member faith and not feeling saves the people. 1 never talk to any man, “How | do you feel?” No, sir. Feeling is the | |rdsult. Faith is required. God requires | us to belleve to be saved, Obedience and | blessing always walk arm in arm. They over trall. The Bible s the only gulde. ‘There 18 no salvation in hell. The man that preaches future probation les, If the man don't settle it before he dles, he never has a chance. It is all over with it. What is the use of me rulning my throat if these old sinners have a chance to be converted In the other world? Let them go. When you look around and see young men and women with their character forming, and realize that they are forming for life, It astounds and distresses us how so many men and women can be so Indifferent, People come to me and say: “Mr. Sunday, you work so0 hard, I worry &bout you." Great God! You are so lazy 1 worry ahout you. The Inditference of a lot of people as- | tounds me 40,000,000 time more than my energy astounds you. How you can see people go to hall_and doing nothing to save themselves 1 cannot understand. They won't wait upon the Lord to renew thelr strength. I go home many afternoon so tired that T think that I won't come back at night, but I come back by nignt just as fresh | as a dalsy. Why? Because the Lord ve- freshes me. And no man or woman does | any harder or works any harder than I do. This Is not egotism but the truth. Be natural. I try to be. I have no more pulpit manners than some others. have on the street. Just try to be folks| all the time. If there fs anything that | God loves it ia folks; and not the cod- | fishy, doggy aristocracy. I don't have| one tone of volce here and another when | I go to the grocery. Here 1s something you can all do, In-| vite the unsaved to come, and talk with | | them in private. Bpeak with them at | home. Write them a lotter. 1 wouldn't| send anybody a postoard. I would spend | two cents Instead and send him n letter. | With ail the means we have in this city, it should not be hard to reach the un- | saved. | Copyright, Willlam A. Sunday And what a capacity Bovelvitnt Onabowt en another of de- licious Made from the meats of selected white comn, skil- fully cooked, daintily seas- oned and toasted to a golden brown crispness— Toasties are Mighty Good! it. 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