Evening star., 1915-03-10
Washington Delegation Unable
to Get Definite Answer
From Evangelist.
INVITATION is TAKEN
Under AMUSEMENT
Seventy-Nine Clergymen From Here
Visit Philadelphia, But Fail
to Accomplish Object.
.cial From a staff Correspondent.

special From staff Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. March 10
Billy Sunday today received a dele
cation of seventy-nine clergymen from
Washington. who urged upon him to &C
TO the nations capital, but he declined
10 give a definite answer at this time
lie said he would take the matter un-
der advisement.
Mr.. Sunday expressed great appre.
citation of the demand being made upon
him from Washington. and apparently
was greatly impressed by the repre-
sensations Of the city's needs Of re-
vfval meetings, as outlined by several
of the clergymen.
Dr. Clarence A. Vincent, pastor Of the
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church,
was the spokesman for the delegation.
William Knowles Cooper, general sec
retary of the Y. NJ C. A, acted as joint
leader with DR.. Vincent.
Even ma" Sunday Non-Committal.
The delegation waited for more than
half an hour for MA" Sunday, feeling
that upon her wishes the decision of
Billy" would rest in large measure.
She received the ministers pleasantly,
but was very non-committal.
One of the strongest pleas made was
that by Rev. F. ]. Prettyman, chapla in
of the United States Senate, who de-
Mr.. Sunday during a session of Con-
2ress would bring about untold good.
He called attention to the number of
congressman who took an active inter-
est in Billy'S recent visit.
Rev. DR.. Butler, the only Lutheran
minister present, spoke of the number
of Lutherans now in Washington who
wanted Sunday to come.
In his reply. Mr.. Sunday spoke of the
great wave which he said has swept
over the entire Atlantic coast for
evangelicaP' meetings.
The singing of hymns and the de-
livering of brief prayers by Revs. J. ].
Muir, Clarence A. Vincent, W. L. Nc
Dowen and John C. Palmer featured
the trip just after the train left New
ark, Del.
DR.. Vincent in his prayer asked that
even if Mr.. Sunday decided not to come
70 Washington revival such as never
before was seen there might be brought
that both the nation and the capital
might be converted to prohibition"
testimonial is being prepared to
be presented to John C. Let's, the lay
man who financed the trip.
Members of the Party.
Ministers in the party are Revs. J. J.
-dulis 1lcZ owen bTlSSS, D. ="
Many, F. W. Johnson, E. NJ. Ramsey,
Henry T Cousins, w. w. McMaster, A
X Stockehand, r. R. Riedel, H. F. Lutz
George A. Miller. Walter A. Smith, C.
A. Vincent. c. X. P. Cogswell, W. j. D
Thomas. c. S. Abbott, J. Mcbride Ster-
ret, l. D. Clark, c. H. Butler, James L
McLain. John MacMurray, John E. Fort
G. Leroy White. C. Z. Wise, j. r
Esaias. T. G. Owens. F. C. Mccoy, W
X. Wedderspoon. William A. Haggerty
W. L. Mcdowell, D. H. Martin, S. T.
Weaver. J. Paul Wright. Merritt Earl,
a. c. Owen. c. S. Cole, NJ. f. Lowe, H.
L. Hout. r. L. Fultz. F. J. Prettyman,
f. L. Wolf, James S. kibler, E. X. Har-
din. ]. j. Ringer, J. w. Balderston,
Louis Randall, E. L. Beauchamp. A E.
Sexsmith, W. L. Hoffman. A. E. Bar
rows. S. A. Bower, Thomas E. Clark.
George NJ. Cummings, T. E. Davis. Rob-
ert A Dawson. ]. Harvey Dunham,
William A. Eisenberger. Howard d.
Hannaford. Paul r. Hickok, Joseph T.
Kelly, James T. Marshall, John c.
Palmer, T Davis Richards. George Rob-
inson. Henry Reimor. S. H. Vail, T.
Charles Thomas, Harvey s. Irwin, F.
w. Lukens. H. b. Angus, Thomas Cor
don and Charles E. Fultz and William
Knowles Cooper and H. S. Omohundro.
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