Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

when she can appreciate them, +"
was the substance Of his remarks.
Holds Usual Reception.
AS usual, after his sermon, the
evangelist opened the trap door at
the front of the stage and stepped
he shook hands with all of the
crowd who wished. He has thus
greeted several hundred daily.
Last night he greatly praised the
Better call them the
quartet, or something like that, for
little East Moline out here is rear
ing to gO,"-for being such CEN
tiers of prosperity and business.
The audience generally gained the
impression that he was sincere in
his expression of admiration for
the community and its people.
Rev. c. r. Neel led the opening
prayer, an eloquent appeal. The
choir was in line condition, per-
haps 500 being in attendance, and
rendered very pleasing music. The
trombone solo by Homer A. Rode
HEAVIER during the collection of the
oHeTlnS was beautiful.
Champions Union Labor.
At several meetings SO far Rev.
Sunday has stressed the fact, in
speaking of labor problems, that
every bit of the tabernacleS in
which he speaks are always put
together by union men. He pro-
fesses a great feeling of brother
hood with organized laborers, as
with unorganized as well, upon the
grounds that he knows what it is
to have to work"
Sunday is a fast speaker, and
one who can hold his audience I'M
til the last word is said. His words
come like machine gun bullets and
there is no time wasted between
his sentences. This being so. he
can say a great deal more in a
given length of time than most
other speakers. He speaks with
great sincerity. and the calisthen-
les he goes through and the pos
lures he assumes usually give the
effect of being purely the physical
manifestation of the mental point
he is struggling with. The action
in one of his sermons, as he strides
excitedly about, kneels, crawls,
upon the floor, nimbly jumps up
onto chairs, pulpit, or whatever of
the kind that is near, is usually
more than many men use in an en-
tire days work. AS a result, Sun
day is a finely set up" and very
athletic physical specimen.
Flags Theatres, Cards.
Theatres, cards, booze, the wrong
kind of mothers, various sO-Called
neW-thought religions, the l. w. w,
in fact most everything except the
right kind of religion came in for
a flaying yesterday afternoon when
Rev. Billy Sunday resumed his Sc
ries of meetings after the rest of
Monday.
There is a noticeable hoaTseness
in his voice and he seemed to speak
with considerable difficulty which
he blames unto hay fever. Before
beginning his sermon, which was
on the theme, Cleansing the Tenn
ple," Rev. MF. Sunday took Oeca-
sion to say that the collection tax
en- Sunday at the three meetings
was the poorest he has known in
Is years. Why from that enor-
nous crowd, morning, afternoon
and evening, l expected at least
$4,000 and it was less than a thou
sand, a measley sum for these
cities. We are running this cam
paign economically and carefully
and not one cent is spent that
should not be spent And then re-
member, this money doesn't go to
me, it goes to pay your debts"
America" he continued. lis the
richest country on the globe, and
when the rest of the nations are
bankrupt America will be eating
ice cream and pie. Why do you
cheap skates come here unwilling
to pay something towards the main
tenance of the meetings? You
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