The daily sentinel., 1907-02-15
NOT THE FAIR THING
Bnly sunday. the Evangelist, Has
Not Acted Squnrcly With the
Grand junction Ministerial
Alliance.


The Sentinel has held in aboyanc'
any comment upon the maner In
which Billy Sunday. the noted evan.
geilst. has treated the ministers oi
this city regarding his promise to
come here and hold revival in
March. This paper has made careful
Investigations and after giving Sun
day plenty of time to do the right
thing The Sentinel has concluded that
he has acted very shahbily indeed and
the sincerity of the man is certainly
to be doubted
Evidently he is one Of the kind who
advises those who hear him ITO do
as I tell you to do, do not do as !
do" in other wordB he does not
practice what he breaches
Two years ago the ministerial al
lianco of Grand Junction made an
agreement with Sunday whereby he
was to come to this city and hold n
big meeting In March of this year.
He gave them every possible assur-
ance that he would fill the engage
ment Az result the meeting has
been planned for and talked of for
the past two years and the min
iHtors have put themselves to much
trouble to clear the way for the big
meeting.
Nxft,.,, tta mad, fhts "a oor-oot,a,,f Gun
day was hardly as noted and was not
In such great demand as he is today.
Now that he has worked up a ma
tlonal reputation, and Is In great de-
mand everywhere he wants to oraw-
nsh and cut out Grand Junction and
perhaps other cities of 10000 people
and less for the simple reason that
the bigger cities will take up all his
time And is is not improbable that
he Is guided by the fact that the big
ger the city he appears In the bigger
the fund that will be paid him. It
has been suggested by some that
Sunday Is not always looking for the
towns and cities whore he can do the
most good but rather for those wherc
the pay viii be the biggest or
course, this may be wrong con
oluslon.
There was no indication of Sun
day breaking his agreement to come
to Grand Junction until about three
months ago when he began to act
indlfferently about the matter and
evaded communications from this
city regarding his engagement here.
Nevertheless, believing that he would
keep his word, the ministers went
ahead. arranged for the building of
the big tabernacle and went so far
rs to order the lumber. Various 9TH
or arrangements were made A few
weeks ago Sunday begged to he let
on, he gave many and varied ox-
ouses, the minister's urged him to
come. Finally, he absolutely would
not pay any attention to lottors from
the Grand Junction ministers. He
also paid no attention to tclegrams
sent him Il was known positively
that he received these communica-
tons and his action in refusing to
give them courteous treatment Is
absolutely ncxcusable.
However. last week letter was
received from him in which he asked
to be allowed to postpone his engage
ment until next fan He declared
that the demand on his time In the
East WAS SO great that he could not
see his way 10 come here now. The
ministers In view of the fact that
they had prepared their plans and
made extensive arrangements. be.
lieved that sunday should come now
and SO Informed him. Thcn he In.
formed them that II they would pay
the expenses to and from the East
OF about half dozen or more work
crs and assistants. pay their expenses
while in Grand Junction. and stand
numerous other bills aud $50 bind
themselves TO do this by signing O
contract he enclosed In his letter
anna +'NNth ~ ~ httA AN MouAu iAen
again TAKE UNDER CoNsIDERA-
TloN THE NATTER OF COMING
HERE In March. sull another eyas-
ion on his part Had he declared
that he would positively come the
ministers would hayo readily signed
oven this hurdensome contract.
It's evident that SUNDAY does not
intend to do the square thing with
Grand Junction. To say the least
The Sentinel Is surprised at him. He
is not the man the local ministers
thought he was, Billy Sunday is