New Britain herald., 1917-01-22

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who could ever throw over handed
| ball so fast that it would shoot up
just as it came to the batter. In
| this regard we are inclined to think
| that Billy's memory of the old base
| ball days is like the memory of some
! people about the old time winters, for
! there have been several men since
| Clarkeson's time who are refuted to
have been able to do this.
| "Billy's language can be illustrated
in the way he tells the story of David
| and Goliath. He says that Dave was
out herding the sheep one day, when
! his father called him in and said
| to him, Dave, your mother is sort of
| worried about your brothers. She
| has not heard from them for a long
! time They have not 'phoned in
quite a while. I want to take this
! bag Of mela and this bottle of wine
and go over and see how your broth
ers are So Dave did it and when he
got there he found that there was
a great big fourflushing giant stand
| ing out in front Of the army OF Israel,
and he turned to the soldiers and said
to them, Who is that lobster pulling
this bluff on all Of your fellows?
Why don't some Of you go out and
call his bluff They all seemed to
be afraid to do it, so Dave said he
would. Saul offered him his armor,
but he could not do anything with it,
SO he laid it aside, and took a few
smooth stones. and went out to meet
the giant When the came near the
giant called him all kinds of names,
and told him he would throw him to
the beasts. Then Dave took one of
his stones. and put it in his sling,
swung it around his head a couple
of times, and let drive and the stone
hit the giant square between the
lamps, and he went down to the mat
for the count. Dave rushed UP,
pulled the giants sword, cut the lob
ster's block off, and that is the end
Of the whole matter
Criticism of Sunday.
Now as to the results First let
me speak Of what I might call the un-
fortunate results, or the unfavorable
criticism.
"One of the unfavorable things is
that Mr.. Sunday is empha sizinz but
one type Of religion, and that is a
rescue type, which undoubtedly has
its place, but which certainly is only
one phase of religious life and de-
velopment. 1t is interesting to note
that this new phase which is going to
be part of the work in New York
city, i. e.. the teen-age work. is
something that Mr.. Sunday has never
allowed before
Another objection is that there are
people undoubtedly who follow Mr..
Sunday, and who follow the crowd. a.
a fetch. At Wesleyan last Monday.
after Mr.. Sunday had finished his ad-
dress, he called for fellows to give
their lives to Christ. The first vo1ne
fellow who responded or perhaps the
first half dozen, bravely went for
ward alone, and it was not long until |
the entire college body was moving in |
mass. 1t was evident that the |
great majority of the fellows sat still |
just because the majority sat still.
and moved forward later because the
majority moved. Such things NAV
not have bad results but they are NOT |
evidence of very great results"
Another things about MI Sunday !
that is unfavorable to my mind is |
his theology, and his criticism some
times certainly unfairly, of the
church. I do not believe his the
Ology, and neither does he That |
does not mean that he is insincere
because he thinks he believes it, but
I have heard him declare some or
thodox belief, and in two minutes
time refute it by some other belief.
which he did not realize was a. refu-
tation
''He delights in hitting folks, and
1t does not make any difference who
the folks are. At Wesleyan, after he
ha ID been received with cheers, he
soon took pains to tell the fellows
that it took more to make a man
than a mortar board hat, a bulldog
pipe and frat pin and a rah-rah-
rah-rah-rah. He enjoyed the telling
of the story of a boy who went with
his father to the city, and saw a
dummy dressed up in a window. The
boy asked his father if that was a
man, and his father said, No, that
was only professor His criticism
of the ministry and Of the church
chuckles a certain crowd outside the
church, who like to find fault with
those inside, as an excuse for them
selves, very often. His language, I
believe, Is not essential to his success
HIS language is not simply the lam
guage OF the street. It is often times
the language of the saloon and the
cheap, rough gang.
Il think this ought to be said further
that there is danger that those who
come In under Mr.. Sundays meet
lngs usually feel that the church is
not Undertaking its task Alright unless
1t carries on perpetual Billy Sunday
meeting, which, Of course, the church
cannot do, and these people will eth
er rail- out or, as has been the case in
some instances, turn in and run the
church. Mr.. Sunday himself could
not run church for six months, /
question whether he could run one