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w evangelist! Famous Preacher Tall Pennsylvania HIS METHODS STRII Believes Implicitly In the Savior With His Faith?Hundre ter Men, and Go the W Rev. Billy Sunday, the former baseball player who is now the most noted evangelist in America if not in the world, preached three sermons recently to the students of the University of Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. The Enquirer has many readers who know more or less about Rev. Mr. Sunday end who will no doubt be clad to eet a better idea of the nature and character of his work. The following report of the meeting taken from the Philadelphia Public Ledger will therefore be of especial interest. FIRST SERMON TYPICAL OF - EVANGELIST'S STYLE. Sunday lost little time in getting into his sermon. He took a few seconds to express his great appreciation of the honor of being introduced by Provost Smith, who, he added, had a greater imputation than any other college man in the United States. "I am mighty glad I came," he said, and the applause of the students showed their approval of his sentiment. The evangelist stood at the edge of the platform for a moment, silent. Then throwing his right arm upright, as if to demand the attention of every one, he shouted: "What shall I do with Jesus?" "This question Is just as pertinent to the world today as it was to Pilate," he said. "Pilate had many things to encourage and discourage him, but no man ever sought to do anything without meeting dlfflcultiea "I don't care whether it was batting a ball when the score was against him, there were three men on base and he had already had two strikes called on him?he has had to drill his own tunnels. You men could throw yourselves upon the seas of lust or passion and yield to your temptations, but all you'd have to show for it would be a name on a little tombstone and a short obituary notice in the newspapers." Pilate should have been influenced by his wife's dream, the speaker continued whimsically suggesting that he didn't care what sort of wife Pilate had God often reveals himself and His wishes to people who aren't exactly godly. "She may have been one of those miserable, pliable, plastic, twofaced, two by four, lick-spittle, tootmy-own-horn sort of women,*but Pilate should have heeded her warning and set Jesus ffee," he asserted. tr "* . Criticises Pilate. Pilate had the personality of Jesus before him and should have been influenced by this. He had also heard of the miracles of Jesus, even if he had never seen them. "Why, Jesus was cussed and discussed from one end of the land to the other. All He had to do was to say 'Come forth,' and the graves opened like chestnut burrs in the fall," he added. "1 have no*use for the fellow that sneers and mocks Jesus Christ If the world is against Christ, I am against the world, with every tooth, nail, bit of skin, hair follicle, muscular molecule, articulation, joint"?here the evangel 1st paused for breath before adding:? "Yes, and even my vermiform appendix. "But Pilate was just one of those rat-hole, pin-headed, pliable, standpat, free-lunch, pie-counter politicians. He was the direct result of the machine gang in Jewish politics, and he was afraid that if he released Christ he would lose his job." "Say, boys," he demanded, leaning so far over the platform it seemed he must have fallen, "are you fellows willing to slap Jesus Christ in the face in order to have some one come up and slap you on the back and say you are a good fellow and a dead-game sport? That is the surest way to lose out in life. I am giving you the experience of a life that knows. "Listen, fellows," and here the evangelist's voice softened to a wonderful tone of pleading, "Jesus Christ was either the son of God and born of the Vlrgrin Mary, he was either the son of God or he was the son of a Jewish harlot, born out of wedlock. Christ said he was the son of God and Pilate was so filled with a wonderful sense of jus tice that he said. Away witn mm; i find no fault with Him.' "Pilate had his chance and he missed it. His name rings down through the ages in scorn and contempt because he had not the courage to stand up for his convictions and Jesus Christ. Aren't you boys doing the same thing? You are convinced that Jesus Christ is the son of Ood, but you are afraid of the horse-laugh the boys will give you." Talks of Baseball. It was at this point that Sunday brought himself closest to the great body of men before him. He talked to them about baseball, knowing that his own experiences had been the most absorbing topic in many a fraternity house and class-room since his coming to the university had been announced. "Why, when I was in baseball, I could run a hundred yards in 10 seconds. I was the first man to go around the bases in 14 seconds, although I believe Hans Lobert can do it now. I could do it before I was a Christian. and you can bet your boots I could do it afterward, too." The hand-clapping and shouting that greeted this bit of reminiscence was enormous, and it was several minutes before the evangelist could continue his address. "God will have nothing to do with you unless you are willing to keep clean." he said. "Some people think they are not good enough to go to heaven and not bad enough to go to hell, and that God is too good to send them to hell, so they fix up a little religion of their own. God isn't keeping any half-way house for any one. The man who believes