The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-31
BILLY SUNDAY AGAIN.

I iA6S VVsvvJ uirh anu HOnitH hNb i1At
their seats In the great Tabernacle
the Protestant Christians OF that city
had built for him and hit the saw
dust trail" for the penitent rail at his
feet. says the Macon Telegraph. in
Philadelphia 1900 people protested
spiritual conversion to Jesus Christ
and in Baltimore $4,000 as a result
Of the Billy Sunday meetings there.
Among the Boston converts was for
mer Governor Eugene Foss. bankers
and buns, philanthropists and barten.
deTs. Back Bay intellectuals and won.
en- OF the street, social service work.
ers and pickpockets. mechanics and
professors. Every phase Of Boston
life. social. economic and moral, is
literally represented in the ranks OF
the great army that enlisted under
the standard OF spiritual Christianity
at the call of the former centerfielder
OF Pop Anson's old Chicago team.
New York is next. When Sunday
was in Philadelphia ribald laughter
from New York greeted the state
ments OF his followers and admirers
that when the time came the Rever
end Billy would land on Broadway and
turn New York upside down. Today
every newspaper in thc metropolis
has han its men In Boston to find out
what manner OF man this is and
serious. respectful note has found its
way into dominant place in their col
umns. When he conquered Boston,
suporcilious, cold, sufficient to itself
and intolerant of cheapness and melo.
drama. New York quit laughing and
looked TO its defenses For 1t Is shap
ing up. The greatest revival the world
has ever known is shortly due for the
fastest growing, richest and most hn-
thinking city in the world-for Sun.
day will capture New York He may
even shock that big, primeval, simple,
self-loving urban marvel into sense
OF its own superiiriality, frothy wick
edness and wrongness OF standards.
He may leave The Great White Way
a cleaner place than he found it.
Sunday stands today as the most
powerful man pleading the cause OF
a spiritual religion who has appeared
before the people since the days OF
John Wesley, Moody, Torrey, Gypsy
Smith the elder. and host of lesser
ones have known nothing like this
man has achieved. People go to hear
him in multitudos and he moves them
to fearful repentance of their sins
For him they renounee the ways Of
tho earth.
It's bootless TO discount him, to rid
icule. to excoriate his methods, TO call
him names. to declare that he CHEAP
ems religion" That's not the dues
ton. The evangelical Protestant
| churches OF the Engllshspeaking
world endorse and encourage the re
vival. They do not believe its results
are all temporary, that it works
through pure theatricalism. And along
the lines the organizations OF his fell
low Christians have approved Sunday
has done things hardly dreamed be
forehand within the province of hu
man agency, even with the lnstrumon'
tality of divine inspiration.
The average metropolitan newspa
per man is no easily worked upon
emotional, spiritually virgrnal sort al
person. and yet Sunday nas taken
scores of them from their press boxes
dropping pencil and profession fo'
the moment TO come cropping, moved
and drawn to the altar rad lor public
prayer. Theatriealism, me!odrama
maudnnity. won't do that William \
Sunday has developed. into the most
tremendous figure in American Chris
uanity in the memory q this genera
tion--and before that.
Some power nos sf rs ken or ioacl
a ordinary man " iss with him talks
through him, and goes from him t'
the great beating heart of mankind
pointing the directing hand to clean
or, better, stronger and more decent
things. And those people who vii