The sun., 1910-06-05
BETTER THAN BASEBALL.
Buiy sundny Gets mere IN the Puiplt ThaR
ne Nd en- the DlamSad.

We Do en- the Dsam~no.
Dancing d nothing but q huGGihg
match sst 10 music Talk about the
poetry Of motion. It's Just q devilish
snare OF souls.
The alum dance is better than the
club dance, bscauss they wear more
clothes a. IL
Sow bridge whist and you reap
gamblers The man who sits at a table
and bets a thousand on a iaokpoa s no
more q gambler than the society belle
who plays bridge for a prize
IL would not take more than one gUsas
20 decide Bllly Sunday was the speaker. .
writes Or Thomas 3 Green in HGnp0n's
in commenting on the above quotations
on the platform he plays ball Atti-
tude. gestures. method he crouchaa.
PUSHES. Whirls. bangs his message out as
Il he were a. the bat in the last inning
With two men out and the bases full
And he can 90 into any city In America
and for six wesks tsik TO 6.@1 people
twice a day and simply turn that CON-
munity inside out He eays San Fran
cisco is the wickedest city We have New
Orleans next. chicago third and Nsw
York fourth Over SO,OOO people have
been converted under his preaching.
and he uays N per cent Of them stick
Next to Bllly Sunday in popular de-
mand and in evangelistic efbciency d.
Green places George r stuart of Ten.
neasee. for sixteen years the associate Of
the late Sam Jones
In many respects Sunday and Stuart
are alike. he says They both bslisvs
10 and pre- aCh the same strenuous. orthO-
doN. ipsistent theology Heaven or he'll
10 the future destination of every soul
aud It's a real heaven and a sure enough
he'll ~ the two Stuart II by faF the
E-ntlcr sunday is startling. bold. belli-
rose. grim; Stuart ID tender. emotional,
pleading. persuasive
The greatest sum stuart and sam
Jones ever received vas O. Coz 10 he
divided bstWeen the two men. after E1-
cell. their singer. and al other Assistants
had been raid This was for a thres
weeks nesting For ten days their com
penaatiOn varied from 81 .OUO to a. .Odo
On the lecture platform sam Jones cot
17O0 for q nngle lecture. George Stuart
si25. Excell could have made his music
pay him $50 a week Billy sundays in
come is reputed 10 be t3OOn0 . wear
In an attempt 70 ind out whether the
converts made at these revivals STAYED
converted Dr. Green took up the tEail OF
nOms Of the most sensational lie visited
first q middle Western town which had
gone through q six weeks revival
when Il drew 10 q Close the carefully
kept card index was turned over 90 the
pastors. hs ssya. and with .10O con
verts behind him, and over tsOoO IN his
pocket the evangelist departed TO dupli-
cate his work in the next waiting cOm-
munity
That was a year ago What condition
IL the town IN now How many II tho
100 can you find today IL the life
Of the people any diherent7 Are the
churches finding Il easy now 10 do their
workP u depends entirely On whom you
ask.
They do not all think az does the svn
Odical Superintendent Of Kansas Who
made the public statement reosntly that
his experience had adiudged the profea-
aiOnal evangelist ~ largely q failure ia
producing permanent results.
Another leading Western clergyman
deaortbsd the meetlnRa conducted by a
vorV popular Tevivallgt a. an orgy Of
excitement. followed By q alupoF % IN
activity The leading pastor In tho
converted city . man Of ripe Judgment.
said
81 looked forward to thia thing With a
great deal Of anxiety. When the evan
geliai cane he quite captured nls He 4
uniqus. There IA only one of HE e4aaa,
and probably 4 N 80 well that L n 40, but
he showed himself sincere, earnest and
hOnesl. Thsre were about ana signed
conversion cards, and about so have
united with the churchea
"A very hard headed banker told me.
The cost 10 che city was sOmsfhinR
over tIe. .000 The evangeliat ROi over
81 .O1O. but hs earned every cent % h. nj
l0t Of ths prsaChsF8 IN this country
would do 81 much IN Ave yeaFa aa hs dld
In five weeks. and work half as hard.
they might be entitled 70 ~ much ~
turn.
sDo revival converts stick when won
by alch msthOdnp- Dr. Green asked
Lincoln Mcconnell. Who. nsxt 20 BillV
sunday. is the bigGeai figure IN modern
revivnliam.
You'd be surprised 10 know how many
do. was the reply. There arr lOta Of pso-
pie who don't, % couras. know hundreda
0f people who we're oDnverted By NJ. B..
Williams. But his style Of work Eaa auoh
that no one elae could follow him. NJ
conducted rsvivals IN 10 cities and toWna
In IOwa. and ~ iar a. know there has
never boon q revival IN one 0f them ainca
Ministers call n the burnt diairict. ~
was ~ sensational thai anything after