The Washington herald., 1914-03-29

SUNDAY STRIKES
FOR Higher PAY
Ball Player-Evangelist Says
Scranton Must Raise
More Money.
CAPITAL MAY HEAR HIM
PASTOR Federation Will Hear Reports
Tomorrow Morning on Ad-
visibility of Campaign.

Iecning fast enough to suit the former
hall player-evangelist. and he threatens
10 decamp Tor Huntington. W. Va,
where ths people. are anxiously waiting
sundays coming-and all because the
scrantonites have failed to pay up.
Sc dispatches to the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger intimated yesterday. and the
way Sunday went after the crowd in
the tabernacle was characteristic.
i am not going to carry this whole
burden on my shoulders" Sunday is re.
ported TO have said. and IL you church
people don't brace up you will see me
nying out of here before seven weeks
are up"
This is specially interesting to Wash
lngtonians in view OF the announcement
just made that the Pastors Federation
or Washington is considering the advisa-
bility of a Sunday campaign here. The
Pastors Federation has sent delegates to
Pittsburgh and Scranton to investigate
the merits of the Sunday evangelistic
propaganda. and will hear a report at
tomorrow mornings meeting.
! Rev. DR.. Charles Wood. of the Church
of the Covenant. visited Pittsburgh six
weeks ago and reported on the Sunday
methods.
| He is contradiction" he said, "an
abnormal. strange mixture of evil and
good: but my general conclusion in the
1
the ground is favorable to a Sunday cam
paign for Washington"
Views of EPiscopaIians.
Another of washington's Oldest and
| most conservative minister's another
Presbyterian. too. resident here forty
years. returned last night from Scranton
where, in his own words, he has passed
the week in attendance upon the Billy
Sunday meetings. getting evidence at
first hand of the great work God is doing
through him."
Il am going to tell the people Of the
Fourth Church something about IL Sun
day morning." declared Dew DR.. Joseph
T. Kelly. in an interview last night II
shall prefer not to give you my impress
sions until I have first spoken to my
people" II is understood that DR.. Kelly
will speak before the monthly meeting
Of the Pastors Federation tomorrow
morning at the Y. NJ c. A.
Much has been printed about the recent
campaign carried through by the Billy
Sunday organization at Pittsburgh The
people are divided in their Judgment. The
Episcopal church held aloof One OF its
leading periodicals. the ChurChman, had
a story last week of the pros and cons
of the campaign. in the course of which
the author. Stuart Maclean. had this to
say:
Billy Sunday has come to Pittsburgh
and gone. Whatever he accomplished, he
did it without the help or even the as
sent of the Episcopal Church. More: he
did it in the face OF the church's public
criticism.
The marvel of il is that Billy Sunday
did things. under God. in Pittsburgh
that no church body has ever done or
come near doing. There is no use shut
ting our eyes To that unpalatable fact
For eight weeks he kept a city of 10000
people shaking. In a rude frame build
ing. seating 1850 persons. he conducted
two and three meetings daily. He had
LOO volunteer singers in his choir The
estimated attendance at his IA meetings
was l.516.00O people, and that figure rep
resents only those who got inside.
Politicians Ask Prayer.
Profession of conversion was made
by 26.60l persons. This buffoon of an
evangelist made religion subject OF or
dindry conversation. People talked about
their souls as freely as about their break
fasts. He went into the homes of the
rich. dropped his wildness of speech, and
made society women cry with shame and
ontTitiOn. Ones eternal welfare became
the topic of the dinner table. not only in
the slums but in the houses of fashion.
CITY politicians came forward at the
meetings and asked for prayer As a |
mere spectacle of a whole modern city
enthraIIed ny the gospel it was astonish- !
ing. unbelievable. Unprecedented, pro-
diGious.
From the beginning of the movement |
the Episcopal Church held aloof. The
Episcopal party clergy are de facto men, !
bers of the Ministerial Union which in |
vited Mr.. Sunday to Pittsburgh They
T,nff
merely stayed away, as has been their |
custom. |
Liquor Interests Oppose Him.
The active opposition 10 Mr.. Sundays |
Pittsburgh revival came, as usual from |
The liquor element, which raised money |
and sought 10 block the building license |
for The so-caIled tabernacle.
The Sunday machine approached Del
fectiOn. Frreru3ncrs organized cottage !
prayer meetings. a choir of hundreds of !,
voices and 4 hndy Of trained ushers. |
When the tabernacle doors wers opened |
thousands were waiting. Subsequently |
people almost fought I0 get inside
1t was no uncommon sight to see men |
running through the streets from their ;
Offices and stores in order to get a seat |
at one Of these meetings, a reply 20
which Is :hat people will ALWAYS flock 10 I
free show. However. thousands and |
thousands OF Pittsburgh people went out
Of curiosity 20 hear Billy Sunday, and
within an hour found themselves PRAYING
IS they had never prayed.
The converts were said 20 hit the
sa Hdust trail EpiscOpaiians troG the
sawdust, along with Presbyterians and
BaPtists and Lutherans and Christian
Scientists and Roman Catholics. Every I
convert signed a card specifying his
church preference. and these cards were
sent around TO the different ministers and |
clergy. 1t is said that on at least one
occasion the cards were torn in pieces uy
an angry cleric. certain Presbyterian l.
church received 40 new members in one
day. Most OF the Episcopal clergy ignored
the cards.
100000 Is His Reward. !,
a resolution of protest was drawn in
some quarter of the Episcopal church and
was sent to the clergy. 1t was signed by |,
every Episcopal clergyman in the city ex-
cept four. BY many these four were high
~ praised; by almost as many severely
Several of the Episcopal clergy went
to one or two or three OF the taber-
nacle meetings. One priest Of the church
on the platform one night and !
led the congregation in the Lords PRAYER.
when Mr.. Sunday left Pittsburgh he
had received free-wili offering, roundIy
stated, of $4,000 Much was made of this
by his critics: yet only those people gave
WhO wished IN fiya l..