New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-25
PATERSON THRONC
SINGS FOR SUNDAY
Advance Drill for Revival
lists Campaign Brings
Out 10000 People.
FOUR BRASS BANDS
DRAW BIG CROWDS
Unpainted Tabernacle Echoes
to Responses Shouted by
Advance Agent.

Patterson. n. J., March 24.-Three
bands pounding out the strains OF hymn
tunes furnished the "ballyhoo' to,hign'
TO which 10000 persons swarmed INTO
Billy Sundays giant Tabernacle, tnere
! to dedicate it with songs, Dano selec-
lions and addresses. Though SUNDAY
himself was absent the big crowd, cur
Gus and cold at first, so far caught .he
contagion of the revival spirit that
fired local pastors in their speecnes
from the big platform that SHOUTS OF
"Praise Cod" and "HalleluJah! SOUND
in the auditorium as the meeting are"
TO close. :;
Sundays energetic methods were IN
full swing before the crowd Knew IT.
After a series of hymns and addresses,
Edward H. Emit, Sundays assistant
and advance agent, appeared ana start
ed text drill" Emit would read
text and then ask his audience 70 re-
peat it in unison.
Al frat the responses were scatter
ING. hut Emit wouldn't take no for an
answer Before the last babble OF
voices could die away he would go at
the crowd again, exhorting and demand
ing. until the whole 10000 were shout
ing back in unison the words gwen
them to repeat.
Text after text was given out in this
way. until at last Emit, with a wide
smile and approving nod, turned with a
wave of his hand to the choir, Whlch
broke out into final hymn.
Bands Draw Throng.
There was a mob of people in front
Of the Tabernacle early in the evening.
Il grew by hundreds within two min
utes after the first strains sounded
from three bands from the First Bap-
fist Church. the Auburn Street Con-
gregational Church and the Third
Presbyterian Church, all grouped
around the entrance. When the thou
sands threatened to block traffic, a
fourth band. contributed by the Union
Avenue Baptist Church, struck up in
side the Tabernacle and the rush Tor
seats began. ,-,
The meeting opened at $3.50 o'clock.
! For twenty minu.c5 the choir sang
familiar hymns, such as shall we
! Gather at the River" I'm Coming
Home" and III Your Heart Beats
| Light" Above the heads OF the choir
which numbers 1900 and is the biggest
ever assembled in New Jersey, ran a
giant signboard, bearing the Legend
New Jersey for Christ and Christ for
New Jersey"
At each end OF this board were two
other nscriptions-"Get Right with
God" and Saved for Service.
Except for the paint that forms the
letters of these inscriptions, there Is
not trace of it in the whole audi
torium.
The Rev. Winfield c. Snodgrass, OF
the Market Avenue Methodist Church,
opene | the meeting with prayer. Inc
Rev. Wilson 7. NJ. Beale, OF the East
Size Presbyterian Church, followed
with remarks, and then the choir led
the crowd in singing Revive Us
Again. putting true revival snap
and vim into the swing of the hymn.
The Rev. James NJ. Martin, of the
Broadway Reformed Church, offered
PRAYER. and George Arnold, silk mill
owner end president Of the Paterson
and North New Jersey Evsngelistic AS
ISOLATION, made a plea for Sundays
support in the coming meetings.
Sunday and Labor.
Hail. Emmanuel" was the next
hymn. followed by an address by Will
Bible Training School.
Paterson has an unenviable reputa-
ton which it doesn't deserve" Mr.
Whiting said, "and Sunday will prove
this. He has more influence over the
common people than any other man
living to-day, and he will play q
greater part in the great labor strug-
gle which IS bound to come here some
day than a'y other man."
Chrystal Brown, tenor of the Church
of the Redeemer, sang "Be Like
Jesus; then the Rev. John F. Carson.
of Brooklyn, former moderator of the
PRESBYTERIAN General Assembly, took
the platform. Mr.. Carson's manner is
much like Sundays, and within two
minutes he had the crowd in hand, and
the first Of the "hsllelujahs" broke
forth.
When he launched out in an attack
on Princeton University's reception OF
Sunday the 10000 all but rose in their
seats and cheered.
princeton University" he cried,
"may protest against Sundays speak
ing there, but that same university
which fears Sundays slang tolerates
in its chair of Biblical literature q
man who is deliberately tearing the
word of God into shreds and tatters.
Turns Back on Princeton.
"Would to God that Sunday could
raise his voice demanding that only
men who betray the Word of God
should be allowed TO teach Biblical
literature in that university. | realize
that have queered myself with
Princeton University. / shall never be
asked to e there again and preach.
Ny career in the halls of Princeton is
ended, but have done my duty in de
nouncing the stand that institution of
learning has taken toward the things
that count with God and you and me-"
When Mr.. Carson was finished
ushers. armed with galvanized iron
wash basins. went up and down the
aisles. the choir singing to the accom-
panying rattle of coins.
There was a rumor tonight that the
Second Presbyterian, the First Re-
formed Church and the Church of the
Redeemer had decided to break with
other local churches which had agreed