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BILLY POURS HOT SHOT INTO UNBELIEVERS
Darwin Theory Torn Into Shreds by the Evangelist
By WINNIE FREEMAN.
If there was anything left of the
_ Darwinian theory after Billy Sunday
finished preaching Tuesday night, it
was only a few scattered particles
that hadn’t become disintegrated when
Billy hurled them against the walls
of the Tahernacle during the 60 min
utes that he spoke.
He took the principles of that the
ory one by.one and he plucked them
to pieces one by one, and when he
was through there wasn't enough of
Mr. Darwin’s argument left to send
home on a postage stamp. Not in the
Tabernacle, at any rate.
Billy told us where Cain got his
wife, and he tc!d us why God made
woman out of one of the ribs of man
Instead of out oi the dust, and he
cited science to prove that the im
maculate conception wouldn't have
been at all impossible even without
the Holy Ghost. Thousands of penple‘
are in hell, he said, because they
couldn’t figure out any reasonable an
swer to these three propositions. And
he endcavored to enlighten the people
present.
He told where Cain got his wife all
richt., He got her from his father-in
law in the land of Nod. And he also
gave statistics to show that if Cain
hadn't been keen about his wife he
might have had his choice of some
5,763 other buxom lassies, which was
half of the population at the time of
Cain's venture on the matrimonial
sea.
He said God made woman out of
one of the ribs of man for the same
reason that the woman who was mak
ing a sandwich didn't bake a new
oaf of bread every time she wanted
to make a sandwich—because it was
easier to cut off of the loaf she had
already made.
And reverting to the subject of
Cain, he declared that some sinners
aren’'t half as worried about where
that gentleman of Biblical fame got
his wife as they are about where some
of their neighbors got theirs.
Cain Was a German. |
“And, besides, if there's any re
flection on Cain, remember he’s your
friend and not mine,” he said. “I|
haven't any more dse for (Cain than
1 have for the Kaiser. Anything that
has a German name I'm agin. I‘m}
not going to eat any more hot dogs,
because they smell too much like Ber
lin. |
“It's not the inconsistencies of God,
but the inconsistencies of a lot of peo
ple that think the Bible's inconsist
ent that's keeping them out of heaven.
There's only one consistent guide for
any human life, and that's the P,ihle_'
and if you don’t live according to its
dictates when the opportunity’s of
fered to you it's because youTe a
slacker and a coward.” |
“] throw it in your teeth,” ne hurled
at the audience. ‘“The reason a lot of
vou people won't accept the word of
God is because you're slackers and
cowards. You're afraid—afraid it will
make of you decent men and women,
and you're afraid to try to be decent.
Billy's sermon was preached espe
ciallv to skepticg, and if they didn't
have all the dark places cleared away
for them it wasn’t his fault. He
picked out every concelvable alleged
inconsistéency in the Bible, brushed it
away with descriptive phrases, and
backed his arguments up with cold,
convincing ' science.
I've studied astronomy,” he said,
“but I've never found there anything
about the Star sos Bethlehem. I've
studied mineralogy, but I've never
found anything there about the Rock
of Ages, and I've studied biology, but
i I've never found anything there about
i the body of Jesus Christ.”
i Soul Saves Men.
And Billy explained another thing.
M. explained why it is that a man
ill go to Heaven when he's dead,
@nd a dog or an elephant or a horse
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Billy Sunday, Jr., son of the famous evangelist and just ex
actly like him. Billy, Jr., is a student at a boys’ school in New
Jersey and ran down to Atlanta Monday for a brief Thanksgiving
visit to his parents. ,
perhaps will only be dead. A dog and
a horse and an elephant have memory
and they have will power, and judg
ment and imagination. Billy allows
them all these things. But what they
haven’t got, and what it takes to get
a man or women into Heaven or hell
is soul. Soul, Billy says, consists of
the three prime faculties, faith, moral
and conscience.
“And there's no quadruped on God’s
green earth that has these qualities,”
he said. “And you can tell me man
came from a monkey, but if he had
he'd have enough monkey left in him
now to graft a monkey bone, and it
can’'t be done. You've got to graft
human to human.”
“And conscience is no guide,” he
declared. “unless regenerated by faith
in Jesus Christ. It was a guide, but
it went down in the wreck when Adam
and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.
And the only rule of faith and prac
tice by which to regulate your life is
the Word of God.”
Then Billy came around to the
question of immortality, and it didn’t
take him long to make himself plain
on that subject.
“You aon’t see me,” he explained;
“you only see the house in which I
live. And I don't see you. I only see
the house in which you live. You're
a tenant at will—at God's will. And
when God says ‘move on,’ take it from
me, you'll hike.”