in that will change his theology before he has been in hell five minutes. "There's just one enemy that keeps every one from accepting Christ, and that is your stubborn, miserable will power. You are not men enough to come clean for Jesus. "1 don't care whether you have brains enough to fill a hogshead or little enough to fill a thimble, you are up against this proposition: You must begin to measure Christ by the rules of God instead of the rules of men. Put Him in the God class instead of in the man class; judge Christ by His task SILLY SUNDAY is to the Students of i University. KINGLY EFFECTIVE and Is Able to Impress Others ds of Boys Decide to Be Betay That Is Right. and the work He performed, and see if He was only a man." Man and Superman. "The University of Pennsylvania would be turning out bigger men than Jesus Christ if Christ were not the son of God," the speaker suggested. "The conditions and the opportunities are so much LTeater in these days," he showed, "that a real superman should be the product of our day If education, society, business, politics and these varied interests could produce such a thing. "Jesus Christ is just as well known today as old Cleopatra, the flat-nosed enchantress of the Nile was known hundreds and hundreds of years ago. "Don't swell up like a poisoned pup and say that 'it doesn't meet with my stupendous intellectual conception of what God intended should be understood.' God should have waited until you were born and then called you into counsel, I suppose. Say, fellows, I don't like to think that there are any fourHitaKinty tivonou ka cnro o-a lunlr.Q ./loioi iiuoiiiii^i v avt0t>-UM{,C)C*5V, ?uvn **. cal fools like that alive today, but there are a few. "On the square, now, if you want to find a man of reason, would you go down in the red-light district, where women are selling their honor for money, or through the beer halls or fantan joints? You don't find intellect there," he continued. In contrast to these places, the evangelist described with remarkable accuracy and emotion the scenes surrounding the death of President McKinley, and the burial ceremony at Canton, O.; how the great men of the nation, all Christian men, massed by the flag-covered casket and paid their silent tribute to the man who had died with Christian confidence expressed in his last words. "When I came out of that court house at Canton, I said: 'Thank God, I'm in grood company, ror tne greatest men of my nation are on the side of Jesus Christ,'" he added. From the farthest corner of the auditorium there came a fervent "Amen," which found many, repetitions in the brief silence that followed. Powerful Climax. Mr. Sunday reached a powerful climax when he described the possibilities of the Judgement Day, and the efforts of the evil one to lead into the dark, abyssmal depths souls of men who have been popular in the world. To those who have accepted Christ, the Savior will appear on that day as an advocate at the heavenlv throne, he argued, and the saved ones can turn to the devil and say: "Beat it, you old skin-flint. I have you skinned to a frazzle. I have taken Jesus Christ and He's going to stand by me through all eternity. "Wherein does Jesus Christ fail to come up to your standard and the highest conception of the greatest Godlike spirit? Show me one flaw in His character. I challenge any infldel on earth to make good his claims that Christ was an ordinary man. The name of Jesus Christ, the son of God, is greater than any. It is the name that unhorsed Saul of Tarsus, and it Is holding 400,000,000 of people by its majestic spell and enduring power. "If you can't understand what this means just take a walk out into some cemetery some day and look at the tombstones. You'll find that the name of the man who had a political drag 25 years ago is absolutely forgotten," continued the challenge. "Do you fellows know what sacrifice means?" suddenly asked the speaker. "Some of your fathers are making sacrifices and wearing old clothes just to keep you here in school. He wants you to have an education because he can't even handle the multiplication table. "If Jesus Christ should enter this gymnasium we would all fall to our knees. We have that much reverence in our hearts for Him. I would run down and meet Him. and would tell Him how much I love Him and that I am willing to go wherever He would have me go." The Lost Pearl. In closing, the evangelist told the story of a man who recklessly tossed a valuable pearl high into the air, reaching over the side of a ship to catch it as it fell. Time and again he was successful, but finally the ship swerved to one side and the gem disappeared beneath the waves. "Boys, that man lost everything just to gain the plaudits of the crowd. Are you doing the same thing? "That is the condition of thousands of people beneath the Stars and Stripes today?losing everything just to hear the clamor of the people, and get a little pat on the back for doing something the mob likes." Mr. Sunday suddenly abandoned the dramatic attitude, and lowered his voice. There was an instantaneous bowing of heads, although he had given no suggestion of a prayer. It seemed proper at that time, and one of the evangelist's heart to heart talks with Christ, asking a blessing on the Christian workers of the university, and an earnest effort, on the part of every student, to live a Christian life, accompanied the great audienc as it filed from the gymnasium. There