Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-12
Miseellaneous Rsaaina.
SUNDAY IN PHILADELPHIA
Famous Evangelist Conducting Great
ReIiaious Revival.

Famous Evangelist Conducting Great
Religious Revival.
Rev. Billy Sunday began a series
of evangelistic meetings in Phila-
delphia on January 8. A tabernacle
seating 10000 people, was specially
built for the use Of the baseball
evangelist. The Philadelphia Ledger
of Wednesday, synopsizes the sermon
of Tuesday night, on Jacob Limp
ed," as follows:
Sundays acting last night was won
derful. He limped across the stage
as Jacob after resting with the angel
of the Lord; he drove with "Haw,
haw," the cattle and goats Jacobs
men drove to Esau; he took photo
graphs in a way that made his con-
gregation howl with amusement; ne
bought candy hearts with verses on
'em," not broken affairs" for the
faithful wife who'd "manicured her
hands for years in a washtub on your
dirty duds;" he cracked imaginary
whips, and he ran like a little girl
chased by a bull while little brother
prayed in stereotyped language Ito
be made duly thankful for what he
was about to eceive"-meaning the
bull.
It's getting to be an old story. for
II happened now on three nights at
the Billy" Sunday services, but they
turned away their thousands from
the great tabernacle last night. BY
o'clock the big building was filled and
thousands were crammed and jammed
in the vestibules.
Twenty-three thousand persons, a
that brought Sundays
total for his three days preaching In
Philadelphia up to nearly 900,
were laundering forth the eVangelists
hymns.
Rejoice! Rejoice!" they sang, and,
blocks away Philadelphia knew it.;
"If Your Heart Keeps Right" SWELL
ed the melody the boys in the streets
were whistling, and the white-washed
timbers Of the tabernacle roof trembl-
ed. The great structure last night
heard such singing as 1t had not
heard before. It made the pulses of
the thousands jump. ..
The evangelist was in fine fettle. 1t
didn't take two words from his lips
to show that the hoarseness that had
troubled him in the afternoon, when
he had told $4,000 persons of "The
Revival Of the Pentecost," had van
ished.
He was on edge to get into action
with his famous sermon, Jacob.
He seemed like a thoroughbred. keen
for the race, as throughout the prayer
Ham, he bobbed his head determin-
edly, muttering Amen" to himself
and gnawed at his thumb.
uo made things hum from the
start. He talked of money. by to-
morrow night" said he, "Philadel-
phia should have cleaned up expen-
ses. / could put up a ring here. pull
off q couple of prize fights and I'd
fill this thing every night at a dollar
a head. You pay $2,500 just to see
Caruso, and you'd fork over $4,000 to
hear Melba sing one night. Ushers,
gather up the pennies"
Defense Of the Jews.
Sunday got the attention of his
audience in his first sentence by a
defense of the Jews.
"It makes my blood boil" he cried.
Ito hear a Jew spoken of as Sheeny
or a Christ killer. When you worship
the Christ you worship a Jew. Don't
you ever forget it.
"I wear a custom-made suit made
by Jewish tailors. A Jewish banking
house stopped the Russo-Japanese
war by refusing to lend more money
to Japan with which to carry on the
struggle.
visit the poorhouse. You never
saw a Jew there. If you want the
purest blood on Gods earth, you'll
find it in the Jew. The Jewish race
will outlive the dynasties Of the earth.
you never see a Jew among hobos
panhandling for a hand-out. Indeed
not. Four hundred thousand Jewish
children are in your schools, your
coming patriots. under the stars and
Stripes"
Mr.. Sunday began scoring the
proud and the hypocriteS.
Lots of folks" he shouted, think
they can work the shell game on
God by giving a stained-glass window
or a pipe organ. Oh, how many of
you pray with sincerity? You are
like people who put good apples on
top Of bad ones and then wonder
what ails them!"
He whirled like a top and shouted:
"You can't pray, My kingdom come,
and then go to a bridge party and
look at God through the bottom of
beer mug. You can't pray My king
dom come and then go home and
spew in the arms Of your wife and
children, you drunken, old reprobate.
What troubles me so much is that
God is doing so we'll with the bunch
that he has to work with!
Some of you are so low down,
you'd have to take an airship to get
to hell.
God broke Jacobs thigh-God will
put you on your back, too, If you come
to him with your gods Of money and
your decolete gowns.
know what decollet is? It's a
gown with the collar around the
waist
"God's wrestling with you to make
you give up your lust and greed and
envy. your companions In sin; .,,
God says, Give 'em up! He'll
make some Of you fellows take your
check books out Of your pockets and
make restitution for all these get
rich-quick schemes you've been work
ing.
when I went to school had job
as janitor-got up at 2 a. m. swept
IA rooms, made fires in IA rooms and
got s25 a month-nobody called me a
CRATER then"
Applause shook the building. Sun
day fired forth:
Come up here and call me graft
er-better have your pictures taken
first. You won't know what you
looked like once unless you do"
Fair Game to Sunday.
All Of the morals from the Jacob
story were BILLY" Sundays fair game.
They called this man Jacob" he
said. I'm those days they gave peo-
pie names not because they sounded
pretty, but because they meant some
thing. Say, what's your name?" And
Sunday squatted down and leered at
his audience, as though he wasn't
going to let a single person escape
the question.
That's what Gods going to ask
you-the way he asked Jacob! When
he asked Jacob what his name was,
Jacob said it meant a schemer;' and
he was a schemer; so when he told
his name he confessed his sin. Con-
fess your sin to the Lord; tell the
Lord your name and God will do to
you what he did to Jacob. He'll give
you a new name.
He told Jacob, Thy name hence
forth shall be Israel which means a
prince-a power for the Lord.
"Oh yes, God will hear you all
right" and BILLY" Sunday stretched
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