Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-08
FOSTER SPEAKS
% BIG CROWDS
Ottumwa Packer Tells of" BILLY"
Sunday and His Work in
Wapello Capital
DESCRIBES SUNDAY, THE MAN
DESCRIBES SUNDAY, THE MAN
Character Study Declared to Be Fair
est Yet Given to PubIc--At Over
flow Meeting Rev. C. w. Mccord De-
mands Cleaning Up of Municipal At
fairs.

thing about BILLY" Sunday. Mr.. Fos-
ter was one Of the prime movers in
the recent Sunday campaign In Ottum-
/ wa, and his audience felt assured
! that he was thoroughly competent to
speak of the evangelist.
Mr.. Foster addressed two large
meetings, one at the court house in the
afternoon. and the other at the Meth
| odist church in the evening. At the
afternoon meeting for men, which was
held under the direction of the Rail-
| road Y. NJ. c. a., Mr.. Fotser was in
| troduced by A. G. Click, of Britain &
Co. The east court room was filed
with men, and many had to stand
turnout the entire service.
| Mr.. Foster took for his subject
The Building of the Tabernacle" He
said that the great difficulty in OF
! tumWa was the securing of a site, that
lit seemed as If Satan had put into the
minds of the people every objection he
could rake. UP. The matter was made
more difficult by the fact that Mr..
Sunday is very particular about the
are not located as he wishes, the COM
mittees stand a good chance of having
the great evangelist cancel his engage
ment. In connection with securing a
building site, Mr.. Foster stated that
he had not been in favor Of appealing
to the city council.
The speaker paid high tribute to
Mr.. Gill, Sundays building superin-.
tendent, as man and worker. To
the first call for workers sent out by
Mr.. Gill at Ottumwa, fifty responded
and came armed with saws and ham,
lners. OF the fifty six were carpen-
tiers, and the rest were business and
professional men. Mr.. Foster re-
marked that he himself was one of
the workers, and that every time he
strick he hit a nail, tho not always a
steel one. But he comforted himself
with the fact that he had left some
of his blood upon the building. While
the work of construction was being
carried on the ladies of the various
churches served. noon lunches for the
workers.
Touches on Liquor Phase.
The marked feature of the address
was the holding up to public gaze the
work of the liquor interests in Ottum-
wa. Mr. Foster admitted that he him
self had been lukeWarm on the sub
ject when the meetings opened, but
after he saw the effects on the liquor
dealers, when he beanie aware that
they were trying to compel the 20"
ls,-Al, nf q mr.
trusted employees because of his con-
nection with the campaign, then Mr..
Foster said he put his own heart and
soul into the work. He then touched
upon the attitude of the Ottumwa
school board toward Mr.. Sunday. He
said that at least three men on the
board either sold. manufactured or
drank whisky, while the secretary OF
the board was an avoWed advocate OF
the liquor interests. The young people
were indignant over the action of the
board, and as a result cheered Mr..
Sunday, and Missed when the name OF
the school board was mentioned. The
board has retaliated by declaring that
those young people shall not graduate
until they apologize to the board for
their actions. Mr.. Foster then made
ringing appeal to the men present,
asking them if they wanted their chill
dren under the lash Of the liquor in
terests. A chorus Of mos" resulted.
In closias, the speaking commended
the work of preparation already done,
and advised united prayer and hearty
co operation on the part of churches
and people.
The Evening Meeting.
At the union meeting in the even
ing the church was completely filled.
Mr.. Foster covered much the same
ground in his address as have other
speakers in the preliminary Sunday
campaigns. He told of Sundays work
at Ottumwa, and what is incumbent
on the town in which the meetings
are held, and it's people.
MIR. Foster gave what many in his
audience believed to be the fairest and
most impartial description Of Billy"
Sunday heretofore presented to the
public. Mr.. Foster declared Sunday
to be of very nervous temperament,
and extremely sensitive to criticism. 1t
was hard to hold him within bounds
at times, the speaker said, yet MI.
Foster declared Sunday to be fair to
all interests at all times. Foster con-
siders Sunday strong preacher, and
a man thoroughly sincere and con-
sistent. The Ottumwa meetings re-
suited in arousing the churches to
greater work, and instilled in them
a new life.
After Mr.. Foster had finished Rev.
James MCGEE thanked the speaker on
behalf of the congregation, and Incl
dentally remarked that he considered
Mr.. Foster had given the fairest state
ment of Mr.. Sunday that the people of
Marshalltown had as yet received.
Overflow Meeting Hummer.
After all the people who could were
crowded into the Methodist church the
overflow went to the Christian church.
where Rev. c. w. McCord addressed
large audience on "a Study in Citizen
ship" Mr.. McCord entered into dis
cussion of local conditions. and made
some very pointed remarks touching
on municipal life.
Mr. McCord said now that the pea-
pie had heard so much of Mr.. Sunday,
and the things he was going to do, it
was now time to consider what they
should do and what was needed locally
to insure the success Of the meetings.
He thought that there was soma