Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-01
Billy Sunday in Charleston.
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Billy Sunday in Charleston.
"Billy' Sunday will go to Charles
ton next year ard hold great re-
vival meeting, beginning November
1 and ending December Is, and if
all goes we'll he'll keep the old town
on the jump for forty days and forty
nights. The promoters of the meet
ing will build a tabernacle for him
that will seat eight thousand people,
and, of course, there will be train
ed choir of some thousands of voices
under the compelling direction Of
Rodeheaver and well drilled corps
of ushers and special nursery for
babies whose mothers would like to
attend the services and the dear old
tin pan, the ringing tin pan, and fire.
quently the empty tin pan so famil-
lar to tens of thousands who heard
Mr.. Sunday in Spartanburg will be
called into service again. It will be
the same old thing in organization,
management and service, the same
old, old story, told in Sundays own
way.
1t will be something very new in
Charleston. Not the gospel. the great
evangelist will preach, because
Charleston was brought up on the
same gospel, and there are many
graveyards in the city and in beau
tiful, well-kept cemeteries nearby,
but the method in which it will be
presented by the plain-speaking man
with message. If there should be
anything like the cooperation of
the churches in Charleston there
was in Spartanburg the meeting in
"The Enchanted City" will be most
conspicuous success.
The Sunday meeting in Charleston
will "come high" but it will be
worth the money, whatever the cost.
The meeting in Spartanburg cost
something like $45,OOO, all told. At
ter he had finished his task, and it
was gruelling task, to be sure, Mr..
Sunday was presented by the appre-
ciative people of this town and 9TH
ers who had heard him gladly with
a purse of S22,s5O. A hurried es-
innate last night of one of the official
members of the Sunday Organization
was to the effect that during the six
weeks of his campaign here Mr.. Sum
day preached at eighty regular sell
vices, that he addressed at these SER
vices not less than five hundred thou
sand people in the aggregate, and
that, on account of his work here,
not less than fifteen hundred addi-
tions were made to the churches of
this city.
1t may also be of encouragement
to the men behind the "Billy" Sun
day movement in Charleston to know
that the men and women who were
converted" by him while he was
here are standing fast in the faith
he and his workers impaired to them
in the greatest and most successful
religious revival ever held in the hill
country of South Carolina. Of course
the Charleston folk know that Mr..
Sunday is not "the whole show," in
fact. There is "Ma" Sunday, for in
stance, and we should say that she is
the head of the Sunday house. Then
there is Mrs. Asher, with the lowell
est voice and the most fascinating
ways, and Miss Kinney, who teaches
the Bible so that it is perfectly clear
in its most difficult, some "high-
brows" have said doubtful" pas
sages, and Homer Rodeheaver, with
his slip horn, who ''brightens the cor
ner" wherever his is, and "Pete," the
most important member of the ag
who sings and prays and
plays and rubs, as occasion and duty
requires, and keeps the Sunday ma
chine running when the joints are
a bit clogged, and the engine needs
overhauling. There are a lot of peo-
pie in Charleston, who will not like
Mr.. Sundays "style" when he makes
his first appearances-it was the
same way here; it has been the same
way wherever he has gone; but be-
fore he is half through down there
the chances are the sticklers for the
''proprieties," so to say-and "may
their tribe Increase will forget
the .madness" of the speaker in the