Defending the famous evangelist, Dr. Peele, the “snow-capped” evangelist who is conducting a meeting at the Second Baptist church, last night quoted words from Billy Sunday to illustrate the secret of his power. “I see men lost without Christ,” Rev. Barney Thames, assistant pastor of the First Baptist church reports him as saying: “I have the remedy.”
Continuing his report of last night’s meeting over in Webbtown, Rev. Mr. Thames gives the following sparks of “divine love” from the last night’s sermon of the aged evangelist, which he says makes the anvil of grace blush.”
“Billy has done more than any living man, insofar as I can tell, for the Lord Jesus Christ. They condemn his ways and methods. Some are always chewing the bits and foaming at the mouth, walking with one foot out of the trace, the other over dashboard and tail over their back, but God stepped into him and has scoured the whole world with the famous baseball evangelist.
“Jesus Christ is the one and only point of contact and you and I have with God.
“We are saved for one thing—to save others—the world will never be saved wise or otherwise.
“Adam’s Christ, Enoch’s Christ and Noah’s Christ is our Christ. The Christ of yesterday, today and forever, The Alpha and Omega. The first and the last. The beginning and the end.
“Tell me what you think of Christ and I’ll tell you who you are.
“The Bible is yours. Get into it. Seek the truth, its light, its way.
“You can open it. God gave it to you. You don’t have to go via ???
“When I see a man as black as Hell washed as white as now from Heaven, I say, God did it. God did it.
“Paul said, ‘I’m the chiefest of sinners, I was deaf because I ?? my ears. I was blind because I closed my eyes. I have no excuse.’
“The Bible tells you how black you are—then gives you washing powders guaranteed to remove the stain when used with the water of eternal life.
“Eve’s first child was a devil—boys just after the fall—the birth of a child is tremendously important.
“God needs neither fundamentalists nor moderates, but they need to take the Christ and the Book and above thereby.
‘No matter what ???, take God in as senior partner if you can; if you can’t, change your business. Tune in with God. Hitch Divine power up to your business if you would make it go.”
From page 2 of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday, May 2, 1925
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