'J 1 1 F: UKR: OMAHA. MOXPAY. Nl'.l' I KM I5KK J7. ::i:.
HA SUNDAY OPENS
TRAIL FOR WOUEN
Tout Thousand Gather at the Audi
torium, Where Service, for
Women Are Held.
IIGHTT.TWO EH THE TRAIL
Th attendance was mailer, the
. trail-hitters" fewer and "Ma" Sun
day waa not in such good special
condition at the second as of Mra.
Sunday's Auditorium meetings for
women only, as she was a week ago.
Eighty-two women Sunday after
noon hit the trail out of an audi
ence of nearly 4,0v0 .
Besides suffering from a bad cold
Mrs. Sunday acknowledged that her
heart was full and was burdened
more yesterday than it had been tor
long time. The cause she ascribed
t the insufficient results that had
frowned the efforts of the Sunday
fieetings.
"We are not personally discour
aged nor Is It lack of faith, but we
feel that the people In the churches
are not doing all that they can," Mrs.
Sunday asserted.
Mrs. Sunday said the Saturday morn
ing prayer circle of the Sunday party
had been given over to trying to search
inut the trouble. "It has been a Oeth
eemane for some of us and we haven't
alept much." ahe said. .
Mr, Sunday's talk waa on appeal to
Ihurch people to openly profaaa Chrlat.
"There are too many backbones that need
rlffenlng. We want to do .marvelous
things in the next three weeks. Hundreda
ef Omahans will be called back to Christ.
DJut you must help. It Isn't enough that
ou should know the way to the xri.
rVou muat show others the 'way." ,
Fall la Xeedy Things.
."Ctolng religious acts doesn't constitute
elision. Tou may do a lot of fueey things
, like getting up church dinners and sing
ing; at prayer meeting, etc., but you may
tie falling in the needy things."
"Bellgion consists of doing everything
re do in a special way pleasing to God's,"
wa Mrs. Bunder's definition.
"The most effective preaching is not
el ways done by ministers. Many a woman
lite made a more powerful appeal than a
ieacher," asserted Mrs. Sunday In her
ilea for more personal work.
Mrs. Sunday read several letters. One
Teas from a reformed drunkard In Pitts
burgh, who said he had been converted
through the "finished work on Calvary's
roes."
''I'm so glad he didn't give the credit
to Mr. Bunday. Mr. Sunday couldn't save
anybody without the help of the Lord,"
e rrled -Ma."
When the trall-htttlng began Mrs. Asher
irged the ushers and church members
io do personal work. "8peak to the per
ron in front of you, back of you and on
ach side of you," she cried. Mra. Aaher
nlso appealed to those in the galleries
tnd to the choir members. .
Miss Or ace Saxe - and Visa Fiances
Miller of the Sunday party acted as head
ushers.
Dnrlnac Trail lllttlaa). .
Mrs. Sunday's greeting waa particularly
warm for the young girls of High school
age who came up to take her hand. She
threw her arms around one weeping
ajirl .and .spoke, to fax 1 .girl . for a. few
seconds.
Then an old woman clad in black came
forward with trembling footsteps. She
whispered a few words in Mrs. Sunday's
car, whereupon the latter burled her
head on the old woman a shoulder and
both had a good cry. The old woman's
.on who had been a drunkard for years,
Hn,d hit the trail at the tabernacle Sun
day morning.
Another woman asked that Mrs. Bun
slay pray for her husband, who was st
anding the tabernacle meeting at the
eeme hour for the first time.
, A Methodist deaconess led a weeping,..
k.vuio up to take Mrs. Sunday's hand.
t'Xl the end of the meeting, two calorcd
women approached Miss Saxo and aakod
tier whether they were welcome at the
meeting. "Some colored people don't
ome because they feel they are not wel
come," aaid one.
"Indeed you are welcome! Decidedly
ski!" replied Miss Saxe.
'men weep when
they 60 along
'' sawdust trail
(Continued from Pag One.
bottle onto the platform in renunciation
ot the habit. "Billy" afterward damned
hot the erowd of lO.Odd men. almost as
the liquor, mentioning me era no cy name, Dui jasc tnose going r,artiy paralysed
a. be prayed at the clase of th. meetlna:. ! VV " ' mlnut I could count, ,rhe )lvt.r (, ti U
TH.wd at.. . , ir . 7". 1" body. It take, all
, The meeting laated longer than usual.n.t " ouia aBd purme. it and
nany aa last Sunday afternoon,, remained I ciirisilanli- u th , . t J there they
Xo the end. Before th. t.bern.,.. wa, s. -oe-yle.red
of the afternoon crowd the .d; devl, fool you. To never hlccZ a I Jh"
" - - - -
vence guard of the evening audience went
in and secured good seats, over three. Christianity 1. the caoli.l' o hiu to do tha -work and tha poisons stay in
hours In sdrsnce. you do business. U " your c harac ter,th blo0d- T'"n the victim begins to turn
.. Mr. Sunday attacked the liquor traffle that gets you anything Your reniitaiinn y",ow- lle tho aund'0'- Tho kld
ln a way that gave promise of sensational Is what people say about you but voi r nr" U Mt ni pUrlfsr th,t
rircumstances, when he delivers his er- character is what Ood and you'r wife and h" Umt """ k tUr"B ,hem
mm on "Boose" to men only next Sun- the angels know about you. and know ,nftr'' . ...
iay afternoon. , you to be. Many have reputation, ot Th"'"41,""t buOM ,U l ,ou.
