The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-12
LOOSES
VAST FLOOD
OF EMOTION
Master Evangelist Gives Vent
10 Passionate Utterances,
Saying Sin Will Find You
Out.
81 WON TO CHRIST

~ ~ ~ StIttHo
Raging about the platform like a
mad bull, splitting out his sentences
like machine gun fire, roaring in his
climaxes, and stamping and shouting
that your sins will find you out" Bill
ly Sunday Thursday night brought
50 persons down the sawdust trail to
shake his hand and sign cards, pledg-
ing themselves to Christ and his prin-
| ciples.
1t was the night for three churches,
the Baptists, the Christians and the
United Brethren, while delegation
OF $50 from Dayton also were given
| special seats.
Two persons with Christian ribbons
were the leaders in the Trail hitters"
while one U. B. ribbon followed a
close third. The first few converts"
all wore ribbon Of some church, but
as the ice was broken more and more
of the untagged members Of the audi
ence came forward.
! Sunday Gets Cake
| The delegations did not march to
| the tabernacle, but about time for the
sermon, small group bearing the sign
Christian" marched down from the
1 rear.
7 AS the names Of the churches were
I called the U. B. church presented Mr..
/ Sunday with a square box, which Sun
! day held in his hands as though puz-
/ zled.
open It, open It." those near the
/ platform insisted, and Sunday break
ing the seals found in 1t cake. Stick
ing his finger into the icing, Sunday
touched it to his togue, while Rode
HEAVIER took the box and looked it over
carefully, I'm looking to see if it said
! for the party or for Mr. Sunday" he
said.
Knows Cake is Good
'If it is as good as those cookies
. that that Democratic lady makes, it
has to be good" Mr.. Sunday COM
, mented, as he smiled his boyish smile
at the audience, And l know it is
good already"
, AS Mr.. Rodeheaver asked the differ
!; ent delegations for their favorite
=. songs, two little girls who have been
constant attendants at the tabernacle
. meetings, demanded that Matthews,
Mrs. Asher and Mr.. Rodeheaver sing
} "If Mrs. Asher 1mes, why We can,
perhaps" Rode 'tarted to ans
wer, and all OF listers and au-
| dience on the platform tried to inter
rupt him at once to say that Mrs.
: Asher was already there.
| The trio later sang, Not My Broth
, er, Nor My Sister, But It's Me, Oh
Lord" and were called back for an en-
, core. Il Amt Coin to Study War No
7 More"
Seemingly the Richmond audience
had caught on to the trick of the
, Charleston delegation of getting the
! numbers and the performers that they
? wanted.
!, 81 never have left a place In 26
years with the current expenses not
raised" Sunday declared. "In a cou-
pie of places a few pledges that have
been counted as cash have not been
paid, but that was not my fault The
committee said that the expenses had
been raised, so l stopped getting
money. Here there are few pledgs
? that have been counted as cash that
; have not been paid, so get them paid
up now"
= Not His Fault
| Sometimes they have said that Il
j. was my fault that the expenses were
5 not raised, but it was not my fault
: and l won't stand for it,,
Rev Sunday then announced that
, the collection on Sunday had been
: authorized by the executive commit
: tee to be applied to the Bible school
/ chautauqua, and summer school that
+ Mr. Sunday and Mr. Rodeheaver are
: running at Winona Lake in the sum-
5 mer time.
81 am not asking you to pay any
/ debts" Mr.. Sunday said, 81 paid over
( 100000 of them last year, and it is
r all clear, but | do want enough to
pay the running expenses We used
! to charge for the Bible class, but that
/ was hard on the ministers that came
: so it is free now"
! AS Mr.. Sunday began his sermon
. some one coughed. Now be careful
! about coughing" he said, st helps all
\ of US. should think that people would
begin to remember it by the end of
four weeks"
Shows Great Energy
Swinging into his sermon, Sunday
+, delivered it with even greater energy
, than is his custom even for his Sunday
night sermons.
= Ceaselessly walking from one side
of the platform to the other, breaking
out at times into strenuous outbursts,
( Sunday pounded the pulpit and stamp
ed on the platform, until even its
: heavy reinforcing seemed to creak
} from the assaults.
> once grabbing up his chair, he
2 carried it around the platform in his
mad rush, demanding of the chorus.
/. and the ministers section, sWho
| wants to fight and stand up for the
devil?"
' Then suddenly turning and facing
] the audience he blurted out after a
? pause, Il feel like l wanted to figh.
| a regiment if it would stand for the
devil"
J Good morals are conducive to
health" the evangelist argued In his
(Continued on Ney+ pooal