Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-29
MILITANT EVANGELIST,
NOW IN ISLANDER SUIT,
TO FIGHT DEVIL HERE
Slough, Who Strikes From
Shoulder, Naming
Names" to Combat Sin
in Extreme Northwest
Section This Autumn.

Dr. Henry w. Slough, militant evan
gelist at present defendant in the sensa-
tional $4,000 Elander suit Of Director of
Public Safety william Cullen, Of Hazle-
ton, is coming to Philadelphia to hammer
sin, booze" and the devil In a big tab
ernacle campaign next winter. He Is to
come here through the cooperation Of
about Is churches in Manayunk, Roxbor-
ough Upper Roxborough, wissahickon
and Fails of schuylklll. The probabilities
are that the tabernacle, with sawdust
trails" and In every other respect like
the Billy" Sunday tabernacle, will be
erected for the revival meetings in the
central part Of Roxborough.
Definite plans for the evanEellstlc cam
paign will be completed at a mass-meeting
of churches Of the 21st Ward and vicinity
In the Leverlngton Presbyterian Church,
Manayunk. Thursday evening, The move
mont to bring Doctor Slough here for a
tabernacle campaign was launched hy the
1nterchurch Federation of the 2lst Ward
and vicinity, and was carried out largely
by the Religious Conditions Committee Of
that organization. II is under the au-
spices OF this committee that the mats
meeting Is to be held
The evangelist has given assurance that
he will come, following several visits OF
the committee to Reading during Doctor
Stoughs last campaign, previous to the
beginning OF the slander suit in Halle.
ton. Although the time for the opening
Of tho campaign has not been decided. II
is probable that Doctor Slough will be-
gin to lambast Satan and his allies in
this city In November, Immediately after
hA Ninuaa nia nruN ~ h.
in Lebanon.
1t is expected that the churches will
vote to have the tabernacle started early
In the autumn and for Doctor Slough to
come In November.
A canvass OF many OF the pastors in the
2lst Ward and those in Falls OF the
Schuylkill by the Rev. w. B. Forney. pas
tor Of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church,
Manayunk, president OF the Inter-
church Federation. and the Rev Isaac
Ward, OF the Fourth Reformed Church,
Roxborough. who is chairman of the Re-
ligious Conditions Committee, has given
assurance that almost every pastor of
the churches OF six denominations In that
section of the city will cooperate in the
campaign. The denominations included
among those expected to be represented
on the general committee are the Baptist,
Methodist Episcopal. Presbyterian, Re-
formed, Congregational and Disciples OF
Christ. 1t is the plan to have each CO.
operating church represented on the gen.
eral committee by its pastor and two
laymen.
The Religious Conditions Committee
which went to Reading to urge Doctor
Slough TO come to Philadelphia for a six
weeks campaign. Is composed Of tho
Rev. Isaac Ward, Fourth Reformed
Church, Roxborough; the Rev. Frank NJ
Gray. Wissahickon Methodist Church; th'
Rev ]. T. Hackett, Wlssahickon Presby'
terlan Church; John W. Harmer, Moun
Vernon Baptist Church. Manayunk. ant
Edwin Beaver, Leverington Presbyterian
Church.
In speaking of the proposed campaign
the Rev. Mr.. Forney said that 1t is hoped
to have the campaign in that section lr
order to bring about great local re-
vival. The campaign OF BILLY" Sunday
he asserted, did much for the churches Of
the federation through arOusing enthus
iasm among church members. This, ht
said, resulted in unusual gains In tbs
memberships of the mems Bible classe'
and contributed to the religious spirit IT
the community But. since the majority
of the citizens of the section were EN-
ployed so late in the afternoon that the!
were unable to attend the Sunday tabeT
nacle meetings In the evenings, very few
of them were reached by the baseball
evangelist.