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" - ' I r , m i jHHHHHHBilrailfflillHK.. v m bishop expects- - , saaaaaa I HUM IWHaaassW lMJillilSBKP' JSr'' 1 I .K THT REV. E. H. EMETT MM IsaaHMHMBasaaaaaeM Wl saaaMI ill IIW THaaBBHOHUIBH PA J" .eTsF JBKtixt- jtJ MM JAHHHHHHnW' berry 'll yHlHl MANY CONVERTS HERE Assistant to Mr. Sunday, who has been here organizing work for I first knew Mr. Sunday when 'he; campaign. was a star on the old Chlcano "White-Stockings- " baseball club. I remem ber his conversion at Pacific Garden Mission, and used to hear Harry Mon- -i RISE FROM LOG roe tell how marvelously the gracaj CABIN of God has changed "Billy Sunday,", I heard one of his earliest public ad-- i dresses. To tell the truth. It was not TO GREAT PREACHER a great success. His vocabulary was" rather limited and his style hesltat- - nn,f -l nttt. ,,,In Ihna- - rtnta IStin!1' (IIUl.n l,w Jir,t UU. IIIU.U MMO vul- - BY day used to say to those who crltN' "BILLY" SUNDAY died: , "Stop knocking, boys' I'll show you some day how to preach"' Well, he has shown vast multitudes In all parts of the Republlo how to 'A Soldier's Orphan, He Be- preach. Through all the years since, Mr, Sunday and I have been friends. As came Baseball Hero but an editor I helped to Introduce him to the public and to give him a start. Deserted Diamond to Be I ihave watched his steady advance In efficiency and popularity with real pleasure. I have every confidence In Evangelist. his personal npd ministerial charac- ter. Mr. Sunday Is a man of liberal edu- The Rev. Dr. William Ashley Sunday, SPEICE cation, of real culture and of tre- i iIOE MRS. WILLIAM A. SUNDAY better known to the world as just plain liM mendous moral earnestness. As a preacher he Is unique, winsome "Billy" Sunday, like most of the men who and I S great ready tremendously effective. He says some ra have achieved fame In the history of tliu illUHnHllHmw 'W tabernacle ORGANIZATION FOR thlpgs I would not say' and does some United States, was barn in the country VS? inings i womo not ao. uut ir ne saia spoon Building: Will Accommodate 20,000 things as I say them and did things I and did not And a "silver In hli I as do them, he would not be Dtlly mouth" when ho first saw tho light ot Parsons at Each Service. WORK FOLLOWS OUT Sunday and the multitudes would 'not day. Whatever Bucceia ho has had came As though by magic, the monster, flack to hear him and bo uplifted, by through tho usual courso turtle-shape- d tabernacle was thrown to- his preaching. to him ot My confident expectation Is that Mr, "bumps" nnd "knocks' such as Lincoln gether on the vacant plot along the Park- WELL-LAI- D REV. DR. A. SUNDAY A PLAN Sunday will be used In had to fight through. THE WILLIAM way, at 18th nnd Vine streets, during the for the rescue and uplift of a multi- He never saw his father, William Sun- Mr. Speice, whose picture appears on the right oE Mr. Sunday, is the member of the Sunday party who last few weeks. Joe Spclce, who has tude of men and women. day, for the elder Sunday had been n designs the tabernacles and superintends their construction. Mrs. Sunday assists the Evangelist in planned and directed tho construction of private In Company n of tho 23d much of his work. Members of the Executive Committee, from left to right, are top row Ben T. the Billy Sunday tabernacles for years, Sun-- Infantry Volunteers, four months and was IT. Tjie Rev. E. H. Emett, - Welclv'the Rev. A. Musser, Walter M. Wood, E. H. Bonsall, C. E. Beury, F. S. Edmonds, John B. was charge of the work, and Bcveral at the front with the Union troops In the Tuttle and the Rev. E. H. Emett. Below are William R. Nicholson, Joseph M. Steele, Mrs. Clarence L. in Civil War when, on November 19, 1S62, a Harper, E. Cattell, George C, Shane and C. Winston. Several members were present score of men put It together. day's Assistant, -- Tells" of bounclnR baby boy arrived In tho old log J. John not when The structuro will nccommodate about cabin near Ames, Iowa, that Mrs. Sun- this photograph was taken. 20.000 persons, and, with the exception day was trying to mako comfortable for of the Pittsburgh tabernacle, Is the larg- Methods and Praises Lo- her little family; and about a month later, plete collcglato education While work- MTJSIC FEATURE OF MEETINGS the services in the Tabernacle While est In which the evangelist has preached. on December 22, 1862, the father died ing on tho farms back In Iowa, he man- these "singers will all be classed as the It cost about 118.000. cal Preparations. "BILLY" SUNDAY HAS of disease In an army hospital nt Pat- aged to attend high Bchool for a time, but Never In the many jears that Billy The auditorium will be furnished only Sunday choir, they will in reality be two terson. Mo. never was able to finish the work.and ob- Sunday has been conducting evangelistic