Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 109, 8 May 1922 — Page 14

BILLY SUNDAY REVIVAL SUPPLEMENT Of THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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"Be a Man!" Don't Be d Sham Or a Caricature on Humanity, Is Adoice of Billy to Youth

Devil Gets Many a Boy Because His Father and Mother Are Camouflaged Pieces of Humanity, Says Evangelist in

Sunday Afternoon Sermon and Land in Hell. The Text: "Be thou strong and show thyself a man." First Kings, 2nd chapter, 2nd verse. Noboay can read the Bible thoroughly and thoughtfully and earnestly and not be impressed with the fact that it makes a great deal out of manhood and holds it up as something that should be sought after with diligence and perseverance. It exalts and emphasizes and shows what real, true manhood is. There are fifty chapters in the book of Genesis and they cover twenty-three hundred years of human history. Half of the chapters tell of the colossal manhood of Abraham, one-third tell the story of Joseph, while' God dismisses the account of th? creation of the world in just eight hundred words. 1'Iore space is given to an account, of the rugged manhood of Caleb than to the creation of the world, while whole books tell of the story of Job. Another book tells of the story of Daniel, while there are hundreds of chapters that tell us of men whose 4ves are worthy to emulate and God 'Ahows that He considers this important by where he places the italics. The Lord is no respecter of persons but of character. God admires charac ter. God is dead stuck on character. There is admiration for Job in the strongest language that God can use, "he is perfect." That means A-No. 1 and then some! You Cannot Hide Character, Whpn r.nri s.nvs norfot fnrrot ail that will follow That is hrm hasp I Character can no more be hid than you can hide fire in Dowder. A fool

may have a knowing look, but when!and then not wavering

he opens his mouth it is all off, All some men and women care for is appearances, they are all front door You oDen the door and vou are in the I back yard. Counterfeit character is more common than counterfeit money, j Wherever gold has value, brass does j its best to shine up and imitate. An old woman I told you of went I into a jewelry store to buy a piece of jewelry and every piece he'd hand her i she'd lick It. .He said. Lady, you can't tell gold that way." She said, "Gosh, I know It, but I can tell brass that way."' Sham battles won't kill. Sham character doesn't count. The worst bankrupt in the world is the bankrupt in character. We are told that the steps of a good man are ordered ot the Lord. God delights in his way. God loves to watch a real man go and grow. The Bible dwells on the manly things about a man.

Look at Abraham. He towers upigo until vou can get busy. - like a mountain above a mole hill i All right, you look like It. So, J when he stands before the king ot 1 you get out of life just what you look Sodom and hands him the hot end I for. The vulture sees carrion no

of the poker and pushes away the inch spoil that is offered him and in ;6nes that ring out like a golden bell God and sworn that I will not so much as take a shoe last from you, lest you say I made Abraham rich." You stand a lot of your good-for-nothing, modern, beer-soaked, tinhorned, grafting, two-by-four, pliable. plastic, whisky-soaked politicians up by tne sine oi mannooa line mat ana see what happens to it. Compares Good Men With Joseph. Look at Joseph, carrying himself blameless amidst the fiery temptations of Potiphar's house and when that miserable woman, Potiphar's wife, sought to seduce him from his virtue and manhood, he looked her square in the eye and passed her up. He said: "How can I do this great evil and sin against God?" Look at Daniel, only seventeen years old. living down in Babylon surrounded by adultery and he refused to hit their booze, and he stood four square for God and they made him prime minister to rule, although he was different from their religion. Look at Moses in all his princely " ' O ' " manhood nnshintr aside the srenter and the crown of the greatest kingdom of the then known world to do what his heart told him was right. "From California's golden shores To Dixie's sunny land. In East and West and North and South. In valley, plain and glen. The call of God is ringing loud For valiant, noble men." "Be strong and show yourself a v.. an God wants us to see what real flianhood and real womanhood is and - to become enamored of it. So he says to us, as David did to Solomon, "Be Strong! Aim high!" Aim for Christian character. The most God-like thing that ever found its way into human history is Christian character. If you would please God. be .. man. not a mutt, or a mollycoddle or a milk-sop. So give us men. A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands. Men whom the lust of office does not kill, men whom the spoil of office cannot buy. My text is the dying counsel of a father to his boy, and of course he would put into his last words the things he considered most important and what he wanted him to remember after he's forgot all else. He Was Told To Be a Man Me didn't sav. "Be a eood kine and rule in justice and In mercy" no! He! said, "Bp a man!" He knew if he was a man he would be a good king. Garfield said, "I am to make myself a man and if I succeed in that I will succeed Jn every other undertaking in life." David wanted Solomon to be a success so he said to him, "Be a man!" "Be a man!" Now, notice first. David wanted Solomon anchored to a noble purpose, he didn't want him to drift l aimiessiy Me vVant Jsmethin ilmlessly nxe a log in a wniripooi wanted him to have his eye on 3 worth while. So he said

