Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-07-07

Of REV|VAL|STS
BILLY SUNDAY. GYPSY SMITH.
SAM JONES AND
OTHERS.
SENSATIONAL METHODS AND
SAYINGS FOR WHICH PUBLIC
PAYS LAViSHLY.

match set to music. Talk abont the
poetry of motion! It's ju.t a deyilisn
snare of souls.
The slum dance is better than the
club dance, because they wear more
clothes at it.
Sow bridge whist and you reap
gamblers. The man who sits at q
table and bets $1,000 on jackpot Ia
no more a gambler than the society
belle who plays bridge for a prize"
1t would not take more than one
guess to decide Billy Sunday was the
speaker. An immensely interesting
picture of the baseball evangelist is
drawn of him i'm DR.. Thomas f.
Green's article, Revivals and Revival
lists, in Hamptons Magazine. All the
big revivalists are shown "in action"
Their effect on huge audiences 10
noted, the permanency of their con-
versions discussed, and description
OF their unique methods provided.
Billy Sunday, for instance, plays the
game just as he did with the old Chi
cago ball club. Says DR.. Green:
Plays Ball on Platform.
ION the platform he plays ball. Al
titude, ge1tures, method-he crouches,
rushes, whirls, bangs his message out,
as If he We're at the bat in the last IN
ming, with two men out and the bases.
full. And he can go into any city ID
America and for six weeks talk to,
5000 people twice day, and simply
turn that community inside out. He
says San Francisco is the wickedest
city We have; New Orleans nexe, Chi
cago third, and New York fourth.
Over 100000 people have been con-
verted under his preaching, and he
says 80 per cent of them stick"
Dr. Green then tells of the sensa-
tional methods employed by Gypsy
Smith, and of his famous midnight
march through the red light district
of Chicago:
Under the patronage of As.
churches, he had invaded Chicago for
a months meetings. Romany born
and bred, Gypsy Smith is the most
emotional type of the reviyalist.
When he decided to lead his followers,
On midnight march through the
tenderloin, to be followed by a meet
ing in the ALEXANDRIA Theater, every
body advised against it. The revival
lists insisted, the spectacle was an
nounced, the newspapers gave it end
less advertising.
All Chicago There.
All Chicago fiocked early to see the
show Five thousand marchers, four
abreast, many of them boys and young
women, desout old men and grand
mothers, inspired by an earnest no
ton that they were doing something
heroic, marched through the sectiok
where the worst dregs of Chicago-s
vice was segregated. The streets
were jammfd with multitudes of the
curious from theater parties, in even
ing clothes and automobiles, to boys
and girls for whom it was an astound-
ing lark.
"A1l the other resorts were closed
by order of the police, but the morbid
throngs filled the saloons. Barkeepers
were exhausted with the effort to
serve their patrons. Cafes were
thronged with men and women drink
ing at the tables. Young men and
girls everywhere showed the effect OF
undue indulgence during the long
wait for the show.
"The instant the marchers had
passed beyond the district, the resorts
threw open their doors and police and
divekeepers gave unanimous testi-
mony that there never had been a.
night of such business as was tran
sacted from that hour until daylight"
Next to Billy Sunday i'm popular de-
mand and in evangelistic efficiency
Dr. Green places George r. Stuart of
Tennessee, for 16 years the associate
of the late Sam Jones.
Sunday and Stuart Alike.
TN many respects Sunday and Stu
art are alike" he says. They both
believe In and preach the same siren
uous, orthodox, insistent theology.
Heaven or hell is the future destination
of every soul-and it's real heaven
and sure enough hell. Of the two,
Stuart is by far the gentler. Sunday
Is stratling, bold, bellicose, grim;
Stuart is tender, emotional, pleading,
persuasive"
The greatest sum Stuart and Sam
Jones ever received was $4,000, to be
divided between the two men, after Ex.
cell, their singer, and all Others as
sistants had been paid. This was for
three weeks meeting. For 10 days
their compensation varied from $1,000
to $4,000.
ION the lecture platform, Sam Jones
got 5000 for single lecture, George
Stuart s125; Excel could have made
his music pay him $500 week. Billy
Sundays income is reputed to be 500
900 q year.