Evening journal., 1915-02-08
154O, NEW Record
OF SUNDAY CONVERTS
Total of $4,000 Persons
Hear Evangelist in
One Day
CALL MEN TO
HIGHER IDEALS

lished high figures yesterday for his
campaign. Excluding two "children'sI
days" when his total Of penitents ran
far above two thousand. yesterdays
totals reached the number of 1910 per-
sons.
Two hundred and sevcnty-four oil
these men and women. came down the
trail at the morning service, as against
pa last Sunday; GO3 men in the after
noon. as against 6O2 week ago, and
663 last night, as against 6G4 at the
corresponding last weeks service
Large crowds were in evidence at all
three services yesterday When the
trail-hitting began last night, for the
first two or three minutes the two mid
die aisles were choked with a mass OF
slowly moving forms, hardly visible to-
ward the rear of the building through
the dust raised by their motion.
The evangelist's appeal to the crowds
yesterday afternoon and last night took
the form of challenge TO their man
hood. His voice rising to a falsetto
shriok, he shouted at MS audiences;
"Do you fellows want to know why a
lot Of you haven't been down this traily
It's because you're not man enoughy
The reason you're not a Christian is
because you're not man enough
throw it into your old dirty teeth
YOU! It's because you're not man
enough"
The final utility of the Bible was in
sisted upon;
"Nc don't need any laws, or any
ideas. or amy knowledge whatsoever
beyond what We find i'm the Bible"
Returning to his original idea, he
declared
ANY man that looks into my face
tonight and isn't member of church.
it's shame to your manhood The
man who laughs at YOU for being a
Christian is so low down il would be
an insult to a pOlecat to compare him
with it,"
The presence in the audience last
night of DR.. j. NJ. Buckley. the
Fighting Methodist" who conducted
a notable controversy some years ago
upon the utterances of Bob" Inger-
/ soil, lent curious interest TO a sum-
ming up, toward the close of his SER
mon, of the character and life of the
agnOstic himself. Sunday declared:
"If ! had the brilliant intellect of
Bob IngersOll. with my sane disposi-
ton, there's little | couldn't do. But
lngersoll made the greatest mistake
] any man ever made, when he rejected
! the gospel of Christ. I'd rather be an
old hag going down TO hell beneath
, the gaslights of great city than have
such an intellect and abuse its pow
ers to fight the faith of men in Jesus
Christ"
Hours before the morning service
visitors began TO surround the taber-
nacle. Unlike the audiences OF weel
days, yesterday mornings was appar.
emily composed of regular church go
ers. who simply substituted the taber.
nacle for their regular places o.
worship. The character of the con
gregation seemed to demand a ser
mon Of the usual straight" variety
with doctrinal complications left out
and the congregation emphaticall,
got it.
The Bible was held up-and not a
all figuratively-by the evangelist, al
the one panacoa for all human ills
and the one answer TO all the prob
lens of human life The Holy Spiri
of the Trinity was declared to be no
an influence. but a personality, "a
much," asserted the evangelist, "a
God, or Jesus Christ, or you, or me-
Philadelphia was urged to make tn
most OF her chances
"This is the last dispensation tn
world will have God Almighty
5 giving the world its last chance now
, Philadelphia had such an opportunit
as no city's had since Christopher CO
- lumbus landed upon these shores, O
- the Pilgrim fathers hit the coast c
= New England with the Bible in on
hand and the spelling book in tn
!. other"
, Two hundred and seyenty-fOuf wei
dressed and not very sinful-lOokin
persons hit the trail at the mornin
! service. Among these was one yOun
y woman who had herself been actiN
q during the early weeks of the can
r paign, in bringing penitents down
n the front of the rostrum.
6 Among the mornings visitors wei
seen Lew" Bailey, the prize fight pre-
moter, who was taken home to lunc
~ by the evangelist, and Mrs. Bess
n Lobson Altemus of the Emergency Al
10 Committee, who, with her childre
has been a persistent revival-go'
since the beginning of the campaign
R. Many shots were aimed-not alwa!
,r at random-at both saints and sil
\ ners:
4. 81 want some of you old saints
lie stay away one or two nights this WEI
ID and give some one a chance to get
t here and listen to the word O Go
is You needn't be afraid-you're Il
le rheumatic to dance and you're
I'd blind you couldn't tell a playing-ca
c. pip from a horse-fiy.
IS. you old spawned elders and de
cons and prudential committeeman
you think you can live like devils al
as yet get into the kingdom o. God.
ay "The Holy Spirits as much livi
RI. thing as you or l. How'd you like
ne have someone say Of you as y
eu march along the street, There &c
AZ It.?
Oh Il wish some old preacher
," church member would get up and I
me why we don't have the manifest
tions nowadays that we had in {
cd old Scripture times
Sc Predestination peeped slyly out
nd the open doors of free-will:
NO God knows beforehand that y
u won't repent. When God brought y
10 into the world he knew that you w
goin' to die a sinner. But he gave y
. free-will. nevertheless
- Education and culture were giyel
! twist
- "If education has to stand in
,,. of To-us Christ. I'll go thrOu