-Th. Devil's Boomerang. -r Hot Cakes " but their characters would'1'" " 0" "0t ter ,h
Off the driddle" was his subject Sunday
.
aiirmoon. one oi ma aiaieinem. was; I r-r-
-' -You fools! You think I'm your enemy,' Tr.Meif Hint fit VattH uf Hawk.
rot I'm really the Inst frienJ you ever I was over In Terre Haute, Ind., not
looked at long ago and I was In a bank there ad
? "If Ood Just sparer my life till next miring the beauty of It when the vice
skin... r.--- fit n.h . ... t president M r UWi.i. . . .
hot .U the 1 h'eu cln", e me."
t'hrril aa II m XalLa I ' n-.cn i Ktn IM VSUJt tiwit-y HBO Hint ull ana IWO .inKel
Mr. lu" ( T freauenTry lauded et'" n1 h "n P H. there. I B !h" f od 1 ,rnth I on Jil.n. Charley couldn't hit a high ball
anTcbeer. lZ In 7h. lUht.ras ' f1'""' contriv burglar., and 'noUBh P th otn tloon. but.omej, Coiit mi.an a Scotch highball; but ha
"hi. addr;;. h; f won mchu,hWd'et JT i"" Md 1 "',"L?U ' " W " '" l" k" 'em T " abl
created plenty ef fun
' Many Methodist preachers, here for
the state annual confernce. were pres
ent at the arernoon meeting. Mr. Hun
day pledged them all to "help back Ke-bras'-a
onto the dry track at the next
auction." '
MR. AND MRS. A. HARRIMAN
GO THROUGH OMAHA TODAY
Averlll Harrlinait. won of K. II. Harri-
man. will pass through Omaha thi. morn-
- lng' with hla bride, en route to pan Tran.
... r , ttiey minx may can get a aoiiar oy it,
'Tuesday In Lenox. Mass. The bride wasITh. nolt get-rlch-QUlcki achemts and
Mia. Kitty Lanier Lawrence, grand
daughter cf Charles Lanier. The Hani
mans will live at Arden bouse. Harriraan,
N. T.
Apartment flats, houses and cottage.
can be rented quickly and cheaply by a
ie "rr Beat."
"The Devil's Boomerang," or "Hot
Cakes Off the Griddle99 Sunday
In hia sermon yesterday afternoon,
"Billy" Sunday said:
Text: "Rejoice, O young man, 1n thy
youth; and let thy heart eher thee In
the daya of thy youth, and walk In the
waya ef thine heart, and In the sight of
thine eyee; but know thou, that for all
these things God will bring thee Into
Judgment." Lccleeleetea, ll:.
"lie not deceived; Clod is not mocked;
for whatever a man soweth that shall he
also reap." Ualatlana, ri:T.
In nrher words, do Juat as you please,
lie If you want to, steal If you want to;
Ood won't stop you, but He will hold you
responsible In the end. Do Just as you
please until the end comes and then you
are r II In.
No one la living In Ignorance of what
will become of him If he does not go
right and trot aqua re. He knows there
Is a heaven for the saved and a hell for
the damned, and that's all there Is to it
Mirny men start out on a life of rlea.
ures. Flcose remember two things: First,
pleasures soon have an end, and, second,
there la a day of Judgment coming and
you'll get what's coming to you. Ood
gives every man a square deal.
If a man stood up ami told me he was
going to preach on the things I am this
afternoon, I'd want him t answer me
several questions, and If he could do that
I'd tell him to go ahead.
First Are you kindly disposed toward
me?
Second Are you doing this to help ms?
Third Do you know whst you are talk
In about?
Fourth Io you practice whnt you
preach? t
That's fair. Well, for the first. Ood
knows I am kindly dieroed toward you.
Second, Ood knows I would do anything
In my power to help you to be a butter
man. I want to make It easier for you
to be equate : and harder for you to go
to hell. Third, I know what I'm talking
about for I have the Bible to ta-k me
up in parts and the statements of emi
nent physicians In other parts.
Cam Show Xetfclaa: Agralast Ilia.
And fourth, "Do I practice what I
preach?" I will defy and challenge any
man or woman on earth, and I'll look
any man in the eye and challenge him,
in the twenty-seven years I have been
a professing Christian, to show anything
against me.
If I don't live what I preach, gentle-
men. I'll leave the pulpit and never walk!
back here again. I live as I preach and
I defy the dirty dogs who have Insulted
me and my wife and spread black-hearted
lies and vllliflcatlona.
I was born and-bred on a farm and at
the ace of 11 I held mv place with men
. - .... . . .
yvmrm vm i jiigisru urn gjgjwa iiiuiji-
lng.
I know what hard knocks are. I have"
seen the seamy side of life. I have
crawled out of the sewer, and squalor I
and want. I have struggled ever since
I was I yeara old, an orphan son of a.
dead soldier, up to this pulpit this after
noon.
