New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
$4,000 See Sunday in Hs
Shirt Sleeves Tussle
with the Devil
Worn by His Long Vial
Evangelist in High Fettl.
When Wife Is Pronounced
Out of Danger

Billy Sunday. hsggard and b..~
eyed from hours of watching a, n.
bed where "Ma" Sunday lay. ,..i
conscious. following an orers.;..
faced $4,000 persons in his Tsber,..,.
yesterday, delivered three Bibli,.,
broadsides agains. "booze," asc,,l
worldliness" and moral leprosyy A..
won 2.727 recruits for "Christ's .rrv
corps"
Morning, afternoon and ev.ui.,
found him either nervously pacing II.
corridors of the Audubon Sanatoripr
where his wife is a patient. or pound.
ing the pine board pulpit at Brosdv,,
and 168th Street. His speedy limos.
sine carried him from one place I.
the other as occasion required or p,r.
mitted. His usual bedtime be,ve.,
meetings was forgotten; his meal,
went untasted; his co-wors.r,
alarmed, urged him to leave the ho..
pital
"Let me know when it's meeting
tme-the Tabernacle's the only plso
III go. Can't let Gods work M
he told them.
Mrs. Sunday Out of danger
Just before the time Tor the nIes.
Tabernacle service, DR.. Howard Ktliy.
the specialist Of Baltimore, who sss,.
ated on Mrs. Sunday, told Billy Tia,
she was out of danger. SUNDAY.
greatly excited. and relieved. eaI!ed
his family together and prayed until
meeting time"
The audience Of $1,000 was told ,ks
good news. and the building rang with
its applause and Billy's laughter. There
was further satisfaction when Robsr,
NJ. Speers announced that "if the peo.
pie did their part generously the can.
paign cost may be covered by the col.
lections by the end Of the month, or
even by next Sunday" The finance
committee. he said. had encountsred
some good prospects"
Billy Is Sarcastic
Billy's good humor rose above The
distractions of Tabernacle ramble1.'
Chronic coughers" and ultra-enthus.
astic listeners who are moved BY the
spirit" to scream at the evangeists
climaxes. He told the story Of Nanar.
the leper, who journeyed 70 El!shs to
be cured of the plague, with slang EN-
bellishments never dreamed Of BY the
writer of II Kings, V. /. from which be
took his text. He gave full reign to
his sarcasm, describing the interview
between the stricken monarch and the
prophet as it might have been had the
latter been "a modern religious liar
and a faddist.'
"Oh, you haven't got leprosy.' the
prophet would have told Naman," min.
icked Sunday. "He would have said:
why did you take the trouble OF con-
ing all this way to see me-! WHY
didn't you phone me, and I'd have
given you an absent treatment! You
haven't got leprosy. Don't you know
that matter IS non-existent, you poor
dubT"
Enjoying his own performance .
much as his audience, Sunday was loash
to abandon his high hImor for more
serious preachment. As an excuse
seemingly, for his levity, he said;
God Himself likes little fun, yos
know. That is seen by the fact shm
He made donkeys, parrots, monkey
and some Of you folks"
Billy Draws a Parallel
Enlarging on the story Of Nsmsa
and Elisha, Sunday drew parallel "
tween leprosy and sin. :,
when a man had leprosy he would
not believe it until his body was
mass of putrefication. Il was nothing
until il assumed fearful proportions
That's the way with sin. Soclety
takes no notice Of sin-waits until !
becomes vice.
MORAL leprosy," Sunday continued
sis a thousand times worse than phys
zeal leprosy. II every home was drapee
in black where love is dead and iail'
lies cold by the bier of purity, therea
be whole blocks decorated in crepe:
The revivalist preached his mrs.
shirt sleeve" sermon in the afternoon
when. with the sun blazing on fns
tsr-covered roof of the Tabernacle o.
stripped off coat and collar for
tussle with the devil for which he ns'
his most pronounced aversion--'n'
Devil of Booze"
Appeals for Liberty Loan
When John Barleycorn was dow
taking the count Billy TOOK a momen'
TO appeal for support for the Llpen'
Loan.
dig down. you folks, and get behind
the government in this new losn, n'
said. Everybody who's got $50 g
downtown tomorrow and buy pono
I'm going to buy few. Let US all %
what we can to keep Uncle Sam fre rem
scraping for money. Don't let ".
United States flag be trsiled IN the ds,'
for the sake of few millions OF o'''
lars"
III, DiOuSHN tut rHBfHN" a.
ternoon. Soon after he had MADE N,
appeal he called for traii.htters, ana
M responded. His morning serme.
brought $50 down the sawdust aisies =
clasp his hand. ,.,,.
Got through all right. didn't u -
said after the night meeting. = hs'sn
slept in so many hours that I've 'o'.
count. Now that Ma is getting sions
all right I'm going TO make oress ,s'
bed after I've been over to the zoe
pital and said hello TO her"
DR.. James T. Padgett, Sundays ism
lily physician, announced at IL ?; =
that Mrs. Sunday was fairly eomly..
able" Her temperature was 100 pyss.
80; respiration, 20. DR.. Kelly ie'' -
night for Baltimore.
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