Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-21
CAMP lee SOLDIERS
HEAR.B|LLY SUNDAY.
Four Thousand Fighters Give
Evangelist Whole-H Heart
ed Reception.
TELLS ABOUT BASEBALL DAYS.
Noted Revivalist Will Speak at
Petersburg This Morning
1880 O'clock.
Mr.. Sundays sermon ON 2 Timothy
IL 10 will be found complete ON Page
4 OF this Issue OF The Times-Dis.
patch.

oAiyl ounuay won't over the top this
afternoon and captured tho hearts of
a greater part OF the $4,000 soldiers
stationed there. There were not u.s.
600 who could hear him as the big "Y"
hut could only accommodate about A..
900 even when they Skinned up the
raftcrs, crowded in solid ranks on the
stage. clambered on top the moving
picture box in the front of the building
and got on the roof to look into the
ventilators until an NJ. P. chased
few enterprising soldiers down from
their perch of vantage.
AS the camp authorities had given
permission for every soldier to attend
VINO Was not required for fatigue and
guard duty. however, all but small
number. started for main auditorium
where the evangelistic act was staged
General Omar Bundy. camp commanders;
Mrs. bundY and his STAFF had seats
down in front.
All got in that could cram, jam or
slide into the hut, and there remained
solid phaianxes of men from the build
ing ,t All the ways to the car line. and
the crowd eddied and broke in long
brown swells OF khaki that apparently
threatened to cngulf the building.
Ihere were not less than 10000 and
perhaps $4,000 men who never could
get to the steps OF the building, but who
strained their ears as they stood hone
fully about in the vain wish that they
might be able to hear even part of
the message that the athletic-sky pilot
brought them.
ALL WHO HEARD GRtTIE,un
Bf SUNDAYS VERBAL BARRAGE
1t was the greatest crowd ,ba, ever
turned out to hear any lecture at Camp
Lee that was staged indoors and no
one was the least bit disappointed TN
.ne Line OF grape shot and canister. or
I>tYlNA
modern warfare pariance. which formed
the verbal oarrage that Sunday threw
UP between the soldiers OF Camp Lee
shG INC iortifcations of the devil
,,,ar., ne sunday party reached CAMP Lee
40 10 sna an. hnt and remasneds tIfefr
Sqnt unit IShe Sc ryfce- enfed at y:1o. after
which3 lunch was served to the party.
az tne Hostess House. The party mo-
tored from Richmond, with a thoroue-i,
shaking up over the rough Virginia
ROADS. not forgetting a broken spring
on one machine.
snpse The party Included Billy and Mrs.
Brewster and William Bu,terfieid.
Thomas F. Heiner. vino has been with
me In connection with the Sew
en,1 seventh Division overseas, was n
member OF the party also.
CROWD ARRIVES EARLY
AND SOON JAMS DIiII,DINc
The doors opened a, 1g.ao and ,ho
crowd began to arrive carly. marchinc
III as companies or as individuals and
tne seats were at n premium nv
os,s Glocn' After that only few we're
ing owinS 9rn~a ,a their way into the build
neaoer Rodeheaver. Camp Song Leader
Driseoll, with Corporal Earl Mitchell
sine az tne piano; brought out the singing
t,,., uuau'ies IN the crowd. Driscoll opened
crash. win
,o The crowd had JUS, gone over the
90 o9p "a second sec: time with the first verse
Sundays face as he heard and saw saw
the boys shout their way through a this shis
s'IHteerlns NJ ing song was interesting.
Hymn Of the Republic" roared ans naa!lS fortS
neI6 feiI6waS and The The Long; Long Trail" was
lusty voices. which were used by their
GWners IN a manner that showed utter
athhsreGard thsna , for the future use Of their
Billy Sunday: The crowd stood while
General and Mrs. Bundy, followed bv
the commanders STAFF, came in. and
General Bundy shook hands with Mr..
Sunday.
"BRIGHTEN THE CORNER,
GOES WITH a SWING
With the preliminary songfest as a
warming uD experience. Matthews took
Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
called on soldier to volunteer to sing
received the soldier singing being
given an autograph song book by Mr..
:; rS Then Billy took the stage w,t,o,,
further delay. and instantly the power power
OF his magnetism was felt In every
part Of the audience. He proved him
sade1 Of mem ana and the so,aer
thought what a wonderful soldier lead
er he would have been in stiff fight
on a.bloody field.
The overseas men present were right
up In, front, and their reception Of
his work was unusually pleasing. One
wounded Soldier, only convalescent to
a wheeled chair. was al the very front.
and his eyes never left the face Of
the .nsneS ex-hasHbali ts,s player who now hurls
as he used to hurl In the baseball from
deep field on. lonE hits
SAID STAHS, HAIRS, EAGLES
~ AND LEAVES AWED HIM
He laughingly remarked as he
whers.a small pulpit had been erected.
that he felt awed by the array OF stars,
bars, eagles and leaves that faced him
several Score ofIicers, INCLUDING General
Bundy. EhT
Then he announced his text as COM
ing from Samuel NSll, put proceeded
text. and told a series OF stories of
his. personal life that form patches OF
at least half dozen OF his sermons,
a psychologist in the manner in which
he uncannily picked out the most i'm
pressiye parts OF his sermons that
and their lives.
He swept them back TO sheir home
life In aiEfew sentences. and made
stirring appeal to them not to forget
the horne folks and their home life.
lie evidently found the acoustics OF
the building bad. with SO large
building and such a crowd. for he
seemed TO he speaking under strain,
and the perspiration was streaming
down his face much sooner than usual,
He swung along with his address
with the greatest interest, and put
eYory ounce Of his remarkable vitality
Into "puttiDEs 1t oyer" to the soldiers
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