Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-27
IMPRESSIONS OF CHILLY"
SUNDAY AND HIS WORK.
Continued from Page One)

lied is the working force of the build
ing that the offering can be taken in
about two and one-half minutes, nor |
is the perfection of the vastorganiza-
ton seen in the working force of the |
tabernacle alone but from this throb-
bing heart of religious fervor, there |
streams forth through perfect out |
side organization an inspiring and |
life-giving stream that touches not |
only Boston, but all the cities and |
| towns that are contiguous.
To illustrate the way that the Sun
day hymns have caught Boston, the
writer was one day riding on a street
car when someone started that popu
| lar tabernacle hymn, Brighten the
Corner Wire You Are" and soon
most of the people were singing lust
J ily. Then someone called for another
| and then another until the singing on
/ that street car in the city of high
brows" would have done credit to
any church evangelistic service.
The spirit that pervades not only
the tabernacle services, but the city it
self, can scarcely be expressed in
terms of psychology. That certain
degree of enthusiasm would natural
ly be aroused by the inspiring music,
!. extensive advertising, full newspaper
reports, and the wonderful preaching
of the evangelist would be natural,
but is beyond the power of man or
of organizations, or of publicity to
create the atmosphere that pervades
the entire movement, and looking for
an explanation we find it only in God.
God is blessing and using in Won
derful way human instrumentalities
placed at his disposal.
1t has been the writer's privilege
to listen to the work of some grand
choruses, swayed by the magic power
of master directors, but he has never
heard anything to compare with that
tabernacle choir under the magnetic
leadership of that master director,
"Rody," as he is Familiarity and af-
fectionately called, for he has won
! the hearts of the tabernacle-goers.l
, He is Sundays direct opposite; all
smiles and full of good-natured re-
; partee He does much to prepare the
audiences for the onslaughts of the
fire-brand Sunday. The most popu-
4 Brighten the Corner Where You
5 Are" A splendid effect is produced
. in the singing of this hymn by call
, ing upon the people in the various
, corners to sing sections of the chorus.
The next hymn in popularity is Sail
On" This is sung by the choir alone
and always brings hearty applause
e from the vast audience. Mr.. Rode
o HEAVIER is not only a skilful director
b but a pleasing vocal and trombone
; soloist In leading his choruses he
r sometimes uses the voice and some
o times the trombone. The accompani-
ment for the tabernacle singing is
:. furnished by two pianos played by
members of the Sunday party. The
T acoustics of the building are we'll
l. nigh perfect, and they need to be fol
e Mr.. Sunday is possessed of very
d poor voice. 1t is harsh, grating and
hoarse and it is not to be wondered
If at when one hears the way he uses it
. He screams, roars, bellows and does
:. everything else calculated to tear his
n vocal chords into shreds. A sound
/ ing board, sort of f1uted ATTAIN
v hangs directly over the speakers
e head, which no doubt is a great helI
5. in carrying the sound of his voice tt
d the limits of the great building but
q many people in the back rows com
a plain that they cannot hear him dis
- tinctly. Sundays platform manner!
are not like those of any other man
% for no other man living is possessed
IL of so many qualities of mind ant
g body He is actor. athlete, humor
g list, preacher, poet, philosopher, mys
Id tic, nationalist, and orator, all in on
and all at work all of the time. III
is a hundred and forty pounds o
throbbing. vitalized humanity thrown
into high gear with the throttle wild
:. open. He seems unable to keep hi
70 seat while "Rody" is making the an
nouncements but stands behind tn
pulpit with every muscle a-quive
ty and every nerve dancing. "Rody's
ry last word has hardly reached the lin
er its of the building before he, like
IN race horse, is away. His first ser
IN fences are usually spoken so rapid
ar that one can hardly catch the words
that he is tremendously in earnes
= and thoroughly sincere no one coul
VI question after having listened to hiI
he ten minutes. He is strictly MANI
OF script preacher although he is nc
80 confined to it but when he does leay
it am convinced that he speaks frol
lis memory that which has been full
re thought out and carefully writer
90 While he dogmatizes concerning Gel
tain doctrinal questions, yet for tf
- most part his sermons are not do
u, trinal but ethical. When someor
DE asked him why he emphasized hell :
its much in his preaching he said, 81
stop preaching hell when people ste
on raising hell" The whole movemel
OF is colored, naturally, by this almo
ale incomprehensible man. have sa
Use that his preaching is ethical rattle
i'm than doctrinal. i might go faith,
and say that it is more moral tha
religious. He rings out clarion ca
to repentance; he pleads with folks
forsake sin and live clean, hone
ice lives and ask them to take Jes,
raj Christ as their friend and helper
nat this end He reminds one of the o
nd Hebrew prophets. Elijah on Carm
100 could have with safety committe
go the tasks of the hour to this man al
HOY fs.lf hot Nothing VIZ