The Detroit times., 1911-05-16
BILLY" SUNDAY 5
CABINET" IS HIS
CHIEF ASSET
Dozen Workers Minutely Trained
and Thoroughly Organized Are
Far-Reaching Factor in Pic
turesque Evangelist's Success.
How Stage Setting Is Made and
Audience Is Reached At the
Proper Moment.
BY ALFRED J. PITTS.
(Times staff Correspondent) !.

TOLEDO. o.. May l6.-Any great
movement that penetrates the depth
and profundity OF our social economy
must be skilfully organized. The set
ting must be made and the principal
and telling part OF the drama enacted
at the psychological moment. II you
can reach" a person, whether he is
dipsomaniac or an outcast In any
other particular, you will reveal In
him the possibilities of regeneration.
This Is tho plan that Is followed by
Billy" Sunday, who has converted
more than 5000 persons TO the
churches OF Toledo. Sunday Is only d
part OF the great evsngelization sys-
tenn that has gripped Toledo. He at
tracts the masses to his meetings be-
cause they are convinced that there
will be no polish, and that he will talk
10 them-man tc man. He paves the
way for the change from the old lie
TO the new; when his auditors see a
man whom they believe sympathizes
with them, they are in receptive
mood and the evangelist can draw
vivid picture of their own follies. Then
the minutely-organized cabinet or
workers" with which Sunday has sur
rounded himself must put on the nm
ishing touches. No sooner has sun
day drawn from his audience their
aspirations to change from the old to
the new than a chorus OF several hun
cred voices. appropriately trained for
the occasion, fills the auditorium with
the strains or touching hymns. The
leader of this chorus is II. o. Rode
haver, OF Colorado. He is deep-ches'-
ed has commanding appearance and
a fine voice. While he Is directing the
chorus. scores of other workers, some
OF them belonging to the evangelists
party, but most OF them from Ioieoo
churches. mingle with the audience
The whole plan has been SO thorough
" organized. and every part OF the
stirring drama Is enacted at such an
opportune moment. that the audience
is struck by the force OF reality OF
the entire AFFAIR.
While the strains OF the hymns are
floating over the vast assemblage Sun
day Is going through his picturesque
+inotions on the platform. He yeils ana
pleads with the audience. HIS eyes
fash his sincerity. He descends into
the audience near the platform often
and counsels with man or woman
whom he has made telling impres-
sion upon and does not quit until ne
or some of his workers have taken
this person before the platform 10
shake his hand. In such touching mo-
ments the evangelist scores his great
est triumphs. He has lifted the vilest
and most degraded Of human beings
from the cutters by such setting.
The converts are taken In hand py
workers stationed near the platform,
nlaced In a section nearby and which
does not make them victims OF the
paze OF the audience, and they write
their names on cards, pledging their
determination TO accept Christ as their
Saviour. and naming the church they
wish to join!
The church workers are given the
names OF the converts who live In
their respective districts and the pas
tors and their aides visit them anu
make plans for them to join the
churches. BILLY" Sunday has proved
that aggression means progression
He has turned thousands OF human
beings-the majority OF them mum
bile and commonplace 10 he
churches and the pastors hgure that
a large percentage will remain:
Mr.. Sunday closes his campaign h
Toledo next Sunday. He VIII receive
the collection that Is taken on ina,
day. Il being the custom to give him
all the funds that are taken In on the
last day of his work. He defrays
the expenses of his cabinet, made
up of a dozen persons, and pays some
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