The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Billy Sunday at Waterloo.


From the Reporters report: For
one hour and twenty minutes Tues
day night Rev. Billy Sunday pleaded,
begged, persuaded, scolded and en-
treated an audience of nearly 5000
people to live lives of prayer and de-
votion, and during all his discourse
the multitude listened with eagerness
marked upon their faces. AT times
they smiled at his witticisms or laugh
ed at his jests and his pantomime;; at
other times eyes dimmed with tears
as he painted pictures of heart aches
and sorrow and despair and degrade
ton. The evangelist moved, breathed
and uttered his stirring words with
that intensity Of earnestness that car
ries conviction. There are no condi-
tons of human life, no experiences OF
the human soul, no yearnings or am
billions or hopes or fears that mortal
man may know that were not instru-
ments in his hands to move his hear.
ers to the need of communion with
God or an appreciation of the power
of the Almighty. From the web OF
history he tore skeins and wove them
into inspiring lessons: from the end
less mists of the unknown and the
unfathomable, he drew shadowy fla
ments and deity formed a maze of
unimpeachable truth: from the lives
Of martyred men and immortal men,
cries he plucked flowers of deathless
beauty and from them formed bou-
quets that breathed the power of the
eternal Master.
Like some skilled magician he
drew from the lowest depths of deg
radiation and Of sin-staggering men
and fainting women, and uncovered
the sadness of their wayward lives,
warmed and softened in the end by
reason of mothers prayers or a
fathers supplications: he moved
aside the damask curtains of the
mansion of the millionaires and show
ed the awful scars which heartbreak
sketched across the soul of those who
wore the purple and the gold and fol
/ lowed the sincursed member Of that
! home until Gods power was reveal
4 ed. He strobe the stage OF tragedy
4 and tore the mask from the face OF
rottenness and vice. He laughed and
clapped his hands and tripped with
restless feet where comedy lead.
4 He turned time backward and stop
/ ped the pendulum of the centuries
until his auditors heard the prayers
of that devoted band who defied the
most powerful nation on the earth
and signed the declaration of indepen
dence. He took his audience to the
snow-swept fields of Valley Forge ant
showed them the immortal Washing
ton, as he knelt in prayer In the icy
blast. He showed Mckinley, burden
ed with the responsibilities of the
war with Spain, spending half the
night in earnest supplication with hi!
4 God. He paid a tribute to the higl
character of William ]. Bryan ant
pictured Roosevelt with bible undel
his arm vending his way to the little
Dutch Reformed church
4 And YOU" he cried. you little
wart -nosed, weakened numb skull
you turn up your chin and draw III
your face and whimper, tAh. have
no use for prayer. its such BEAST,
bother, don 'tcherknow'
Art, science, the drama, the realm
of music, the abiding place Of geniu
and the home of leadership wer,
drawn upon by this master of the ar
of speech to demonstrate and prov,
and drive home and clinch and rive
the eternal truth that Jesus is tn
power that moves the hand that rock
the world.