The Washington times., 1916-02-13
BALTIMORE READY
FOR BILLY SUNDAY
Thousands Of Workers Are
Trained, and City Has Fever
Of Evangelism.
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disconnected clergyman afterward with
this remark: r
myself and my wife. Here's the gun.
Where is your church7'
Sunday workers tell about It and call
Il the Grace Of God, and men up AZ
Johns Hopkins VIM bear the name OF
psychiatrists and nllenlsts. talk OF "n
remarkable case ~ auto-suggestion,'
but two clergymcn vouch for the truth
OF IT,.
Billy Sunday the Theme.
Everybody In Baltimore Is talking
about Sunday One curbstone psychol-
oRist remarked blunily: 1.-THE fellow has
the town hypnotIEed. A stranger wan
dered into Baltimore on the day Secre-
tary Garrison quit the Cabinet, the
biggest news OF meuy weeks, and heard
not a word about u. But on the plat
form of street car, in the smoker OF
train. In two bar rooms. In club
: for newspaper Elcu. In lunch room,
and or the otrsuis Billy Sunday was
being talked about.
Not that he was always being eu-
loEized. Far from IL. One champion
OF the working man said he ought to get
out and join the labor union forces.
one financially inclined spirit COM
planned because a circuB could only stay
three days. but that Sunday can come
here and take money away for eight
weeks Others were armed with al
legged bits OF scandal about the sun
day party. But most everybody was
talking about him.
Speaking of the sawdust Joe Splice.
tabernacle builder, having about finish,
ed 'the biggest job I've tackled yet,
has been transformed from sphinx to
a fountain of conversation about the
Sunday campaigns.
The Function of Sawdust.
For one thing. he explained. that saw
dust is not merely within OF Mr.. Sun
days. Back in the Moody days. when
10000 persons were regarded as record
crowd. Spiece recalled how, when there
was a moments relaxation, these 10000
moved about and made a noise like
mighty wind. The main function of the
sawdust is to act as a noise absorber,
and even then Mr. Sunday has TO scOld
and tmportune to keep the chronic
coughers and throat clearers quiet.
The Sunday home has been arranged.
II Is the handsome Henry Pratt James
residence, I'm that choicest Baltimore
residential section. Mt. Vernon Place.
near Cathedral. street. Just across the
street from the Theodore MarburS
house.
Mr. Sunday apparently had heard OF
criticisms OF the fashionable homes he
and his party have occupied. and may
also have had in mind the suit filed
against him for alleged injury TO art
works In the house he used in Phiia-
delphia, Anyway. he wrote to the Bal
timorc committee that he and his part
must be together. that they must nave
eleven sleeping rooms, and several more
rooms Tor offices and that all the rur
nitlre he cared about was n table,
chair. and bed In each OF the eleven
sleeping rooms Likewise, the nome
must be near the tabernacle.
How .Campaign Is Conducted.
The preparedness comparison win out
ar every stage OF the Sunday campo :gn.
Ia the headquarters there is a his map.
a sort Of refs. .ous Gettysburg map. il
IN all covered over with red tines. and
green lines, and little black squares.
The red lines denote thirty-siX as
tricts. into which the entire city is III
vided. The green lines show the 1lS
sections into which each district is al
vided. And the black squares Indicate
the prayer meeting blocks"
On the opposite walls are tabuiatcd
bulletins, from which the Campaign
managers may study the progreIs OF
the hghS ms generals might, Thcre ~
a little chcckerbonrd card for each see
ton. On this is recorded the person IN
charge and the number attending eacn
prayer meeting. There arc 100 of these
night, mind YOU.
From those attendance figures may be
studied the progress the campaign IL
making In each section of the CITY.
Added pressure is put on those quarters
Whore the interest seems slightest.
The home PRAYER meeting effort Is
the first big factor In the campaign.