Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-25
ACQUISITION 70 ANSWER.

| How does Billy Sundy dc it? Last
night the tabernacle which is SAID 10
hold between 10000 and l10co people
was full to standing room and with
groups crowded al the open windows
| and doors craning their necks 70 see
and hear the evangelist. II was an
audience not to be seen outside OF
Sunday tabernacle. Looking from the
Pile under light that brought out clear
and distinct the features Of every per-
son back to the standing crowds near
ly block away the impression was
definite of mighty power
What brought this assemblage
of 1000 people %; al sorts,
conditions and colors together last
evening? What was it tina: brought
a similar gathering 10 sit in the same
seats four hours previous? VIVA.
brings those VINO crowd That mon
strous building day after day and
night after night to fill and refill again
that mighty auditorium? Looking
down at that marvellous audience, the
greatest that any man ever spoke to
in Iowa the impression vas that the
onlooker was in the presence OF an
nlimita BILE force. Why should 1900
persons hang on the words of one
man in such intense quiet and atten-
ton that his every utterance and ges-
ture reached and moved every one TO
the farthest? What is ii? 1t is there
attracting thousands from their homes
10 sit on hard benches, aoding them
to the moment OF dismissal, moving
them powerfully while they stay and
going home with them as they leave.
OF course it proves the power OF
the preacher: but that isn't an ex-
PLANTATION. There are other powerful
orators and sermoniZers, great lee
turers with great messages but none
Of these can bring such mighty con-
courses together and that twice day
for thirty days. Organization? II isn't
an explanation for the organization Of
the Sunday meetings while a model OF
its kind is not more thorough than
hundreds of other organized efforts.
Hypnotic suggestion? Bosh. that is
the explanation of cheap mind Ex-
traction is that draws educated and
ignorant young and old, rich and poor.
wise and simple, good and wicked. to
crowd into barrack OF boards or
stand disappointed at the doors and
windows of a Sunday tabernacle.
One thing these great crowds make
evident beyond cavil: that the deepest
impulse Of all mankind is the religious
Impulse; that men and women of all
grades and c,assifications intellectual
and moral are close TO God in their
hearts and seek in common impulse
a holding anchor for their souls; that
the great vital truths of religion and
right living still grip human lives;
that religion and hope and decent nv
ing and brotherhood are rooted in
human hearts and respond to move
ment like this as plants respond to
rain; that christianity, however diver
sifed its doctrines and divided It's fol-
lowers still stands four-square agains.
all the floods and that religion is still
the cornerstone of civilization and
good government and righteous living.
that the world instead Of forgetting
Christ is coming to know Him better
and to see Him as clearly alive in the
world today as upon the cross beyond
the centuries.
There is the evidence Of super
human force before us. What is you.
explanation of 1t and its source?