Evening journal., 1915-01-25
SUNDAY TURNS ON
MEN WHO ASSAIL HIM
Says He is Ready TO Fight
IntereStSWhich Are Attack
ing His Character
,445 PERSONS
HIT THE TRAIL

Ill III 4 M Ill
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 25.-An-
other $4,000 men and boys made
the tabernacle at Logan Square shake
with applause yesterday afternoon
and last night when Billy Sunday de-
livored the plainest spoken sermon
which he has yet drawn from his rep
ertory. "Thc Devils Boomorangs Up
to-datc; or. Hot Cakes OFF the Grid
die" Women were excluded from
these two services.
Drunkenness and vice were lashod
by the evangelist with an almost un-
eNampled fury. Their efforts were IL
Illustrated by passages from his own
history. Retelling the story of his
conversion. while a member Of the
Chicago baseball team he followed
the careers of several teammates who
had died of dissipation. declaring that
his own health. and his survival when
so many of these had broken down,
was due TO the Christian influences
which he chose TO follow.
He acted over. in view of his audi
ence, the characteristics of each play
er and in illustrating historic
Slide of his own, he shot head-first
along the carpet of the rostrum.
On arising. he shouted defiance at
interests which he declared were
conspiring to ruin his life and char
acter. Standing up in his pulpit, so
high that his head almost touched the
huge sounding board above him, he
yelled out over the audience:
81 defy the whole lOw-dOwn dcgen-
crate bull-necked gang Of thugs in
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. I'll
reach higher than l ever reached, and
I'll reach lower than I ever reached.
and til fight longer and harder than
! ever fought before TO send one
drunkard home from the saloon and
defeat the whole God-forsaken, ini-
Quitous, filthy, cesspool and sewerage
gangl"
Pausing for breath, he asked his
audience:
Il don't know whether you ever
had a man to come to Philadelphia
and talk TO you as / do When I'm
through with old Philadelphia you can
tie milestone to my neck. and droT
me off the rear of a ferryboat and
watch the bubbles come up above me
so long as you just say, There goes
the body of a man that wasn't afraiC
to speak the truth
An uncomfortable crowd of mel
rushed into the choir seats at IN,
afternoon service and hundreds re
mained over for the evening to heai
the sermon repeated. Yells, cowbo.
whoops and the initiated hiss of es
Gaping steam and the Shrek of locomo
tive whistles formed an accompani
ment to the song. "The Brewers Ri,
Horses Cant Ride over Me" .whicl
"Rody" taught TO the audiences at bot
sessions, and which the audience
sang in a rollicking, half-serious. bu
altogether noisy fashion, over an
over again.
Hand-claps police whistles, stamp
ing feet and pounding fists and syste
matte "Yowl Vow. Yowl" from al
organized corps on the choir stand
kept the audience in good humor unit
the preacher arrived.
Fourteen hundred and forty-fiv
trail-hitters came forward at th
three services. In the afternoon an,
evening. before calling for the pro
fessed ponitCnts. the evangelist askcl
every man i'm the audience witt
thought he might be benefited b.
prayer. to rise to his feet Ever
hoarer stood.
Pennsylvania came in for one o
two "swats" from the preacher. II
twice characterized it as blot on th
map" adding:
you arc run by a gang of r0ttoi
politicians who arc owned by tn
whisky interests You are the wors
whisky dominated state in the Union.
Heaven and hell whiskey AM
womanhood were handled in turn:
"If every man did his duty we'd b
pretty close to Heaven, right on thi
old earth.
Hell must exist, for your cxistcnc
demands hell You yourselves are tn
arguments in favor ot il.
"lf an cmetio we're thrown into th
mouth of hell, the last imp blown on
of it would be an archangcl beside som
of YOU.
"When congestion starts in man
stomach. he'll hangs the sign on III
nose
"Thc virtue of womanhnod is 10
rampant wall Of civilization. II va
break il down. you'll 20 TO he'll.
III only for the good you get ont
this life. you ought to practice clea
living.
. III didn't live what preach, yo
may bet the whisky gang would let yo
know it inside of fifteen minutes.
81 was the first man To circle tl
+; bases in II seconds: and ! could do
: Just as easily after ! began TO ser,
God. ms ] could when served the Dc,i
subtract Sj0O0O from some me
and you've got nothing left but boo1
+ and women
"Pcnnsyl,auia's a blot ON The maj
The reason YOU haven't good laws
because you're run by gang Of roi
ten politicians. who are owned by th
liquor interests. This is the wor-
} whiskv-dominatcd State IN the Union
II defy any man this side of hell
show me a scintilla Of good that e,,
|, came from httm' the booze"
Referring to his carly life and n
l court ship of Mrs Sunday he declared:
j "Whcn married Nell 7 became
= Presbyterian. And If Nell had been
J Catholic. I'd have become a Catholi
1 too,
u Seven Chinese and Chinese American
a were among the first trail-hittcrs at Il
morning service. at which The audien,
p included both sexes. Not far bchil
i was "Dr" Caesar A M. 4. Taylor.
y wcll-known "hcrb-doctor" wearing i
u familiar cont of an Tho sevcn limo.