Don't Be a Good-for-Nothing'Godr then heiirdo thingVfor'y!

I to him, "Don't be a floater, don t oe ; floater, don't be

a drifter on the stream of life, don t laws of faith are just as certain as be a reprint of the one who had your tne iaws Df steam. ear last! Stem the current that would carry you over the falls. A dead fish The man that plows with a forked will drift with the tide, but it takes stick gets all the crops he deserves, a live one to wriggle against the cur-, and the man who prays the old ratrent; don't be a dead one." eaten prayers is on the par with him. David had been a man of high, lofty Get something new. purpose himself. His life had been in-! fluenced by Moses and other great "s absolutely useless to pray to men that had preceded him. That . God to save and bless this city if the

aim was high and his purpose lofty, that is clearly seen by his writings. It wasn't an accident, believe me, that took David from the sheep fold to the throne of Israel. Success like that never comes by luck or chance. David was faithful when he was herding sheep and that became a stepping stone to something greater. While herding sheep he was qualifying for the better job. Prepares for Emergencies The man who said, "I will bless the Lord at all times," you can bet he won't go through life as a slip-shod, happy-go-lucky, chalk and vinegar, three carat kind of a proposition. Xa, sir! He'd loook ahead and anticipate and provide for the emergencies that are going to arise. , You all know you've got to die. You all know there are only two places to spend your eternity, heaven and hell. Then I'd prepare and look ahead and get ready. David got there as the real man always does, as Paderewskl i became a king in music, as Caruso be-1 came a king in song, as Lincoln became a king in statesmanship, by I having an ambition to accomplish! something he was capable of doing! ring in aim nor deavor nor allowing the sneers or the jeers or the taunts of some God-forsaken mutt to divert him from doing the thing his heart told him was right Half the ills, I think, that curse the world come from eagerness to achieve success in realms you cannot reach, It's a great thing to know what you can do and then do it. Having won success himself by having high aims, he was anxious that his son Solomon snouia nave tne inspiration or a iouy j purpose, so as he lay dying, gazing j up mio me imsi mai was kmlubuub around his bed, he said, with his last breath, to his son, "Solomon, be a man, be a man!" Without a definite, ever-mastering riirnnee in lifo failnro 1b tho rprtain result, I don't care whether it is in business or in politics or religion You will get out of life just what you iook. for. somebody says, u it is a fight you want, you won't have far to .matter how high he soars. The bee looks for flowers evehywhere and he gets honey where the spider gets poison. A toper sees the saloon. A Christian looks for a church, a panderer looks for lust. The noble see virtue, a mocking bird will never learn to sing if he takes music lessons from a hoot owl. Every Man Must Judge pOP Himself And so, every man and woman looks at life from their own standpoint. Let a butcher stand before a masterpiece. He sees nothing, because he looks at it through hides, tallow and suet. A carpenter makes his estimate by his comparison with a pile of lumber every time. Let a tailor go to Niagara Falls, he'd say, "My, what a great place to sponge your suit." Like an old farmer from Iowa, went to Niagara Falls, stood :here and looked at her as she tossed, and he said, as he pulled his bird tail whiskers, "Gosh, if that was milk, how much butter she'd churn!" The spider thinks tne bee is a fool. The hen is sure that the duck has deformed feet. Ask the camel what the I . . . i r w.on. ,s ma.,OI-5a.n Ask an elepnani vc3cii.vn Ask a whale water. A sheep neve, finds out what frost is until he loses his wool. Some politicians see no more of the public good than they can get out of the public crib. When he barks his shins, the giraffe knows he is still on earth. The plumber smiles when it is forty below !zero and the glazier laughs when he sees a hailstorm coming. The undertaKer is nappiesi w.it-n running crepe ,pn tne aoor Kno- au IOOK ai ,ue irom our own stanapoint. Now, as the twig is ben-, so the tree grows. The man doe thus and so today because he did certain things when he was a boy. Dogs turn around before they lie down because dogs did it five hundred years ago. Habits of Youth Remain The tastes and the habits we form between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four mark us for life. It is because the young man goes with bad company that he dies an old man in Sing Sing. That's why. Your life today depends on what you said, no or yes. to. yesterday. Your life tomorrow will depend upon what you say, yes or no, to, today. Always it doesn't make any difference what it is. The world is full of failures, not from lack of opportunities: hell is full of sinners, not because they didn't i have a chance to go to heaven. The red light district is full of prostitutes, not because they didn't have a chance to be decent. Sing Sing is full of convicts, not because they didn't have a chance to trot square. They had it, but wouldn't take it. One reason why there are so many hones bleaching along the highway of the immoral life is because the men and women who once set out with bright, sunshiny faces expected to go nowhere in particular. When Christian turned his back on the city of Destruction, oh, he intended to go (Straight through to the celestial city. but old Pliabe got cold feet and turned

