Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-26
Former RoiIroader, DR.. Word,
Will Hold Noon and Midnight
Meetings for Billy Sun dog
Famous Philadelphia Divine to
Preach Gospel to Men Who
Work in Atlanta ShopS-Geo.
WinShip, Jru Making Survey

Between sixty and seventy meetings
weekly in the shops and industrial
plants is the goal set by Billy Sunday
leaders in the mems work TO be con-
Quoted during the Sunday revival by
DR.. Isaac Ward. of Philadelphia. mems
work director.
Pending the arrival of DR.. Ward, who
will come to Atlanta with the other
members of the Sunday party on No
vember 3, a committee, Of which George
Winship, Jr., is chairman, is in charge
of the mems work. This committee is
now conducting a survey of Atlanta's
shops and industrial plants with a view
of having them all lined up by the time
Of Dr. Wards arrival No plant or shop
in the city and suburbs will be over
looked.
DR.. Ward will hold MONDAY and mid
night meetings at the shops and plants.
There will also be other night meet
ings for men working on night shifts
who cannot be reached during the day.
Dr. Ward has special qualifications for
this work and is strictly a mans man.
Prior TO entering the ministry he was
yard superintendent for the Lackawana
railroad at Philadelphia, during which
time he gained considerable inside
knowledge of the men working in rail-
road shops and industrial plants and
their habits. Later he was ordained and
just before joining the Sunday organiza-
ton about two years ago was pastor of
the Dutch Reform church of Roxbor-
ough, a suburb of Philadelphia.
DR.. Ward will be assisted in his work
by pastors of the cooperating churches
who will address some of the meetings
arranged by him.
These meetings will be held at noon
on about four days out of the week, at
midnight for street car men whose days
work ends at that time and during other
hours of the night at times when men
working on night shifts can be reached.
Attendance at these meetings will be
entirely up to the men. During the
meetings the men will be invited to the
tabernacle meetings and told that spe-
cial reservations will be made for them
If they care to attend.
One of the big objects of DR.. Wards
work is to cleanse the moral atmosphere
of the shops and industrial plants.
The tabernacle postmaster, according
to past experiences, is always one of
the busiest men in the Billy Sunday or
ganization. Caring for the mail, as
might be indicated, is not one of his
biggest tasks, Dut caring lot IoSt ar
ticles is. At each of the Billy Sunday
tabernacles a postoffice is established,
and to this Office all lost articles are
turned over. The local pastors how
ever, have boxes there in which the
cards of trail hitters desiring to join
their churches are placed.
After every meeting in Billy sun
day tabernacle a long list of articles
ar efound. These articles range from
valuable Jewelry and wearing apparel
dow nto the smallest and cheapest OF
trinkets. The postmaster has to receive
and care for them all until called for by
their owner. At the end of the revival
the lost articles not called for are turned
over to a local committee to be kept
until their owner shows up.
The arrival of Billy Sunday is going
to add considerable impetus to the apple
market in Atlanta. Ignoring the adj
vice of dieticians, Billy Sunday must
have his apple pie whenever he feels
like it. and that is three times day
He is also very particular about HE
apple pies and they must be just right
The cinnamon taste must be submerged,
as il is in all good apple pies. There
must be no half-cooked apples in that