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SECRETARIES TAKE
NAMES ON "TRAIL"
Forty-Four Prominent Omaha Men
Selected to Assist Sunday in
Work at Tabernacle.
0. C. EDGERLY IS IN CHAKGF
Forty-four secretaries have been
appointed and have agreed to serve
at the Billy" Sunday meetings.
It will be the duty of these men tc
b. In front of the evangelist's plat
form at every service, particularly
tha evening meetings, to take the
names of the "trail hitters"' Jusi
after they have grasped Mr. Sun
day's hand and acknowledged theli
tntentiona to turn a new leaf
'acknowledge Christ and lead n
Christian life.
The men are all carefully picked. They
must be alert, quick and sympathetic
They will I prowled with cards, on
whlrh 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
be written In a very few minutes each
evening-.
Tho arcretsrles will be under direction
of O. C. Kdirorly, and among them are
many well known buslnoes and profes
sional men of the city. They are at
follows:
J. H. McMillan, H. A. Flnlsv,
lr. It H. Hamilton, C. I., gehne'der,
H. (.. Solomon, Oeortrc M.ckcl,
Sundayisms at the Tab as
Caught by Our Staff Artist
Ir. Fnater.
H. I. Hire.
T. N. Crosby,
Henrv Wantan-
I suirh.
Ernest Freeman,
Cecil Voaev.
Kurl Kenworthy,
K. It.
l-collf" (Irifrith.
I.ester Idd,
Ooorpe Croat v,
Culoncl tvttp-win
C. It. Walrath.
M. 1. ( nnii'ioii,
James Undue.
T. H. WeirK'k,
K. P. Swot lev.
I K. Wallace.
J. il. licady.
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W. N. Hnlsey,
V. P. Knapp.
John K. Cullins.
W, n. Wyman.
l D. Hall.
O. XV". Nohla,
J. M. Lowe.
F. T. Ti'iilwrn,
F. M. Ilnylcs,
E. . Jones,
I'r. C)iiir! s nrown.
James Hiilrk,
l Kennedy, Jr.;
I. ocliMtrcItt,
Harry l Mc-
ClrHnn.
Jc.due Sutton,
J. W. Itsp,
U W. Iwalon.
Sunday Pleads for More Workers
to Help in the Church of the Savior
"Billy" Sunday preached at the Taber
nacle yesterday afternoon on how to win
ouls to Christ.
Ills text waa:
Prov. 11:30: "He that wlnnoth souls Is
wise."
There are many people who want to
win somebody for Jesus arid they are
willing- to be told how to do It. I believe
there are hundreds and thousands of
people who are willing to work and who
know something- must bo 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 religion; 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 nothing to that. A
lot should wake up and go to the Rescue
and win for Jesus Christ.
Personal Work at Home.
I want to aay to the deacons, stewards,
vestrymen, prudential committee that
they should work and the place to begin
is at your own home. Sit down and,
write the names of five or ten 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 yie club,
in business, in your home In a friendly
way. You meet them every week, some
of them every day, and you never apeak
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 a Christian to
work for God. There la always a chance
to ppeak to some one about God. I am
not going to theorise; we are dealing too
much In theories and speculations. This
or that interpretation of some dogma or
doctrine Is not going to give ymr spiritual
power. Tou 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 bo 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 suld: "Son, don't you know we have
been searching for you?" He answered,
"'l?t yet not; 1 must be about My
Father's business?'' .and from then until
now he has been calling us to co forth
end do his work. Mothers should plead
with their " children, and they In turn
should plead with their friends for reli
gion. (Uurch 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 con
verted themselves before they can lead
anyone else to Christ It is my firm
conviction after sixteen years of exper
ience In the work that half tho people
in the church have never been con
verted, have never been born again. I
take up a bottle of water, uncork It and
take a drink. That is experimental.
.One sip of water can convince me more
of lis power to alake thirst than 40,000
booka written on the subject You know
quinine la bitter because you have ex
perimented; you know fire will burn be
cause you have experimented; you know
Ice will freeze; it Is cold, you have ex
perimented. .
A man must exDerience 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
ligion Is second handed. There is t x
much second hand stuff In the church.
It is your privilege to know and to
have salvation. Jeuau said to Peter:
"When you are converted, strengthen
thy brother." , You are not in a1 posi
tion to help anybody else unless you
bave helped yourself. God doesn't save
on the Installment plan. A man la
either on the road ' to heaven or on the
road to hell. God doesn't do things by
halve.
Need Bible in Personal Work.
It bu been said that God made the
birds without wings and they hoppS
and crept around, but didn't sing, and
after a while Gvd put wings on them
and they commenced to slug. N.t on
your life! When God made the btdj
he made them all God does not hav
to double on the trail and back-tia k.
