New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-04
One Woman Faints at
Billy's Vivid Hadean
Descriptions
Trailhitters for
Day Total 1852
He'll Is No College, Evan
gclist Warns in Under
world Travelogue

II any Of the $1,000 folk who heard
Billy Sunday last night went TO his
Tabernacle hoping 10 glimpse the Prom
sed Land they were disappointed. For
Sunday. virile and vehement as never
before since he began 20 preach here,
took them on a personally conducted
trsvelogue to the domnions Of Satan
describing with uncomfortable realism
the horrors Of the pit, the "lake Of
fire." the birthstone and the sulphur.
One woman tainted and was taken,
PROSTATE. 70 the Tabernacle hospital
the only place in New York, according
10 the evangelist, "where you can be
sick and have it cost you nothing"
Another woman, cripple on crutches,
staggered, Historically sobbing, to
grasp Sundays hand, accept Jesus and
escape the tcrmentS Of eternal damna-
ton One thousand and thirty others
shook hands also, but for the most part
lightheartedly and without any appsr-
ent feeling of relief at their escape.
1t was a lighthesrted crowd, prnci-
pally made up Of delegations from
stores, factories and social orgsniza-
tions. which left only eighteen out Of
the sixty or seventy seat sections IN
the building open to the general pub
tic. 1t enjoyed Billy's Hsdean descrip-
tions; it laughed when he consigned
certain classes of society into the
fiery lake, TO be tormented day and
night forever" and it spplauded Wig
orously when spprised of its own
danger in the picturesque terms Of the
preacher.
He'll Is No College
"Hell is not a college where you
enter a freshman and graduate with
wings in your senior year he told his
hearers in an endeavor TO impress them
with his belief that there can be no
chance TO repent after 1.-The embslmlng
fluids been pumped into you The
hand -clapping continued for half a
minute.
"No Second Chance" was the subject,
and the text, II Corinthians. vi, .:
Behold, now Is the accepted time;
now is the day OF salvation" 1t gave
Sunday an opportunity to get down TO
the fundamentals of his fsith-the be-
lief In a personal Devil, an actual, ma
terial hell Of fire, furnace and innu-
mersble torments, and the application
Of torture to those who die without
having accepted the Lord Jesus Christ
as their personal Saviour"
1--WE studied the Bible from cover TO
cover" he said. "hnd / tell you there
is not ray Of hope that you can be
saved from hell after death. IL there
was I'd tell you.
"O-oo-oooh, New York, To-day's the
DAY; now is the time. You're N hurry,
you say. Oh, Mr.. Broker-in-a-Hurry;
oh. Miss Gadabout-ina Hurry; oh, Mr.
Banker-in-a-hurry, Mr.. Newspaperman-
in-a-hurry-stop now and think! You'll
have no other chance once the embalm-
ing fluids been pumped in-yOull be a
goner then-gone to eternal torture.
"Old-Fashioned Stuff
"You say this is old-fashioned stuff.
You're right. You say I'm old-fash-
toned. Yes. but childbirth is old
fashioned. You came into the world IN
the old-fashioned way; you'll become
old in the oldfashioned way; you'll
die in the oldfashioned way; you'll
crumble 70 dust in the old-fashioned
way, and you can bet your boots you'll
70 to an old-fsshiOned hell If you're
lost. II you're saved it'll be by grace
Of the old-fashioned Cross and the old
fashioned Christ"
That was the climax Of his sermon.
He rambled off into a prayer: "Oh,
Jesus, suppose you couldn't find time
20 come down from heaven for a little
while. could you, Jesus? You couldn't
send an angel. Jesus? ! can't tell 'em
any more, jesus don't know what
to ssy-you know. Lord. I've done my
best ever since you sort OF helped push
me down on my knees before you out
in Chicago years ago-l've done my
best, Jesus. Oh. Jesus. help these folks
10 come down and accept your grace.
Helm 'em to say: Pm big chump TO
refuse to serve Lord like that
Thank you. Jesus-thank you"
And then. opening his tightly closed
ewes and regarding the crowd-"Wen,
YOU heard me; it's up to you; It's up
20 YOU" o.,
Quiet Call TO Trail
II was the ouietest call TO the trail
piIv has sounded since his advent. II
lacked the usual reiteratlon of the plea
20 "Come on"-the constant declara-
ton of Jesus willingness" TO save.
Sunday hardly mentioned heaven
throughout bis discourse. Here are
some Of his descriptions Of hell:
Hell Is the insane asylum OF the
universe where people remember.
sIyan OF Russia is there; Catherine,
100: Bauer is there, Mill, 1ngersoll,
Voltaire-all there.
awe are certain there is hell, be-
cause Christ says so. We are more
positive that there Is hell than we
are that the sun will rise tomorrow.
| have not one word Of authority TO
tell YOU that the sun will rise to-mor-
row. suppose II will; ] hope it will.
but I have no authority 10 tell you It
will. But have authority TO tell you
there is hell. j have the Word OF
God.
"Hell Is a place OF remorse. You
will remember the poor you didn't
holp; you will remember that you lived
,or the almighty dollar. The drunkard
will see again and remember his home
Of want and sQualor. The murderer
will see the blood ooze as IL falls from
the wound Of his victim"
Sunday pleaded for more liberal Of
ferings. "a city that can spend a
million dollars day for booze should
be able 10 give a few thousands TO
God" he REMARKED.
Collections Disappointing
Collections continue 20 diSAppoint
the Sunday party. On Wednesday
Sl1is97 was taken. compared with
si.2e4.22 the corresponding day last