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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
Darwinjan 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 Tabernacle during the 60 min
utes that he spoke.
He took the principles of that “\9-
ory one by one and he plucked them
to pleces 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 teld 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 withouti
the Holy Ghost, Thousands of people,
are in hell, he said, because thoy
couldn’t figure out any reasonable an
swer to these three propositions. And
he endeavored to enlighten the people
present. |
He told where Cain got his wife all;
right. He got her from his father-in-‘
law in the land of Nod. And he alsa
gave statistics to show that if Cain!
hadn't been keen about his wife he
might have had his choice of some
5,563 other buxom lassies, which was}
half of the nopulation at the time of‘
("ain's venture on the matrimoniali
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
loaf of bread every time she wanted
to make a sandwich—because it was
easier to cut off of the loaf she had
already made. 1
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 use for Cain than
1 have for the Kaiser. Anything that
has a German name I'm agin. I'm
not going te 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 Bible,
and if you don’t live according to its
dictates when the opportunity’'s of
fered to you it's because you're a
slacker and a coward.”
“I throw it in your teeth,” he hurled
at the audience. “The reason a lot of
vou people won't accept the word of
(ofi is because you're slackers and
cdwards. You're afraid—afraid it will
4ake of you decent men and women,
d vou're afraid to try to be decent.
nilly's sermon was preached espe
v to skeptics, and if they didn't
g e all the gark places cleared away
y them it wasn't his fault. He
cd out every conceivable alleged
inconsistency in the Bible, brushed it
away with descriptive phrases, and
backed his arguments up with cold,
convincing science.
I've studied as® onomy,” he said,
® «yut I've never found there anything
about the Star of Bethlehem. Tl've
ctudied mineralogy, but I've never
ind anything there about the Rock
of Ages, and I've studied biology, but
I've never found anything there about
1 body of Jesus Christ.”
Soul Saves Men.
And Billy explained another thing.
He explained why It is that a man
will go to Heaven when he’s dead,
and a dog or an elephant or a horse
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Billy Sunday, Jr., son of the famous evangelist and just ex
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actly like him. Billy, Jr,, is a student at a boys’ school in New
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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 don’t see me,” he explained;
‘“vyou 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 say.
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, I
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
expatiate, and touch up a few points
here and there, and illuminate, but
after I've finished, and when my
clothes are wet with perspiration, and
I am physically exhausted, I'll always
reach the same point I've reached to
night.”
He turned and faced the choir, and
continued:
“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 pleaded. “1
don’t believe there's a city in the
United States where 8,000 people could
be gathered togethep 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 present, 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 each of
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
%réad, after their varied professions,
Itrades, or sometimes traits.
You either went to war magnificent
‘]y or toiled industriously.
‘ No one aver has gone to the trouble
to work out what their names were
\before they (‘hanged them or how and
why they got their first ones.
’ It has never been established why,
iin 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 wup,
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
day.”
~ However this may be, on his coat
ior-flrms might be traced, on a fleld
argent (he needs this stuff for his
labors in the Lord’s vineyards), a
‘g]ad 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 dislike
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.
- For ten months of the yvear, twice a
day, three times on Sunday, that gen
tleman 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,
dveraging 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 thls 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 fit. |
He shakes hands with them. 1
R WO T R R
‘night, because for every hotel or trav
eling man attending there were about
ten or twenty 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 skunk smell sweet by pouring
perfume on it,” he said. -And he add
ed:
“l think you've got some of the
finest people in Atlanta I ever met.
But I think you've got also some of
the meanest, lowest-down, liquor
drinking, hog-jowled old hypocrites
I've ever come across.”
Shriners to Hear
I Sunday’s Sermon §
Wednesday Night
; T will be “Shriners’ Night” at
the Tabernacle Wednesday
night, Several hundred'
Shriners, wearing their fez, will
be in special reservations and the
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.”
Meetings Wednesday in connec- é
tion with the Billy Sunday cam- |
paign:
Noonday meetings for men, di
i rection of Dr. Isaac Ward, Conti- 3
nental Gin Company, Georgia 5
Railway and Power Gompany,
Fulton County plant, Southern
Railway (South shops), Atlanta
Joint Terminals and Dowman-Do
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.
Fulton High School girls’ meet
ing, direction Miss Florence Kin
ney, First Christian Church, 2:15 ¢
p. m. / : . %
Bible Study class2s, direction
Miss Grace Saxe, Tabernacle, 3 p. f
m., Decatur 8 p. m. §
Business women’s noonday ‘s
meeting, direction Miss Frances §
Miller, Y. W. C. A., Peachtree Ar- 5
cade, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. é
Noonday meeting for women (
workers, direction Mrs. William
Asher, Gate City Cotton Mills,
East Point, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
,Cartersvzlle To Be Represented
in Sam Jones Tabernacle
I 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 trin from Atlanta by au
tomobile over the Dixie Highway.
Thirteen towns, in addition te Car
tersvilte, 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 Tebernacle isn't open
except in the summer months, but
with Billy Sunday in town Carters
ville will put on its holiday attire and
’makv the visit of the evangelist and
;hls party one of the big stunts of the
year. 2
‘ A big committee will meet the Sun
}day revivalists whéen 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, Calhoun, Rome Canton and
Stilesboro, all of which hava 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-fashioned 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
ville 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.
Mrs. George Sunday
Goes to Washington
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Mrs. George M. Sunday left At
lanta Wednesday for Washington. She |
will be gone several days. George i.u;
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 li
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 I
Will Make You Fishers of Men.”
