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Ministers Report Fine Results From Billy’s Visil
J. K. Orr, chairman of the Atlanta
campagn committee in charge of the
Billy Sunday revivai, told the mem
bers of the committee at a eeting
in the Y. M. C. A. Monday afternoon
that he is well pleased with the re
sults of the capaign so far and that
the revival should go through the
seven weeks originally planned.
There was some talk of curtailing
the meetings to six weeks because of
the possible interference with the
gatherings of the usual Christmas
preparations and celebrations. It
was thought by some of the commit
teemen that there would be too much
doing in the way of Christmas shop
ping to expect the Tabernacle meet
ings to be crowded the week before
Christmas and the suggestion was
made that the pre-Christmas week
campaign be called off in consequence.
The committeemen discussed the
matter thoroughly, but no official ac
tion was taken in the matter. The
general opinion is, however, that the
campaign go the six weeks, as origi
nally planned, and that December 23
he officially scheduled as the “last
day.”
Ministers and laymen active in the
revival reiterate Mr. Orr's declara
tions of the remarkable good that has
followed the campaign. They are
strong for having Atlanta get the
greatest possible good out of the re
vival, and want Billy to stay here just
@s long as he possibly can.
Real Southern 'Cue
For Two Governors
WAYCROSS, Nov. 27.—Governor
Stuart, of Virginia, and Governor
Dorsey, of Georgia, will have an op
portunity of eating some real Georgia
barbecue, prepared in the good old
Southern style, if the cook employed
by I M. Thorpe, of Townsend, lives
p to his reputation when he pre
pares the barbecue for the South
Georgia live stock rally at Pine Har
bor, Saturday.
President Sessoms, of the Georgia
Land Owners’ Association, has been
officially notified by Mrs. Nellie Peters
Black, president of the Georgia Fed
eration of Women'’s Clubs, that she
will be present.
Decatur Club Gets
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Squirrels and Fish
\lembers of the Ford Barrington
Hunting and Fishing €lub, of Deca
tur, were home again Tuesday, filled
to the brim with yarns, old and new,
and bringing back vast quantities of
squirrels and fish. Six of the hunters
hagged 96 squirrels in fifteen minutes,
t reported.
Among the hunters were V. S. Mor
gan, Sr,, V. 8, Morgnh, JE, J; B.
Tohnson, J. O. Norris, W. 8. McCurdy
wnd A. S. Aleln.
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No Opposition to
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Albany Officials
\LBANY, Nov. 27.—1 n one of the
i-test primaries ever held here,
vor M. W. Tift and Aldermen Jo
eph Bhrlich, R. L. Jones and H. A.
peacock were renominfted yesterday
without opposition. The nomination
ounts to election, and they will
oin new terms January 1. Only a
¢ light vote was polled, and very
je scratching was' done.
(hurch to Support 2
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Foreign Missionaries
\INESVILE, Nov. 27.—After an fm
~csive serman by Rev, J. M. Haymore,
‘he First Baptist Church of this city,
css than thre¢ minutes, raised $1,500
f the support of two missionaries in
foreign field. B. H. Merck volun
~red to suport one jmissionary alone
. .ontribute 3100 toward the support
¢ another. Other laymen immediately
ed him. The action was taken
Luirkly and spontaneously.
‘IF ANY MAN V/ILL,
NIGHT SERMON TEXT
ILLY BUNDAY preached Tues-
B day night to a large crowd at
the Tabernacle on “If Any Man
Will.” The sermon in full follows:
Copyright, 1917, by Willlam Ashley
Sunday.
In the seventh chapter of John
and the seventeenth verse: “If
any man will do his will, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether I speak of
myself."”
The revised version simplifies
that verse and says: “If apy man
willeth he shall know whether [
speak of myself or for the Lord.”
I have now, and I hope and
pray that I always will have sym
pathy with any man or woman
that has difficulties, intellectual,
spiritual or moral, and if by any
word or advice of -mine, I can
sweep the cobwebs from your vis
ion and cause you to see, I ac
count the work done just as val
uable as though 1 have been
privileged to aid some man or
woman already a bellever into a
clear conception of his or her
responsibility and obligations to
God and the Word.
