Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-16
BILLY SUNDAY Sees ONLY
REAL BIRTHSTONE HE'LL
No Gehenna nor Hades, He Tells
Mighty Throng, Awaits
EyildOcrs.
DRIVES CROWD TO FRENZY
Thousands Arise With Wild Cheer as
Evangelist Calls for Pledges for
Service to God and Country.
Fires Broadsidc ut Society.

| NEW YORK, April l5.--Thousands Of
persons swarmcd about the big tabor
nacle tonight, but failed to hear Billy
Sunday fire n broadsidc on The Sins
OF Society" Those who failed to get
! in to hear the evangelist fought like
madmcn to enter the building, and
only the Intervention OF the police and
| frcmcn preserved order.
! Sunday tonight began his onslaught
on drinking, gambling, Eluttony and
all the other sybaritic excuses TO which
lie alleged society is prone
! Incidental TO all this Juror was tho
most impressive singing OF Coward.
Christian Soldiers" that this city has
ever heard. Even the disappointed
thronE outside took 1t up.
In his sermon. Sunday forced himself
to pitch OF fcrvor that again and
again carried him or his chosen topic.
by the eternal Cod" he screamed
half -hysterical. I'm doGmatic. That
is Il chair. that is the pulpit. Cod is
God. the Bible is the Bible-from cover
to cover. the word of God. l believe
in hcll--not Gehenna nor Hades; but
hell. Observation-Disclosures. hell, fire and
birthstone. He'll! hell! heli:'
Thus did Sunday emphasize on his
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thronGs left tho tabernacle at the close
OF the sermon each one had a very good
idea Of what Sunday preached would DO
the fate Of the cvildocrs.
Still standing on his pulpit. his saunt
figure transformed. he called for tho
hymn stand Up. Stand Up for Jesus"
The throng began to sing.
How many of YOU" he roarcd will
now pledge with me. and say God,
III stand up for Jesus Christ, for You.
God, for our nag and our country?
Come on: how many
The mighty thronE arose with n wild
cheer. They finished the verse Again
the hoarsc, CONSTRUCTED. tortured voice
of the overwhelmed soldier Of the cross
cracked forth:
You who respond. hold up your right
hand and sing"
They sang the second verse. Almost
automatically they left of the old hymn
and began My country. It's Of thee.
sweet land OF liberty" and then. SIN
standing. their arms shot skyward and
their bodies swaying with the sweep
OF Eodchcavcr's arms. they switched to
Mine eyes have seen the coming OF tho
glory OF the Lord
Fifty sailors from the BROOKLYN
Navy Yard, who were among the $1,000
who heard him at night. declared:
Il didn't vote for Wilson. but I'll
back him to the last ditch.
IAN overwhelming victory awaits
that political party that has tho grit
to acknowledge Jesus Christ as it's
leader"
FLooDTIDE AUDIENCE
ATTENDS IN AFTERNOON
The preacher this afternoon had II
foodtide audience. He faced 10000
spectators when he mounted the plat
form, and he Immediately warmed up
to the occasion. Many found ii i'm
possible to enter the building.
SHOW Thysclf Approved Unto Cod"
was the subject Of Bill!'s sermon
lie begun by stating his belief Ia
hell. adding, Cod Almighty put hell in
the Bible. and any preacher who side
steps it because there are people sit
ting in the pews who don't like II
ought TO get out of the pulpit. He is
simply trimming his salts to catch 81
passing breeze of popularity.
Sunday also called -or the climina-
ton of miserable formality" in the
churches. MANY n poor man" he de-
clared. lis made TO feel like a bcggar
in the house of God because he's got to
stand and wait until so and so comes
before he knows whether he can sit or
not"
In his G.tack on certain classes Of
foreigners coming to this country, Sun
day said there were many that he wei
coined with open arms. but others come
with just enough money to keep them
from becoming paupers and criminals
and later become a ''carbuncie on the
neck Of the body polite"
They try to convert the American
idea Of the Sabbath into the Continent
tai" and lie decricd their beer gardens
and beer drinking on the Sabbath
"TheSc foreigners drive the Bible out
OF our schools and let in their liccn.
tious dancers. Let them keep their
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