Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-02
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MAYNARD
VOICED BY SUNDAY
Evangelist Greeted by 1000
Persons at City Auditorium
Meeting.
APPEALS FOR UNF0RTUNATEs
Says No Boy or Girl Should Be
Condemned for First
False Step.


feet as one In tho City Auditorium yes
terday afternoon at As o'clock. when
Billy Sunday came quickly on, the
Platform from the rear. shaking hands
as he came and greeting old friends
w''h characteristic boyishness.
a round Of applause attested to the
undiminished popularity of the evan-.
Ra;pp. Chairman Of the Norfolk cam
own party. Homer Rodeheaver was at
Broad Street Station between trains.
tbs Ia. did no. have time to.coms down to
way to Parkersburg, W. Va, to see an
old associate who is Ill in hospital
Sansad d IS saesax esn. sia ss
she had to go home to Winona Lake
syraeuse G sew canpa,Re aays before e start the
Old Choir Helps Service.
The Richmond Community Chorus
which Is made up of members OF the
Billy Sunday choirs of year ago. fur
ntshed the music for the service, under
me na leadership OF Director Walter D.
:, The great crowd was handled by
year ago. Rev: Russeii suna1 cseil.D cSamilDatsn b p
opened the meeting in few brier SEN
tenees. explaining why Mr.. Sunday had
-.r ~ I'd. .
Mr. Sunday himself then spoke for
a tew minutes concerning the Spring
street street, Home for fallen Girls. Tor the
had returned to preach again in Rich
/, T This is no cheap skate crowd" he
Go after them" he dirceted the Sshers ea;
with unquenciable boyishncss. 'and
rome, together with proceeds from rhe
sale OF contributors'3tic Tickets. amounted n o tad
% oe beGo ihs pans ON top os .as oss
Teiis oS Wsrk In N.rf.I1.
with q brief resume Of Sd Sths h,s Ssr9oin SmGn
campaign {; which closed Sunday Hight.
He had preached TO- 40. 600 people Sun
olatins In sail SsT He
slated. Eta in returning to Syracnse, n. Y,
ter 10 haa another. campaiEns the first time
Tor a second campaign In the twentv.
SIX years In which he had EN- preach
ing I'M in he e, VII begin shis syraouse cam
preached In Washington last ,night and
ana and tom6ts6 s6E On March Is. Mr.. sun.
and at the close Of Tour = Week e. srtStSs 't,,e3s
iheEand his party wilisEoS to Okla f,oma a
Snty. OKLA, for a seven weeks. cam
Declaring that he was an old .fasb-
Toned Preacher who didn't Know how
rel,eIea efeaeh Mr anything but the old-time
'mete It shall be measured to YOU GU
Mr.. Sundays entire discours. 20.
anae alea tGr or ds; Ereater charity and forbear-
'otSfes XII mep OF ones on. neishbors.
asserted, and the matter of social
eguality between whites and blacks
eapssH.i.aily eacs.. was nonsense and poppy
North Should Mind Own Business,
bandIs ,S.i ,SSo9tnssrn people know how TO,
be body elss ssst ha situation better than any
OF OF these folks up North would mind
their own business, the country would
wrong. Mr.. Sunday said, there were
nncn many things ing that should be taken into
WronF was neiGre perSon who had done
The evangelist went into detail, ~
explaining the matter OF hereditarv
lsnaeac5es peopis ae tbs shSh thandeapped many
circumstances must also be taken jntn
account and environment 49,
declared eli eGRie %s are eriezs mssa he
than we are. because they have over
come more difficulties than We have In
niagod TO wi, Ds as so9, Eecent sn as they
well born,". declared Mr. Sunday. mo
body, realizes that SO much as YOU
people people down here in Virginia, but
who have .perchance hangman's knot
in their lineage and for those whose
family trees have been damaged in
San jose scale Of iniauity, SAS and InS Whose oae
ancestral currents have become clog
ged with the sins OF lying, theft; i'm
InioaItIy. RnrisyI drunkenness and Kindred
While it was natural for soma 4n.o.
pie to be decent, no said. it was no
particular credit to them, and certain
scornful attitude. and one of condem-
nation toward their neighbors who
had heen born with tendencies in the
opposite direction through no fault OF
.''1f God Almighty had treated us
like w, treat other peoples" the evan
gelist declared. we'd all have been
Life was fifty-fffty proposition,
Mr.. Sunday said over and over again,
and once he swung around on the
near him. after. flaying the unchari-
table attitude gof' people in geperal in
dealing with the faults of otfio. peo-
pie with the disguised exclamation:
get So sick i could punch 'emp
Give Young OGenders Chance.
9 ..Mr. Sunday was strong in his con-
ryictton that no boy or girl should be
put behind the bars for first offensc,
statement. n =
EXtrnvagant wives, who drove their
their means. were f1ayed by hfr. Sum
day, who. declared that the men who
were failures on saccount Of their
wives would make a procession that
would reach from tRichm6nd to Wash
z Mr.. Sunday was given an v ovation,
by thes audience at the close OF .the
iseryiee. hundreds Of people pressing