Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-22

be. Some other cities the interest is
not so keen. but l a almost find a
reason for that locally.
4The town or city that can land
Billy Sunday is certainly fortunate.
It ean crowded churches; much
work for souls; finances plenty and
an all-round healthy spiritual growth.
II can go into a place where he has
been and raise $4,000 easily, where
] could not get $1,000 before"
g. Walter Barr. well known through
the Middle West as a writer of fiction
and short stories subjects, travelled
with the Sunday party for. a consid-
cradle time in the earlier campaigns
IN Iowa and Illinois. His description
of the meetings and his analysis of the
character of the mar although made
in the opening years of the present
century continue to circulate freely
in the press of the country.
Homer A. Rodeheaver is an Ohio
product born In Hooking county and
educated at the Methodist school, Ohio
Wesleyan University Of Delaware.
Originally destined for a musical and
dramatic career, he early abandoned
all thought of this to take up music
along religious lines. In addition to
this choir work and solo work with
the Sunday campaigns Mr. Rodeheaver
Is the head of a music publishing
house in Chicago and in constant
demand by Chautauqua and camp
meeting assemblages. His musical
compositions are in demand from
coast to coast and he is one of the
half dozen great religious song writer's
of the country.
Associated with Mr.. Rodeheaver In
a musical capacity, but acting as con-
fdential secretary to Mr.. Sunday, Is
B. D. Ackley, whose home is Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Ackley Is a pianist of
exceptional accomplishment, the au.
thor Of many fine hymns, and is inter-
ested in a number of musical publica-
tions. Originally a railroad ticket
handler in the East he abandoned this
work when his musical ability forced
itself upon the attention Of his asso-
ciates. Mr.. Ackley is a s~tenographer
and one of the few in the country who
is even partially successful in report
ing Mr. Sunday in his tremendous
rapid-ire flights of oratory. Mr.. Ack-
ley has composed the melodies for
many of the songs which are most
popular and effective during the Sun
day REVEALS.
One OF the unique characters of the
Sunday party is Fred r. Seibert, who
is known as "the cowboy evangelist"
He is also the keeper Of the taber.
nacle and the one person who is on
duty "a hours put of "a. OF German
Jewish extraction his features give
him out to be rather n of the Mex
leans with whom he associated so
long, than what he really is. Born in
Waverly, Iowa, he was broncho buster
for many years and rode the range
when that was an accomplishment
that tried the mettle Of which men
were made. He Joined the Sunday
party in 1905. With all his life in
the West he is a graduate of the
Moody Bible Institute, the author of
a pamphlet on Rescue the Perish
Ing" and Is an adept at Bible quota
ton. He can cite at will 1,400 verses
from the Scripture. The conversion
of Seibert dates back to 1895, when
leaving a gaming table to go home in
disgust he passed a church and was
drawn by the music he heard to enter
and participate in a revival then In
progress. He was converted at that
meeting and at once took up work
among the ranchmen and cowboys
who were his regular associates.
In 1906 Miss Frances Miller, a
newspaper ONE of st. Louis, joined
the Sunday party. Her specially has
been work among business women
and the organizing of Bible classes. in
which she has been prominently sue
cessful.
Miss Grace SAKE joined the Sunday
forces in 1911. Miss SAKE has had a
variety Of experiences in missionary
work and is also a contributor of
some note to religious publications.
While visiting in Egypt she was as
signed to go down the Nile and get an
interview with Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt when he was returning
from his famous hunting expedition
In Africa.
The general manager of the Sunday
Is Rev. L K. Peacock. q
minister OF pronounced success In
Western Pennsylvania, who gave mp
his pulpit to follow Mr.. Sunday. It is
Mr.. Peacock who first meets visiting
delegations, who threshes out the pre-
liminary arrangements for campaigns,
who Visits the city once OF twice be-
fore the meetings open, and who IL
called upon to I'LL the pulpit upon
those comparatively rare occasions
when Mr.. Sunday for any a can
not be present. The evangelist vas
attracted to Rev. Mr.. Peacock by
hearing him preach, he found that
Peacock had taken a run down" con-
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