The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-05-02
1872 NIT TRAIL; MORE
READY, BUT BILLY TIRED
Calling, "Say Jesus!" Asks
Savior to Make New York.
ers Honor the Flag.

One of those typical picturesque
Billy Sunday prayers. which com
bine devotion, a personal chat with
the Saviour, patriotism, religion and
| comment upon the news OF the day,
induced 1,467 men and women to
pass down the sawdust trails and
take the evangelist's hand as a
pledge of better intentions, making
a total of 1,732 for the day.
With an informal Say. Jesus!"
(as he frequently does) Billy began:
THANK you, Jesus, for what: you
are doing; thank You, too, Father;
and you, Holy Spirit. Good Lord!
If we had to work as hard to get
recruits for the army of the Nation
as We do to get recruits for the
church. where would we be?
God, read in the papers today
where a Judge named Rosalsky sent
fellow to Jail for six months for
distributing literature advising men
not to enlist. I'm glad you've given
us Judges like Rosa!sky, Lord
Make us forget, Jesus, that
we're black and white, rich and
poor, Catholic, Protestant and Jew,
or whether we were born here or
elsewhere. Make us remember that
we're all Americans, pledged to go
out and fight to the last ditch for
our flag!"
Told His Talk With Jesus.
There was a thunderous burst of
applause, and the prayer was inter
rupted for half a minute. Then the
evangelist went on:
And don't let us forget about
your fight, Jesus. You know. the
one you told me about when you
said: Bill, I'm in the midst of
war, too" And said, What war,
Jesus?' and you told me, The war
with the devil, Bill! And then I
said, Jesus, I'll be over to help you,
and I'll bring with me thousands of
New Workers to help fight on your
side
What do you say, New York?
Are you going to fight Jesus's battle,
too?"
There We're twenty or more big
delegations of men and women from
industrial establishments IN the
Tabernacle, and to them Billy ad-
dressed direct appeals.
Come on, you girls from the Col
gate Company, with your green ban
ners," he cried. You lead the way!
Come on, you Metropolitan Bank
workers-you from the Edison Com
pany, too"
The Colgate girls from Jersey
City, a couple of hundred strong.
flocked to the front with their flags
flying, and then from all parts of
the big shed young and old trooped
forward.
Billy shook hands until he was
exhausted. Had he been physically
able to continue, there is no doubt
hundreds more would have offered
him the pledge. 1t was a highly
successful meeting and he was i'll
fine voice and form.
He is particularly pleased (and
says so at nearly every :neeting)
with the manner in which New
York has turned out to hear him
and has hit the trail at his solicita-
ton.
ITS for you I'm wearing myself
out" he said last night. II am
saved. God gathered in my old soul
out there in Chicago nearly thirty
sure. want to save you-New York!
And if my prayers world save you.
there would not be a sinner left in
this old town to greet tomorrow
sunrise. The doctors tell me I'm
cutting twenty years off my life do
ing what | am doing-and not all
the money in your groaning bank
vaults could tempt me to do it If |
didn't want your souls
With several pathetic stories of
conversions, Billy brought tears to
the eyes of men and women. He
uncovered an entirely new acrobatic
stunt by falling flat on his face on
the platform to illustrate a story of
race in which the winner dropped
dead as he crossed the finish line.
A prediction as to one of the out
comes of the great war-which Won
much applause, he made thus: 81
believe that the Jews will have Pal
estine again. ripped from the grip Of
the Turk. and that Uncle Sam, in
the future will have a partial ruler
ship over it."--GNew York World
Old maids and old bachelors know