The skeptics said, “We know
you, we know your ‘mother, your
brothers, your sisters and we
know where you were born. How
do we know that you are the Son
of God? How do we know that
you are tpue instead of false?”
Jesus said, “I say I am the Son
of God. You say I am a liar, a
fraud, a devil and a prince of
devils. Would you like to know
whether you are right or wrong?
If you do God's will you will
know that what you say is a lie
and that what I say is true.”
Will to do God’'s will and you
will know of the teaching,
whether it be from God or just I,
myself, talking.
A Georgia preacher one time
paraphrased hig text by saying,
“If you want religion do it. It
won’'t be long until you have it.”
In other words start out and
do what any honest man.wili do
and you will not be in the dark.
Now the proof of the pudding is
not in sealing the bag or chewing ‘
the string but it is in the eat- |
Preachers to Give Up Seats on
Platform and Sit Down Among
the Audience.
If you lo.ok around the Tabernacle
platform at any of the subsequent
Billy Sunday meetings and you can’t
locate the ministers, don't for a mo
ment think they have forsaken the re
vival gatherings. Not a bit of it!
They probably will be down in the
big audiences somewhere, scattered
throughout the building. They have
decidad to give up their space on the
platform to those who lLaven't been
regular atendants at the meetings.
At the suggestion of the Rev. W. H.
Coover, pastor of St. John's Metho
dist Church, the ministers agreed
unanimously to go out into the high
‘ways, look up the men and women
who haven’t been over to the Taber
nacle, give the invitation to go and
hear Billy preach, and then hand the
person their ministerial ticket that
carries with it the right to a reserva
tion in the “ministers section” on the
big choir platform.
The ministers met Monday with the
Atlanta campaign committee in
charge of the Sunday revival, and
they spoke encouragingly of the re
markable effects of the meetings on
their congregations. They agreed that
church attendance had been much
stimulated, that additional members
have arranged to associate themselves
with the church, and that meetings of
the various church societies generally
are more successful because of the
larger attendance.
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ing. Yet we have a lot of peo
ple trying to prove the inspira
tions of Christianity by chewing
the rag.
Well, that requlres no amount
of brains nor sense nor reading
but it requires a great deal more
to put the words of my text into
practice—"“lf any man willeth
then he shall know.”
I suppose as long as the United
States mints stamp coins and make
them worth one hundred cents on
the dollar, there will be found
men who will counterfeit them.
But that does not destroy the
value of the genuine. You think
all the more of it.
You ,find as long as God's
cause is going along, you will
find men that will counterfeit it.
I went to Washington one time
years ago and I met my friend
John Wilkey, he used to be a re
porter on the Chicago Tribane
when I was playing ball. We be
came fast friends. I went to his
room one time to see him and
he showed me thousands of dol
lars made by counterfeiters. I
had a good dollar in my pocket
and I wasn't fool enough to
throw it away on the White
House grounds. That one good
dollar would buy more than all
the hundreds of counterfeits that
1 had looked at. It made me
think more of it because we only
counterfeit good things nowadays.;
Now Jesus Christ foretold all
this in his prophecy about the
kindgom of Heaven being like a
grain of mustard seed, and the
birds shall tuild their nests in
the branches. ;
That prophecy has been ful
filled so today in most of the
churches and you can find any
thing from a hungry bird to a
turkey buzzard.
In a town one time out in Illi
nois something was said in the
sermon that made a young-fel
low mad. He went our cursing
and damning and said he did not
believe in the Bible or God. That
young fellow was a Mason. So
they had a session called at the
lodge.
The next day a friend of mine,
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Pleasant Surprise for the Evan
gelist and Ma When Young
Son Arrives.
Samngihs
Billy Sunday and Ma got the sur
prise of their life Monday morning
when in walked Billy Sunday, Jr.,
fresh from the Blair School, in
Blairstown, N. J.
Billy, Jr,, is a husky young chap,
full of vim and ready for most any
emergency. The members of the iun
day party knew all about young Bil
ly's proposed visit to Atlanta. But
they didn’t mention it to “the boss"
or to Ma. They wanted to surprise
Billy, Jr's, parents. And they did.