. I know what It Is to go to bed with
an honest dollar In my overall's pocket,
when the Goddess of Liberty became ar
Jenny kind and the eagle on the other f your system. Perspiration is for the: stepped out and said:
side became a nightingale and they'd sing "' thln- "VVe are "olng down to the l'aclflc
a poor, homeless orphan boy to sleep.! Every time you work or 1 preach the'Oarden Mletdon; won't you oome down
I'm not here to explode hot ear and! Impurities come out Kvery time you to the mission? tarn sure you will en
theories to you. sweat there la a destroying power gotn'Jy it- You - can hear drunkards, tell
Some men here in town if their wife on inside. The blood goes through tlie;now they have been saved and glrlg tell
asked them If they were coming down1 hcart every aeventeen seconds. O. wv J they have been ssved from the red
here, would aay. "Oh no. I don't wont ! have marvelous system. In some epot"hl district,
to go anywhere I ran't taka vou. dr " Uw are 4.000 pores to the square Inch; J, ail ' ''' oys:
! The dirty old dog they've been many
ja place they wouldn't Uke their wife
'...j .v... ,.. ..... .
vmttj f)uiuui men lei ner knew incy I
were there.
if sin weren't so deceitful it would not!
le so attractive. The effects get stronger!
while you get weaker .and weaker all I
the time and there la less chance of
breaking away. j
Many think a Christian has to be a sort
of dlshrsg proposition, a wishy-washy,
sluslfled sort of a galoot that lets every
body make a doormat out ef him. Jt
me tell you the manliest man Is the man
who will acknowledge Jesus Chrlat.
Before I was converted I could go five
rounds, an fast that you couldn't see me
for the duet, and I'm still pretty handy
with my dukes snd I can still deliver
the goods with all express charge pre
paid. -
Before 1 was converted I could run 100
yards in Un seconds, and circle the
baaee In fourteen aeconds, snd I could
run just as fast after I was converted.
So you don't have to be a dlshrag prop
osition after all.
I remember when I was secretary of
. VToun Men' Chrlj,tln association
m vn.cago i nad the saloon route.
r i,.i
to ao Imilnrf . J ...
men to com. ,o h- . Int,n
Han lrtwTi l!?. Men a Chris j
And one t .'.j . things to tho nerves as to tho white of an
JZyZ '.W"-" AhJ'. That's why some men can't walk.
. at-. . - - w i nswr sai jim as. p-r ueas am.uajas Liisn w- imrvFi aa rat
' v . i ua uinnn. IX fir
..... . r'vrrr saaeq annk
MA Aft Sa AtltiA r . . .
1 1 1 M K f IF hlMlD-
until vou .
mm" "''k mark on a piece of coal
I Or tarreit mm
-M: '
I 'Rill' 1 .. ..
aerea rrora one to another. No one
watched me. I could have Tiled my
pockets with gold or silver, but no one
watched me.
Why did they trust me? Because they
knew 1 was preaching the gospel of
Jesua Christ, and living up to IL That's
why they trusted me. There was a time
in my life when a man wouldn't trust
me with a yellow dog on a corner flf.
teeu minutea
What are some people going to do
about the Judgment? Some are Juat 'in
lif- . th. money the a, out af It
j Thy wUl , you oort ,outB ,f
'They float get-rlch-qulcat-acheme. and
anything for money.
I haven't a word to aay about a man
who haa earned his money honestly and
Is using it to provide for his family and
spending the surplus for good.
Yon know there is a bunch of mutu
that sit around on stools and whittle
and spit and cuss and damn arl
that every man who haa an honest dol
lar ought to divide It with them, while
others get out and get busy and work
and sweat and toll and prepare to leave
something for their wives snd families
when they die, and spend the rest for
good.
Old Commodore Vsnderbllt had a for
tune of over IJnn,ooo,ooo. end one day
when he was 111 he sent for Dr. Deems.
He asked him to alng for him that old
song, "Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,
come ye wounded,' sick and sore.
, . . ,.
re wounded sic. : and sonr .
HsSt?.T
weaUh said. "That's what
The
to side.
of his
I am, poor and needy."
Who? Commodore Vanderbllt poor nd
needv with his JO,or.,000? The founda
tion of that tabuloue fortune was laid
by him and he poled a yawl from N
York to Ktatan Island and picked up
nennlea for doing It.
The foundation of the Immenec Astor
fortune waa laid by John Jaeot Am
when he went out and bought fur ni
hides from trappers and put the money
In New York real estate.
The next day In the street one man
said to another:
Hae you heard the new.? tomiuo
dore Vanderbllt Is dead."
"How much' did he leave?"
U l.ft It ell.
. 'I . W . . Wu It to
Seat i-
. into thla world, and
J? . vu win crllW out of it. Yoa
naked you w,
will take nothing out. and It you.h.v.l
out the pack screws on the poor and,
piled up a Pile of gold as big ss inw, I ,ion t a pee. Not on your life,
tabernacle, you can't take It with you. , There wa a fellow going along the
It wouldn't do you any good if you'nlKo and a fnrmer-i dug ran snapping- at
could because It would melt. r'ed to drive H Wk with a
Don't llsten-go on. When you are Pitchfork h carried, and falling to do
racked with disease, when your flesh la he pinmd It to the ground with the
rotting with filth, you will rememoer
"Bill" warned you to Keep aa
those whose house door ewlngs into hell.
Some Just live for boose. Some say:
"I need It. It keeps me warm In winter."
Another says: "It keeps me cool in sum
mer." Well, If it keeps you warm in winter
and cool In summer why is It that out a tnnges and I II leave with these re
of those who freese to death and are(maik.
aunstruck the greater part of them are 1 wontytufcht year ago I walked down
boose holsters? Every one takes It for a street In Chicago In company with
the .loohnl there la In it. Take that out some, ball placers who were famoua In
and you would as soon drink dish walfr.
