Evening journal., 1915-02-25
IF Christ CAME TO
ADELPHIA-SUNDAY
Evangelist Says the Master
Would Be lnSulted On
the Streets
2S6 MORE JOIN
THE TRAIL HITTERS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb 25.---
Students from medical colleges and
ether technical institutions in and
about Philadelphia occupied the
places of honor at Billy Sundays tab
ernacle last night, when the evangc-
list preached one OF the richest and
most vigorous sermons of his cam
paign. taking for theme. "lf Christ
Came to Philadelphia"
Two hundred and three persons, in
cluding a number of the students, hit
the trail at the end of the service.
With cighty-three in the afternoon,
this made the total two hundred and
elghty-six for the day.
The evangelist asked his hearers
last night what they would do if given
notice that Christ would appear
in Philadelphia within twenty-four
hours He declared that the Saviour
of men would not escape without
open insult.
81 wouldt have to leave the cor
porate limits of the city of Philadel-
phia to find men who would stone
Jesus Christ and spit in His face"
These operations were illustrated
in dumb show. They we're preceded
and followed by eloquent pleas TO
accept the doctrines of Christ, and by
cNhortations to the audience to be
"mcn and women enough" to come
down and take him by the hand for
sign of acceptance
Surely" said he. "the city of
Philadelphia has never been honored
with such a visitation of Christ as it
is having now"
AS has been usual. many of last
nights delegation brought gifts TO
the evangelist, to Ma" Sunday and to
other members of the party. Killar-
noy roses were succeeded by deep
colOrcd crimson roses; another dele
cation brought box of fine station
cry and a contingent from the Y. NJ.
c. A. brought a watch fob, bearing in
its centre a large diamond "Rody." ."
who unpacked the gifts, reminded
the donors that Sunday was a former
Y. NJ. G. A. man.
81 am yet protested the evangelist.
The medical colleges, which in
cluded those ancient rivals of the
minor football world, the Hahnemann
Medical College, the Jefferson and the
! cO-Chirurgical turned out in
force as did also the DreXel Institute
and the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, the last-named stealing a
march on the other by presenting
Sunday with a full-sized college ban
nor. Each college yelled in turn at
request, and at the proper time each
| listened. the medical men with an al
/ s,,,-f ,If,fraI r,nIff.opac ~ offnntfo,,
to the fulminatiOns of the dynamite
] preacher"
/ Sunday declared to the medical
/ students:
IF l weren't a preacher I'd like TO
be a doctor. You accomplish great
deal of good in the world. and you're
always ready to sacrifice yourselves
/ to help others. You're with people
when they're ready to leave the
world and whatever you say goes
I'm glad to welcome you here, and
glad TO preach to you"
Trail hitters came with apparent
! unwillingncss last night A dra.
matte silence ensued when the
] evangelist sent the first call over the
heads of the audience. In little
] while two women came down a side
] aisle. arm in arm. and, the ice once
broken. others followed them freely
In the midst of the after-meeting Sun
day exhorted the various delegations
to come down."
Don't take your stand with the ig
noblel" shouted he.
Rather a small audience greeted
the evangelist yesterday afternoon 1
would have been big enough for {
nidseason baseball game or hip
podrome gala performance, but in
the tabernacle, though at least ter
thousand strong. it looked almost for
lorn. AT the close of the service
after one of the most vigorous ser
mons the campaign has yet heard
but eighty-three trail hitters cam,
down to the front.
Human institutions-and senti
ments-were assailed yesterday after
noon as of no avail without the In
ner Wall" of Christian living. Legis
lation, business. domestic life. educa
I ton. patriotism was cited as al
! outer protective wall against human
, passion; each was taken up one b!
J enc and analysed upon the evangel
lists own system. and each i'm turI
was rejected as valueless without TIT
second defense" of Christianity.
Criticisms by the Congress of Re
ligious Liberals. now in session, wor,
replied to.
Religious liberals-wah! They say
What a difference between the clamo
and noise up there at that tabernacle
and the quiet of our meeting!' There
a difference in the crowd. too. There
as much difference as there is betweel
battle and funeral procession o
between a schOolroOm and a grave
yard. Hallelujah!"
Impassive critics we're also put 4
fight during the closing prayer:
81 can sec you sitting with you
cold critical sneer. You don't believ
Il. But the Devil does. The Devil
pushin your bunch TO the 'front.'"
Tho question of mutual rosponsi
bility between crime and poverty wa
settled against poverty:
"There is no doubt about il. Grim
causes more poverty than povert
{ causes crime"