The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-17
SUNDAY DRAWS
MIGHTY CROWDS
Big Day Of Campaign For Trail
Hitters.
MANY WOMEN CONVERTS

MIR. Sunday Hands Out Some Plain
Truths, In unvarnished Language,
During His Famous Sermon, when
Chickens Come HOME To Roost."
TOTAL ATTENDANCE SO FAR
435, 900.
F,ifty-six thousand people, 4l000
being men and youths, attended
the three services at the taber-
nacle Sunday. bringing the total
attendance for the campaign to
435, 900
Thirty-fve hundred women at
tended a special service conducted
in the afternoon in the Lyric by
Mrs. Sunday and about 1000 we're
at an overflow meeting in AS
sociate Congregational Church.
Seven hundred men, women and
children attended meeting In
Abbott Memorial Presbyterian
Church at night addressed by the
Rev. DR.. James e. Walker. Billy
Sundays assistant.
The days total of trail-hitters
was 1,131, record for the cam
paign, divided as follows: At the
tabernacle, 1867: at the Lyric,
10: at Abbott Memorial Church,
"a. These made the total number
of trail4hitters to date 2,797.
Baltimore. IF orty-one thousand men
and youths attended Sunday afternoon
and. evening services at the great
tabernacle, the largest two gatherings
composed solely Of members OF the
male sex ever housed in one build
ing in Baltimore. The afternoon at
tendance was 10000; the evening
throng went 1000 better. Between
5000 and 10000 men were turned away
from the meetings, being unable to
get in. Fifteen Thousand men and
women and children attended the fore
noon service, bringing the days con-
gregations up to a total Of $4,000
Trail Record Also Broken.
AS the size of all these congrega-
tions broke record for Baltimore in
attendance at religious services; so did
the days total of trail-hitters estab-
lish new mark for the Sunday CAM
paign here.
Eleven hundred and thirty -one per-
sons hit the trail At the morning
tabernacle service the number who
grasped Sundays hand as he stood in
his platform pit was S11, about half
men, the balance being women and
children; 4O6 men, youths and boys
hit the trail at the tabernacle in the
afternoon, and at night the number,
all men, youths and boys, was $50, a
total for the tabernacle of 1,067.
Big Day OF Campaign.
1t was the "big day" of the cam
paign in all respects, so far as results
were concerned, and Sunday made
acknowledgment of the fact when, in
concluding the evening service at the
tabernacle, he gave thanks to God for
this memorable day in the history OF
Baltimore"
He preached on Chickens Come
Home to Roost," a sermon based on a
text from the one hundred and fourth
Psalm, LET the sinner be consumed
out of the earth and let the wicked be
no more" Its keynote was an ampll-
fication of the Decalogue provision:
"For the sins of the father shall be
visited upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation"
It was the sermon he had delivered
In the afternoon, but his congregation
was made UP of other men than those
who had packed the building for The
service that started at lis o'clock. At
minutes ahead of schedule.
There was nothing sensational al
either meeting in the trail-hitting. Mel
walked forward to the platform, SHOOK
Mr.. Sundays hands, then took theil
seats on the benches reserved for con
verts, and were held until the aftel
meeting by the secretaries. Most Of
them appeared somewhat ill at ease
the faces of most, of them showed
awakened earnestness and few Of
them wept.
Chickens Come Home to Roost'
was sermon dealing with facts ant
figures, religious, moral. hereditary
and pathological in way that was
frank to the point of brutality. Sun
day hurled at his hearers statements
that made some of them vince an(
others to show by their faces a dis
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