were no more yells; instead, a sentiment of conviction seemed to prevail, and the comparative quietude of the men showed how deeply in their minds the evangelist had planted the seed of his gospel. "REAL MANHOOD" PLEA IN AFTERNOON SERMON. The evangelist's afternoon was of an entirely different type. It was not lucking in its spirtual value, but was directed more especially toward young men, to whom Mr. Sunday appealed for "real manhood." He had intended talking on another subject, but changed his mind as he came upon the platform and saw the sea of upturned faces waiting for a message that might help them over the rough spots of life. Mr. Sunday took as his text the final words of David to Solomon, while the old king lay on his deathbed. "My son, be strong and show yourself a man," the Bible verse reads, and Mr. Sunday promptly added: "Don't be a mutt! Don't be a four-flusher?a mere cipher on the sea of human enterprise." "God is ft respecter of character, even 1 If He isn't a respecter of persons," con- < tinued the speaker, "Abraham towers : out, like a mountain above a molehill, and beside him some of our modern < gimlet-eyed, heel-worn fellows shrink i like Edward Hyde in Doctor Jekyll's clothes. 1 "When those fellows over in Baby- i Ion offered booze to Daniel, although ! he was only 17 years old, he said, ? "Nothing doing.' He told them where 1 to head in. Moses pushed aside the '> greatest sceptre of any kingdom and did what his heart told him was right. ' 'Be ye strong and show yourself a ' man.' ' Big Jobs Look for Big Men. ( "David was a man of lofty purposes and his life was Influenced by those I that had preceded him. It wasn't an accident that made David a king. The big Job is always looking for big men. A round peg will not fit into a square hole, even if he is a university professor. "The young buck who inherits a big fortune without working for it," continued Mr. Sunday, "is going down the line so fast you can't see him for the fog. The man who has real, rich, red blood in his veins, instead of pink tea and ice water, when the lions of opposition roar, thinks it is only a call for dinner in the dining car, and he goes ahead and does things. "There are some going around disguised as men who ought to be arrested," the evangelist interposed. "To know some men is an invitation to do right: to know others is an invitation to know dirty booze and to blot the family escutcheon, insult your mothers and sisters. The size of the man depends on his mind, not on his muscle. There is lots of bulk but little brains in some men. "It's a sad day for a young man when Bill Taft's overcoat wouldn't make him a vest," he added, amid shouts of laughter, in which even staid, stern-faced professors joined with the students. "Too many fellows look like men from across the street, but when you get close to them they shrivel up." Effect of Example. "It makes a difference what kind of an example you follow. If Thomas Edison should say to his boy, 'be an inventor,' the boy would know what he meant, but if some red-nosed, beersoaked old reprobate should tell his boy to 'be a man,' the boy would be all In. Lots of fellows today turn out bad be cause their fathers' talk and walk do not agree. "The best thing that can happen to a young man," said Mr. Sunday, "is to 1 ? 1 "flnonoo r\f O rOQ 1 mflll rumr uiiutri mc iiiuuvuw M *v?Everyone has a hero, whether it be on the football field or in the classroom, and if every one would lead right today, there would be no going astray tomorrow. "There are some men in this world that when they are around you turn up your collar, feel chills running up ar.il down your back and when you look at the thermometer, you find the temperperature is about 60 degrees below zero." Then followed the evangelist's famous story of how David killed Goliath considerablj tempered to suit the culture of his audience. He told how David boldly asked who the "big lobster was," and why he was "strutting around as if he was the whole cheese, the head guy of the opposition party. "David put down the sword that Saul had given him, for he felt like a fellow in a hand-me-down suit two sizes too | large. He picked up one of his little pebbles, slung it across the river and hit poor old Goliath on the koko." Finally quieting the applause he had aroused, Mr. Sunday defended his use of slang by remarking that his method of telling tl^? story was an example of muuern cikbsicb, auu jusi ao ua the use of the word "rotten" when "a chemical disintegration due to the formation of new compounds" was meant. David Not Underhanded. Whatever David did he did in the open, the evangelist asserted. There was nothing underhanded; nothing in the dark. He added: "Some fellows are working so hard to become angels they forget to be men. If you will study your Bible you will find that the men of old were subject to the same temptations as the men of today, but they didn't let their temptations get the best of them. "If your manhood is buried in doubt and cheap booze, dig it out. You have to sign your own Declaration of Independence and fight your own Revolutionary wars before you can celebrate the fourth of July over the things that try to keep you down. "The best time for a man to sow his wild oates is between the age of 85 and 90 years. A six-ply drunk is about as good a passport into commercial me , as a record for house-breaking, and the j youth who goes to the mat with a halfpint of redeye in his