I e.n buir a. can of good beef extract
and dip the point of any knife in the It waa bunday arternoon and wa got
can and get more nourishment on the anked up and then went out and eat
point of that knife than in 0 gallons of do'n on n corner. I never go by that
the beat beer. l"troet, thanking Uk1 tor wiving
u- thi- ir,rf tminr were'11"- " ' vaxant UA. at that time.
. i . i iL.i. t. In !A,manv DM
per
cent of them would be In Jail. The ex-
tract on the point of the knife represents
one and three-quarters pound, of good
beerstea. Just tnina, you nave io m..
a swill barrel out of your belllea and a
sewer If you want to get that much
nounsnmem oui oi owr aim r
ions inrougn. ,
O, go ahead, if you want to, but I II
try to help you Just the same. !
Bvery man has blood 'corpuscles, andl
tl,elr objec t la to take the Impurltlca out
" - will cover ISO of thenu' 1 1 Ju,
1 cn tr", yu " th. lv." 1 ,,l 1 I. ,1 IT f
!. vmi'ii he a.a i.. w.it,t h iln wa". nnd I turned my back on
- j
O, we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
it...... ... sid t ersaaeles.
Alcohol knocks the blood corpuscles out
of buslnesa so that It takea eight to ten
to do what one ought to do.
There'a a man who drtnkr'. Here's a
fellow who drives a beer wagon. Look
how puasy he is. He's full of rotten tis
sue. He says he's healthy. Smell his
breath.
You punch your finger in that healthy
fleah ha talks about and the dent will be
there a half an hour afterward. You
look like you don't believe It. Try It
when you go to bed tonight. Pneumonia
haa a first mortgage on a boore-huister.
Take a follow with good, healthy mus
cles, and you will punch them and they
bound out like a rubber band.
The first thing about a crushed straw
berry stomach Is a crushed strawberry
nose. Nature lets the public on the out
side know what Is going on Inside.
If I could JUMt tako tho stomach of a
moderate drinker and turn it wrong side
out for you, it would be all the temper
snco bcture you would need.
You know whst alcohol does to the
white of an egg? It will cook It In a few
minutes. Well, alcohol doe. th aame
rgest organ of the
the blood In the body
take, out the polsona
and passe, them on on the gall, and from
there they go to the Intestines and act
on machinery.
man drinks, the liver becomes
co.ered with hob-nails snd then refuses
,. ,
1 m t
m trying to help you. I'm trying to;
put a carpet on your floor, pull the pil
lows out pf the window, give you and
our children and' wife good clothes.
I'm trying to get you to aave your
money Inatead of buying a machine for
I ftht "l-'"r -btle ou h -
lOOt t.
D1rr I pNflltK War u Urn loon,
Y ' t a ar.wul ftsi moaa .nfurs sa aa.l -B0 -
and ineuru, end had mv life threatened
from' one end of the land to the other
by this G'vsl-Forsaken gang ot thugs an l
euiihroat. because I have come out un -
compromising' agalimt them. I've taken
more dirty, wile inaulta from thta low-i
down buuch tfcan from any oue on fartli,
but there is no one that will reach down:
lower or rtUk up higher or wider to
1,.IP out of tl. Pit. of drunkenness
tl I , ,
? . .v. t. .k -t t
The open saloon is ine aotnea 01 an-j
archy. It la the Incubator of poverty
and crime and vlcev It Is the spawning
place of degeneracy. !
I don't know whether you ever had
anyone eome to oUX Omaha to preach
to these puss-gutted lobsters, but by
the eternal Ood I wllL When we get
the preacher, to do thiit and quit talking
about new Jerusalem, get the Presby-
trlans to pleach about this Innen.l of
preferment, when a lot of them haven tj
anything to prefer, and the Papuan
nult yelling "Water, wetv. water," and.
two-thirds of their bunch going whenr
you ean't get a drop, we'll clean up this
oaloon-flllod, brewery-controlled commu-'
nlty for Chrlat. I'm going to akin 'em.l
You say you rWt prohlUl men from
drinking. Whv. if Jesus Christ waa herV
t.Hlar soma of .m w ,...t,t ke.-o n !
sin Just the same.
Hut the law enn be enforcvd against
whisky Just the sunie as It nan be en
forced against anything else. If yon have
honest officials to enforce It.
Of courae It doesn't prohibit. There'
Isn't a law on thn books of the state
in i a iw on mo iook. or (ne slate
th.t ,(tTnlM.. W(1 have Uw, winKt
murder. Do,,. ey prohibit? U.hav.Lw.
bg.ary. Do they prohibit? XV
have laws agalnet arson, rsi, twit they, th bait In my hand, t'p came Tom
do. not prohibit. . ) Johnson. Tom used to be mayor of Clere-
Wmild you Introduce a bill to repeal ,Hnl lu" (1p"1 no
all the law that H tMhii.it a "Here U IK Hill.' Iluy yourself the
law will prohibit to a certain eK.nt ,f
honest officials enforce it. But no law
will absolutely prohibit We can make
r I a law agnlnst llipior prohibit as much
as any law prohibit..
. you introouce a bill aaying
if you pay tt.OOO a yenr you can kill ny-l
tie tou oon i line., or by rmylnr t .
year yi can attack any girl you Want to
or by paying oo a year you can steal
anythlng that suits you that's what you'
do with tho dltieat.
rotteneet gang this
side of bell.