When the Lord doea 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,"
Mllteo. Bacon. Shakespeare, Chaucer
and a 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 wlU take
the crown. So many church mentors
know nothing about the Bible. A
preaeber will take a text from the Bible
and get as far from It as the) east la
from the west A young prea her J '.
out of the seminary said: 'Muat'l con
fine myaelf, my preaching, to the Bible r
Just Ue a little echr.mp would say,
muat I confine my roaming to tle At
lantic ccean." Imagine a littla minnow 1
sayiBgl "Moat I confine ray m f to the
Atlantic OoeaaT" '"Must I confln nay
aU to tke BlUer Jut as U his in
tellect would exhaust it in two or t ire
sermons.
Know God Thronah Bible.
We have cut loose from tho Bible, and
any man who is living contrary to the
Bible is a sinner, whether lie feels like a
sinner or not. Every man who Is living
contrary to the laws is a criminal
whether he feels like it or not. A man
who breaks the law of God Is a sinner
and Is on the road to hell, whether ho
feels like it or like a saint. Jesus cams
into the world to reveal God to man, and
man reveals him to man. The only reve
lation we have of Jesus Is through the
Blhlo. You have got to know the Bible
to know Jesus. You have got to know
Jesus to know God; that's how I get
through here. There Is no revelation for
God to make of himself greater than he
has made through Jesus Christ. It is not
Impossible for the human Intellect to
have a greater conception of God. Every
man needa Christ. Jesus la the aavlnr
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 Necessary.
Then you need the Holy Spirit; without
him you can not do anything. The spirit
of God worka through clean hands. There
are too many dirty hands, too many
dirty people trying to preach a clean gos
pel. I .have known men 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
the truth. But If they had been Chris
tians themselves then God would have
honored them more because He would
have honored them and the truth.
If you don't believe me, then believe
the truth Itself. By their fruits 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 invitation 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 no use for me. Nor I for
them. I
So Family Prayer.
Prayer, three-fourths of the church
members have no family prayer. I will
bet my life against a cancelled noataora
stamp today that half the people here
am not read tho Bible nor pray before
you came here today. You wash your
hands, wash your face, dress yourself,
you get your breakfast, your dinner, yes.
Did you read the Bible? No. Did you
pray? No. If you cared for the nhval-
cal manhood and womanhood the same
way that you care for your spiritual
manhood and womanhood, vou would tut
Just, as dried up, and useless, and weak
phyMcally as yoj 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 1ft vnur unirituat
llfo starve. That la the reason your
pewa are full of driftwood; that Is the
reason that religion is hut a mirage.
rray Ood to Elve you power. Pray God
to glvo your power to mm nn
work after you have become converted.
don t preach a sermon that T
pray God for help, and I never finish a
sermon that I don't thank God that I
nave preached It. 1 never flnlah . am
nion but that 1 nsk for power to carry on
me worn, strength to carry it along. B
1 get ready by pravinsr. I nevnr r.ro.ch
a sermon that I don't soak it In prayer.
Home Srnr In Frearhlnar.
Pure hearts. If I have inv intnn i-
my heart the Lord will not come In. We
neen a wise head. We need horse sense
In preaching. We need horse sense In
what we do. I think God la constantly
looking for a company of men and
women that are constantly alive. Th.r.
aro too many dead ones. He nta
and women that are always at It, not
oniy during the revival; we need to be
run or faith:, dead In earnest. nvr
up, a bulldog tenacity and stlck-to-lt-
ivenesa for the cause of God Almighty.
mat is what God Is looking for. Many
have done things Just for the applause of
the world. Newton would study all night
to get a sentence to embody a thought
Reynolds would sit for 38 hours without
food to get the right word to write an
ode. Wesley used to travel from (.000 to
7.000 tnlleg a year on horseback In the
days of Itinerant Methodism and get
moat of hU rest and sleep right In the
saddle. Beacher CaYlwrlght. an Itinerant
preacher In Illinois In the days of Lin
coln, traveled from Cairo to Heland, 111.,
riding horseback what would he do?
He uaed to have to swim rivers five lo
seven time, a day; he would have to find
a 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 across; night would overtake him
and he would sleep on the prairies, lying
down there without anything to eat
tknrefc Anatheila to Loa.
The church of God has not smelted
gunpowder for ISO years; that Is what to
the matter with It; It has become proud,
haughty, arrogant self-centered and
apathetic to men's lost condition; there
Is not a churcn in Christendom that has
not occasion to thank God for Lyman
Beecher. He preached and John Newton
waa converted. Brott heard Newton and
Scott was converted. A peddler went to
a home and sold a Bible where there
waa a Utile boy named Richard, whn ra
It Kichard Baxter wrote "Saints' Rest"
rniup Coleridge read "Salnta' Hut" ad
he wrote "The Rise and Progress of Ho
uston, wuberforce read the "Rise and
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Progress of Religion" and 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
gorge of 2,000 feet deep and he beat him.
He said:
"Why do you abuse that mule?" and
the driver pointed to the ledge of rocks
in the path. "I am afraid he will shy
and 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
got the Idea of expulsive power of new
affections. Get Jesus Christ and the
cards will go out. Get Jesus Christ and
you won't need to do the cheap skate leg
shows. Let tho Bible come' In end the
novels will go out.
Claaaea of People to Help.
