Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-07
TABERNACLE WON'T
HOLD EN-" SUNDAYS
ANSWER TO CRITICS
Evangelist in Merry Mood
De spite Yesterdays
"Frost" you'll Laugh
the Other Way Pretty
Soon," Is His Challenge.
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PATERSON, N. j., April L - BILLY"
Sunday breakfasted heartily on asparagus
this morning, and while he was eating
talked Paterson and the revival lie was
feeling better than ON any other, day
since hitting" the silk city and the big
trial of his evangclistiu career. lie
''joshed" everybody and everything
yesterday was FROST he read, and
laughed. Say, some Of you New York
and Philadelphia spool artists are, as
Mr. Hamlet would say, up against the
proposition to spool or not to spoof.' Go
10 it, boys, go to 1t.
'Amerlca Broadway. New York. Broad
way, Paterson, and Chestnut street. Phila-
delphia, will be laughing the other way
pretty soon,' he went on. "Paterson's s
little old tabernacle won't be able to hold
'em the folks will be fighting for a chance
at the trail Perhaps we got bad
start, but we won't need extra innings
to make a cleanup here for God"
TRIBUTE FROM sousA.
He chuckled and pitched into another
helping of asparagus, saying he'd preach
this afternoon his sermon Jacob Limped"
and tonight "Ye Have Not Passed This
Way Before" Then he talked about his
friend "Marchman" sousa, who had said
Ol lDillN idSl UlSnl, My young lrtenI
here, all the ministers agree, Is a good
baseball player, and all the baseball play
ers agree he's n good minister"
Billy wasn't a mite discouraged be-
cause many people are of the opinion that
this city Is Chilly to Billy"
The mill people here liked Sunday bet
ter today when they read that he had
prayed for revival that would send the
men of North Jersey home with their
pay envelopes full, none of the kale left
behind In the booze joints" revival
that would send men home ito kiss in
stead of damn their wives" and one that
would put clothes on the backs of the
wives and the kiddles."
That prayer was Just what the mill
people of Paterson wanted. 1t was lust
what the people wanted who are interest
ed in putting out of business the clty's
49G saloons.
In each of the II wards of this citv.
great prayer meetings were held this
morning. Hundreds of mill hands at
tended them.
WENT BETTER LAST NIGHT.
Sunday preached to a crowd of about
1000 persons last night, The audience was
more enthusiastic than in the afternoon.
The music went better also as the choir |
of about 1000 was there to help with the |
singing In the afternoon, as usual ex-
cepting on Sundays. there was no choir, |
and persons holding special admission
cards alone occupied seats in the choir |
loft.
The sermon was one of those that the |
evangelist preached during the first week |
of his Philadelphia campaign The topic |
was "Oh, Lord, Revive Thy Works." 1t |
was one of the sermons in which he goes |
after the different 'isms" and scores the |
hlghbrows' as the Pharisees and publi- |
cans of today.
$4,000 HAVE HEARD HIM.
The total attendance for the day was |
about 1000 persons Mill workers were
present in large numbers at night In
the afternoon the Offering amounted to |
S2l1 and at night it was 1923. Both col
lections go toward the expense of the |
campaign. The total offerings toward ex-
penses for the two days Sunday has
preached amounted to S223l. The total
attendance for the four services the
has conducted in the mill town
was about 2S.OOO.
The Rev. e. II. Emett, one of Sundays
assistants, who has been here several
weeks preparing for the revival, said
that the Offering and attendance for the
two days compared favorably with the
igures for the first two days in any town
the size of Paterson in which Sunday has
conducted a campaign.
Sunday announced this morning that he
would visit Philadelphia on one of his
Monday rest days during the Paterson
campaign, and would spend another Mon
day at Lehigh University,