Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-17
REV. BILLY SUNDAY
GETS WORD FROM
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Homer Rod eh e aver Tele-
graphs That He Will Reach
Richmond Tomorrow.
EVANGELIST WILL PREACH
AT BARLEYC0RN FUNERAL
News OF Prohibition Amendment
Victory Brings Smiles
to His Face.
GREAT CROWDS BEsIEGE DOORS
Speaker Enthuses Audience With
Dramatic Sermon on .Chris-
tian Home"
GREAT CROWDS BEs1EGE DOORS
Mr.. Sundsy's sermon on "iIomes.''
delivered last night by the famous
evangelist, is printed IN full on Page
OF to-day's issue C. The Timex-DIs-
ratch.

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Arrived safely. Feeling fine. Will
arrive Riehmond Los Saturday after
Sys RI eSfagSilay familisr MS%sF Hsaow
sheet OF the Western Union nuttered
1oyously in the hands or Billy SUN
his pulpit last night that his famous
musical director will join him to-mor-
row for the rsst OF the campaign.
. There was another telegram, which
1t was from the Billy, Sunday Bust
ness Mems. Club, OF Syracuse, n. Y.
and where do you preach John Barley
corn's funeral sermon?"
oh Im going TO preach II all
right" declared Mr.. Sunday. with his
boyish laugh. as lie passed the tele.
grams over to the press box. And I
think viii preach T. some time soon
Great masses of people surged
against the doors of the three en-
frances at 1890 o'clock last night. held
back with difficulty by the guards from
the police force.
fRS. AsHER'S COUNCIL
GIRLS ARRIVE. 800 STRONG
rshers on Mr.. Sundays left had
held with increasing. difficulty a sec
3s gG %am nsaes sher .Gr ihe caeles1Gn
Representative OF the business women
OF the city. They arrived in a body.
and supper at Grace Covenant Pres
byterian Church.
The audience cheered tho young wo-
ss tsfy Wien M sanass tEs% ASKED eide
We're v shcered .aE AIN. These girls viii viii
eihpiosees ee' in stores. afilees. Yactor,es fact M
snd other csnters that employ .youns
women in large numbers. and Mrs.
FSsf,cr. who is director OF the extension
don p M ~ n
work.
The ."Council Girls" from Miller &
Rhoads's department store were given
store at o'clock and sent in auto
reobiies TO Grace Covenant Church for
the meeting.
TRIO I;NTERTAINs AUDIENCE
WITH FINE SINGING
To the thousands packed in the Au-
diforiun,. the tenor soloist and pianist
with the Sunday party. George Ashley
brewster. with Mrs Asher and Mt,
iymp book just before the sermon.
Hounds uf handclappinG swept the Au-
titorium. and in response to inc m
sstent cheering the voices OF the trio
rose again in Garry Nc Back TO Old
4 Storm of applause INTERRUPTED the
,ingers time and again as the sweet
old favorite brought back crowdinG
memories OF ether days; Wet-.cyed.
,heGaudience finally let them finish,
tn Special Offering last night was APP
pa Stly needed. for the tin pans which
the ushcrs passed up to Treasurer VIII
lian,s were hcaped high with the long
green"
"Now every one OF you cough UP a
bone tomorrow night" and We can
sop taking up collections and get
down to business" said Mr.. Sunday.
1t developed last night in response
10 a request from Mr.. Sundays assis-
tant, Mr.. Matthews, that in the audi
erce were people who had come nun
dreds Of miles TO Richmond to hear Mr.
sunday One man from California.
prominent in antisaloon activities, was
asked 10 come up to the platform
PAINTS SPLENDID CONCEPTION.
OF IIONIE: AND M0THERHOOD
Reflected in the auivering faces of
the men in the audience who listened
to tho evangelist last night was the
Ss1altation OF feeling with which Mr..
sunday painted with the broad sure
strokes Of a master artist his splendid
conception of homo and motherhood and
all they meant to humanity.
Unsparing in his fierce denunciation
Of Christian home. Mr.. Sunday en-
acted with all his marked histrionic
ability the tragedy Of wrecked lives
and broken hearts.
The downfall Of mos. men and wo-
men" the evangelist declared can
be traced 10 some defect in the home.
Not all of them. for there are homes
where the children are trained rightly,
,sut they get out with some God for
Nen. good. .fornothing moral assas-
Sho.electrocute and murder every
aiht and ambition that might lead
d to be decent and serve God. And
" go down the long line with n
.nch whose names are synonymous
{ith whisky. with booze. with bias
1Iaemy. with everything that is degrad-
ling and polluting and injecting and in
testing and blisht!ng and pestllential.
MoST SINNERS ONCE
I<NELT AT MOTHERS KNEE
Every gambler leaning over his
card table and stalking his soul on the
ing and staggering and maundering
and n,uLtering and vomiting and spew-
ing and -puking, and every dcbauched
character and every fallen woman mer-
chardjsing her 'womanhood for gain
in some dark, rotten, fostering spot
Of a great city once was as pure as
the morning dew. They knelt by their
mothers knee and perhaps said: Now.
7 lay me down TO sleep. ] pray. Thee.
Lord, my. soul to keep"
Mr. Sundays unexpected comparisons
Z and ,sipiilcs> held the close attention OF
his sudience. They pop up In tho
midst OF his most impassioned har-
the instant, and he joins in the laugh
Ter, which follows.
II would rathcf be X hundred times
ovet-7i a'nd'I would rathcr have my boy,
and r know you would yours; to
hls ,tnotisr's apron strings" Mr., sun;
upsto an appetite Tor 60,cemt booze and
{aiGonaun1!ng .dasire To ateai. tho tact-
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