The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-02
SUNDAY SWAPS
MIGHTY CONC0URSE
breaches TO $1,000 Cheering
Enthusiasts at Three Meetings.
EVANGELIST AT HIS BEST
Welcomed py tho Governor - Hurls
Mighty Blows At Sin and De-
elarss Baltlmere's Greet
Ing Superb.

Baltimore.-Fifty-two thousand men
and women and youths Sunday heard
Billy Sunday on the opening day Of his
six weeks eyangelistie campaign in
this city.
The attendance at night broke all
drst-night records In the history Of
the campaigns. according to MI Sun
day. Twenty thousand people were
packed in the tabernacle at Twenty
ninth street and Greenmount avenue,
and between 1000 and 5000 were
turned away.
Swept by Enthusiasm.
Sunday came and saw and con
suered He launched the campaign at
iU.sO o'clock in the forenoon. when he
was presented to an audience Of about
$4,000 by Governor Harrington, who
gave official approval to the meetings.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he
preached to 1900. Enthusiasm, which
even the most sanguine among the
members Of the local committee had
scarcely hoped for. swept all three
audiences. The throngs we're made up
not OF a majority OF women. but large
ly Of substantial business men, OF me-
chanics. OF clerks, with a sprinkling
OF society folks, and here and there a
city and State official, a bank presi-
dent, a big corporation oficial-and
dozens Of ministers OF many denomina
tions. The Rev. DR.. Hugh Brickhead,
rector Of Emanuel Protestant Episco
pal Church, delivered the invocation
in the morning. the Rev. Dr. r. J.
wyckoff. OF Madison Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. in the after
noon, and the Rev. DR.. H. A. Griese-
mer, OF Franklin Square Baptist
Church, in the evening.
Philadelphia Yields Palm.
A Philadelphia sat through the
evening service, his fourth opening
night Of a Sunday campaign, includ.
ing the one in his home city.
"This beats anything ! have ever
seen," he said, "and takes the palm
away from Philadelphia. Mr.. Sunday
has got 'em going already"
And the evangelist really did seem
to have 'eri going" The thousands
sat spellbound through the three serv-
fees except when they applauded some
telling point made in his excoriation
of sin and his attacks on crooked
politicians and the liquor interests,
and then they applauded until the
rough.board building reverberated
with thunder. Those who went 70
get new sensations had their wishes
satisfied, as well as those who were
drawn to the tabernacle by belief in
the campaign and the benefits thereof.
Sunday hurled defiance at the enemies
Of religion, material and intangible,
personal and impersonal. he delivered
most OF the remarkable gestures which
have made him. famous.
Climbs On the Pulpit.
He climbed upon his velvet.topped
pulpit at the climax Of his afternoon
sermon, when, after he had asked all
those present who wished TO enroll
themselves as "Christ's grenadiers"
to stand up, the great congregation
heaved itself TO It's feet as a man.
"And now, let US give God a chau-
tauqua salute" Sunday cried, and with
a spring was perched upon the pulpit
which he had been pounding with his
fist
At the word thousands Of handker
chiefs we're awave, until the mass Of
humanity was changed in color on the
instant, from a general tone Of dark
clothes and the tint Of faces to a sea
Of white bilIows. That was one OF the
most dramatic moments Of a day that
was full OF the dramatic.
No Trall.Hlttlng Yet.
There was no trail hitting. That
will come later. probably at the end
Of this week or the first Of next And
as the week wears on the outside
meetings will increase, with gatherings
in shops. factories and stores and
churches.