The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-11
nv DOLLY DALRYMPLE
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By DOLLY DAIRY MPLE 1T T has been several months-to be ex-
 act, just six-since [ wrote the name c of the Rev. William A. Sunday in these columns. At that time I.~couldn't put my fingers on the keys of the typewriter that they didn't spell Billy Sunday or Ma" I had, if you recall, been to Ne" York on my annual spring jaunt, and hao arrived there in time to attend the pre- mier meeting on Easter Day of the great Billy Sunday campaign. Furthermore' l stayed long enough to go to many oL the Sunday meetings and l was anso- lutely crazy about the Sundays. l wrote my impressions in columns and columns of perfectly good newspaper dope about these two wonderful people, and then after I got it all out of my system Cor some of it, anyway I let up bit. But at the first opportunity I have busted out in a new place." said new place being our next door neighbor, Atlanta, where the Rev. Billy is now conducting series of meetings.
 A copy of our esteemed contemporary, the Atlanta Journal, fell into my hands a few days ago and brought to my pleas ant acouaintance brand new writer with a story about the Rev. Billy, under the caption of What Society Girl Thinks of Billy Sunday" I read it, and then read it again. it was so unique, so orig inal so bright and so absolutely pen picture of the man that I read it again. The writer was Adrienne Battey. l had never read anything from this clever girls pen before, but I want to say ell passant that if she handles all her sub jects with as much originality and finesse as she has handled the Rev. Billy, l dotf my newspaper bonnet to her as rattlins good comrade in the big game, and pre- dict great things for her.
 See for yourself the Rev. Billy through clever Miss Battey's eyes:
 "In Joining the ranks of self-instltuted authorities on Billy Sunday, l would bear in mind Whistler's admonitlon to the budding young art critic: Confine your self to I like this or I don't like that Don't say this is good or that's bad art. Covering Billy Sunday with a paper and pencil and a two by four comprehension is like trying to blanket the earth With ! pocket handkerchief. As writer has said of another great man: How can l describe in a sentence a man 1t has taken God millions of years to maker For Billy Sunday is one of Gods rare creations an individual, a genius.
 "In two weeks time, this chip off, Ve- suvius, Billy, has about crowded the devil off the map, William Hohen1cller'i off the front page of the local dafiies, and the entire population of Atlanta into four walls-the tabernacle. Advance ln- formation about Billy Sunday, including press reports, photographs and .impres- sions' is like a tip on the races-ali wrong. No matter what you are looking for, what you will find will be some thing different. For Billy Sunday is man of parts, as versatile in his gifts as in his mode of expression. Hes great many people in one. Now you see him and now you don't. The only thing about Billy that doesn't vary with the number of times you hear him Is his doc- Urine. That's as steadfast as the rock of ages itself andsthe force of his conver- sation is powerful enough to sweep his hearers off their feet and through the pearly gates--if salvation could be had by proxy.
 His personality looms so large you must reckon with that before you rate him as preacher. Why had the numer- ous so-called descriptions conveyed no idea of this mans personal charm. his
 men LduIys Ills IIldSHcliSiiit Ho iilHt VI <ii~ refinement of his nature, his schon w attainments, his inherent spirituality was prepared to find vulgarian-thi 5 was one of Gods aristocrats. There may not be blue blood in his veins. but in its stead there's quicksilver. So mod est was the entrance of the Boss that didn't see him slip into chair at one side of the platform, during the singing of hymn. Then suddenly. he appeared ,yyN;f GOV a If from that chair and walked across the platform--I don't know how he got there he just was.
 He uses his body that way, so natu- rally. so unobstrusively, that you don see it when he's fin action," in spite of all you hear about it. Critics inva- riably detach this posture and that ges- ture to comment on as though it were some foreign appendage that had been grafted on instead of being born to him. According to the primer psychology we studied in school, you can't say chair has arms, legs. etc., because a chair is arms. legs, etc. So you shouldn't say Billy does this and acts the other-he just is all that. As Billy stood there a moment. straining at the leash like a thoroughbred auivering for the start, They're off his appearance gave me series of surprises. In the first place he's 54?) Then he's perfectly groomed and tailored. Slim and graceful as a hoy, there's youth, vitality and refine ment in every line of his rema rkably ex- pressive body And when I pause to ob- serve mans body, you may know it's built of finer stuff than flesh and blood and bone. They use the word athletic to describe him. That gives q wrong Impression. Spiritual and mental exer- else do not produce bulging muscles and contorticnist joints, and they're Billy's main exerton these days. A fine phys ical specimen, his body has been per- fected as a fitting temple for the soul but his 1.-the agile movements are more