stomach, will be s as beneficial to humanity as a one-leg- ] ged man in a hurdle race." I "If I knew that when the undertaker , pumps that pink stuff into me and , embalms me, that the end of all had t come, I would still be glad I lived a , Christian life, because it meant a life | of decency," he said. "I would rather | go through the world without knowing , the multiplication table than never to , know the love of Christ. I don't underestimate the value of an education, ] boys, but just try living on oatmeal , porridge. Get your education but don't , lose sight of Jesus." , Brilliant Men Compared. { The speaker then commented on i Aaron Burr, one of the most brilliant t men ever educated at Princeton univer- I sity, and compared his career with that of Robert E. Speer, religous work- 1 er, whose marks alone excelled the ] traitor's. He also paid his respects to < the dogma of Bob Ingersoll, and de- t clared he would spend his entire life, < fighting the views of the man who had ? "insulted God and vilified the name of Tooiia Phriot " 1 "Ingersoll," he said, "was nothing but a mouthful of sweetened wind and a painted echo. "I want something better than Ingersoll when I die. I want to hear Jesus at my side, reassuring me that He is the resurrection and the life, and that I shall live in glory with him. "Once you have made your plan, cling to it. Be a man, even in situations of great danger. The man whose diet is swill will be at home with the hogs in any pen. He's bound to have bristles sticking through his skin. Tf Abraham Lincoln had read about Alkali Ike, or Three Fingered Pete, do you think he would ever have been president? While other young men were waking up with hooze-headaches, he was pulling up his old-fashioned galluses and saying, 'I'm going to be a man.' "And one morning the world awoke, rubbed its sleepy eyes and looked around for a man for a certain place. It found Abraham Lincoln and raised him from obscurity to the highest pinnacle of popular favor. He was a man and f lis example should be a guiding Influence In the life of every American cltlten." As the evangelist resumed' his seat >n the platform, there came calls from ill parts of the auditorium for "Ma," "Mrs. Bill," and Mrs. Sunday appeared before the students, smiling and bowng her appreciation of their esteem. She was solicitous of "Bill's" welfare, md after helping him into his coat, hustled him to a waiting automobile ind back to the Bellevue-Stratford. There the evangelist enjoyed a cold shower, some supper and a short nap Defore delivering his final sermon at :he university. 4IGHT AUDIENCE HEARS MOST NOTED SERMON. The evangelist awoke, greatly refreshed by his afternoon slumber, he said, and promised to give his audimce "something hot and spicy." He <ept his promise, and at the night service d nvered his most noted sermon. "The Devil's Boomerang, or Hot Cakes Dflf the Griddle." Men only were admitted to the gymnasium, but every seat was filled long t>efore Mr. Sunday arrived, and fully 1,000 were turned away. Chorister Rodeheaver was "feeling fine," and led he singing in a rousing manner. A lew temperance song, in southern dialect, telling the glory of being a "temperance engine," was greatly appreciited by the students. They sang it, whistled it, and then, by way of variety, imitated the chugging of a locomotive and the tooting of whistles, while 'Rody" played on his trombone. Mr. Sunday's sermon dealt with the jureness with which God will judge mankind, and the fact that God will never coerce man to do right. "Say, fellows," the speaker asked, 'do you know that if you fellows would ill come out for Jesus Christ tonight, the Mexican war would pale into insignificance?" His words proved to le prophetic, although Mr. Sunday said lis first intentions were against giving the usual invitation for converts. Booze, evil women, licentious practices, cigarettes?all these came under the ban of Mr. Sunday's system of Christian living. He spared no words; no called a spade a spade and looked it modern affairs without colored glasses. "You can't find a drunkard who ever ntended to be a drunkard," argued Mr. Sunday. "He just intended to be a noderate drinker. He was up against i hard game, a game you can't beat. Character vs. Reputation. "Christianity is character, and there s a big difference between character ind reputation. Reputation is what four friends say about you, but charicter is what God and the angels and four mother know you are. Why, my -eputation was so bad at one time that io one would trust me to hold a yellow ?up on a corner for 15 minutes, but :hings are different now." The evangelist also commented on :he reasons given for men drinking. some iaae 11 ukuhisc u nccpo iuc>? :ool in summer, while others think it <eeps them warm in winter. Notwithstanding this, statistics prove that 'booze-drinkers are more subject :han others to extreme weather in jither summer or winter." "You came into this world naked and you'll go out of it the same way," he idded. "Your shroud will have no pockets, and even if it has. your arms will be so stiff you won't be able to reach into them. Besides, it won't d?