When he'd finished preaching Billy
felt like he'd said all there was to ‘gay"
He admitted it when he prayed.
Preached Until Exhausted.
“Say, Jesus,” and that was the first
intimation the audience had ‘that the
sermon was ended. ‘‘Say, Jesus, |
don’t see why the members of the ex
ecutive committee, Dr. Flinn, and Mr.
Outlaw, and Mr. Orr, and all of them
don't come to me and say,~‘Billy,
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!you’ve said all there is to say. You
may go now and rest’ I don’t see
‘how I can say any more. I might
iexpatiate, and 101;9 up a few points
‘here and there, d@nd illuminate, but
‘after I'ye finished, and when my
clothes ire wet with perspiration, and
1 am phySically exhausted, I'll always
reach the same point I've reached to
‘night.” ;
i He turned and faced the choir, ana
continued:
;L “Come up here on the platform,
;Holy Ghost. Come up here and go
out among these people, and help
‘them to walk down and give their
;hearts to God.”
~ Billy opened his eyes, and stood
silent, expectant.
- Nobody came.
“You can't make me believe that
there isn’t somebody here that doesn’t
‘want to do God’s will,” he plcaded. ‘9
don’t believe there’s a city in the
United States where 8,000 people could
‘be gathered together and none of
‘them want to forsake sin and follow
Christ.”
And that from Billy brought them
forth—that and “Almost Persuaded,”
softly sung by Rody and the choir.
About 175 persons came from various
parts of the audience to shake the
' hand of the evangelist.
| Billy made an especial appeal to the
‘delegations presert, the Baraca-Phil
athea City Union, the United States
Tire Company, the Round Table Club,
‘the Ford Motor Company, the At
lantic Steel Company, McClure's Ten-
Cent Store, the Norris Candy Com
pany, the Southern Warehouse Furni
‘ture Men's Association and the L. W,
‘Rogers Company. And he got a few
recruits for Christ out of eath ot
‘them.
» Tuesday night was officially “hotel
men’s” night, but it probably might
better have been “Philathea-Baraca”
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917
Billy of the Glad Hand! Or Billy of
the Valiant Grip! Is there any reader
who doesn!t guess who this is?
It used to be, in days of old, that en
tire families were named in memory
of some doughty deed, brave or wick
ed, kindly or impressive.
Also they were named, so we have
read, after their varied professions,
trades, or sometimes tralts.
You either went to war magnificent
ly or toiled industriously.
No one ever has gone to the trouble
to work out what their names were
before¢ they changed them or how and
why they got their first ones.
It has never been established why,
in the morning of life, the first lady
of the land should be called Eve, and
the first gentleman a name easily
amenable to swearing.
Certainly Billy Sunday might have
got his surname from the fact that his
family tree felt, from the roots wp,
that the better the day the better the
deed. A little moral slogan which our
friend seems to have changed into
“the better the deed, the better the
(Yfl.)'.” ~ -
However this may be, on his coat
of-arms might be traced, on a field
argent (he needs this stuff for his
labors in the Lord's vineyards), a
glad hand, outstretched firmly, yet in
all friendliness, toward the whole
world, and maybe tucked away in one
corner, might be a nice, friendly smile.
Disliking higher mathematics for
the usual reason that people disiike
things—because they are too much for
me, from calculus to Euclid—the writ
er should hesitate to tell you just how
many hands have shaken Sunday’'s tn
the past two decades. X
For ten months of the year, twice a
day, three timnes on Sunday, that gen
tlemman has been shook, literally, by
from one to five thousand people a
day—more than any President or
servant of public life ever has.
The hands of Billy Sunday have,
averaging ten months of the year,
been eagerly clasped by some millions
of people.
In the ten months are 300 days.
Over I,soo—often over 2,ooo—people
at each performance insist on shaking
hands with him.
At 3,000 per day, which is putting it
low, you have, in ten months, 900,000
people,
And even ten years of this would
make 9,000,000 people with whom this
soul-gatherer has clasped hands.
For good measure we'll just throw
in the first ten years of .it, without
counting, so that you'll see we are far
from exaggerating-—rather the con
trary.
But-—those days are over!
Billy Sunday lets no man shake
hands with him any more.
He beats 'em to it.
He shakes hands with them.
night, because for every hotel or trav
eling man attending there were about
ten or twentv members of the Baraca-
Philathea Union.
. There was a large crowd present—
about as large as any that has attend
ed one of the weekly meetings.
