Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-25
SUNDAY MEETINGS
MAKE RECORD FOR
CITY Achievement
Number. of Trail HitterS Is
1878 and FreewiII Offering
S2O,126,14, With More Con-
tribJtiOnS Coming In

While Billy Sunday sped toward Jel-
leo, Tenn, the home of Homer Rode
HEAVIER, his choirister, where he will
break his trip to his winona Lake home
by holding a meeting Monday night,
Atlanta woke to the realiza-
ton of another big achievement in an
evangelistic campaign that has surpass-
ed all expectations.
Reorganization showed Atlanta in the
forfront with free will offerings and
trail hitters that make this city one of
the most prominent in the list of those
in which Mr.. Sunday has held cam
paigns.
Everyone. connected with the meetings
expressed the utmost qualification over
the results
Official figures place the number of
trail hitters at 15,51S and the free will
Offering at s201261i The honorarium
is being swelled several hundred dol
lars by contributions that are being re-
ceived by the treasurer, Walter T. Can
dler, from out of town, and these will
be forwarded to Mr.. Sunday.
OF the trail hitters 14,527 were white
people-13,629 adults and S9S children.
There were 9S1 negroes-S33 adults
and 15S boys and girls.
All Denominations Helped.
Every class of people was touched
cry denomination have had hundreds
of accessions. Pretestants and Catho-
lies alike received additions through
the meetings and there were several
members of the Hebrew faith who made
new resolutions The close of the cam
paign finds many thousands of people
with their faces set with a new determ-
inatlOn.
Atlanta enjoyed everything that the
Sunday meetings could produce. Every
member of the SundayAparty was here
and the campaign was conducted on just
as big scale as that in New York
City.
The ampaign-ninety-ei ser
mons by Billy and dozens of other add
junct meetings that combed the city and
Camp Gordon cost an average of ten
cents apiece for every person who heard
Mr.. Sunday, at the tabernacle. The ex-
pense totalled Approximately $4,000,
and there were virtually 100000 ad-
missions to the tab -nacle, scores com
ing from distant cities
The expenses weSe within $1,000 Of
the estimate of the cost made by George
Sunday in a letter to the local commit
tee on May "a. Of the approximate
$4,000 which does not include the hon
orarium. $4,000 was spent for the
tabernacle, the remainder being for the
eight weeks of advance work; lie two
thirds portions of the salaries of the
members of the Sunday party; their ex-
penses, including transportation one
way from Atlanta; general office ex-
penses; the upkeep of the tabernacle
etc, etc.
In advance of the meeting fund of
Approximately 100000 was underwrit-
ten. Free-will donations were such
that only one-fourth of the amounts
underwritten was called for. The me-
groes insisted on having a part in the
offering to Mr.. Sunday, contributing
$163.12 in addition to the amounts of
the offerings at the various negro meet
ings.
The tabernacle building has been
placed on sale, and bids on it will be
opened at the Sunday headquarters at
the Y. NJ. c. A, Wednesday at noon. All
bidders are required to state the purpose
for which they want to use the struc-
ture.
Building For Sale.
Atlanta came anead of many other
cities of approximately the same or even
greater population, both in the offering
for Mr. Sunday and the number of trail