New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1917, Page 9

SRy - SUNDAY POWER FOR | -~ GOOD IN AMERIGA -Hr. Cook Béfiéves Net Balance s | on Side of Evangelist Warr M. last Rev. Trinity church, delivered a on “Billy" Mr. Cook h 1day on numerous studied his meth- > dues not agree with all xpressed the does not agree atements, he be- ! is a power for £00d in the nation. Incidentally, he ated that Sunday was anxious to 2lk to large numbers of New Brit- n people conducted a baign in Hartiord and would s on the tabernacle being constructed at | 2 point convenient to New Britaia people, Rev. Mr. Cook’s address foilows: have heard Mr. Sunday on var oceasions, before mixed audi- , be men on the lec- | tuve platform. b sollege students, hefore bodies i 1 have heard the most famous coaverts, and have list- ened to the recitals of those who have supported im prominently in his campai have eagerly read the work, which have been judicious men. I realize, that to form a correct es- e of a man of this type, one not needs to hear him a few times, “ut one ought to go through a cam- paign with him. “Mr. Sunday was a member of the old Chicago White Sox baseball team. e was sitting, one night, with group of friends, on the curb of Van Biiren street, in Chicago, when some yingers came from a gospel mission, and invited them to come in. Sunday left the other fellows and went to the mission, was converted. T have never heard him go into details abov that conversion. It has alway that was a straight facing about and changing of That was thirty years that never goe: ping, taking off his hat and praying. Ope day he did this, and a crowd be- £an to gather. A policeman came up and asked him if he was sick. He said | c ‘“No,, My name is Bill Sunday. T was converted here thirty vears ago and never go by place without saying a word of p * The policeman put out his hand and said, ‘Put er there, I have hesrd a lot about vou, and will keep the crowd baclk you pray.’ P ascball Or Y. M. C. A WSoon after Mr. Sunday’s conver- sion, he faced the question of sizning a basebail contract for $500 a month, or taking a position in the Y. M. C. A. at $80 a month. In his perplexed mind, he turned to his wife, and <aid, Ma, yo le this. But Ma Sunday replied that that was his business. He had decided for Christ, and he needn’t try to shift thre responsibility on .to her. Mrs. Sunday, however, has a ways becn hearty supporter since. “For the last ten years Mr. Sunda: been coming rapidly into farme. ITe has had what seems to be mar- velous results in inciting men " to change their lives. In such cities as Seranton and Pittsburgh, and Phla- delphia, Detroit and Boston, Mr. Sun- day has had marked results. He turns in another week to the city of Buf- falo, and then to his largest endeavor, New York here he is Packed by C formed, and is a new feature to his work, which never before has hean undertaken, that of a teen-age cam- paign. On February 4th the Federa- tion of Church in Hartford will take gpithe question of inviting him to that city, and it Jooks now as thou.h | he would be invited. secretary of the Hartford Y. M. C. A., In conversation with me this weelk. said that Mr. Sunday had expressed a hope that the City of New Britain, | where he had played ball in his vaunger days, and still has some old friends, might endorse the Hartford invitation. and if New Britain shcnld endorse it, the tabernacle would be built in a place where the New Brit- tain people would not have to change cars to get to it. His Methods. “The invitation given by any city must be a very unanimous invitation. Af first, when he was speaking in | smaller cities, he required that all txe | Protestant churches should unite in | the invitation. New, when he speais | In cities of much size, he only requires to get @ sufficient majority of the prominent churches and church men to insure snccess His preliminary work 1s a cam- paign in itself. He has an advanc man who goes to the city wetks ahead | and forms a general committee, with its sub-committees, for preparation. Numbers of prayer meetings arc started in all sections of the city, meeting several times a week, so that fecs Rure evenir Sunday, the neelist seen and heard asions an has While 1 unday s opinion that with all his own lieves the evangelist Rev. only where there | There | constitute a day line, count of the Jarge sums of money that come into his possession. legally do as he pleases mone; of is not simply, money, pecially a religious man. seemed | ings, way one. he | has by the place without stop- j for not vitation, gives an includes the deciding for certain spe- while | cifie things, but in his general appeal he asks people to come forward and shake his hand, not simply if want to for of their lives, or the uniting with the Mr. Hubert, the |} the atmosphere of the town is satur- ated with religion