Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-14
FOUR HUNDRED WOMEN
HEAR BILLY" SUNDAY
AT NOON MEETING

| Sunday this afternoon at the first Of the
drawing room meetings of the evangelist's
campaign He spoke In the home OF Miss
| Charesanna Huston 552i Wayne avenue.
| Germantown. The house ls a large one.
| Doors dividing the rooms were thrown
| open and women who had come to the
meeting crowded into four rooms on the
| first floor and climbed the stairs to take
their places there. Only women were
invited to the meeting. Homer Rode
HEAVIER. the Choirmaster, and others Of
the SUNDAY party also attended.
Billy Sunday spoke on "The Seven
Ages" the division of time as made in
the Bible This was the age OF Grace"
| he said, but a world catastrophe would
follow Il. as disaster had closed the other
ages. The Flood, he said was the end OF
the Age OF Innocence. The war was not
mentioned when BILLY" Sunday discussed
the disaster in the age of Grace" but
it was inferred he meant that the period
was near an end
Billy Sunday surprised the audience.
1t was prepared for nearly any subject.
but the talk on the ages was not the
rigorous, crushing arragnment the taber-
nacle crowds know 80 well.
Sunday touched on economics in his
talk. He denied that a thin pocketbook
was the cause of any girls degradation.
THE girl who goes wrong has a black
heart" he said His talk dealt mainly
with the future and the coming of
new age. The millennium would follow
the Age of Grace" he said, and Christ
would come on earth Then would follow
His personal reign.
Homer Rodeheaver lead a chorus be-
fore Billy Sunday began speaking. They
sang Because He Loves Me So" 'T
Shall Be Ready and THE Rock of Ages"
The women heard BILLY" Sunday in abso-
lutte silence. The impression he made ap-
peared TO be a deep one
Four young marines from the Philsdel-
pha Navy Yard We're the first to reach
Billy Sunday last night when a throng
of l52 hit the sawdust trail at the con-
clusion of "Billy's" sermon on The Moral
Leper" in the tabernacle
That sermon was not salvation SER
mon, and neither have any that Sunday
has been preaching during the first 10 days
of the campaign. But he has impressed
the people so much that during the three
DAYS he has been calling for trail hitters
1866 men and women have grasped his
hand and declared themselves believers in
Jesus Christ
The evangelist preached the same SER
mon last night that he had in the after
noon. 1t is. one of the few sermons he
will repeat during his work in Phila-
delphia. But despite the repetition, there
were many present in the afternoon who
in the evening. 1t is Sunday unusual
power and magnetism that makes people
want to hear his sermons over and over
again.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.
1t was an inspiring scene when the
evangelist stopped preaching and asked
men and women TO come forward and
accept Christ as their personal seviour
b. ID, Ackley, the pianist. began to
.IuVr fI,a FttI 10 .
Coming Home" and softly the great
choir took up the words. AS the song
rose through the rough rafters of the
big building the audience Joined In sing
ing, and then the men and women started
marching forward. Many of them Joined
in singing as they came.
Thrice during the after meeting. while
the music sounded and the assistants OF
Mr.. Sunday We're busy escortlng the CON
Yerts to seats in the glory rows the evan
gelst called for trail-hitters.
On he cried, III you think it's right
and manly and womanly TO be Christian,
come, come comet
the choir, and urged all Christians and
workers for Gods Kingdom to go out
among the people and bring the timid for
ward as they expressed their desires TO
be led 10 the platform. There was ready
response. Among the first to assist in
the Work was Bishop Joseph II. BerrN
OF the Methodist Church.
PROMINENT MINISTER'S HELP.
Among the clergymen. besides Bishop
Berry, who assisted the trail hitters."
we've the Rev. Or. Clarence II. WoOlston
and the Rev, Dr. George H. Buckley,
chairman OF the prayeI-msetinE COM
mittee. IL was the belief OF many that
there would have been more converts IL
there had been more personal appeals by
the ministers and church workers in at
tendance.
Almost all the young men who answered
the cali for converts we're from groups
Of men that attended in bodies from
Industrial and commercial establish
ments
Among the concerns represented were
the Bell Telephone and Western Elec-
trie Companies. with 400 employees, /,
smith. Kline & French Company, 800;
John T. Lewis Company, 100; Garrett a
Buchanan, 100; Ford Automobils Com
pauy lo0 j. p. Caldwell & Co. 60; West
End Trust Company, 50i seamen'a Miss
ion, 90; Hoopes 4 Townsend. So; Hans
com Brothers, s.; James BOYD Com
pany 90 Pullman Company, 80; H. A.
Reed Company. Is. and Dletz Machine
Company. II. There we're 20 marines al
together AZ the meeting
why Could We Not Cast Them Out7~
ell b the subject o. M Sundays SER
non Is he tabernacle AZ 3 O'Clock this
aIlsaaadn. Ioal9ht be viii taIk on