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i. BIG CROWD PRESENT Climbing to the top of his pulpit twice during his sermon, roaring about the platform like a caged lion, Billy Sunday shouted out his sermon on re demption, Sunday afternoon, and 1(9 persons "hit the trail" and signed cards confessing their faith in JesusJ Christ. The crowd was sluggish at first, and only a little more than 150 had come forward when Billy Sunday came up lroni his pit, sweating and tired, and rrepared to give the final prayer. Twice more he had to go down to meet small groups, and was all prepared to leave, when he was called back again. It was his fourth time In the pit, but this time more people came forward to shake his hand than had come forwarJ during all of the other three times. Did Not Sign Cards The last ones, however, did not sign cards. The ushers and secre- , taries had broken their ranks when Sunday had gone up for the first time, and were getting the names of those already in the seats, so that the late comers shook Billy's hand, refused the cards offered to them and sunk back into the crowd. It was the largest meeting of the five weeks that Sunday has been at the tabernacle. Hundreds sat on the shavings in the aisles, while more than 1000 stood about the walls, or outside of the windows and doors of the building. The tabernacle which had been cool inside before the crowd gathered, soon warmed up, until when Mr. Sunday started to preach he removed his coat and in a short time also re-,

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murmur, me session Deing marreu ay only one baby that cried. One Man Grunts One man grunted in earnest as he attempted to bend his knees to make his seat comfortable in the shavings, and Mr. Rodeheaver remarked: "One man here hasn't been down on his knees for a long time." Several women availed themselves of the chance to come inside from the mass beside the windows, and squatted with the men in the aisles, and a number of cushions appeared as if by magic for them to sit on. As a part of the musical program, the Billy Sunday glee Glub sang. The members were: First tenor, Tholly Druley, Clifford Hutchins, Dr. G. C. Wilcoxen; second tenor, Perry" Wilson, Dr. W. J. Smith. Edgar Mote; first bass, John H. Graham, Lee Nusbaum, Ralph Little; second bass, Ernest E. Reid, Roy Brown, Walter Luring. Direct Glee Club Clifford Hutchins was director of the glee club and John H. Graham manager. Collinsville, Ohio, furnished a large

snare or tne early trail hitters, a small round badge of the ciJLy, being among the very first to come forward. "I'm tired," Sunday told Rodeheaver as he came up from the pit for the first time, "I'm tired." The closing prayer was given by Julian Smith, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Continued From Page 1 of Supplement God for the unmistakable gift of salvation and the nope3 set before you and the gospel. Infidelity Does No Good. When I think of what infidelity has accomplished it never won a gambler from his cards; it never turned a prostitute from selling her womanhood; it has never put a man on his knees and made him pray; it has never in any way linked itself to tender elevating morals. ' ,, It would not take a quire or a ream nor one sheet nor one line upon one sheet of paper to tell all that unbelief has even done for this world, and well might Christianity stand today as did hr founder. Jesus Christ two thousand years ago. And as she points to her work of philanthropy, her deeds of charity, her asylums for the blind and mained and poor, the aged and infirm and decrepit; as she points to her churches with their towers and spires pointing to the only source of consolation and hope, well might Christianity ask of infidelity, "Many good work have I shown you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" And I say to you I'd rather be the humblest German peasant that ever lived, seated by my cottage, vineclad, kissed by the rays of the setting sun as it dies out in the west with my open Kible on my knees and my family about me at peace with this world and at peace with God. through my faith in Jesus Christ, than to be the greatest infidel on earth or in hell r who ever will be on earth or i Infidelity Condemns Men. Infidelity oh, that condemns faith, it extols works. Infidelity laughs at believing and applauds dogma. I challenge all the combined forces of unbelief, for their achievements have utterly and eternally failed to bring relief. They have never gladdened one waste spot in the desert of doubt in the world; never have they helped the world and lifted any one to a noble life. Years ago. the old Columbia theatre in Chicago was thronged with youth, old age, wit, wisdom, wealth, poverty, learning, illiteracy there on the stage stood a man created in the imace of his God, his gestures were the perfections of grace, his voice was music, and he painted picture after picture of humanitarism like an angel then he dipped his brush into the ink and he blotted out the beautiful pictures he'd made. Stabs Love Dead. He stabbed love dead at his feet Like a great lawless, erratic meteor without orbit, he flashed across the Intellectual skies brilliant for a brief season in his self-consuming flames, generated by his friction with eternal truths with the Omnipotent God. He struck his fangs and injected his venom through his sophistry, his el5quence and lying postulates, and SJ lender that power the music hushed, 'the flowers faded, and the sun turned to blood, the moon became like a sackcloth of humanity, and the universe was staggering like a drunken