Mrs. George Sunday was in on the
secret and she was down at the Ter
minal Station early Monday morning
to greet Billy, Jr. Then Billy, Sr,
and Ma were awakened. There was
a happy reunion and everybody had
breakfast. It was a sort of “Thanks
giving dinner,” since Billy, Jr., has
only a day or two off from school and
he expects to rush back to the class
room Wednesday.
Billy, Jr., is the evangelist's seg
ond son. He's still in his “teens.”
Another son, Paul Sunday, is in Chi
cago with his married sister. Ma
Sunday is planning to go home for a
short visit next week.
ELKS’ MEMORIAL SPEAKER.
ALBANY, Nov. 27.—Judge Edward
R. Hines, of Milledgeville, will deliver
the annual oration at the Elks’ me
morial exercises here next Sunday
afternoon in the Municipal Audito
rium. Judge Hines takes.the place of
Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledgevilel, who
could not appear on account of the
serious illnes of his only daughter in
Washington, D. C.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
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ILLY SUNDAY preached Tues-
B day afternoon at the Tabernacle
on the twenty-fifth verse of the
fifth chapter of Jeremiah, “Your
iniquities have twrned away these
things and your sins have withholden
good things from you.” The sermon,
n full, follows:
Copyright, 1917, by William Ashley
Sunday.
In Jeremiah the fifth chapter,
twenty-fifth verse, “Your iniqui
ties have turned away these
things, and your sins have with
holden good things from you.”
In that verse of the scriptures,
Jeremiah is giving the explana
tion for the existence of a sad
state and condition of things in
his day. He came as the prophet
of God, the Just, to whom cer
tain things had been promised.
When God entered into a cove
nant with them He promised them
ample provision for their needs.
He said: “1 will pour down the
early and the latter rains upon
your, lands.”
He promised them peace, “Peace
I leave with you, My peace I
give unto you; not as the world
giveth, give 1 unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, mneither
let it be afraid.”
He promised them joy and
gladness, “Because thou servedst |
not the Lord thy God with joy
fulness, and with gladness of
heart, for the abundance of all
things.”
He promised them prosperity,
“This book of the law shall not |
depart out of thy mouth; but thou {
shalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is writ
ten therein: for then thou shalt
have good success.”
He promised them victory,
“How should one chas ea thou
sand and two put ten thousand to
flizcht, except their rock had sold
them, and the Lord had shut them
up?
He promised them honcr, “And
it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the Lord thy God, to oh
serve and to do all His command
ments which I command thee this
day that the Lord thy God will
set thee on high above all na
tions of the earth.”
“And the Lord shall make thee
the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and
thou shalt not be beneath; if that
thou hearken unto the command
ments of the TLord thy God, which
I command thee this day, to ob
serve and to do them.”
Such were a few of the num
berless promises that God, ¢
through the prophets of old had
given to the people and the peo
ple desired these promises.
So desirable were they, that no
sane man or woman could fail to
long for their fulfillment, and yet
by the people these things were
not possessed. Instead of God
pouring down the early and latter
rain for three years and six
months, it did not rain a drop and
the dew never fell.
Instead of peace, there was
trouble; instead of joy, there was
sorrow and affliction; instead of
prosperity, there was adversity;
instead of victory, there was de
feat; and instead of honor, there
was dishonor,
They went into captivity and
paid tribute to a foreign nation.
What was the reason for this?
Was God bankrupt? Did God
make promises irntending to ful
fill them and then conditions arose
that made it impossible for Him
to do it? Oh, no! A thousand
times no!
You've got to look for the ex
planation of the failure from a
different source than that, and
Jeremiah knew where it belonged,
and he lJaid the blame in the right
place, when he said, in the words
Sunday Worker Says
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Movies Rob Children
‘Of Proper Ideals’
The Sunday school teachers of
‘Atlanta heard a crisp and vigor
ous discourse Monday evening,
delivered by Miss Alice Miriam
Gamlin, a member of the Billy
Sunday party, at the First Bap
tist Church.
Miss Gamlin said that the
trend of the movies was to rob
children of proper ideals.
“I don’t believe censorship
helps much,” Miss Gamlin said.
“lI believe in canning the whole
business, except for films of the
educational type.”
