Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-13
ONE COLLECTION
Is EVANGELISTS
SERVICE WAGES

The fact that large sums OF
money have been given to Rev. MIR.
| Sunday at the close of each cam
, paign has been the cause of much
! comment and he has frequently
! been made the target for the aim
Of all kinds of charges. Those who
are intimately associated with him
| bear out the statement that his
! charities are so extensive that fire.
quently MA" Sunday must inter
/ fere in order that they may have
! something left with which to meet
their living expenses. One man.
who has long known Billy Sunday
and his manner of dispensing phi
lantFEopies, says of his work:
In Pittsburgh a very faithful
helper in his campaign became SER
iously embarrassed by reason oc
threat to foreclose a mortgage
upon her home. Upon Mr.. Sunday
learning of the condition, he Sc
cretly went to the mortgage, paid
off the Indebtedness. which ran
into thousands of dollars. and al
lowed someone else to tell who the
donor was. In Scranton. Pa,
among the converts was a default
ing bookkeeper, to whom after in
culcating q lesson of repentance he
gave his check of 500 to make
good a defalcation. Upon someone
protesting that a check for $50 sent
by an Ohio woman to his free-will
offering was more than she could
afford Mr.. Sunday investigated the
matter. and, learning of her strug-
giles for existence, sent a check to
the woman for $3.50, which can
celled a mortgage on her home.
Another typical instance is that of
a woman unable to attend the
meeting. Quietly slipping away,
Billy Sunday visited the woman ill
her home. read the bible and pray
ed with her. That night she beg
ged her daughter To read the same
chapter, when, upon the book be-
ing opened, there lay between tie
leaves a check for S100."
But one collection is given to
Mr.. Sunday, and that is a free-will
Offering taken on the concluding
day of his campaign. - The money
collected at that time, it is under
stood and announced beforehand,
goes to the evangelist as his per-
sonal property.
During the first few days OF the
campaign collections will be taken
until approximately $4,000 has
been raised, which sum will be
used to defray the expenses OF
building the tabernacle. Immedi-
ately upon the completion of the
fund, collections will cease and
none will again be asked until the
last day of the revival.
Billy Sunday could in other work
secure larger sums than he re-
ceives from his evangelistic en-
deavor, as he has frequently been
made tempting offers by chautau
qua leaders, one such bureau offer
ing to pay him 100000 for 20 lee
lures. But" says Mr.. Sunday,
this and other offers l have turn
ed down because l believe lectur
ing is very hard work and units a
man for evangelistic work. and
evangelism 1 place before every
thing else. So l said, No, Lord, all
there is of Billy Sunday is laid
upon the altar OF service for
YOU"
Mr.. Sunday has also been offer
ed large sums for his appearance
in moving pictures, but these he
has religiously turned down in or
der to continue his exorts to save
souls.
There is no admission fee to the
tabernacle, nor will money be &C
cepted for reserved seats. A GER
tain number of seats are to be re-
served for the choir, members of
the local committee and workers
and their wives and husbands, and
in case large delegations from sur
rounding cities ask for reservation,
il will be made in some portion o.
the house, but without charge 10
them.
One thousand six hundred wagon