The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-28
THR0NG HALL TO.
HEAR ma SUNDAY
Thousands Greet Evangel-
lists Wife at First
Platform Talk
TAKEN IN CONFIDENCE
Mrs. Sunday Discussed with
Her Hearers Problems Of
Wife and Motherhood

To some $500 women ot Tulsa
Mrs. william 4. Sunday became
personality Sunday afternoon and
ceased TO he merely the wife of
HlIlv Sunday the cvanr"uf't u'h'
game women learned too, Wh'i ~
is that Mrs sunday wears the iI'
Of MA"
n was not in any sense an nd-
dregs that Mrs sunday gave ,u|
women SUNDAY iu Convention hhH.
IL was M though ah, were Hituug
with them in some home. talknB
over matters with them she dis
ctssed with Them the task ~ soul
saving M related CO. the pIobl'nH
of motherhood and wltchond, ~
friendly ard couNorsationAl way Hh'
confded iu them a few Of the *,
neriences IN her lfc thnt hhd
stirred her and had influenced her
most She swept away The alinp"-
pbcrc Of platform and tosilEhtH,
snpakcr and audience, ana became
TO her listeners mother ana wIe'
even as they So successfully dld
she do this. and 80 truly ala Hho
weld the problems and Ideals ot an
into one common one. ihat Whch
she asked all those VINO wahtod 20
ponsecrate themselves to the cause
en- filled the alslcs.
Filled the Alsics.
FILLED the aisles IL n fnithtul de-
acrIptlon OF what happened follow
ing the giving OF the invitation. The
instant response to the mothcrh-
aeas. the warm triendlineas eager
10 be OF service that shone In her
face not only brought scores 20 tne
rail. where Mrs. sunday stood, hut
kent them there while Mrs. sunday,
her arm about each one, listened
10 some, whispered and sometimes
sobbod confidence. There were
rirls I'm MILDLY suits, with their hair
down their backs. There we're
young women. mothers. white
haired grandmothera. % m
wrapped In furs, whlte-gloved, per-
ftimed and veilcd. and women In
shabby black. The after-meeting
had stretched into longer time
than Mrs Sunday had Intended, ana
stu they came. So. saying that she
wanted all who would, still to come.
hut that she felt that she could no
longer hold the audience, Mrs. sun
day asked for bowed heads In clos
ing prayer. There was a rustic as
hundreds of women. moved by the
same impulse. sank TO their knees,
and Mrs. Sunday, Presbyterian that
she Is, knelt too The great build
ing was 40 stlll that Mrs. Sundays
voice. pitched In Its usual quiei
tone, carried to the furthes. cor
ners as abe prayed for blessing on
the meeting.
Great Drawing Power.
Mrs, Sundays drawing powcr u
scarcely less than that of her emil
ncnt husband Convention hall was
hacked every chair that could be
pr,uuan lnfn aRrNlgO.
scores OF women sat on the steps In
the balconies and the platform and
many more stood throughout tho
service. Mrs. william Asher led the
choir, seated upon the platform.
Mrs. Asher and Mrs. Sunday are old
friends. Mrs. Sunday told her lis-
teners about that friendship yesteT-
day afternoon.
MRS. Asher and are old and dear
friends she said, "She has been
with me Mt times when | needed her
most and she has done things at
those times that prove friendship
For instance she was with ne Of
the sAddest time of my litc when
laid ~ Wother away she did the
things about tho house that have tt
be done at at such times--took dowr
and washed my curtains and pu
them hack up. | didn't know tha
she did Il until aftcrwRrd, but sh'
did. And do you know that W.
never write TO each other I thinl
that In 10 years We have written tw'
letters TO each other, But we ar
secure In one auothcr's friendship
And don't believe In having friend
that you have TO be checking up o
all the time. anyway"
Mrs. Sunday told little incidcr
OF her husbands conversion tha
Tulsa has not yet heard. te
wears ago, she said. she had lunchco
in Chicago with "a dear little sa!r
o. God, Mrs. Clark" More tha
thirty years ago. Mr., and Mrs. ClarI
wealthy people OF Chicago, were col
verted and from that time devote
their time and energy to the lit
Pacific Garden mission, One Nigh
80 Mrs Sunday said Mrs. Clar
noticed young man In the audienl
who seemed to be Interested i
came again and again. ono nigl
she walked down to where he vi
sitting and laid hand on his shou
der, asking him to be Christia
That young man was Billy Sundi
and IN later years It was little MI
Clark's greatest JOY TO keep In tou'
with the work that that young mt
later did preaching the gospel.
Slips Into Speech Habits.
The evangelist's wife proved he
self the eyangellst's wife by word
mouth several times yesterday. VI
consciously she slips into the speec
habits OF her husband and colors III