You say for ao much a year you can
have a license to make iterinr m.i.
Ing. drunken sou, murderers and thieves
Un, . pui.
the whisky.
you're too hard on
w
y use me otner end
of that forky
llo answei-ed. "Why didn't the dog oome
at me with the other end?"
TelUi "lory nf Hie CoaiTeralosj.
Ho. If these dirty dogs eome at me, I'll
come b.vk. I didn't intend to go off at
.thta thetii are dead now)
""d we 't Into a saloon.
" w i-iirwing. across the
A" ana w"'"
iyy"'Tl:h0m' nute
Uin K hymns UW
hen,. lny ,nother sing back In the loa
rnt(m ,n Iowa Bn(J back Jn tfM) qM ohurcJJ
w here I used to go to Sunday school
Ana 0o, painted on the canvas of my
recoi'ocuon and memory a vivid picture
of the scenee of other day and other
facee.
Many have long since turned to dust
I sobbed and sobbed, snd a young man
them, gome of them laughed and some
of them mocked ine; one of them gave
me encouragement; other, never said a
woed.
Twenty-eight year, ago 1 turned and
left that little' group on the corner of
State and Madison streets and walked
to the little nila.slfin and fell on my
knees and ataggered out of sin and Into
the nrnis of the Savior.
I went over to the west a4do of Chl
caiso, where I was keeping company
with a Blrl, now my wife, Nell, i mar
ried Nell. Hie was a rrcsbyterian, ao
I am a Presbyterian. If she had been
a Catholic I would have been a Catholics
because I was hot on the trail of Nejl.
The next day I had to go out to the
ball park and practice. Kvery morning
at 10 o'clock wc had to be out there and
practice. I never alept that night. I
was a ft aid of the horse-laugh that gang
Would give mo because I had taken my
stand for Jeaus Clirixt.
I wnlkod down to the old ball grounds.
I will never forget it. I slipped my key
Into the wicket gate and the first man
to meet me after; 1 got Inside was Mike
Kelley.
Up came Mike Kelley. He said: "Bill,
I'm proud of you. Itellglon is not my
long suit, but I'll help you all I can."
I'p came Anmn, the best ball player
that ever played the game; Pfeffer,
Clark son, Flint, Jimmy McCormlck,
Burn., Williamson and Dalrymple.
There wasn't a fellow in ths gang who
knocked; every fellow had a word of
encouragement for me.
f'rayril for Uod. Help la Ball Game.
That afternoon we played the old De
troit club. We were neck and neck for
the rliamplonnhlp. That club had Thomp.
son, lUchardaon, Howe, Dunlap, Hanlon
and Bennett and they could play ball.
1 was playing rUiht field. Mike Kelly
waa catching and John O. Clarkson was
pitching. He. was aa fine a pltclur as
ever crawled Into a uniform. There are
ome pitchers today O'Toole, Bender,
Wood, Mathrwson, Johnson. Marquard.
"ul 1 00 no1 M1"v n" ' or them
aiooo in ine ciasa wnn t-naraaon.
CigerotU:. put him on the bum. When
he'd take a bath the water would be
stained with nicotine. '
We had two men out and they had a
nan on second and one on third and
Heniieu', Their old catr. w.V U
I. I M .,! . . ..
i at, saw:.
t 1 hollered to Clark ton &nd Mid;
' Tlf-ij, mnra assail aaiaa vas 'am
I You know every pitcher put. a hole'arun,, tssMtrlght "'
In the ground where he put. hi. foot "' fm said. "Oood-bye. boys. I m
when he la pitching. John stuck bis foot
' " ' ana ne weni ciean 10 me
ground.
-"'. '"" em uanca, no
'"""'d throw overhandefi, and the ball
0" J h that. He is
'' on cartli I have aoen do
'h- KThrb" w"uld by."' f"
that the batter could feel the thermom-
'"r iTV two degrees aa she whlssed by.
John wwt cleaa
down, and as be went
(j ,hw h rlfht foo
n) , W-Bt ,ow ,fcU,a4 of hltsh.
t mw Charley awing hard and heard
the bat hit the baU with a terrific boom.
Hennett had smashed the ball on the
noae. I saw the tall rise In tho air and
knew that It was going clear over my.
head.
i I could Judge within ten feet Of where
the I. nil would light. 1 turned my beck
to the hall and fan.
The field waa crowded with people and
I yelled: "J'tand bark!" and that crowd
rleneit like the Hed ea opened for the
tod of Moses.
I ran on. and as I ran I made a prayer;
11 wasn't theological, either, I tell you
,hM' wlM' '0o1- ,f ou eVrr
,,,orU, m'1' ""P m ,9 tbat b"'
and Tom haven't very much time to make
up Your mind, either."
I ran and J'.inutd over the bench and
stopped,
I thought I was close enough to catch
It. I looked back and saw It solng over
inv head and I Jumped and shoved out
niy left hand and the ball lilt It and
Huck.
nut s
At
ran
of a
the rate I waa going the momentum
rrled mo on and I fell under the feel
a team of horses. I Jumped up with
JT? I,alJn Chlr"ro' Th, lch won m
$l.faS. Tomorrow go and buy yourself
!!'" be"t..,,"t of clo,hM can nA "
. "'. .
j An olJ Methodist mlnl.ter said to me
A Iiw vnnra at irn V U'lllla t vnit
di.ln t take the llfl. did you?" I said: "You
bet your life I did."
