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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
16
About 30 000 Bible class men pledged to campaign for a Boston dry mandate. Fourteen thousand delegates were chosen from sections 9 through 13 and plan to donate autos, canvass streets, and monitor polls on election day. Thousands of dollars were raised to finance unprecedented voter circularization efforts.
The Boston revival crowds under Rev. F I Peterson and Rev. Cortland Myers raise pledges to support Billy Sunday campaigns with donations from Tremont Temple and Park Street clubs. Sunday delivers a men only sermon on The Moral Leper while crowds cheer, with numerous testimonials and dramatic Bible scenes.
Sunday program lists 2 pm service with Billy Sunday at the Tabernacle and 7:30 pm sermon. The speaker rails against dancing, flirtation, liquor, gambling and moral leprosy, urges strict female virtue tests, condemns societal double standards and praises cheerful religion.
Billy Sunday preaches on sin using leprosy as a type of vice. He warns against alcohol, dances, and the influences of a godless gang, urging repentance to save marriages and children from ruin.
Louis Labrie of Montreal details two years of stomach trouble and rheumatism. A friend recommends Fruit-a-tives, which begin to help after the first box. The ad offers 50c per box six for $2.50 and a 25c trial size, via Seis Limited Ogdensburg.
Gladys Horton of 15 Abbott St Lynn Mass reports perfect health after years of joint rheumatism. She endured near-immobility requiring a wheeled carriage before trying Varnesis, which she says progressively relieved all signs of the disease. She urges sending for the “Story of Varne-sis” and buying from a local druggist.
Bible classes for Boston students opened after a meeting at the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, led by Miss Florence Kinney of the Billy Sunday campaign. Classes will be open to all students, with about six college centers set up in the city including at the Conservatory of Music and Boston University.
Readable figures indicate Evening meeting totals with daytime attendance of 16,000 and prior attendance 22,900. The data also lists a total of 625,000 for the period.
The Dorchester board of Trade will issue a comprehensive Dorchester Book with valuable data on Boston's Dorchester section. Businessmen and historical groups assist officials to create a work of historical and commercial importance featuring maps diagrams and coverage of nearly every local point of interest.
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