The Washington times., 1917-05-02
10000 CHEER WHEN
SUNDAY LAUDS I. R.
Billy Would Go to Europe Just to
BLACK CoIoneps Boots"

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wants to take an army to Europe. let
him do it! I'd like to go along just
to black his boots"'
Such was the tribute one'two listed
citizen paid to another two-hsted
citizen in the Billy Sunday Taber-
nacle last night. In answer 10000
people fairly stood up on their hind
legs and hollered" for full forty sec
onds by the stop watch.
No need to say who paid the trib-
ute: It would be as useless as to re-
peat the name OF the man to whom II
was paid. Close second to his love
for his heavenly Liege Lord, Billy
Sunday cherishes an abiding admira-
ton for Theodore Roosevelt. He
voiced that affection last night with
vim. and the response he got made
him beam from ear to ear. "By
George, that's buIlyw was written on
his face as plain as day.
Billy had been talking about the
militant believer. "You have got to
fight as we'll as pray" he exhorted.
I'D like to see a worlds championship
In aggressive Christianity. Martin
Luther said, IF you burn my books,
why I'll burn yours Hooray for
Martini
"Moses-Josiah-D Billy rat
tied off the roll of the illustrious
dead as though he were a bull
throated herald in some great hall Of
fame. "All fighters-every one Of
'em. All Of them carried big sticks.
And if
Here the tribute to the Colonel.
prompted no doubt by the utterance
of the famous phrase, came hurtlinE
forth. And over in the ministers
benches an elderly gentleman OF
benign aspect and courtly bearing
smiled in warm approval and started.
to applaud. His name was Lyman
Abbott
Has q Militant Evening.
"Oh, I'm through preaching ser
mons about not losing your temper"
Billy stormed. 'T don't give a rap
about It! I favor this, favor that
he m.micked. You mutt, you make
me sick! Disgruntled, tired. nauseat-
ed! What do you stand for? You folk
spend your wrath on little things and
let the body polite go to hellr'
Billy put in a militant evening. At
the outset he recalled that It was
Dewey Day-the anniversary OF the
day when the Admiral licked the
Spanish feet in Manila harbor. That
brought out a salvo of handclapping.
Quickly he followed 1t up with a call
for The Star-Spangled Banner" and
the $4,000 who had braved the rain tn
hear him arose and sang with gusto.
Children should be taught from in
fancy to have respect and do honor
TO the flag" was his next line. THE
nag should be in the hands OF every
and the Bible on the desk
of every teacher" This was greeted
by a chorus of "amens."
Micaiah, next to Roosevelt. of
course, was Billy's hero OF the even
ing-Micaiah. who furnished him with
tho text, "As the Lord liveth. even
what my God saith. that will I speak"
And Billy made good use Of the story
about the brave prophet who told
King Ahab and his 400 fire escape"
prophets what was put into his heart
to say.
'Micaiah,". he plunged in. was a
man whose sermons were not written
on the head of his flour barrel He
wasn't afraid of losing his job for
taking dead aim at some influential
old sinner in the front row. He didn't
sandpaper his discourses- 1t didn't
take his punch out when the star
preachers knocked him for being-er.
crude and vulgar.
"Jehosophat"
Rang Out Like Exclamation.
Everybody jumped, for it rang out
like an exclamation In a second
thought Il turned out to be merely
a proper noun, nominative case. Je-
hosophat, II seemed, wanted to do the
will of the Lord, while old Ahab want
ed to do Jehosophat-
"When the King OF Judea came
rolling into town in his seven-pas-
senger car, with his men and his
cameIs and alf." Billy ran on, 'he
looked like easy meat to Ahab. He
looked as good as a bank roll to a
hobo, so Ahab gladhanded him. Wen
lick those Assyrian lowbrows, he as
sured him; wen hand them the hot
end OF the poker.
But Jehosophat wanted to be sure
So Just to oblige him and make the
thing look right Ahab trotted out his
4OC false prophets-he was long on
prophets. This bunch was led by
Zebediah, one of those sensational
preachers who wanted his sermons
always in italics. Yes, and he'd had
a pair of iron horns fastened to his
head, so he looked like Texas steer.
To Judge from his frequent mods OF
and smiles of approval,
DR.. Abbott was pleased, on the whole.
with the sermon he heard last night.
"In the main," he said afterward, Il
agreed with and greatly admired his
address, and am in hearty sympathy
with his work and that of his as
sociates. 1 particularly appreciated
his demand for virility and greater
courage in the work and teaching OF
the Christian ministry and in the
Christian church
Bishop Luther r. Wilson, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, gave the
invocation. At his "Bless Thy sery
ant. our President" Billy, with hands
over his eyes, calculated a fervent
Amen"
Lutheran Clergyman Convert.
The spectacle Of John D. Rookie
fslIer standing sponsor for Billy sun
DAYS revival doesn't please Carl Beck.
director OF the Labor Forum. Mr..
Beck said as. much in a statement he
addressed to the evangelist yesterday.
He even intimated that the success
of the campaign was being seriously
because of the dominating
influence OF fiuanciers." He chal-
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