The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-11-15

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religious duty of the postohice is
likely to prove of more interest.
1t acts as lost and found station
for the tabernacle.
According to Postmaster Buse
sin is not the only thing lost,
nor religion the only thing found,
in a Sunday tabernacle. Hun
dreds of articles are found in the
tabernacle after each sermon,
according to a story in the Kan
sas City Star. The sawdust
floor is a veritable gold mine
of treasure.
Umbrellas, stickpins, hats,
overcoats, gloves and money
lead the list of lost articles. All
articles are gathered carefully
and listed at the postohice.
'The most curious loss re-
ported was by a man in Balti-
MORE" said Mr.. Buse. 'He
rushed up to the Office one day
and asked excitedly: Have
you got my mother-in-law here?
I've lost her. | assured him
our stock of lost mothers-in-
law was exhausted. We'll, when
you find her, keep her until l
return he yelled and disap-
peared on his search.
"A few minutes later we did
find the lost mother-in-law, and
brought her inside and posted
a notice to that effect. She was
restored to her family"
Sometimes automobiles are
forgotten. They are turned over
to the police.
Another interesting feature
of the Sunday revivals is the
tabernacle restaurant. Usually
it is in a nearby building or un-
der canvas on an adjacent lot.
The restaurant is conducted
by local church people. It's pur-
pose isn't to provide meals for
the Billy Sunday staff, as one
might suspect, but to appease
the appetites of enthusiasts
whose soul-hunger cannot be re-
ieved by one Sunday sermon.
Every day of Sunday reviv-
al a number of persons, usual
ly those from a distance, elect
to remain for the eveing SER
mon. The restaurant is for
their benefit.
At Kansas City the tabernacle
restaurant was much too small.
AS a consequence small eating
places in the vicinity of the
tabernacle are doing a rushing
business.
A Sunday revival, such as
Minneapolis is to have next sum-
mer, also necessitates some tenn
porary adjustment of traffic
rules and street-car routing. The
tabernacles are built to mold TO-
GOO people. When three SER
mons a day are delivered, as is
frequently the case. and the
building is filled each time the
traffic problem is not simple.
In some instances special
streetcar sidings are built to
, provide reserve transportation.
All lines leading to the taber-
, nacle must have added rolling
: stock. All feeding lines to resi-
Dental districts require addi-
tional cars to certain hours.
, Parking space for automobiles
must be provided. It is rule
: that no automobiles stand in
7 front of the tabernacle. That
, causes some protest on the part
of motor car owners, but the
! Sunday staff has found it nee
+ essary in order to protect the
greater number who talk or use
; streetcars.
So ecial police squads are al
ways detailed to handle the Sun
+ day crowds. A members of the
!. Billy Sunday staff co-operates.
Particular care must be used
: in building the platform on
which Billy Sunday strides and
the pulpit. His dramatic pro-
clivities sometimes become quite
athletic, and a feebly construct
ed platform would soon go to
: smash. Mr.. Sunday has had
one or two had spills.
Just to one side of the pulpit
Billy Sunday demands that a