Miss Gamlin also sgtated her
belief that the doing away of the
old custom of personal testimony
in the church was a very bad
thing, depriving children of some
wonderful opportunities.
of my text, as he addressed it to
the people: “Your iniquities have
turned away these things, and
your sins have withholden good
things from you.”
If you want to know why it
doesn’t rain—it is your fault. If
you want to know why there is
no joy, it is your fault. If you
want to know 'why there is no
peace, it is your fault. If you want
to know why there is no prosper
ity, it is your fault. If you want
to know why there's no victory,
it is your fault. If you want to
know why you are in captivity, it
is ycur fauit.
If you want to know why you
are iniquitous, it is your fault.
I you want to know why God
keeps the good things from you,
it's your fault. It's not unfaith
fulness on God's part. But in the
sins of the people was found the
explanation for the failure.
Now 28 ministers of the gospel
of Jesus Christ, we are sent to
prcelaim God's message to the
people, and as messengers of God,
we are asked to come and speak
God’s message. Now, I find cer
tain things promised for us to
proclaim.
For example. God has promised
forgiveness, “Verily, verily, 1 say
unto you, He that heareth My
word, and believeth on Him that
sent Me, hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condem
nation; but is passed from death
unto life.”
God has promised peace, “These
joy. “The God of hope fill you
that in Me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribu
lation; but be,of good cheer; I
have overcome the world.” :
God has promised fullness of
joy, “The God of hope fill you
with joy and peace in believing.”
He has promised emancipation
from sin, “For sin shall not have
dominion over you; for ye are
not under the law, but under
grace.”
He has promised victory, “There
hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man; but
God is faithful, who will not suf
fer you to be tempted above that
ye are able; but will with the
temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to
bear it.”
He has promisad provision for
every need, “But my God shall
supply all your need according to
His riches in Glory by Christ
Jesus.” Not all you want! You
may want a great many things
vou don't need. God says, “I will
supply all your need according to
my riches in Glory.” You may
wiant ice cream, but you can get
along without it. See? “I will
cupply all your need according to
My riches In Glory.”
Such are a few of the number
less promises which make the life
of the bellever full of glory and
full of peace. To us, as believers,
they are promised; as believers
they should be desired with a
yearning which daily and hourly
increases with intensity. We
ought to long for the fulfillment
of these things, and let me ask
you, are they possessed?
There are thousands of people
today who have had the higher
and richer experiences ot a Chris
tian life who are absolute stran
gers to the church. They do not
know the A. B. C’s out of which
to write God’'s peace: they do not
know perfect forgivencss; they
have no personal assurance of
salvation: they have no verfent
peace. Their lives are a constant
prey to anxicty; circumstances
upset them; they have no experi
ence as to the keeping power of
Jesus Christ; in the hour of temp
tation they are not filled with
joy, but they are gloomy.
They are not victorious, but
they are defeated, and their cry
séems to be, “Oh, wretched man
that T am! Who shall deliver me?”
“For the law of the spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made mo
free from the law of sin and
death.” Tt is just the opposite
from that.
And let me ask you another
question. Why is it that the life
lived by the average Christian af
fords such a sad and bitter con
trast to that pictured on the
pages of the New Testament?
Let me ask you another ques-
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Billy Sunday has flgured that
about 200,000 persons have heard him
preach at the Tabernacle since he
started his Atlanta campaign.
~ There are some (hristians associ
'ated with Atlanta churches who
haven't yet darkened this Taber
nacle, and I've been here four weeks,”
is what Billy told his afternoon audi
ence at the Tabernacle Wednesday.
The building was less than one-third}
filled and most of those in the audi
ence were women. There were a
batch of children, too, and frequent
ly Billy stopped in the middle of his
sermon Lo caution mothers not to
let their children play in the saw
dust aisles.
Once, when a woman who came in
late for the meeting, was making
her way toward the platform, Billy
shouted to the usher near the door
through which she entered:
“Don’'t let anyvbody come down
here while I'm preaching; not even
the mayor of the city!”
The 200,000 persons who have heard
Billy haven’t left as much money be
hind them in the Tabernacle, Billy
‘declared, as a circus would take out
of Atlanta in two days.
