The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-02

FaStoe Would not depart from his Gus
tom and the Bible rule. Speak evil Of
no man. His remarks merely ap-
pcrtained to "Biilys" preaching of the
Gospel
BILLY Sunday catches the public
eye and ear by the novelty of his
methods Some go to hear him lam
haste the preacher on the platform
behind him. and to watch their faces
and see them smile as though it were
Il good joke when he tells them that
their preaching has made the churches
cold storage places with little storage.
or wien h,, likens them 10 the Scribes.
Phdiisees hypoci'ites. of old or when
he tells them that they are leading
their coneregs tons straight down to
Hell. These things told in the news
papers seem SO astounding that people
must see ard hear for themselves.
BiIiy's Chair Smashing ProcIivities.
Others 20 to hear BILLY" because 1t
is the fad" Business men and cleo
trio aId steam railway managers real
ize that thousands will come to town
as they would TO a circus. They bring
pressure to bear upon the poor preach
erS: fer Billy wisely insists that he
will not come and save the citizens
from Hell ii there is any competition
In the business-insists that all the
churches close down. Under the pres
sure the preachers cnnnet help them
selves and Try TO make the best of it.
hoping that people will not take Billy"
seriously as respects their hypocrisy.
etc. and assured that he will divide
the spoils evenly amongst all the
churches not the financial spoils. but
the SOUS fer cold storage" or to be let
down to Hell.
Others attend to see "Billy's" aero
batic feats. jumping onto a table or
SMASHING 0 cha'r: others because they
have BEEN invited to be of the large
choir; others to say that they have
heard sRilly" Sunday. The worldly
adage is. Nothing succeeds like sue
cess and every time Billy" succeeds
he has more success.
Amongst Billy's virtues we should
net forget the fearless way in which he
attacks the social cus.nais and sins
which assail the family and the COM
munity, the fearless way in which he
tells the preaf hers what he really
thinks OF them and what the masses
of the public think of them, and the
above-board manner in which he bar
gains the result of his efforts for cold
cash-the meeting of the expenses AMI
the giving to himself of certain collec-
tons for himself and his troupe If
the Gospel must be sold. it is better to
have 1t done in the open rather than IN
the name of the heather. the collectors
getting the most.
To the extent that Billy Sunday
seeks to defend the Bible against the
Higher Critics, to the extent that he
really shows up the GOODNESS, formal
ism, hypocrisy. of the Church of Lao
dicea Revelation 3:14-10. to the ex-
tent that he encourages righteousness
Of life and discourages drunkenness
and lewdness, we can surely wish him
Godspeed, and trust tnat some good is
accomplished by him, in awakening til,
people to do some thinking for them
selves along religious lines
Some of "BilIy" Sundays Faults.
The Pastor said that if the reports
that BILLY" prayed to God most irrev-
erently, and addressed the Redeemer
as ''Old Pal" were true, then "Billy's''
influence on the public would lead on
in the direction in which the world is
now rapidly moving anyway-toward
irreverence. He hoped that Billy"
would become more reverent, and be-
lieves that this result would follow a
better knowledge of God He could