The daily sentinel., 1907-01-22
THE WHOLE TOWN WILD
Sentinel Receives Reports of the Great
Revival Billy Sunday is Con-
ducting at Kankakee,
Illinois. Wonderful
Meetings.

Knowing the extensive local inter
est being taken in the revival to be
held in Grand Junction soon by Billy
Sunday. perhaps the most remarkable
evangelist in the world today, the
Sentinel, is by its own request, being
kept in touch with the remarkable
meeting. Mr.. Sunday is now holding
in the city of Kankakee, Illinois. The
Information is being supplied the Sen
tinel through the courtesy of the
Kankakee Republican which is max
ing special efforts to fully report
every service. The Republican makes
a business announcement to the ef-
feet that during the Sunday meetings
It has issued an average of 1000 ex-
ira papers each evening and the sup
ply is exhausted almost daily so great
is the interest in the meeting.
The meeting is being held in an
immense tabernacle. It will seat
from 1000 to 5000 people and cost
nearly $4,000. 1t was built especial
ly for the Sunday meetings. the nee
cessary money being guaranteed by
the people of Kankakee, with the
understanding that it be raised dur
ing the meetings. 1t is located on
the lot owned by the local Young
Mems Christian association, close to
the down town district and within
easy reach of street cars and depots
II hoe tie o,,r,, baatfpo ,,1opt ;s Iigbt
ed by electricity and is in charge OF
a special janitor who is one of Mr..
Sundays regular corps of assistants.
The meeting has been in progress
at Kankakee since January 9th. and
the total attendance for the four
teen services up till January nth
was $4,000 an average of over 1000
persons at each service.
Fridays Daily Republican announe
es that the Elks big ball had been in
definitely postponed on account of
the Sunday meeting and numerous
other big social and theatrical at
fractions had been cancelled. The
revival promises to be
even greater than that just closed by
Sunday at Kewanee, Illinois. where
3 900 people were converted during
one month.
On Friday night of last week Sun
Gay in his sermon dealt with the good
and evil sides of fraternal orders.
During the course of n prayer at the
close of his sermon he said:
"Oh God sweep through our
deacons, the elders. the young peo-
pies societies, and, oh God. put your
arms around our lodges-the Knights
of Pythias, the Redmen, the Odd
Fellows. the labor unions and the
Elks. Put your arms around the
Elks. oh Lord. Thou knowest that
they are n speedy bunch, but If you
get those fellows on your side, dear
Lord. they'll give the devil the warm
est chase he ever had" prayed Billy
Sunday at the tabernacle Thursday
evening while seven thousand eyes
were riveted upon him.
At this service $500 arose and de-
clared that they would lead better
lives from that night on.
In one of last weeks editions of
the Republican it had following to
say of Mr.. Sunday as a man:
Evangelist Billy Sunday is a re-
markable man. The vast audience
that has met him every night since
his coming here seems like some
great machine standing idle upon
the open highway, waiting the skilled
hand of the master to give motion to
its parts and to guide its desired
course. The ponderous engine able
to draw thousands of tons of me1-
upon its iron track. over the
and down valleys with the
speed of the rushing winds. sleeps
of matter inanimate until the think
ing brain and trained hand of the en-
gineer lay hold upon the levers. The
sleeping monster awoke and with the
force of an invincible giant rushes
over the land dragging in its wake
the commerce of the world.
Mr.. Sunday slips quietly into the
each evening a few min
utes before the sermon. The choir is
in its place, the pianists are waiting
the beck of the leader to touch the
worries, the multitudes are looking
for a sign but an intuitive. unac-
countable feeling obtains that some
thing is wrong, and not until Rev.
Sunday has taken his place upon the
platform and in his characteristic
pose awaits his time to speak. does
the audience fully realize what was
to remove the feeling of un-
rest. 1t was Mr., Sunday, the eau
tious. trained, level-headed engineer
His personality is so prominent and
so strong that his presence alone re-
moves the feeling of incompleteness.
Mr.. Sunday is a remarkable man
With a vocabulary that never plays
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