The Washington times., 1918-01-14
BILLY G|VESSOME
POINTERS ON HOW.
TO pop QUESTION

Billy Sunday gave the love-lorh
some advice in the course OF his ser
mon last night.
when n man asks you 10 marry
him. don't eamouflage around and
say this 10 so sudden when you've
been waiting a month for him to get
busy
"Sit down and ask him these ques-
tIons: Do you believe me to be vir-
tuous? Have you lived as you de-
mand that 1 should live? II had
/ lived as you have lived, and you
, knew 1t, would you ask me to marry
! you?"
And Billy admitted that ~ these
cardinal rules were obeyed by all the
young folks who want to get married.
there would be a great decrease IN
marriages. Mainly because the men
couldn't apsNrer the last question to
the satisfaction OF the girl.
Billy preached to $4,000 people yes
terday in three sermons. II was the
/ first day of the second week of the
anti-devil campaign in Washington.
The crowd last night was the biggest
that has vet jammed into the taber-
nacle. Billy was in great form.
AmueFuou1Nea EsuhuAs
The subject OF his sermon was
'The Moral Leper." and Billy preached
probably with more viEor and vehe-
mence than he has yet shown. al.
though q vein OF humor ran through
the whole sermon that kept the crowd
laughing.
Billys impersonation OF Elisha sit.
ting at hisJdesk. or throne. receiving
Naaman. the leper, was one OF the
most comic stunts the evangelist has
put over" during the campaign.
Billy leaped upon the kitchen chair he
uses, sat on the back of IL, and imi-
tated the prophet scribbling with q
reed pen. and stroking his whikers.
go tell Naaman." he said. "to duck
himself in the river Jordan seven
times-now beat it," and according
TO the mImicry. the servant must have
''beat It, because Billy lit right back
into the middle OF the sermon and
warmed things UP.
"God used leprosy as 9 sin." Billy
said to his audience. "Leprosy Is an
infectious disease, like scarlet fever
or dIphtheria, and II spreads through
a community, those being infected
with Il coming in contact with those
who are not and thus spreading II.
Leprosy. then, Is like sin. The sin
that is in you will be the sin that will
damn somebody else, because you'll
spread IT around and IL will be infec-
tious. We have laws which quaran-
tine infectious diseases like leprosy or
scarlet fever-why not sing
Billy Moved to Teara.
Billy pledged the American public
last night to nght to the last ditch In
the war against Germany. And Billy
cried on the platform-not actually
cried, but tears were, in his eyes and
there were sobs In his throat aching
to get out.
Secretary OF the Interior Lane and
Mrs. Lane and their son. who Il lieu
tenant in the navy, noted the tears
in the evangelIst's eyes. So did q few
others In the platform section. but the
audience was too busy cheering.
Billy told the audience some OF the
personal history OF his family and OF
himself. Bnly's father was a soldier
in the Union army. and died about
three months before the evangelist
was born. He had been shot to
pieces" by the Confederates.
Mother couldn't support u.s." said
Billy, $50 we spent several years in
the Soldiers orphanage in Iowa. For
what little education got in those
days have to thank Uncle Sam. He
took care of me in his orphanages,
and he took care OF mother with
pension"
Here was where the tears started
from the evanEelists eyes. He
winked hard and cleared his throat.
and talked fast and made a lot OF
motions to hide them. but he couldn't.
They would come out.
ard be a fine sort Of guy, now
wouldn't L." he said. "It failed to
support Uncle Sam after all that he
did for me? You bet I'll night for
him to the last ditch
Doesn't Forget Kaiser.
Billy didn't forget the Kaiser and
Germany.
81 don't give three whoops for Ger
mans forty-two centimeters," he
cried. II don't give three whoops for
her sixteen-inch guns: I don't give
three whoops for old Hindenburg-"l
Here he stopped abruptly for q mo-
ment. and asked Rody in q stage
whisper that could be heard all over
the house: Say. what's the name OF
that other cutthroat?" Turning TO
the audience once more, Billy contin-
ued: Neither do 1 give three whoops
for him. either!"
For" said the evangelist. 1--WE
have PershinG and Sims and mil
lions of the finest and bravest men
in the whole world across the way
and millions and MILLIONS OF tho
finest and bravest men in the world
awaiting the call to go across, and !
IL Germany ever lands on American |
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