The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-03-27
MADE 4t,724 CONVERTS.
SUNDAYS PHILADELPHIA CAM.
PAIGN BREAKS ALL REC
ORDS.
10000 at Farewell Serviccs-Audicncc
Goes Wild-Sawdust, Tinpans,
Bunting and Flags Carried of as
Souvenirs.

Philadelphia, March 21.-The big
gest single day in the biggest revival
the country has ever known was Billy
Sundays farewell to Philadelphia.
Four times today the Evangelist
preached to audiences that overflow
ed the tabernacle, some 0 1000 being
the days total. Four times he called
for converts and reaped a total OF L.
S5S for the day. This number repre-
sents the actual number who signed
converts cards, though it represents
only a portion OF those who came
down and shook his hand.
The number of converts for the II
weeks OF the campaign totals 41,724.
So far as results go, the country has
never seen anything like it. 1t not
only beats Billy sundays record, but
that OF every modern evangelist.
So much for the figures. The tab
e%rnacle forgot them today. The
workers forgot to count in the whirl
and hubdub Of the farewells, the ova-
tons and greetings that these so, 900
persons heaped upon the little revival
fist who arrived here some 80 days
ago.
Four audiences went wild at his
first appearance and four audiences
~stubbornly refused to leave the tab
| nrnnnln NINTH fha Dy.n z-zt
left the platform. Eleven weeks had
wound him around their hearts until
the hearts bled when he was torn
away.
Men and women pulled down signs
from the tabernacle posts and car
ried them away. They scooped up
big handfuls OF sadwust from the
shadow Of the pulpit, filled their pock-
cts and their handkerchiefs with II
and carried it home. They took the
tinpans which have gathered the tab
ernacle offerings; they tore the bunt-
ing and flags from about the rostrum.
the flower from the pulpit. They car
ried away everything loose that could
serve as a memento OF the campaign.
Tonight while 1900 men in the
choir sang God Be With You Till We
Meet Again." 1000 ushers, doorkeep-
ers, policemen, firemen and others
who have worked in the tabernacle
day and night sine January filed
past n evangelist like -hitters
and gripped his hand Until it was
swollen and knotted at the joints.
AT the four services they piled
some $4,000 into the collection pans,
thinking it vas their ina gift to Bill
ly Sunday. The committee had an
nounced tina the days Offering would
go to him personally. but the revival
list would not have it so.
Every cent you give today" he
said. goes to the poor of Philadel-
phia." And so the committee ac-
Quiesced.
Before he left the city, however.
the committee turned over to the
evangelist a draft for s5l,l36.S5. the
result Of the free-will offering which
Philadelphia ave to Billy Sunday. 1t
is the largest Offering he has received
in any city.
There came tonight to bid him
farewell representatives of 400
churches Of the city and a representa-
tive OF the city itself to thank him.
The Rev. DR.. George H. Buckley, vice.
chairman Of the Sunday campaign
committee. speaking for the churches
which invited Sunday here, said he
had brought a crisis to the city and
to the State"
cyrus -. Foss, Jr., secretary to
Mayor R~lankenburg, spoke for official
Philadelphia.
philadelphia is today q different
city from Philadelphia OF last Decem.
ber.' he told the evangelist. AS O.
token of his own appreciation, Mr..
FosS said he would hit the trair' With
the other converts, n no did. at the
close of the meeting he marched down
the aisle. took Mr.. Sundays hand and
sat on the front benches with the
penitents.
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