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man down the street, and there wmi nothing left but two graves in which he burled faith and hope. O! tell me not, O Infidel. ' There Is no Christ, no heaven, no; hell, A solemn murmur in my soul Tells of & world to be, As the traveler hears the billows roll. Before he reaches the sea. j When every earthly hope has fled, When angry seas their billows fling. How sweet to lean on what God said, How firmly to Christ's cross I cling., Years ago, the keeper of a drawbridge on a railroad received an or-

der to keep the bridge closed, as a'in he lurid gloom to tell of hope or special train was due at a certain cheer the heart Stand up you hour. Shortly after receiving it,ainau&nty high princes of erring scitug boat whistled for the bridge to!nce! Stand up, you sponsors of the turn to let a three-mast schooner bastard theory of evolution! You out to sea. that deny God's sovereign right of He looked at his watch and said: 1 creative power, you that said a man "I have time to let her through." came tn fortuitous concurHe turned the bridge and she pass-renco of atoms produced in -a protoped out to sea. Trying to swing it! asf- Cal1 on your old Godless prohDMr m,.,.-, t tr TL-nrV I toplasm now! Come on blasphemers,

He heard the shriek of the whistle J of the special. She dashed upon the partly closed drawbridge, and down she went and 17 lives were lost. That man's hair became as white as the driven snow. They took him to Ward'3 island, where he paced back and forth in his cell for year3. The only intelligent words he was ever heard to utter were: "If I had!" Oh, there are multitudes in hell. They regret the opportunities they had and let go by. They'd give worlds to have one more, but it isn't theirs. Then, you will meet your conscience. Your conscience is that sense with which you distinguish right from wrong and white from black. Much I of what is called modern doubt is imply the neglect of the finer feelinfieielity js that men were'once con. ngs. You know the history of most victed of sin, but they wouldn't yield to Christ, and now they have become blatant infidels. Darwin tells us that in his original plan, he wa3 going tObe a clergyman, and early In his career he spent five years in the forests of South America. He discovered while there that his love for music and hi3 love for poetry and his love for ligion faded. Disbelief Starts Slowly. He" said disbelief crept over him at a very slow rate. He said, but at last it was complete in its mastery, the rate was so slow that at first he felt no distress. You know the abnormal development of one faculty or in one direction prevent a normal growth in the other directions. If a young man decides to consume all his strength in making strong muscles and a big chest, and all that, he becomes a physical giant, but he becomes an intellectual pigny. On the other hand, if a fellow locks himself in his room with his book, studies all the time and becomes a book worm, he win bocome paie, eaK, anemic physically, although he will but he hasn't got a body to hold I up. What we want is a well-developed proposition all around, a fellow who can get Out and throw a ball like this. And when before God, your memory turns the secret spring, your memory will do its work. Some people spend a lot of dough to have their lives written before they die. Don't waste it! God is writing a better book than you will ever write and when God gets through, it will be no work of fiction. God will put down the names of your ancestors that were hanged for stealing horses out west. The Lord will put it all In. Do you swear? It goes down. Do you lie? There it is. Do you steal? There it Is. Did you sell some get-rich-quick stock and fake and put it over on the other fellow? Down she goes. There are thousands of people who would cut off their right arm if they could undo and forget. Pleasure Won't Drown Memory Some plunge into pleasure trying to drown their memory. Cain will never forget. He's been in hell now for 6.000 years, and he'll never forget that he slew his brother Abel. The fact is, he was a murderer and so in hell he remembers the incident. In hell, he remembers what led up to it. In hell, he will remember the face of his brother. In hell, he can see his blood spurt. Your memory never dies. Good-bye, I said to my conscience, Good-bye for aye and for aye, And I put her hands off roughly, And turned my face away. And, conscience, smitten sorely, Returned not from that day. But a time came when my spirit Grew weary of its pace, And I cried, "Oh, come back Con science, I long to see thy face." And Conscience cried. "I cannot. Remorse sits in my place." xou will meet your conscience where you had your opportunities to do good. You will meet your record, it will all be laid bare . You can Jump into your automobile and give her the juice and step on her and then when you come back home, look at the little jigger and she'll tell you how far you've been. When I played baseball we used to go down south to get in physical condition to come back up. We were the first Cubs that ever did that, and down at Hot Springs, in Arkansas, I remember a quartette colored folks used to come around and sing (the youngest was 38 years old). He sang first tenor, had a bandana handkerchief around his neck. He used to stand there with a crutch on one arm and a cane under the other. We used to love to hear him sing and there was a song they used to sing that I remember. "My God sees all I do, My God hears all I say. And he is writing all the time.' Who will be presenting the judgment? Oh, hierarchies, principalities, powers, the quick and dead, the living and the buried generations and the multitudes of the damned. Listen to the noise shaking the primitive elements. The lightning leaps from the angry depths of gloom, the thunder shafts are flickering in the mid heavens, the watch fires of the skies have gone out and the beacon lights have been extinguished. Your Chance Is Now O children of ungodliness! Outeasts for eternity! It is your last,

