The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-16

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nm joan th- BAPTIST. and oonpli.
m-nted him on his Nork her.
The speaker extended greetings on
behalf Of the pasiors ana worker. AT
youngstown. explaining IN an inter.
estins manner the part they had
taken In the Sunday campaign nj that
place. He assured his auditor. tina,
the campaign In Wheeling. as in all
other places. would be one long TO b.
remembered. He said there was prac
ucally nothing else OF which he could
speak with more force than the COM
ing Sunday campaign here. He relat-
ed his personal experiences, stating
that IL was two years ago that the
campaign was held in Youngstown.
and on Its opening the speaker stated
mat he had just arrived from Phila-
deiphia. About all he knew OF Billy
Sundays methods was that the evan
gelist had some kind OF
A Cyclone religion,
but he soon learned that Sunday was
an earnest worker and one who want
ed everyone to know his God and ex-
perience religion in its truest sense
Before the campaign was over, the
speaker said. he was converted. and
mad not backslidden an inch since
that time. He said he was speaking
as an enthusiastic convert OF Billy
Sunday. He then spent some time in
explaining the methoCs and the force
or Billy Sunday campaign. He said
he did not think II was possible TO
assemble in America a more refined.
consecrated band of workers than the
Billy Sunday party. recognizing as
the most dominant figure Billy Sun
day himself He said that Sunday
was not preacher made preacher.
and that he was not made according
to any fixed specifications.
Sunday the preacher is Sunday the
base ball player" the speaker went
on 10 say. standing on the platform
with vision and a consuming pas
sion. pleading with men TO accept Je-
sus. TO clean up and live for God.
When he stands before you you feel
that Sunday is a man that knows God
intimately. and a man that wants you
10 know his God. He can condemn
sin as no other man in America can.
He breaches the kind of religion we
need TO day. | believe IL is
The Kind Of Religion
you need in Wheeling. for am given
to understand that the devil once Wis
tied Wheeling and left behind him a
legion OF agents of sin and shame.
! No evangelist appeals TO men as
does William A. Sunday. He is pre-
,eminently a mans preacher. Men OF
eevry class. the down and outer. la
boring men. business and professional
, men and all others. | must confess
that | didn't like him much at the
start. for ] was not accustomed TO so
much gymnastics in the pulpit. II
rather Jared me-
The speaker then related his con
versatiol with a police lieutenant at
Youngstown. the officer having been
converted by Sunday. He was in
doubt as 10 whether the campaign was
actually doing good until the police
lieutenant :old him that he tested out
the matter by calling up some of the
madameS OF houses Of prostitution.
/ When he asked them how business
was they told him il was not particu-
larry brisk. One OF the madames re-.
piled: Nothing doing. The damned
revival has spoiled it all" Calling one
OF the managers Of the theaters. the
reply 10 the lieutenant was: "My
business has
Gone to He'll"
! IN the face of such testimOny." the
speaker said. who am ! that | should
criticise or find fault with a man who
can accomplish such work as this
Sir. ! lake of my hat to the man.
even though his methods may be diff.
ferent from mine"
| Dr. Batman went on TO say that he
mad attended the meetings of Dwight
l.. Moody in New York. and had work
cd with number of other LEADING
eNangelisis. but that Rev. Sunday was
The peer OF them all He will come
10 your city as "A stranger. and in six
weeks VIII leave with more friends
than any man in Wheeling" the
speaker said. "as many who have bit
/ ter hatred In store for him will love
/ him pas-iouately before these light.
shall have been turned off for the last
; time"
IIr. Ha,nan then took up the Gle
. NJ MS oi PECULIAR strength in "A Sun
! day campaign. among the most prom
ineni. he said. being the union o.
Christian churches: that the bringini
together Of the church forces haC
much 20 do with the success OF th,
campaign that interest would he cen
tired az the tabernacle when IN,
churches Werc closed during the cam
paiEu The higness of the thing. hi
tHid. Ras sl4o AN
Element o. Peculiar Streno,b.
"" SAID hat tho campaign would D.
hil enough 10 max. religion me. grea
out landing fact no this community
men church has revival DO SCI
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