The Washington times., 1917-04-13
MARRYING STACKER
RAPED BY SUNDAY
Man Who Hides Behind Skirt
Coward, Says Evangelist.
Cost of Saving Souls.


forty-eight States have persuaded
Billy Sunday that the old fellow
doesn't hold his grip very well south
of Mason and Dixon's line, the Ohio
river, and the Moonshine mountains.
It's here in the North that the original
enemy of the human race gets in his
best licks.
Billy has the figures that prove it
soul saving cost estimates gathered
from a score of cities. Would one
think now that the devil is more cas-
lily routed in the city of Bourbon
whisky, fast horses. leaf tobacco, and
the prettiest girls Except for LeXing-
toni in the U. S. A.-Louisville-than
anywhere else in the nation? The
figures prove II. 1t costs only $50 to
save a soul in Louisville, whereas in
indianapolis. stsid, quiet, literary In
dianapolis, the cost rises to 500 per
convert to Christ.
The fact is, according to Billy's ef-
f1ciency sheets, the capital of HoosieT-
dom is the DEVILS choicest earthly
lair. except for New York, where 1t
takes 5000 to win a man from sin
and set him in the straight and mar
row road. This estimate may be sub
ject to new revision, however. Billy,s
three months campaign here will
cost S150.0OO. and the new soul saw
ing cost sheets will be prepared
through a process of dividing the
$3.50, 900 by the number of trail hitters
that respond to Billy's fervent pleas.
Beats Satan Over Platform.
He is in New York for the big and
principal purpose of showing the
preachers what real soul saving ef-
fciency is, and he expects to cut the
- Ma
York to the proud position occupied
by Louisville or Atlanta, where the
cost is $50; or New Orleans, where II
takes 500. and to beat Chicago's
$445, Boston's $500, and Denver's $455.
More than 1900 men and women
listened to Billy in the Tabernacle at
Broadway and 16sth street with ap-
proval and keen delight last night
heard him deliver the spiciest gospel
talk that so far has been heard. He
beat the Old One up and down the
platform, whacking manfully. The
metaphor is not strained. When he
talks OF pursuing and chastising
Satan he pursues and chastises, liter
ally. He grips an imaginary whip,
crouches like a tiger, sets his jaws,
whistles his breath through his teeth,
screams q defiance, hurls himself
across the platform, and then, as he
raises his voice in shouts OF halle
lujah. strikes downward with slash
ing strokes, ripping the hide off a
Satan that one can almost see, so
strongly has Billy the power OF visual
izing his parallels.
Patriotism is next to Godliness with
Billy Sunday in these tense days. AL
ways he has been a stalwart Ameri-
can citizen OF the old fashioned breed,
none of your. pussywillow. sissy
Americans, sister" and now that he
has gathered new Inspiration straight
from the lips of his national here,
Theodore Roosevelt, and has talked to
General Wood, Billy loses no chance
to preach devotion to the old flag and
tell the boys to put their names down
on the enlistment sheets.
Scores Marrying SIackers.
He is trying the very soul OF the
paciist. Last night he exploded
army service by fastening TO get
married.
Il understand" said Billy. thai
there are more foreign born people in
New York city than in any me
tropolis in the world. Many of you
many OF your ancestors, came to this
country from foreign shores. This il
the land OF your adoption. Now thai
the flag is unfurled and we are al
war with a powerful enemy, an enemy
that has tried our souls and spit in
our faces. and the country that give.
you bread and protection needs you
surely you will not fail to respond
The fellow who will make the skirt
and petticoat of girl a safety first
device behind which he may hide is q
Stacker and a coward, and he comes
pretty close to being a traitor. thinE
IL is a disgrace when there are twice
as many applications in Brooklyn anC
Manhattan for marriage license al
there are for applications to join tht
colors,
You men haven't a monopoly or
war service. The men have a mo
nopIy on the firing line. but you won
en- can join the Red Cross or offel
yourselves for service in some OIhel
capacity. ] spoke this morning to &
number OF young women at the hom'
OF Mrs. c. B. Alexander, at Wes
Fifty-eighth street, and these young
women have all agreed to lay aside
their frills and their furs and go ou
and offer themselves for anything
they may be able to do. l found tina
in the homes of the rich and the af
fluent there is as much patriotism u
the square inch as anywhere else"
Hits Street Corner AgItatOrs.
Billy swung into his sermon afte
the Episcopal Bishop of Harrisburg
the Right Rev. James II. Darlington
had made the evening prayer, calling
on the congregation to recite wit
him the Apostle Greed and the Lord
Prayer. which they did with a slow
booming chorus. always a time bea
behind the close clipped syllables o
the Pennsylvania bishop. Billy eX
horted the congregation toward lib
eEslity when the collection pans wen
around.
Boston raised S92 900 in sever
weeks through basket collections" h.
reminded them. surely New Yorl
won't trail behind Boston. II ] ha
as much money as some of you duck
I'd pay the whole bill myself. Don
try to deadbeat your way int
heaven"
A week from next Sunday Billy i
going to make a special effort L
get New York to loosen up.
He took his text from Nehemia
last night. defined Christianity a
believing and doing" and then pai
his respects to street corner agita
tors who insult Christianity and tn
country that shelters them.