The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-02-26

here have seen him and sat under
his preaching. Numbers have la
bored with him elsewhere and some
are with us who date their Christian
life from a Sunday campaign in an
eastern city. But the prospective
visit of the great evangelist is
awakening new interest and he is
already the subject of frequent and
varied conversation. From this time
all that pertains to the man and his
wonderful campaigns will be eagerly
read by the citizens of the Yakima
valley.
William A, Sunday was born at
Ames, Iowa, November 10, 1863. He
was the son of veteran and is
never more at home than when
preaching to the heroes of '61. He
was discovered by Captain Arson at
the age of twenty and played under
him with the famous Chicago White
Stockings for the next five arscYe
was sized up by Arson as follows:
Sunday was the speediest man on
his feet that ever played the game.
He could run the bases in 1871 sec
onds and 100 yards in ten seconds
from the crack of a pistol"
He retired from the diamond in
1891. soon after his conversion. and
entered the work of the Chicago Y.
NJ. c. A. as assistant secretary. He
remained in this work for several
years and then travelled for some
time with the famous evangelist. DR..
j. Wilbur Chapman. He has been
preaching now for about twelve
years and has seen nearly 100000
people come forward and take his
hand in acceptance of Christ as Sa-
yiour.
Mr.. Sundays methods of work are
straight forward and practical and
aggressive. He knows just what he
Is after and goes after it with all his
might. His manner of preaching is
peculiarly his own and is quite in
imitable. Woe to the man who tries
it. He believes emphatically in
personal devil, because, as he says.
II have done business with him."
and probably no man before the pub
lie today is accorded by the devil
such an amount of free advertising.
Months before the arrival of the
evangelist he is proceeded by the
same old falsehoods, disproved over
and over and as often passed on to
the new fields of labor, punctuating
local news columns, rehearsed in
secret conelaves cunningly yelled
and disseminated with basest insin-
uations But all these attacks fall
powerless and have rather the effect
of awakening greater interest and
expectancy.
Perhaps the best word to be spo-
ken at this time Of the character and
value of his work is the following.
copied from The Message, of Roches-
ter, Mimi, just after the Sunday
two years ago in that city:
Mr.. Sunday has marvellous power
in himself, because of his strong per-
sonality. his masterful eloquence, his
intense zeal and capacity for hard
work. Yes, he is a marvellous man
and he has rarely efficient corps
of helpers, but the evangelist does
not trust to these nor is he satisfied
for moment with this measure of
power. He is pre-eminently a man
of God, surrendered to God, with a
faith to ask for great things of God
and will to undertake great things
for God. He believes in the Bible
absolutely as the word Of God and
he holds up to the people the God OF
that word, and his salvation as the
only salvation without which no man
can be saved. Mr.. Sunday is a great
evangelist, not because he is a great
man, but because he has a great Sa-
vious and has surrendered himself to
Him to be used for his glory