The Washington times., 1916-03-13
MA SUNDAY GETS
WOMEN ON TRAIL"
Forty Respond to Pleas Of Wife
Of Billy At Baltimore Meet
r ing-An Active Worker.

BALTIMORE, March 10. - Forty
women hit the trail" though not the
sawdust one. to Mrs. Sundays preach
ing yesterday afternoon at the Lyric
Theater.
come wept. some laughed. and some
were hysterical. II was practically
Me" Sundays debut in Baltimore as
public speaker. The meeting had been
scheduled for 2 o'clock, but at 1880 the
house was filled, and the services be-
gan.
Forty-one thousand men and youths.
and fifty-six thousand persons In all.
attended the tabernacle meetings yes
| terday.
The size OF yesterdays congregations
broke a record for Baltimore, and tho
\ trail-hittinR record likewise was shat
| tered. Eleven hundred and thifty-one
persons hit the TRAIL
will Go Home.
Ma Sunday will leave this evening
for the Sunday home in Winona. IND,
to see Paul and william. the two small
sons whom she and Billy are forced
to leave In the charge OF q house
keeper while they are conducting evan
gelistic campaigns. She will return
here Saturday
Mr. Sunday took an automobile ride
through the city morning, visiting
the mayor, Postmaster Swami. anc
others. being escorted by the Rev. DR.
Hugh Birckhead. rector of Emmanue
Protestant Church. Later he will motol
out into the county to see some colonia
homes. There will be. no tabernacle
services, for this is the official day
OF rest of the Sunday party.
Yesterday was the big day OF tn,
campaign In all respects. so far as re
suits were concerned. and Sunday made
Acknowledgement OF the fact when. II
tabernacle, he gave thanks 10 God fol-
this memorable day In the history o.
baltimore"
lie preached on Chickens Com,
Home TO Roost." a sermon based on
text from the one hundred and fourtl
Psalm, Let the sinner be consume,
out of the earth and let the wicked
be no more It's keynote was an am
plification OF the Decalogue provision
"Bor the sins OF the father shall b
visited upon the children unto tn
third and fourth generation
| IL was the sermon he had delivere
in the afternoon, but his conRrega
ton was made up of other men tina
! for the service that started at IL
o'clock, forty-five minutes ahead o
schedule.
, There was nothing sensational q
/ either meeting IN tne tTdlI nlttiUb
Men walked forward to the platform
shook Mr.. Sundays hands. then too
their seats on the benches reserve
for converts. and were held until Oh
after meeting by the secretarie
Most OF them appeared somewhat Z
at ease, the faces OF most OF thei
showed awakened earenstness. and
few Of them wept.
Two-year-old Hits Trail.
The only member of the fair sex !
the building after thst forenoon ser'
ice was a girl OF probably two year
OF age. She hit the trail in the arm
, OF her father, a bright-faced man
' about thirty, but she was obviousi
, sleepy and tired and didn't kno'
what Il was all about. However. sh
took the evangelist's proffered han
with a little smile, then dropped hs
head on daddy's shoulder.
Two more policemen hit the trai
r | following the example set last Thurs
= day by Patrolman Martin Brad
y Among the converts at night wa
II PatrolmAn II. w. Peusch. OF II
Southern district. one OF the police
N men assigned to duty at the tabe
' nacle. Among those who pressed
" his side and congratulated him WI
3 Sergeant Phillips, of the Central di
It trict, who had led Brady to the pla
Ie form. Then Phillips told OF the 9TH
q, policeman. who. unknown to most
ID the congrega ton, had hit the trail
1.-The afternoon service.