Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-13
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"HlTTlNG THE TRAIL"
wlIH BILLY SUNDAY
Editors Note: Daily the ri.
bune,, Will give Z short digest Of.
the stirring sermons being preach
ed by Bili Sunday at Paterson; N. u
J.. SO Many of our readers have
shown such great interest in@ the q
sermons by Rev. Jones and Rev. 8;
Wilson, that we will give them :.
more Of this Kind Of reading. The
first sermon follows. I'M i,
Paterson, N. j. April 12.-"Bllly"
Sunday Friday evening held afservice
specially for tie young folk of Pater.
son and the rest of northern New DER
sey. A large part of the tabernacle
auditorium had been reserved for ,pu-
pills of schools and colleges, and they
were there with thei- pennants, their.
school cheers, their marching songs
and their blight, expectant faces
Again the total attendance was near.
~ ten thousand 3'E'l &at =
The youngsters had a rafting good.
time. They could hardly have enjoys
ed themselves more if they had been
laughing at the antics of Marceline in
the Hippodrome or watching a three
ring circus full of clowns. And they
heard from the lips of the mentor,
whose Autographed face adorns most
Of aPterson's store windows, more
slang and "Bowery stuff" within half
an hour than they could pick up in
six months in the placid course of
school days or in a postgraduate
course in vaudeville. They cheered
for BILLY Sunday" They whistled
Brighten the Corner Where You
Are" five thousand strong.
There were gusts of Juvenile laugh.
ter when the bounding BILLY" talked
of raw necker, pigeon toed, red head
ed, cross eyed, freckle faced kids with
stone bruises on their heels There
were shrieks of merriment when he
dramatically impersonated "ithe young
lobster who loafs in the streets,
smokes cigarettes, goes into the back
doors of booze joints and tries to
drink the whole bunch under the
table," $sst
New. Sunday School Talk. -
When the children were not laugh
ing uproariously the exhorter beheld
row after row of youthful mouths
agape in wonder. This kind of Sun
day school talk was new to them.
Lower jaws sagged as if adnoids had
become fashionable in the Paterson
schools.
Truly, as Billy said, it was a
great occasion. The following are
just a few of the rhetorical jewels
with which the r%evivalist dazz.ed his
young auditors in the course of his
Sermon" which he entities Forces
That Win"
Listen, boys" he said. I'VE have
the greatest nation in the universe
and the greatest opportunities to be-
come something in all the world. If
you can't become something you are
a mutt, a ~mollycoddle, a fo%ur.flusher,
excess baggage, a falsedalarm and a
mere cipher" esoen 1ag
"You might as well ,Gtyy to teach a
COW the oratorio of The, Messiah as
to expect to be successful if you start
out in life on any proposition, for
which you were not intended. The
proprietor Of the Waldorf in New
~ ,.
York used to be a waiter at 81 a week.
John Jacob Astor's parents wanted
him to be a butcher, but the CONNER
cial instincts were strong in John,
and he crossed the seas to America
and skinned Americans to lay the
foundation Of his great fortune.
"Aniline dyes are made out of coal
tar. Cigarettes are made out of the
cigar stamps they fish out Of the gut
ter. They will go up a back alley and
pick up a dirty shirt that a billy goat
would pass up like the hobo does a
woodpile, and they will turn the dirty
rag into glucose, they win turn the
glucose into booze and they will turn
the booze into young men and the
young men into hell.
! "Self-conceit will be a milestone