"Stand as a Solid Phalanx

If the preacher has no faith it will soon be apparent when things go wrong. You have got to put yourself in relationship with God or God Almighty can never do you any good. If you want to be a warrior for God, you ve got to first be a worshipper of ou. God has spiritual laws that are as positive in their workine and subject to conditions ns tha natural laws Thp to conditions as the natural laws. The church of God and preachers don't do their part. You must do your part, or God Almighty won't ever bless you, as sure as you live. You haven't got enough money in your bank vaults in Richmond to hire me to spend my energy and strength: If I did .ot believe that you were bound for hell without Christ, I wouldn't do it. Don't try to shortmeasure God. Don't try to put one over on God. We learned that God is particular about essential things. All some men and women care for is appearance. They are all front . door. You open the door and you are in the back yard. Counterfeit character is more common than counterj feit money. Wherever gold has value brass does its best to shine up and imitate it Sham battles won't kill. Sham character doesn't count. The worst bankrupt in the world is the bankrupt in character. A dead fish will drift with the tide, but it takes a live one to wriggle en-jusu"i me current, uon i be a dead 'one Half the ill, I think, that curse the world come from eagerness to achieve success in realms you cannot reach It's a great thing to know what you can do and then do it. You will get out of life just what you look for. Every man and woman looks at life from his own standpoint. The man does thus so today because he did certain things when he was a ooy. .uogs turn arouna oerore tney , lie down because dogs did it 500 yearj 'ago. I . back when he struck the first mud nuie The rich jewels of manhood and j womanhood are for the man or woman ; who is determined to kill all the lions, ! swim all the streams, tunnel all the mountains, enmo an tne nins, uproot aii ne irees ml impeae your prog ress and keeP you from the goal for a ; touchdown, who says. "This one thing i 1 do" and stands pat. I Never Wavers, But Goes On He goes straight on like Columbus when he set out to discover a new world. David wanted Solomon to reach the mountain top, not to be con- j tent with a summer bungalow in the I valley He didn't want him to be an i old woman and a sort of a sissified proposition, he wanted him to be a I man with knotted muscles and with a great, big heart and plenty of gray matter in his brain. He wanted him to aim high then his endeavors would not be low. "Be a man!" Don't simply be a frame to hang a suit of clothes on as is the case with a lol of walking machines that pass for men and ought to be arrested for going around disguised as men. To know some men a-.d some women is an Invitation to do right and be decent. To know others 's an invitation to go to hell and be a deaenerate. Tn know some people is an invitation to be decent and to live right for God and His truth. You know there are lots of things, nowadays, oh, they cuss and hit the booze and lead boys and girls

oze ana ieaa Doys ana girisi -... hey wouldn't be called men of the battle between David and Golidn't have whiskers and;"- Sunday illustrated The swing

astray. Th if thev H breeches on and walk uDrlaht Instead of crawlina like a ouadruDed mammal.!

