The Washington herald., 1918-02-04
my COUNTRY!
|. SOSANG BILLY
AS SAPATRIOT'
Wine Hash t Anything to Do
with the Water Wagon
Sermon.
my Country 'Tis OF Thee"
So sang Billy Sunday.

So sang Billy Sunday.
He was talking about his favorite
theme: Booze. or Get on the Water
Wagon" - 81
There were a bunch of soldiers
in the Tabernacle. listening just
as hard as IL they were getting
instruction in gun practice. Most
of them hit the trail.
"Come on. soldier and sailor
boys" Billy invited.
Come on up and stand under Old
Glory and tell me from this day on
you will live for Jesus Christi You
would follow me II I called out in
No Mans Land, Follow me herer
As he neared the conclusion of
this sermon the evangelist motion
ed a group of ten American lads
onto the platform, to make graphic
an argument. The scene swept his
audience of men only" OF their
feet, causing them to cheer and
throw their hats into the air in
evidence of enthusiasm.
Every drunkard in America"
Billy shouted. was once a clean.
robust, pure minded boy as these
are. Maybe it will be your boy who
must have to help make up the
damnable average OF the rum be-
fuddled population which talnts our
fair land.
Get That BIotter.
Let's blot it out.
stand up. men. everyone of you
who will work to stamp out the liquor
traffic from the face OF this country.
Stand up!
II want to see you"
Immediately everyone In the Taber-
nacle stood while Rody opened a pa
triotfc hymn. Billy then issued his
invitation to come up the sawdust trail
and he was rewarded by Eaving-ap-
900 crowd TO the aisles
to respond.
During the course of his sermon
Billy shot facts and figures at the
audience which startled them He
banked argument upon argument up
high against Old John and scaled them
with resounding whacks upon either
his pulpit or the floor.
Especially pleasing was an active
argument" staged by tine evangelist
during which he marched TO and fro
across the platform from press box
to press box. He carried over his
shoulder an American flag which he
frequently waved when he imper-
sonated those under his banner as
converts from sinking saloons"
Hes q Good Scout.
Representative Henry A. Barn
hart. OF Indiana. sat in one of the
20 Ia.
during his sermon. Hes a good
scout" said Billy.
Billy told the men that he would
rather have his men learn his A B
C's in heaven than to read Latin in
hell"
I'VE built the Panama Canal" he
said,. .'and we haven't got done talk
ing about the engineering feat. 1t
cost US s4O0,O0O,00O
Il can build six Panama Canals
every year and pay cash for them.
with the money that the working
men dump into the whiskey hold every
twelve months. l can build six of
them"
He is mo CRATER" said Billy, when
he cited the fact that at the present
rate he is going he is wearing him
self away" for an uncertain payday
every couple of months, whereas he
was asked to accept an engagement
as a ChautauqIa speaker at $1,000 a
day and to receive assurance of
s.. .OO0, 900 income should he CONNER
clalize his mug" and sign up with the
movies.
How to Be Less Than a Man will
be the subject of Billy's men only"
sermon next Sunday afternoon. He
said that it was possible that this
would be the last 'men only" meet
ing he would address.