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Show THE TrrT OF REVIVALS Ilov. Hilly Sunday is drawing tcnB of thousands to his rovlvul tabcr-nnclo tabcr-nnclo In Philadelphia. There Is no vnudevi 10 incuolglst who uses such nil assortment of slang. Ho appears ; to believe that a person who will not nsscnt to his own personal creed la ' headed straight for the pit. And yet ho does seem to havo somo power . rotorm character. Ilr.4hor Sunday, ns a believer In the llto'al Illblo, must have reflected upon that passage where tho Lord said unto Moses, "Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off this feet; for tho place whero thou stand est Is ho'y ground." In modern terms that signifies that tho namo of deity Is not to bo flippantly used, and that places of worship aro to bo entered with reverence. Hilly Sunday, with his comedy Btunts, Is certainly no Moses of tho Exodus, who npproachod I tho presence ot Ood In tho burning bush with tenr nnd awe. 1 Some offenses against good taste, can bo overlooked if character Is renewed. re-newed. Hut tho real test of n revivalist's work Is not the lino of men who "hit I Ino saw dust trail." The country is fill ot revivalists who possess a certain cer-tain magnetism, before which ull tho difficulties of changing hnblts scdm to vanish. Tho rest tost comes when tlio preacher Is gono, tho crowd scattered, scatter-ed, and a man Is up against the old temptation to tako tho easiest way. Tho obscure pastor or tho homa church, tho unknown worker In Sunday school or rraternlty, Is per haps moro often the real agent in n man's nineudmcut. It Is comparatively compara-tively ensy to got men to conross their sins amid the contnglon ot n friendly crowd. Quito nnothor to: somo weak willed follow to walk the straight and narrow path with the ! "boys" joshing him. |