Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-11
BILLY LYSUvDAYEALIS I
FOR ADRYN NEW YORK
$50 Dry You'll Have to Prime
a Man Before He Can
s. Spit" Is His Hope '

NEW YORK. April ,..--5illy Sunday
devoted both of his sermons to the procla-
nation Of the need for revivals and
justification of his methods. He talked
abons positive good done by evangelistic
awakenings and answered objections raised
against them. Both sermons were full of
attacks on worldliness and inactivity In the
church, and there were the usual attacks
Oh the liquor traffic.
Governor Whitman was awarded ap-
proval for his present position on the ques-
tion Of local option by the evangelist. who
said: ........ .i. Nrf~
II hope every decent man and every
decent woman, white. black. native or
foreign born. Democrat or Republican. will
stand by your brave Governor In his fight
to give the people the right to vote on local
option. ..... ~
'I hope old Manhattan will go so dry
you'll have to prime man before he can
spit" -.'..
The attendance In the afternoon was
hardly more than 5000. and the evangelist
cited, the example Of other cities where o
cold wind, had not kept people away" At
the beginning Of the night service the taber-
nacle was far from full, but more persons
kept coming in during the song service. and
by the time the sermon commenced only a
few hundred of the 15,000-odd seats were
vacant Tonight for the first time the or
ganized delegations which usually occupy
large blocks Of seats in a Sunday meeting
made their appearance. Under the. leader
ship of DIR. s. Edward Young. Of the Bed
ford Presbyterian Church. 1000 clergymen
and laynfen came from the central part OF
Brooklyn, and there also was delegation
from Bay Ridge.
Sundays voice, which was in excellent
condition on Sunday because Of his long
rest, was rather broken; but in the
big climaxes the evangelist managed to
push 1t to unexpected performance. His
gesticulations and coursings up and down
the platform were not ruch less vigorous
than on the opening day and he made much
play of splitting again and again during an
illustrative story.
: When 1t came. to leaning over the bar,
Sunday flung himself down at full length,
his chin oyer the edge Of the platform, as
he shouted the call to Roberte--hands and
toes keeping his body off the green carpet.
1t was an impressive demonstration for a
man of fifty-fve.
Defending the revival in general, Sunday
said:
"They say revivai's temporary Sos a
. h. Take one. It'll do you good. The
lest way to demonstrate your utter insen-
sibility to public decency is to manifest
opposition to such campaign as this
which has for it's only purpose to make
men and women what God wants them to
be. ! wouldn't have come here II didn't
| think you were on the road to hell.
II want to say to New York right on
the kickoff believe the Bible is the word
| of God from cover to cover. You can tell
some of your highbrow mutt preachers
| where stand on that subject. don't care
| for what some big Yig says who dreamed
out his theories among the beer mugs and
| the tobacco smoke of Heidelberg OF
LEIPZIG. 60. ....-.. 90 ..'
Hell is seldom preached nowadays, and
| that's the reason there's so much hell on
| earth. / don't believe in Gehenna or Hades
believe in HILL"