Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-18
SATAN GIVEN BUT THREE
MORE WEEKS OF GRACE
Easter Will Find the Reverend Billy
Sunday Driving the Devil
Out of Manhattan.
GOSPEL BARN ON BALL FIELD
Extensive Organization Is Preparing
II Every Detail for Bitly's Wrestling
\ Match With the Evil Ouc-Esti-
- mated Expenditure OF S150,000.

r streets. and restaurants, and thcatcrs
land cabarcts OF this town Then he had
3 hest HE himself 10 his deepest dug
5Aout and stay there. His awtulest en-
= ,emy. excepting only tn" Angel Ga
brlel. is coming hero armed with =,
trunk Of ammunition meant TO blow
u the Dear old Devil rlclt out OF tn.
hearts and minds or ltnickerbockers
forever.
Tho Rev. Billy SUNDAY Will bc with
3 us Easter sunday Ctpril s.. and three
months followirc and unless all signs
and predictions fail. Manhattan will
be too cool for Beeizebuh ;his summer.
and r long time thcreaitor.
q = Up In Buffalo. whore the hcrctoforc
unreEcnerate arc hitting the trail hy
tho wholesale, the famous baseball
! evangelist has iust exhibited tho mrnl-
3 tons OF holy war with which he will
batter to pieces tho barhcd- wire on
z tanElemcnts erected hy tho hosts OF
IIadcs in this professionally naughty
little burg.
They consist or trunk chocl full
of sermons, every one carefully pre-
pared. and each warranted 70 contain
81 1000 pounds Of concentrated ecclrsi-
sstical trinitro,oluol.
Billy doesn't promise to Stick - -.
letter OF tho text IN these sermons. bu:
I: they contain the germs OF the tongue
s flashing which he expects to cause ms
ssdmmortal elements in this metropolis
S Of tho nation to sh!ver, gasp and give
= up the ghost.
Experience has shown that Sundays
y cam pafgns arc one of tho best circu-
aation builders in tho country. and
despite the cost OF wood pulp and
h sulphitc, every sheet in tho mctropoli-
i tan district will concentrate bat
l. terry OF searchlights on the evangelist.
His efforts to save from the flames
r of the aftcrworld arc assured Of full
publicity backing. His campaign Is
certain TO be the most spectacular ef
fort of tho kind since Peter the Hermit
incited the half-civilizcd hordcs OF
& Western Europe to show their Chris
& tianity by putting the Saracens and all
( their hosts to tho sword
The scene of his wrestling with the
4 EVIL One should please the heart OF
the man who did not become famous
n in big-leaguc baseball and decided to
Il use modern athletic methods in a cru
sade against the lceions OF the devil.
A gospel barn seating $4,000 has
been erected right on tho Site of the
Yankees baseball park, on Washing
J. Ton ltelEntS, ana WnCTC INC tnuI OF
hickory against the pill once made
< the fan howl with delight. Billy will
I put the thumbscrews to the Lord of
He'll until the chief fallen angel
screams with pain.
Two hundred men worked n month
and half putting M the structure
1t has choir for 1000 singers. and
s the plans of the evangelist call for
three distinct choirs 10 MI IL, or 5000
choristers in all.
PHYSICAL FOoD As WE'LL
As BILLY'S ANIBRoSI<
Along tho southeast side has been
i erected a cafeteria, and here the thou
sands who get hungry for good solid
physical food while waiting for adj
mission to mbihc Bnly's celestial
ambrosia may satisfy the pangs OF the
Il inner man without being tempted to
patronize the frc.-lunch counters OF the
many barrooms which have been wont
Il to cater to tho vicious OF the vicinity
James Bradley. chairman Of the build
r ing committee OF the William y. sun
day Evangclistic Association OF New
4 York City, announces that the work
men on the building have observed
faithfully the only two rules in put
ting up the "EosDsl', barn" First
tho artisans nus" not "cuSs" while on
& the grounds; second. nothing stronger
& than milk must be drunl: AT luncheon
It is an old saying amon., architects
that the problem OF acoustics is one
| voda Th. AMI, c,,nd,,.
cfs,m "a haye so,rad 49, a,;
| They do NOT entertain ,,, ,aa.s
Billy Sunday, ability ia m ~. ,ahor
nacie with his voice rhts =. an e.
| moro remarkable when /, &c co,s,dorn,
that Billy Sunday puts so cre., straw
on his voice in tho course of spoakinr
that he Is hoarse by the middle or
every sermon. over the Sunday pulpit
is peculiarly constructed sounding,
Il board. which has never failed in any
h emergency.
\ The work al the ;ahcrnac,o &c
L over, but an incident in Tho ,c~, .,
preparation TO. ,h. co,,;,, -. -.
i eyanoe,is. rro a.. Nv
\ orpan,zatjon ot ~. n,t,,, '"'