Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-05-25
SUNDAYS SUCCESS
in KANSAS CITY
Results in $500 Conversions
Since May l..

Kansas City, MO-, May 22.-han-
sas City has surrendered to Billy
Sunday. The opposing forces, com
posed mostly of liquor battalions,
are in full retreat.
That may sound like a broad as
sertion after only three weeks cam
pagning by Billy Sunday. But no
other conclusion can be drawn. Sun
day says himself that the Kansas
City revival is SURPRISING all his
past performances.
In the neighborhood of $500 per-
sons have forsworn their allegiance
to "the army of the devil" and join
ed 'the army of the Lord" through
Billy Sundays exertions to date.
Preparations for the Sunday meet
ings started nearly year before the
speaker first faced a Kansas City
audience.
Sunday came to Kansas City April
80 and delivered his first sermons
the following day. His tabernacle,
seating 10000, was filled for three
sermons, although the most drench-
ing rain of the season came that
day. Probably curiosity helped fill
the pine benches that day, but cer-
tainly something stronger than cur
iosity has kept them filled since.
Billy Sunday is the cause of many
surprises when city first meets
him. Perhaps the greatest is his
language, reported the Kansas City
papers. He has been heralded around
the world for his slang. For some
reason people expect to hear nothing
from him except sporting page or
vaudeville language. He does use
slang, and aptly; but hardly more
than the average man or woman. 1t
makes a deeper impression only be-
cause he uses it from the pulpit.
Another surprise for Kansas City,
is the colossal number of lies that
follow the Sunday fame. 1t would
take a column to catalog them.
Malicious Lies Circulated.
First, usually, is the report of his
scathing language when a woman
leaves his tabernacle during SER
mon. Two stories on that line have
gained such wide circulation that
thousands believe them One is to
the effect that when woman and
her two daughters started to leave,
Sunday shouted:
"When that SOW and her pigs get
out, We'll go ahead with the ser
mon"
The other story is to the effect
that when a girl rose from her seat,
the evangelist said:
lis there some cowboy here who
can lasso that redheaded heifer and
take her out"
To be honest, and Sunday is al
ways that, he doesn't like people to
leave during his sermons. Nor does
he like coughing nor covered heads.
And he tells people quite plainly of
his dislikes, and likes. But he does
not insult people. Here is what he
said when a woman left his Kansas
City audience, according to the Kan
sas City Times:
"Get away from the rubified stuff.
know she is going as well as you.
Why do you have to gawk around
that way?"
Just few of the other persistent
lies are stories of finding a wagon
load of whisky bottles under the
house he occupied in Omaha, of the
disappearance of $4,000 worth of
liquor from his quarters in Phila-
delphia, about rakeoffs from the
lumber used in the tabernacle and
about his anti-Catholic or anti-Pro-
testant leanings. Another criticism
that Sunday refuses to answer is the
charge that he is becoming wealthy.
His staff members point out that
Sunday refused an offer of $250,OO0
to work for a motion picture COM
pany just five days.
The main meetings at the taber-
nacle are conducted by Sunday. In
churches, business houses, clubs and
homes his assistants have auxiliary
meetings. Not a chance is left to
increase the roll of converts.
As Mrs. Sunday Sees Things.
Mrs. Sunday quite aptly describes
the activities of her husband. Il
like to think of Sunday cam
paign," she said, "as a wheel. Mr..
Sunday is the hub of course. The
workers who travel with him are
the spokes, and the tire, important
to hold the whole structure togeth-
or in q useful whole, is the local or
ganization."