Evening journal., 1915-02-13
VETERANS HIT TRAIL
At sunday meeting
Evangelist Tells Them To.
Continue AS Soldiers
of Jesus Christ
$1,000 FOR THE
EMERGENCY FUND
PHILADELPHIA

Veterans of the c ivil War supplied at
most half Of the 532 trail-hitters, who
celebrated Lincoln Day yesterday and
last night by iocking, many in q. A.
r. uniforms, down the aislcs of Billy
Sundays big tabernacle. Students
from the University of Pennsylvania.
from Swarthmore and Haverford. con-
tributed an almost equal number
Comparatively few of those who ac-
cepted Christianity in the form upheld
by the evangelist were unconnected
with these representative bodies, and
types of American citizenship
Sunday preached yesterday and last
night with a bronze bust of Lincoln
standing before him on his pulpit,
draped i'm an American flag. At the
afternoon service he made brief trib-
ute to the great liberator. and preach
ed upon the love Of God to mankind,
as manifested in the gift of Christ to
the world. AT the evening service he
tore loose in an ombellished ropeu-
tion of his sermon on amusements,
before a strictly male audience.
Taking as his theme Browning's
great text in Galatians, once you triD
on &c, entails twenty-nine distinct
damnations. one sure if the other
falls" he once more dipped into the
domain OF things not usually mention
ed in polite circles. The stage, cards,
and dancing, were held up one after
the other. as so many standards to
follow down the road to certain damn
ation,. or to avoid upon the way to
eternal glory.
In the region Of temporal things, the
evangelist went after his clerical-ana
secular critics. Neither was spared.
"I expect that in tomOrrows paper
some miserable God-forsaken mutt
that buttons his collar in the back,
Will be vomiting and spcwing out
something against me.
Just wait. Pm the squarest man ON
earth, but if anybody Insults Jesus
Christ, he must expect a hght from me
If | get started, there won't be any
paper or anything else left"
The usual delegations, with gifts, ap
reared last night. BESIDES the Oniver
sity men. the Philadelphia Electric
Company sent large gathering, with
band that began To play shortly after
O'CLOCK tNu ktll AHN o"N'N'N~ =" o.,
humor until Sunday appeared. Inc
/ Electric men brought with them as gut
a set of cooking utensils percolator
toaster and so on and, after these ha'
been opened and admired, they received
n GOOD laugh at the preachers eNpens'
ms the last one revealed an electric not
water bottle.
Two thousand dollars, by rough esii
mate. were taken up at the mght ser
vice for the Emergency Aid Committee
making the probable totals received a.
fine two Thursday services and las
might at least $500. The men con
tributcd literally, the tim collector
basins hcing filed with greenbacks IN
stead of the more usual coin.
A Generous Offer.
| While the offering was coming M th'
evangelist held up gold piece whic'
hind beem received by him from cam
paipn contributor. and announced thal
J A friend n Reading would contribute
$500 for each $1,000 raised 10y the audi
cnce for the local charity. The applause
which followed was like Macbeth
curses. "not loud. hut deep"
The evangelist lost no time m gettln,
after possible dissenters;
81 challenge any lobster va the build
inc 10 contradict what ] say.
"Thc advanced school of. the drama
is like the advanced school OF Theology
"a rotten proposition. And the porni
cious play has been supplemented b.
the immoral picture show"
Those who had hammers out for Fat
were not forgotten;
III / hadn't more sense I'd he lik
Won mutts. blaming religion becaus
somebody's doue You out OF lew do'
lars"
The saloonkeeper was given one
Whit of cool air in the evangelist
tophet:
II believe the Church loses more
through backslidings over cards an,
the dance than it does through th'
grogshops.'
Divinity as a Furnishing as we'll n
redemptive force was insiste'
upon:
that I'm not God for about 10 min
utes."
John Canaghan. chaplain Of tn
Tombs Prison, New York, was an m
tcgosted visitor at the night service
which he brought to It's close with
vigorous prayer.
The afternoon service made 10 dc
cidedly more clear than the evening
. that yesterday was Lincoln Day. Fiv
thousand or more G.. A. n. veteran
, found places in the tabernacle befOr
noon, and the fear that the Ion
wait until . o'clock would prove try
, ing ia some of them induced Oh
= ushers TO send a hurry call TO th
D. Sunday house to bring tho evangelis
, down for an immediate sermon, to b
( repeated later if necessary.
!, When "Bilp arrived, however, i
found the building but little NOR
, than half filled. Persons not veteran
, we're taken from the front rows q
, the auditorium to make space 70
, them and their friends, and give
! seats i'm the choir. When the ovang.
/ list saw how many there we're h
r turned on his heel, went out, an
p didn't como back until the rcgula
v service hour.
b. In the meantime tho veterans too
= al arge OF the place Ma" Sunda
n loo some of them in song. and Rod
n found i'm thcm a patient listener
@ the tales of his own military duti'
a in Cuba. He sounded various cal
e for them on his trombone and playg
over such favOrites as "The Girl
Left Behind Nc" Yankee Doodle" aT
Dixie" AS the old gentlemen b.
= gan TO warm up q little ON their oN
- account he asked them 10 give hi
! some OF their passwords from a
~ civil War