New Britain herald., 1915-02-01
Only When Ma" Consents Will
 Billy Sunday Come to New York Glimpse Into Their Home Life Shows Mrs. Sunday to Be the Power Behind the Throne-She Is Shrewd
 and Watchful


 him. Daddy needs all his strength for prea ching. He hasn't any time for private controversies "rhc Lord Works Through Billy Billy Sunday is the greatest man of the day. Ma Sunday admits it, and that is sufficient. But she further ad- mits that it is not his fault, and that neither he nor she deserves any par ticular praise for the fact. Ut is all the work of the Lord my dear,' she declared, after she had re- turned from asking her husband if he wanted anything. "Why. when people begin to marvel at what he has done, i I always tell them that it isn't the work of mortal man at all. It is simply the Lord working through ! Billy Why Daddy could never have dent it alone, and there is man on earth who could.
 Take his fight for prohibition in Colorado, for instance. We had just returned home from a two months trip there when the election returns were counted and Colorado was dry. We received thousands of telegrams thanking Billy for what he had done. But you know very we'll no man could have made a state like Colorado go dry. It was the work of God, but He worked through Billy
 Sunday Will Come to New York on
 Wifc's Approval.
 And if Billy Sunday is to come to New York it will be becaus his wife approves All the preachers in the city supported by all the newspapers couldn't bring him here if Mrs. Sun
 
 only have to say: Daddy, I don't think it would be the right thing at this time. I believe you are more needed elsewhere" and he would answer: Well, Nell, dear, if you don't think so, that settles it. We'll pray ever 1t, and when you have reached final conclusion tell me-"
 AS it is, Mrs. Sunday hasn't made up her mind she wants her husband to come, even if New York complies with his conditions. "It will be the hardest job he has ever yet tackled, and I am not anxious to have him plunge into it," is what she says He has been on a great strain here in Philadelphia, and I think he will need a rest when he is through here" 'Ma'' Believes in Husbands Mission.
 Ma" Sunday is quite sure her re- vivalist husbands philippics are needed to renew religious fervor in this country. She is not in sympathy with the impersonal, shadowy God that philosophy and science have in- trcduced during the last century, and she looks forward to the return of be- lief in personal, kindly God a de- lightful heaven and shining angels
 "People have just been drifting
  and mothers" she said slowly, pluck "Something has to be done to make them realize where they stand and unless they take warning now the Lord will have to send another Martin Luther to bring about a reformation . Leave Children Behind to Care for
 Him.
 Tn the meantime Mrs. Sunday is doing all she can to help her hus- bands work along, even though it l means leaving her two younger boys l My two oldest children. Helen and George, are married, now so they don't need me much. But the two little felows Billy Jr., and Paul, do need me. They are staying with their | sister in Chicago. She brought them 1 to see us here, and they have just !, gone back. I do miss them" she 1 sighed. But, then, it is all in the 1 game, when one is the wife of great man.
 "I never even take into considera- ten not going with Mr. Sunday" she l said proudly. "I go to the meetings 1 every night and every afternoon. so | I'll be close if he needs me"
 Conscrves His Vitality.
 While MT. Sunday is hurling his ! violent pleas and invective at the big : tabernacle audiences his wife sits ! meekly near. Sometimes when he 1 warns to his subject he takes off his coat. The audience believes that if is an impulsiVe action but those in the ecret say that he never divests him self until he receives a signal from Ma"
 He is so earnest and inspired when he speaks that he uses up all his Nitality." Mrs. Sunday explained. 'When he has finished his sermon his clothing is drenched in precipitation ard his hair is matted.3iose to his head. I have to bundle jim up then, so that he won't catch cold in the night air, and pilot him through the persistent crowds that gather, to the taxi. Then, when we reach home. I prepare his bath, help him into bed. It is the only way he can keep his strength so he can go on day after day"
 Well Daddy" she called out pres ently, "it is time for you to start dressing" Then she, who had been busied since morning with the nu- merous duties that beset the wife of a popular revivalist rose from her krief respite.
 "Youll have to excuse me-" she 1DOlOpiZed ''I pDnSt haJr l,i,> |