Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-05
BILLY SUNDAY CALLS
TAFT'A GOOD SCOUT,
THOUGH A UNITARIAN
Paterson Gives Evangelist
Enthusiastic w e | C o me,
and He Wins Cheers With
Vigorous Opening Ser
mons.

PA1EhSNNg ~ Jst Npil u tNtl sun
r,,bbcd the sand from its eyes this morn
ing. and asked: We'll, what do you
think of Bin?" In the city's $50 silk
mills men and women. wan-faced boys
and girls talked over BILLY" Sunday
els there" they demanded, anything
IN all that talk of his about Christianity
settling all difficulties between capital and
labor masses and classes? Well well
wait and see
THAT is Patersons attitude, an attl-
+ude of watchful waiting. 1t has been
warned by the 7. w. w. leaders, Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn and the rest, to take
Bill easy when he talks economic rights
THE church members are for "Blly."
They are enthusiastic over the first day
of his campaign. But it wasn't an over
ontbusiasttC day. BILLY is worn man
He didn't get going" until last night
when he preached his slangy epgram-
matte "Sins of Society,"
lie was all on fire today It's fire of
enthusiasm, burning the weariness out of
his system He talked Unitarlanism as
no was eating his breakfast-aganst II.
~ course. Mostly, he talked eX-Presdent
TAFT What he said was inspired by the
accessibility of prominent Unitarian speak
ers being brought here to wage
counter campaign.
He laughed at the suggestion that the
ex-president might sneak against him
"why." said MIA" "Mr Wanamakor
+ook MS to see Mr.. Taft in Philadelphia
and Mr.. Taft told us the reason he was
a Unitarian was because he was born
that way. He said he had nothing against
other churches. If he'd been born into
some other church he'd probably have
been q member of 1t still"
"TAFTS A FINE SCOUT"
"Take it from me-" BILLY" nodded en-
phatically, "Mr Taft's a fine scout"
He didn't say much for President
Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, who talked
ITnitarianism in Philadelphia before
"Billy" campaigned there.
II was one of his typical days of tcst.
He wanted to go to New York. but Ma"
wouldn't let him. SO he visited the Mayor.
other city officials leading bankers and
manufacturers instead. Mayor Fordyce,
who isn't back of his campaign to any
great extent, just talked baseball with
BILLY" and agreed with him when he
said:
"Paterson's a fine old town."
Sunday, wiry, muscular, booze-hghtinG.
Sunday. wiry, muscular, booze-hghting,
slang-throwing and, yet, old-time preacher
of the old-tme religion, leaped to the top
of the high platform in the big taberna-
Gle in this city yesterday for two ser
mons, and began another battle with
Satan before audiences that crowded the
building and overnowed into the streets.
Paterson didn't mind the snow or ANY,
thing else. No person was heard to conf
plain a wee bit that Old King Winter had
stolen away the glory of the spring flow
ers and the Easter fashion parade, for all
thuoghts here We're TUNED toward the
great wooden temple, and some 20,OOO per-
sons fixed their eyes on Sunday and felt
satisfied
The audience went Wild when BILLY"
was seen, coat collar high about his ears
and his gray hat in his hand coming
down one of the aisles back of the pulpit
in the choir loft. For half a minute tine
audience applauded, and then young
woman jumped to her feet in the centre
of the auditorium and, by waving her
handkerchief, gave the signal for Chau-
tauqua salute.
PRAISES PHILADELPHIA
Sunday paid his compliments to Phila-
delphia when he first started to speak.
when YOU used to think about Phila-
delphia," he said, you thought about
the Declaration of Independence; Frank
lin walking through the streets with
loaves of bread under his arm; Franklin
flying his kite with a key on it. Now you
think of something else. Philadelphia
has started something. 1t has started
the greatest religious awakening the
country has ever known. The city's
name has taken on a new meaning"
Billy warmed up to the people o,
Paterson Immediately through his per-
sonal words for the silk town. After he
had shaken the hand of every one of the
clergymen who occupied a section beside
the choir-loft and had introduced his CO.
workers, he told his attentive hearers that
ne mad fired Paterson Rogers locomo-
tive in his early, harum-scarum days"
and then he won over the baseball crowd
by talking of the famous old hero Jim
MeCormick of diamond fame, whom he
mentioned as my old side kick"
Right in the beginning he spoke of
nose persons who had been attacking
MN and who had declared that he had
demanded a guarantee in cash before he |
would consent to come to Paterson.
The same old liars have been going
around here" he said distributing their
stories that Bill wouldn't come unless he |
mad guarantee That's a black lie of
me deVlrs own make, and the fellow who |
,eHs II Is a liar and knows he is. |
haven't asked Paterson for a penny, All |
mat has been asked has been for the |
cost Of this building, the money to pay |
the electric lights, the coal bills and the |
expense of conducting the campaign
there's no such a thing as a guarantee |
lor me, The money that you are asked |
70 contribute in the collection now is for
1nsse expenses. So get busy and help |
wipe out your debt"
In the afternoon he gave one of his |
sermons on THE Holy Ghost" and at |
me night service he preached on '"Fhe |
slns OF Society,"" All the towns near
raterson turned out in force TO hear
nun, many persons facing difficulties TO
kel through the high-drifted snow There |
were also some New Workers in the |
thIong, but the crowd from that city was
hot as large as had been expected on the |
oneningIday
SUNDAY Cradi.oa g.. f,,..-,;