The man who lives part of his lifeneadImmorally, thinking that later he can Jesse James never had to shoot make amends for his evil deeds by twice at the same object,' said Sun-

leaving a large sum ot money to puolie charity and then be held up to posterity as an example worthy ofj emulation, should be taught that no single act of munificence can blot outj the record of an ignoble life. Nobody can live the life of a financial pirate or of a moral blackleg without paying the price. The princely manhood of David's can't be bought with money it is the grandest thing that ever made its way into this old world. Your manhood depends upon the size of your soul and not that of your body. There are men who" are small in stature, but they are noble In manhood, men like Paul, men like Julius Caesar, a little sawed-off, red-faced, freckle-faced fellow, couldn't see him for the dust. Men like Napoleon, only five feet four inches high and yet every time his old heart beat and his temples throbbed, the old moss-covered thrones of Europe trembled. Small in Stature; Great In Soul. Shakespeare, General Grant, they were men of small stature. They tower up like the mountains, my friends, above a mole hill. There are physical giants who are midgets in manhood and womanhood and on every street corner you can find "a nickel a bunch" sort of fellows. And there are men like Moses, they have manhood enough to enrich this old world. Other guys are not worth the room they take up In this world no sir! And when they die all they leave behind them is an epitaph on a tombstone and an obituary notice in a newspaper. .What God needs is men and women who are solid mahogany all the way through. There is too darn

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The tastes and habits we form betweent the ages of 15 and 24 mark us tor lire, it is because tne youne man goes with bad company that he dies an old man in Sing Sing. .

184 "HIT TRAIL" WHEN SUNDAY PLEADS FOR MEN OF CHARACTER TO FIGHT EVIL; "SHOW THYSELF A MAN" SERMON'S THEME

"Fight against evil to the last ditch," shouted Billy Sunday at the tabernacle Sunday afternoon to an audience of 5,000 men, "Be strong and show thyself a man." he roared, and 184 men and women came forward, shook his hand in token decision to lead a Christian lif of a life and signed pledges lrtS Switching his sermon at the minute because there were more ; women than could be handled at the j East Main Street Friends meeting; ! house, Mrs. Sunday spoke,- and at ' v n , . : . . v ?:';... Methodist church, where Miss Kinney

spoke, Mr. Sunday spoke on "Char- Uavid bad lived that kind of a life, acter," taking as his text the last' Tuming his volleys on the man who words o David to his son. ! did not set the example for his own "Be thou strong and show thyself children, he declared. "You may force a man", Sunday roared, pacing about 'your boy to go to Sunday school, but

the platform, coatless. his face drip ping perspiration and his shirt clinging to him where the sweat had soaked it through. It Takes Courage. "It takes manhood, the highest type of courage, to come down and pledge ! yourself to live the best life possible after Mav 7" ne declared. "A dead i fish moves with the tide, but it takes j a ,ive fish to breast the currents." . Telling in slangy fashion the story tnat David raade whfn the Vebb from h's sli"S bit the giant tne much veneer in society and in busi ness. And so God is anxious for us to win out in the universe. Oh, but people argue and say, "Well, you know the young people must sow their wild oats." Say. take a tip from me. I'll tell you a good time to put in the first crop; it's when you are between the ages of eighty-five and ninety. By that time a man's ardor for cheap booze and his longing to fill two pair have turned as cold as a pair of icy feet stuck in the middle of your backbone on Christmas. When your eye fails so you can't see the corner pockets in the pool table or tell a lady friend from the night watchman, that's a good time to put in the first crop, and the young buck! j who thinks that he can drill in a juicy

Sunday Revival Program . MONDAY Monday is rest day for the Sunday party. TUESDAY 10-10:30 a. m. Neighborhood prayer meetings. Noon Shop meeting, Lajid-Dilks company and Johnson's. Noon Sunday speaks at Rotary club. 2:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. 3:30 p. m. Bible class; Miss Kinney, leader. 4:00 p. m. High school girls, Grace M. E. church; Miss Kinney, leader. 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. Methodist night.

