Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-04-16
Billy Sunday Affects
the Larger Cities
BILLY esuNDAY

sPaHSei5Lic entry into the field OF tn
larger cities, al signaiized by his one
night appearance in New York an
his Plttsburg campaign of eigh
weeks, brings THE baseball reyiva.
list" under discussion al the hands 0
a new set of critics. The Baltimor,
Sun, whose editor has evidently no
yet come under his spell, wonder.
skepticaiIy whether people are inter
ested in him becadse he Is a preache
who achieves the impossible by max
ing money at the job, or because ht
offers himself as a substitute for {
vaudeville sbow." Mr.. Sunday cams
to New York TO open the annual cam
paign OF the E~YangeIistic Committee
Of the city, and his one discourse in
Carnegie Hall was heard by 1900 per,
sons. while 5000, according to press
reports. we're turned away from the
doors b. the police. His eight-week
period ia Pittsburg is called the
greatest e~yangelistic revival of mod
ern times aud 1t is on record that
at i24 meetings ne preached TO audi
ences ~oggregating approximately one
and a half millions. while professions
OF conversion were made by 26, COL
parsons In considering the man and
his work ariters in both the religious
press ard the secular may be found,
as asuai, who are either decidedly in
aror 81 SUNDAY or decidedly opposed
10 hila and his methods, "a the novel
fasrure 81 tue eyangelist's present
position 3 his surprising conquest Of
Pftsseagg and the impression left by
hfs affus visit . New YORK On this
point tae New York Sun observes:
BEliy sunday viii do in the Mid
ole West in tie rural environment
SIR shs wise zGsn Theraapon Billy
Sunday sesakas himself TO the Towns
gas ciflas tbA rejoice 80 call them
SELVES Ersaan. alaa turas them upside
6awn. -teIssa1Iisg R8lk iheir SNUG pop
naafions tsig saeGassss with the sup
paseHlg ess ALERT fprRIists. He comes
70 the capital III -sBparclllaus ~proyin
e-{aiisus a~elfsaIisHea, ~cuaefited New
Yafil ara the aesateG police are put
To q ta handle tue crowd be draws.
zane oh The Lutheran churches oT
d lire Fru;fsstaHs Episcopal churches
topk a active TART IN Billy sunday's
burs campaign, but a writer in
Tire g~issireiamail protestant Episco
New gerE remarks.
hills SUNDAY has come to Pitts
burg q gems whatsoever he accom-
rlsafaea, ne aa h without the help or
aYen aaH saeat of the Episcopal
ahareh aare ha did III in The face
of tte clfurxh 4 public criticism. I'm
1anp1edIg To MARY outside the church
bar aasftstae t8Uard the Sunday re
viva appear Isegplicahle. or worse,
which u j grave statement. To many
seemed the only possible at
atnae. ;
This aluiI0on OF an evangelist made !
relfg Ftsr d subject of ordinary CONVEX
l4atios People talked about their !;
souls III. ffeeiF as about their break {
gasta, Fa went into the homes OF the
rioh dropped his wildness Of speech,
aad made aoeietg women cry with
sfiaine and eontrisicn. Ones eternal
welfare became the topic Of the din
uarsIaDle, aoE only in the slums, but
III The houses ot fashion. II sounds
Incredible. and 1T Is not a fact TO be
.sraagpea tly the mere reading about it,
hut the citizens OF Pittsburg forgot
10 De ashamed to mention prayer and
forgiveness of sins, and the name of
Christ began to be used with simple
ness and readiness and reverence by
who two months ago employed
&c only as d byWora City politicians
cams forward at The meetings andl
asked FOR prayer. The daily news
papers gave more space 10 salvation
HAN they did 10 scandal. not for one
day. but day after day and week after
week Az a mere spectacle Of a
whole modern city enthralled by the
xospeI it was astonishing. unbeliev.
able, unprecedented, prodigious
Although the amounts donated TO
Mr. Sunday may 4 large, this
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