What kind of badges or buttoms did Billy Sunday volunteers wear?

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TABERNACLE SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS, c 1912

Location of tabernacle—Second and Washington streets.

All hats must be removed within building.

Members of choir required to be in their places promptly.

Tabernacle may be entered from any side and ushers will look after all.

A section of reserved seats is provided in the front for those whose hearing is defective. Another block, in direct center, is for the children.

First to arrive have choice of seats, except those in the choir loft which are reserved by checks for members of that body.

No one is permitted to walk through the aisles of the tabernacle while Sunday is preaching. All are expected to refrain from talking or making other unnecessary noises during the services.

Those who attend services are expected to start early so as to not create a disturbance by entering late. Late comers are admitted, but are required to enter building from rear doors. The purpose is to make as little disturbance as possible.

Ushers, officers and firemen, detailed by police and fire departments, will be on duty at all services to prevent disorder or accidents.

Hand books of the campaign, giving detailed information concerning transportation facilities, telephones, committee headquarters, prayer meeting districts and many other important items of information are distributed gratuitous at the tabernacle.

Changes in the hour of holding services, or any other important development, will be given in the Evening Review.

Sept 1912 paper

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

Rescue the Perishing ‘personal worker’s’ resource during Billy Sunday campaigns, c. 1911

RESCUE THE PERISHING

PERSONAL WORK MADE EASY.

That ye may KNOW how ye ought to ANSWER every man.—Col. 4:6.

SUGGESTIVE NOTES AND HINTS FOR BEGINNERS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

And take the helmet of Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.—Eph. 6:17.

ARRANGED BY “FRED” R. SEIBERT

Books Proving Handy.

Those who assist in the personal work at the tabernacle are finding that the little book on this line of endeavor sold by Fred Seibert to be of much value. The ex-cowboy, in addition to selling the book on personal work, handles the hymnals and has for sale two of Billy Sunday’s sermons, ‘Moral Lepers’ and ‘Three Groups.’

The South Bend Tribune. Mon, May 12, 1913 ·Page 9

What ‘Next-Step’ resource for new converts did Sunday have distributed at his campaign? C. 1910

W. A. Sunday

2 Tim: 2:15

Dear Friend:

You have by this act of coming forward publicly acknowledged your faith in Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. No one could possibly be more rejoiced that you have done this or be more anxious for you to succeed and get the most joy and service out of the Christian life than I. I therefore ask you to read carefully this little tract. Paste it in your Bible and read it frequently.

What it means to be a Christian

What It Means to Be a Christian.

“A Christian is any man, woman or child who comes to God as a lost sinner, accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, surrenders to Him as their Lord and Master, confesses Him as such before the world, and strives to please Him in everything day by day.”

Have you come to God realizing that you are a lost sinner?

Have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour; that is, do you believe with all your heart that He bore the penalty of your sins (I Peter 2: 24), and that now your sins are forgiven because Jesus died in your stead?

Have you surrendered to Him as your Lord and Master?

That is, are you willing to do His will even when it conflicts with your desire?

Have you confessed Him as your Saviour and Master before the world?

Is it your purpose to strive to please Him in everything day by day?

If you can sincerely answer “YES” to the foregoing questions, then you may know on the authority of God’s Word that you are NOW a child of God (John 1: 12), that you have NOW eternal life (John 3: 36); that is to say, if you have done your part (i.e., accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Master) God has done HIS part and imparted to you His own nature (II Peter 1: 4).

How to Make a Success of the Christian Life

Now that you are a child of God your growth depends upon YOURSELF.

It is impossible for you to become a useful Christian unless you are attending to the things which are absolutely essential to your spiritual growth. To this end the following suggestions will be found to be of vital importance. that ye may grow thereby.” — I Peter 2: 2.

STUDY THE BIBLE. Set aside at least fifteen minutes a day for your Bible Study. Let God talk to you fifteen minutes a day through His Word. Talk to God fifteen minutes a day in prayer. Talk for God fifteen minutes a day.”As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word,

The Word of God is food for the soul.

Commit to memory one verse of scripture each day.

Join a Bible Class. (Psalm 119:11

2. PRAY MUCH. Praying is talking to God. Talk to Him about everything: your perplexities, joys, sorrows sins, mistakes, friends, enemies.

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God

3. WIN SOMEONE FOR CHRIST. For spiritual growth we need not only food (Bible study) but exercise. Work for Christ. The only work Christ ever set for Christians is to win others.

“Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” Mark 16:15.

“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” Ezek. 3:18.

4. SHUN EVIL COMPANIONS. Avoid bad people, bad books, bad thoughts. (Read the 1st Psalm.)

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness—what part hath he that believeth with an infidel—wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord” II Cor. 6:14-17.

Try to win the wicked for God but do not choose them for your companions.

5. JOIN SOME CHURCH. Be faithful in your attendance at the Sabbath and mid-week services.

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is;” Heb. 10:25

Co-operate with your pastor. God has appointed the pastor to be a shepherd over the church and you should give him due reverence and seek to co-operate with him in his plans for the welfare of the church

6. GIVE TO THE SUPPORT OF THE LORD’S WORK. Give as the Lord hath prospered you. I Cor. 16:2.

“Give not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver.” II Cor. 9:7

7. DO NOT BECOME DISCOURAGED. Expect temptations, trials, suffering and persecution; The Christian life is warfare.

“Yea and all who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” II Tim. 3:12.

The eternal God is thy refuge. We have the promise that all things, even strange and hard unaccountable obstacles work together for our good. Many of God’s brightest saints who are now in glory, have passed through dark trials, the hottest fire, and were blessed and used mightily in the world made better because they had lived in it.

Read often the following passages of Scripture: Romans 8:18; I Corinthians 10:13