Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 92, 18 April 1922 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1SZZ.

HE'S LOOKING FOR A WIG, IS THIS MAN PETERSON, CARETAKER OF TABERNACLE, - ' WHO WILL ADD ONE TO HIS COLLECTION Interior of Sunday Tabernacle and Chief Committees Who Had Charge of Preliminary Work for Meeting! PRESBYTERIANS VISIT COMMUNITY TOWNS TO MARSHAL FORCES

This is a story about th big boss of the tabernacle., official book man of the party. . bead of the lost and found department, and handy man of the Sunday party on th piano or on the bench for a speech at a shop meeting. On the north side of the building, near the chorus seats. Is the office where Albert Peterson, six foot Swede, who was born in Iowa, and is proud of it, sleeps and works and keeps watch for leaks in the roof, and chases trouble. There Peterson has a real lost and found department, where everything that Is picked up In the tabernacle !s kept until the owner Is found. "We have had about everything possible In that department," Peterson said, "false teeth, bundles from the shops, gloves, handkerchiefs and all that. Of course gloves are found the most. Looking for Wig. "So far we have failed to find a wig, although I expect to find even that some day." - "This Is a fine tabernacle hero," Peterson declared. "It Is one of the best built ones I have ever tended, and Is also one of the cleanest. . The only leaks in the roofs have been minor ones, and those have been far fewer, than one usually finds , in a ' building. ', K . i . i . ' Why, it is so tightly built that If we were to start. the stoves going we

, could run he crowd out of the placv from overheating." Monday 13 cleaning day for the building. Benches are repaired, tiie shavings are oiled and new Ehavlngs added where it is necessary. Keeps Close Watch. On the other days the day man cleans J up after each of the afternoon performances, sweeps the platform, and

Little Ones Romp and Play; Mothers Hear Billy Exhort

"Youngsters! A whole room full of them. No, it is not a foundling hospital, it Is the nursery for the Billy Sunday metings. In the basement of the Main Street Friends Meeting House are oodles of children, ranging from little babies that have to be kept in baskets to husky trouble makers of six. There during the sermons, while their mothers are getting ready to hit the trail, the little ones play with the toys that have been provided, and forgpt that they are visiting a strange place. In one of the baskets one little fellow, only a few months old, was faithfully pulling at the bottle that the mother had brought with her. Everyone was happy, but the "nursemaids" all had their hands full. Six Serve as Nursemaids Three attendents are on duty each time that the nursery is open, and a different three fpr each time, making six women a day who serve in some capacity. The supervision has been well organized. Mrs. McQueen who organized the personel and was responsible for the outfitting of the room, appointed six women to take charge of the nursery for each of the six weeks of the meeting. These then appointed fix women to be In charge for a day, who In turn pick the six that were to work with them. . The women who are responsible for the different weeks are In order: Mrs. Mary C. Mann. South Eighth ptreet; Mrs. W. Clark O'Bryne, 2000 South A street; Mrs. Frank Ewing, 714 South Ninth street; Mrs. George Harper, 2203 North E street; Mrs. Frank Weaver, Reed Apartments, Seventh and Main -s'treets; Mrs. Herman Hobson, National Road west. Children Are Tagged As the mother brings the child into the room a numbered tag is attached to the child, and a tag bearing the same number is given to the mother, Billy Hasn't Forgotten His Early Athletic Ability No one doubts now that Billy is an athlete. With his first few sermons over, very few entertain any misgivings about the famous evangelist's ability to cope with the best of boxers, runners, contortionists or acrobats. All who had forgotten that Billy emphasizes his "hot shots" with a special hazardous position have been reminded to the contrary. It wouldn't be Billy if his vigor, didn't run over into pounding the platform, beating the air, and climbing chairs now would it? IF PREACHERS (Continued from preceding page) knew what was in there, that had made them fail. - - They didn't say they had been too busy. And Jesus turned the searchlight on a little stronger and said. "What was it that you disputed among yourselves?" And they were speechless because they had been disputing who would be greatest. Now, you know why they couldn't pray. Now you know why they are not casting out devil3. The preacher that has to stand up in the pulpit and tell his audience why ho don't like mo and my preaching, is a preacher that never sees anybody converted . in his old ice-house. That is the reason why he is preaching to wood and varnish, to. Lines Up Solidly On Good Sido. - What difference is it to me whether he likes me or not? Neither does the devil? I can tell you a very prominent man in this country and when they were asking me to a certain city, he opposed my coming, ana he saia, . "When I saw the crowd that lined , up against Mr. Sunday there was only! one thing for me to do to oe decent and that was to take the other side. I saw all the saloon keepers, the brewers, the distillers, the gamblers, the tin-horn panderers, the madams of the red light, and the people that feed and fatten and gormandize off moth- ' era were against him. , That made me think if I was going to line up with a bunch like that" : You've got to take sides. Make up ySur minds whether you're going to

