Evening journal., 1915-03-04
SUNDAY AGAIN HITS
Forces Of EVIL
Calls on Audience TO Accept
Christ If They Wish to
Escape Perdition
81S TRAIL HITTERS
THE DAYS TOTAL


hitters. an unusual weekday total,
were received yesterday afternoon and
last night by Bill Sunday. Three
hundred and fifteeen, an unusal af-
ternoon total came down at the
earlier service; the remaining five
hundred and three made their pro
fesslon Of penitence at night
Heavy audiences attended both SER
vices. The tabernacle was almost
filled by noon. and at the night sew
vice few who presented themselves at
The doors after 6 o'clock had the good
fortune to get in The sense that
the evangelist's stay was growing
short kept seats in high demand.
Nothing short of camping on the
premises for three or four hours gave
good seats to those who we're not
in the choir the minister's seats or
some special reservation.
Many hundreds of seats were taken
up last night by delegations. And
most OF them brought the evange-
list the usual presents. One brought
him a caddy-bag and a set of golf
clubs. knowing that he had declared
himself upon the subject Of tennis;
another brought several huge pack
ages of Turkish towels for the mem
hers Of the household; and a third
y hich had set tonight as the occasion
Of its visit prematurely sent him a
lamppost lantern Of the old-fashioned
kite-shaped variety wrought In
flowers
Sunday was in fine fettle yesterday
afternoon and last night. He timed
10 second his best effects" when
his hearers grew sleepy last night or
al least saturated with the weariness
of attention. he brought them 20
themselves. flushed and heavy, with
a shot or two:
"The devils got some rag-babies in
the church as well as out Of il: they
all look alike 10 me.
"A man can 90 to hell just as fast
out OF a church as out Of a bawdy
houselr
your husband dies without Jesus
Christ Don't say that you can see
him a settin' up in Heaven with a
pair of wings and a golden harp
when the old devils down in hell,
and you know III"
The evangelist preached the same
address at the afternoon and the
night services. It's burden was. that
the time was ready for all Philadel-
hians TO come forward, or to give ur
,yer the hope of escaping an
,-ity of punishment for the Sin
l. m.
Wmn the faces of his more ner
hearers began to grow white
,h fear, or whatever emotions, H.
let up" for a moment or two and be
camo iocular. Next moment, how
ever, he was "at il" again, and by tn
time he had finished speaking, II
each case. rather wilted half-regi
ment was ready to come down ant
accept the proffered way Of salvation
There's just one thing 10 dol" de
clared he; accept Jesus Christ or e
10 helli"
The evangelists own position a.
advocate defined in clear terms
Il don't know but whether I'm
standing between you and salvation
I don't know but this meeting may
determine whether you will spenC
your eternity in Heaven or in heni'
When the situation became toe
tense. he broke off in the other di
rection:
do you think Godll forgive a maI
for theft? I've stolen so many water
melons in my time that II He didn'
I wouldn't be herel"
When the audience exploded witt
relief. he went on, winking slyly:
Chickens, too; and roasted 'em a
night"
This wasn't enough. however:
"Oh. you needn't look so pious
you've all been in the same box"
This was almost the only ray {
light.
In his sermon the evangelist nal
rovcd down. far closer than ever bC
fore. the body of the "elect" In
sermon full of terrors for the MOI
impressionable part of his audienC
he virtually declared that Philade
phians who had heard the sermon
and refused to accept salvation ha
just a week and half more to col
fess penitence and come down N
trail or to seal their DOOM"
The title of the sermon was IN
objectionable Sin"-which he d,
clared 10 be "the constant and COZ
tinual and final rejection OF Jesu
Christ as your Saviour" CAREFUL
avoiding all references to those {
Hebrews OF other non-Christia
faith. the evangelist reiterated thf
without conversion of the type hel
out there was no hope of anythin
short Of unending damnation for an
Individual on the face of the earth
His congregations were put throue
a new kind of census First he aske
every Christian person in the tabel
nacle TO stand Excepting one or w
helpless invalids. everyone visibl
arose. Every man and woman COZ
yerted before the age OF 20 was aske
70 sit down then everyone convert,
before 30 and before 40 and so in tur
The afternoon census, which was tyr
cal. showed that seventeen persol
were converted between 80 and
three between 40 and so and one aft
he had reached the age OF So As n
body remained standing everybody
the building therefore presumably b
been converted at some time OF life.
spite of this. however, hundreds ca
down the trail.
'Now. listen.' said the evangel
"If you are here tonight and are
years Of age and are not Christ
the chances are you never viii b.
Christian"
This Osler-like age limit was I
dated:
are not converted in Tin
val the chances are
won't be.
~Two-thirds of all people in
church are converted in fiuac of