Evening journal., 1915-02-04
path TO GLORY"
Plea Wins MANY
Billy Sunday Again Thrills
Monster Audience With
Gospel Story
342 MORE HIT THE
SAWDUST TRAIL


PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb A.
Three hundred and forty-two peni-
tents OF all classes and degrees hit
the trail yesterday afternoon and last
night in Billy Sundays big taber-
nacle. Many came down the golden
path to glory" beneath palpably
strong emotion. but the greater num-
ber were placid. even apathetic. The
stirring scenes of the earlier weeks,
for once at least, were not repeated
Policemen, trolleymen and marines
were among those accepted last night
So also We're number of intoxicated
men-perhaps the best tribute to the
evangelst's power yet shown in the
campaign. One of these kept himself
/ in evidence by loudly shouting
! THANK youl" at every pause in the
closing prayer of the service; am
other insisted that he was Napoleon
Laioic. back on the turf"
/ Twenty-eight delegations were
named over and made to show them
selves by Homer A. Rodeheaver. the
was made up of 1000 or more persons
. from lllE DlUlt Nldc0tn VI tA'bhas
This delegation came down from the
river-front centre of industry in half
a dozen squadrOns of special trOlleys,
and il appeared and departed singing.
The usual presents to the eyangel-
isl and Rodeheaver were not forgot
ten. One contingent presented sun
day with a housecoat and an um-
brella: another with a black morocco
travelling bag filled with toilet neces-
saries and even provided with Bible
Fruit and flowers, in baskets as iall
as man and very nearly as heavy
we're stacked in pairs on the platform
The evangelist pleaded in vain with
the members of these visiting parties
to come down and profess conversion
At the close OF the service he de-
clared.
81 don't care to give reservations
lust TO fill up this tabernacle. II
thought ! was doing nothing more IN
Philadelphia than just gratifying
YOUR curiosity. so help me God. ia
, pack my trunk and go home from
here tonight n.,
! gifts sent him.
alf its more blessed TO give than ia
lrecciNc YOU must nc oNei"hel'''" 80
night with blessings"
The worthcssncss OF learning ana
i,haractcr without Christianity was EN-
phasizcd again last night at every polrt
"You NAV have the Wisdom and INC
learning of the whole world, but WIN
out Jesus Christ its useless.
ANY fool can 90 to hell, but 1t take.
: a man to stand up for Jesus Christ. =
dead fish floats over the dam, but li''
nnc wrigglcs against the current. Nou r'
j dead 'un"
= The visit of Christ to Zacchcus wa
n pointedlv illustrated, the evangelist act
8 ng over the behavior of Mrs. Aacch
n Gus" um being told a visitor was comlni
TO the house children were slapped, lh
n feather dustcr and the carpet s"ecpe
aeonizmgly showed out Of the way th
lady herself hastily titivatcd, ana Aii
> John" MIR. Peter" MIR Nathamei,
~Alr james" simpercd at IN turl
o through the process of Introduction.
other incidents Of the visit, real
v imagined, were not missed.
l. "rhev'd been discussin' Jesus-witl
the dis left of-before He hove IL
sight
!. SZaecheus was the most unpopular maj
= of his day like the saloonkeepers Fl
!, ours. Gosh, if | went up to a saloon
!, keepers to dinner some Of yon boob
have a fit.
"Zaccheus' system was the only sm2l
4 tax system ! ever heard of that worked
% They taxed man once and they neNe
D. needed to come back. They got all i'
Is had the first time"
Il Speaking OF himself, lac SAID
"If God Almighty would give me tn
e privilege of going down into hell am
n preaching one sermon with an invita-
A tion to come TO Christ at the end OF !
- I'd depopulate hell in ten minutes.
81 wish I could describe the beau
4 ties of heaven and break people
= hearts with the desire to get there.
The afternoons attendance, lik
Yesterdays. was small to the point
:. .lsparseness. Although ten thousan
u norsons. at the very least, were sci
. fled in the building by. half-past on
is the rear seats were empty ana 10 sus
Ie ceptible persons they looked more q
e less forlorn.
Students from Lincoln Universit
m furnished. perhaps, the most inter
estinp feature of the afternoon. The
10 delegation. including about one hun
90 dred young colored men, sang for III
re- audience a half dozen almost forgo
,e ten gospel tunes of slavery days in tn
south. "Steal Away Home repeate
o. at the request of Sunday himself wa
m sang.
AZ the afternoon service the eval
. aolist declared his willingness to n
~ -, Ia pbiladelnhia for ten weeks
- necessary. The fear that his supp
=, of sermons might be used up was u
- CHIEF objection. he added, to his 7
naming here. Speaking of his rece
ne tion in philadelphia, he said;
e I'm stuck on Philadelphia. nev
M have been in a city more alive to u
g sense of hospitality toward the stran