There ere 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 rt'end church, if
you get in a railroad tiwi there are lots
of people who must work on Sunday.
Certain work must be done on the Sab
bath. Christ recognised that fact when
he walked through the corn field and
plucked an ear of corn and the gang that
walked after htm 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 alonn
there and he turned around and said:
"If you had oxen and they fall in a pit
on the Sabbath, will you leave them
there or will you take them out? Don't
you lead your horse to water on the Pab
bath or any other day, then have a little
horse sense." Some people think If they
don't build a fire on the Sabbath, but
sit around and eat a cold lunch they are
honoring God. If somebody smiles, they
say: "Oh, don't smile oit 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 always find some are
sick,' shut in, some have to work In
hotels and restaurants, the maids an
your house have to get your meals, the
railroad men have to go out, the fur
naces must be kept going In the steel
worka.
Can Attend Church and Don't.
Second, those who can attend and who
do not attend church. There are 1,000,0)0
people that can and don't attend church.
Some fellows never darken the church
door until they die and they carry their
old carcass in to have a large funeral;
that It Is no compliment to any man and
It Is an insult to manhood, and disgrace
to the Individual that he never darkens
the church dooi. 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 oome
out of curiosity; some one tells a He and
they say, "Let's go down and hear that
fellow, 'Billy' " and they come down to
find somebody stringing them; they find
I am preaching the truth to them, for a
fellow knows the truth when he hears
It. A saloonkeeper down here said: "I
dare not go, dare not hear him any more,
if I do I will lose my job." He knows
what I preach Is the trutti and he knows
he Is uVud wronn and thoie are inn tltn l
like that.
Fourth. thric who can ko to chur. h
and those who do go to chimh and a-
moved by the rvachlrB and oonvlctel
but not converted. Every man that
hcara the truth la convicted. That
saloon keeper la convicted, he knows what
1 preach Is the truth and he knows he
cannot do that and be a Christian. Talk
to those men atmut Jesus Christ. Get
them to take th-lr stand for rlhteous
ness. Fifth, those who can end do go to
church and are convicted by the preach
ing and converted. They need strength
ening. They are converted now, but they
need the benefit of your exierlcnce. You
say, "Where will I find these people to
talk to them?" Where won't you find
them? Where can yon find a place
where they are not? You will only find
one place where they are not and that Is
in the cemeteiy. Right In your neigh
borhood, right In your block, how many
are Christians? Is your husband a
Christian? Are your children Chrls
tlons? If they are let them alone ami
get after somebody else's husband and
children. Don't sit down and thank God
that your husband and children are
Christiana. Suppose I were to say to my
family, my George, my Nell, my Paul,
mv Helen are Christians. We are all
Christians, let the rest of the world go
to the devil. There Is too much of that
spirit In the church today.
Work All lh Time.
Go from house to house. (lo to the
people In your block, In your place of
business, llavo you said an thing to the
telephone girl when you calhd her up?
You are quick enough to jump on her
when she gives you the wronit number.
Have you snld anything to the delivery
boy to tho butcher? Have you naked tho
milkman? Have you said anything to the
newsboy that throws your paper on tho
doorstep? Have you called them up at
tho newspaper office? Have you said
anything to the girl that waits on you
at the store, to the servant who brings
your dinner In at home, to the woman
who scrubs your floors? Where will you
find them where won't you find them?
Notice these facta: First, out of Jesus
Christ there Is no salvation: second, that
all have sinned; and that all who came
to repent shall not be cast out. None
are saved unless they sre born again. Re
member faith and not feeling saves the
people. I never talk to any man, "How
do you feel?" No, sir. Feeling Is the
result. Faith Is required. God requires
us to believe to be saved. Obedience and
blessing' always walk arm in arm. They
never trail. The Illhle la the only guide.
There Is no salvation In hell. The man
that preaches future probation lies. If
the man don't settle It before ha dies,
ho never has a chance. It la all over
with It. What Is tho use of me ruining
my throat If these old sinners have a
chance to be converted In the other
world? Ixt them go. When you look
around and see young men and women
with their character forming, and realise
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 so hard, I worry about you." Great
God! You are ao laxy I worry about yon.
The Indifference 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 I cannot understand.
They won't wait upon the Lord to renew
their strength.
. I go home many afternoon so tired that
I think that I won't come back at night,
but I come back by nlgnt just as fresh
as a daisy. Why? Becauso the Lord re
freshes me. And no man or woman does
any harder or worka any harder than I
do. This Is not egotism but the truth.
Be natural. I try to be. I have no
more puli.lt manners than some others
have on the street. Just try to tie folks
all the time. If there Is anything that
God loves It Is folks; and not the cod
fishy, doggy aristocracy. I don't have
one tone of voice here and another when
I go to tho grocery.
Here Is something you can nil do. In
vite the unsaved to come, and talk with
them In private. Speak with them at
home. Write them a letter. I wouldn't
send anybody a postcard. I would spend
two cents Instead and send him n letter.
With all the means we have In this city,
It should not be hard to reach the un
saved. Copyright, William A. Sunday.
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