Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-29

his nome IN chicago mr.. SUNDAY WeHl
to Rochester, Minnesota, where he be-
gar a series of meetings on December
IS, 1905. The result of his meetings
In Burlington were $500 conversions,
and a free will offering of $4,000. Mr..
Sunday was assisted by Rev. L b.
Honeywell, as chief of stan, and F. @.
Fischer, musical director"
The Rochester, Minnesota, meeting
almost equaled that of Burlington &C
cording to the report Of A. P. Cove,
editor of the Rochester Daily Bulletin.
Mr.. Cove locates the campaign as be-
ginning December %, 1905, and ending
January 20, 1906. THE first sermon"
he says, was not preached until De-
cember go" From Rochester Mr.. Sun
day went to Princeton, Illinois. The
number of conversions is given as
1.244 and the free will offering at
$~2,206.S1. "In addition to this sum and
the expenses of the campaign $4,000
was raised Immediately following the
closing of the Sunday meetings for the
construction of a Y. NJ. G. A. building"
The same assistants participated in
the meetings as at the previous ones.
After a rest of only a few days the
Princeton, Illinois, campaign opened
February IL, 1906. and concluded
March IL, after which Mr.. Sunday
again returned to Minnesota, that time
to the town Of Austin. The number
of conversions reported was 2.225 with
a free will offering of $5,170. The
assistants were the same as the ear
lier meetings of that season. The
statements made here are vouched for
by H. A. Bailey, editor of the Bureau
County Republican.
Judged in numbers the Austin, Min
nesota, campaign did not measure up
quite to the mark Of the campaign or
two last preceding. It opened In
March and resulted in 1887 CONVEX
sions and a free will offering OF
$2,S67.53. This is the first campaign
of record where Rev. Elijah P. Brown,
n time editor of THE Rams Horn"
appears as an assistant. From Austin
MI. Sunday went to Freeport, Illinois.
The data of the Austin campaign Is
gathered from the files of the Herald
of that city.
Mr.. Sundays second incursion into
Colorado was made at the opening OF
his work after a summers rest Sep
TENDER %, 1906, at Salida- The CAM
paign ran n day less than a month,
closing October 81, according to F. G.
Woody, cashier of the First National
Bank at Salida. Mr.. Woody does not
give the number Of conversions, but
the unofficial record is 612, which COM
pares with the usual ratio observed
between the number of conversions
and the free will offering which in the
case of Salida was $1,000. This is the
first campaign in which fired" is mem
toned as having charge of the taber-
nacle.
By the opening of the next season
Mr. Sunday had largely increased his
working force. His campaign at Gales
burg, Illinois, began Saturday evening,
September 20, 1907, and continued
through Monday evening. November
4, OF that year.. From Galesburg he
went to Muscatine, Iowa The CONVEX
sions are given as 2.50s and the offer
ing as $6,340.71. In this campaign not
only did Mr.. Fischer, Mr.. Seibert and
Rev. Elijah P. Brown, but a Mr.. Butler
appears as a s~oloist, Miss Miller Is
mentioned for the first time as having
charge of Bible class and Melvin e.
Trotter assisted at the meetings. w.
w. Whipple, editor of the Galesburg
Mail, is authority for data concerning
the campaign in that city.
The proportions of the campaigns
continued to grow steadily. At Musca-
tine, Iowa, according to Frank D.
Throop, publisher of the Journal, there
we're 1879 conversions and a free will
offering Of $5.611.23. These meetings
began November 10, 1907, and closed
December 10. After the Muscatine
campaign Mr.. Sunday went for a visit
to his mother who then lived In Kan
sas. He remained there over the holi-
days, resuming his evangelistic work
at Bloomington, Illinois. His assist
ants included Fred Seibert, F. G.
Fischer, Mr.. Butler, Miss Miller, Mr..
and Mrs. Harper. There were "a meet
ings In all and the campaign involved
an expense of $4,000, which Mr.. Sum
day as usual raised In addition to the
free will offering. This was one of
the first places where an effort was
made to keep track OF the total num-
Der Of attendance and they are esti-
mated in excess of 100000.
At Bloomington, Illinois, according
to ]. L. Schofeld. General Secretary
of the z. M. G. A., the tabernacle was
made to seat 5000 which was the
largest up to that time. Bloomington
took on itself the credit OF being the
scene Of the first big meeting. The
campaign opened December 27, 1907.
and ended February 8, 1908, after
which Mr.. Sunday went to Decatur.
Illinois. THE tabernacle cost $4,500,"
according to Mr.. Scofield. THE meet
ings lasted 3S days with 1886 con-
verts. Mr.. Sunday received $7,763.17