Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-08
STINDAY DTSREGARDS
SALLES OF CRITICS,
WITH VICTORY NEAR
Evangelist Believes He Has
aGot Paterson Going.
Now and Will End Cam
naign in Triumph-Gets
invitation From Cleve-
1ond

,ArERsoN, N. j., April S-"Billys' in
uood bumor today. He knows he got
n.,,rson going" last night, and, down in
-. heart. he believes he will win out
~. He was prepared to continue the
ssh, Of his life when he got UP this morn
Ing, ,,-, ,it tho time betuean
~ tast and the afternoon meeting try
W. decide upon a campaign In Cleve'
NE Tobn ~. Rockefeller's pastor the
lanu AZ ~ Mustard, of the Euclid Ave-
heV' r,rtIst church, led delegation
.l,h neg extended to him an invitation to
,nesk in that city.
sgSyou go back home and get the Pres
s,,srIans to line up with you and I'll
come" he SAID
:, ,ickIed the risibilities of Patersonians
~ opllly" should dictate to John ID. s
sninister. There were two other import
n. clorevmen in the Cleveland dele
an. % along with r. S. Parsons, general
e.ssser of the Erie Railroad, and F. w.
psnssys. president of the Cleveland
Foundry Company
yrnokiyn. too, did not get very big en-
ogernent when 1t sent borough presi-
ssnt Pounds, tax commissioner White
sna DIR. S. Edward Young, of the Bed
ford Avenue Presbyterian church, to ask
BILLY TO attempt l'o i'eS''i "''''' VI
The ares of revival are burning all over
IS .ha country. IL one is to judge from the
anneaIs that are pouring in on BILLY
srnn, one end of the land to the other.
ihode island today wanted him to come
IL Providence and fifht rum with just
one sermon, Booze or Get on the Water
Wagon" He was offered $1,000 to do 1t,
and turned IL down, not because $1,000
wasn't enough, but because his strength
viii not permit him to accept the offer.
Among the nearly 800 letters in Sun
DAVIS morning mail was one from Harry
q Yafnall, of 642 Durfor street, Phlln
delphia, a 71-ycar-old newsboy, who wrote
that while BILLY" was campaigning
there, for weeks he stood on the street
corners, shedding tears of conviction
and repentance" and on the evangelist's
last day In the city had been in the taber-
nacle from a. M to 4 p m. and had
shit the trail
Yarnall has only one hand. His daugh-
ter sang in the Philadelphia choir.
PAPERS PRAISE BILLY"
What Paterson thinks of Billy" today,
after his last nights success is best
felt by scanning the local newspapers.
They lead their reports of last nights
meeting with the sentence: BILLY Sun
day has won the hearts of Patersonians,"
and add: Hundreds are ready when he
calls to hit the trail"
All Paterson today is talking of the big
meeting of protest against the campaign
next Tuesday night when the I. w. W.
flrebrand agitators from New York come
to attack BILLY" and the mill owners
who, they say. brought him here to put
the mill workers to sleep economically"
The Unitarians today issued statement
against Sunday. The Rev. A. r. SheIan-
der pastor of the Unitarian Church, at
Passac, was its author.
ITO call what Mr.. Sunday says about
UnltarIanism criticism" the statement
reads would only approximate the truth
He has tried to administer knockout
blows. Mr.. Sundays idea of God is sew
eral centuries out of date. 1t is pre-
Christian and not, in all respects, up to
the standard of the Hebrew prophets
When Mr., Sunday calls down the curses
Of God on anyone, he asks God to do
something God will never do, and he says
that which is contrary to the teachings
and the spirit of Jesus"
SPEAKS TO 5000.
The evangelist han an enthusiastic au-
dence last night that crowded the stand
Ing room in the vestibules More than
300 residents of Paterson and nearby
towns hurried to the big wooden temple
and filled 1t long before time for "Rodey'
10 arrive and start the music going.
There were many in the building soon
F after the afternoon services had ended.
II any persons had doubts about there
being great many persons in Paterson
ahxlous to hear the evangelist preach,
they must have changed their minds after
The ovation the wiry little revivalist re-
eeNed when he walked down the aisle
70 the platfrcm, with guards on each
& SIDE OF him and Jack" Cardiff, his
usiner' In front of him,
"PAY LIVING WAGES"
Not since he opened his campaign here
on Sunday has Billy" put as much
pep into his sermons as he did last
night And the big audience gasped in
amazement as it heard him smash might
ny into the sins of the church people,
aha demand that men and women who
profess Jesus Christ should live decent
yves and pay living wages to their em
pOyes"
0foWds of mill workers cheered and
sppauded when Sunday came out in
r sSyor OF fair treatment for the workers.
ms was what they had been waiting
~ was this that they had hoped
~ would say, and they ''let CO. with
~ Ihelr might as soon as he had said
- ana Tor minute the evangelist
eUuldnt be heard.
iou can't pray Thy Kingdom Come
-,sau inen reduce wages below the hunger
e' he said, God will have to yank
~, e OF you out of the silk mills and
~, you on your backs, as he did Jacob,
you realize how weak you are.
WHERE ECONOMISTS DIFFER.
NY Socialist friend comes up to me
sna says Bill, crime is caused by de-
N'ase In wages Decreased wages causes
s'fefiy' poverty causes crime All right,
~ Fellow have 1t your way. And here's
friend, the political economist, who
ss s me the trouble is too high wages,
sna the people have too much money
os good, and that's why we have a
~ -suef IN America every hour
sxr,.sh glsh some guy would waltz up and
mseh 10 me how the woTkingman
al tes TO support wife and children
~ e present scale of wages and pay
present price for what he and his
6ras eat l don't see how he gets
~ sh the increased attendance today,
total offering for the day Increased.
mounted to 1885, making the total
ON lhree days services S2767 The
~ attendance for the six meetings,
hr ~ 1he tabernacle up TO this morn
- was about Al 900.
lhree Boys Confess TO Thefts
-alee boys were arratgned today IN