The Washington herald., 1918-03-11
CHICAGO GIVES
BILLY SUNDAY
REAL WELCOME
50,0 900 Greet Evangelist on
Opening Day Of Windy
City Revival.
!al o Ihe w.shinrton Herad.

lily NeVlVdi.
Special to The Washington Herald.
Chicago. ILL.,. March 1O.--fifty thou
sand people heard Billy sunday open
his second campaign against sin here
today. Morning. afternoon and night
the great tabernacle here. which seats
13.2H persons was crowded and as
many thousands as could crushed in
side the doors TO stand and hear the
famous evangelist.
Chicago will hear Billy for eight
weeks and IL today Is any indication
of how the campaign Will result the
evangellst's work here will set a
record that has never been reached be-
fore.
Meetings Crowded.
Fifty thousand, people-and they
came from the homes Of the rich and
the tennements of the poverty stricken
came and were carried away with
the fever of the evangelist.
When Billy, in the course Of his
evening sermon. with q gesture TO a
group of soldiers and sailors In the
denounced the Kaiser and
German military autocracy. the taber-
nacIe rocked with applause.
There's no such thing as a Demo
crst or Republican these times Billy
declared. they're all Americans.
ready to back up Uncle Sam and wipe
up the dirty bunch Of cutthroats who
are trying to shove Prussianized Kul-
tur. that had wriggled Its sinking,
nasty. dirty, old carcass out OF the
foul pits of bottomless perditiOn down
our throats by conquering the whole
world. They can't do 1t. God won't
let them. When this war 10 over II
will be the allies who are going 10 say
what kind Of peace terms are going
to be signed, don't you forget that"
Raps Hyphenates.
The world has grown away from
and set 'up a new set
OF commandments for itself. The
trouble with most professed Chris
tians. Billy shouted. was that they
forgot God for six days a week and
then went to church on Sunday for
a little nap.
IN NhlS CITY
who had not kicked the hyphen out
of themselves" ought to go hide
their faces and never show them
selves, Billy declared. Nobody
could be a German-American these
days. Billy said. You have got to
be one thing or another" he added.
You can't be a skunk and a bird
Of Paradise at the same time"
PfIIv haran hNa
with a sermon to a cOwded
Again in the afternoon
he prea ched another sermon and to-
night delivered the principal sermon
Of the day. He will not preach to-
morrow and as is his custom will
take every Monday during his cam
paign as his day of rest. 81 guess
I'm entitled to that much, anyway"
he said with his famous smile.
There's too much camouflage in
the world today, Billy said in his
sermon tonight. Science has put
a new dress on sin. Man is no
longer a thief. he's a kIeptomaniac.
He's no longer a drunken, whis-
bum; he's a dipsomaniac.
It's no longer adultery. 1t is af-
finity. When q women passage UP
her husband for some other man it
is because of artistic temperament.
I say she's got the devil in her. Ar
tistic temperament! Wow-w-w-w."
Billy paused in his sermon. Then,
large drops OF perspiration rolling
from his face, rushed to the edge
of his platform. He leaned out over
his audience and shook his finger at
them.
Must Obey God.
Listen to me, You don't do
what God says! You don't obey his
and you don't bother
about his teachings. You do what
you please, and what you like to do
and still say you are Christians. l
tell you. you are not.
You are not Christians il you
don't do what God tells you TO do.
You do what the world says to do
and then try to aIibi. You don't
have to alibi very strong to the
world. But do you think you can
alibi to God? No much. you can't.
No. sir"
Billy and Ma Sunday arrived in
last night from their home
at Winona Lake, Ind. where the
evangelist has been resting since
the close of an eight-week cam
paign in Washington last Sunday.
He and Ma were all smiles when
they were met at the station by a
crowd of thousands and Billy's IA
vorite hymn greeted him from the
thousands present. Brighten the
corner where you are" made Billy
shout out his greetings to the thou
sands who were held back with
ropes and cheered the party.
The tabernacle built here is
different from that built in
other cities. Health Department
regulations required a change in
the original plans, and 100 win
dows. a foot square. operated by
three miles of rope will afford ven-
tilation.
Seats 1924.
Seating capacity of the structure is
1924 persons. Eight miles of wire are
used to carry the current to the 4S2
electric bulbs used for lighting. One
hundred tons of shavings and another
100 tons of sawdust were sprinkled
over the cinder floor. Sixteen massive
stoves of special design and coal
enough to keep them going have been
installed to insure warmth in the
Tabernacle.
Requests for reservations at the
meetings have come in from suburbs
and nearby towns and cities. Elkhart,
Ind, and Elgin, Ill. requested reser-
vauons yesterday. Largest of all res
ervations requested SO far has been
that of the Christian Endeavor Society,
which asked for 5000 seats March 20.
On the platform with the Sunday
party was the local campaign commit
tee. Homer Rodeheaver. carrying his
favorite trombone, as he has in hun