New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-14
SprinkIes Fairy Stories
Through His Talk to
City's Young Folks
His Homely Epigrams
Applauded by Boys
Preacher Warns Them Not
to Sit in Shade and
Sip Lemonade

Blank cartridges instead Of real ver-
bal bullets were used by Billy Sunday
in last nights skirmish with Satan
forces in the big Tabernacle, at Broad
way and 16Sth Street. For, although
a bigger army of prospective trail hlt-
tcrs was encamped in the pineboard
structure than at any meeting since
the campaign began here, it was an
army of boys and girls from the city
schools.
And Sunday, warmed by their school
yells. songs ard cheers, realized that
II they were potential subjects Of Satan
they we're "good-heartcd little devils
At that" So he took the sting out
% his SMILES, mixed the oil OF com
rassion with the fire Of his denuncia-
lions. and played big brother 70 the
cheering mass Of children who had
come TO hear him tell them Of Forces
That Win
"All right, kids" he said, smiling IN
appreciation Of their yells. specially
composed 10 honor him, "but don't
forget it takes more than a diploma
frat pin and 'rah, rah, sis. boom,
ah!' TO make a man or a woman
Voice Has Soft Tone
His voice. harsher and seemingly
more strained than ever. had, not
vithstanding, a softer. more symp'-
,hetic tone than it has had to data
The cutting edge Of his sarcasm was
deliberately bluntcd; through his BIT
,erest phrases ran strain OF unde->
standing. lie blamed and warned, brt
spent his energy in expounding a re-
Urious optimism, a slangified version
Of "Smiles's Self-Holp."
you'll win. boys and girls he
promised them. ~ you'll always 70
member to get Jesus in your game.
You can't win without Jesus Christ.
don't care a picsyune what your
proposition is.
study your capabilities and pray
God 10 give you strength to greater
movers. II God wants you TO be an iron
cog wheel in a machine, the sooner you
stop being a searchlight and be a cog
wheel the better the machine will
work"
lie PAINTED word pictures illustrating
tho difficulties surmounted by men who
achieved fame through work, citing
CYRUS ". Field, who laid the Atlantic
cable while the world sneered at him
and called HIM a fool"; John Jacob
Actor. who wouldn't be butcher, as
ms father suggested but put hls
r,onev into real estate and reaped
millions; Noah Webster, who "wouldnt
cut grass, but did make dictionary
and a place for himself in heaven ana
mems hearts; Edison, Carnegie and
others.
or Won find men like these on TOP
~ because they've climbed; not be
ca,+se tbev sat in the shade. slipped
Lemonade through straw and sighed:
Geo. amt it hot! It's men like these
Nat hang their mugs in the Hall OF
Fame. for NUTS Ike you and me TO go
and look at"
lie struck his heaviest, most nor
mally Sundaylike note IN contrasting
those men Of fame with others whose
snccess brought ruin. Fevently he
+old how Edgar Allan Poe took ms
6rst drink with a Virginia gentleman
little dreaming that il would BRING nm
10 ruin.
"'Take thy beak from out my heart
and take thy form from off my door,
roneatod Sunday. That "beak" was
wbjskev; that "form" booze.
Il want 10 tell you something That
viii enable YOU 10 write your names III
italics and tx you so that you Will
leave mo.e than name on tombstone
Nwhen You die.
81 Attacks Loafer
" "Tbe bov who goes TO school Is big
ger than the young lobster that loaiS
I'm the streets. smokes cigarettes, goes
into the back doors Of grog shops ana
tries 10 drink the whole bunch under
She table. It is bigger to pray than II
IS TO blaspheme; IL is bigger 10 sit IN
church than II is TO line up with the
bunch at some bar with the French
plate glass in front Of IL.
Branch out and make yourself
larger i'm character than you arc now.
A midget in body can draw pay at
dime museum; a midget in brains gets
nothing but kicks"
Sunday. soft in censure. was plain
spoken. mincing no words in referring
70 "bov drunkards and girls who sell
their womanhood for q bit Of tnery or
an auto ride to Coney Island But he
quickly skipped from the sordid 10
pleasantcr. more inspiring themes: lie
told homcly fairy stories involving
turkey Cobblers, gTasshoppers and
frogs. aud sprinkled all his sermon with
simple illustrations taken from the
fields and farm. ,,..,
Aim high" he counselled. OTIS no
harder TO hit an eagle than skunk.
other Epigrams
mDont be so fresh they'll have to
keen YOU on salt to keep YOU from
snoliing." was another injunction.
Others Of his epigrams were;
know as much as you can without
blowing the packing out Of your cylin-
der heads or busting your tires.
"If YOU itch for fame don't forget to
SDont turn back or loaf at the first
shady tree because the road ahead
looks dusty and hot -.
"a hundred years from tonight IL
wont matter whether you liked me,
hut thereIl be a big difference if you
said. 'Bnly's dope is good or 'Billy's
stuff is bunk
better college than your Abraham LIN
coin had. Use them; they're cheap.
Don't whine about advantages or
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