Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-26
BILLY SUNDAY

Much depends nowadays upon how theology is dshed up in order paatable the great army of the unredeemed. Present needs call for what would be called colloqually rough work" That is the sort work which the evangelist. Billy Sunday handing out"
 New York does not lack preachers who strike the sensational their pulpit oratory gladly sort to rhetorical violence their efforts arouse their auditors good and gody lives. Yet we do not remember that even the most daring of these ministers of the Gospel has turned away 5000 wouldbe hearers after 5000 had been packed the auditorium in which his message to be delivered. This is the thing that Billy Sunday did recently in Car negie Hall.
 MT. Sundays methods not novel. He is, indeed, old-fashoned degree His doctrine is of the sim ples He breaches heaven and hell. God and the devil the familisS manner the campmeeting evangelist His appeals crude rough He does seek win his with honey, but belabors them with threats. He uses copiously the slang of the street There is refinement of dicton careful balancing phrases effort soften the denuncations, to ex sinners. make the path of the righteous seem easy. Harsh, blunt. uncompromsing, how does he results that put him in unique position in this country today?
 The churches wonder and complain at their empty pews. Religion is dead" the desparng Christian "t has been killed by golf by Sunday baseball oy So ciasm, by indifference. by cheap sophisticaton that springs from petty bit of half education swallowed but digested. " And meanwhile Billy Sunday achieves such riumphs at the sinners bench recall the noble days of old and give life to gallery of worthies whose activities the knowing poke mild fun Billy Sunday will do in the Middle West in the ru' ral environments" say the wise Thereupon Billy
 Sunday betakes himself the and cities that rejoice call themselves urban and them upside
 down repeating with their snug populations his sue cesses with the supposedly less alert ruraists. He comes the capital of supercious proyncalism. self satisfied conceited New York. and the belted police are put to it handle the crowd he draws That Billy Sunday, in his language has the punch" Is pain but that does explain everything
 Other men sincere not less devoted than Billy
 Sunday fail where he brings prosperity to his cause Is 1t has the gift the mysterious call, which
 marks one man of thousands do the particular kind of work in which he engages?
 ' over the value of the results obtained by eyangel
 ica work the done by Billy Sunday there is still ' dispute The camp meeting the revival have beer
 subjected to the statsticians impartial examination ana
 condemned in tabular statements. The backsders ar' notorious; yet there who do not backsldge ID some brands pucked from the burning some repenah ones who amend their ways. Perhaps the satisciar tell the whole story in his carefully revised D columns.
 One thing Billy Sunday does prove The talk or e decline religious interest is without subsanta u basis The hopes and fears of immortality posses n the human Perhaps the institutional church wt
 its subtle invitation to faith through shower baths Is gymnasius moving picture shows and dance halls ma n not draw them out expression. but when the mase chord is touched they reveal themselves in these day ot as they did in the times of our fathers