The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-10
SUNDAY SMASHES
CROWD RECORDS
$1,000 People Flock to Hear
the Great Evangelist.
MODERN SCHOOLS scoLDED
Al Modern Schools OF Thought op.
posed To Evangeiist Idea OF Re-
iipicn Were ecolded In the Best
Of His individual Diction.

OF His Individual Diction.
Baltimore. Eighty thousand strug-
Cling men, women and children were
drawn to the Billy Sunday Tabernacle
Sunday.
The audience at night was the
largest Sunday has ever addressed at
one time. Governor Harrington was
In the crowd.
Only 10000 gained entrance to the
great structure to hear the famed
evangelist deliver his morning, after
noon and evening sermons.
When $4,000 souls were squeezed be-
tween its walls in the afternoon, it
was believed that the building could
hold no more. Five thousand were
then disappointed.
But at night the ushers, the police
men and the people themselves gave
an extra push and succeeded in getting
into the building about $4,000. More
than half this number-at least $4,000
were left outside at the evening serv-
fee, pounding the doors and trying
every conceivable ruse to gain an
entrance.
Sunday showed his appreciation of
the turning out of the largest audi
ence he has ever addressed. True, he
was irritable, and twice threatened to
stop speaking when there was cough
ing and moving around Immediately
after he began his sermon.
But he made the crowd soon forget
this, for he preached by far the most
effective sermon he has delivered in
Baltimore SO far. The serman itself
was an effective answer to those
critics Of Sunday who claim that his
slang and grotesqueness alone make
his sermons appealing. Maybe it was
Sundays slang and eccentric. and
grotesQue gestures that drew the i'm
mense throng to the tabernacle. But
it was a fine sermon-a sermon
against infidelity, ringing defense of
the Bible as the greatest of all books
that held the attention Of that great
audience and drew forth great salvos
of handclapping and cheers.
Against those things which go to
undermine the religion of Christ--in-
fidelity. materialism, naturalism, isms
and schisms- Sunday devoted his SER
mons throughout the day. But 1t was
at night that he made his greatest eff
feet. and it was on the greatest audi
ence.
'Foois! Foots!"
He didn't plead for the Bible; he
didn't plead for belief in God. He
fired forth facts, and after he had
thrown them to his audience he chal-
lenged them to disbelief in the In
finite Fools Fools!" he cried. mo
God! No Heaven? No He'll? Oh. worst
of fools!"
He marked back to the Old Tesla
ment, down on through the ages into
modern times. Sunday was eloquent
when he spoke of Constantine, and
repeated the cry of the Roman EN-
peror: "Ohl Gallilean. Thou hast
conquered"
1t was at the end of his sermon,
however, that the dynamic evangelist
reached the highest of his eloQuence.
Standing erect before his pulpit stand,
he pounded his finger at the great audi
ence before him and paused until there
was not sound except the dull hum
ming of the nosy crowd outside, which
filtered in through the doors and win
dows.
"You. then, have one of five courses
open to you." he shouted. "You have
Mahammedanism, you have the faith
of the Persians, you have the beliefs
of the Hindu, you have the teachings
Of Buddhism, or you have Jesus Christ
and the Holy Bible" For these last
words Sundays voice seemed to take
on, added strength and his audience
leaned forward with eyes opened wide,
with every nerve tense.
Then Sunday electrified them.
A Striking Climax.
With a fourishing sweep of his
right arm, he grasped a Bible from his
pulpit stand. jumped from the floor of
the pulpit to chair and from the chair
to the top OF the stand, and then, with
the Bible held aloft, and in striking
and dramatic position, shouted:
Give me. give me for Gods sake,
the Bible and Jesus Christi"
Sundays hand, grasping tight the
Bible, was still held aloft; one foot
was raised from the top of the stand
as If to give him greater height; his
eyes shone as they had not shone be,
fore during the local campaign. and he
looked happy HAPPY. There was sill.
ence for second. Then one Of the
greatest bursts of applause that Sun:
day has received so far greeted him.
Sunday grinned and remained on the
top OF the stand.
"Oh. men and women" the evan