with pine board seats, and big stoves will Mother Sunday had a difficult time pro- tain diploma. always choirs, for 1S0O sing It. Between seats will be wide a He has been an of them will at each heat the Organlratlon Is one of tlve things viding for her three sons, Roy, Kdward earnest student, however, since he decided services has he had such a big choir as aisles. They will be covered with Baw-du- st that LED OYER QUARTER evening and Sunday service. has to nd William. But she had tho spirit ot to become a preacher: and while coaching will be awaiting" him In Philadelphia. to prevent noise and to reduce the mtfch do with the sucecss of the "never give up," which Billy has Inherited at Northwestern University, during his Professor Homer Rodeheaver, of the danger from fire. Each of them leads to revivals conducted in the Sunday taber- man- More than 3600 persons will sing during Sunday party, from her. and for soma jears sho baseball days, he attended classes there will lead the singing. a door opening Into the street. nacles. Billy Sunday can convert thou- MILLION FROM SIN aged to keep tho children together. for a while. Ho has had the honorary When Billy was 12 yearn old it be- degree ot Doctor ot Divinity conferred sands when ho gets them to his meetings. came necessary for him and his older upon him, and on April 15, 1903, he was The Rev. 33. H. Emett, assistant to Billy brother to go to tho Soldiers' Orphan- ordained as a minister In the Presbytery Sunday, who has been hero for several age Glenwood, la., and In In- One-tim- at that of . weeks, helping with e Famous stitution, and In tho Davenport Orphan- Mr. Sunday and his happy family, com- the lodal committees Baseball age. Into which he was later transferred, posed Sunday children, THE CALL TO ARMS! and plans, in nn Interview, gives some of Mrs. and four ot me or organ- they spent two years. live In a cozy bungalow at Winona Lake, iaea macninery the great Player Has Great Record After that experience Billy Sunday Ind. But the evangelist Is so busy "ham- ization. "Organization of the forces cam- did all kinds of work on farms, almost mering the old-tim- e religion Into men "Billy" Sunday's First Words lor Philadelphia Battle Against Sin for n every kind of manual labor that falls to throughout paign conducted by Mr. Sunday has as Whirlwind Evangelist. the United States," that he passed experimental stage. the. lot of a country boy; and for somo can only And a month or sis weeks each tho In com- time worked on a railroad, reaching the year which he can rest and enjoy ing to a city I know what Mr. Sunday in the Dear Philadelphia: requires, suggest DurW tho 19 years "Billy" Sun- position of fireman. home life.. His children are Helen, George, and or outline to the that Ha was an athletic youth, and took William and Paul. committees the various phases of the or- day has been In evangelistic work.' ha "much interest in games. As a baseball I have watched with increasing satisfaction and interest the thorough and business- ganization," he said, has spoken before more peophj than any player he was one of the best in the small "The one exception In this city is the living towns In Iowa when little more than to like preparations that your various committees have been making for the coming cam- matter of planning for neighborhood man. Even in 'the smaller cities child. Later he became a player on an CAMPAIGN TO OPEN prayer meetings. These have been ad- and towns where tabernacles are built amateur club at Murshalltown, la., and paign, which we hope and pray will be, under the blessing of Almighty God, the high-wat- er mirably cared for by Doctor George H, large enough to accommodate 10,Q0Q there he was found by the Chicago White Blckley. In no city where Mr. Sunday Sox, From time, 1SS3, until 1890, in nas have been 'overflow meetings m that HERE ON JANUARY 3 mark the religious history of the City of Brotherly, Love, long ago dedicated conducted a meeting have broader or practically he played professional ball. From Chi- " better plans for the prayer meetings been levery time Mr. Sunday has cago he went to Pittsburgh, and from by William Penn to the worship of the only true God. J, - laid. spoken. In thousands of cases immense Pittsburgh he came to Philadelphia. It "Another valuable and Important phase ap- crowds were unable to gain admittance. was with the Phillies that he last TO LAST TEN WEEKS ,' of the preparatory l The way to get what you want is to want it. , work that of the Estimates of the peared on tho professional diamond. Ha Rev. George G, Dowey, who, under the number of converts was the fastest base runner of hla day. joint auspices of the Central Committee Sunday has htfd place It from n quarter Billy Sunday was converted In Pa-cli- la the Does Philadelphia want (Jtc presence of Chris in her offices, shops, stores, factories, and