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TABERNACLE STATISTICS Saturday Afternoon Attendance ..1.500 Saturday Evening Attendance (women only) 4,000 Sunday Morning Attendance 5,000 Trail Hitters 131 Sunday Afternoon Attendance 6,500 Trail Hitters 179 Sunday Evening Attendance 5,600 Trail Hitters 35 and 'tis the farewell gaze upon the fast receding drama. No star floats l1'. "5aS.ed 7 e Honing and ?"P by,the Sunder peals! Open the burial places of your memory ffnd stand leaning upon your tombstones! Come on skeptics, it's your final trial in beliefl Will you parley with the thunder peals and the trumpet blasts, and the lightning flashes like you did with sin and heaven? Will you mock God then, the way you mock at the preachers? Come on prayerless buffoon, stand up, tell the world what a fool you were for living a prayerless life. Come on, come on, princes and plenipotentiaries of the intellect, you who magnified human reason above the divine. Old Theories Are wrong PntllP fin vni V Q nr,V enmA rtA German professor's theories and put Jesus Christ out of business and made Him a liar and a bastard, stand up! No, sir. Worshippers of mammon, idolators of gain, you disdain the commerce of heaven, you had no Bible but your ledger and your day book, you made a bank vault out of your heart. Gold was your god, the pr"etty face of that woman was your god. Look on the world now, old fellow. Come on, muster your deeds and your stocks and your bonds. Oh, all of these are lost while your soul re-!remains that you put no insurance ua ooa gave you tne cnance. I am sometimes asked what I think will be the outcome of the combination of capital to fight labor and of th,e combination of labor to fight capital. I don t know. But I will. give you a tip. I know this much, that God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world, and there will be no class judgment then. The millionaire will get it in the neck the same as the hobo. Whoever rejects Jesus Christ ,my friends, they are unfortunate, it doesn't make any difference who they are! God is no respector of persons. I don't know when it will take place. God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world oh, won't it be a great meeting if all the unbelievers are there? If my preaching gets too hot for any of you guys, you can get up and beat it, and if you don't like to, you don't need to come. But there will be one meeting where everybody will be there whether they want to be or not. You don't have to come here, but there is one meeting where you will go and you can't go away if it gets too hot, either! You've got to stay there! You will meet your sins. Sometimes at the mouth of harbors, bars or sand prevent ships from entering only at high tide. And sin is the bar that prevents the siner from entering the harbor of salvation. The love of God through Jesus Christ thatis the noon tide, and then you frL'"0", iZ0LG, "eHr! the sand bars of sin and blunders and it pulls your life into God's harbor of peace. But you must come in when she is at flood tide, and she is at the floodtide now. Establishes Missions. Years ago, my friends Crittenden Charles M. Crittenden lived in New York. His little girl died and he established missions after his little girl. He was out in San Francsco speaking for that purpose, and one day he received a letter. It read something like this: . "Dear Mr. Crittenden: "I wish you'd think and think your way down until you came to the lowest level upon which you ever found a human being living. "I have been to hear you every night. I haven't always been thus. There was a time when I had a home and a wife that I loved. One day there came a woman into my home. We sinned and fled. "For a time I worked and supported her, then I drove her out to sell her body. I took the money and spent it for drink and for dope and gambling. "One night I was down in an underground groggery, breathing the vitiated air, listening to the fiends of both Bexes that congregated in that cesspool of iniquity, when a man came in and put a note on the table. I read it and it said: 'Hurry, come quick, Lizzie Is dying." I put my hat on and staggered out of that stale beer-joint. I went down the street for blocks, then I turned into an alley, and went up a rickety stairway into a building, and down a long hallway Into the room on the right. There on a bundle of straw and rags lay a woman, and at the sound of my voice and footsteps, she aroused herself, opened her eyes and sitting up right said, "God damn and curse you! I am your victim; this is your work. Look on the wreck! and she fell back into the arms of infamy. God Will Forgive You. God pity you, he will meet his sin unless his sin is buried under grace through repentance and fear by faith in Jesus Christ. He will meet his sin. "It is appointed unto man once to die, but after death, the judgment." God offers you the way of escape now. It you are charged with a crime there Is just one of three ways you can get out. First, they hear the evidence. The judge says, "prisoner is discharged. He is not a criminal. He hasn't violated a law, therefore he is not amenable to the law that said he should not do what he did. He is not a criminal. He escapes by force of law." Supposing a man is charged with a crime, is arrested and pleads "not guilty" and hires a lawyer to defend him. The jury hears the evidence and says, "not guilty." He escaped by force of testimony. Suppose he is charged with a crime and pleads "nojt guilty." He hires a lawyer and prepares for defense. The jury hears the evidence and they find him "guilty." He is sentenced. We have had our trial. God has neara n, ana uou nas given sentence,

