The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-17

sons and daughters OF drinkers unto
the third and fourth generation; /"
read poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
to prove his point, and hammered in
his moral by repeating: Eyes. they'll
come home to roost, whether they are
vultures or birds Of paradise"
Spurred on by the applause that met
mandom shot at the liquor interests,
he whirled around, pointed his finger
at first one section of the congregation
and then at another, and shouted:
eyes, and I'VE got something to say
about the things that rotten, dirty
gang have done in Baltimore to de-
fame my character I'll cram it down
your dirty throats, if you're here
IF an emetic were thrown into the
pit of hell the last imp thrown out
would be an archangel compared to
some of the hell-spawn of that dirty,
God-forsaken gang right here in Bal
timore"
When, concluding his sermon, he
asked all those present who believed
it to be right and manly to be Chris
TRANS to stand up. the great throns
rose In a body.
Wins the Little Folks.
At the children's afternoon meeting
the Tabernacle was packed by thou
sands, and the children had as much
to do with preaching Rev. Billy Sun
days sermon as did the evangelist him.
self. And the vim they put into the
meeting struck new note in the cam
paign In Baltimore, while 1t revealed
Mr.. Sunday In an entirely new light,
the light OF gentle adviser, cour-
teous and sympathetic teacher, a man
with a keen insight into child psy-
chology.
Grown=ups who heard him then.
who sew the way he stirred the little
ones without frightening them; saw
them expand, saw their eyes light up
with interest, and who heard him
again at night when he flayed great
audience, denouncing as fools all those
who would not accept Christ, mar
veled at the difference In the methods
Of preaching. The children he wen
with smile; the men and women
be belabored with barbed anathemas,
Both Sermons Bear Fruit.
But both sermons bore immediate
fruit At night men and women and
youths and girls hit the trail to the
number of 103 In the afternoon there
was no formal trail-hitting. but 1866
hove apd oirle ox,apa eri,, a. n ,o,,od ~,
years Of age, were enrolled as those
who wished to put their feet upon the
road of Christianity
Two novel features made distinctive
the boys and the girls meeting. One
of them was the showing, one by one,
Of flags of nearly all the Christian and
a few of the non-Christian nations and
the calling out Of the names Of those
countries by the children. The other
was the breaking of six highly deco
rated vases, Of different designs, by the
evangelist to illustrate the manner in
which small boy broke as many OF
Gods Commandments on Sabbath
morning,
Behind In Trail-HItters.
1t Is interesting to contrast the
progress Of the Baltimore campaign
with that Of Trenton for the same pc
Rod of their progress.
Sunday was the thirteenth day on
which Tabernacle meetings were held
here, and the outstanding figures were:
Attendance for the day, $4,000: trail
hitters for the day Cat the Tabernacle
and the two outside services), 1,131;
total attendance to date, 4s5,OOO. and
total of trail-hitters, 2,797.
Trenton's statistics for the first IS
days of meetings were: Attendance for
the day. $4,000; total to date, 243 900;
trail-hitters for the day, TAI; total to
date, 2,045; collections for the day,
$2,221.74; total SIS, 708OS.
Baltimore's collections for the II
days of Tabernacle meetings was $751;
01096
Wants Live Christians.
"You can't double-cross God with
that sort of bunk, Billy Sunday warn
ed thousands at the tabernacle.
II want to strike the death blow to
the belief that Christian has to hide
like sick pup in garnet, that he has
to be weak, mandy -pamby, spineless.
sissifed eliminate, all-around hot
house proposition God expects you
to be as much of man outside the
church as you are in.
"The average man." he went on,
thinks he can crafty his senses all
week and then beat it to church and
sit with a glum look on his mug and
get the notion in his noodle that he is
fooling God. He thinks that God Is
not wise that he's been leading rot
ten life six days of the week" And
later, "some fellow asked me IL be-
lieved in literal hell. told him:
DO look like a fool?' By the time
dust out of Baltimore, you'll know that
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