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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1917
Page
5
The revival led by evangelist Sunday fills a large Tabernacle, drawing thousands as chairs and doors fail to hold the crowd. He recounts Yale’s Horace Bushnell conversion and Harvard’s campus influence, with music by Rody and gifts from delegations for Mrs Sunday and Mr Sunday.
An afternoon meeting at the Tabernacle at 2 p m features Billy Sunday preaching. An evening meeting at 7 30 p m opens to men and women and continues through the week. The campaign ends next Sunday Jan 21, the 61st day.
The Billy Sunday drive raised 90 448.76 last Sunday to cover campaign costs. No further collections will be taken except the free will offering at the revival finale on Sunday January 21 at the Tabernacle. Subscriptions may be sent to 324 Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Temple campaign HQ.
The speaker argues Christians must renounce harmful pleasures while praising Jesus Christ. He mocks infidels and hypocrites, urges Bible study, and insists believers influence others for God. Crowds respond with laughter and energy as revival events continue with four sermons planned.
Billy Sunday opened the House session with prayer replacing the chaplain Rev Daniel Waldron and Mrs Sunday became the first woman in years allowed on the Speaker's rostrum. The couple attended the session then visited the Senate and had lunch at the Governor's home.
Day reports total for the event at Tabernacle with converts and campaign figures. The record lists totals for several cities including Boston Philadelphia Kansas City Baltimore Syracuse and a campaign sum.
Evening and afternoon sessions combined to 29 000 attendees yesterday with 12 000 for afternoon and 17 000 for evening. Cumulative total reaches 1 387 500 across the period.
Mr and Mrs Sunday visited the Senate and were received by President Wells. They then went with the Governor to his Winchester home where they were entertained at lunch by the Governor and Mrs McCall.
Arthur Waltonen testified in General Sessions Court that he helped plot the 1916 murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols. He said a pillow cover was placed over her head and hands tied after she suffocated during a robbery. Waltonen, from Ironwood Michigan, claimed jewels worth about $100,000 were planned to be stolen and later sold for $800.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Peters ruled out of the mayoralty contest in Washington. A Boston conference of reform and business leaders narrowed the field to James J. Storrow, Billings, George Holden Tinkham, Geoffrey B. Lehy and James A. Gallivan with Storrow tentatively favored.
The United States War Department approved two contracts by the Joseph M. Herman Shoe Company of Boston for Munson last army shoes, totaling nearly $100,000. Herman operates mills at Millis and focuses on military footwear.
S K Ratcliffe of the Manchester Guardian will speak at the Brookline Civic Forum at Harvard Church tomorrow at 8 about daily life in England. He has just arrived in the United States and will share first hand information on English conditions.
Dolly Madison chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution hosted an old Boston themed event at the Vendome. Members wore period attire and staged a living-picture finale with Miss Liberty dancing, drawing smiles from attending chapters Beulah Auerbach and Marion Upham Mansur among the principals.
Joseph George, 25, single, of 4 Spear Place South End, is in City Hospital with a bullet wound in the right side above the hip after a loaded revolver slid from beneath his pillow and fired as he reached to catch it. He undergoes X ray today to assist removal.
The Harvard Illustrated Magazine holds its annual dinner tonight at the Lenox. Robert C. Kelley of Dorchester, president of the Illustrated, will serve as toastmaster for the event.
Mme Louise Homer was soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Dr Karl Muck. She sang Bach airs It Is Finished and Heart Ever Faithful and performed three songs by Sidney Homer. The program included Schubert Unfinished Symphony Wagner Introduction and Bacchanal from Tannhauser Paris version and Edward Ballantine The Eve of St Agnes.
The reviewer praises the melodic ideas tied to fragments of Keats but finds Ballantine’s work weak in invention and structure. He notes refined, poetic intention and sensuous music in places, yet concludes the themes lack distinct, convincing development and overall force.
The article notes a promising though patchwork early composer during a St Agnes Eve anniversary concert. Dr Muck and his ensemble played well, Mme Homer impressed with simplicity, and Schubert's symphony is praised as a model of proportion and drama, hinting the composer might have rivaled Beethoven.
The Massachusetts Young Peoples Christian Union banquet at the Beacon Universalist Church Brookline drew about 300 members from across the state and national executives. Rev Charles Conklin welcomed guests and Samuel S Pond introduced Miss Esther A Lewis as toastmistress.
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