> some of you any good to take a lot of ?old with you, because it would all nelt." He asserted that he could get more pourishment from a little bit of beef jxtract, placed on the edge of a knife )lade than can be obtained from 800 gallons of the best beer brewed. Talking about riches, he suggested hat King Solomon, with his wealth, :ould have hired Andy Carnegie as a rhauffeur or J. Pierpont Morgan to cut he lawns around his castle. "Money sn't all there is in this world, but leither is beer," he said. "I don't want :o see you students get the booze hab!t iust because we are licensing men at jo much per year to make you staggerng, reeling, drunken sots, murderers, hieves and vagabonds." Favors Single Standard. The double standard of living was jitterly attacked by the revivalist, who wild one of the crying needs of Ameri;a was the recognition of a sing.e standard of living. "It makes no difference to God wheth?r the sinner wears a plug hat and pair if suspenders or a petticoat and a wilow plume. No man who deliberately Irugs a girl and sends her into a life if shame ought to be permitted in good society. He ought to be shot at sun*ise." This sentiment evoked a trenendous round of applause, and cries if "Amen!" and "Good Bill!" were not nfrequent. "The avenging God is on his trail ind the man who wrecks women's ives is going to crack brimstone on :he hottest stone in hell, praise God," the speaker continued. "If we are to conciliate this unthinkable and unspeakable practice o:f vimparies feedin women's virtue, we might as well >ack pedal in the progress of the nations. The virtue of womanhood is the ampart of our civilization and we must not let it be betrayed." In his discussion of the effects of liquor on the human system, Sunday showed a wonderfully extensive research. Medical opinions were quoted ivith a liberality that was astounding, ind the speaker's remarks were interspersed with trite and humorous references to the "biggest fool on earth? the boozer." "You can always tell a drinker. iVhen his stomach tissues begin to get poisoned and discolored, God hangs a sign on him by painting his nose. We're ?oing to hell so fast we're breaking the speed limit, but we've got to cut it short pretty soon. "Lots of people look upon a Christian as a dishrag, wishy-washy, milk ind water, half-baked sort of a galloot that lets everybody make a doormat lut of him," "Billy" suggested. "He is lust the opposite. The manliest fellow in the world is the one who will get up before his fellows and acknowledge Jesus Christ." Reviews His Conversion. As proof of his ability to discuss the * * ' 1 sunjeci 01 cunvennuu, i?n. uunuoj closed his sermon with a recital of his )wn conversion, twenty-eight years Ago, in the city of Chicago. He told of his baseball experiences, and how, the lay after he was converted he made the flying catch that won the world's pennant for the Chicago team. The catch, he said, was due to a prayer he made while running to reach the ball, his thoughts running something like this: "Oh, Lord, if you ever helped a fellow, help me now! Help me get this oall and?gee whiz, Lord, you haven't nuch time to make up your mind, inyway." Rill caught the ball and the feat Is still recorded as one of the phenome nlal incidents in baseball. His recital of the game beggars description; one sits and watches his strange gyrations, expecting to see him grasp the ball out of the air. His attitudes are strikingly athletic. With Mr. Sunday at the time of his conversion were a number *of drunken ball players. They refused to go with him to the mission where he "hit the trail," but he traced their downfall, through booze and vicious diseases, to show the extent of his own salvation. The evangelist's description of the death of the famous Frank Flint, catcher in the big leagues for nearly a score of years, was so thrilling that more than one gasp was heard as the sDeaker threw himself, face forward, to the platform, after relating: "Frank Flint struggled when death came, but the Great Umpire of the universe, yelled, 'You're out, and waved him to the clubhouse. The great gladiator was no more." "Say, boys," he suddenly demanded, "did they win the battle of life, or did I win it?" Several, who had followed the speaker's every word with tie greatest in* * !!?? ohnnfoH "V nil ItniaiLJ, IllVUIUmaillJ DUV/MVVM, *vdid, Bill," and "Bill," thinking only of the posibility of reaping the harvest he had so evidently developed, invited those who would hereafter acknowledge Jesus Christ and try to live better lives to hold ' up their hands, tf there were any who failed to respond, they were insignificant beside the vast throng that did show their Christian belief. Invitation to Converts. Then came the invitation for converts, and from the centre and side aisles there came nearly 200 men, many of them prominent in the social and athletic affairs of the University. Provost Smith was visibly -affected by the demonstration, which far exceeded his expectations. The big audience of men sang a few verses of "Just As I Am,' while the converts continued to come from the farthest coiners of the hall, and then, as a farewell prayer for the wellfare of the young men of the University of Pennsylvania, "Billy Sunday said: "Oh, Jesus, isn't this a fine bunch. Did you ever look down on a finer T hnlinvo thorn ia a mnthpr who is any prouder of this lot of boys than I am tonight. I have never preached to a more appreciative crowd, and if I never preach another sermon, I am willing to go home to glory tonight, knowing that I have helped save the boys at the University of Pennsylvania. Help them to put as de temptations, and to follow in the paths in which Doctor Smith is trying to guide their feet." The evangelist insisted