The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-18
VAST TABERNACLE
|. PACKED LAST NIGHT
Audience Which Heard Sun
day Included 5000 Col
Iege Students
NOT PLEASED WITH
AMOUNT COLLECTED
Told Audience That Little Towns in
the Middle West Had Boston
Skinned Block - Urged Min
listers to Do Personal Work.

BOSTON, Nov. Is. - Billy Sunday
preached last evening to the greatest
/ audience he ever faced. And it was the
most intellectual Or, as Billy would
/ say, "highbrow' congregation that
| ever filled a tabernacle built for him.
| Nearly $4,000 persons, chiefly young
men and young women, were packed
into the vast auditorium. When all
! the seats were taken and all the stand
ing room was exhausted, thousands were
! left outside. So crowded was the in
terror that men in the rear climbed on
the steel that supports the roof; there
only could they find space.
! When Mr.. Sunday strobe forward to
speak he knew that he was addressing
an audience very different from most
Of those he has faced in the West. For
one thing, he was in Boston, and very
many of the general body in the tab
ernaele were persons of education and
refinement.
! Directly before him at the front of
/ the house were nearly 5000 college and
preparatory school students Almost
/ at his feet were massed 900 professors
and girls from Wellesley college. On
his left, under a big crimson ban
ner, were 1000 Harvard undergradu-
ates. On his right, under the colors of
Boston university, were hundreds from
that institution. Near the Harvard bows
was huge delegation from Tech, and
elsewhere were thousands more = men
from Tufts college, girls from Radcliffe.
Simmons eolleg,, Lasell seminary and
the Sargent school, besides hundreds of
students from public and private
schools. 1t was critical, thinking au-
dienee, and Mr. Sunday had no easy
task to fit his appeal to them.
Sunday was not very well pleased
with the amount collected at the
home - meeting Thursday night, iudg-
ing by what he said yesterday after
noon before he began his sermon at els
on Personal Service. - When he came
forward to take charge of the meeting
after Homer Rodeheaver had nearly I'm
lshed the musical program, Mr.. Sunday
put both hands on the pulpit, leaned
over, swung around and said to Rev.
James +. Walker, his attendant:
How much was the collection 80
"A little over $780, said Mr.. Walk
err.
Mr.. Sunday turned back to the au-
dience and said:
Did you hear what he said?' and
smiled. LESS than $1,000. Why, they
! do better than that out in little towns
in the Middle West They We got YOU
| skinned a block. You people in New
England have got the reputation of
being tight | don t know whether YOU
are or not; but, anyway, you ought to
do better than that. AS told you be-
fore, however, it is no concern of mine. -
Sunday subject was Forces That
| Win. He rsmbled i'll his remarks more
than at any other time since he has
| spoken here. At one point he said:
! Il don't mean to say that YOU are
not kind, hospitable and appreciative,
but don t think you are doing all that
YOU might do. l IN not going to do it all.
You ministers want to get busy and
do lot of personal work. You church
people want TO hustle around and help
/ us save the sinful from the devil. and
not Just sit there on your chairs
and listen to what | have to say about
salvation. Some of you church people
had better stay home for while and
give other folks chance to come here