Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-26
SUNDAY CHILLS CROWD;
ONLY ZOO WALK TRAIL
5 600 Masons Among the Is
900 That Hear Evangelist
in Two Meetings.
From a stan Correspondent.

TRENTON. Jan. 26.-Rev. Billy
! Sunday cooled off the ardor of his
large audience last night when he said:
II don't give a picayune for your
hand clasps unless you act on your
| enthusiasm and get out and do some
| thing. Walk down here when I finish
| preaching and take your stand for
God If you agree with me-"
| This statement chilled the cnthusi-
asm of 10000 wildly enthusiastic hear
ers at the tabernacle. He gave ono
of his forceful illustrations of the
emptiness of sin and the danger OF
drink. as there any bread in rum
| he asked. There is bread for the
saloonkeeper, bread for the distiler
bread for the brewer-but none for
you"
! Then the audience became noisy ano
! expressed its approval for severa
| minutes. Billy said applause meant
nothing unless it was backed up by
something more substantial.
! 1t was one of the biggest meetings
of the campaign, but only 200 hit thc
| trail. out of 1900 persons present
| 5000 were in a delegation of Masons
1t was the largest single delegation
that attended a meeting and Billy
made strenuous efforts to get the
lodge men to hit the trail.
Urges Masons TO Take "36th Degree"
When he finished his prayer Billy
| took his place in the pit and making
a trumpet of his two hands, he shout
ed: "Come on. Masons, take this de-
gree for Jesus Christ. This Ia the
thirty sixth degree for the Lord.
The first to answer the call of tho
evangelist was A. Grocer Reeves, Mer-
Ger county member of the Progressive
State Committee and one of the best
known Masons in the State.
After taking the hand of the evan
gelist. MIR. Reeves went among his
fellow Masons and did personal work
He was followed down the aisle by
City Commissioner William +. Burk
who announced from the platform
that he was a trail hitter. and nc
pleaded with his fellow lodge mem
bers to follow his example He is in
charge of the department of parks.
There were fifty knights Templar
among the trail hitters. The Masons
presented "Billy'' with a costly din
ner set of Trenton belleek. Homer
Rodeheaver, the ehorister, got a gold
| Masonic emblem and George NJ. Sun.
| day, son of the evangelist, got 6
| Bible. The order of the Eastern Stal
| had gorgeous basket of flowers fol
Mr.. and Mrs. Sunday.
Calls Solomon a Good Sport.
There were delegations at the ser
vice from Flemington, New Bruins
wick. IIightstown, CranburY and Other
places, several being accompanied by
brass bands. The subject of Sunday
was "a Lesson from Solomon
BILLY" said Solomon not only drank
from the we'll of knowledge, but that
he pulled the pump out.
He loved many strange women,
said the preacher "and that is just
where he dropped his candy. He laid
hold Of folly with both hands, and he
found it all bubble. Even old Solo
mon found that all is vanity, and still
can beat the devil.
"All the money, all the wives and
all the knowledge that Solomon had
could not make him happy. Carnegie
said there is no happy millionaires,
and Andy ought to know, because
he's got the dough"
BILLY" said Solomon had taken all
the degrees of pleasure and had in
vented a few of his own. HE was a
thirty-third degree sport" said Sun
day. ''Iis courtiers and servants
were not spring chickens not by any
means: they we're highbrows every
one Of them. No higher station was
ever reached by a human being than
was reached by Solomon