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(The sentence is eternal damnation, and there is only one that can pardon you and that ia God. He can only do it through your faith in Jesus Christ. So, therefore, there is no question about that! We are all sinners; the question is not whether you are a sinner, but what are you going to do to escape hell. You are a sinner, God says so. You've had your trial. "He that believeth not is condemned." How are you going to get out? There is only one way, and that la to be pardoned. There is only one in the i universe that has that power God Almighty alone has the power of pardon, and that is only through your faith In Jesus Christ. Can you ever hone to escape the judgment which is to come? General Cullen Battle was president of the court martial at Round Oaks church in 1863 and 18C4, and one day the case of the Confederate States of America against Edward Cooper, charged with desertion was called for trial. Letter Is Introduced. Aletter which Cooper had received from his wife was permitted to be introduced as evidence and it went on something like this, because orders had been issued that no man should receive a furlough for a certain period, no matter what the emergency. Cooper got a letter from his wife begging him to come home saying that she was ill and their little girl was sick. .General Battle said: "What did you do, Mr. Cooper, when you received this letter?" "I made application to my officer for a furlough. I was refused. Three times I made my application for a furr lough, and each time was refused. One night I was summoned on picket duty, and I was walking back and forth in the dark and I could see the hungry face of my wife and little girl. I could look into their sick, pale cheeks, and I could hear their voices ringing in my ears: 'Edward, come home! Papa, come hime!' And, General Battle, I couldn't 6tand it. I threw down my musket and I deserted and went home "I would have gone home to Mary and Lucy if every gun in the Confederate army had been pointed at my heart! I couldn't have stopped! My wife was out at the gate. She saw me coming and ran down to meet me and kissed me and said: Oh, Edward, I am so elad vnii'vo imt a furlough ' How i long can you remain? She must have i seen me turn pale and heard my heart beat and she urged me, and I said to her, "Mary, I didn't get a. furlough, I deserted. I couldn't stand it. I had to come to you and Lucy.' "She took her arms from about my neck, General Battle, and she said to me, 'Edward, you go back. The name of Cooper has never been disgraced; it's never been stained with dishonor nor ignomy or reproach. Go back and if you fall on the firing line, and we die, the separation won't be for long; we will meet again around the throne.' Describes His Stand. "General Battle, I am here, not because you sent for me, not because I was brought by force; I am" here because Mary and Lucy urged me to come." The men on that courtmartial were trained to their duty, and they brought in their verdict "Guilty," and Edward Cooper was sentenced to be shot. Robert E. Lee heard of the case and