Billy Sunday to Converts

Before you can pray right, you've got to begin to live right, and whatever is wrong must be righted. Faith is a mightier force than dynamite or electricity. If the Bible comes from God, you can no more hurt the Bible by anything blatant blasphemers can say, than the waves of the ocean can be stopped by blowing a tin whistle against them. m One reason why there are so many bones bleaching along the highway of the immortal lvce is because the, men and women who once set outj with bright sunshiny faces expected: to go nowhere in particular.

Be a man Don't simply be a frame j 1he wor,dto hang a suit of clothes on as is the! A whiskey barrel is more dangerous

case with a lot of walking machines i that pass for men and ought to be arrested for going around disguised as men. Nobody can live the life of a finan cial pirate or of a moral blackleg without paying the price. Your manhood depends upon the size of your soul and not that of your body. . L, day, "one shot and then it was call the undertaker. That was the way with David, he could kill birds on the wing with those slings of his " " How David Did It. Swinging his arm above his head, Sunday made a feint cast with a sling. "David soaked him in the coco bei tween the lamps," said Sunday, beam- ; ... i , . i lug wim a uujiisu grin al lue auuirnce. "and then David cut off his head, and the rest of the gang beat ii."

"So when David told his son to beithe Republican?. This country belongs

;a man. his son knew what a man was, if you do not set the example for him also, he will turn one of these days and say 'You go to Hell.'" Sunday's humor was in evidence at spots during the sermon. "If you think that a crop of wild oats is necesssary, the best time to put in your first crop is between the ages of 95 and 98, then a night out with the boys will finish you off." Household Advice. anothfr f1 m"S at th . ;.lfe does wt At another time he said. "Don't e same time that your hen your wife is coming . . i. 4 n Vint tut a f it. Vtrt ryAa in -, .mi 4 U Iia.aI, J Imnn cool, wait until it is your turn in the (Continued on Next Page) crop of wild oats when he Is sixteen or seventeen can cultivate it with four quarts of cheap suds a day and calico and a deck of cards, be will find himself beating a wellworn path to an inebriate asylum when he ought to be out in the fields earning good wages and taking care of his mother and sister. Say, young fellow, a six-ply drunk is about as good a password into the confidence of the business community today as a record for highway robbery just about. And the callow youth with eyes that look like two poached eggs, who goes to the mat with a half a pint of Red Eye a day, he will be as much of a favorite, in the betting as a one legged man in a hurdle race. You

will lose out, as sure as you live and breathe. Be strong! God wants us all to succeed in this old world. The good counsel of David had been backed up and reinforced by the life he lived. If you will study his life you will find out what he meant when he said, "I want you to be a man, my boy." Tells of Difference. If Tom Edison should say to his son. "Be an inventor," the boy would know what he meant.' If some red-nosed, shamble-gaited, foul-breathed, caricaturist on humanity should say to his boy, "Be a man," the kid would be all in. Go that way yourself in the world. David's counsel would have been like water on a duck's back if he hadn't lived it. That is why many a boy ha3 turned out bad. His father's talk and walk don't agree. His spark and gasoline don't work together, that's the reason he never gets to the top of the hill. If you want to train a boy in the way he should go, you've got to go the way yourself. The devil gets many a boy by getting his daddy or mammy first. David's advice was no better than his example good. I think the greatest thing that can happen to a boy is to come under the influence of a real man. Every boy tries to be like some man in whom he believes. Every man is some boy's hero. No matter

