El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-21
CONVERTS 10000
PIT7sBURG FOLK
Billy Sunday Surprises, and
Then Wins Over Vast
Throngs Of People.

Pit+sbur Pa. Feb. 2l-The elgnt
week camnaign Of Rev. DR.. Billy A.
Sunday in pittsburg ends tomorrow,
! aD5 T-yi+I effects so extraordinary d.
To make the story one Of nation Wloe
interest. Thirty thousand persons ln 41lo
women and children, have MT nv
/ sawdust trail" as going FORWARD IL
I profession of conversion IS pIclui
! esoue1v called. But this is by no means
/ the most extraordinary fact about tne me-
! ing held by the celebrated eXpaseDaii pi'l'
er and his associates. 40 breasts Of
There was trepidation in tne % et ios -
some of ssF3iIlv'5 Sundays admirers When ne
adventured a city Of the size OF Z 80 rs,
Hitherto his campaigns AaNe a. ,r,,,-cyr7tasied
in small places 1t was HeeIy - ~ i-oT
that he would not make dent on the IRON
10 come in a sentence to the most no
table fsrt abouf fine Sunday meetings, It Is
that the evangelist has stirred TINS uneLlo
uOnal city from center 70 ciICuIlile1 49,
ana downtown DarreoIiIiS7; IA "a I,is meet
Offices-everywher BILLY ana ms IleSL
ings are the common theme Of tan ,5i Tgeag
daily newspaper in the city mas puOII7li0
the sermons in full every DAY
Billy" Sunday in Millionaire Homes.
Regularly three times day the evangelist
breaches Often he sandwiches in two or
three additional addresses. At night ana
every afternoon he speaks in the big taber-
-
some what more than 5000 persons, At
noon he speaks in a downtown church. Ihere
were between $500 and $500 business men
damned into the First Presbyterian cnurch
at one noon service.
In the mornings the preacher has been
addressing parlOr meetings Of women IN
some of the most aristOcratAc homes in the
cltL Billy" Sunday is not commonly
thought Of as an ornament to millionaire's
parlOr but he seems to find the surround
tngs cOngenial, and he breaches the same
straight, Sundayesque messages that have
Pittsburg has taken up Sunday, and the
biggest business and public men Of the city
nave been seen at his tabernacle. Some have
mt. llIL Ihe s1Wdust trail week ago 10 po-
Hcemen detailed to the tabernacle went for
ward in a body Twenty others said they
We're gong later when they could take their
families with them, perhaps the most sensa-
uonal group Of converts ever made by
evangelist An persons who go forward are
eLIoteu' ana their names sent to the pastors
Getting the Crowds
Lhere are very few persons in Greater
PIttsburg who have not heard Sunday at
least once. Admission has been practically
by ticket so overwhelming has been the de-
lllalu- me huge auditorium is filled usually
an hour before the scheduled time of be-
ginning me time is spent in singing and
nearing delegations Deputa tons from near
" all the big business concerns in the city
have attended in a body One newspaper
alone sent 500 Of its employees and as tbey
stood up and sang their 'favorite hymn the
croWQs cheered. The tabernacle choir has
mad 1900 trained voices present nightly.
Hitting the Preachers.
A curious effect OF the meetings has been
that, Instead of promoting antagonism be-
tween the Protestant and Roman Catholic
churches quite the contrary has been the
result. The Catholic leaders say that Billy
mas been hitting the same evils as they, and
Lnelr people have thronged to the meetings
by thousands.
OF course the evangelist has criticised the
preachers, and the church in language with
barbs to it. A Billy Sunday meeting is
no place FOR a thin skinned minister Most
OF them have taken their medicine hand
sonely- the Episcopalian clergy, however,
domination Of what they termed the evanq9-
lts rreveFence and vulEarity'' after sun
day had been pitching into the preacher
The Lutherans from the first refused to CO.
operate with a revival campaign, as being
contrary to their usage.