The Washington times., 1916-04-14
SUNDAY TOSPEAK TO
UNIVERSITY AUDIENCE
Evangelist to Plead to Johns
Hopkins Today and to Con.
victs Tomorrow.

BALTIMORE. April H.-At noon to-
dey Billy Sunday is scheduled to ad-
drees students OF Johns Hopkins Uni
vers'ty In Mccoy Hall. Tomorrow he
will have an unusual audience when
he addresses the convicts at the Mary
land penitentiary at IL o'clock.
Following the threat of Sunday to
cancel his revival in Boston " he were
not allowed TO have his wooden tabor
legislator reconsidered previous nactio
and voted TO allow him to build 1t.
Today is the day Sunday designated
Tor prayer and Thanksgiving in Balti-
more. He urged everyone to pray at 10
o'clock. again this afternoon, and just
before the evening service.
Stirs Pandemonium.
Riiiy Sunday stirred to pandemonlum
Of applause 1900 men who made up his
ming when he declared. after stating
again that the liquor interests, by means
OF the Personal Liberty League. had
put S25,O00 into Baltimore to work
against the success of his campaign,
that he was going to come hnck here
II possible next November "aud scrap
with that bunch IN the election CAM
paiRn.
'Tve got 'em on the rum he said.
"snd-say, when do you have your next
elssSuonr
"Weil. II have time and strength
Tn coming back next November and
scrap that bunch. I'd do anything for
come back or not. nut I'll try"
Up rose a howl of approval from the
audience. and hundreds of voices Joined
In the chorus;
Come back Billy. come back.
Carriad 0T THAR feat hu thair ox,r
enthusiasm. men rose by thousands.
shouted. .whistled and clapped. waved
handkerchiefs. and their hats until Sum
NailinS the oNg psyeSoiosieai eR EaIo momsnt. NOME
Just when the audience was sinking
back to the benches again. Homer Rode
HEAVIER grabbed his trombone. strodc to
Maryland. My Maryland" And. OF
course. the multitude went wild again.
Sunday stood smiling until the thun-
der had died down. then said:
Ginger and Patriotism.
'Tf I ever hear anv other city talk
about having ginger and patriotism. I'm
going to tell 1t about Baltimore. You've
got more ginger and patriotism here
than any bunch OF people I've seen in
all the twenty years OF my preaching.
And. listen! II 1. can arrange TO
come back here and fight that dirty
bunch. 1t won't cost you cent. No.
The ceiling rang again with cheers.
and a big bass voice shouted: Come on
anyhow, any Billy. That's all right about
81 think" Billy resumed, that IL the
Lord were to open the door of Heaven
and tell ain angel he could come down
to the prettiest place on earth. he'd
come to Baltimore"
That concluding speech. and the en-
thusiesm his previous announcement
had aroused, whipped the throng into a
state OF high spirits. which continued
throughout the services. II induced a
sympathy that added weight to his ser
mon-which was one OF the best he has
preached in Baltimore-and at its con-
clusion 25l men hit the trail. These.
with the seventy three who had been
enrolled at the afternoon meeting.
Replies to Infidels.
The sermon. which was a defense or
Christian tenets. was directed particu-
larly to answer the arguments OF inn
dels. First Sunday took that pertain
ing to hypocrites. II was no more rea-
sonsble to dlscountenance religion be-
cause there were hypocrites In the
church, he said. than there would be to
hold valueless all money because there
were counterfeit coins and bills.
But the great question asked by all
Whom did Cain marry7" That ques-
tion fioored most Biblical students
but these did not think deeply enough:
the answer was apparent. In the first
place, Cain was "a bouncing lad OF liS
years old when he married. by that
time, taking as automatic the fact that
the normal increase in population is
that of doubling In twenty-five years,
there were $3.50 buxom damseis OF,
earth when Cain went accounting. And
that ought to have been enough to sat
isfy even the most popular of men 4"