The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

philosophy OF Greece! Martin Luther
IN Worms the ecc~lesiasticism of En- :
rore, Billy Sunday at Washington
before the culture and craftsmanship
Of America!
And all three. under very different
e7nironment and with very different
aouipment for life-serviCe. but i'm
RELIED by the same fathOmless. sea-
restless need Of a sin-cursed world |
and filed with the very same love-
driven Energy from above, were tell
ing the same old story. Il ave no
new message. I preach the old gos-
pel only" said Sunday in the second
sentence he addressed to a Washington
audience. His first word was one
thanking tho Speaker Of the House
of Representatives for a kindly and !
sympathetic introduction.
t was the same old story. and many |
~ those privileged to participate in
this remarkable scene were a-thrill |
with the conviction that the scholar
OF Tarsus who had sat at the feet OF
Gamaiel and the miners son from the
University of Erfurt, and the record
breaking b-ase-runner of the Ameri-
can diamond. all preached the same
gospel, and only the individuality OF
The preachers was different.
Give thousand people filled old
Convention Hall. at Fifth and K
streets. The last time it had been
filled was when Theodore Roosevelt
had given his lecture on 1.-The River
on Doubt" Five thousand five hum
dred tickets mad been issued, but
FIVE hundred ticket-hOlderS were
turned away, because the authorities
felt that the added crowd would en-
danger the safety of the building.
Ready for the show
Washington as a whole 1t is only
r,fY tn GOV had turned ont IFS social
creme de la creme to be entertained
by a well-meaning button. The cap
ital city is a great base ball burg, and
The folks-the bulk Of them-swarm-
ed INTO the hall to laugh over the base
ball slang Of a famous ex-player VINO
rad capitalized his fame by passing
The hat. The audience was willing to
chip in, when the collection was TAX
en, whatever it felt the show was
worth. Of course there were many
scores of Christian people who had
learned to appraise Gods Latest Mar
with a Message at his true worth, and
they were there because they belong
ell there. But curiosity was the NOV
ing motive with the majority.
II was a superb audience. On thu
platform sat tour cabinet officers
Bryan of State, Lane Of Interior, Red.
field Of Commerce, and Gregory o
Justice. Daniels Of the Navy hat
been called away from the city. bu
had sent a note to the evangelist ex
pressing his regret that he could no
De present, and thanking Sunday TO
endorsing in one of his Philadelphia;
rmo the wine mess order. There
too, were Miss Margaret Wilson an
Secretary to the President Tumulty
That b~iue-eyed fourteee-year-old la
on the second sea from the front G
the platform (and just behind Judg
Somebody is Jonathan Worth Dan
lels, son Of the Secretary Of the Navy
Senators were there, n congress
nen galore, insomuch that Cham
Clark in his Introduction said: L sc
q quorum Of the House present, an
we will therefore proceed to bus
ness" RepreseEtativ. Richmon
Pearson Hobson advocate Of a bigge
navy and of nationwide prohibltit
sat erect and attentive about thlrt
feet back for the platform. r
was there becaus- he is a refor.ner-
and l regretted that Sunday dldn
knock an Anti-Saloon League nom.
run just for Captain HObsOn's benef
lie watched and waited for it so wis
fully. But the evangelist was SO II
tent upon preaching regeneration IN
time that he didn't put the ball an,
where near the outfeld OF mere r
form.
Stretching backward to the re
We're the FIVE thousand from was
ington. the bulk of them per'a
members of the ;-rEy OF people WI
Serve the government.
The evangelist did not use a Wo
IF slang, unless j. was when he "
saying. "If I mad i've in Napoleon
day l would have followed his ST
for ne could hit the ball" He start
out seriously. and one could telepatl
cally sense the Impotence of t
crowd as it expectantly waited-a
waited some more-the arrival OF t
sentences Of slang. Why was II
holding the slang back as the
serves? Then again the telepatl
framework of five thou-and minds
one began to converge into = &C
sensus Of realization that Sunday h
cut out homely langu- e. WasaiT
ten had turned out to patrOnize, a