Catoctin clarion., 1916-04-27
THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1916.
Sunday Campaign Ends
In Baltimore.

The Billy Sunday campaign which has
been going on in Baltimore for the last
eight weeks came to close Sunday night
last.
Billy Sunday, The great evangelist of
the age, has undoubtedly given Baltimore
city great amount of advertising and
attracted to that city thousands of peo-
pie who, had not Billy Sunday been
there, possibly would never have seen
Baltimore. His sermons published in
the city papers no doubt were read by
thousands who were not in the habit OF
reading sermons, and his name was men
toned by thousands who never saw nor
heard him speak.
Billy Sunday we believe, has done an
immense amount of good for those at
tending his meetings, but as is the case
in all such meetings, not all who hit the
trail keep to the straight and narrow
path.
Four meetings were held Sunday and
it is estimated that 96, 600 people were at
the ia bernacle. This estimate is made
on the capacity of the building, and had
there been new crowd at each meeting
that many would have heard him. 1t is
certain that many persons attended more
than one service. The Baltimore Sun,
Monday morning says:
Four congregations packed the Taberna-
Gle at Twenty street and Green
mount avenue yesterday to hear the evan
gelist preach his final day of the eights
weeks revival
1t was day that will long be remember
ed in Baltimore, fitting climax to the
most remarkable campaign ofany charac-
ter that the Monumental City has ever
seen. The multtudes of men and women
and children that heard Billy say goodbye
were stirred to their depths. Ard, wish
ing to express in a tangible way their
appreciation of the evangelist and his co
workers and to give thanks for the reIig-
ious upheaval which Sunday brought to
Baltimore, they opened their purses and
poured thousands of dollars in gold and
silver, checks and bills, at his feet as
free-will offering.
At the forr meetings Of the day in
which hhe evangelist preached the fam
Gus "pans" were circulated through the
Tabernacle by the ushers and came back
heaping with envelopes. This moneywas
rushed under guard to the Bank of Com
merce, where, when the last consignment
had been delivered, it lowered in heap
that was fairly staggering,
There was bushels of it. None dared
hazard anything more than a rough guess
as to the total amount, for the mass was
made up of coins and bills of all denom-
nations and checks, running from NOM
inal sum to $1,000 1t was the prevail
ing opinion, however, that the total would
run close to $50, 900.
Billy Sunday, his face streaming with
perspiration, stood on his pulpit in the
Tabernacle last night and bade Baltimore
farewell. Twenty-four thousands wept
without restraint until the great build
ing murmured with an undercurrant of
sobbing.
He was praying, summing up in his
prayer as Billy Sunday alone does, and
suddenly he was mixing prayer with the
farewell which he dreaded to utter. which
thousands who had been hocking to his
services for weeks dreaded to hear:
"And until the judgment day breaketh
| bid you farewell 1t is an hour have
dreaded to see come.
"Good-by, Baltimore.
The final meeting was scheduled to be-
gin at o'clock At o'clock the second
service of the afternoon was concluded
and the congregation forced to leave.
1t had taken about Is minutes to empty
the building, for that congregation had
been made up of %, 900 members. Those
out side and some of those who had been
forced to leave tried to enter as soon as
the doors werd reopened. Thev brushed
past police and doorkeepers, and within
Is minutes had packed the building again.
Most notable among the many record
breaking features of the concluding SER
vice was the number of tral-htters.
Nine hundred and fourteen men and women
and children pressed up the trail ndgrasp
ed Sundays hands-for he was forced to
use both right and left hand.
This was nearly double the record of
any proceeding service. With 26O con-
verts listed at the morning service, 379 at
the service for men in the early after
noon and 270 for the service that started
at $50 P. M, the days total was bro't
to 1,843-and the grand total for the Bal
nimore campaign to more than $4,000. /
The total attendance at the Taberna- l
ace reached the monster total of more
than 375, 900 souls, of this number there
were those, of course, who attended many
services 1t is safe to hazard, however,
that half or more of Baltimore's 900, 900
residents listened to Sunday at least once.
The Sundays left Baltimore Monday
morning The entire party will meet in
Chicago Friday and go thence to Kansas
City where the campaign opens next
Sunday m9ning.