New Britain herald., 1917-01-22
the atmosphere of the town is satur-
ated with religion before he comes.

! ated with religion before he comes.
| AS to the financial plan-the gen.
eral committee in the city must as
sumo the expense of the land and
! Of the tabernacle. They assume half
! the expense of Mr.. Sundays party,
not including Mr.. and Mrs. Sunday.
There are offerings taken at certain
times during the meetings. This is
done in the early stage of the meet
ings, as Mr.. Sunday insists on all OBJ
legations being paid before the meet
ings shall go on. as these obligations
constitute a hindrance to the best
work. Out of these offerings the eX-
pense of building the tabernacle.
heating, lighting, ETC.. and half the
! expense of Mr.. Sundays party is paid.
| Mr. Sunday takes for himself the last
free will offering which is taken. An
| nouncement is made that this will be
taken so that all will know, but there
| is no urging. Notices are put in the
paper as to some bank where people
can leave their checks, etc. At Phil
adelphia there were individual checks
for Mr.. Sunday as large as $4,000.
Besides the money Mr.. Sunday is con-
! stantly the recipient of gifts, such as
| flowers and soverniers of all kinds.
I'VE want to here raise the ques-
| ton as to what Mr.. Sunday does with
/ his money. In the first place he pays
| half the salary of the party, as we'll
| as all his own expenses when not in
the campaign. His party includes
mems workers, a womens worker,
l. hildren's worker, Mr.. RodeheVer,
who conducts the music, an advance
man who proceeds the party. and a
follow up man who remains to help
conserve the results. This. of course,
requires expense. Besides this. it is
known that Mr.. Sunday supports sew
eral missionaries and students i'll col
lege and gives literally to charities.
He has a habit also Of giving money
to causes that people know nothing
about. I think. however, that 1T
would be we'll and fair If Mr.. Sun
day would prevent certain criticism
that is directed against him in this
line, by giving more careful &C
count of the large sums of money that
come into his possession. A man can
legally do as he pleases with his
money, but he cannot morally. One
of the moral questions of the hour
is not simply. how man gets his
money, but how he spends it, es-
pecialy a religious man.
after Mr. Sunday starts his meet
ings, he conducts the campaign in a
way that is familiar to almost every
one. His sermons are written, and he
has his manuscript before him, but
for long spaces Of time you would
not know that he was depending at
all upon the manuscript. In the in
vitation, which he gives commonly
called, The Trail Hitting invitation
Mr. Sundays appeal is not simply to
-1~<So Tn
some of his services before men only,
and other special services, he often
gives an appeal that is direct, and
includes the deciding for certain spe-
cific things, but in his general appeal
he asks people to come forward and
shake his hand. not simply if they
want to be Christians but if they
want to take any stand whatsoever
for God, such as Recommendation
of their lives. or the uniting with the
church. When these people come
forward they shake Mr.. Sundays
hand, and then they are turned over
to a committee, where they give their
names and addresses, their church
preferences, etc. Then these cards
are sent to committees In the
churches of the city and elsewhere.
Some Of them have come as far as
New Britain from Boston. Very
much of the success of the work lies
in the faithfulness with which
churches look after the converts and
keep interested in them and caring
for them after the meetings are over.
Undoubtedly large additions have
come to churches of the cities where
Mr.. Sunday has been. AS to the quail
ity of this increase and it's steadfast-
ness, we will speak later.
Sundays Manner.
IT want to say something now
about Mr.. Sundays manner. He is
as natural as child. When he comes
into a building which is new to him,
he Immediately proceeds to explore
it with his eyes. looking 1t all over,
and walking wherever it is necessary
to see He will go up to the wood
work and feel of it as a youngster
might do. He is undoubtedly an
actor, and much of his power is in
his performances upon the platform.
He wears a heavy ring, and when he
comes to the close of long, drawn
out sentence, full of all kinds of de-
scriptive adjectives, he will pause and
strike the table with this ring and
utter a specific now which Is an in.
dication that he is going to start in
on something else.
He has some very peculiar gestures.
Some of them very effective. Shoot
ing STAR Swinging on Foot The
rich man and poor man who enter
the church., The two groups playing
cards. one in the home-one in the
gambling den, compared On his
knees looking into hell Reporters
! His performance at Ottawa when he
climbed on to the pulpit and then
| jumped off clear to the ground, hold
| ing his nose.
Stories.
| Clarkeson, the pitcher, he says, was