Evening journal., 1915-03-02
SUNDAY Sees THE
BRANDYW|NE Field
Sees Spot Where Howe'S
Men Killed His Great
Grandfather
HE CRITICISES
HIS CRITICS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March o.
Billy Sunday spent yesterday. his
ninth "rest day" since coming TO Phil
adelphia, in visiting historic scenes
in Delaware and Chester counties.
With Mrs. Sunday as his sole COM
panion, the evangelist started early
in the morning for a motor trip to
West Chester, where in the afternoon
he talked to students at the State
Normal School Previous TO that. with
Dr. George Morris Phillips, principal
of the Normal School, as a guide, the
Sundays visited the Revolutionary
battle-ground at Chadd's Ford.
The route followed led through
Fairmount Park and on the MontgOm-
cry pike to Radnor, where a brief stop
enabled BILLY and Mrs. Sunday TO
inspect Old st. David's Church. In
the quaint old chapel, where Mad An
thony Wayne and George Washington
worshipped, and the little graveyard
where General Wayne was buried, the
revivalists found much to interest
them. Mr.. Sunday would not leave
until he sat for a few minutes in
Washington's pew, while Mrs. Sunday
played several old hymns on the
church organ. Standing before the
monument erected TO the memory Of
General Wayne. Sunday barred his
head and spent moment in silent
prayer. Signal Hill and Paoi, re-
calling stirring Revolutionary actions,
we're next visited. AT PaOli the Sun
days were guests of William Wayne,
great grandson of Mad" Anthony, at
the Wayne homestead
"My eat-grandfather on my moth
er's side was killed in the battle Of
the Brandywine," Mr.. Sunday told
Doctor Phillips, who met the visitors
at the entrance to the Normal School
grounds. The party drove about the
old Brandywine battlefield, where on
September IL. 1777, the British forces
under Lord Howe met the American
troops under Washington, administer
ing a defeat which compelled Wash
ingtons retreat to Valley Forge. The
evangelist and Doctor Phillips talked
history all the way on the return
trip. Sunday asking many questions.
At the Normal School about 1900
students, mostly girls, were waiting
impatiently in the big auditorium.
They cheered when Doctor Phillips
announced that Mr.. Sunday had
agreed to break his "rest day" rule
and talk to them. Several hundred
farmers who had learned OF the
cvangelists visit also we're in the
audience. Sunday spoke BRIEFLY,
making no effort at a regular sermon.
Sunday handed a few jolts to his
critics in the course of his talk AL
though he mentioned no names, 1t
was obvious he had in mind President
Hibben, of Princeton, and some others
who recently criticised the evange-
lists use of slang in his sermons.
drill your own tunnels through
the mountains of difficulty and win
success" he told the students. do
this, no matter how much people may
sneer and mock you.
I'D have stopped preaching long
ago if I'd pay any attention TO the
sneers and mocking of my critics.
These are the things l thrive on these
days. know there's lot of peo-
pic who aren't doing anything, so
they must have some way TO occupy
their time. So let them go ahead
and enjoy themselves by talking about
me. | don't give a whoop.
"I don't give a rap If some college
professor does call my sermons
vulgar and crude because / use
slang" Sunday asserted, wheeling to
face the faculty on the platform. Il
wouldn't walk across the street TO
speak to that type of fellow. As
long as | can win one soul for Christ
through common language, | don't
intend to change my way of speak
ing. If I'd use all the classic WORDS
you fellows know half the audience
would 60 TO sleep.'