The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-25


tabernacle.
Days Score Is 1909
At the conclusion OF the after
noon service similar scene WAS
Witnessed when SIG hit the trail,
and after the morning service there
were 42i who were converted, max
ing total OF 1909, including
the 100 converted at Mrs.
Sundays meeting, the greatest
number which ever hit the
trail In a single day. At the Sat
urday evening service there were
105 conversions. while at the after
noon meeting for boys and girls on
Saturday there were 1890 young
sters who promised to lead better
lives. These did not actually hit
the trail" but remained where they
were standing and gave their names
and addresses 10 the ushers. In
the Sunday organization these chill.
dren are counted in the total oil
trail hitters. Sunday afternoon,
Mrs. Sunday. speaking 10 women
only in the Woodward-ave. Baptist
church, made 1870 converts, so that
the total for the organization In the
two days reached 8,063. breaking all
records for Sunday campaign
In his intensely bitter attack on
the liquor traffic he declared that
boy who drank would lie and
steal. Nobody wanted such a boy.
His only refuge was the saloon.
when that time comes" he said.
when boy is rejected by every
body but the saloon there is still
one place he can go--to the foot OF
the cross. God Kill the old devil
who gives another mans boy liquor
and put the old flend in hell as
quick as you can.
81 am trying to flag the coming
generation on it's way 10 hell, and
IL can do II | shall die happy.
There isn't man in hell who
couldnt have gone 10 heaven. This
saloon gang talks about personal
liberty. I have right to vote on
Nov 7, but I have no right to go to
the polls and vote for an institution
that will send men and boys to
drunkards' graves and to hell he
shouted. and, running over 10 the
press box, he stopped over and
yelled:
Put that on the front page Of
the Free Press and write an edito-
rial about IT,"
A tremendous storm Of applause
greeted this challenge
"All that the fox in your hen
coop and all that the white SLAYER
wants is personal liberty-simply TO
be let alone In their damnable work.
Why, the white SLAYER should not
have personal or any other kind OF
liberty-he should be shot on sight.
Billy Hurls Def.
ITO hell with the Godforsak-
en- personal liberty gang. II I don't
skin that dirty, sinking crowd that
hires a dirty liar to come here and
lie about me, then | don't know my
self"
Billy's Sunday morning topic was
"The Hour Is Come" On that text
he preached an eloquent sermon 70
men and women. He urged his
hearers 10 go with him 20 Christ,
adding that IF the forces Of hell
we're allowed 20 triumph over Chris
tianlty, Detroit would be good
town TO move out Of Unless the
church is winning men TO Christ II
is a curse. The saloon is here 10
ruin men and appears 10 be more
successful than the church.
THE church Is not the end, but
simply the means 10 the end" he
said, adding: THE church will not
much longer stand for the mutt OF
preacher who doesn't try 10 save
men The church should vote as a
unit between right and wrong.
When one candidate says he will
clamp the lid on Detroit, vote for
him and not for the man who will
keep the lid or and let the town
run wide open.
There are many persons who
want deodorized tabloid sermons
and they won't come here 10 hear
me- It's dollars 10 doughnuts they're
sinners even II they are church
members"
Billy Sunday defended HIS meth
DDS OF conducting revivals and said
one need only look at the drunkards
and fallen girls he had saved for
proof that he was right To the
charge that he is sensational. he re-
piled.
Defends His Methods.
Nothing could be more sensa-
tional than IL some Of you people
were decent I'll put my methods
mp against those OF the stagnant pull
pit which never saves anybody sin
triumphs because IL Is treated as
cream pun instead OF a rattle
snake. II good preaching would
save. you all would be in heaven
long ago: you need something more
than that and that is what I'm try
ing 10 give.
NO. there are some people in De
lroit who do not like revivals. Well.
neither does the devil. You nnd