goes over the benches for anything that should be turned in to the lost and found department. The night man then cleans up after the crowd is out at night. Each of the men works 10 hours a day, and so arrange their schedules that one is on duty, nearly throughout the 24 hours. The tabernacle has two book stores, one on each side of the building, and of these Peterson also is boss. He has from five to Blx boys each evening to sell song books to the audience for the singing. Gives Them Away "We have never left them on the seats while I have been with the party," he said, "but in Tulsa, Okla., one man bought 200 song books to give to late arrivels. At the end of a week he did not have a single song book left. Peterson plays the piano, In the duet accompaniment for the choir each evening, and then when the party is short of men or the number of meetings large, takes his turn talking to the men at the shops. While waiting for a chance to enroll for second year in Iowa Wesleyan col

lege, Peterson went down to Des Moines, in 1914, to attend the Billy Sunday meetings. He got a Job as helper at the tabernacle, and then stayed with the crowd. The next year he became custodian and that he has been ever since, except for one year he spent in the army. Standing over six feet in his stocking feet, and with brawny arms that seem tireless, Peterson can make his piano talk when he has to keep up with the volume of the chorus. And he is as enthusiastic a "Billy Sunday man" as he is a piano player when the occasion arises. with which to call for the youngster when the sermons are over. Since the mothers have been promised seats in a special section, where they could be reached in case ot emergency, they are also near at hand where they can get to the nursery in a hurry as soon as the meetings are over. No children are to be left in the nursery after the meetings are over. So that the mothers must call for them as soon as they come out of the tabernacle. At the first two meetings the nursery cared for more than 40 babies. Little youngsters are not permitted in the tabernacle, and those that do get in have to sit near the edge of the building, and are required to leave as soon as there is the least disturbance of any kind. be decent or not ' It's up to you, not to me. Now you know why they hadn't been praying, don't you? And fasting? Now do you know why no devils had been cast out? They had been cutting the wire between them and the powerhouse. Now listen! No failure is so sure as the failure that Is sure to come to the man or the woman who tries to do something for God without first getting power from God to do what God wants done. You just try it and see where you will come out. Never in the world! It would be as foolish to try and do what God wants done without first getting power from God to do it, as it would be to try and run a trolley car when the trolleyj wasn't within ten feet of the wire. You couldn't do it! There may be; church pillars here this afternoon, but they may be only pillar shams. And your children are going as straight to the devil as the bird can fly. Do you know why? I will tell you: No altar, no place of prayer, no time for prayer, no devotional habits, no real spiritual life. Christianity Is not simply a system of teaching. Christianity is a system of teaching life. Christianity is not simply a creed, Christianity is a creed plus Jesus Christ The creed without Jesus won't save you. Not at all! Now Christianity means a new mind. What you see depends on the mind you've got Now, if you've got the mind of Christ in you, Christianity means a new mind. It means a new will. God gives you new will; that gives you new force, like coal and water give force to a locomotive. And Christianity Is new affection. You love the things you used to hate and hate the thiugs you used to love. Set your affections on things above, not on things below, j Bring Sacrifices For Good Cause. "Mortify therefore your members," not 'Gratify, therefore your members." You read it in one way but you interpret it in another. The Biblo says, "Mortify," and when anything is mortified, it is dead and you bury it. "Mortify,' therefore, your members which are upon the earth fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, which is idolatry, for which things' sake the Tabernacle Custodian Albert Peterson