that "Ma" Sunday would have to have a look at the "boys" who had come forward and she received a stirring reception. Several of the men reached for her hand, and she urged them, in a brief speech, to continue their Christian lives, telling them that she was proud to point to her husband as an example of what Jesus Christ can do with a man who really wants to do the Savior's will. J ne DUI1UUJ piULjr iru ai VIIV.C tui the Bellevue-Stratford, where the evangelist changed clothing before departing on a midnight train for Scranton. His final message to the people of Philadelphia was shouted from the back of his Pullman coach: "So long, fallows, and keep God first in Philadelphia.' At the clone of last night's meeting in Weightman Hall religious meetings i were held in a score of fraternity and ( boarding houses, besides the university , dormitories, where many cf the new converts expressed their appreciation , of Mr. Sunday's appeal. A number of j additional conversions were reported, ( and officers of the Christian assocla- , tion believe that the direct results of , the evangelist's sermons will be greatly augmented during the next few , days. - , They also reported that the collections taken at the afternoon and even- , ing meetings, of which Mr. Sunday re- ( fused to accept any portion, would ; amount to several hundred dollars. This will be devoted to the vocation work of the association among poor ( families in South Philadelphia. ( Origin of Postoffice Names. The history of the origin of postoffice names affords many amusing facts. Not a few of the names grow out of blunders in writing or spelling. The postoffice department presumably hasn't the time to conduct a special investigation in every neighborhood, so it often Jumps to conclusions or draws upon the imagination. In the Princeton Press, of West Virginia, we And a curious instance of a name conferred upon a postoffice, because of an error in one letter of a petition. There is a district: in that state known as Hill Top. When the people of Hill Top decided to ask for a postoffice a petition was drawn up and forwarded to Washington City. The writer was not careful to dot the "i" in Hill. Instead he made a sort of loop that was interpreted as an "e." Call a postoffice "Hell Top?" That would never do. It shocked the agents of Uncle Sam. But 1 they thought they would comply as closely as possible with local sent!- 1 merit, so they named the postofflce 1 "Tophet." Tophet was a hill on ^rhlch 1 the refuse of Jerusalem was dumped and burned. The fires were almost ' continuous and hence Tophet came to ' signify hell, or a pla.ce of endless per- 1 dition. Many postoflce names are du- 1 plicated, but West Virginia boasts of 1 having the only Tophet in the land. 1 What a difference one letter of a word ' makes in history! It is said that ' Nome, Alaska, got its name from the 1 fact that the "a" of the word name ' was misinterpreted for an "o." At that, ( it is a very impressive name.?Tacoma 1 Ledger. : He Was No Hog.?In the old days of hand composition a printer known , from New York to Sun Francisco as ( "Pilgrim" Hazlett wandered into a Pennsylvania town and asked the edi- ( tor of the weekly for a "sit." "Well," Maid the editor, "I can put you to work, hut I'm afraid I can't pay much money." "Make me an offer," said the Pilgrim. j "All right. I can give you two meals ? Jn?t n mir V?nn OO VA11 OQ r? uldOTl hPTP tt uaj at iii,t iK-uov, jwu v?*.. w.wK ..... in the office on this lounge, and I'll take care of your laundry. Then if you need tobacco get it across the street at the grocery. They run an account with us. And up at the brewery you can get a can of beer whenever you like. Besides, 111 pay you $4 a week. Is that satisfactory?" "Gosh," said the Pilgrim after repeating the offer to get it straight In his mind, "if I get all that what do I want with the 54?" it^ Close confinement is telling on some persons, particularly those who have to confine themselves to the ' truth. EVANGELIST BILLY SUNDAY lnt?reating Method* of Remarkable Preacher. Condemned by a council of clergymen in New York and commended by William J. Bryan, Billy Sunday, baseball evengelist, expresses indifference and plans to continue his work as if nothing at all had happened. The objection to Sunday has been largely on < the ground of his utterly unconven- < tional methods and language, and a i high-handed way of dealing with situ- ' ations. Not as a defense, but as an in- i timate study of the man and his work, 1 the Rev. Elijah P. Brown, sometime i assistant to Sunday and now better i known as "Ram's Horn" Brown, has ( written with Sunday's sanction and i under his direction "The Real Billy | Sunday," a volume published by the i Fleming H. Revell company. From it i the selections which follow are taken. \ "There never was any preaching done jes' like that baseball man does it He's got a platform to stand on more'n as big as two wagon boxes and he kivers every inch of it in every sermon ne , preaches. In the meetin' he got so fired up that he tore off both his coat and vest, jerked off his collar and kervat, an' then rolled up his sleeves as if he was a-goin' to help thresh. I thought I'd heard rather strong preachin' all my life, but I never heard none that took hold of me like his'n does. Why it goes into you like chiggers." That is the way an early convert of Billy Sunday described his work. Since 1 then his reputation has lost nothing in force and