The Washington times., 1915-01-13
SUNDAY TO PREACH
ON MORAL LEPER''
Sailor, Pugi|ist. School Child,
and "Red Woman" Among
His Converts.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 1s.-"The
Moral Leper' is the subject which
BILLY" Sunday has chosen for botl,
afternoon and. cvertn services at the
! tabernacle today. Despite the bad
weather, IL is expected that the church
will be crowded. Many delegations are
expected from nearby towns.
Sunday has sounded tho charge, called
the converts to get into the fight for
Jesus Christ. and again the people have
answered. One hundred and seventy
four "hit the trail' last night.
Asain Sunday was the storm center
for the charging throng. eager to grasp
his hand and pledge themselves to a
| Christian life. Down upon him they
charged. weeping, wallins, eyes hidden
ana eyes fashing, singing marching to
Zion."
1t was a great sight.
Tho first to- hit the trail last night was
|s gray-sweatered young man who rushed
trembling and who caught Sundays fin
gers a though he wanted to hurt them.
stumbling upon his heels came a
broad-shouldered marine, one OF the
men who helped to capture Vera Cruz
and showed Mexico 1t wasn't exactly
safe business insulting the Stars and
Stripes.
Wants "TO TrOt Square"
Next a blear.cycd man. weeping. and
praying that he might forever live q
better, sober life. lie said he was
a bill poster, had been going it Wild"
but now was going 20 trot square
with God" He was quoting Sunday.
A young man came up weeping. He
said he'd been a "backsIider." A school
teacher brought forward a little girl
pupil. Hoth grasped Sundays hand.
Two old men. world-wcary. stageer-
ing. homeless souls. whose bed for
weeks had been tenderloin doorway.
dragged themselves up to the evanGel-
ist. A little girl. blonde. her lips
too red with rouge. slipped furtively
took her scat on the converts benches.
Marching TO Zion"-over and over
again they sang 1t. Just AS l AM
that. too. over and over again. A city
fireman brought forward his man.
who a glance told ono had worked long
and hard and with his hands.
They were a motley crowd, thronging
down those aisles. crowd stirred by
the eloduence Of Sunday. He, in an i'm
passioned climax, had told them the
with his army. his men falling freezing
in the snow. the while the martial
music Of La Belle France crashed out
among the crags and made them ring.
Scores Trial Marriage.
They see girl who is pretty and
Eood-looiins." he sncsred at the trial
marriage crowd. They say. Come on.
sissT. let's try It while. and " we
don't like It We can quit
"Arrh." he snarled, think God. such
an infamous. God-forsaken. licentiOus,
hell-torn doctrine will never exist a.
long az man preacnes God word and
woman hears it,
"SiXty-cisht per cent. OF our crime 8
are committed by foreigners or people
OF foreign birth. so YOU see that's got
something to do with it, Then he
hr.d this at the preachers benches
And fifty years of negative preach
ins's got something to do with 1t. too
,you bet"
His rocking drawl came again. New
thought! All this fascinating. sugar
coated mixture and ethical culture and
higher criticism. You've got II in the
Bible, and there's nothing new under
the sun. Whether YOU call il new or
whatever you call It. it's the same old
devil
Ministers Not Spared.
With one OF his deft gestures. he di-
r.ctcd the attention OF tho audience to