the Philadelphia County Sunday of a million to 400,000. seems aafe to Garden Rescue Mission. Chicago, In - It School Association, Is Increasing- the mem- say that at least 300,000 persona the autumn of 1SS7 With some ball Many Meetings Will Be schools and homes? ,'-- berships of the men's Bible classes In have " players he was seated on a curbstono the the sawdust through -- ' Sunday schools. Similar work Is trail" "BidyV along Van Buren Some men to this street. iy being done In Des preaching. There is no to Boost Billy Does Philadelphia to see a sign hanging in tffe-wJiido- Moines, and we have mora (spectacular and women, who were singing and play- Held Daily want "For Rent" of every found ample opportunity to preacher, In- relate this actor or public speaker Uvlpu ing flutes, horns and other musical til-fa- i special work to the scheme organiza- brewery, saloon and house of 7 , . of today than Sunday. By struments, attracted his attention. He Revival. We are planning to Dow-ey'- g his acrobatic Sunday's tion. relate Mr, preaching listened to their testimonies of what God Dqes to thieves made to no ' efforts to the work of the Men's and his unique use of the had done for them and what he would Philadelphia want see steal mote? '' League In Philadelphia. everyday proves vernacular he do for all who believed, and then he ac- Billy Sunday's campaign,' In Philadelphia every so enter- 'In city that Is organized for a. taining that many thousands cepted an Invitation to go to services at Is scheduled to begin, on Sunday, Jan- Does Philadelphia want to hear the blasphemer pray instead of'txrse? Sunday campaign the position of pas- of persojis, players the who" dislike hi? the Mission. None of the other uary 3. In the big Tabernacle' facing .. . - t .1 rfJ M tor Is recognized. The whole scheme methods, are drawn would go with him, so he went alone. re organization the ia Logan Square, at 19th and Vina streets. Does Philadelphia want to see drunkards made sobeff of begins with an appeal to tabernacles. ' Several times be returned to hear the the pastor for men and women to help In Many service, and, one evening he went to the According to present plans, there will be of the skeptics and many of Does Philadelphia want to see homes of squalor and want tttjttied into abodes of the details. The church la the goal of Sunday's" front of the ball with Mrs. Clark, wife ot three services In the Tabernacle that day tviry activity In connection with Mr. wort assailants previous to the Clark, founder of Mission, " meetlpgs Colonel the and two every weekday, excepting Mon- peace and plenty? J" - Sunday's campaign. There Is nothing become Ids best friends tfnd Who had been urging him to accept Christ days, during the 19 Weeks ensuing. that Mr. Sunday Is mort Insistent upon are among those 'wh.o as h"a Saviour, and publicly acknowledged "hit the trail" and Although Mr Sunday haa always made Does to see become throbbing than that the ministers shall be In the afterward become hie conversion It a rule to take Monday oft" as his Test Philadelphia want her churches .centres of spiritual forefront from tbe beginning. active Christian work- - q ers. He later became a member ot the day, and never preaches In the taberna- life, instead of gorgeous religious clubhouses? , "Mr. Bunday'a campaign la. complete In An evidence of thU was brought Park Presbyterian Church In Chi- cles on that day. it more often happens that It doss pot leave lot of new con- to Philadelphia In. the cago. was met Helen A. outside of autumn when a-l- It there be that he is busy addressing meetings in verts the church. But. through most 1000 "frall.hlttera" Thompson, who became his wife In Sep- nearby towns and cities, or meetings of If she does, and if you and I are to realise our vision of a redeemed city, and to the various lines of organlratlon, be were brought tember, 1SS8. different organizations ot men. teka to immediately relate the new mn. here from Soranton and Wllkes-Barr- e In Mareb, 1881, Sunday decided to give The present plan l to hold thb local receive an answer to the unnumbered thousands of petitions thdl are bombarding the J verts to the churches. by the Rev. George G Dowey. 