whether it be our honorable guest, no I matter whether it be Jesse James, every man is some boy's hero and if every man and every woman lived right today, no boy or girl would go wrong tomorrow. And, every man and woman ought to be a moral sign-post along the highway of life. Therefore be a man! Be a woman for the sake of the boy and ' the gill that is following you. Give the boys and give the girls of America a j chance, by being a man, by being a woman juuistii auu living tne way God wants you to live, be strong. Difference in Making Living. We reach wrong conclusions be cause our vision is warped. There is a. biS difference between making a ing ana maKing a living me. me Prostitute is making a living, but great God sue is assassinating her life. .lne nignway roDDer is making a in ing. but he isn't making a life. There is a big difference between the two in tnan a gun barrel and you'd better wear corns on your feet, on your march to glory than to tramp with! dirty feet on the heart of the virtue of someone else. You'd better be a head, that merits a crown as a reward, than one that needs a moral fine-tooth comb in the universe. I'd rather be a sign-post than a tomb-stone any day. I'd rather help somebody to Jesus Christ in the world. So don't be a moral tramp, fleeing from God'e bath house. Come on, let's all line up for Jesus Christ and put the devil ont of business. Go into the halls of capital you will find many of them feeling their way among the marble pillars of a sumptuous, life, blind to the rights of labor, blind to the sermon on the Mount, blind to the Golden Rule. Oh! Go into the fields of labor you will find many of them today, blind to the gospel of mutual interest, blind to the fact that when you smite capital you cut your own throat, blind to the fact that the costs of strikes and lockouts have got to come out of your pocket, blind to the fact that the oniy real good is the good of everybody, no class on God's dirt. Be Strong Throughout Life. Be a man! The Democratic party hasn't a right to run the government ; for Democrats nor the Republicans for to everybody. It belongs to all of us, it don't belong to any party nor any creed or gang or any dirty bunch howling against our president. Get out of here, darn their stinking hides, we don't want them. I'll be darned if I wouldn't send them to Mexico or some place. Be strong! Be strong! Every drop of blood in my body beats to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner." When David comes before you, take off your hat. The weather changes. When David walks into your presence, the birds Comf hack hnilrl thoir nests I sing. Grass turns green, leaves burst out, flowers bloom and the lands wave knee deep in succulent grass, all nature claps her hands. Other people when they come In to your presence, the luri Miuiucici T Q 1 1 Q fill holnH- ,orn Truav met f n n n J I . ' V .... - ... V 1 . . I,' 1 u . -1 1 I 1. v z. . you. They give you the once over, good night nurse! Look at David. Why, when a lion came there and seized the fattest lamb out of his flock, David didn't get cold

feet and beat it down the hill. Why, I "r" u ' am pr?ylng' ... ,. ... . . ,. , , ' 1 ,ne music of the song, filtering through that lion did not have the slightest t the tabernacle from the rear seat. suspicion that he was committing sui-1 sounding like the swell of a pipe orcide when he did it, but David blazed gan heard down the long stretches of away with a stone out of his sling and an empty rathedraL . the first thing the lion knew his skin It was 8 o'clock when Rev. Sunday was on the floor of David's bungalow, j finally began his sermon, and keyed up The next day a bear came around ! by the thrill of the enthusiasm of the

and the first thing he knew he got it in tne neck and his hide was on the floor. David could have easily killed old Saul a half a dozen times and taken the throne. He was open and above board. Saul acted like a simpering kid that ought to be licked and sent to oed. The great men and women of the Bible were made of the same clay that j we are, subject to the same passions, subject to the same temptations but they didn't allow their lower natures to get the control of them. They made good laws and good resolutions and they were brave enough, my friends, to stand and obey them, and David didn't wait for hot temptation to decide. That's where the average man or woman fails. Instead of settling the question they allow luck or chance to settle it. Oh! If your manhood or your womanhood is buried under doubt, dig it out in the name of Jesus Christ. Manhood or womanhood deserving the name, you must sign your own declaration of independence. You've got to fight your own revolutionary war, if you ever celebrate your victory and wave the flag and sing, "My Country Tis of. Thee." There are Gettysburgs and Water(Continued on Next Page)

