Show DREW THEM THROUGH VANITY clever scheme through wh ch large audiences were gathered to hear ps brooks when brooks held a of religious services on sunday eve aings in faneuil hall some doubt was expressed as to the size of the audi ence since it was plainly announced that these services were for the waifs and strays of the city and not for churchgoers the club of young men who had the matter in hand left to me the question of decad ing what course would insure the largest possible attendance I 1 went the first night and found the hall well filled the second night the attend ance had dwindled perceptibly and the third sunday night there was scarcely more than halt an audience I 1 called the committee together and told forim that the audience had grown so small that we must hereafter have admit tance by ticket I 1 remember their consternation at this proposal but we carried the plan through and there after no one was admitted who did not have a ticket from that night the hall was full at every service the ticket resembled in appearance a sea son ticket to the most expensive course of lectures or entertainments As might have been expected the peo pie who got these tickets found it quite impossible to sacrifice an ele ment of value however slight that value was they were entitled to at tend divine service that night at fan euil hall while tom dick and harry their neighbors were not and this slight advantage many of them could not relinquish atlantic monthly |