strength, judging by the speeches of more recent date and the throngs which flock to hear him. In a place where Sunday was to hold a meeting a delegation of ministers asked him to tone down his remarks, to them he replied: "Why, if I did that I wouldn't have any more people to preach to than you do!" And that is the light in which he > views his unusual methods. The typical Sunday meeting takes place in a large, brilliantly lighted building:, witn a ropea-in space in ironi for delegations from various lodges ? and organizations, and over the platform a huge white banner on -rhich is i painted in black letters three feet 1 high: I Get Right With God. A stir comes from the audience packed in the hall?there are almost always a large number turned away?when Sunday appears and takes his seat on the platform. Several songs are sung and enthusiasm is aroused. The open- . ing prayer is delivered by some local clergyman, and two or three more songs are sung. Then Sunday makes a few introductory remarks of a pertinent nature and says: "Dig up!" The new, shining milk pans which hang on the posts about the hall are now brought into play, and the exn^nfiA nf the meetings is defrayed in this way. After more singing by the choir Sunday goes to the pulpit desk and gives out his text. "As the first words of the text are announced," says Mr. Brown, "his muscles become rigid and he bends backward as if about to throw a somersault. The manner of the speaker is in a sense mild at the start; he is not violent; he does not speak unduly loud; there is nothing approaching a strain in his voice. He quickens his pace; his collar begins to look as if it had seen better days; soon he is raining great sledge hammer blows on the desk to force home his points, and people start as if shot at. "There is but one wor* that will even remotely indicate his manner, and that Is "action." At one moment he is at one end of the platform and the next at the other, and then quicker than thought he bounds back to the center, giving the desk a solar plexus blow that would knock out a giant. Ever and anon he makes long rapid strides to ?ive it more whacks, until at last a large piece splits off and bounds to the sawdust floor below, at which every small hoy In the front row jumps and says "Gee!"' "I don't care if a church has two thousand church members. What I isk Is, how much power have they? Nine times out of ten you blame the ?vangellst when there are no conversions, instead of the Godforsaken, booze hitting, card playing church members. There were places where Jesus could do no mighty works because sf unbelief, where they should have been faith. "I said to a barkeeper one time Why don't you give your heart to Christ? You are too nice a fellow to be in this vile business.' He said, 'I wouldn't be in it if the church members hadn't voted for me.' If there is anything that makes me sick it is to bave some red nosed, buttermilk eyed, beetle browed, peanut brained, stall fed old saloon keeper say that he wouldn't be in the business if it were not for church members voting for mm. Men is so iuu ui tuureu members like that there feet are sticking out of the windows." And this is one of his replies to criticism for the language he uses: "Where you put salt it kills the bacteria that cause decay. If a man were to take a piece of meat and smell it ind look disgusted and his little boy were to say, 'What's the matter with it, pop?' And he were to say, 'It is unJergoing a process in the formation of new chemical compounds,' the boy would be all in. But if the father were to say, 'It's rotten,' then the boy would jnderstand and hold his nose. Rotten is a good Anglo-Saxon word and you ( Jon't have to go to the dictionary to ' find out what it means. Some of you preachers had better look out or the Jevil will get away with some of your members before they can find out what you mean by your sermons." These are some of his maxims and sayings: I would rather have standing room in heaven than own the world and go to hell. If good preaching could have saved the world it would have been done long igo. You can find everything In the averlge church from a humming bird to a turkey buzzard. * * - 1 - -1- III-- - You aon t nave iu iuuiv nnc a. ucujctiog to be pious. Is there any bread in rum? Yes, for the brewer and the saloon keeper, but not for the drunkard's family. I would rather be a pastor of a ?raveyard than to some churches. If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home nto a lunch counter and lodging house. If the womanhood of America had seen no better than the manhood, the ievil would have had the country fenced In long ago. Man was a fool in the Garden of pJden and he has taken a great many lew degrees since. The devil hates the church, but he ikes the work some high-brows do in t. Going to church can't make anybody a Christian any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage makes it an automobile. CONCERNING EASTER EGGS What They Symbolize in Various Countries?Blessed in Italy. There are many superstitions in connection with Easter, and each country has a custom of celebrating It peculiar to Itself; but, while each varies, they all unite to observe the spirit of springtime, and all Christians rejoice that the Lord of life forever won a victory over death. Among the many quaint superstitions is the old Aryan one which typifies the return of the sun of springtime by a golden egg?eggs being distributed at