Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
BILLY SUNDAY, WORN
AND NERVOUS, ASSAMS
CHURCEIbIEN'S APATHY
Messages From This City
Tell of Gaining Of More
Than 1000 Converts.
Evangelist to Play Ball
With Paterson Ministers.
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PATTERSON. N. j., April 6. - BILLY
Sunday started rattling hot shot agans
the walls Of the churches of North Jersey
and New York City today. He was
approaching hs sermon, "Pharisee and
Publican" Right and left, and all over
The place. he lambasted apathetlc church
members and "a cold, unsympathetic min
- istry." He will preach tonight on the
need Of revivals.
4. billy" is a worn man. Never, in all
ihis Philadelphia campaign, did he look
as much played out as he did today. The
81 nipscles OF his face twitched; he muttered
~ prayers nervously under his breath: ne
r1didnt seem fit In any way to tackle tho
tssjob facing him here.
r-' Billy" sat around home in the lowered
dressing gown somebody gave him IN
pPhiladelphia- The gown must have
-Gpsyche qualities for within 10 minutes Of
the time he put 1t on he got two tele-
rrErams from Philadelphia
81 One, from the Rev. +. 10. Dagger. rector
.li'of st. Pauls Reformed Episcopal Church,
said that 800 converts Joined that church
Sunday The other telegram was from
StJohn Wanamaker, and credited "Bllly"
with 574 members added to the three
ts Bethany churches.
s J That's fine" said Billy. "Mr. Wanna
tr maker ls a fine scout"
10, Although MA" doesn't want him to
st do It, Billy says he's going up to Sing
= Sing Prison to talk to the members of
ithe Mutual welfare League. He's going
ito play ball with the Paterson ministers
sHagainst the newspaper men. "Rodey"
said today he'd play with the ministers.
II they aren't a bunch of dubs."
When sunday swung into action this
afternoon he faced about the slimmest
audience of hlslreoent evangellstlc career.
The big tabernacle was not more than
lad tn rhpr % tt,o
n ing arrangements placed the attendance
4, figures at 5000.
"a, At dawn today. Just about the time
:. the Paterson cabarets were shutting up
p shop, jitneys and other types of motor
buses started rolling into this city They
Shcame from Newark. from the Oranges
and from Passaic. Trains with special
cars in abundance rolled in from New
York. Everybody headed for the tabere-
nacle, rubbing shoulders with the mill
hands on their way to work, Several
hundred persons weIe in the tabernacle,
singing away for all they were worth at
daylight
They we're singing brighten the Cor
ner." of course. and not the little ditty,
which goes to the tune of II Didn't Raise
My Boy to be Soldier" which two
young women in a cabaret of this city
were singing last night. with these
words:
didn't raise my boy for "Billy" Sunday,
brought him up to have a little joy:
taught him how to toN-trot every Monday
With shadow -hatted maIdens, gay and coy.
Send Billy back to trot the baseball dia-
my daughter wants TO sawdust on her spats-
( ] ildn't raise nv boy FOR ''Biliv'' sunday.
Naturally. it's pretty poor verse, but
the two young women who sang 1t had |
on shadow hats and little black beauty |
marks Dlastered under the northeast cor
ners of their respective northeast eyes,
and everybody got In on that chorus.
- Billy is TO cut short his night sermon |
SC frfat he may take his party around to
hear Sousa and his band at the Armory |
fIe was Just about the most surprised |
man this side of Havana when he was |
told that Willard had trounced Johnson
Mentally, BILLY" had odds on the big |
black So had Cardiff.
"Too much booze; too much Paris for
Jack" was all BILLY" would say be-
cause his fight predictions went all askew
He had said Johnson would lick the tar
out of willard"
With dawn today a half dozen circus
looking tents went up about the taber-
nacle. They hold everything from suf-
fragists to venders of ice cream "sody;''
from frankfurters to tabernacle hymn
, books. What Billy will say when he
'sees the sideshow array nobody knows.