The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-01
SUNDAY Is GREAT.

| OH SUNDAY tneTe were OSo CONVEX
sions, the largest number being at
the evening services when 312 men
were converted in the tabernacle
meeting and 90 in an overflow meet
ing. The total number of CONVEX
sions for the series of meetings were
6209. A popular subscription was
taken at the services on Sunday for
the evangelist which amounted to
$11,350. 60"
| So writes the editor of the Bunker
Hill, ILL.,, Gazette-News after trip to
Decatur to hear the famous evange-
for a series of meetings next winter.
1t was Sundays sermon on the liquor
evil that the editor heard -and this
is part of his description of the great
meeting on March Is, when it Is
stated $500 men were present and
thousands were turned away:
Man of Tremendous Eaerey.
For an hour and half Mr.. Sun
day talked at a rate and with an en-
equal only once for three or four
minutes in the course of his might
lest effort, and then think powerful
climax had. been made. Sunday was
away above the average speakers
climax all the time In all his exhi-
lions of tremendous human energy,
he has never surpassed the effort he
made most of the time during the
sermon and has seldom come up to
time.
"He began like a pile driver work
ling as rapidly as a pneumatic rivet-
ing hammer, and kept that up the
whole time, except for about two brief
intervals when he seemed on the
point of running down. Then he
would slow up and his voice would
seem to be dying down. 1t reached
the farthest end of hte tabernacle,
all the time. however. said the men
plastered against the back wall.
Once he did play out utterly.
Then he said weakly, as he grasped
the water pitcher:
81 am out of breath. Just wait
a minute, I'll be all right. Sing a
verse My Country Ills of Thee, or
something.
"The audience cheered. waved
hundreds of handkerchiefs, then sang
the verse and Mr.. Sunday after dash
ling water down his throat leaned
against the pulpit and got his breath.
Then he went ahead as hard as ever.
"He was like an automatic, rapid
acting machine. pounding with
hands, head, feet. body and words.
Wore Neither Coat Nor Vest.
HE began with his coat. tie and
collar off. In a few moments his
shirt and undershirt were gaping open
to the waist and the muscles of his
neck and chest were seen working
like those in the arm of blacksmith,
while perspiration poured from every
pore. His clothing was soaked as if
a hose had been turned on him.
"He blamed the saloon for about
every crime that has been committed,
and poured out the bitterest denun-
ciatory sentences that he has uttered
in Decatur, and that is some las all
who have heard hi mknow.
"He strained and twisted and
reached up and down Once he was
on the floor for just a second, in the
attitude of crawling. to show that
all crime crawled out of the saloon
then was on his feet as quickly as 4
cat could jump. AT the end of 45
minutes he mounted a chair, reached
high. as he shouted, then again was
on the floor and dropped PROSTATE
to illustrate a story of drunken
man, bounded to his feet again as if
steel springs filed that 1.-THE, slender
lightning-like body.
Crash" Went the Chair.
He generally breaks a common
kitchen chair in this sermon and this
came after terrible effort, with eyes
flashing, face scowling, the picture
of hate. He whirled the chair over
his head. smashed the chair to the
platform floor, whirled the shattered
wreck in the air again. then threw
1t t the ground in front of the pull
pit
IN two minutes men from the
front row were tearing the wreck to
pieces and dividing it up, round
here, leg there. piece of the back
to another. and so on. Later men
carried away in cheering could be
seen in the audience waving those
chair fragments in the air.
1.-The audience often applauded by
clapping hands, sometimes cheered