The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-04-24
BALT|MOREANS GIVE
SUNDAY s32,50O AS
A PARTING PRESENT
"More to Gomez Committee
Says In Handing Evangelist
Big Check Today.

for s32,50
This represented the amount collect
ed at the four tabernacle services yes
terday. fe Nttr
After the amount was written the
words ION account" The explanation
OF this IL that many persons will send
their checks directly to tine FOCAL COM
rived yet, and they will continue 10
come In for several days. When they
are all In, the rest OF Baltlmore's free
will offering to the evangelist VIII be
He departed today for Philadelphia
with Las. sunday to visit John Wanna
maker. Thence he wilkgo for q. short
starting his Kansas city campaign.
May Reach $4,000. -
The citizens committee announced
that they expect the free viii offer
ing to reach the $4,000 mark.
The Sunday campaign ended last
night. Nine hundred and fourteen
trail-hitters were gathered
: Each time the pans" were circulate
ed last night they came back heaped
with envelopes. bills. and many had
provided their offering in gold. Undeh
guard this money was rushed to the
last consignment had been delivered.
y lowered In heap that was fairly
stsGEering.
perspiration.. stood on his pulpit In the
Tabernacle last night and babe Balti-
more farewell. Twenty-four thousand
people heard him. thousands wept with
out restraint until the great building
nurmured with an undercurrent of sob
bling. ~
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 flocking
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"
Good-bys By Name.
"Good-by, Governor and Mrs. Harring-
ton. You were mighty kind to us. We
had good time on our trip down to
your home in Cambridge. THE COVER
nor and his wife were on the PLATFORM.
Good.by, Secretary OF State Simmons:
by. Mayor Preston, with a heart as big
IS your body. Good-by, Mr.. Ammidon,
of the police board. Good-by, Marshal
by. you men Of the police force. Good
by. newspapers of Baltimore (naming
them). and thank you for the splendid
way you have helped In this campaign.
bers of the executive committee. Good
by, Joshua and-what's the other ones
name Eugene. Good-by. Joshua
ana ana Eugene stoI LevsEing Morr Good-6g, BY. MT
CARDINAL Gibbons. Good-by. Johns Hop
kins University and the University OF
MARYLAND. Good-b City College. and
Good-by. You doctors and nurses who
have been so faithful in the hospital;
good-by, you ladies who have been
taking care Of the nursery.
"Good-by, street car company. You
have been bringing the crowds out here
and taking them home; and you haven't
Baltimore and Annapolis and the presi-
dent-what's his name? Well. / don't
know his name. but you were mighty
fine. We went over your line to An
naRolis; c r, :, a., NJ
val Academy. and the Middies. Maybe
I'll see some Of you some other time up
on the bridge Of Uncle Sans warships.
you boys In blue.
OF our parlor meeting in your home and
YOU were very kind. Good-by Mrs.
Cook, good-by Mrs. FAIRFIELD; good-by
Mrs. Carl Gray, Mrs. Robert Garrett.
and Mrs George BROWNIE held a
meeting in your, home out In the Green
"And good.by, preachers. But, Lord.
In Heaven we will never have to say
He wound up abruptly. while hum
dreds of persons In the multitude were
still sobbins. others were breathing
stentoriously into, their handkerchiefs.
Secretaries. ushers. ministers. pohce-
men. personal workers. and the rank and
file OF the congregation sat with tear
dlmmed eyes. Then Homer Rodeheaver
suddenly signaled his choir and IL
crashed into the strains OF "Biest BE
teara afreah,
NOW, i want Rody to sing a verse
Of 4 walk With the King for you be-
fore you CO." said Billy. grasping the
arm Of his choir leader.
Over $4,000 Converts.
The. total attendance at the taber-
nacIe reached the monster total OF more
than l,s75.ooe souls. OF this number
there were those. of course, who at
tended many services. Il is safe to
hazard, however. that half or more OF
Baltimores C0O.OO0 residents listened 10
Sunday at least once. Tens of thou
sands Of persons from outside the Guy
from points as far North as Boston,
from the far South, and from the West.
came here to hear him.
More than 1900 people hit the trail
az these progressed converts being listea
al tabernacle services. the others hav-
ing "hit the trails OF churches. OF
theaters, and other gathering places
Mnere huNl1uTy HtctihBS ntic Soh-
Quoted by Sunday or members OF his
'Trh The ramiacations OF the campaign
sought out every phase OF Baltimore's
life. They reached from Canton TO
Mt Vernon place, to Roland Park, to
the Green Spring valley. They touched
the wealthy and the poor; went down
TO the congested sections where dwelis
the humblest toiler and carried to him
the same message that was delivered In
sumptuous drawing rooms where So
ciety gathered.
Hundreds OF meetings were conducted
by Sunday workers In shops and fac
tories, where men and women and
youths and girls heard explained fol
the FIRST time, In many instances, the
knotty things about religion and had
made smoother for them the road &c
There stin remain many critics OF
Billy Sunday In Baltimore, persons whC
deny that he has accomplished any last
Ing good In the city, who go so far as Il
say that he has worked positive harm
d. but. as the mammoth attendance at the
Tabernacle and at the outside meet
ings gave testimony. as the great offer
ing given TO Sunday yesterday testi'
fed, there are thousands ready to sprint
forward to defend him. And Of thos,
who will swear by Sunday and fight fol
him to the last ditch the predominatinl
element will he found IN he the indus