Billy, Jr.,, who spent Tuesday here
with his parents, was seated on the
platform with Ma Sunday, and after
the meeting was introduced to the
scores of friends the Sundays have
made in Atlanta. Ma explained to
everybody that while Billy would like
to claim voting age, he was in reality
only 16, and everybody agreed with
her that he was such a fine-looking
boy he might easily pass for 21.
Billy took a crimp out of the people
in Atlanta who have been criticizing
him, saying that he shocks and alarms
them.
“Why, I could no more astonish and
alarm some men and women in At
lanta by my remarks than I could
make a gkunk smell sweet by pouring
perfume on it,”” he said. And he add
ed:
“I think you've got some of the
finest people in Atlanta I ever met,
But 1 think you've got also some of
the meanest, lowest-down, liquor
drinking, ‘hog-jowled old hypocrites
I've ever come across.”
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Sunday’s Sermon |
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Wednesday nghtg
$ —_— §
{ T T will be “Shriners’ Night” at {
l the Tabernacle Wednesday‘{
night. Several hundred !
Shriners, wearing their fez, will
be in special reservations and the
3 Yaarab Chanters will sing. {
; Bily Sunday will preach at the 2 )
o'clock service on “Fishers of §
§ Men.” His subject for the 7:30 p. )
) m. meeting will be “Solomon.” 0
Meetings Wednesday in connec- (
tion with the Billy Sunday cam- |
| paign: <
; Noonday meetings for men, di- ¢
! rection of Dr. lsaac Ward, Conti- §
nental Gin Company, Georgia 2‘
Railway and Power Company, $
Fulton County plant, Southern
Railw (South shops), Atlanta !
{ Joint ¥erminals and Dowman-Do- E
{ zier Manufacturing Company. ¢
{ Boys' and girls" meetings, direc- !
{ tion Miss Alice Miriam Gamlin, |
St. John's Methodist Church, 24 ¢
East Georgia avenue, 2:15 p. m. 0
| Fulton High School girls’ meet- (
% ing, direction Miss Florence Kin- |
é ney, First Christian Church, 2:15
$ p. m. _ ‘
:S Bible Study classes, direction )
) Miss Grace Saxe, Tabernacle, 3 p. |
3 m., Decatur 8 p. m. $
( Business women'’s noonday |
‘é meeting, direction Miss Frances ¢
‘2 Miller, Y. W. C. A,, Peachtree Ar- ¢
{ cade, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. ¢
‘g Noonday meeting for women |
gworken, direction Mrs. Williams
Asher, Gate City Cotton Mills, ¢
s‘ East Point, 11 a. m. to 2p. m. §
Cartersville To Be Represented
'
in Sam Jones Tabernacle
When Sunday Speaks.
They're planning a great reception
for Billy Sunday up Cartersville way.
The noted evangelist and his party
will visit the home town of the re
nowned Sam Jones next Monday,
making the trip from Atlanta by au
tomobile over the Dixie Highway.
Thirteen towns, in addition to Car
tersville, wil] be represented in the
great throng of approximately 25,000
persons who plan to hear Billy talk
in the old Sam Jones Tabernacle. Or
dinarily, the Tabernacle isn't open
except in the summer months, but
with Billy Sunday in town Carters
ville wil] put on its holiday attire and
make the visit of the ev.’m;:s-list and
his party one of the big stunts of the
year.
A big committee will meet the Sun
day revivalists when they get to Car
tersville. The visitors will be taken
at once to the Sam Jones Tabernacle
and there Billy will be formally in
troduced to the citizens of Carters
ville and of Dalton, Rockmart, Ce
dartown, Chatsworth, Kingston,
Adairsville, Emerson, Acworth, Mari
etta, Cu,_l\houn, Rome Canton and
Stilesboro,” all of which have an
nounced their intention of being rep
resented at the big gathering.
Following the address, which is
scheduled for 10:30 a. m., Billy and his
party will be guests of Mrs. Sam
Jones, widow of the revivalist, at an
“old-fakhioned Southern dinner” in
the Jones home. A batch of promi
nent citizens for miles around have
been asked to meet Billy at the Jones
home. Among the latter will be Mrs.
W. H. Felton, who taught Sam Jones
at school, and Mrs. Corra Harris, tne
noted author.
The Sundayites will leave Carters
vil'e for Rome, where they will spend
the night as the guests of Miss Mar
tha Berry, head of Miss Berry's
School. Tuesday morning Billy will
talk to the students of the school, and
then the party will leave for Atlanta,
arriving in time for the regular Tues
day afternoon service at the Taber
nacle,
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Mrs. George Sunday
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Goes to Washington
Mrs. George M. Sunday left At
lanta Wednesday for Washington. She
will be gone several days. George is
now in Washington conferring with
officials of the War Department con
cerning a commission in the United
States army.
