The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-23
Sunday In Society
Billy Visits the Stotesburys.

over sawdust trait Of priceless Turkish rugs
society yesterday went forward and clasped the
hand of the foremost living evangelist. Billy
Sunday
The raftered walls of the tabernacle were
exchanged for the tapestried hangings I'M the
drawing rooms of the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward T. Stotesbury, sat the northeast corner
Of Twentieth and Walnut Streets
Women in imported crowns and men in smart
business clothes took the place of the general
averages who throng the tabernacle benches.
In an unfamiliar atmosphere the evangelist
delivered his message of Christianity, a mes
sage tempered by softness bearing as it's bur
oen however, the old eternal truth that he
forces home every time he opens his mouth
llhat man cannot live by bread alone.
The gathering was called for lo:30'A, NJ, and
at 10 o'clock Walnut and Nineteenth Streets
were lined with motorcars, lackeys in the Stotes-
bur- livery handing women out of their
machines and finally in the height Of the crush
and confusion the car bearing the evangelist
Grew up and the one-time ball player emerged.
followed by. the beaming Ma Sunday and by
Ehoirrnoster Rodeheaver, carrying little fold
ing organ such as itinerant preachers set up on
tcorrer lots
IL was just such a procession as must hun
dreds OF times have been led by Billy in the
days when first as lighting eX-ball playing
evangelist he started to redeem the world
TO-. Christ, The two drawing rooms in the front
os the house had been converted into an audi
forum by the addition OF rows of gilt chairs.
lGuI by t0:15 the chairs were hiled and Billy
occupying place between the doors Of
tuE rooms.
Man Without Soul.
He stared at the ceiling while the little organ
ground out brighten the Corner Where Y ou
Are the famous tabernacle hymn while Rody,
with his genius for making everybody sing. was
directing Alexander Van Rensselaer, and Tony
Rddle to take up the refrain and asking the
occupants OF the last seats in the right-hand
drawing room To join in the chorus.
1t a voice attuned to his surroundings
that the evangelist gave the clue to the mes
Sage he was to deliver. He toG the story of
the without country-Ed ward Everett
Hates master-Nolan who cursed his country
and after court martial sentenced TO live his
.lifN Of its sight and its influence, away from
the sound of its name and the blessings Of its
people. Then he drew the parallel of the man
without soul, the man who has forsworn his
God and given up his eternal country,
Some day" the evangelist said, Il want to
write the sequel to that story. | will call my
sequel The Man Without Soul ] consider
1.-THE story of Nolan of the greatest TRACE
dies ever written, and yet the story of the man
without soul is a greater tragedy
Normally, man is citizen of two worlds.
the world of temporal things and that of the
spiritual Every act >ne performs here affects
his citizenship in the world to come. Every act
polls n double suffrage. you
The average man looks pretty well after the
hnas Of this temporal world. Nobody doubts
its existence. We live in 1t. eat in it. rest
Under the shade Of its tree, pillow it and
il gives us back our sustenance.
Man Should Enjoy Life.
Every in while rosewater pink tea
roct VIII dip HIS pen in mist and suggest the