The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-18
qJNDAY MEETING
REACHES ITS END.
r,bornacle Doors Monday
VIII Turn Lonesome
Faces to Street
RELIGION MADE PLAIN
s.rdav Delivers His Closing
Message Asking People
TO Seek Salvation

r..,ob, +, viii be all over. The
,rsotest eyangeliNic campaign IN
bistory ~ Tulsa closes. Tomor-
sav the gree. tabernacle at Fourth
wv Eigin will stand empty, silent.
Na .iosed doors turning blank and
,.ope faces to the street. For
RIy sunday Is going a~ay today.
psf si, weeks ago the Sunday taber-
.,Sis vas redolent OF new lumber,
s.. saWdust its rows of new pans
%s,S,lng In the shafts of light that
4 ss.rced the half-gloom within. The
~, smpty shell OF a building was a
| t,nk page. Today 1t is a record of
SIsory. A history blotted and stained
sgh iears Of repentance, OF sorrow
~ Of newfound happiness. II is
r,itten in the sawdust of the trail,
,T5nst ground to powder by the
ssset OF them that hear glad It'd
,ssp feet carried forward by the
,nstus OF courageous and contrite
hearts. 1t is written In every beam
,rd rafter that still echoes to the
nightly sound OF many thousands of
voIces singing songs of hope and
0re and redemption. II is written
\, the face Of the platform en which
we're gathered, night after night
and day after day that little band
q consecrated, earnest men and
yorren whose center Is he who Is
counted the greatest of all living
Wangellsts, Billy Sunday. With liv-
hg word and flaming faith, with
loye OF God and for the sinner, with
hatred Of the devil and of sin and
with fear OF no thing but for the
destiny Of TIA souls of the men,
Billy Sunday ceased to become a
ame to Tulsa people and became a
voice crying in the wilderness" He
took the common, everyday things
d Tulsa life--its business, its oil,
rs sSy.scrapers, its limousines and
rs tin lizzies, its housekeeping, its
CIVIC interests and into : them he
Eoye the shining golden thread OF
The truth whose CLINT is reflection
ei the glory that Billy Sunday knows
and that won't wear off with usage.
Re goes away tonight. Tulsa may
never see him again. But the
frightened flame of n thousand
Aearthstones where peace and love
Aspace the unhappiness and doubt
effects the gratitude of hundreds of
antilles that he has been here.
Historical Epoch.
Tulsa has never seen and probably
| ryer will see another six weeks
] such as those that are so NJ -iy
4 over. It has not been the taber-
| mcle, It hasn't been the giant
4 chorus, II hasn't been the multitudes
II hasn't oven SS5E tho man. u
has been that something. that inde-
Unable power that breathed upon
nd stirred like ripples in the wind
De human seas that surged against
Ee walls C. the tabernacle and over
flowed time and time again far out
hio the stteet. 1t was the man that
brought Il about. The man backed
BY the perfect machine that is tn.
Billy Sunday evangellstic organiza-
Ton, The evangelist's message is n
consuming fire within him. There
are two things for which he pleads
tod and Heaven. There are two
things against which he warns--the
devil and hell. That is his message
ana clothed in battling words and
y lighted by the flashes of his his
roncsgenius he drove IL home, day
sher day after day. Just hammer
my that's what did It. And with
llm he had the added strength OF
ne minds Of thousands of people,
nlnking as he did because he led
'helr thoughts that way.
Perhaps, to many, that is the
wonderful part of the Sunday meet
my this turning the channel Of
mems and women's thoughts TO the
llhS of the spirit. No one claims
,nal Aerybody in Tulsa went to
lear BNy Sunday, that everybody
Iulsa believes as Billy Sunday
ooes or that everybody in Tulsa
Wten tkes Billy Sunday. Heaps OF
nem don't. But he has gone deep
a.o the full vessel that is Tulsa's
aNe and business and social life and
y has stirred the waters. SO that re-
ssVh, Ion the first time in Tulsa's
ta gs mas been the paramount topiy OF
aversion. II has been talked on
e sueet. In the shops, in offices.
II. ~e table, in drawing rooms. in
s mistress and mad.
.- Sn ana master, shopgirl and store
.sHsr janltor and bank president
aave a common subject. It's
's determined by the simplicity
We compleXity of the mental
"Ocesses Of the takers.
n, was Not So Different.
,a Te history of the Tulsa meet
I to- "', SO different from the his
~ %s ot Sunday campaign in anv
wv Nv Town. The huge, well lighted
g'eInaele Is like an Immense shell.
STRUCTURE the demonstration OF
OF thought and not a board, not
,.sSa NOT a thing there but tha'
s,'e. ss 10 be there. Into its vast
N,ssn Naless nave been poured the
II AN mat nave been made up OF
a., rom all over the state, all
h,,,me we southwest-all' over the
4 49, Perhaps II Is special
fsauon night--very probably II
Z 5s there are always special
a SALONS This Is one OF the ways
soSs.aching certain people who
i pi,,u not, probably. Of their own
es''on and without benefit OF this
MN JIaragement have attended re
\ on ~ yllus' Sections are roped
batfo.o.' 'hFm To the right of tho
aA cd sil the personal workers
4 leh ,o"iill1ee members. To the
VEs' me preachers with their
4 isnss ana friends. Behind the plat
"a, the singers. The build
cur....s, ..sined Mth people standing
he hnsS h.S tnick about the doors are
Sow ureus s,us who can't get in. With
leEn ep tuey turn back towards
group hy group.
fhsra Is light and life and color.
.sbecs, orum-driven music by q
hiiop % oanu accompanying a dele
Bly -, Joyously shouted rahs for
Thsrs niom some school crowd
a'e ersna SIR In the crowd. necks