before he come: “As to the financial plan—the gen- eral committee in the city must a sume the expense of the land and of the tabernacle. They assume haif the expense of Mr. S not including Mr. and < are offerings taken at cert times during the meetings. This is done in the early stage of the meet- ings, as Mr. Sunday insists on all ob- ligations being paid before the meet- ings shall go on, as these obligations hindrance to the best work. Out of these offerings the ex- pense of building the tabernacle, heating, lighting, etc., and half the cxpense of Mr. Sunday’s party is paid. Mr. Sunday takes for himself the last free will offering which is taken. An- nouncement is made that this will be taken, so that all will know, but there is no urging. Notices are put in the paper as to some bank where people can leave their checks, etc. At Phil- adelphia there were individual checks for Mr. Sunday as large as $5,000. sides the money Mr. Sunday is con- stantly the recipient of gifts, such as flowers and soverniers of all kinds. “We want to here raise the ques- tion as to what Mr. Sunday does with his money. In the first place he pays half the salary of the party, as well as all his own expenses when not in the campaign. His party includes a men’s workers, a women's _worker, a children’s worker, Mr. Rodehever, who conducts the music, an advance man who preceeds the party. and a follow up man who remains to help conserve the results. This, of course, requires expense. Besides this. it is known that Mr. Sunday supports sev- eral missionaries and students in col- lege and gives liberally to charities. He has a habit also of giving money to causes that people know nothing about. I think, however, that it would be well and fair if Mr. Sun- would prevent certain criticism that is directed against him in this by giving a more careful ac- Sunday. A man can with his but he cannot morally. One moral questions of the hour how a man gets his he spends it, es- the but how “After Mr Sunday starts his meet- he conducts the campaign in a that is familiar to almost every His sermons are written, and he his manuscript before him, but long spaces of time you would know that he w: depending at 11 upon the manuscript. In the in- which he gives, commonly 'alled, ‘The Trail Hitting Invitation’ Mr. Sunday’s appeal is not simply to < people to become Christian. In some of his services before men only, and other special services, he often appeal that is direct, and they be Christians, but if they any stand whatsoever as a re-consecration want to take God, such church. When these people come forward they shake Mr. Sunday’s hand, and then they are turned over to a committee, where they give their names and addresses, their church preferences, etc. Then these cards are sent to committees in the churches of the city and elsewhere. Some of them have come as far as New Britain from Boston. Very much of the success of the work lies in the faithfulness with which churches look after the converts and keep interested in them and caring NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917. about him. Rilly illustrates his pitch- ing and says that he is the only man who could ever throw an over handed ball so fast that it would shoot up just as it came to the batter. In this regard we are inclined to think that Billy’s memory of the old base- ball days is like the memory of some people about the old time winters, for there have been several men since Clarkeson’s time who are refuted to have been able to do this. “Billy’s language can be illustrated in the way he tells the story of David and Goliath. He says that Dave was out herding the sheep one day, when his father called him in and said to him, ‘Dave, your mother is sort of worried about your brothers. She has not heard from them for a long time. They have not ’phoned in quite a while. I want to take this bag of mela and this bottle of wine and go over and see how yvour broth- ers are’ So Dave did it and when he got there he found that there was a great big fourflushing giant stand- ing out in front of the army of Israel, and he turned to the soldiers and said to them, ‘Who is that lobster pulling this bluff on all of your fellows? Why don’t some of You go out and call his bluff?’” They all seemed to be afraid to do it, so Dave said he would. Saul offered him his armor, but he could not do anything with it, so he laid it aside, and took a few smooth stones, and went out to meet the giant. When the came near the giant called him all kinds of names, and told him he would throw him to the beasts. Then Dave took one of his stones, and put it in his for them after the meetings are over. Undoubtedly large additions have come to churches of the cities where Mr. Sunday has been. As to the qual- ity of this increase and its steadfast- ness, we will speak later. Sunday’s Manner. “I