VISITORS GET BILLY'S WORD TO COf.lE BACK Charleston Delegation Holds Up Night Service. One Hour in Big Demonstration for -Sunday. - MUSIC isTnspiring If the Charleston delegation took the tabernacle by storm Sunday morn-: ing, they swept it Sunday night with a cyclone. For one hour the delegation. 310 strong, cheered, and applauded, and : carried the program with them. Forcing Billy Sunday to postpone his sermon until they had heard their favorite songs, they cheered themselves

hoarse at the announcement that Sunday had given a tentative promise that he would come back to Charleston for a two weeks engagement a year from this spring. The Charleston quartet that had popularized itself at the morning and afternoon sermons, wa3 called back lor two encores, before it was permitted to leave, while the appearance of Billy Sunday was a signal for. an ovation. THANKS RICHMOND After presenting some flowers that had been sent to Mr. Sunday by the Billy Sunday club of Charleston, Mr. Rodeheaver called on W. J. Hightower to thank the people of Richmond for their courtsies of the day. "The people of our party just insisted that some kind of thanks for our treatment should be made." Mr. HigtK tower aid, "but I told them it could not be expressed in words. "And people of Richmond, I am unable to find woras for appreciation. We thought we had a lot of southern hospitality down our way, but we can't talk any more aft having been here and having seen your hospitality. "Some day we want to have the cnance to repay you lor all that you nave aone THANKS SUNDAY Turning to Mr. Sunday he said, "Mr. Sunday you know we love you, and you have our eternal gratitude, but we understand that you have given a tentative promise to come back to Charleston for a two weeks' engagement In a ' year from "but the rest of the an: nouncement was lost in the cheers and clapping of the Charleston delegation as it rose to its feet as one man. Mr. Rodeheaver read several telegrams from other Charleston people, sending him their best regards, one telegram being from Fred W. Snyder, editor of the labor paper of that city. "Snyder is all right." said Sunday, "you just back him up." "I hardly know what to say to tell you how much I appreciate this," was all Sunday could say in answer to the enthusiasm which the delegation had shown, but if there is any place that I would rather go back to than any it is West Virginia." "How many of you know your state song, 'West Virginia' Hills. and can you play it, Bob?" he asked. "You know if when I die you listen close to my lips, I think that you will hear me sing that song as my last words." Call for Favorites The delegation sang, and they were applauded by the audience until they were forced to repeat the chorus of the song, but they turned the tables by demanding their old favorites from the Sunday party. Mrs. Asher, Mr. Rodeheaver and Bob Matthews were called on for duets and trios. Not until the three had sung "Not my brother, not my sister, but It's me, oh. Lord," and encored it with another song, would the delegation let Mr. Sunday make a collection talk. Then little Miss Jane Mayer, daughter of one of the delegation, came to the platform to throw a kiss to Billy and sing the chorus of "Brighten the corner Where you Are." Insisting that Billy Sunday lead the cnorus for one song, the West Virginia visitors made their last plea, and Billy got ready. -Remember my reputation depends upon this sone." SunI day whispered to the chorus, as he ,cii iratr inln Ik. . .1- - ' .... . 1 1 . , swinging his arras and beating time like a colloge cheer leader. . Makes Them Sing While Sunday was recovering from his exertion. Rodeheaver had the last tci rows and the chorus alternate with crowa. bunday threw himself with restless energy into his sermon. Pacing and marching back and forth from one end of the platform to another, with sudden bursts of gesturing and KhmiHnp- the nhnla .... ...0, .. " un; crniiuu nau permeeatd with life and vigor. T , . Tir T - . ' . wuiirsiuu, . va. captured tne B l ly Sunday tabernacle Sunday morning. - Special delegations from Columbus. Cincinnati, and Portsmouth, Ohio, and groups that had been picked up by the two special Pennsylvania trains down from Logansport, had their places and added to the interest, but it was Charleston that occupied the center, of the stage. Sets Record. "It is the first time In all Mr. Sunday's experience that a delegation has come so far." declared Mr. Rodeheaver In introducing the group to the audience, and Mr. Sunday said, "It's one of the greatest favors I have - ever

received, it is so great it staggers me." . . The first member of the . Sundayparty whom the delegation spotted was Albert Peterson. "Oh Pete, Pete, speech, speech," they cried. Then they cried again, until , Miss Kinney (Continued on Next Page)