Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-22
CIRCUS MAN ON SUNDAY


CIRCUS MAN ON SUNDAY.
The New York World has been
asking various celebrities to write
their impressions of Billy Sunday.
In response to this request ALT. T.
Ringing, the veteran Snowman, tells
How / would bill Billy Sunday as
an attraction"
Sunday: A master marvel among
all mankind's most amazing men.
This old earth has never known
his like.
From the beginning of time to the
moment at hand no replica of him
has ever been nor ever will be until
time shall be no more.
The mold of his making crumbled
into atoms when the fiery elements
of his being burst into life.
Providence was prodigal in pro-
ducing this pre-eminent pattern of
persuasive power. She gave him
strength, speed, skill, yirility, VEN
turesomeness, Drawn, bravery, bril-
liancy, brains. breath, bronchia-she
made him of flame and fire, deft and
'dextrous, devout and daring-danger
defying and devil-defying. And
above all she gave him voice and vo-
cabulary, and when he uses these lat
ter he becomes the absolute, unques-
toned, inimitable, original antipathy
to bromideism.
He makes wrong writhe in re-
morse and Beelzebub's brazen bow
bend beaten among the cohorts. He
makes wickedness waver like a
wrath in the wind, sin seek shelter
and old rum run like rabbit. He
makes the FURNISHED bewilderments
and bedizened beauties of Broadway
look so lusterless that they even be
come loathsome to the Lothario. His
is the absolute perfection and gem
supreme in the big worlds diadem
of celebrated revivals. He is the
soul-in fact, he is Sundays supreme
st,lpendous spectacular. pageant Of
piety and propriety.
A colossal caravan or all the pow
ers of good-a tremendous, titanic
triumph and big outpouring of ele-
waiting wonders-a mammoth marvel
Of morals, amazing and mighty. Its
feature among features marvel
among marvelslis Billy Sunday,
and his great act is absolutely with
out an imitator anywhere.
The feats of Daniel in the lions
den, the prowess of Sampson, the
skill of David overshadowed and out
done.
Billy Sunday exhibits twice daily
the four fiercest creatures in all the
universe-Moloch, Beelzebub, Baal
and Satan-the four fearful, prowl-
ing marauders-more ravenous than
the lion-more cruel than the tiger
more stealthy than the leopard.
The unconquerable terrors of all
mankind now for the first time cow
ed and coerced into contemptuous
cringing by the bold, brave breaker
of the heretofore unbreakable mon
sters.
These mastodonic menaces of man
made to maneuver, march and coun-
termarch. obedient to their conquer
or's call, in all their Matched hid
eousness.
An exhibition absolutely unique,
original and almost unbelievable
placing the rings in the noses OF
Baal, Beelzebub, Moloch and Satan
and working them by lung relns'
snarling, kissing, growing and howl
ing, all to the delighted applause OF
the assembled thousands.
See the browbeating OF old Baai'
See the belaboring Of Beelzebub.
See the manhandling of the
mighty Moloch.
See the castigation Of Satan.
An act performed by one man
without elaborate props or other par
aphernalia and absolutely without
q counterpart in exhibition annals.
You tell me your faith was the
faith of happiness. This is never the