The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-03-30

in year would girdle the world 10
| times with ribbons of dimes, laid one
| to another; that in eight years the
money would build a solid silver auto.
mobile road to the moon; that the
saloon corrupted the nation, was allied
with the disorderly house, with gamb.
ling and with Doodle politics.
Sunday Waves Old Glory.
Rev. William Sunday stood on top of
his pulpit, waved great silken Ameri-
can flag, whipped alive the patriotic
fervor of an audience of $4,000 people
and, while the choir and the multitude
sang, "My Country, IT'S of Thee" he
| pleaded with emotion-choked voice for
men and women to hit the trail and
enlist in the army of Jesus Christ.
About 100 men and youths from
delegation of the Patriotic Order Sons
of America, which had given him the
flag, accepted his challenge, marched
in body down the sawdust aisle and
grasped his right hand, pledging Them
selves to become followers of the
Master
The action Of these men, each of
| whom wore an American flag in his
buttonhole, caused the great audience
to thunder its applause of approval.
Sunday in his sermon, the fourth he
has preached here on the text, HE
| That Winnetth Souls Is WISE" went
back to his eXcoriating tactics, which
/ he used so effectively at the beginning
of his campaign here He fayed with
out mercy those who stood out
against religious Influences, who re-
fused to open the doors of their
hearts to Christ's knocking; he de-
clared scourged unbelievers with YER
bal whips, then pleaded with them
until he had to stop for a moment, his
chest heaving, his collar a wilted rag,
his face streaming with perspiration.
Billy Pleads To Students.
Come, Johns Hopkins"
For five minutes, from his pulpit,
Billy Sunday pleaded, challenged, used
all the force of his strenuous gesticula-
lions, brought into play all the power
of his scorn and invective, to draw
down the sawdust trail the students Of
Johns Hopkins University, who at
tended in delegation of about $50.
This of no avail, Sunday did some
thing he has not done heretofore in
Baltimore and has done few times
since he has been campaigning.
Down from his pulpit into the saw
dust pit he sprang crying, eff I come
down to you. will you follow me into
the Kingdom, viii you let me lead your
hearts to God?"
Down the trail Sunday went-he ran.
Up he sprang and again he urged. He
told of the students Of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Syracuse, who hit the trail.
Come Be men. Give your hearts
to Cod" he cried
Out Of the delegation of $50 of the
students of the famed University five
young men stepped and followed the
evangelist down to the pit
baltimore is the LATEST, slowest
town." Billy Sunday says that he has
been in in eight years, in the matter
of personal work.
The evangelist told this to his audi
ence
Baltimore, Sunday says, has been
highly pleasing to him-more pleasing
than the other towns, in fact-except
in that one feature: Personal work.
"The Soul Winner"
Rev. William Sunday in his sermon
on the soul-winner, gave him the
chance he had coveted to score the
lazy church members and to warn
them against being charged with the
sin of omission. He related many in
cidents where dormant church men,
bers had been aroused to a realza-
ton of their duty in winning souls for
Christ. and had been the means of
winning hundreds Just after their
determination to do personal work.
q He gave one of the most unusual
finishes to his sermon ever seen in
Baltimore, and it elected great APP
/ plause. he had Just given an Illus
tration Of what a consecrated society
woman could do and the wonderful
influence she yields among the others
of her social standing She was
asked by one of her friends why it
was she didn't attend their dances and
their card parties. Her answer was
the closing remarks of the evangelist,
and as he repeated it he walked off
the platform. These were the words:
81 am too aristocratic to play cards"
/ The ending was rather abrupt, but it
served his purpose and left his audi
ence with an indelible impression of
the example one consecrated woman
could exert.