Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-01
SUNDAY REVIVAL
HERE HALF OYER,
SYRACUSE NEXT
Campaign in Omaha Will Come to
an End on Sunday, October
Twenty Fourth.
MANY THOUSANDS LISTEN TO HIM
Addresses Four Hundred Thousand
and Gets Twenty-Six Hundred
Trail-Hitters.
CHURCH ARIsToCRAT
FRIDAY MEETINGS.


10 a. m.-NsighborhoOd prayer meet
inRs.
IL a. m. 20 . p. m.--Business women's
meeting and lunch, 1909 rarnRm street
Miss miller.
12 noon-shop meetings.
.. m.-sunday ~ the Tabernacle.
s:46 D. m.-R5yE' and girls meeting
First Presbyterian church, Council
Bluffs, Miss 0amlin.
D. m.-Bible study for school teach
ers and others, First Methodist churca,
Miss SAKE.
$3.50 p. m.-Boys' and girls meeting,
First Christian church, Council Bluffs,
Miss Gamlin.
4;l5 p. m.-Commerciai High school
ana business college girls, =. W. @. A.,
Miss miller.
7:3o D. m.-sunday at the Tabernacle.
7s3o p. m.-Mesting for young people,
FIRST Presbyterian church, Council
Bluffs, Miss 0amlin.
D. m.-Ribls class, FIRST congrsga-
tional church, Council Bluffs, Miss SAKE.
At the close of yesterday after
Moons tabernacle meeting the Sun
day campaign in Omaha was exactly
half over. Four Sundays and seven
teen and a half week days we're past
and four Sundays and seventeen and
a half week days were to come. The
campaign will end Sunday, October
"a. The campaign in Syracuse, N.
Y, will open the following Sunday.
At this halfway point Mr.. Sunday
had addressed nearly $4,000 people
in the tabernacle alone and had Sc
cured 1857 trail hitters. besides as
many more boys and girls. Many
thousands had been reached in scores
Of other meetings throughout Greater
Omaha and Council Bluffs.
Discussing the length OF time required
to build a good sermon. Billy won the
hearts of the women in the audience by
referring 70 the time 1t has taken them
to learn to make good bread and pies.
81 can cook. too" he chuekled. al can't
bake bread, but can fry beefsteak and
everything like that"
The sermon was an arraignment of
those who are asleep in the churches,
who think Christianity consists in sitting
at ease among the cushions once a week
and going through the religious forms.
Billy was in a frenzy Of denunciation
against such and there was many a
warm amen" and yes, yes. that's
true" from people In the audience.
Too Many Sellers of Rhetoric.
TOO many preachers in modern and
so-called 'aristocratic' churches degener-
ate into mere sellers of rhetoric" he
said. "They smooth down the stubble of
Gods demands. They go through the
empty forms They tell their gangs the
things they want to hear and are very
cautious to say nothing that might Of
tend the bunch. They have to do It to
hold their jobs"
He referred to the rugged aud active
religion OF Phillips Brooks. the great
Episcopal clergyman and said, IF they
all had as much religion as he had they d
do something for sinners
"Billy's' closing prayer was an init
mate conversation with Jesus, in which
he even chuckled as he said, in referring
TO those who do no work in saving
others. you bet. you never shirked that
work, Jesus
''I'll follow you, Jesus. even II You tell
me to crawl into a coffin" he said, "I'll
follow You to the graveyard. l won't do
as some do. sing Where He Leads I'll
Follow, and then the next day go off to
some dance"
J. Q. Brown, an evangelistic singer
from Chicago. was introduced by "Rody'
and sang song. He is en- route to York
to take part in a revival