The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-15
''BILLY' SUNDAY mas
TALKED 5000 INTO
T0LED0CHURCHEs
Your Pennies Go To Churches, Your
Dollars Into Golfers of HELL" He
Shouts To 1900 Men in
Monster Meeting Sunday.
More Than 100000 Have Heard Pio-
turesque Evangelist N Maumee
City in Five Weeks.
BY ALFRED J. PITTS.
Times staff correspo ondentl.


TOLEDO. O., May ia 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. II 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
ended and three hundred men--some
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
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 TO the manly
side OF his hearers and his aim is usu-
ally accomplished His face Is mar
row, but expressive. His hair Ii
parted slightly to the right 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 unls-
pal 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
of his collar and necktie and pulled
OF 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
mani
Fast living is no evidence OF 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. l wouldn't disgrace skunk BY
comparison with you.
why don't you come In now? The
church Is the foundation OF all that 10
good. The penitentiaries, gambling
joints and other such places are filed
by men, but the churches are filled
with women. 1t Is evidence OF mems
degradation. In Chicago, several
years ago, when the population was
$1,S50.000, there were only 375,000 In
church one Sunday. Where were the
other 1,475.OoO people? There are
some men who crush their wives by
cruelty; men whose children never
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