Kelley Hied Poor Deaplte M enter.
Uslen. .Mike Kelley was sold to Hoa-
,on for l00n0- M,l ot half of tha pur-
.'hase price. He came up to me and
showed mo a check for $.1 (WO. John K
Sullivan, the champion fighter, went
around with a subscription paper and
tho boys raised over I2.0i0 to buy Mike
a house.
They gave Mike a deed to the house
and they had fl.boO left and gave hlrn a
certificate of deposit for that.
Ills salary for playing with Boston wss
$l.70 a year. At the end ot that season
Mike had spent the t&.OOO purchase price
and the H.T00 he received as salary and
the SI.W they gave him and had a mort
gage on the house.
And when he died In Pennsylvania they
went around with a subscription to get
money enough to put him In the ground,
and each club, twelve in all, in tw
leagues, gave a month a year to his
widow. '
Mike sat there on the corner with me
twenty-right year, ago, when I said:
"Oood-by, boys, I'm going to Jeaus
Christ."
A. a. fipaldlng signed up a team to
go around the world. I waa the second
he asked to sign a contract, and Captain
Anson waa the first. I waa sliding to
second bHse one day. I always slid head
first, and hit a stone and cut a ligament
loose In my knee.
I got a doctor and had my leg fixed.
He said:
"William, If you don't go on that trip
I will give you a good leg.
I obeyed him and have aa good a leg
today as I ever had. They offered to
wait for me at Honolulu and Australia.
Spalding- said: "Meet us In England and
play with ua through Kngland, Scotland
and Wale.." I didn't go.
'Williamson Also Went te Bad.
Rdward Williamson, our old . shortstop,
was a fellow weighing KB pounds and, a
more active big man you never saw. He
wsnt with them, and while they were
on the ship crossing the English channel
a storm arose and the captain thought
the ahlp would go down.
Williamson tied two life preservers on
himself snd one on tAs wife and dropped
on his knees and prayed and promised
God to be true. Ood sHke and the
waves were stilled.
They came back to the 1'nlted States
and Ed came back to Chicago and
started a saloon in Dearborn street. I
would go fhrough there giving tickets for
the Young Men's Christian association
meetings, and would talk with him and
he would cry like a baby,
I would get down and pray for htm
and would talk with him. When he died
they put him on the table and cut hint
open and took out his liver, snd It wss
so big It would not go In a candy bucket.
Kidneys had shriveled till they were like
two atones.
Ed Williamson sat there on the street
corner with me, drunk, twenty-eight
years ago when I said; "Oood-bye, boys,
I'm going to Jesus Christ."
Prank Flint, our old catcher, who
caught for nineteen years, drew $3.W a
year on an average. He caught before
they had chest protectors, maaUs and
gloves.
He caught bare-handed. Kvery bone in
the ball of his hand was broken. You
never saw such a hsnd as Prank had.
Kvery bone In his face waa broken, and
his nose and cheek bonea, and the shoul
der and ribs had all been broken. He
got to drinking, his home waa broken up
and he went to the dogs.
I've seen old Frank Flint sleeping on
a tablo in a staid brer Joint, and I've
turned my pocket, inside out end said:
"You're welcome to it, old pal."
He drank on and on and one day In
winter he staggered out of a stale beer
Joint and stood on a corner, and was
seized with a fit of coughing. The blood
streamed out of his nose, mouth and eyes.
Down the street came a wealthy woman.
She took one look and said: My God, Is
It you, Frank?" and hU wife came up
and kissed him.
She called two policemen and a cab and
started with liim to her boarding house.
They broke all speed regulations. She
called five of ttie best physician, and
they listened to the beating of his heart,
one, two, three, four, five, six, senren,
clk'ht, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, snd the
doctors said: "He will be dead In about
four hours."
Mie told them to tell him what they had
told her. She said: "Frank, the end Is
near," and ho said, "Rend for 'Bill.' "
They telephoned me and I came. He
aaid:
"There's nothing In the life of years
ago I care for now. I can hear tho
bleachers cheer when I make a hit that
wins the game. , But there Is nothing that
ean help me now; and if the umpire
calls me out. now won't you ssy a few
words over me, Bill? "
He .struggled aa he had years ago on
the diamond, when he tried to reach
home, but the Oreat Umpire of the uni
verse yelled, "You're outl" and waved
him to the club house and the great
gladiator of the diamond was no more.
He sat on the street corner with ma,
through.
Men of Omaha, did they win the game
of life, or did I?
(Copyright, William A. Sunday.)
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What Shall the End Be of
Those Who Do Not Obey Gospel?
Following I. the sermon preached last
nleht at the Tabernacle by the Rev.
"Billy" Sunday.
First Epistle ef Teter. Fourth rhapter
and the Seventeenth verse: "Whst shall
the end of them that obey not the goepel
of Ood?"
No book ever came by luck or chance.
Kvery book owes Its existence to some
being or beings, and within the range and
scope of htimarj Intelligence there are
but three things good, had and Ood.
All that originate. In Intellect; all which
tho Intellect ran ecmprehend, must oome
from one of the three. This book, the i
Bible, could not possibly be the product
of evil, wicked, Ood less, corrupt, vile
men, for It pronounces tho heaviest pen
altles against sin. Like produces like,
and If bad men were writing the Bible
they never would hav. pronounced con
demnation and punishment against wrong
doing. So that la pushed sside.
The holy men of old, we are told, spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ohost.