he asked to review the evidence. He looked it all over carefully and turned and wrote on the back of it these words: "The "verdict of the Confederate Statqs of America against Edward Cooper charged with desertion, whereby he is sentenced to be shot, is hereby approved, but the prisoner Is discharged and he will report to his officer and take his place, in the ranks." What the day of judgment dawns; - Ju. Christ will say. "Bill Sun day, from Iowa," and the Lord will say, "Bill, your record doesn't look good, shows you are a bad egg, (that is right. Lord (shows you used to lie. (yes) shows you used to do a lot of things, (yes) but the record shows that one dark stormy night in Chicago, you came forward, fell on your knees, accepted of the salvation which I provided by the death of my only begotten Son, Jesus, on the cross; you accepted Him as your Saviour, whereas you were doomed to hell, the verdict was reversed to go to Heaven!" Hallelujah! So that is how we escape the judgment, so I don't fear the judgment for myself, but my heart goes out to you who don't know Jesus. THREE CROSSES Continued from page 1 of supplement was saying one thing and meaning another, but he had the vision to see that Christ was no ordinary human being. He found the meaning and spirit of Christ in his heart, and he asked for forgiveness of his sins in that light and understanding. And on that ground he was forgiven, and promised the highest reward that earthly man can ever hope for in the future. With the faith that was in him he did not believe the crowd, who jeered and hooted at Christ and called him an imposter because they could not see and understand the purpose of Christ in the world. Christ could have freed himself from the cross if that had been necessary, and don't forget that. God can do those things when he wants to, but Jesus was offering his blood for our sins, and the opinion of a crowd That could would not believe in Jesus when he performed other miracles would not be changed by another miracle. His First Meeting With Christ t Yet it was the first time that that thief had set eyes on Je&us. Ke may have heard about him, fop'the fame of Jesus had spread over the whole of Palestine and was on every one's lips. He knew what Christ Jiad done, but he was not a believer. But that day on the cross he had seen his Christ face to face, and he believed. Some modern people have to have wagon loads of sermons dumped on them, and they still do not see the real glory of Christ, and have not accepted him. But that is not Christ's fault. He would have saved the man on the other cross if that man had been willing to accept Christ, but thej mail nuuiu uul uir nia j'a-i i. a 11 u L lit: gates of hell yawned wide for him. The two outside crosses were the crosses of sin. On one of them, unmoved by the evidences of the divinity of Christ that could not but have come to his ears, unmoved by the presence of Christ himself, a thief "died, and his soul departed for eternal torment. Goes to Heaven With Lord On the other cross hung the body nf a man that knew his sins, who coni iesseu mem. aiiu iu ma urai meeung

