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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1917
Page
2
Boston's offering last night capped Billy Sunday s Boston revival and echoed his earlier Philadelphia event. The campaign is described as superb and world changing with Boston setting a high national example and New York facing a difficult pace to match.
The record lists raised funds and expenses across eight Sunday campaigns for current bafta elections in Iran. City totals show Philadelphia Detroit Kansas City Baltimore Syracuse Paterson with multiple figures for raised amounts, expenses, and net totals. Includes daily meeting times and totals of previous converts and day totals.
Crowds of 18 000 fill the Huntington Avenue Tabernacle as Billy Sunday wraps up a 10 week revival in Boston. The event draws 63 484 converts with 46 838 signing cards and raises about 150 000 dollars in offerings. Sunday thanks supporters, newspapers, police and city leaders before a final sermon on mortality and salvation.
A Boston revival campaign from Nov 12 1916 to Jan 1 1917 drew an estimated 539,500 attendees and raised 145,828.64 in offerings. A free will sum of 50,828.64 plus a final 50,826.64 check was presented to Billy Sunday. The ledger lists tens of thousands at sermons benches prayer meetings and class attendances across churches schools and clubs with broad participation by women men and youth.
A bold snow storm could not dampen the scene as Billy and Ma finish 10 weeks of preaching at the Tabernacle. They leave to a cheering crowd while newspaper photographers flash their cameras.
Billy Sunday and his wife Ma depart Boston in a Pullman car en route to Lawrenceville New Jersey to visit their son Billy Jr and then to Winona Lake Indiana. Billy pockets a $50 826.44 gift from Greater Boston as he tours the Boston Post offices saluting staff and posing for photographs before boarding. Former Governor Foss greets them at the station and wishes them well as police watch the scene in light of a long day ahead.
During ten weeks of the Billy Sunday Boston drive 522 people received care at the Tabernacle hospital. Most cases were fainting spells from prolonged sitting for front seats. Dr De Witt G Wilcox, hospital chair, reports no hysteria cases treated.
Colonel Everett C. Benton former commander and Guy A. Ham former Governor's Council member were among the last to hit the trail at the Billy Sunday Tabernacle as they went forward last night.
Crowds cheered as the evangelist and Mrs Sunday prepared to depart Boston. He told a Post reporter he would return to New York and home soon, praising Boston's hospitality while expressing fondness for the city. They boarded a sleeper amid farewells and wave of fans.
The Rev. William H. van Allen warned Syracuse converts from Billy Sunday’s revival to continue in ordinary Christian life without frenzy. He urged baptism, prayer, and steady study of the Bible, noting emotion can drive scandal and urging ongoing faith building rather than resting on past emotional highs.
Final day attendance tallies show 16 000 at 10:00 a. m. 17 000 at 1:30 p. m. 17 000 at 3:30 p. m. and 17 000 at 7:00 p. m. The figures reflect large turnout across sessions.
The 17th annual ball of the Boston Photo-Engravers' Union will be held tonight in Intercolonial Hall Roxbury. Invitations have gone to Governor McCall Mayor Curley and other public figures and labor leaders, signaling a strong social and financial success.
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