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A- . it Rev. W. McClean Work wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience." No man rises higher than his motives, the idea that moves, and nobody can go faster than the dynamo that impels and drives him. Some of vou have eot a new heart. that is the reason you will pray, that's the reason. You will do what God wants you to do in this old world. If anybody here today is making a failure, do what Jesus did. He said, "This kind cometh not forth but by prayer and fasting." Oh, the kind that destroys men and women. The kind that makes unhappy homes. The kind that breaks parent's hearts. The kind that sends men home brutal and drunk. Tha kind that makes men untrue to their wive3 and wives untrue to their husbands. The kind that wrecks virtue and send girls out into lives of shame. The kind that makes men merciless and grinding to the poor. The kind that robs the widows and orphans. The kind that is merciless as hell and as black as hate and as relentless as despair. That kind in people cornea from the devil, and the power that will cast that kind out of the people comes by prayer and fasting. Now you know why the church isn't casting that, kind out because they are not praying, and they are hitting the booze, and they never darken the prayer meeting door. They are going to the devil and they are chewing the rag instead of getting on their knees. Now you know! This kind, the kind that can put that kind out. That kind comes by prayer and fasting and the church isn't doing it. No, sir. That is why they don't cast him out. Prominent Places Of No Significance. Wait a minute! They had been dis puting who'd be the greatest, on the way up to that meeting. They d rouna they were no match for the devil; they'd been wrangling to see who'd have the most feathers in their hat. Oh, what poor weak sisters we are. Peter, up on the Mount of Transfiguration, wanting to stay there said. "Lets build three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. Let the crowd down in the valley go' to the devil, and let's stay up here." And the crowd in the valley pulling hair, chewing the rag to see who'd sit in the highest seat! Oh, if the angels see what goes on here on earth, they must wonder at the patience of God! No wonder they couldn't pray, I think that God is too busy to pa inK tnai uoa is 100 uusy w -c any attention to tne reuow wno is tryn. lng to lift himself by bis own boot! straps. There i3 nothing to show that God Almighty will do anything out of the common to help a fool. No! There is something wrong with the man or the woman that wants the big gest bee in his bonnet and the chief seat in the synagogue. It is as impossible to pray right when your lifs is wrong as it is to run an automobile with dishwater. It can't be did! Now, they'd been disputing among themselves who'd be the greatest. Oh, mercy, isn't it fierce? Mind you now, get this point, I wouldn't have dreamed it possible if the Bible hadn't told me. I wouldn't dream it possible that people in church would scran if I didn't know it. I wouldn't dream that some or me Diggesi ueviis on earth sii in cnurcn pews wim lueir names on the records, baptised, sprinkled, and immersed, and know the thirty-eight articles of confession, and been to mass and to confession, going to the devil so fast you can't see them for dust If I don't know It, I wouldn't believe it. I have met every form of beast in the arena, in all these years for God, and I know. Christians Ought Not Start a Quarrel. Now, I say here they'd been disputing among themselves who'd be the greatest instead of trying to do something to get the devil out I'd never have dreamed it possible if the Bible hadn't said o. -Disciples of Jesus Christ falling out! Think- of the fingers on your hands quarrelling! Think if your thumb said, "Get off the earth, you little runt" , Think of the little finger saying. "Oh, you big stiff, because you tower above the rest you think you are the only pebble on the beach." Go to it My! Think of the wheels n an engine quarrelling, the one on