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Sunday Revival Program v MONDAY- V5lV Rest day for the Sunday party. TUESDAY 10:00 a. m. Neighborhood prayer meetings. Noon Business women, Reid Memorial church. 12:30 p. m. Business men, Y. M. C. A.

2:30 p. m. Song service and seimon. 4:00 p. m. High school girls at Grace M. E. church; Miss Kinney, leader. f . 7:30 p. m. Song service and sermon. "(The Unpardonable Sin"). Delegations from W. C. T. U., West Side, Barbers, high school girls, Hagerstown. .

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SINGS NEW SONG ! Most people did not know it, but the song that Rodeheaver 6ang as a solo Sunday afternoon, "Jesus My Friend," was set to music by Lee B. Nusbaum. Mr. Rodeheaver sang from the original manuscript as the song has not been published. "I did not know that Mr. Rodeheaver was going to sing the song," Mr. Nusbaum said, when congratulated on the music. "He had asked for the music, ' GOT TO STAY (Cont'd from Page 1 from Supplement) for you to cross that bar in safety and anchor on the other side." The Opening prayer was offered by Rev. E. L. Gates of the Third M. E. church, and the closing prayer, by Rev. Harry Sarklss, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church. After the sermon Sunday had left the platform, with his coat and bat "? with faithful Albert Peterson with him, when he suddenly reappear ed, called on the chorus to sing his favorite song, tore off his coat and hat, and began to lead the chorus in his typical cheer leader fashion. Bob Matthews who had been lead-J "is ne cnorus, stepped to one siae, wmle Pete dodged to the second piano to play with Miss Kinney, and the rousing song was on. "Now the chorus again, with all stops out," Sunday cried, and Into it with all the force at their command the choir went, making the rafters ring with their song, and the few members of the audience that remained applauded vigorously. NEGLECT OF (Continued from preceding page) crossed the bur up near the ferry line, and the cry rang out "Man overboard." Spurns Help. They hurried to the side and they hurled the line. The man seized it, they slowed down the ship and turn ed the spool and brought him nearer and nearer, and as he came nearer he hurled the life tine back toward the vessel and with a sneer and a laugh down he went. You say he must have been insane They say he was. Tnen, do you want me to regard you as being crazy when every attempt that God Almighty is making to pull you out of the great ocean of sin, you are spurning the Lord as though he were your enemy. God pity men and wom en! How he differs from the sailor who was pegging the mast of an old Cunarder. She rolled into the sea and the man fell into the ocean and someone cried out "A thousand dol lars to save him!" So they hurled the life line, he seized it, and they drew him by the side of the sloop. They saw he had such a firm grip upon it that they lifted him up over the aide of the vessel and laid him upon the deck. They said, "John, let loose of the line." He made no reply. Time went by and in half an hour and more they said to him, "John, let loose of the life line, you are not in the water. you are on board the ship. Let loose!". They saw his eyelids tremble and his lips move and he looked up and said. "Captain, I can't let loose, I gripped her for life." Oh! It was- over an hour before the muscles in that man's hands and arms let loose of the life line. In the name of God and Jesus Christ and all that is noble and grand and pure, in the name of heaven, I hurl it out now. Come on In and let God draw you into the harbor of eternal peace. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" with the Christ accepted, and before the end of the day went to the heavenly place with his Lord. The central cross was not a cross of sin, it was a cross of tenderness, of sacrifice, of love. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," tells the story of that cross. Here was enacted the greatest spec tacle in the history of the world. With darkness striking the mount where the crosses were set, until the crowds that were gathered there, smote their breasts, and went their ways home, troubled with what tliey had seen, the debt of our souls to our God was paid by the blood of an innocent man. Hung betwen two thieves, one of them blaspheming and spitting out his dirty oaths, cursing the God that made him and that had given; him a chance, the other asking for forgiveness for his sins in humbleness of heart, our Jesus died. Nothing Else Equals it Poets have sung of that cross in the center, scupltors have tried to depict it in marble, and painters have tried to lay it on canvas, but it has never been reproduced, the grandest thing in the whole world. Other things will pass away. The right hand cross will fade and die from the sight, the left hand cross will vanish and never be seen, but the central cross will, shine on and on, until we meet it in Heaven. It will never perish. But search as you will through the pages of history you will find nothing to compare with the death on that third cross, for on those huge crossed ties ended the life of our Christ, our Savior and our Lord. But in his death came forgiveness of our sins, that We might have everlasting life, if we are but ready to ask for it. Are you willing to ask for the redemption and the forgiveness of Christ ior yourseiiT

because some one had told, him about it, and told me that he was to sing it just before he went on to the platform." . FINDS TWO KINDS Since I have been in Richmond I have met some of the finest of people and some of the worst of liars." Mr. Sunday declared to his audience Sunday aternoon. MANY VISITORS Collinsville, Ohio, while at the tabernacle In a delegation that must have included over a hunderd, from the number bearing that name on their coats that came forward to shake hands with Billy Sunday at the afternoon meeting. HUSBAND HERE Mrs. Asher got left when it came to meeting her husband Saturday af