the early equinox by priests to strengthen the hopes of the people that the bleak, cold days of winter might soon cease and a brighter time ensue. The Persians believed that the earth was hatched from an immense egg on Easter morning. The Aryans also believed the sun to be a large golden egg which was constantly rolllr.g nearer to the earth. With the Jews, says the Delineator, the egg became a type of their rescue from the land of bondage, and In their feast of the passover eggs occupied a conspicuous place in the services. It was their connection with the latter that finally caused them to be used by Christians the world over in celebrating Easter?the egg of resurrection Into a new life?bringing a message of life from death, as It were. The Tyrolese Easter eggs are similar to our valentines, for, besides being most beautifully tinted, they have in unique lettering mottoes representing appropriate wishes for the recipients. The priests of Italy bless all eggs brought to service on Easter morning, and each person carries his back home, where they are placed on a kind of altar arranged for the pur pose, surrounded by lighted candles and often flowers. Then the members of the family and any guests abiding with them eat these holy eggs as a safeguard against disease and danger. They are hard boiled before they are taken to the church. tr Three airship trips across the unexplored region of the island of New Guinea are planned by German scientists to make observations to aid men who plan to traverse it on foot Summer School? ROCK HILL JUNE 16 TO J FULL COURSES OF STUDY will ments pf Superintendents and Primary and Grade Teachers, FACULTY?A large Faculty has b ists and Leaders of Educatio: SPECIAL FEATURES?Model Sc Special Course in Rural Scho tlflo onH Tjjphirpq nn MnntMflr Entertainments?Beat Featun Accommodations Unexcelled. County Boards of Education are still in' force of all Teachers Summer School and take Fini For Rates and Further informatlc letin, to D. B. JOHNSON, Pre - Rebuilt T ? TODAY We are able t< Rebuilt Typewriters that we The Prices below are based on ers on a Limited Number of ] sold Prices Will Be Higher. ] Will Buy It NOW you can S; Rehuilt Machine. We do not but order from the Rebuilder within One Week from day of Buy a Rebuilt Typewrite them learn to use it while thej forces good spelling, where pc poor penmanship. The printe of the poor speller. Use a Tyj your friends will thank You fo No. 4 Underwoods No. 6 Remington (Blind No. 10 Remington (Visibl No. 3 Olivers (Visible Wri No. 5 Olivers (Visible Wr No. 2 Smith Premiers (Bl: Royals (Visible Writers) No. 2 L. C. Smith (Visible The Above Prices are for Prices will be quoted on ai above. Rebuilt Typewriters ? and will do any work, run as i machine, as all working parts chines have new type, new pla ly enameled, making the mac new one. 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The following are some of the more important rules: (1) That the county demonstration agent be responsible for the corn club work of his county and that he be allowed to devote one-third of his time if so much be necessary, for its success. (2) That the boy be required to practice, so far as practicable, the same principles of soil building, etc. * (namely, sowing of peas in corn at last plowing, sowing cover crops of clovers, vetch and rye in fall) as are taught to grown demonstrators. (3) That each boy be limited to a uniform cost of fertilizers per acre Including stable manure and commer- % cial fertilizer, and this cost not to exceed 320.00 per acre. (4) That large premiums are to be discouraged, but that the permiums be divided so as to offer equal incentives to all boys, especially along the following lines: Cover crop sowing, best written history of crop as to method of preparation and cultivation, best paper on method of selecting seed corn from held, selection of best ten ears, greatest yield, and best ^ net profit. (5) That at least five boys in the county be Induced to begin in the spring of 1914, a two-year rotation of corn and oats with the winter and ' . summer legumes as cover crops for 4 soil building purposes. (6) That the boys who enter the two-year rotation be encouraged to plant on ordinary land Instead of rich land. The above rules will apply to this years' Corn club work all over the southern states. So far there have about 40 or 45 boys joined the club In York county for 1914, and the time V for entrance will close April 15, 1914. The two boys that make the best showings in York county, according to the above rules and regulations, will be entitled to a months' free winter course in agriculture at Clem son college next winter. There will also be other prizes of different natures. So boys, let's get busy and try to make 1914 a banner year for corn production and let Tork county stand head. Send in your names to either A. A. McKeown, Rock Hill, Jno. E. Carroll, YorkvUle, or John R. Blair, Sharon No. 1. Winthrop College - - - 8 C f * 4i ULY 24.1914 be provided to meet the requirePrincipals, High School Teachers, Rural School Teachers, een secured, composed of Speclaln in this and other Statea ~ hool through first Six Grades; ol Problems; Kindergarten Pracri Methods; General Lectures and es of the Best 8ummer Schools? authorized to Renew Certificates who do Satisfactory Work in this il Examination. >n. write for Summer School Bulsident, Rock Hill, 8. 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