The midland journal., 1916-04-21

Billy Sundays Baltimore campaign ip
chronological form be told, Sunday will
be one of its most remarkable and one
Of its most important chapters.
1t was a remarkable day in a cam
paign of remarkable days. 1t was re-
markabls for the throngs which elbow
ed and clawed and tore their way into
the tabernacle. 1t was remarkable for
.he enthusiasm which yitalized the SER
mons of the great evangelist and
which spread contagion through the
three vast audiences which heard him.
Il was remarkable for the resistless
force, the matchless pathos, the depth
Of winsome appeal of the three mes
sages which sped from his lips.
More than all. it was remarkable for
the effect these sermons had on the
thousands who heard him-the effect,
manifested in long, wavering lines of
men, and women, and little children
shutting, creeping, pushing. leaping,
bounding down the sawdust aisles.
Daughter OF Mayor Leads.
Remarkable, too. it was for the fact
that more people professed their faith
in Jesus Christ by travelling the saw
dust path than during any other day
of the Baltimore campaign. And
among the 1899 trail-hitters were two
of Mayor Preston's daughters. one a
idebutante Of this season, and the
Mayors SON
Then, too, that night crowd. Fully
$4,000 humans were packed into the
great structure and more than 5000
were turned away. More than an hour
before the service the captain Of the
firemen's squad ordered that not an
other person be allowed to enter the
doors.
Remarkable for all these things, it
was, indeed, day long to be remem-
bered in the Baltimore revival; one fit
70 be classed with the feryor Of the
never-to be forgotten opening day
with the awe, and wonder. and excite
ment of the first trail-hitting service;
with the amazing power of those ser
mons on booze-ft to be classed
among these and possibly to take pre-
cedence over them all. For seldom
has such sense of religious devotion,
of almost Pentecostal esctasy, been
witnessed in these latter days OF prac-
tical things.
A Day Of Great Triumphs.
In the morning Sunday preached to
q mixed class of humanity on Prayers
and Tears and drew from out their
number 9l3 down the glory path to
where he stood, sweating and painting,
waiting to take their hand and con-
gratulate them ON the mighty step they
had taken. To men only in the after
noon he preached strong. convincing
and again pathetic sermon on Death
and the Judgment, and from the $4,000
weeping, gulping, red-eyed men be-
meath him he called forth 448 trail
hitters. And at the last service at
night-a service which began more
than hour before schedule because of
the large crowd which had gathered so
early-he gathered 1928 more into his
conversion benches below the rostrum.
Stirred Their Emotions.
Tears, many, warm and sincere
sprang to the eyes of hundreds in
the audience OF $4,000 people at the
morning service when Billy Sunday
preached his emotion-stirring sermon,
Gethsemane.
Billy had been pleading for tears
for tears for the unsaved. The bur
den Of his sermon. built on Luke's
story of the agony in the Garden,
'He prayed and he prayed earnestly.
and His sweat was. as it were, great
drops Of blood falling down to the
ground" was the lack Of an evidence
Of agony among Christians as they
look on souls lost and souls about to
be lost.
It was sermon that gave him one
Of his best opportunities for persua-
Eion-not for the stern command. the
nncompromising denunciation Of 9TH
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