ternoon. She was all prepared to meet cne train and was waiting for the car that was to take her down to the depot, when who should ap pear at the hotel but Mr. Asher, safely arrived from Winona Lake, and on another train. ARE POPULAR The men's meetings after the evening sermons at the tabernacle are get ting to be popular, as there is always a goodly sized number of men out for them. CALLS ON SONS Mrs. Rodeheaver was over Sunday to call on her sons, Homer and Willlam, who got together in Richmond again for a day or two. She returned to Winona Lake Sunday night,'" thU time to stay until the Richmond campaign was over, and said goodbye to all of the reporters and other friends that she met while in Richmond. A SUGGESTION Dr. Rae suggests that donors to the Billy Sunday farewell offering have their checks framed, showing the endorsement of Billy Sunday. The checks are a convenient size for framing. The same talk that Miss Kinney gave to the P. T. A.'s last week is to be repeated by request for the Mothers of Richmond Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Grace M. E. church. There were some men at the othei meeting, but this time it is expected that only mothers of school girls will be present. FOUR SERMONS If Billy Sunday preaches four times in Richmond next Sunday he will have to be speaking almost continuously from 10:45 in the morning until 8:30 at night. That makes a long day's work for a epeaker. CLASSES TO ATTEND The St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran young men and women's clases wlh attena me taDernacie meetings in a body on Tuesday night. Reserva tions are made for n5. SUGAR VALLEY COMING Sugar Valley, under the leadership of Mllford Burdsall, will be present at the tabernacle 100 strong, on Wed nes night acording to present plans. LAST RESERVATION The last reservation now recorded is that of the Loyal Women of the First Christian church, who will be at the tabernacle, on Friday night. Reservations for 75 have been made for the class. PARTY IS SCATTERED As usual the Sunday party is widely scattered over Monday. Peterson and Mr. Sunday left for Winona Lake, Sunday night, and will be back in town by Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Rodeheaver left for Chicago on the earliest train he could catch, while Mr. and Mrs. Asher droped from sight Miss Kinney played golf in the morning, and held conferences all afternoon, duplicating the activities of Bob Matthews. Fred Rapp was , in town Monday for the first time several weeks. GREENFIELD EDITOR HERE . John F. Mitchell, of Greenfield, edi tor of the Hancock Democrat, was in Richmond over Saturday to hear Mr. Sunday preach, and occupied a seat on the platform at the services. CANDY PRESENTED Miss Kinney and Albert Peterson were presented with boxes of candy on baturday, by little George Francis Bennett, North Thirteenth street. WEAR WHITE RIBBONS "Wear your white ribbons," is the order that has gone forth to the W. C. T. U. women who are to be present in a delegation at the tabernacle on Tuesday night. The women will gather at the west door of the East Main street Friends meeting house at 7 o'clock. ANNOUNCE TUESDAY PRAYER MEETINGS - The following prayer meetings are scheduled to be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock as a part of the Billy Sunday campaign: District 3 Sec. B, Mrs. Dennis, 441 South Thirteenth street, Rev. Leazer; Sec. C, John M. Lontz, 52 South Fifteenth street, Miss Kinney. v District 4 Sec. F, Mrs. John Deem, 206 'North Thirteenth street District 6 Sec. D, Mrs. A. L. Reid, zzar Jiiast Main street, Mrs. Frank Page. District 9 Sec. J. Mrs. Frank HalnI ley. 309 Pearl street Miss Marmmt -j itenaan. f

MISS KINNEY BUSY : DURING LAST WEEK ' Miss Kinney Is going to have a full week for the last seven days of her

