Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-18
"Let Sunday soys DO Il" Frequently
Heard When Odd Jobs Wore 70 Be
Done-"silIy" Was Bundle Of Nor
vous Energy in Youth and Tackled
Every Job With Fevsrish Haste.

lad of IA. he went to the Sheldon home
to live.
The sheldons removed from Cleve-
land. O., to farm near Ames years
ago. A few months after their arrival,
and while the first crop Of the new
farm was being cultivated. Sheldon got
behind with his work and weeds
threatened to take the corn crop. This
forced him to look about for additional
help.
Sunday Boys Good Workers.
why don't you hire the Sunday
boys?" asked neighbour. "They are
good workers and will soon clean out
your corn"
THE two Sunday boys had just re-.
turned to Ames from the Orphans
home at Davenport" said the Ames
mayor in telling the story land were
then living at the home of a farmer
nearby.
Both of the boys came to work for
lows went thru those weeds. Why,
they cleaned out my corn in no time.
When they finished that they contin-
ued to work for me. Ed remained
eight years: Will stayed four years."
Mayor Sheldon always speaks of Sun
day as will" Seated in his room at
the Grand he talked of the evangelist
as he would Of his own son. He never
links the name BILLY" with the reviv-
alist's proper name.
II have known Will nearly all his
life, and never knew him to do a mean
act. His enemies say he never gives to
charity, but know that is not true.
They insist that he Is a rich man, that
he has boarded wealth; that is not so.
Will has always given to charity.
Rev.. Sundays Charities.
why when he was holding his re-
vival at Dayton, o., he wrote to me.
saying that he was preparing to make
up his contributions for charity for the
year and asked that learn what pro-
visions had been made to pay the sal
airy of the minister of the new Presby-
terrain church then building in Ames.
II went to the pastor and told him
a friend wished to know II the salary
Of the minister had been provided for.
and II not he wished to make a small
donation. The pastor replied that the
salary had been provided for by the
D. asbytery. but they were still in debt
on the church property. told Will
what I had learned. Shortly after
wards the Presbyterians received a
check for $500.
"Then take the case of the widow
woman at Springfield, ILL.,, where Will
held :. revival. She had been one Of
hi warm admirers. When contribu-
tons were being made she checked out
the last dollar she had in the bank and
gave to him, and this, too. on ton Of
mortgage she had hanging over her
little home.
When she drew the check the
banker snorted, and attempted to per-
suade her from her purpose. but she
insisted. The banker spread the story
and In time it came to Willis ears.
Paid OFF the Mortgage.
Going to the bank he asked if what
ne heard of the widow giving her last
mite to his meetings was true. The
banker told him 1t was, and said that
IN addition to the mortgage there was
accrued interest. Will pulled a check
book from his pocket, asked the amount
OF the mortgage and interest.
-Four hundred dollars, the banker
told him."
viii wrote a check for the entire
sum, handed it thru the window and
said: Here, that squares it in full. Now,
you apply this to the mortgage and
mail her the Cancelled paper"
Mayor Sheldon continued to tell of
help the revivalist had given others
with money derived from his meetings,
Widows without means or support re-
ceive much of the money.
But Will never says anything Of his
gifts to charity and only his most in
innate friends know Of the good work
he is doing"
II have never known Will Sunday to
do mean act in his life" said the
Ames mayor in discussing charges
often brought against the evangelist.
He was one Of the most manly boys I
have ever known.
"A great many papers have printed
articles rejecting on his character.
Some of them have mixed him with a
half brother. Roy Hiser, now living on
Willis farm at Hood River, Ore. The
half brother Is twelve years younger,
and was, admit. rather Wild"
Was Nervous as Boy.
The mayor believes heart and soul
in the sincerity Of Sunday. Some peo-
pie are opposed to hi& methods in the
pulpit, but want to tell you there Is
nothing sacriligious about them. AZ a
boy on the farm the same nervous
force that manifests itself in him while
he il in the pulpit was then noticeable.
It didn't matter whether he was pitch
ing hay. hoing corn, playing baseball
or running foot races. he always put
every ounce Of reserve he had into what
he was doing.
Mayor Sheldon visited the evangelist
in Omaha while there. He was accom-
panied by Mayor A. G. Mueller Of Da-
venport. The Davenport man In telling
of their visit to Sundays hotel said
afterwards:
81 never saw anyone more pleased to
meet another man than Sunday was to
see Sheldon. He slapped him on the
shoulder. roughed him about minute
in the welcome and then they settled
down to talk over old times"
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