Billy Sunday, Jr., second son of the
noted evangelist, also left Atlanta
Wednesday following a short visit to
his parents. He will return to the
Blair School at Blairstown, N. J.,
where he is a student.
ILLY SUNDAY preached Wed-
B nesday afternoon at the Tab
ernacle on “Follow Me and [
Will Make You Fishers of Men.” The
Sermon in full follows:
Mark, first chapter and the
16th verse: “Follow Me and 1
Will Make You Fishers of Men.”
“Jesus dld not say follow Me
and 1 will make you feeders of
sheep. In many churches nine
tenths of the expended energy is
In feeding the sheep. lifty
weeks in the year are spent
preaching to sheep in the church
and two weeks to the people out
side.
Some one says, “The sheep
need to be fed, don't they?”
Surely, but the best way to feed
the ninety-and-nine is to forget
them and go out after the one
that is lost.
The church that spends all of
its time conserving its doctrine
and memkbtership may become an
evangelical church, but not an
evangelistic church. The church
that is simply evangelical is the
church on ice—the church that
is evangelistic is the church on
fire.
A church couldn’t be evangelis
tic without being evangelistical,
but a church could bhe evangelical
without being evangelistie.
There are thousands of church
members who seem to think the
preacher's sole duty is to pro
vide them with predigested relig
ious food, which from Sunday to
Sunday they may be able ‘o bolt,
being themselves relleved of the
process of mastication and di
gestion. That's the reason so
many who take this attitude to
ward the ministry die of fafy de
generation of the soul.
Jesus did not say “Follow Me
and T will make you feeders of
goats,” and yet certain men seem
under the delusicn that the one
great task of religion is to take
the goat, to feed and cultivate it
that he will ultimately become
sheep in the master’'s Aock. You
can not convert a goat into a
sheep by any process of diet or
culture.
No Cookie Route.
The thousand and one make
shifts the people now use in the
place of atonement ame well and
good in their place, but their
place is not here. You can not
bathe anybody into the Kingdom
of God. You can not give peo
ple a cracker, a cookie, a plate
of soup and cup of coffee and et
them into the Kingdom. You
can not change their heart by
changing their sanitation.
I have no quarrel with social
service, education or the institu
tional methods in which the mod
ern church engages, provided such
work is not put in the place of
the real work of the kingdom, that
of saving souls.
If T have to yank down my
standard hecause you let these
things interfere with vour belief
in the atonement, we'll fight right
there. If 1 have to yank down
my methods of preaching to
please some old chap with his
collar buttoned in the back of his
neck, then Tl'll stop. I'll go out
and sween the streets for a living
before I'll de that.
I have never been in sympathy
with a Y. M. C. A. with a billiard
room. I'm. for the Y. M. C. A,
and think it’s one of the best in
stitutions on the face of the earth,
but I'm against the billiard room.
I consider a billiard room or a
pool room the second cousin of
the saloon. I'm for the gvmna
siums and the- libraries and the
swimmine nools. but I'm acainst
tho hilllard and nool games
It is an entirelv good Chris
tian thing to give the down-and
onter a hath, a bed and a job -
it is an entirely Christian thing
to establigh and maintain schools
and universities, but the road in
to the Kingdom of God is not
by the bathtub, the university,
the gymnasium or social service
but by the blood-red road of the
cross of Christ :
Someone savs human nature is
radically good, that the power to
uplift and ability to rise to the
highest excellence is independent
of any external force—something
inherent within us. The Hlb!(‘
declares that humna nature is
radicaly bad, and that the pow
er to uplift is purely external.
Man has not the power to sup
press vice except as he !‘P}'(’l“l-\‘
virtue, That power is not in any
man ¢r woman or system. It is
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J ESUS did not say “Follow me
and | will make you feeders
of sheep.” .
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T HE best way to feed the nine
ty-and-nine is to forget
them and go out after the one
§ that is lost.
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THE church that is simply
evangelical is the church on
ice-—the evangelistic church is
the church on fire. 9
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THOUSANDS of church mem
bers seem to think a preach
er's duty is merely to provide
them with predigested religion.
* * *
T HAT'S the kind of people
who frequently die of fatty
degeneration of the soul.
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| TH ERE is no “cookie route” to
| the Kingdom of Heaven.
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| THE United States leads the é
world in crime, divorce and
the social evil. ?
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THE world is not dying for want §
of knowledge, but for want
of Christ. §
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lF | see you taking the wrong 3
path, I'li fight with you before fi
I'll stand and see you take it. é
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§ press vice, except as he de
-2 velops virtue. §
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not in Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Milton, Baker, Shakespeare or
Emerson, but by the blood-red
road of Calvary.
