The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-15
BILLY SUNDAY HAS
TALKED 5000 into
TOLED0CHuRCHEs
your Pennies Go To Churches, Your
Dollars Into Golfers of He'll" He
Shouts To 10000 Men in
Monster Meeting Sunday.
More Than 100000 Have Heard Pic
turesque Evangelist n Maumse
City in Five Weeks.
BY ALFRED J. PITTS.
Times STAFF correspondent)

I
TOLEDO. o., May l5.-A common.
place looking man who illustrates the
principle OF thin and wiry in human
architecture dashed TO and fro on the
platform In the tabernacle here yester-
day afternoon shrieking at the top OF
his voice to more than 10000 men who
crowded every inch OF space. IL was
an ultra.militant TRADE by an ultra
militant evangelist-the Rev Billy
Sunday. He heaped denunciations
upon those whom he thought had lost
their spiritual way, but In the next
breath tempered his remarks with
kindly advice and urged his listeners
TO assert their manhood and tread the
path that leads TO eternal life.
The whole sweep OF the speakers
utterances, mixed with biting sarcasm,
was to draw the audience TO the vari-
GUS churches OF Toledo by sledge-ham-
mer remarks-and they were made
very appropriate for the purpose. A
wave OF enthusiasm swept through the
vast crowd when the speech had been
of them weeping. went forward TO
clasp the evangelist's hand and pledge
themselves as church members. They
shook hands with the same billy
Sunday of days gone by. He has lost
none OF the fire that has given him
q style all his own. His circus side"
when he runs from one end OF the
platform to the other, going through
all sorts Of picturesque motions-is as
pronounced as ever. He knows men
as sailors know channel. He sends
home his arguments by denouncing
human weaknesses In forceful Ian
guage and then appeals 10 the manly
side OF his hearers and his aim is usr-
ally accomplished His face is mar
row, but expressive. His hair Is
parted slightly to the left side.
His nose Is somewhat short and
irregular and his chin firm. His
lips In repose indicate good ma
ture, but on the slightest sign Of
action they compress and show unus-
ual firmness. His eyes are steelgray
shading toward blue. They are clear
and penetrating. Deep burrows across
his forehead speak of serious thought.
Before the picturesque evangelist
had been speaking long he had taken
on his collar and Iiecktie and pulled
on his coat, Precipitation rolled down
his face as he dashed up and down the
platform and shrieked at the audience
His subject was ITO be less than a
mani"
Fast living Is no evidence or man.
hood" he yelled. Some of-you men
( with whisky breaths put your pennies
in the churches, but you place your
dollars In the Golfers Of hell, II you
believe you can follow the road TO ruin
and at the last moment turn to God.
pity your low-down standard OF man.
hood. wouldn't disgrace a skunk by
comparison with you.
why don't you come In now? The
church il the foundation OF all that Is
good. The penitentiaries, gambling
joints and other such places are filed
by men. but the churches are filed
with women. 1t is evidence OF mems
degradation. In Chicago, several
years ago, when the population was
1,850,000, there were only $4,000 in
church one Sunday. Where we're the
other 1,475,000 people? There are
some men who crush their wives by
cruelty: men whose children never
heard them pray; never heard the
word OF God except when oaths were
uttered by their vile months. They
are failing pathetically In keeping
their obligation TO Christ.
"A merchant in q leading city sum.
I moned his employees one day and said
"a they cared to attend church all
fght; II was none of his business
mai they did, but he wanted them to
COX after the interests OF the store
Nv all means. This reminds me OF
the woman who yelled To a passing
man to rescue her from a fire. He
looked up and said: No, can't help
+. you now, but I'll go up the street and
II see fire department I'll send IL
here In the meantime IL you can get
out you better do So
ct Is just as much the duty OF the
merchant to tell the man how TO die
as Il Is TO sell him goods II Is as
much the duty of the physician to tell
a man how to die as Il Is to diagnose
hts case. | would rather be a pauper.
without my eyesight, and be living
with Christ than to be the greatest
man with no spiritual comfort or hope.
The biggest taxpayer does not count
unless he gives part OF his time TO
Christ and helps others to follow the
right path. A great shipbuilder can
construct q monster boat to sail the
ocean, but Christ must build the ship
that will carry him to the river OF rest.
II IL human to drift with the crowd,
but divine TO stand on the altar OF
truth"
Rev Mr. Sunday closed his address
with bitter attack on Robert G. In
gersoll. He withheld, by his teach.
ings." he shouted, ''the hope from wo-
man that she would some day meet
her baby that went the day before.
The damage he has done IL unlimited.
He has plunged millions into hell.