The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28
BILLY RESENTS
ATTACK MADE
ON CHARACTER
Denounces Author of Letter
Stating that He Failed to
Support His Mother and
Sister.
BIG CROWD IS PRESENT

If I had been there, would have
shot them, so help me God would
would have shot them as sure as they
stand in shoe leather If I had been
there.
And you couldn't have found a jury
on earth that would have convicted
me either. 1t would have been pre-
meditated. Don't worry about that
! So Numbered Billy Sunday in de-
fiance of the men, who, he alleged,
had desecrated the grave of his moth
er and the final resting places of other
| relatives, in his sermon at the taber-
Inacle Thursday evening
/ The vitriolic outburst came In con-
junction with his reply to an anony-
nous letter which had been sent to-
Rev. ]. J. Rae of the First Presbyte-
rian church, in which it was charged
that the evangelist had neglected his
mother and sister
Mr.. Sunday called the author of the
letter a dirty, rat-eyed liar"
| "My mother died five years ago
in Winona Lake, and I buried her out
on the old farm in Iowa, and my only
! sister, a haIf-sister was burned to.
death years ago, and was buried on
| the same farm.
/ 81 seldom take the time to answer
the lies that are being circulated about
me.
"You low down dirty dog, II you
are here tonight-and I hope you are
You are dirty, sneaking, low down,
God-forsaken, blackhearted, lying, de-
generate hypocrit. You let my folks
alone you dirty, low, blackhearted,
! scoundrel and skunk, the off-scouring
of Gods dirt
j Words Fail Him.
Words failed Sunday when he tried
to describe what he thought of the
man who had written the anonymous
letter. StTingfng out series of cpl
thets. that would seem to include ev-
! cry sort of scoundrel on the face of
the earth, Sunday paused for breath.
his eyes set with fierceness, but
, without a word with which to con-
+ tinue
| People have lied and vilifed about
me ever since first have been preach
ing. Why the whiskey ring went out
to the old farm in Iowa where l had
buried my mother with the other
|, members of the family, where had
, put fence around the grave lot, and
, they asked the farmer who. owned the
place if they could take picture of the
, grave.
"And they tore down the fence, and
, they broke down the tomb stone over
my uncle's grave, and piled it all up
over the graves, and then they took a
picture of it, and that picture was
, printed all over the country
"And if that pinp that wrote that
, letter is in the audience, I'd like to
) have him come up and tell me about
it,"
Later in the sermon, poised on his
, chair with one foot on the desk, his
| head almost touching the sounding
:. board above, he shouted IF there Is
: anything | despise, it is the man who
| says things about your past, things
t that you have put behind you years
ago"
: Again that fierce stare shone IN his
eyes. and he glared at the audience,
. as if he would find there the man
that had said those things. THAT
the kind of man that l despise," he
shouted.
e., Men Fear Truth
| what is repentance" demanded Mr..
;. Sunday. at is not a conviction of
sin, because there are men in Rich
mond who are afraid to come to the
5 tabernacle for fear that they would
? yield to a good influence
What kind of a man is that, wher
/, you analyze his motives?" he demand
;. ed. 81 have heard that the answer
; has been actually given on the streets
by man who was afraid to come un-
/ der an influence for good
FL Shouting, as he dashed across the
t platform, and leaned over the edge
! Nothing can take the place of being
born again, if you are to be saved. .
: he held himself tense and rigid, ONLY
T the wild stare of his eyes suggesting
: action
'You must repent, and lead a new
+ life if you are to be saved"
Il Ending his sermon, almost without
warning, he swung into a breat1les.
prayer for the sinners who would no
be saved. ooh Lord. l pray that the
ID Baptists, the people from College Cor
. / ner'-Here he hesitated. and turned
q swiftly to Rodeheaver, What's tina
ri other town he demanded?
II From Morning SUM- he kept OF
I again in the rush of his prayer, INA,
v renew their pledge to live for Goo
= and to do his will"
I'd Asks for Converts.
ell Now come on you Baptists, yol
Sons of Veterans, you College Corn
= ( ers, come on, come down and take m,
n / hand, and pledge yourself to stand fe
n i Jesus Christ"
AS in the former meetings. few
al minutes were required to break tn
: / ice, and then few leading out from
Q / the Morning Sun delegation, brough
# 4 almost the whole of the group fof
d ward. On the other side. College Coz
al ner banners began to appear in front
, and with them came others from tn
II rest Of the audience
While more than that number pass
: bed by and took Sundays hand In toB
len of renewal of their vow, IS
lPsigned pledge cards, as token of thei
l.reconsecration.
IL The high school orchestra, whic
lPhad hoeu given seats in a section NJ