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tor mucn of the success of the organization of the Billy Sunday campaign in Richmond. The Rev. R. W. Stoakes, pastor of the First Methodist church, is chair-j man of the Billy Sunday local evangelistlc committee, and ex-officio member of the committee on committees. The Rev. W. McClean Work, pastor of Reid Memorial United Presbyterian church, is chairman of the committee. Rev. A. L. Stamper, pastor of the First Christian church, Dr. Charles S. Bond, member of the First Presbyterian church, and E. M. Haas, member of

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AT EARLHAM WEDNESDAY Earlham college students are to hear Billy Sunday and other members of his party at a special meeting at the college Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Billy, Bob Matthews ftnd Miss Kinney, who is in charge of the work with students, will makeup the party. The Earlham students will also take part in the special Saturday night meeting for students, when Billy will preach on "Forces That Win." Just how the Earlham students will attend the meeting has not as yet been arranged. CIRCUS FRIENDS Sunday has a lot of friends among the circus men, so Tuesday, when Mr. Hickey, advance man for the John Robinson circus, hit town he had to bring greetings to the evangelist from the circus men who have been showing in Chicago for the last week. the left Side savins:. "I'm cnine- fnr.i ward, you are going backward." ingforwara "eiDS backward' Vm go" Contradiction keeps the things eolng. Think of them fussing, "You go forward. I hnrw.-. B' u B "You en haokwarri r' Thi;of0theaCkhIfrsd' i'UTSSd quarrelling! Think of Christian men and women quarrelling, imagine it! By contending they showed they were proud, selfish, covetuous, evilfh!S?w0lV Wluat. comPassion could tney have for that poor boy with the devil in him or the father whose heart wa3 breaking because the boy had the devil in him? They weren't thinking of the sorrow and siiffprirnr that , ... . "u " .i y yfr-'T XX VJC

- -ov vi. lug laiuci. VJili lUlQK 1 0 -.0 j.v i vwu of women, my friends, that don't !nave tne chief seat in the synagogue know what it is to go to sleep unless I and wno would' be ia the limelight they wet their pillow with their tears and wno would be chairman of the of anguish! Think of the women committee and who wouldn't be, and that don't know what it is to have a'wno would be an usher, or this or kind word! Think of the homes that ! tnat- They weren't willing to take are wrecked and hearts torn! We.some little obscure point and by do-

might by some effort bring their lovea ones to Jesus Christ and lot them have a little sunshine in their life instead of sitting around and doing nothing to help bring the world to the Lord. Each was taken up with his own chance to see who would be the biggest duck in the puddle. They weren't thinking of the broken-hearted father at all, but they were trying to Drean their fool necks to get in the Bpot jignt Now you know why thevdon't pray. Prayer is Impossible my friends, when the selfish ambition is the main spring. Prayer is impossible when pride has the right-of-way Prayer is impossible when sin is in your life. David said, "If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me." ' The prayer you ought to offer is "God be merciful to me, a sinner." Like the Pharisee strutting down the street on his way to the temple, phy lactery streaming like a bargain counter ad, and preening himself like a peacock on a fence, and smoothing out his robes and getting ready to bellow out a performance, in a sonorous voice that would make the money changers in the temple drop their scales and laugh up their sleeves, and the recording angels take refuge behind their wings and harps. "I thank thee God, I am not as other men are." Let's go in the name of the Lord to: Rescue the perishing, Care for the dying, Snatch them in pity, from sin and the grave,