Men do not attribute these beautiful and
matchless and well-arranged sentences
to human Intelligence alone, but we are
told that men spake as they were In
spired by the Holy Gheet
The only being left, to whom you. or I,
or any senaible Person could ascribe
the origin of the Bible. Is Ood. for her
Is a book, the excellence ef which rises
above other books, like mountaina above
mole-hllla a book whose brilliancy and
lire-giving power exceed the accumulated
knowledge and combined efforts of men,
like the sun exceed, the lamp, which is
but a bass Imitation of the sin'i glory.
Here la a honk that telle me where I
Tame from and where I am going, a book
without which I would not know of my
origin and destiny, except a. I might
glsan It from the dins outlines ef reason,
or nature, either or both of which would
be unsatisfactory to me. Here Is a book
that telle me what to da and what not
to do.
Meet ltewe I fie.
Most men believe In Ood. Now and
then you find a man who doesn't, and
he's a fool, for "The fool hath said In
his heart, there la no Ood." Moat men
have sense. Occasionally you will find
a fool, or an infidel who doesn't believe
In Ood. Most men believe in a Ood that
will reward the right and punish the
wrong; therefore It is clear what atti
tude you ought to assume toward my
message tonight, for the message I bring
to you is not from human reason or In
telligence, but from Ood' book.
"What shall the end be of them that
obey hot the gospel of Ood?" Now listen,
and I will try and help you.
A man said, "I cannot be a Christian.
J cannot obey Ood." That le not true.
That would make Ood aut a demon and
a wretch. Ood aay. If you are not a
Christian you will be damned. It would
make Ood out a demon If, when God
commanded you to repent, h. knew you
could not, but he would condemn you If
you didn't. If Ood asked niaaklnd to do
something, snd he knew whsn be asked
them that they could not do It, and he
told them he would damn them If they
didn't do It, It would make Ood out a
demon and a wretch, and I will net allow
you or any other man to stand up snd
Insult my Ood. Tou can be a Christian
If you want to, and It la your cussedness.
that you are unwilling to give up that
keeps you away from Ood.
Supposing I should go on top of a
building and ssy to my little baby boy,
"Fly up to me." If he could talk, he
would say, "I can't." And supposing I
would say, "But you can: If you don't,
I rt whip you to death." When I asksd
him to -do it, I knew he couldn't yet C
told him 1 -would whip him to death
If he didn't and in aaying that Z would
aa an earthly father, be Juat a. reason
able a. Ood would be, if he should ask
you to do something you couldn't do.
and though He knew when He asked you
that you couldn't do It, neverthelesa
damn you If you didn't do It,
Poa't aay Yoa taw't. t
Don't tell Ood you ewn't Juat say
you don't want to be a Christian, that's
the wsy to be man. Just say, "I don't
want to ba decent; I don't want to quit
cussing; I don't want to quit booae
flghtlng; I don't want to quit lying; I
don't want to quit committing adultry.
If I should be Christian, I would havs
to quit those things, and I don't want to."
Tell Ood you are not man enough to be
a Christian. Don't try to aaddle It off
on the Lord. Tou don't want to do It,
that's all; that's the trouble with you.
A man In a town In Ohio came, and
handed one of the ministers a latter, and
he aaid, "I want you to read that when
you got horns." When th minister gut
home he opened It and It read like this:
"I wa. at the meeting last night, and
somehow or other, th words Whst shalt
the end be? got hold of me. and troubled
me. I went to bed, but couldn't sleep,
I got up and went to my library. I took
down my book, on Infidelity and searched
them through and through. But none of
them could answer th cry and longing
of my heart, and I turn to you. Is there
help? Where will I find 111" And that
man found It where every man ever has,
or ever will find It, down at th Croaa
of Jeeu) Christ, and I hav been praying
Ood that might be the experience of many
In this tabernacle.
Prsra that Tw. Word, -star Help.
Over since Ood sewed my soul and sent
m out to preach, I hav prayed Him to
enable me to pronounce two words, and
put Intfc those word, all they will mean
to you ; If they ever become a reality, Ood
pity you. One word la "Lost" and ths
other la "Eternity."
Ten thousand year, from now we will
all be somewhere. Ten thousand times
ten thousand times ten thousand years,
the eternity has Juat begun. Increase the
multiple and you will only tmorease the
truth.
What Is your life? A hand's breadth-,
yea, a hair's breadth yea, one single
heartbeat, and you are gone, and yet you
It with th. Judgment of Ood hovering
over you. "What .hall the end be? '
I never met any man or woman In my
Uf. who disbelieved ta Christianity, but
could not be classified under one of two
hesdtngs.
First They who, because of an utter
disregard ot Ood's claims on their lives,
have, by and through that disregard, be
come rake and roues, and hav throws
themaelves beyond the pale of Ood
mercy, or any hop of salvation. Or,
Second Men and . women with splendid,
noble and magnificent abilities, which
they hav allowed to become absorbed la
other mattera, and they do aot give to
the subject of religion so much ss pass
Ing attention. They hav th audacity to
claim for themaetva an Intellectual su
periority to those who believe the Bible,
which they aneerlngly term "that super
st It ion."
What Is the gospel that th people ought
to obey it? It is good news, glad tidings
of salvation, free, gierfeet and eternal,
through Jesus Christ
Oh, but aomcbody says, do you call th
new. of that Book that ( am on the road
to hell, good news? No, sir; that In
Itself . not good new., but If It I. the
truth, the sooner you find out the better
It will be for you. a
fod Mew..
