The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-06

trate: Billy Sunday, when he was in the game himself as a star outhelder of the old Chicago sWhite Stockings. received about S2,400 for a season Of six months. Figuring on Q, basis Of what he has received in other places and naming the figure which the ministers of Toledo have called upon the people to contribute when the basket collection for Sunday person. ally is taken up the baseball evange- list will receive between s40,000 and s50.oO0 for his six weeks work in the Ohio city. Figuring on this ba- sis, Detroit, with three times the pop ulation of Toledo, will hand Sunday a cool s100,000 for his six weeks campaign here If he comes.
 Three of the ministers of Toledo spoke in the tabernacle yesterday re- garding the collection that is to ba 1 taken up next Sunday for the benefit of the evangelist.
 There is a law that generosity de- serves generostty;" declared Rev. enue Presbyterian Church, MT. Sum- day has put his heart, soul, body | mind and being into his daily ser- mons. In receiving this generous service from MT Sunday we should return equal generosity and show | our appreciation in a material way. A city with the population of Toledo. | giving in the same proportion as ot1- | CT places where MT. Sunday has been. should contribute between s4o,o0o 24,0O0 people gave MT. Sunday s. 900; Portsmouth, O., with 26,000. $106,00; Newcastle, Pa, with 42,00O, S13,000; Lima. O. with 35,000, s1I,- OOO
 Sunday makes it a rule that the collections of the last Sunday of his stay in a town shall be for him per sonally. The others are to pay tfs expenses of the campaign which ars generally taken care of in the first lections go to religious and charitabIs activities of the town in which ths revival is being held. But wherever Sunday has been, the collection for him personally on the last Sunday of the campaign is always the record breaker and rarely falls below sI0.- 900.
 Sunday told The News reporter who interviewed him a few days ago that the Toledo campaign would cost 311.- this had practically all been taken care of in the basket collections of the first two Sundays in the tabeT- Dacle. Sunday never goes to a town until expenses have been guaranteed by the business and church conmun- ity. The plan is to sell blocks or stock to wealthy men of the com munity with the proviso that they shall not have to furnish the cash # the basket collections in the taber- nacle meet the expenses.
 Some ministers who have de1vef into the financing of Sundays cam paigns have been inclined to conn pare it with the great revivals oc ccher days when the "beggar friars" with coarse raiment and barred feet spread the message of the gospel all over England and to raise the dues- ton if the modern day method does not saVor too strongly of 'the whfrI of the spindle and the dust of trade" Howsoever these things be. one thing is certain, there are no bare feet or coarse raiment in the Sunday cam paign in Toledo. It was a cold day when the News reporter visited To- ledo. and when the time came for Sunday to start to the tabernacle. ths ex-baseball player donned an expen- sive fur-lined coat and was whIrlef away to the meeting in his automo- bile
 While it is admitted that money has come to Sunday freely since bs turned evangelist. his admirers say. in his defense. that he has given with unstinted hand to the educational philanthropic and mission activities of the church.
 If Sunday comes to Detroit 1t will be the biggest town he has ever tack led for a city wide campaign. as To- ledo is the biggest place he has ever been in up to the present.
 Sunday frankly admits that if fs more difficult to arouse men in the large city than in the smaller conn munity and says that is one reason why he has avoided the big city for years, although he has received in- vitations from hundreds of larger places frCc oast to coast
 But our large cities are going to hell at a tremendous rate" says Sun- day. "1 hesitated IA years. but after much prayer l was convinced that God wanted me to help save the whisky ed. vice-ridden city. But the men of the church must pray and help while the great mu1tituds here in Toledo simply come and sic and listen. The saloonkeepers and the gambler do as much, and they put money in the collection plate"
 Chicago-One of the reasons Mary Berkau asks a divorce from Charles Berkau, is that her husband attempted to feed her toadstools instead of Inush- rooms. in the hope of killing her