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E. M. Haas The interior view shows the large tabernacle in which Billy Sunday rritm w. v in this picture can be seen the pul pit; the black opening of the pulpit pit where Billy Sunday stands while he shakes hands with the trail hitters; long lines of seats where hundreds sit in the choir; the winged augiphone which carries the voice of the speaker to the most remote section of the tabernacle can be seen suspended from the ceiling over the speaker's platform, and the numbered posts where delegations are arranged in groups. INVITED TO MANY PLACES. Billy Sunday has been receiving all kinds of engagements to speak. The last ones to come have been from the National Vaudeville Artists benefit concert at Cincinnati, on Friday, but Mr. Sunday has declined all outside invitations while preaching in Richmond. READY FOR WORK. The Bible study classes under Miss Kinney are to begin right after the Tuesday afternoon session. Theiie classes are open to men and women and will consist in talks by Miss Kinney, and some discussion of the essentials of the Christian religion. NEWCASTLE TO COME Newcastle is expecting to turn out in force for the Sunday meetings, according to a letter received by Rev. H. S. James from Rev. L. A. Mclntyre, of the United Brethren church at Wppti n'pr the Prrinir nno Lift up the fallen, Tel1 tflem of Jesus, the mighty to Z-t.' 4. s t. j 1 That is What G.0 Wffts, us to do' Jesus, we want to thank you for tni3 littIe lesson today and we have W'J to the pe?,e " he,ps them as mUCh aS U helped me" Dsc!ple Learn Abo Weakness "Why could we not cast him out?" And so the disciples soon found out ,. Why " W8 they were there' Jesus nad Siven them power to cast out ! devi,s- but instead of living so they 1 had that power they had been wraneUna: and iabberine and nnarrplin and srrannW and f7 , in& so make the old world better and so when Jesus came down and found this little boy with the devil in him and the people standing around, found the old father with his heart breaking, Jesus said to the devil in him "Come out of him and you enter no more into him." , And the devil came out. And when the disciples saw what Jesus had done they hurried away and said to him "Why could not we cast him out?" Jesus said, "Because this kind cometh not forth but by prayer and fasting and you weren't praying and you weren't fasting, but you were quarreling and fussing so you didn't have power and the boy was worse off because of your fuss and It didn't help you any to quarrel about who would be in the limelight." O, God help us to see that if our ways please the Lord, and all our ways acknowledge him, he will direct our paths. "No weapon that Is formed against you shall prosper." "And, I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not I will lead them in the paths that they have not known, I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight." "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." "Him that cometh unto me, 1 will In no wise cast out." "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these we might be partakers jof the divine nature."

y v-?5xi Photo by Bundy Dr. Charles S. Bond Photo by Bandy Folger Wilson Newcastle. They are counting on having a Newcastle night during the revival. PRAYER MEETINGS Prayer meetings were held at the following places Tuesday morning: District 3, Mrs. Charles Coppick, 109 South Eleventh street, Mrs. Webb, lewier; District No. 9, Perry A. Wilson, 311 College avenue, 'Mr. and Mrs. Lindley, leaders; Mrs. George Partlow, 524 South Twelfth street. FRIDAY IS SPECIAL DAY Friday is to be a special day. "Bring something special to the Friday meeting," Billy Sunday asked his audience, "and make it a real giving." LIKES HIS MILK Mrs. H. R. McQueen, 714 South Ninth street, chief of the nursery forces, did her first duty by giving a husky baby his bottle. He was such a husky chap that he was almost two lap fulls. AGAINST SUNDAY MOVIES "I think it is a disgrace that you have your theatres open in Richmond on Sunday." PREFERS INDIANA "The people of Spartansburg, S. C. offered me a $50,000, on any lot in town that V would choose if I would come there to live," Sunday declared, 'but I told them that I lived in Indiana and that I guessed I would etay right there where I was." RAPP TO RETURN Fred Rapp Is going to get acquainted with his wife for a few days, he says, by paying her a visit at Winona Lake before he starts matters at Mooresville, Tenn. He accompanied Mrs. Sunday north on Monday morning. Returns to Winona 'Ma" Sunday"

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j Presbyterian church, and A. A. Humbower, a member of the Second Presj byterian church, left Tuesday for Eaj ton and New Paris, where they were jto urge large rltendance of Presbyi terlans at the Sunday tabernacle on Thursday night ot this week. The Rev. 11. J. Sarkiss, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, went to Cambridge City on "a similar mission, and the Rev. Wr. McClean Work, pastor of Reid Memorial United Presbyterian church, and Scott Heard went to Liberty, College Corner. Fairhaven, Morning Sun and Oxford to arouse the interest of Presbyterians in those sections regarding the "Presbyterian night" service at the tabernacle. ; Methodists of the city were-to plan Tuesday the campaign to be made in their ranks to fill the tabernacle with a special delegation some night next week. This movement is to be followed quite generally, it is believed, by other denominations. The Rev. E. H. Brown, pastor of East Main Street Friends church, said Tuesday that a meeting in which Friends would plan to fill the tabernacle probably would be held some time Tuesday, and that the delegation may make its appearance some night next week. "Fill the tabernacle" seems to be the motto of the workers. Thousands from surrounding territory are expected to be drawn into the great mass meetings through organized endeavor.