Billy was apparently very much
peeved Wednesday afternoon. He de
clared the revival is lagging and that
the one big weakness of the Atlanta
campaign is the lack of personal
work. 5 i il 5l
“There's nobody to lift a finger,”
shouted Billy, “to urge a man or wo
man to come to Christ. You expect
me te do all the preaching and get
down and plead with men and women
to accept Christianity while you sit
around and wistfully look on.” |
What the revival needs just now,
Billy emphasized, 18 more prayers.” ‘
Billy declared an angel couldn't
spend a week in Atlanta with the
“so-called church people” and get
back again to Heaven without
first having to fumigate its wings.
He rapped those who “keep booze
in their homes” and referred to them
as “saloon keepers.” He pleaded for
a revival in literature and declared
that if all the objectionable hooks
now stacked up in the private li
braries of Atlanta were taken out and
burned,- there wouldn’t be enough
paper left in some of the homes to
“bang your hair or kindle a fire.” ‘
Billy, in his opening prayer,
thanked God “for 30 cent cotton” and
for Georgia's.prosperity. He declar
ed Atlanta shouldn’t let a day go by\
without praying for the success of |
the Allies. He insisted that “we are
not saving enough food, but are gor
mandizing while our soldiers are in
need of food.” He urged that At
lantans eat one potato instead of two,
that they eat less sugar and meat
and that they stand behind the na
tional government in its conserva
tion plans so that the food so neces
sary for the successful prosecution of
the war might be saved and sent to
“our allies across the seas.”
Billy predicted that “unless we get
busy right now and save more food
stuffs, we will be on rations inside
of a year.”” He praved for defeat of
“that horde of Huns, who have out-\
raged women and killed children in
their Godless warfare” and he closed‘
with this:
“T,igten, Jesus: We pray that you
draw your sword and jab it right
through that bunch of cut-throats.”
George Brewster conducted the song
service before Billy’s arrival. Al
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernacle,
was at the piano.
tion. Is the Christian life as pic
tured in the Bible too high for
human attainment? Oh, no! Did
God tell you to do something that
He knew you could never achieve?
Don't you have the audacity to
say that is true. That is a lie!
God did not put the Christ life
too high for human attainment.
When (GGod commands all men to
repent, God knows all men can re
pent, or God would not com
mand them to do It, God's prom
ises are never meant to be un
fulfiled. Is God trifling with His
people? No!
Is the Christ life an ideal to
ward which you must always long
and approximate but never real
jize? Must it be something that
T'd like to possess, but it is too
high for me to reach? No! It is
something that 1 would like to
own, that I have not the ability
to own? No!
But the explanation is in the
text. Let me read it again.
“Your iniquities have turned away
those things, and your sins have
withholden good things from
you.”
Failure with ourselves, not with
God. Then that means self-ex
amination to find out why vyou
have failed. Isn’t that right? Cer
tainly!
Let me ask you another ques-
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~ George M. Sunday, who is
seeking a place in the transpor
tation service of the army that
he may get overseas at the
earliest possible moment,
Wife Will Follow if
Into Service at Front
If George Sunday, son and
business manager of the famous
Billy. is successful in his appli
cation for a commission in the
United States army and gets over
to France with General Per
shing’'s army, as he plans, Mrs.
George Sunday is planning to fol
low him to France and probably
go In for nursing wounded sol
diers.
Mrs. Sunday is every bit as
patriotic as George or Billy. She,
too, wants to do her “bit” for her
country. When George left At- *
lanta for Washingtcn to talk with
War Department officials regard
ing his proposel commission, he |
sald he would arrange for Mrs,
George Sunday and the two chil
dren to go to Los Angeles to live
until he returns from the “front.”
But Mrs. George isn’t strong for
staying “over here” while George
is pluggirg away “over there.”
She says if George goes she’ll
follow him.
George is expected back in At
lanta in a few days with a com
mission in the army tucked un
der his arm. He has volunteered
! his services to Uncle Sam in |
whatever capacity his country |
~ sees fit to place him. He pre
~ fers, however, association with ‘
the motor transportation corps of
~ General Pershing’s army because
- of his famillarity with motor
driven trucks.
