Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-06
CHARACTERISTICS
OF REVIVALISTS
BILLY SUNDAY. GYPSY SMITH,
SAM JONES AND
OTHERS.
SENSATIONAL METHODS AND
SAYINGS FOR WHICH PUBLIC
PAYS LAvIsHLY.

Dancing is nothing but a hugging
match set TO music. Talk about the
poetry of motion! It's just a deyilisn
snare OF souls
The Stun 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 a
table and bets $1,000 on jackpot d,
no more a gambler than the society
belle who plays bridge for a prize"
II would not take more than one
guess 10 decide Billy Sunday was the
sp saSer An immensely interesting
| picture of the baseball evangelist is
drawn of him in DIR. Thomas +.
Green's article, Reviyals and Revival
lists, in Hamptons Magazine. All the
big reyiyalists are shown "in action.
Their effect on huge audiences -
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 Chl.
| cago ball club. Says DIR. Green;
Plays Call on Platform.
'0n the platform he plays bali. AT
titude. ge lures, method-he croucbes,
rnshes, whirls, bangs he's message out,
as II he We're at the bat in the last IN.
ming with two men out and the bases
full And re can go into any city IN
/ America ana for six weeks talk TO
5000 people twice day and simply
turn that community inside out He
says San Francisco IL the wickedesr
city we have. New Orleans neA>, Chi.
cago third. and New York fourth.
Over 10000 people have been con.
yerted under his preaching, and ne
says 80 per cent of them stick"
Or Green then tells OF the sensae
tional methods employed by Gypsy
smith. and of his famous midnight
march through the red light district
of Chicago
"under tile 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 revivalist,
When he decided to lead his followers
on midnight march through the
tenderloin, 10 be followed by meet
ing in the Alhambra Theater every
body advised against It. The revival.
lists insisted, the spectacle was an
nouneed, the newspapers gave ii end
less advertising
All Chicago There.
All Chicago hocked early to see the
show Five thousand marcher four
abreast, many OF them boys and young
women, devout old men and grand.
mothers, inspired by an earnest mo-
ton that they were doing something
heroic, marched through the section
where the worst dregs OF chcagos
vice was segregated The streets
we're jammed With multitudes of the
curious from theater parties In even
ing clothes and automobiles. to boys
and girll for whom II was an astound
ing lark
"All the other resorts were closed
BY order OF the police, bur the morbid
throngs filled the saloons. Barkeepers
were exhausted WI h the effort 10
serve THAR patrons Cafes We're
thfonged with men and womel. drink
ing al the tables. Young msn and
girls everywhere showed the effect OF
undue indulgence during the long
wait for the show.
"The instant the marchers nad
passed beyond the district, the resorts
brew open their doors and police and
diyekeeper5 gave unanimous testt.
nony that there never had been a
night Of such business as was tran
sacted from that hour until daylight.
Neat to Bully Sunday in popular de-
nand and IN evangelistic efficiency
DR.. Green places George u. Stuart OF
Tennessee. for IS years the associate
Of the late Sam Jones.
Sunday and Stuart Alike.
I'm many n spects Sunday ard stu
art are alike" he says. They both
believe IN and preach the same siren.
iucus. orthodox tnsi tent theology,
Heaven or he'll isthc futurc destination
3 I DI every eDAt~ ava ~ > y t'NAt tfDNtlFtf
and a sure enough he'll. or the two.
stuart Is By Tar thc gentler. Sunday
Il stratIing, bold. bellicose, grim;
stuart q tender. emotional pleading,
persuasive"
The greatest sum Stuart and sam
Jones ever received was $4,000. 10 be
divided between. thu two men after Xxx
cell. their singeU, and all others as
sistant had been paid This vas TOT
three weeks meeting. For Q days
their compensation varied from $1,000
to $4,000
ON the lecture platform, Sam Jones
got 5000 for a single lecture George
stuart SIPS. Excel could have made
bis music pay him 5000 week. Billy
Sundays income Is reputed to be szjs
900 year
Mr. Tucker (haying served the 9TH
ersl Wen Tommy what part Of the
chicken gili you have? Tommy
VEfv nav Won know always axe the