Personal Workers to Extend Revival

PERSONAL WORKERS TO EXTEND REVIVAL

WILL FILL SUNDAY’S PLACE ON HIS DEPARTURE.

ALWAYS DO GREAT WORK

Citation: The South Bend Tribune. Thu, May 29, 1913 · Page 7

Results at Wilkes-Barre and Columbus Show What South Bend Can Do in Important Branch of Campaign.

The recent organization of the personal worker’s league among the men of the city has brought many to believe that this body of men will be the means of making the Billy Sunday campaign a most productive one, permanently.

It is not the purpose of the personal workers’ league to work only during the few remaining weeks of the revival but the members propose to maintain the same spirit that pervades religious circles at the present for months to come. The league is designed to take the place of Billy Sunday after he leaves, carrying on the revival work in different places in South Bend and Mishawaka, and surrounding districts.

Is Important Factor.

In other cities, such as Columbus, O., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the personal workers’ league has been one of the most important factors during the closing weeks of the campaigns and of great assistance to the evangelist in his work. The men who belong to the league go among their associates, whether in the factory, in the office or in the stores, trying to persuade other men to become Christians. It has been found that this is a very effective way of bringing men to the tabernacle meetings and eventually to the altar as the proposition is put to them in a practical manner and appeals to the majority.

In Wilkes-Barre, where Mr. Sunday recently closed a campaign, the personal workers’ league is holding meetings throughout the city, in the towns and in the vicinity every day. Excellent results are being derived from these meetings and men are being converted almost every day. The league is credited in an effort to convert the whole Wyoming valley and have organized a perfect machine which is working the community systematically and thoroughly.

Much Interest Here.

Present indications point to the fact that South Bend will have even a greater personal workers’ league than that at Wilkes-Barre, as more men are taking an interest in the work from the very start. The members include many of the most prominent business and professional men of the city and all are using their influence in an effort to get their associates to ‘hit the trail.’

They are entering the work with a spirit of enthusiasm unknown in re-

Meet Each Noon.

The personal workers are to meet every noon at the Y. M. C. A. while the campaign is on, and frequently after it has closed. The first day, nearly 100 men were in attendance, and each day those present were urged to return the following day with a friend. The plan has accomplished good results and the membership of the organization is steadily increasing.

In case it is decided to begin the noon mass meetings downtown next week, the personal workers’ league will meet daily at the same place where the meeting is held. The business for the day will be transacted as soon as the men get together, then the meeting will be over in time that they would have an opportunity to listen to Billy Sunday speak and hear the sermon, if necessary.

The South Bend Tribune. Thu, May 29, 1913 · Page 7