New Britain herald., 1917-01-15
SUNDAY GREATEST
 MAN SINCE PAUL
R. H. Crawford Believes EVange-
 list Is Inspired by God

R. H. Crawford. superintendent of the Boys club, spoke before an ap- preciative audience at the Peoples
 church on Court street last night on
 his observations of Billy Sunday
 and the results noted. The largest
 attendance that ever greeted speak
 CT in the 'Ilttle Church Around the
 Corner was present and all declared it the most inspiring talk that they have ever heard.
 Mir. Crawford said that it was twenty years ago that he was first converted and became a follower of Christ At this time Francis Murphy and D. S. Moody were conducting a series of evangelistiC meetings in Bos- ton and while at one of these he be- came convert. At that time 2O,- 900 people united with the church and it was the greatest blessing that Boston has ever known up to the present stay of Sunday, Mir. Crawford said. During his present visit at the Hub City Sunday has converted 50,O00 people and there are as many more waiting to be converted, said MT. Crawford. In. fact the meetings have grown to such proportions that they have touched Boston from center to circumference.
 God never started anything that was a failure" said Mir. Crawford, and
 as a proof of this he pointed out
 that the stars. sun and moon were Gods work and they never failed but
 were always working from day to
 day. Billy" Sunday would ns more
 fail in his Boston campaign than the
 sun and moon for God had started
 1,;e ln;
 explanation of this was taken from
 Ephesians. 3-2O "The powers that
 dwell within" What God gave to
 Peter in the days of tho Pcntecost
 he is giving the Billy" Sunday of
 this day and hour. the speaker said. Mr. Crawford said that just as soon as Sunday comes to Hartford every
 city and town in the state of Connecti- cut will be blessed as are the towns
 that surround the city of Boston. In the estimation of Mir. Crawford ! Billy" Sunday is the greatest man that has lived since the days of the apostle Paul. Several of his points were illustrated with stories in which he showed that the man of influence , advanced only so far and then halted but the man of power continued to advance and overcome all obstruc- tions. The man with power was no more unlimited than God, stated MT. Crawford.
 According to Mir. Crawford, the present campaign in Boston has not 1 petered out as on Friday last the . largest number of trail hittcrs was ] present and became converted To 1 show that Sunday is no "grafter" he 1 has not taken up collection for the | past two weeks. MT. Crawford stated 1 that after he had paid his expenses
 and there was not one cent of the
 $90,000 that was going into the pockc ; of the great Evangelist. The last col
 lection taken on the day that Sunday
 leaves will he the only money that he , will receive for his stay in Boston. l MT. Crawford said that he was inn
 pressed by the sweet humble spirit of l the man and after all that had been | done to hurt him by the papers he 1 only smiled and said "let them go on.' The work of Billy" Sunday is
 Gods work and there was nothing
 that could hinder it or stop it's prog
 ress. He said that 1t would continue l to go on and that as time went on I the people would see the wisdom of appreciate the value of the man. Next Sunday evening MT Crawford ] will go to Southington where he will 1 again speak on the subject of Billy" i Sunday.