Remedy For World's Woes.
On comes the statesman. He
says the remedy for the world's
misery and woe is to change
conditions by wise universal sys
tem of government. He assumes
that vice flows from ignorance
and economic conditions; that
virtue is the offspring of know
ledge and plenty. It is in the
power of constitution and laws to
restrain and protect, but not to
change man’s nature, The law
can punish for breaking the law,
but the gospel of Jesus Christ
steps in and takes out of the
heart that which made you break
the laws, and puts into the heart
that which makes a man keep
the laws. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is the remedy for the
world's woes,
All Governments have failed.
Take the fraternal government of
Jewish days—it failed. Take the
Roman Government-—it failed.
These countries did not fail be
cause they had® any aprticular
form of Government, but because
they were without the right kind
of religion. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the hope of the world
of today. So you can understand
why I've got to fight with you
when 1 see you're taking the
wrong path. Are we any hettpw
than Russia and Turkey? Some
times I think that we lead the
whole world, and T am always
proud that I was born in Ameri
ca. But it makes my heart ache
when I think the United States
leads the world in crime, divorce
and social evils.
The scolar says the remedy
for the waorld's vice is a universal
system of education. He assumes
that people are made purer in
proportion as they are made wise,
Did the children of Israel wander
40 years in the wilderness because
of intellectual error?
Knowledge didn’t save Solo
mon, Bacon, Poe or Byron.
Are people going to hell be
cause they don’t know? Are they
becoming drunkards because
they don't know? Are people
libertines because they don’t know
better? The question we must
solve is not one of intellect, but
of morals. The world is not dying
for want of knowledge, but for
want of Christ.
The twentieth century has wit
nessed two apparently contradic
tory facts: The decline of the
church and the growth of relig
ious hunger in the masses. The
world during the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries passed
through a period of questioning
and doubts, during which every
thing in heaven and earth was
put into a cruacible and melted
down into constituent elements,
Moorings Lost.
During that perjod many lay
men and preachers lost their
moorings., The definite challeng
ing note was lost out of the life
of the ministry. The preacher to
day is ofttimes a human intero
gotion noint. preaching to empty
pews. The hurrving, husy crowd
in the strect is saving to the
preacher and the church “When
you have something d-finite to
say about the issnes of life, heav
en, hell and salvation, we will
listen; till then we have no time
for you.”
I believe we are on the eve of a
great national revival. The mis
sion of the church is to carry the
gospel of Christ to the world.
The whole movement toward
mothers’ pension, anti-child labor
laws and the like have been
- started by the Church of Jesus
| Christ.
w For every reform started by an
- agnostic, 999 have been started
by the church.
) If a man won’t do God’s will he
will be stripped of his power.
The i.ord is with thee to save.
What do you want, you fools?
Billy Sunday has flgured that
about 200,000 persons have heard him
preach at the Tabernacle since he
started his Atlanta campaign.
There are gome Christians assocl
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
énce were women. There were &
batch of children, too, and frequent
ly Billy stopped in the middle of his
‘sermon to 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
ihe—r way toward the platform, Billy
shouted to the usher near the door
ithmugh which she entered:
‘» “Don’t let anybody come down
here while i'm preaching; not even
the mayor of the city!” »
~ The 200,000 persons who have heard
Eilly 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.
“There’s nobody to lift a finger,”
shouted Billy, “to urge a man or wo
jman to come to Christ. You expect
me to 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, is more prayers.”
Billy aeclared an angel pouidn't
spend a week in Atlanta with the
“so-called church people” an{ get
back again to Heaven without
first having to fumigate its wings.
He rapped those who ‘“keep. booze
in their homes” and weferred to them
as “saloon keepers.” He pleaded for
a revival in literature and declared
that if all the objectionable books
now stacked up in the private l
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 praving 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 meces
sary for the successfil 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 prayed for défeat of
“that horde of Huns, who have out
raged women and Kkilled children in
their Godless warfare” and he closed
with this:
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that yoti
draw your sword and jab it right
through that bunch of €ut-thrcats.”
George Brewster conducted the song
service before Billy’s arrival. Al
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernacle,
was at the piano. e
ALASKAN FOOD CHIEF. v
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Herbert
Hoover today named Judge Royal A,
Gunnison, of Juneau, Federal Food
Administrator of Alaska. Judge Gun-'
nison is head of the Juneau food com-gf.j
mittee, which has undertaken a cam'fi’,f
paign to sign up all families of the'
Territory as members of the Fo%
Administration. 3