The Washington times., 1914-04-16
BILLY SUNDAY USES
MASS PSYCHOLOGY
TO SWAY AUDIENCE
,oted Revivalist's Methods in
Big Meetings Caught by
Times Correspondent.
Let US attend Billy Sundd

Let US dtteHd buy SUHddl
77eeting!
These meetings are not thu
, hole of BHly's campaigns, as i;
generally supposed. But they arr
re backbone of his efforts.
What does he do' Hop does he
Treacha Do the CROWDS go to b.
unused or to hear about Christ
Ire his prayers irreperent, and his
sermons a mere string of back
.Hey adjectipess
These questions, and others, are
answered in this article.
And tomorrow readers of this
series will be taken into the home
Of Billy Sunday, and given a close
range piew of the evangelist, his
wife and his other co-porkers in
ne busy, epentful routine of their
ally living.
By ]. R. HILDEBRAND.
Blend the word pictures and tender
pathos OF Dwight l.. Moody with the
picturesque slang OF George NJ.
Cohan. Combine the spontaneous
grace of Mikail Mordkin with the
raucous voice of Hughey jennings.
II your imagination Is strong, you
nave a faint picture of Billy sunday
N action.
In action" is right. That is the
only way you could catch Billy Sun
day. 1t takes a rapid shutter
camera to land him. Only q moving
picture machine could DO him JUS
ice.
Get the picture IN one of mis- big
IaDernacle meetings. Take last Sun
day afternoon when / heard him
preach to men in Scranton. He was
al his best, for il is men lie is try
Ing 10 reach.
II there is a heaven for fools"
nc shouted. the man who thinks he
can so to glory on his wife's reli-
sion will be there in a front seat.
And q little later, IF the WOMAN
mood Of America had been no better
than Its manhood, the devil would
have had the country fenced in long
ago"
It is an hour before Sunday will
ascend the platform. But the audi
Iorium is filled, with men only, mind
you. and the policemen are turning
late comers away.
And look al the, men. Not the
dovn-and-outers that other evange-
lists reach. Oh yes, there are oc-
cssional converts OF that type But
most conspicuous and surprising are
the prominent business men. law
yers and physicians. heads of city
departments.
And. wonder of wonders, last Sun
day two reporters, next to doctors
reputed to be the most International
specimens OF mankind, walked out
OF the press box and hit the trail"
They grasped Sunday by the hand
and Jumped back on their Jobs Cfor
reporters cannot take much time of.
even TO be converted) and kept on
senbbing the names Of well-known
citizens piling pell nell down the
slsles.
Mayor Leads Trail Hitters.
There's the son of the FIRE chief"
whispered one. And there's Rine
with another bunch of his engin-
GERS" interposed another. He re-
fsrred TO George Rine. general man
sger Of the Lackawanna Railroad,
whose shops and Offices employ
thousands in Scranton, who had hit
the trail earlier in the week and
who, ever since, had headed delega-
lions Of shop workers and engineers
and fremen down the sawdust trail.
There's the mayor. The mayor
was not trail hitter, but he headed
2 group Of city employees, and him.
self srasped Sunday by the hand in
appreciation OF his work despite the
'empestuous set-tos with him earlier
in the game over fire regulations
But we are skipping several chap
iers;; Sunday wont arrive for half
platform There is no applause
Sundays crowds are too reverent
for that, contrary to popular belief
Instead. there is hush AND
Rody' begins TO lead the choir Of
900 members in q militant gospel
"Rody'' is the popular nickname
for Homer Rodeheaver. trombone
player and choir director, whose
musical direction is a big feature of
the Sunday meetings.
There's no milksop sentiment about
the songs at Sundays meetings.
Onward, Christian Soldiers" Why
Not Now" and other militant gospel
hymns make up the musical pro-
grams
At the piano is B. D. Ackley, for
seven years Sundays private secre-
tsry and virtually the business man
Iger of the Sunday campaigns. Con-
ducting the music is the least part
OF his and OF "Rody's'' troubles.
These two work out the details cor
the big meetings. from furnishing
plans for the tabernacle that has to
be built for the crowds to training
the ushers. arranging for the hos