The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31
Talk on Finance.

TlEni OH the pat as Ht iN So ioIIu of saying. Instead of announcing his text al once he lifted his clench- ed right hand above his head and said
 "I want you all 10 understand this is tabernacle, not a taber-nickel. Do you get me? The first free-will offering of this meeting will be asked for Friday night Loosen up. and don't spend all your small change first. You wouldn't go to your grocer or your butcher and ask him to kick in with a bill of goods for nothing Of course you wouldn't, Bud Well, you haven't any more right to think you can come here and get salvation for nothing. Don't be a deadbeat all your life, and don't forget the night It's Friday.
 After Billy Sunday has talked in this manner to his audience he al ways tempers his severity with a winning smile In fact that smile comes like a burst of sunshine after a rain, except when the liquor buSi- ness is the subject of his tirade. Then, instead of the smile there follows a facial distortion expressive of hatred and disgust
 Ofthodox Text Reading.
 Sunday announced that Jacobs Confession" would be the subject of his discourse. He read an Old Testament text in quite the ortho- dox way and then, unexpectedly. as he does everything he ran around to the right side of the reading desk and shouted;
 And don't want you to forget, my friends, that Jacob was a Jew. U Then followed five minutes of elo- quent praise of the Hebrew race. In concluding this. Sunday said Tt was Jew who loaned the money to the Queen of Spain when she put her diamonds in hook for Columbus, so he could come over here and discover you and me. It was a Jew member of Columbus crew that first set foot on Ameri- can soil. A Jew financed the Ameri- can Revolution and kept George Washington from going up the spout. A Jewish brokerage firm brought by refusing to lend any more money to Japan. And want to tell you, my friends, the Jew, as a racial fac tor, has been on earth longer than anybody else, and he'll still be do ing business when you are all pumped full of embalming fluid. He has been true to his faith, too, which is more than can be said of some of you.
 "I want to tell you right off the reel that the trouble with most of you is that you don't stick to God when you begin to fatten up. You are Gods good friend when you're scraping the bottom of the meal barrel, but when you get a limousine and have no use for your scissors except to cut dividend coupons, then it's Good bye, Cod I'll see you later.
 Drawing his arm back and lifting his left foot, Billy Sunday the once peerless center fielder-did you get that, Ty Cobb assumed the atti- tude of a player throwing a ball.
 Here comes one, see if you can catch it. he cried. You folks don't tote fair with God You put your big apples on top of the barrel, and if God were fool enough to trade with you he'd be buying nothing but hot air. You put a nice pink netting over your peach es That makes them look fresh and soft, but God knows they're so hard they Kill man at oo ydTuS. Sunday was silent for a spell. Rais- ing his arms above his head and lifting his eyes heavenward, he seemed about to intone a prayer. Clear and ringing comes the words: Thy kingdom come" Then an other pause. Sunday advanced to his reading desk Shaking beads of perspiration from his face, he leaped into the air and brought both fists down on his desk with all the force at his command.
 Hits the Saloons.
 Thy Kingdom come want to tell you that Gods Kingdom can never come through the rotten, filthy,