The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-04-22
HEARTSTRINGS
ARE TOUCHED
BY EVANGELIST
Crowd in Breathless Silence
When Sunday Finishes His
Sermon on the Home
Pathos Is Revealed.
SONGS STIR FEELING

Playing on the chords OF pathos,
with description of the home coming
OF the body Of John Howard Payne,
author of Home, Sweet Home" with
the chorus gently singing the words
OF the song, carrying on the spell that
he had wrought over the audience,
Billy Sunday finished his sermon on
the home at the tabernacle Friday
night at a breathless silence.
Over the audience not a stir was
made, every face was set, fixed. on
the figure of Billy Sunday, while the /,
chorus, on the last words of Mr. Sun
day, broke forth in greater volume
the music of that famous song.
AS the singing of the chorus grew
stronger, and swelled into full volume
on the words the spell on the audi
ence broke slowly, individuals began
to draw deep breaths, and soon the
whole audience was back again TO
earth.
Value of Prayers.
Woe, woe, to the man., Sunday had
shouted earlier in his sermon as he
dashed across the platform to lean
over the farthest corner, giving de
nunciating roar, "WOe to the man who
defiles his home
Turning his face towards the sound
ing board over his head he placed his
hands to his mouth and shouted,
with SO great responsibility as thai
you must be a Christian"
Sundays description of a mother
greeting an unwelcoule neighbor and
her children at the do or, took the au
dience by storm. PoE traying her &C
tions before the woman, reached the
house he then described her kissing
the incoming family.
Greets Them All.
With loud smacks, he greeted them
all as they stood in an Imaginary line,
bending his knees gradually to illus
trate the action of kissing smaller and
smaller children
There you are" he tn u1ldered, ''she
may spank her children when they
lie, for telling an untruth, but she has
taught them to lie herself"
Then turning his guns h4. roared a.
the weak sister" whose fear of ridi-
cule forced him to leave his mothers
apron strings to become a Ncheap i'm
itation of tin horn sport"
-"But it's the one that's tile d to his
mothers apron strings that gets the
iob," he added, and when ttta crowd
laughed heartily he beamed in his de-
lighted school boy fashion, and chuck
led, "And that's that"
"a pair of brown spats, and a soft
hat, and a cigaret are as muk'h ab-
horred by a hard headed Business
man, as a criminal record he de-
clared.
Leaving the subject of the home.
he turned his attention towards
teachers and ministers.
Il have wanted only one office-ths I
is to be member of a school board
and then | would raise the salary OF
every teacher in the schools; pay them ,
IL months a year, so that they could
live" he said.
"a man wouldn't live in town that
did not have ministers and teachers.
and then we pay them starvation
! wages"
Denounces Dances.
"The dance today is the cause of
three-fourths of the fallen women in
this country" shouted Billy, raging
about the platform like wild man,
"And I want you to know right now
that / want to fight immortality and
indecency, no matter who it hits"
Turning suddenly to the subject o.
modern woman, he shouted, When
you have individual liberty you have
individual responsibility
''And you have no right to use your
individual liberty to wear short skirts,
and low stockings until your flesh
shows so that you are a temptation
to every man that looks at you"
"And if you don't want to give your
time to your husband and your home
and children, but must have a career
then for Gods sake" and here Sun
day roared his words with vehement
force at the seats right in front. For
Gods sake stay away from marriage"
TWO Delegations.
The audience at the Friday meeting.
! fell away slightly from the record at
tendance of the Presbyterian night.
and was about 700 short of filling the
| Tabernacle to its capacity of 5000.
| Two special delegations attended
! the meeting Spiceland, Indiana, was
| present in a delegation of about 45,
while the Kiwanis club turned out
| about 125 strong.
| When asked to stand up and be in
| troduced to the audience, they broke
L
! He lives to be a Hundred
/ AS the group finished the song.
| Homer Rodeheaver asked Fred Rapp,
| Sundays business manager. II he
could give the sign of distress to his
! brother Kiwanians.
/ We've never in Distress" retorted
Rapp'
Challenges to Game.
Suggesting that the Kiwanians chal-
lenge the Rotarians to a ball game,
Rodeheayer suggested that Billy
could play with his organization, the
Rotarians, and Rapp could play with
his
"Rapp is a pretty good baseball
player-sometimes," he Said, while
Rapp blnshed.
Rev. A. L. Stamper of the First
Christian church led in prayer at the
opening of the meeting.
In making plea for the funds to
pay the debts on the tabernacle, Sun
day wanted to bet that he could fill
the place at $25 seat, if he were TO
have Jack Dempsey there to stage a