10 who has H hi time to Christian work. He had meetings a. m. and S p, m, sin-curie- "yftu ask what churches they at and 74 d desire td peen organizing w.MO men a contract with the "Phillies." and was on Sundays, and at 2 and 7:30 p. m. on Throne of Grace on behalf of the surging', seething thousands of lives that go ling ana in repiy must say all In Bible classes not get They go to i afraid that he could hla release. all weekdays, excepting Mondays. The to Churches. the Protsstant Throughout jBWl on St. Patrick's Day ha received word song services that will be held previous are staggering under their load of guilt, some one will have sweat blood, and the faith episcopal, me iumran, tna Baptist and his services, BUiy nttaeka Xfom Colon) the manager of the to well evening will be features the churches of all the other denomina- tho salcon. and there l usually and heroism and martyr made a Valley Forge, with its crimson . expanse a wide Jscal elub, thai be could have It. Imme- - of the (services. For the local meetings spirit that possible tions." of "dry" territory around .tba .awtuy jim manager or U singers will be divided into two choirs, Asked whether many go to the towns In which be has V jptrt, the tbe to be in lives those u)Jio Roman a campaign (Men Ht Club, effered him MW a season. eaeh having 1640 voices. These will sing snows, will have reproduced and repeated fens of thousandsi of of Catholic ehurches, Mr. Emett entfmaias. after he leave In the etfoiTof mkmt waa Wt money ror a player in on alternate evenings during the cam- tlcally replied; Pennsylvania there were-- claim allegiance tp Jesus X bot tfceae days, threw 1409 ad-v- w paign, the leadership of Prof. Ghrls. "Yes, handled scores of cards 1,U ScrautS; and down in under by slaved t1f?S,?"Bi; WW1--" "' fer the first maoth's salary. But Homer Rodeheaver, whom Mr. Sunday converts who said they wanted to go within a yea afterWs gttaday had learned to say "no." He calls "Rodey." Men and women of Philadelphia, the fight is ant Sin iijwtrenehed in places high to Cathelte ohurehea. We always lend departure. ' the offer began working as Rodeheaver is a great choir leader. II tbcae card to tbe priest or chuiuh mea. OhUrict Tlud and and low. The saloon and brothel, the gambling politiwtJp&fh extortion, trickery turned By convert. superintendents ait wmUnl aeoretary in the Chisago "jollls" tbe audience and get everybody hmh the .lB.Methodtet KpbKJopal Chuach in tut y M C A, at a salary of 1 a month. BlllgWff, BO Wl UJO pwpiQ 4D IU WQ U Htriaj eburch People attend wrne Oouuty a a abort ttpie ago ,tat when time come Mr. and deceit will not submit to extermination without a mighty struggle to maintain their J"?Mr, Bunday'a meetings and a.re brought there The evanffauet, the Rev Dr J Wilbur of spirits tbe for under powerful had never been as gret icuVlcy CiutpMan, aafced "BUiy" hla trav-t)n- $ Sunday to preach the preaoUteg of tbe Gos- tb to Jolc upon gxeed man wilj yield to tt&tMflg less pel In s largo urch peo,U' the earapatgaera, and Sunday aoaepted. Besides tbe meetings in. tbe Tabernacle, hold the individual and body politic. The of iwt proportion as mem- of tbe raembewhlp m gwft meet-Ing- bers of other Mr. Sun- the hurchw of K did kinds of work, from helping' there will be many luncheons apd. e denominations. aa denooUnatto-- a aS day's clty-wld- had beea largir every day, leaders; than the grace oj God. campaigns are always e. the I drive test HHiea to aelllns books for under the of the Therefore, the organization ""' H'tfr Sunday was ia,ro (t phases of the work; Mrs, Sun- must be than tft Wk meetiasa. uatu Wi when be WMtot lives, flexible enough say-taj- C day le one of the active workers in nwiy appeal to all who believe that Elijah's Gpd still and who are anxious to see to adapt word from Doctor Chapman, I itself f.uandto the requirements of the large Si'L.tWd-- J' " tnmuU toTfa, tjiat he was going to give up his of outside services. Besides looking old-tim- o? tfcte a wave the e religion the cold world's heart 2QQQ ewaU city, an dto rnset the MuSrejdeata aweng tN 9uulda of thi MMgeiwie oecoeie Baaior or rJter much of Mr. .Sunday's penoaal tidal of that iax waited for of every evangelical wtk aa buainaee piap and bolptetf fchq In, deaoMluUM. fwifcaoy preaoytetlaii Cfcurefc, tbU dty. maar go to "The orgapiaatioos. or groups b to their Uty. A theTiS- PhtladeKpMK estaa the ways, she attends aa awv er the ieetal years, to get nighpvsith God anj be tepefy, in the najne of Qhjist,U the last diUh, to oiv reside - .o. aale Ma seals M tbe choir, tba (ward a( u,bw aetivo iu tbe intereatiof theruu-tt- i' vtnMiotauce that letf Suaday to Eaeuld meetings aa she can, dees Hiuefe to eeretertes, create widw iaurest. at and plant the bhsdstained banner ofthe S tfjGd upon the ramparts of sin, 9itt ttw pemonaj oontiJuiea toug atimr wwk Uadee the wr league wUcli 'ifown cut ut his tiMUlan, the youag Oa some day there wW be aa waagr as has itfrteUMw- -a & separate meettage aegfteatje una reiiy ttrsuna me jrasr, ana stng i elder weu'fT did out. kuojw wMcfa way to titra, is f0 nana? ti yMMMr atea'e and a oofs'), the JuJ?i SU. was, eMnaeat ta hia datre to tbe campaign met"lmm,M laeit&Uea "ttnJKiTsL-tttds- ktref, power Jl "All hail the of Jesus' name" emlH-a- jUii in HJfilitt ork. and, m two kind, of work--n Invtta-Uv- h aejatoM '' iliora slim to eUn in ai women who work Ih io - "iidwit ajfateae u Qmiutt. 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