When the Israelites were bitten by th
serpents In the wlldernea., wasn't It good
newa for them to know that Moses hat
raised up a brasen serpent and bid them
all to look and be healed?
When the flood came, wasn't It good
new. for Noah to know that h. would
be saved In the ark?
When the city of Jericho was going to
fall, waan't It good newa to Rahab to
know that she and all her houaehold
would be saved by hanging a scarlet line
out of the window? Never ha. such news
been published. "Thou shalt call His
name Jesus for He shall aave his people
from their sins." Never haa such news
reached the world.
"What shall the end be ef them that
obey not the Oosnelf And the Ooepel
of Ood la. "Repent, or you will go In
hell." What Is the Gospel, and what Is
It to obey th Oospelf We hav seen
that It I. good new., now what U It to
obey? What was It for Israel to obey.'
Look at the brasen serpent on th pole.
What waa It for Noah to obey? BulM
th ark and get Into It. What wa It
for Rahab to obey? Hang a scarlet line
out of the window, and Ood would pass
her by when he took the city of Jericho.
All that waa believing Ood's message and
obeying.
What have you found by trusting In
the finished work of Jesus Christ?
It Is Mid of Napoleon that on day
he wa. riding In review before hla troops,
when the horse on which he sat became
nsmianageable. seised the bit In his teeth,
dashed down th road and the life of the
famous warrior was In danger. A private,
at the risk of his life, leaped out snd
saled the runaway horse, while Napoleon,
out of gratitude, raised In the stirrups,
ssluted and said. "Thank you. captain."
Th man said. "Captain of what, .ir?"
"Captain of my Life Guards, sir." ssld he.
Th man stepped over to where th
Uf Guard were In consultation and they
ordered him back Into the rank.. He re
fused to go, and Issued orders to the of
ficer by aoylng. "I am captain of the
twos" Thinking him Insans. they
ordered his arrest and won draggin
hlm away, when Napoleon rode up an-1
guards because tho emperor sold so."
I am a Chrlstlsn because God say. ao
down, I'l go with It If Ood goe. down
I II go with Him. ,rt if there , were anv
would L0' So,'
TwentJ ? h'Pwrecked lonr go.
Jharlet.! had: " 'PutAtion. mv
staked my soul, everything 1 had on the
rSs "-";.
oV not the gospel of Ood?" Hear rn.t
Thar are three lne.mpreh.n..b,m,,..mte,
oUyr7'' that ihm away
?fwlT.dne : nTeaTon 2"
rr th.r n
or studied astronomy.
Why Are Yaw Net a rkpt.ti.-.
11 - ? . 1 "nd ala-cursed world
Howh'h ,.ndlff're" to Ood'. love
understand V underf " I don't
1,01 Christian. I don't
wron.UnVh.r. yU knOW "t 'rom
wrong, and stilt are not a Christian.
Whea a man start, on a Journey he
ha. one object In vlew-the end. A Jour
ney Is weU If it end. well. w. am all
on a journey to eternity, Wh.t will be
the .nd?
But suppo there I, o hell. Suppose
death I. eternal ,i.ep. X bo,levo tn B,h
I believe It. teaehlng.1 1 hav. the best
of you In thi. life. I will lv. i.nge,,
b happier, and li i . .... .
- - ' noininaj oy
believing and obeying the Bible even If
I 7. I: BO ""' But uPPos there I. .
fool lm ve(1 nl yov the
When Voltalra. the i.fM.i i. .........
. r atup,
he summoned the physician and aaid.
uonor. i will give you 11 I hsv to
save my life els months."
Th doctor said, "Yon can't live sl.x
hours." ,
"Then." Voltalra a.M .'I'll
to hell, and you'll go with m."
lioDDe, th English Intidel, aaid: "I
am taking a leap Into the night."
Weeley aaid. "I .hall be sstlsfled when
X awake in HI. Ilkeneee."
Florence A. Foater aaid. "Umh.. th.
hilltop are covered with angel.; 'th.y
Meson m. nomeward; I bid yon good by."
France. B. Wltlard cried. "How beau
tiful to die and be w.th Ood."
Moody cried, "Eiarth recedes, heaven
opens, God Is calling me. Tills is to be
my coronation day."
Z say to you. you am going to llr on
and on until th stars of th hsavena
am snuffed out, Tou am going to live
en and on until the rock, crumble into
dust through age, Tou am going to live
on and on and on until ths mountain
peaks am Incinerated and blown by the
breath of Ood to the four corner ef In
finitude. "What shall theend be?"
You can't stand before Ood In the
judgment and aay, "Jesus, wem you down -them
In the tabernacle? In my home?
In my lodge? Did you want to aave
me?" Jesus Christ, ths Bon of Ood. Is
here, and he waits to be graoloua.
What shall end be ef them that
obey not th gospel of Ood?
Copyright by William A. Sunday.)
EDITOR HOUSTON OF WORLD'S
WORK I TO SPEAK IN OMAHA
Herbert S. Houston of New York,
chairmen of the committee ot Informa
tion of th American branch of the
League to Enforce Peace, will be In
Omaha about November I, He will apeak
before the public, affair commute of
th Commercial club at the noonday
luncheon. It ia presumed that hla toplo
will be "Commerce and th World's
Peace."
Mr. Houston la editor of World's Work
and also president of the Associated
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