The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-14
Six week. q "HiIIy" Sunday.

six Weeks Of "HilIy" Sunday.
| Davenport Democrat: For six weeks
| the Rev. William A. Sunday has been
! trying to convert the sinners Of Mar
shalltown to his way OF thinking. He
has convinced some of them that his
Internationally ofsadoptionl and Mr.
Sunday has received little over So
900 for the services Of himself and his
associates. The whole matter is one
between Mr.. Sunday and the people
Eof Marshalltown, and the rest Of Iowa
is not deeply interested. II those
who paid tie bills are satisfied others
ought not to complain.
There are those who accept all Mr.
Sunday says as inspired and bow to
his commands. They obey his every
order and give 81 their money freely
for his benefit. No reasonable per-
son can find fault with that. There
are many who approve Mr.. Sundays
methods, and there are Others who
disapprove them just as strongly, and
each class is fully justified in the
position it takes. The view point is
entirely matter Of opinion, senti-
ment, association.
During the six weeks that Mr. Sum
day has been speaking in Marshall
town the leading daily paper there
has been running pictures of him in
all sorts Of attitudes. some of them
showing him as contortionist OF
uncommon ability Each one OF these
cuts bears the marks of a studied po-
sition and all Of them see duty, that
| is repetition wherever Mr. Sunday
appears. He is an actor of remark
4 able versatility. That appeals to
4 emotion, but how it can affect judi
cial mind one way or the other is
hard to understand. Every argument
offered by Mr.. Sunday has as much
force in cold print without his per
sonality as with it.
Some figures of what is called the
revival season may be given. The
free will offering amounted to So
! 1922, which is below the amount real
lied by Mr.. Sunday for similar cam
paigns in smaller places. 1t is not
equal to the response, population con-
sidered, in Muscatine, Fairfield, OF.
1 tumwa or Burlington, in all of which
cities the revivalist has conducted
campaigns. There is reason why he
should have received more cordial
reception as that was his former
home. There is another side to the
financial account. The expenses o.
the series of meetings was SCOTS; the
amount given to charity and other
wise, was 1854 The total cash raised
for all purposes is given as $12,S94
This is the investment Marshalltowl
, made in Sunday.
/, On the otier hand the total mum
> Der of conversions is placed at 1887
: If this number of persons lead bette
$ lives In the future than they hav
followed in the past; IL they becom
more desirable citizens on account Q
the, new light they have seen; If hus
q bands are more kind to their wives
4 and IL parents show more considers
= ton for their children, tlen Maj
shalltown will be long way ahead.
The total attendance at the NEE
. ings, probably more than 100 of ther
! in all, lis 10000. These figures ar
= not in the least informing as the
4 give no correct impression of tn
4 number of persons who put then
selves under the magnetic power {
Mr.. Sunday. Doubtless many pc
ii fsons attended air or nearly all til
i services, being counted over and owe
6. again.
n Wherever Mr.. Sunday goes he a
y composites what 1t is claimed b
many worldly minded persons in al
vance he cannot do. He never fai
IS to draw the crowd to the tabernac
Ii in which he speaks. He always su
lie ceeds in opening pocket books tn;
lie have been closed to other appeal
W And he converts thousands to IL
IL faith that .le breaches He does n,
permanently shake the foundation
Ottumwa is, for instance, not esse
al tally different on account Of Il
lg Sunday meetings. While he antago
II ICES some good and many more pc
fe sons of different class, he reach,
lie thousands who promise to live bett
Of lives. Why the clergymen of the d
st ferent churches cannot accompli,
tie same, or approximately equal I
suits, is for them to explain. The
are ministers of the gospel in Me
se shalltown as there are in. Davenpol
It. who are as exemplary in their liv
of and thought as Mr.. Sunday. B
c, they neither draw the crowds n
We make the impression upon them tn
n the revivalist does.
[c- The psychology Of It all is that t
lis people who are not regular atten
N. ants at churcheg must be reached n