want to say something now about Mr. Sunday’'s manner. He is as natural as a child. When he comes into a building which is new to him, he immediately proceeds to explore, it with his eyes. looking it all over, and walking wherever it is necessary to see. He will go up to the wood- work and feel of it as a youngster might do. He is undoubtedly an actor, and much of his power is in his performances upon the platform. He wears a heavy ring, and when he comes to the close of a long, drawn- out sentence, full of all kinds of de- scriptive adjectives, he will pause and strike the table with this ring and utter a specific 'now,” which is an in- dication that he is going to start in on something else. He has some very peculiar gestures. Some of them very effective. ‘Shoot- ing Star,’ Swinging on Foot’ ‘The rich man and poor man who enter the church,’ ‘The two groups playing cards, one in the home—one in the gambling den, compared,’ ‘On his knees looking into hell,’ ‘Reporters,’ ‘His performance at Ottawa when he climbed on to the pulpit and ther jumped off clear to the ground, hold- ing his nose.* Storie: Clarkeson, the pitcher, he savs, was the finest pitcher that ever put on & suit. Clarkeson came from my home town, and I know a great deal A FEW INCHES OF SNOW Will not dampen the spirits of the man who seriously contemplates acquiring a cosy little home of his own. Snow is snow wherever you go MAPLE HILL is the to cons lace to live, winter or su ler just now is the cost of This is the time to act—not drea “heart’s desire, ascertain cost of sa your plans. THE BUILDING AND ASSUME That's our business. THE RIDGEWOOD Prepare, that’s the word, ‘“Prepare!” matter of Money bother you in the least. mmer, but the all-important thing building and building materials. m! Decide on the house of your me at present prices, and perfect pon’'t let the WE WILL FINANCE ALL THE WORRY AND CARE. REALTY CO., Inc. CLIFFORD H. WILMATH, President. 276 MAIN STREET, LeWITT BLOCK. TELEPHONE 2020 HARTFORD OFFICE, SAGE-ALLEN BUILDING swung it around his head a couple of times, and let drive and the stone hit the giant square between the lamps, and he went down to the mat for the count. Dave rushed up, pulled the giant's sword, cut the lob- ster’s block off, and that is the end of the whole matter. Criticism of Sunday. “Now as to the results. First let me speak of what I might call the un- fortunate results, or the unfavorable criticism. “One of the unfavorable things is that Mr. Sunday is emphasizinz but one type of religion, and that rescue type, which undoubtedly has its place, but which certainly is only one phase of religious life and de- velopment. It is interesting to note that this new phase which is going to be a part of the work in New York city, i. e., thg teen-age work, Iis something that Mr. Sunday has never allowed before. ‘“Another objection is that there are people undoubtedly who follow Mr. Sunday, and who follow the crowd, as a fetich. At Wesleyan last Monday, after Mr. Sunday had finished his ad- dress, he called for fellows to give their lives to Christ. The first young fellow who responded, or perhaps the first half dozen, bravely went for- ward alone, and it was not long until the entire colege body was moving in a mass. It was evident that the great majority of the fellows sat still just because the majority sat still, and moved forward later because the majority moved. Such things may not have bad results, but they are not evidence of very great results.” “Another things about Mr. Sunday that is unfavorable to my mind s his theology, and his criticism, some- times certainly unfairly of the church. I do not believe his the- ology, and neither does he. That does not mean that he is insincere because he thinks he believes it, but I have heard him declare some or- thodox belief, and in two minutes’ time refute it by some other belief, which he did not realize was a refn- tation, “He delights in hitting folks, and it does not make any difference who the folks are. At Wesleyan, after he had been received with cheers, he soon took pains to tell the fellows that it took more to make a man than a mortar board hat, a bulldog pipe and a frat pin and a rah-rah- rah-rah-rah. He enjoyed the telling of the story of a boy who went with his father to the city, and saw a dummy dressed up in a window. The boy asked his father if that was a man, and his father said, ‘No, that was only a professor.” His criticism of the ministry and of the church chuckles a certain crowd outside the church, who like to find fault with those inside, as an excuse for them- selves, very often. His language, I believe, is not essential to his success. His language is not simply the lan- guage of the street. It is often times the language of the saloon and the cheap, rough gang, “I think this ought to be said further that there is a danger that