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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1916
Page
6
Sunday Wins reports Boston revival crowds smashing records for trail hitters and conversions, with 3702 trail hitters the largest single-day total ever. About 51,000 attended, including 40,000 men, as Me chanics Hall hosted 500 women and pastors hailed the event.
Billy Sunday preached his "Chickens Come Home to Roost" sermon in Boston addressing sin, personal liberty, and social duty. He warned that personal vice harms wives and children, urged adherence to law over license, and urged bold action against vice to save souls and communities.
The report covers Sunday meetings with 51 000 total attendance and 17 000 for each service at Tabernacle, plus a 4 400 Sunday Afternoon event at Mechanics Hall. It includes Billy Sunday’s sermon urging abstinence, condemning cussing, alcohol, libertinism, and stressing parental influence on children, with anecdotes and moral guidance.
Forty thousand men filled the Huntington avenue Tabernacle as Sunday delivered a plain spine of truth in a sermon titled When Chickens Come Home to Roost. Reporters and attendees describe tears, charity, and a call to reform as men pressed forward to give.
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