Evening journal., 1915-03-19
SUNDAY DONATION
DISAPPD|ATS FRIENDS
Many Philadelphia Churches
Said to Have Failed to
Respond to Appeal
EVANGELIST TELLS
A GHOST STORY

Philadelphia has been expressed hy the
committee which has been in charge of
his local campaign.
The figures announced yesterday af-
ternoon. at the close of the bank day,
were S43 ,4s0.07. To this must be added
several bags and boxes of gold received
at the tabernacle last night, with what
ever contributions came in through the
late mails yesterday.
The committees expression of its
view took the form of statement is
sued late yesterday by Joseph NJ Steele,
its chairman. This reads as follows:
"The amount is growing slowly day
by day. No large contributions are
coming in, and no offerings have been
taken in the tabernacle for this pur-
pose since last Sunday. Most of the
money that is received comes through
the mail.
Considerable surprise has been ex-
pressed at the total A great many
people have looked for announcement OF
some large offerings, but they seem
doomed TO disappointment, for with the
exception of the two of $1,000 each and
the one for $500 already reported. there
Is nothing big in sight
Not Yet Up to Pittsburgh.
philadelphia has not as yet reached
pittsburghs amount, and this has been
the cause of great regret TO many Phila-
delphians, but Pittsburgh's great offer
| ing was swelled by number of large
corporations and wealthy business men.
SIN a way, the showing that Philadel-
/ phia has made is pleasing The inter
est here has been broad. Many people
have expressed their appreciation in a
substantial way, and what Philadelphia
lacks in amount. il has made up in
numbers Of those participating.
"A number of the business houses
I that had reservations in the tabernacle
and many Of the churches are yet to
be heard from. Every cooperating pas.
tor pledged himself and his congrega.
ton to an Offering for Mr.. Sunday. Tho
time arranged for this was the four
I teenth. Less than half of th tn,
churches carried fout this plan. and It Is
hoped for the sake of the preachers
pledges-foT the sake OF their churches
that have been so wonderfully helped
and for the sake of Mr. Sunday, who has
done such magnificent work for them
that not one church will fail to fulfill itl
pledge to him."
RumOrs of Large Gifts.
Despite the committees statement,
there were persistent rumors yester-
day that several large donors to the
fund had withheld their contributions
until the last, SO as not TO discourage
smaller givers.
Eighty-five dollars and twenty cents
of announced contributions was re-
a. fsrI.f s.4
service held for men only. Sixty dol.
lars of this came as check from
delegation, and the ushers and door
keepers of the building added $3.50
TO their former Offering, making their
total to date $432 and placing them
ahead of the secretaries, who, as
Rodeheaver announced last night, had
been running a race with them to see
"who could do the best"
In addition to the $500 there were
bags of gold from Baldwin's, the
Linlk-Belt Company and fire insurance
I associations.
Many Delegations Present.
II Many delegations were present, one
/ from the International Y. NJ. c. A.
Il Training School, at Springfield, Mass.
II Jefferson Medical College was also in
evidence, Knights of the Golden Eagle
and the Veteran Corps of the First
! Regiment, n. G. p. When Sunday ar
rived in the building the students
were the first to catch sight of him
and they led the audience in perhaps
the loudest and the longest howl the
building has yet heard.
Sunday repeated his sermon Of
Tuesday night, adding one or two en-
bellishments-a them a blood
curdling tale of young boy down
South" who went TO sleep and
dreamt that he saw the soul of his
brother, asleep nearby, issue from
his open mouth and hide beneath a
pile of logs. The devil, coming up
from the swamp-lands, entered the
rooms, seized the soul and carried
il off moaning LOST LOST"
The effect upon the audience was
curious. The tale-a really fine ghost
story-held them open-eyed and OPEN
mOuthed until the call came TO hit the
trail, when many of them came down
the aisle, pallid and shaking Four
hundred and one hit the trail, making
with the afternoons 199 a total for
the two services, of 500. Among last
nights penitents we're Policeman
Joe" Gabriel. Sundays personal
bodyguard, and Pierson NJ Stack
house, a former candidate for Mayor.
who constituted Policeman Fowler's
/ fifty-second trail-hitter.
"This meeting is one Of the biggest
manifestations Of the power Of Jesus
I ever sawl" said Sunday when the
greeting yell went up.
1879 Afternoon Trail-hitters.
Less enthusiasm was shown by the
trail hitters-less emotion of any kind.
perhaps-at the afternoon service
than at any service of the campaign.
One hundred and ninety-nine respon-
ded at the close of it--rather a small
number for the last week. Sundays
force, if not lost, seemed greatly di-
minished; his physical condition was
apparently drawn "too fine"
Sunday showed, too, the effect of
the many demands made upon him for
time. attention and money by his hun
dreds of followers and admirers. He
complained that TO answer all Of the
letters addressed to him would re-
duire the services of many persons
and cost $40 a day at least In post
age. Scores of letters contain re-
quests TO visit the sick or to call on
impenitents, or to pray for everything
imaginable, from a new wooden leg
to the conversion of the family black
sheep.
A plea was made at this service for
the Interdenominational Association
of EvangelistS, which has its head