those who come in under Mr. Sunday's meet- ings usually feel that the church is not undertaking its task aright unless it carries on a perpetual Billy Sunday meeting, which, of course, the church cannot do, and these people will eith- er rall_out or, as has been the case in some instances, turn in and run the church. Mr. Sunday himself could not run a church for six months. I question whether he could run one for six hours unless he could be the absolute czar. I have no doubt eith- er but that Mr. Sunday’'s preaching, which is largely platitudes, would ‘'.e- come ineffective in a comparatively short time. This, however, is not to say that Mr. Sunday is not doing good or that he is not a decided moral force in the country. The large re- ports of his converts will, of course, in is a time have to be cut down to prob- ably twenty-five per cent. This is the estimate of those who have followed his campalgns carefully and sympa- thetically. There are, however, some very notable' instances of remarkable conversions. One is Mr. Saunders, (ARNNED WNye0-ME) I" ENDS CATARRH, ASTHMA, Bronchitis, Croup, Coughs and Colds, or money back. 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Onc of the leading speok- {ers was the pastor of a fashionaple | downtown Presbyterian church in | Philadelphia, which corresponds to Trinity church York city. my fraternity in my college, and al- though several years ahead of me, I knew his life before and after he had taken his stand in Mr. Sunday’s mect- ings. In the city of Wichita (I speak of this because I know of it personiul- ly) practically all of the card and dancing clubs of the city were turred into Bible classes. This did not last, but there were gospel teams formed in the city of Wichita during the per- iod of Mr. Sunday’s meetings, which are still working in that section of the state. That was about seven ago. Success—Philadelphia. “One of the first results of Mr. Sun- day’s meetings is the fact that the minute he comes to a town, or is an- nounced to come, the topic of relig- ion becomes common talk, from the highest circles of society to the sa- loon bar. While I lived in New York a group of men came from Philaael- phia at the invitation of the New York committee, which was endecav- oring to get Mr. Sunday to come to Philadelphia to talk religion as eas as you might talk baseball. In his chureh, which would seat 1,600 peo- ple, Mr. Sunday spoke each noon. They finally had to admit men by nro- fessions and trades, and give ouat tickets of admission. The judges of the supreme court adjourned each noon in time to come to the meetings, where seats were reserved for them. This man tells that as a result of the meetings he had received, up to that time, 541 additions to his church, land that not one of these people had CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the fignature of | done for h They the the mectings. by of hit the trail in the had simply becn influenced general religious upheaval city Sunday for $5,000 saving that it L very little thinggto do in com- parison with all that Sunday had family. Another result (very gratifying) of Mr. Sunday’ work is the influence that he is hav- ing for temperance. He is the great- est temperance orator of the time. His talks to men and to young men of our colleges along the line of tem- perate hal the evils of intemper- ance, etc., are one of the great motal forces of the day. Those who are in close touch believe that he had a great influence in swinging the city of Detroit into the dry columns at ihe last election, and rertainly the city of Detroit had a great deal of influence in making the state go dry. Mr. Davenport, who recently was the progressive nominee for governor of the state of New York, made a tour for the Outlook of the cities of the United States where Mr. Sunday has conducted his meetings in the last few vears. His articles in the Outlook, which were the reports of this tour, were, in substance this,—that he found the results of Mr. Sunday's meetings to be a nation-wide force One of his men sent a check to ! | cial, for civie and personal righteousness. He considered him to bhe a great mor= al prophet of the tour. “There are who do lieve in Mr. Sunday’s theology, and who do not like his language, and some of his methods, but who feel that these .are more or less superfi- and that the underlying power both personal and S0- cial is the real thing to be consid- ered. Mr. Sunday was asked by the Philadelphia Ledger what he consid- ered to be the reason for his success. They told him that somg people said that it was the methods he used. That some people declared that it was his unique personality, and so en. Mr. Sunday replied in this manter, ! “The reason for my success is that I am on the level wi the Lord and the Lord is on the level with me.’” (0ITS 3 EMULSION many not be- for Godline