Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-27
MET ALL SORTS OFPEOPLE
DIR. SFUNHALL RELATES SOME
OF HIS EXPERIENCES.

Oh HIS EAREkklhNCESs
The scurrilous Letters He Receives and
Where They Come FrOm-His Expe-
rienoe with Boston POlieemen-Tbe
Next Place TO III ell Ont in DakOta-His
Views on the Observance of the Sab
bath.
A few nights ago DR.. Munhal referred
20 some abusive letters That he has re-
ceived since coming to Savannah. Upon
being asked about it yesterday by NEWS
representative, he said that he has got
perhaps ten or dozen scurrilous letters
aimee he arrived here. He does not pay
any attention 90 such correspondence eX-
cent to chuck the vile stuff into the tire.
lie saws an royivaiists get more or less OF
such letters i'm nearly every place they go.
Or. Muuhau thinks that they are written
bv the saloon keepers, gamblers and
cvpraus. The language is intensely foul,
but none Of the letters contain any per-
soHa threats.
orhe people that write those letters"
SAID Dr. Muuhsll. ''are the kind that will
fry TO set crowd on man, but who
haven't the courage to attack him alone.
] was talking to a crowd once about the
vice Of gambling when some tough yelled,
Put him outT ! stopped right there and
invited him 10 come forward and try TO
put me out, and 1 asked the crowd to see
fair play. He didn't come, but
the crowd took hold OF him
and threw him ont the other way.
Every American audience goes in Tor fair
play. Ii a man knows anything about
managing a crowd he Is not likely TO be
run out. When / was in Boston some
months ago / was invited TO preach on
ar finn
had been arrested for preaching there.
One, l believe, paid his fine. Well by the
time we had sung two or three hymns
and had "A prayer we had | reckon about
four acres Of people listening. There
were 20 or so policemen bObbing around,
and the people wanted % see what would
be the result. The first thing l said when
] got up to talk was; i see good many
policemen around here. Now let me tell
you my father apprenuced me TO black
smith when | was a boy, and can lift
1000 pounds right now. / intend TO
preach this afternoon, and II anybody at
1empts to interfere there VIII be more
than sermon That little foolish thing
made me solid with the crowd and they
whOOped, and there were no arrests that
afternoon"
DR.. Munhall tells some very interesting
stories incident OF his experience.
Il was out in DeadwoOd, OAK, one time
preaching" he said, land on Saturday
night | went through the town TO see
what it was like. You could hear keno
from one end OF the street TO the other.
The saloons and gambling dens we're all
open and in full blast. After l had seen
the most OF it was approached by citi-
zen who asked my opinion OF the place.
LIT is about next to hell was my re-
ply.
"'Yes. that is the way with you fellows
The Nesterner responded. Because We
don't put blinds aud screens IN front OF
the saloon doors and the windows Of the
gambling places as they dom Chicago and
s.. Louis you cali Deadwood the worst
place in the country, but it is really the
squarest place on this continent.
=. Our churches have seats for every
man, woman and child in the town. the
" esterner continued, 'and our preachers
dou'ttalk to empty benches when they de-
liver a sermon
"'When do you have servicep in
quired.
Every Sunday morning at II O'Clock
when there IS no horse race, and then
everybody goes, preacher and ALL
About how often do you have horse
races on the Sabbath 2 / asked.
Well, 1 guess, about three Sundays in
every month";"
The evangelist says that there is little
doubt in his mind but that in ten years
there viii be scarcely any difference be-
tween the American Sunday and the
Partisan Sunday. Everything is tending
that way. People read their Sunday
newspapers instead OF the Bible, and the
severity Of public sentiment IN regard to
Sunday excursions, base ball games and
other diversions, he says, is gradually
breaking down. Like Matthew Arnold.
however, DR.. Munhall places some hope
in the minority, and he thinks reaction
Will occur some day.
The doctor has received about 200 cards
signed by those who have protested con-
version since be came TO Savannah. These
cards came in slowly at first, but he hopes
TO receive largely increased number this
week. w hen he leaves Savannah he will
go 70 Los Angeles, Cal, and thence. prob
ably, TO San Francisco and Portland, Ore.
he is IN receipt Of invitations from all
over the United States, and also from the
Sandwich Islands and Australia. He has
not yet decided whether he will accept
these aforementioned invitations or come
East from the Pacific coast.