The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
MA SUNDAYS.
Pc WEIR SEEN
IN CAMP Align
Her Judgment Determines
Many Policies and Helps
Evangelist in Work to
Save Souls.
TAKES ACTIVE INTEREST

The balance wheel of the Sunday
party, they call her.
Born of sturdy Scotch stock, Mrs.
William A. Sunday uses all Of the
solidity and far-seeing qualities OF her
ancestry in matching the impetuous,
quick action of Billy Sunday, and keep
ing the whole Sunday organization run
ming in perfect trim.
AS devoted to her husband as he is
to her. she has been with him on most
of his travels, sandwiching in between
revivals and conferences the care, of
! family of four, and a home at Winona
Lake.
'Nell's not much on looks Sunday
has told his Richmond audience, but
she has more horse sense than any
other woman that l have ever seen,
and every time go against her judg-
ment l get in bad"
Energetic Personality
But Sundays own picture Of her
lacks one of her most forceful charac-
teristics, her physical energy.
To follow man of Sundays vitality
on revival campaign, and at the same
! time to rear four children, and care
for home requires more than ordi-
nary physical endurance. But on top
of it all Mrs. Sunday has continued to
keep that pace that has been set, and
now not only takes care of the home
at Winona Lake, but acts in a general
| way as the landscape gardener for
their home town.
/ At the present time she is devoting
/ her time to beautifying Winona Lake
and keeping the home there in readi-
/ mess for the weekend trips that Sun
!! day pays there.
Il Knows How to Work
i When Mrs. Sunday starts out to do
anything, she usually accomplished
what she wants in the end. even if she
! has to get into the trenches for little
fighting herself. She has even been
; known to paint a house, and plant
trees, when no one else could be found
TO do it.
Working in the garden is one of the
) joys of her existence, and visitors often
have found her hard at it, among the
vegetables and flowers that she raised
When Mrs. Sunday is with the party
engaged in actual work she is most
interested in women's organizations
. and usually addresses the women only
, meetings. where her strong personality
, is vital part of the message which
; she has to give
1t is while she is actually in the
campaign that Billy Sunday seems to
! be at his best, some observers say
Certainly while she is away he is rest
: less and lonesome for her.
Determines Policies
l But Ii is in her influence behind
the scenes that Ma Sunday works her
: greatest effect on the campaigns.
I Nothing of vital Importance regarding
7 the revivals is considered settled until
Mrs. Sunday has passed Judgment upon
| it, and IN setting policies her decision
] has the greatest weight
; Even with Mrs Sunday spending her
: time at Winona Lake, questions relat-
ing to the Richmond campaign have
been referred TO her and on her trips
!! to Richmond connected with the cam
! paign she has always been the center
. of activities.
! In spite of the public position which
she has had to occupy as the wife Of
y a great evangelist, Mrs Sunday is do
hlCslIC MutH VI the success OF
4 Sundays preaching may be due to her
5 influence and encouragement and to
. the common sense that she has
d brought to the task of managing the
campaigns. but she never can forget
a that she is vitality interested in home
work.
/ Accomplished Much
2 The Sunday family now has maid
e for years, leaving Mrs. Sunday free
of all work who has been with them
e 10 manage the greater enterprises that
4 have fallen to her lot, but in the days
!, when Mr.. Sunday was a struggling
q evangelist barely making enough from
e town to town to pay the expenses of
4 reaching the next place, Mrs. Sunday
J cid all the work at home, cared for
I the children, and part of the time
traveled with him, keeping the family
i intact by putting the children in school
t at what ever place they were for the
time.
r The story of the courtship of Billy
:. Sunday and Helen A. Thompson has
been told many times, but it never
: loses its interest.
The two met just after Sundays
conversion at the prayer meetings of
the Jefferson Park Presbyterian
Shul Cli. NeH Is presbyterian, tndt
is why | am one" Sunday said one
night at the tabernacle.
N Father Objected
Objections to a professional ball
player on the part of the elder Thomp-
son for time made meetings between
the two difficult, but Mr.. Thompson
has said that since Sundays route to
the ball park lay past his house, that
Helen wore all the paint off the front
porch by sweeping it as excuse to be on
the front porch when Billy passed.
While Sunday was with the Philadel
H phia team they were married and spent
their honeymoon travelling with the
II team
II Mrs Sundays father was William
H Thompson, one of the pioneer whole
sale dairymen and ice cream manu-.
facturers of Chicago. He was soldie T
in the Civil war like Sundays father
also.
III Both of her parents we're full Scotch,
| but she herself was born at Dundee,
il Illinois