"BILLY" WILL UMPIRE HIGH SCHOOL GAME j Billy Sunday will umpire three innings of the Richmond high school baseball game with Stivers Hi. of Dayton, at Exhibition Park Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The game was postponed until 3:30 o'clock in order to obtain Mr. Sunday's services after the sermon at the tabernacle that afternoon. Baseball fans of the city will have their first chance to see Mr. Sunday umpire, and it will be a rare treat. Coach Stenger has had his men out on the diamond for several days and

I reports that he will have a fairly good baseball nine representing the high 1 school in the game against Stivers. The in-field of the Red and White will be one which Is fast and accurate in its work. Whitey Kessler will be seen at the shortstop position, his previous work at this position being up to real big time fashion. Tom Nolan will be at third, Byron Nixon at second and Spaulding or Kennedy at first base: This lot of infielders is the best available and working good. Eubanks will do the catching for the Hi lads and It will be between

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Kennedy and Spaulding for the pitch mg tasK. m me oumem, me coacn has sev-r eral candidates. Among these ara Malone, Pfafflin and Romey, who seem to be working in the best form. Stivers Hi comes to Richmond a? an unknown quantity and the strength of that aggregation will not be known until the game is well under way. What One Reader Thinks Of Hammer Blow Struck Against Sin By Sunday The following has been submitted: A large tabernacle with a roof like unto new gold and studded with windows through which outside light came white and cool. Serried seats of yellow lumber stretching away to the farthest end and mutely purposeful. At the head of the tabernacle a high pulpit draped with flags; above a huge audiphone through the center of which sprayed a strong white light. Back of this the raised ranks of the mighty choristers now assembling. Below them on either side the ushers and managers quarters roped off and placarded. Beneath the feet a thick carpet of new pine shavings. Through all and over all the new clean smell of pine and a sense of pulsing expectation. Then come the people sifting In through the wide entrances and settling on the benches like a resistless swarm of locusts in a ripe wheat field. A murmuring . sound is heard.' the speculative and Intermittent buzz of humans awaiting a spectacle. A withholding attitude, quietly curious, yet soul-awake and receptive; a people who had heard much and now wanted proof. Hearts suspending their own pulsebeats that they might begin in rythm to that which had called them in. Music Leader Appears Reporters now assume their places on each side of the great platformpulpit and a slender young man with a high forehead and generous pleasing mouth steps under the great audiphone and with swaying body and eloquent arms releases the great , chorus to music and praise. Immediately Billy Sunday, evangelist, mounts the platform and perhaps he has never faced in all his ministry a more conglomerate mixture of creed, criticism, judgment and opinion than were stamped upon the bearing of that crowd. They saw a man graceful aad jointless in motion as a tiger and with the same quality of invincibility. Energy flowed from him visible as water; a grim fearlessness sat upon his mouth and a restless impatience to begin gave his face a constantly i changing expression. Preliminary is not his rorte; he can grab a cudgel, strike a blow and effect a change with the dispatch of lightning. No man may sit under his speech and remain unimpressed. He makes a dent, a bole, a chasm, and God or the Devil will fill it up again. Richmond cannot now get from under the hammer of God as expressed in the person ot William A. Sunday. We are bound to be bruised, heated and conquered. When he has finished with us we have but one recourse accept God or be lost. Mrs. W. W. Zimmerman HITS TIGHTWADS After a long dissertation on the amount of money that v the United States spent on different luxuries, Billy shouted. "And when vou mass

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