The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-03
MAJ SUNDAY HOME
And BILLY Is HAPPY
High School Girls Welcome
Her Return From Hospital.
SEES POWER IN CHRISTIANITY
Sermons Attract Total Of 1851
Trail Hitters for the Day.

NEW YORK, June Billy Sunday
was in high good humor last night
ma" Sunday is home from the hos
pital, and the Sunday family circle IS
again complete. There was a certain
Joyous note about Billy yesterday
afternoon that demanded an explana-
tion. but everything was cleared up
when following the trail hitting he
leaned over the press box and whis-
pered: ma gets out today. boys"
And last night while Rodey was tun-
ing up the audience Billy leaned over
again and with a smile that even his
self-chosen enemies couldn't resist an
nounced in q low tone: Gee! Mas
happy; We got her home in fine
shape"
"Home"-even II It be a temporary
house used only for the duration of a
cGmpaign-means a lot to Billy and
Ma" so there was great rejoicing
when Mrs. Sunday crossed the thresh-
ola OF 1S4 Northern avenue a little be-
fore o'clock yesterday afternoon.
She had to be carried up to her room
IN a big chair, but II was home" just
the same. And although the original
plans had been to send Ma" West to
winona Lake, Ind, as soon as she De
comes strong enough, Billy guesses
now that "we'll just keep her right
here until we all go together, in q
couple of weeks"
Greeted by High school Girls.
The home welcoming was given a
formal flavor with the greetings OF
$50 high school girls of New York
and Yonkers. The young women,
who form the class that has been I'M
der instruction in religious work by
Miss Florence Kinney, left for the
house next door following the well
coming and there formed the High
School Girls Club, which is to carry
on religious work In the high schools
after the close OF the Sunday cam
paign.
There Is only a slight step be-
tween foolishness and power, and
there is only a slight step between
heaven and hell and between saliva
tion and SIM" Billy told his night au-
dience that filled the great meeting
house Nothing will ever mean
power to you unless you take hold OF
1t and in that way be convinced. To
condemn a thing without giving It a
chance shows you are a fool, and this
has to do with salvation as much as
anything else. To fools all things
seem foolish. Christianity is not fool
ishness-it is you who are the fool
when we became wise enough to
take hold of steam it became power;
the power was there all the time, but
we were too big fools to know it. It's
the same with Christianity; God has
been waiting all the time to demon
strate 10 you its power.
Salvation Is knowledge.
IF the Bible is nonsense to you"
Billy went on, ats you who ought to
be alarmed It's impossible for man.
to be saved and not know Jesus Christ.
Latin and Greek are nonsense to the
man who knows nothing about them,
Just as Christianity il.
"A saloon keeper would not enjoy
himself in a red hot prayer meeting.
1t would be impossible for a good man
to be at home in a stale beer joint.
where there was a lot of cursing and
Disappearing and panhandling. A
sweet, virtuous woman could not be
at home in a red light district, with
the back doors Of the houses opening
into hell"
The call for trail hitters brought
forward 1925. In the afternoon $50
came down the sawdust path, making
the total for the day 1851.