The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-06-18

NEW YORK. June l7.-!t Is bringing ringing
SUNDAY 10 Wheeling, folk. some Hike
hIin, >u,nr don't. But Billy is featuring
Goshen az present. and wheeling Is SUI
Interested IN Hllly sunday. He and hts
man Friday. "Rhndy. have lcf' their
footprints IN tn" coal dust Of the Nail
city. Has Goshen discovered III" advent
OF tn" Sunday party: There II no DOUBT
on that question. u Goshen. Hilly sun.
day had t. back aSaiuSt the European
war ana WuudruT Wilson's proclamH-
,i"nS. Liberty Loan bonds and Emma
Gulimau's crusade against c"nsrriplIon.
EUl billy holds III" Held against all
CumcrS. IT." closes Il ton weeks cam
pniGn IN New York next Sunday night.
20 took III" town by storm NJ the first
batting Billy made Il hocm run at that
meeting when 10 q packed audience he
announced that every dollar contributed
tor h!m should go to the Red Cross wo-
mon and the boys OF the Army and Navy
Y. NJ. &. y. When he seized an Amer
lean flag that afternoon. leaPed to the
top Of the pulpit and from that dizzy
summit leaned over the fronzied multi
ttIdc OF shouting Goshenites. waving old
Glory. hc fairly staInpeded tho inetron-
oils into his camp and proved that tho
only diiinrCnC" between New Workers.
ami other folks is tina, there arc NOR"
81 them. The corn rows OF Iowa and
Kansas never responded more rnihus-
from the void and woolly West.
II New York Is aware that a great
preacher. atcor or singer has come TO
town. it "arly fnrSctS him for some
other randtdRrN for its fcklc farors
hut thor" has been no waning. only wax
ing nf the tide, ever running in Bllys
ta,ur am now Judging by crowds.
Th"r'e things Billy has preached with
cv'r-inrrcasiaE fervor--old-,ime r"lls-
ion with tn" ultra-orthodNS of Jona-
than Edwards.
He has put Holt on the map with the
assurance Tor the hIGhhrows that God
would certainly damn gentleman as
readily AZ He would y hobo" If he did
rot repent. Second. he has. from the
start preached patriotism. SlacEers
stand in the same category with sinners
and the most fcrvid vorables from
scream and burst about the head of the
Stacker. Next 10 the brewer and sa-
locnkrcpc Rtlly seems 10 hate a slack
ct. His third appeal has been for the
sale Of Liberty bonds. Every night dur
ing these closing days Of the campaign
we have Liberty bonds. prohibition and
religion hot from the bat.
Not satisfied to do his own preaching
OF Liberty bonds. he throws in an extra
orator every night. Last night Billy
drew out the remark that II was better
TO pay for Il bond than TO giVc an In
dcmniiy tot he bunch Of pretzels in Str-
lin. Billy has his critics IN Goshen. IL"
had them even in Wheeling. Why not"
IL. tells us here that he would he sure
he was pla wing fouls If certain bunch
Of religious slackers- Or suZzlers or
"prrtZrlS' spoke welt nf him. Tn" man
or woman who won't hit the trail for
christ. who won't liv" up to his VOWS as
II church member, who will hooze, who
is 4 Stacker. h" constCnS all these 10
hell HirhhTows. hohos. of both sexes.
must take. their medicine.
You Wh"clingiies have not forgotten
how h. talks Goshen gets the same
m"dcin" handed ou: in the Ohio valley.
Now York is 'r"ariuG and needing this
modern John the Baptist. Who hears
him" YOU ask. Last Sunday afternoon