The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-25

They came in droves and what w
the result! why sir, that big crowd |
of men were like soNmany pieces of
putty. Sunday took them and mould
ed them into his own subjects!
He's humanitarian-that's the |
secret of his cuccess. Hes been |
through the flint mill and uses his |
own experience to demonstrate his
truths. Were he to eXpunge human
itarianism from his discourses they
would fall as fiat as a ten cent tin
pie pan. He knows his capabilities!
There. bud, you've got il all. lie
knows a jackpot from the kitty
he knows what Il is to have a bunch
of velvet and he knows also, what 1t
is to stay for the show down!
If he didn't. do you think for one
second that he could reach the hearts
of his hearers. Why, on Sunday af-
ternoon. when he hurled the lie into
the teeth and gums of his accurers,
there wasn't a man in that vast aud
ience of 5000 but who would have
stood behind him and lloored the
first fellow who dared dispute him!
He grippcd the little heart strings
that grow around your heart propel-
Ter and he had YOU singing his tune
before he was half through. He has
| been great before, but on Sunday after
noon he surpassed himself! He arose
to his utmost capabilities and he GER
tainly did things. He wasn't mealy
motithed abont his subject "The De-
Wis Boomerangs, or Hot Cakes Right
Off The GrIddle." That wasn't the
biiical text and IT took a man of sun
days capabilities to write such head
liner. But all admitted before he
concluded that he had chosen wisely.
He told men of their vices-and he
| called them by their right names. He
| didn't hesitate on anything. He used
! distilled truths and gave fathers some
| thing to carry home with them. He
| fulfilled all advance notices and took
| ~ fall out OF his accusers,
Stepping 10 the front of the plat
form and with every ounce of energy
| he possessed Sunday said: "Therc are
some dirty, low down, sneaking, spcw-
ing spluttering liars In this city who
nave been circulating stories about
me that are as false as hell. i Will
| gave Nooo IN coid cnsh To the dirty
| sinking low-born iiar VINO VIII step
up on this platform and repeat his
accusation-iH give tiat sum Tor the
privilege oi knocking nm DOWN
| yes SAID Rev. sunday, "the Lib-
eral Advocate mas bccn Furnishing
some Hes about me. very wcii' Ihey
VIII hear from me on Monday night
january 80 ana II dont make thcm
swoiiow their Noniit thch my name Is
not BiiiS sunday
| And then Rev. Sunday launched in
to the discussion of his text. For
one houre and twenty-five minutes
he held the boards and during all that
time there was not the least sign OF
disturbance. lie had that big body
of men in his wise like grip. He told
lovers where they should change their
manner of living-he warned fathers
-he beseeched the boys to have care
He told the story of his own conver-
sion, and how he had left the base
bali diamond to take up the fight for
the cross. He started at the home
| plate and never let up until he had
scored the run that brought home the
ampionshlp.
He was a man among men and he
gave the invitation, there was a thin
ming of the ranks In that vast audi
encc. That big body of men forgot
that eyes were resting upon them
and they hit the trail like so many
little children, Some men came with
blanched faces, others with tears In
their eyes. But they came to the
number of 140-and that's some
crowd, believe. me. 1t was sight
the like of which was never before
witnessed in Portsmouth. Railroad
men came, merchants hit the trail,
one newspaper boy trod the path,
mill men gripped Sundays hand shoe
workers nocked to the seat of mercy
-ah, twas "A sight! whole-hearted