Shriners to Hear
- Billy on Wednesday
! It will be “Shriner’s Night” at the
Billy Sunday Tabernacle Wednesday
night. !
Members of Yaarab Temple willl
turn out in a body, and it is 6~xpt’r,‘t(-d#
there will be several hundred in the |
delegation. Each Shriner will wear|
his fez and the members will be ac
companied by their wives and rela
tives and sweethearts.
The Yaarab Chanters will accom- |
pany the Shriners and will sing. It
will be impossible to bring along the
famous band, since some of its mem
bers have gone to Montgomery for a
special ceremonial.
The Shriners will meet at the corner
of Edgewood avenue and Jackson
street at 7 o’clock, and will march in a
body to the Tabernacle, where special
seats will be reserved for them in the
center section.
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Every evening, for about
minutes before the usual Tabe nac
service, there gather in a small ros
under the choir platform in the b
building a group of Atlanta min!
ters. The object of the gatherin «
ostensibly for prayer for the «
of the revival,
There are prayers, and the m f‘
ters invoke blessings on Billy and hi
co-workers, the audience and A
wholé city. Then come some
tulks on the results of the Su
campaign in Atlanta as seen bya’f
individual ministers. T
Qver in the postoffice at the
ernacle are little ma‘l boxes u
to each of the churches in A
And into these boxes are put eag
night the cards which are signed 1
the “trafl hitters” at the m
On the cards are the “church pr fer
ences” of the hitters. The minfste
are reached through the “prefe
of the converts, 4L
¢ To get back to the ministers,
Experiences Are Told.
Following the prayers they nfol
mally relate some of their expez'.’”
with the “trail hitters” Iche
through the little cards in the p 0
office boxes. The pastor of a p ’
nent church in Peachgree street o
how one man reached by Billy at th
meetings had come to him and he
promised to quit peddling liquer be
cause, said the clergyman, the "
had been “touched” by Billy's fry
uent tales of the wrecked lives ang
homes that follow booze drinking,
“This man told me he wasn't .‘,‘
lto be risponsible for the
of any person’s home,” said the min.
ister, “and that he was determined
to quit peddling booze and go
business that was more "Pl‘it‘ .
“I asked him if he had made a habii
of that sort of thing and he told me
he has sold booze indiscriminately so
about four months, and that he was
making a good living at it. Bt
added that Billy had reached his heas
one night at the Tabernacle and h
after he's going to cut it out
bring his family to chureh. hat
man is arranging now to becom
member of my Bible class,”
Another minister from the Wesf
End told of a young man and his v ife
who had “hit the trail” in the i
wooden building and whom he had
reached through one of the “‘conve
sion cards.” He found, he said, tha
neither of them had been inside 3
church for years, and that their th ea
children had never been to Sabk bl
| school. 7
“I arranged to take themf nto my
l(-!:urvh," said the minister, “and I be
lieve (they will stick to the ‘gt ;,
and narrow.’ To Billy Sunday’s in
fluence they attribute their determis
nation to seek Christ for themselv‘
and their children,” i
‘ Remarkable Good Done. ki
Several other ministers told of hav
ing reached men and women who hadl
handed their cards to the Tabernacle
ushers, and it was the general opinion
of the clergymen that the revival
showing tangible evidences of great
zood,
Dr. Tsaac Ward, who attends th
meetings of the ministers each nigh
'asked the pastors if, in their opinion,
the persons they have reached
through the “trail hitters' " cards we ®
really sincere in their determinatio
to lead the “better life.”
The ministers gencrally agreed that
not in one instance where they hadj
been brought in contact with a “traill
hitter” had there been shown the leas
inclination to insincerity. It was thei
opinion that those who walk the saw
dust aisles are determined to do the|
right thing, and that in every instance
the persons they have reached were
whole-heartedly influenced and were
determined to not ohly “get right Wit‘
God,” but to “stay right.” 4
Hold Sunrise Service
Thanksgiving D
On Thanksgiving Day
The annual sunrise Thanksgivingy
service will be held Thursday at o’4:_
Decatur Presbyterian Church undé€ :
the auspices of the Christian Endeavs
or Society. It will begin at ‘:{
o’clock.
The sunrise service has been
every Thanksgiving Day for sew
years. 500 e