Preaches to 138 Audiences at Once

PREACHES T0 138 AUDIENCES AT -ONCE in on the the W Co- "Billy" Sunday, Tormer Noted Ballplayer, Uses Telephones in a Great Beligious Revival. 150,000 HEAR HIM IN 40 DAYS 14 He is Sin in Northern Illinois and Eastern Iowa Shaken From Its Throne by Powerful Sermons. Special to the Pot-I)lsDtcll. CHICAGO, March 19. William A. Sun day, once the fastest sprinter on the diamond, a star in Capt. Anson's Chicago team of the early 80s, is the hero of a re ligious crusade that has attracted loO.OW) persons in 40 days to hear him. For 40 days a religious tempest has been sweeping over northern Illinois and eastern Iowa, Eastward and northward, ud the Rock river valley, westward across the Mississippi, southward a distance of 75 miles, over a territory inhabited by hundred's of thousands, it has raced. Throughout a section of Illinois, with a population of 203,000, and over an area of Iowa, with a population of 150,000, this religious fervor has spread. In Sterling, 111., the storm center of the tempest, at noe series of meetings a record of 2647 converts has been made. The meetin'gs have had me .heretofore unheard of attendance of 145,000. Whole communities have been con verted. Two Cities Abolish All Sinful Amusements. In Sterling and Rock Falls, two cities with a combined population of 12,000, every form of sinful amusement has been abandoned. Dixon. Rochelle, Fulton, Morrison. r,vn- don, Prophet's Town and Tamnico nt thousands to the meetings. Each night excursion trains ran from n distance of fifty to seventy-five miles, car- nea to the meetings great crowds of vm.nf and old. saints and sinners alike. Ihe religious awakening spread awav to Rockford. to Galena and FrecDort. Thrn who were turned awav or .-hr .o.i eave home at all. demsniiwt tn v,- .J; sermons. rhen came one of th i things of the revival. The teienhon uny placed three rpppiv-Ara ii..t i . ,'y. 1 ' several nights the words of the young evangelist were carried hv m i'?nTe to iSs cities a"l towns in ' " v " O.HU JUWds ",e n,Sht more than 8000 persons paid the sermon over the telephones A ibernacle. 104 feet n9 " was built for the revival. 5 Belongs to No Denomination. iie belongs to no denomination. ust a Christian. His sermons are simple, but direct ami ncisive. and his nersnnnlit.- "Dancing is a hugging mato-h set to music. How long would the dance last if men were compelled to dance with each other and women had to dance with one anoth.-r? The fact alone proves that passion is the .seat of the dance." V Speaking of theaters, he said-.-i'.7he ,averae theater is teeming with tilth and rot on its boards. Lust and intrigue, stories of men's infidelity to woman and woman s infidelity to man form the foundation of the average play "The up-to-date drama deals' In double-deaJing and suggestive lines. The public won t have moral plays. Look at 'Ulysses What a failure: J There ire good and bad amusements he says. The good are: Oolf. baseball bowing, checkers, chess, crokinole, authors tennis, parches!, backgammon. And the bad are: Theaters, progressive ctn.iue. poker, euchre, square and round diu- hooclue-kooehie dance, cards gamb niig,-'.prjsressive whist and bridge 'whist.