Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

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IN many cities where he has conducted
meetings by approving the association
and by raising large funds for its sup
port.
II count my friendship with Mr.. Sum
day as one Of h rare privileges of my
life"
The change from active outdoor life
to the comparative confinement of in
stitute work at first interfered serious
" with Mr.. Sundays health and he
was obliged to take an extended vaca-
ton at Lake Geneva for recuperation.
More and more, however, he made
bis Y. M. c. A. work take him into the
open, and meeting with the various
classes of people whom it was his
province to interest.
An incident of his work is probably
typical of it's general trend. In one
of his sermons Mr.. Sunday says:
'sWhen I was assistant secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. In Chicago, I had H. L.
Hastings, who edited an anti-infide1 pa
per, send me $500 copies of it, Bob In
gersoll was delivering three lectures IN
Mcvicker's theater, and I had these
copies distributed to people on the side
walk as they went in or out. The first
night Ingersoll has a big audience. The
next night 1t was smaller, n on the
third night 1t had dwindled almost to
nothing.
Every day at noon, while Tngersoll
was lecturing, Hastings would go to old
Farwell hall and answer Ingerso1f1
statements OF the night before. One night
Ingersoli painted one OF those wonderful
word pictures for which he was justly
famous. He was a master of the use of
words. Men and women would applaud
and cheer and wave their hats and hand
kerchiefs, and the waves OF sound would
rise and fall like great a of the sea.
AS two men were going home from the
lecture one of them said to the other;
Bob certainly cleaned 'em up tonight
The other man said: There's one thing
he didn't clean up. He didn't clean up
the religion Of my old mother"
Another sermon expression throws
q light on the manner In which he was
cropping toward that self-expression In
which he came to excel, I'VE grew by
expression" He says:
'TWhen 1 first started out to be a
(urlSlldn L COulunI Stano up IN u prayer
meeting and use three sentences conse-
cutively. but 1 made it a rule to speak
whenever l got a chance and SO I over
came my natural difhdence. God blesses
me because l am determined to do some
thing for him.. / could ave sat still and
withered and milldewed like a lot of
you. God wants to develop us according
to nature"
The evangelist's own version Of his
Introduction into Y. M. G. A. work Is
interesting. He had a contract to play
with the Philadelphia baseball team at
the same time that he was particu-
larly DESTROYS Of taking up the new
work. He had already received his
orders to report for the trip South.
which is the common practice of large
baseball teams in the spring of the
year. Not knowing what to do Mr..
Sunday laid it before the Lord as a
business proposition" to quote his
own words. He decided that If he got
his release before March rs, he would
go into the Y. M. G. A. work, If he did
not get 1t he would play out the rest
of his contract. The release came on
March II. But with it came another
offer from Cincinnati which again
threw him into doubt. He was offered
a contract at $500 per month, while
his Y. M. G. A. position would give
him only $50. Consultation with