“Jesus did not say follow Me
and I will make you feeders of
sheep. In many churches nine
tenths of the expended energy is
in feeding the sheep, Fifty
weeks in the year are spent
preaching to sheep in the chureh
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 memkbkership may become an
fgvangelica) church, but not an
evangelistic church. The church
that is simply evangelical is the
church on ice—the church that
is evangelistic 1s the church on
fire.
A church couldn't be evangelis
tic without being evangelistical,
but a church could be evangelical
without being evangelistic.
There are thousands of church
members who seem to think the
preacher’s sole duty is to pro
vide them with predigested relig
fous 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 fayy de
generation of the soul.
Jesus did not say “Follow Me
and T will make vou feeders of
goats,” and yet certain men seem
under the delusion 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 flock. 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 are 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 zet
them into the Kingdom. Yon
ean 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 chutch engages, provided such
work is not put in t&v place of
the real work of the kifigdom, that
of saving souls.
If T have to yank down myv
standard because vou let these
things interfere with vour belief
in the atonement, we'll fizht right
there. If T 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. Tl'll go out
and sweep the streets for a living
before I'll do that.
I have never been in sympathy
with a Y. M. C. A. with a billiard
room. - I’'m for the Y. M. O. A,
and think it's one of the best in
~Stitutions on the face of the earth.
but 'm against the billiard room.
I consider a billiard room or a
\p(m] room the second cousin of
the saloon. I'm for the gymna
siums and the libraries and the
swimming peools, but I'm against
the billiard and pool games.
It is an entirely good Chris
tian thing to give the down-and
outer a bath, a bed and a job—
it is an entirely Christian thing
to establish 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. i
Someone says 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 Bible
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 develops
virtue. That power is not\in any
man or woman or system. It is
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Home by Billy
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 ch‘rizh on
ice—the evangelistic cKlrch is
the church on fire.
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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.
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T HAT'S the kind of people
who frequently die of fatty
deqeneration of the soul.
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THERE is no “cookie route” to
the Kingdom of Heaven,
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THE United States leads the
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
path, I'll fight with you before
I'll stand and see you take it.
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M AN has not the power to sup
press vice, except as he de
{ velops virtue.
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
sfeps in and takes out of ‘the
heart that which made you break
the laws, and puts into the heart
that which makes a man Kkeep
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 filght with you
when I see you're taking the
wrong path. Are we any better
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 world’'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
fous 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 crucible and melted
down into constituent elements.
Moorings Lost.
During that period 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
gation point, preaching to empty
pews. The hurrying, busy crowd
in the street is saying to the
preacher and the church “When
you have something definite to
say about the issues 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.
For every reform started by an
agnostic, 999 have been started
by the church.
If a man won't do Gmf‘s will he
will be stripped of his power.
The iord is with thee to save.
What do you want, you fools?
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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 Christians asso .‘-‘;;
ated with Atlanta churches whot!
haven't yet darkened this Tab r-))
nacle, and I've been here four weeks,” ¢
is what Billy told his afternoon audi~
ence at the Tgbernacle Wednesd 3
The building was less than one-th .
filled and most of those in the audi-,
ence were women. There were &
batch of children, too, and frequentst
ly Billy stopped in the middle of his
sermon to caution mothers not to
let their children play in the sa: i
dust aisles.
Once, when a woman who came in
late for the meeting, was making
her way toward the platform,
shouted to the usher near the door
through which she entered: E
t “Don’t let anybody come dowp
here while I'm preaching; not evem '
the mayor of the city!” o
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 o :
of Atlanta in two days. .
Billy was apparently very
peeved Wednesday afternoon. *
clared the revival is lagging and .that
the one big weakness of the Atlan t
campaign is the lack of pergonal
work. -
“There's nobody to lift a fln‘uf;
Ishouted Billy, “to urge a man or
man to come to Christ. You expect
me to do all the preaching and.get,
down and plead with men and wom ,
to accept Christianity while you. sit ]
around and wistfully look on.”” =
What the revival needs just fiow;
Billy emphasized, is more prayers” 1
Billy declared an angel couldd't &
spend a week in Atlanta with the
“so-called church people” and gét ‘
back again to HeaveA without g
first having to fumigate its wing
He rapped those who “keep bgoze
in tneir homes” and referred to them
as ‘“saloon keepers.” He pleadeWr
a revival in literature and dee ~
that if all the objectionable bgo r
now stacked up in the private: - |
braries of Atlanta were taken out and’
burned, there wouldn’'t be enou :"7
‘papfl‘ left in some of the homes to !
“bang your hair or kindle a fire* ,
’ Billy, in his opening pray ,ffj
thanked God “for 30 cent cotton” and
lfm Georgia's prosperity. He declar
ed Atlanta shouldn’t let a day g 0 :
’wmmm praying for the success
‘the Allies. He insisted that “we are |
}not saving enough food, but arem;-
}m:mdlzing while our soldiers are .l
'need of food.” He urged that Atpi‘
lantans eat one potato instead of two, |
'that they eat less sugar and meat
and that they stand behind the ‘ug‘.‘:{;
tional government in its conserva- |
tion plans so that the food so neooa
sary for the successfil prosecution of
the war might be saved and sent to
“our allies across the seas.” : g
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 defeat @
“that horde of Huns, who have out-"
raged women and killed children in"
their Godless warfare” and he closed |
with this:
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that you
draw your sword and jab it rig «
through that bunch of cut-throats.” &
George Brewster conducted the song®
service before Billy’s arrival. ‘~"
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernacley
was at the piano. : 1
ALASKAN FOOD CHIEF.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Herbert!
Hoover today named Judge Royal Al
Gunnison, of Juneau, Federal
Administrator of Alaska. Judge G »{,’:
nison is head of the Juneau food com=
mittee, which has undertaken a ¢ ‘p
paign to sign up all families of ‘the
Territory as members of the Food
Administration. R i