Evening star., 1915-01-10
OFFER GLAD HAND
TO BILLY SUNDAY
Washington People Promise
the Noted Evangelist a
Warm Welcome.
FINAL PLANS ARE MADE
FOR BIG MEETING HERE
Prior to His Talk at Convention Hall
Preacher Will Call on Presi-
dent Wilson.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, January 9.-The
biggest kind of welcome was prom
ised to Billy Sunday by the delegation
which came from the capital today to
make final arrangements for his visit
there on Monday. January IS.
| William Knowles Cooper, general Sec
retary of the Washington Y. NJ. c. A..
and chairman of the committee. ar
ranging for the visit, was in confer
ence with the evangelist last night
and this morning. Mr.. Sunday explain
ed that he would take with him Mrs.
Sunday and about twenty of his staff.
A special car will be booked for the
trip. -
The party expects to arrive in Wash
ington about 1 o'clock pm. At the
| Union station it will be met by a big
ed to the White House. After a chat
with President Wilson Billy will see
| the Y. M. c. A. and then proceed to
Convention Hall, where he is to speak.
| The Convention Hall in Washington
has a capacity for about 10000. Only
once before. 1t was stated. today, has
| there been the demand for seats that
the announcement of Sundays appear
ance had brought. Reserved seats will
be held for clergymen and members
friends of the evangelist.
To Dine With Secretary Bryan.
Immediately after the talk Sunday
will be the dinner guest of William
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State.
Other members of the Presidents cahi-
net and departmental heads will be
present. =, 49,. .--.=
During his stay in Washington Sum
day will see everywhere the slogan
which the committee urging that he
hold prolonged service there has
adopted: "Wake up a; capital for Christ .
to fix time for services in Washing
ton similar to those in this city. He said
ne would come if business people really
wanted him. Then it was arranged that
he should visit Washington Monday, the
18th. to let Washingtonians hear him
speak. After this visit of several hours
1t will be finally determined whether or
not Billy will go to Washington to
Wake up a capital for Christ.'
Sunday said today that while in Wash
ington he would call upon Secretary
Daniels and thank him for throwing
booze out of the navy.
Preaching Bears Fruit.
The preaching of Billy Sunday is
beginning to bear fruit. At the close
of this afternoons meeting. after the
evangelist had given the briefest SER
mon of the campaign and attacked the
church members and clergy for their
lack of faith, former convict, who
gave his name as Francis Carroll, came
to the front of the tabernacle and said
he was going to come again and be-
gin to live straight life. Another
man, invited inside by Rev. John Wal
lace Welsh of Sundays party, told Mr.
welsh after the services that Sunday
taught him a lesson he had never
learned before: that he would be back
meetings until he became a friend of
God.
The former resident of the Eastern
pen1tentiary said he had been in the
pen" ten years for counterfeiting and
had never done stroke of work in his
nfty-twe years on earth. When asked
Tor his home address, he said, "a bench
IN Logan Square and a bunk in the
tenderloin."
One week ago today Philade1phia
stormed a railroad terminal and gave
Billy Sunday a greater ovation than
mas ever been accorded any dignitary
IN this city; today Philadelphia con-
tinued the storming. which began so
ausp1c1ously in Broad street station
Crowds Come From Factories.
Scarcely had the noon whistles her.
aided IL o'clock today when there came
pouring into the tabernacle, at goth
and Vine streets. horde of working
men and working women from the fac
tories which lie within a radius of
several blocks of the place where Billy
sunday breaches his daily revival SER
mons.
From greater distances than several
olocks, however, focked the crowd,
which had the great ramshackIe build.
ing as it's objective point. and which
included men and women in all walks
OF life, with the laboring classes pre-
dominating.
Many OF the employees of factories
and mills have been frustrated when
trying to gain admission to the even
ing meetings because they had to go
nome Tor supper and could not reach
the tabernacle earlier than o'clock.
an hour generally too late. Today they
seemed to have reached a unanimous
decision to forego lunch il necessary
and make their way to the tabernacle
In plenty of time, not only to gain ad-
mission, but to secure good seats.
Eight men and women entered the
tabernacle at s o'clock this morning.
requested to leave they replied that
they meant to stay until they heard
! Sunday and that the arguments of fire-
men and patrolmen would be useless.
ihey were permitted to remain, and
steadfastly held their places during the
long morning wait.
Ineme OF Remarkable Sermon.
Out of the old story of the tribes of
Israel on the edge of the promised
land Billy Sunday drew a remarkable
sermon. declaring that there is no
power on earth or in hell sufficient
to keep present-day Christian from
| the promised land.
| throughout his forceful discourse the
eEangehst was unusually lenient to
| both the clergymen and the laity, al
! though upon several occasions he
lauhched INTO attacks upon the present.
day church. One of these came in con-
nection with his ridicule of church
| choirs.
I. 100 many choir singers do not know
any more about the gospel they sing
| tnan the town pump does about a taste
OIL water one of the greatest needs
is more prayer and less nonsense in
our church choirs; more praise and less
backbiting; more love and less fault
| nndins' more reverence and less frivol-