The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17

cember 1904 and January 1905.
Three hundred fifty-two men
and boys walked to the front of
his tabernacle to take his hand
in public profession of reforma-
ton and 239 women and girls
signed cards indicative of their
capitulation to his dramatic re-
ligious pleadings and warnings.
The financial fruits of the
meetings were amazing. Sub
scribers paid 81, 100 for a frame
tabernacle erected especially for
the evangelist at the corner of
Fifth and Washington streets.
On his last Sunday here, he took
in $1,730 at three services. No
wonder that he said, "The peo-
pie of Redwood Falls have paid
me handsomely" when he was
offered collection at a meeting
in Sleepy Eye after completing
his season. here. He turned the
Sleepy Eye money over to Pro-
fessor Fischer, his musical di-
rector.
civilian Sunday arrived in
Redwood Falls Saturday evening
and inside of 80 hours delivered
four of his red hot messages to
audiences numbering from 600
to 1000 or more people," says
the first newspaper report.
''Mr. Sunday has gatling gun
style of speaking" About 1000
persons packed the tabernacle
for his last service here Sunday
evening, January 8, 1905. Prac-
tically everyone in the city had
attended as many meetings as
possible, the churches co-operat-
ed in promoting the series and
leading citizens took over the
financial work of the event.
81 am RUDE of the Rubes,. a
hayseed of the hayseeds," he ex-
claimed in one of his first serv-
ices. 81 know what it is to work
on farm. When I was IL years
old 1 kept up my station binding
with men, with an old fashioned
harvester"
He said he was mot only d
graduate of the school of power
ty but had taken postgraduate
course in the same institution. !"
His influence was felt in the
city long after the campaign
closed.
The Gazette's account of these
talks reads:
Progressive card parties came
in for a broadside OF denuncia-
ton, the progression being to-
ward the bottomless pit in the
speakers estimation.
Sunday had more respect for
the buns playing cards in the
back of a saloon than for the
woman in a gitded parlor en-
couraging young man to play
cards, because the latter was
more dangerous to society.
'Where the Bible and the deck
Of cards were found in the same
home one of them might as well
have been thrown out first as
last.
1.-THE fireworks began when
the evangelist started in on
dancing. He attacked it as a
terrible menace to society on the
ground that its devotees were
exposed to temptation by the
very nature of the immodest
mix-up of the sexes.
"Some hot shots were fired
into church members who count
enanced dancing, with special
reprobation for dancing clergy
men ard school teachers and a
side roast for school boards who
employed dancing and card
playing teachers"
In the course of the series, he
told the story of Christ in Geth-
semane SO powerfully that
there was a surging movement
to the front of the tabernacle
when Christians or those who
desired to be such were urged
to come forward.
.'Men and women were offer
ing sentence prayers along the
whole line of wOrshippers SO fast
that a number of voices could be
heard speaking at the same
time"
His sermons here embraced
such subjects as church, divorce,
sin, Christian Science, marriage,
Sabbath breakers, evolution,
gossips, Babylonian excavations,
heredity, swearing, drunkenness
and death. -.
One afternoon he talked to an
audience of children, teaching
them an exercise in which flags
of all nations were used. He
smashed a plate to illustrate a
oh;1rrop,c carrpor on tho III