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evangelist!
Famous Preacher Tall
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HIS METHODS STRII
Believes Implicitly In the Savior
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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*
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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?
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The Boys' Corn Club.
The Boys' Corn club has demonstrated
the possibilities for heavy corn
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for entrance will close April 15,
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head. Send in your names to either
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Carroll, YorkvUle, or John R. Blair,
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