The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-09
REvIvALIST
VERY WROTH
Printed Edition Of His Ser
mons Cause TRADE and
Fears on Part of
Sunday.

Rev. william A. (B1llyl Sunudts tne
founder and dean of that growing
school of sensational, vitrioIic, but in
his case successful, school of meIo-
dramatic evangelism; Billy Sunday, the
exponent of the straight from the
shoulder" method of teaching the gOs-
pei; Billy Sunday, the hero of thou
sand baseball diamonds and ten thou
sand puIpits, finished one of the great
est fights of his life here in Hammond
last saturday, unknown to the people
of this city, when he rushed into the
EsereOtyping room of the w. ID. Con-
key company and in righteous wrath
destroyed thep lates which were being
used to print an edition of his ser
mons which did not meet with his -z-
pTovaI.
Says 1t Was An Outrage.
Ms reputation is at stake. ] could
never allow that edition of books to
so into general circulation. The plates
must be destroyed. The books must
be burned IT is shame and on out
rcge / will never stand for it,. And
SO saying. the famous revivalist picked
UP a hammer and with vigorous strokes
to the right and left, the beautiful
stereotyped plates were soon irrepar-
ably destroyed, and with St. Paul Mr..
Sunday might have said to himself:
.0h! Full of old subtiIty and all mis-
hief. thou child of the devil, thou
encmy Of all righteousness. Wilt thou
net cease to prevent the right ways
OF the Lord.'
w. B. Conkey, the proprietor of the
plant, looked on in unconcealed amaze
ment. The stereotypers were thunder
struck The printers devils were horri-
fed as blow after blow forced with
that athletic arm, were rained on the
plates which had cost hundreds of dol
lars to make. 1t is safe to say that
never in the history of the local pub
fishing company has there been such a
sensational proceedings.
Publishers Had No Right.
But the most sensational develop
ment was to follow. Sunday had a
right to destroy those books, even
though they were not his. That right
cost him s3,500 in cold cash. Mr.. Sun
day explained to Mr.. Conkey that as
soon as he saw a copy of the edition
he was so outraged that he went al
once to the publishers. Herman, Poole
& Co., of Decatur, ILL.,, and demanded
to know by what right they were
printing his sermons.
s. P Herman and Edward E. Poole
the publishers. We're looking for JUS
such visit It is known that they
expected, collectively. to be compelled
to tame the eminent divine with
thrashing before they were through
with him It is not known to wha
extent they were armed or what wa.
their plan of resistance.
Sermons Were Not Copyrighted.
At any rate Messrs. Herman anS
Poole were very cool and collected
They informed Mr.. Sunday that hi
sermons were not copyrighted by hin
and that they had as much right t,
them as he did. They told him furthe
that they proposed to protect thei
copyright in so far as it would Civ
them protection.
Rev. Sunday was al the boiling point
He did not fight. He simply proteste'
that his sermons, as printed in thei
book. had been grossly garbled. Tha
they contained things he had neve
said. even in his most passionate mo
ments. He asked the publishers
they really intended to put out a bool
that was so terribly inaccurate.
For the rest of that day Decatur al
was blue. The atmosphere was heavy
There was a terrible foreboding o
evil. But Sundays good judgmen
finally got the better of him and h
hired a lawyer to advise him. 1t ma
be that he hired lawyer to swear 70
him.
At any rate. the lawyer informe
Sunday that he was up against i
Billy WOuldn't Stand for 1t.
The great William A Sunday; Sun
day. the man whose militant preachin
of the gospel had made thousand
cover before their God; Sunday til
man who had never met an obstacl
that he did not overcome; Billy Sunda
up. against it? Never
1t did not make ana difference If h
attorney was the attorney general
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