'stay in Richmond. Tuesday she leads the prayer meet ing at the home of Mrs. John " M Lontz, 52 South Fifteenth street. In"" tne afternoon at 4 o'clock she meets the high school girls at the Grace M. E. church. On Wednesday she will hold several meetings, arrangements for ? which . have not been completed, and on Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock she . will give a demonstration Bible study class at the tabernacle, as instructor' lor tne classes that are to be carried ' on after the Sunday party leaves. TALKS TO MOTHERS .Thursday afternoon, on request of many of the persons that heard her , talk before the P. T. A. last week. Miss Kinney will give a talk to moth- , ers at the Grace. M. E. cbuich. He: talk will be at 4 o'clock. , On Friday morning at 10:30 a. m.. she will lead a community meeting avthe Third Methodist church in Fairview. Mr. Peterson lead the meeting, last week. In the afternoon at 4:30 she will give her final class on the'. Bible to the teachers at the Y. M. C. A., the subject being, "The Second. Coming." Mrs. Asher will spend the week in holding meetings at noon at the var-. ious business houses. Both Mrs. Asher and Miss KJnne -will hold their regular meetings during the week, although Miss Kinney will not have any more Bible classes. Conferences covering the final or ganization of the groups that wil. -carry on the work of the campaign . after the Sunday party leaves, also, will take some time during the week. SHOWS HOW TO FORM BIBLE STUDY GLASSES - Thursday morning Miss Kinney will, give a demonstration lesson on the organization of a neighborhood Bible study class, which is to be the final outcome of the neighborhood prayer meeting classes that , are now being held. The preliminary organization, which , is based on the same grouping of the city into sections and districts, as un der the prayer meeting system, nas been partially effected, and the final selection of officers and workers will be made Thursday morning. In some places the classes have been carried on for from seven to ten years after the Sunday party left the city. Committee to Act Rev. Backus, Rev. James, Mr. Hobson and Mrs. Marvel are the commit : tee which is in charge of the arrange- -ments for. the meeting and will nominate the new officers. Some of the smaller cities and towns nearby are becoming interested in the plans and have suggested to Miss Kin ney that they would like to have a group established in their town. Whether or not the outlying place? will Join In with the same organizatior that is to conduct the meetings ir Richmond has not however been de cided. - BLUE CHECKS READY FOR GIFT TO SUNDAY The blue checks, bearing the picture of Mr. Sunday and having the extra space below the check for notations and remarks, are now being distributed to those that expect to take part in the farewell offering to Mr. Sunday. The name of the bank, and its location, and the amount of money is not filled in. but the checks read otherwise, "which is my contribution to the Billy Sunday farewell offering." The checks were first introduced at the women's meeting on Saturday night, when Miss Kinney explained to the audience that it was a convenience of the committee, so that those that would not be at the tabernacle on Sunday could fill out their checks, and hand them in at any time. The checks were made payable to W. A. Sunday or order and a genuine Sunday autograph is promised to every man who sends one in. - - - Envelopes for a cash offering, without any name attached, have also been sent out These envelopes say that they are to be left at the tabernacle, mailed to Mr. Sunday, or to Ed Wilson, the treasurer of the campaign, or put in the collection pans on next Sunday. It also suggests that they may be handed to Mr. Sunday personally. COULD NOT HAVE WON . WAR WITHOUT WORK OF ANIMALS, CLAIM (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 22. The World war could not have been won "without the aid of our animal allies," Prof. E. H. Baynes of the American Museum of Natural History, declared in an address here on animal heroism. Prof. Baynes said 16,000.000 horses took part in the war. notwithstanding the wide use of motor lorries, oxen were used by soldiers in the Alps and German East Africa, donkeys worked in Palestine and Fiance, and that in the Orient camels were pressed Into service, with dogs doing their bit for all countries especially in Belgium, where they hauled machine guns. "Never in the history of mankind." he continued, "have animals played so great a part in the protection of civilisation. Even tne work of the mascots, keeping the miracle and cheerfulness wun a targe numDer oi troops in tne field, was important" . 4 Canaries were used by the Germans' to detect the presence of poison gas. and homing pigeons valiantly carried messages through shellfire, sometimes giving up their lives to deliver the messages, he declared. Prof. Baynes has founded more than 200 animal clubs in all parts of the United States. VISIT PRISONS ' Mr. and Mrs. William Asher, according to Mr. Rodeheaver, have been in more jails than any other persons in the country. While they were traveling with Dr. Chapman they conducted the meetings in the saloons, the prisons and penitentiaries. -a,

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