Tag: Billy Sunday

MISS SAXE FAMOUS AS BIBLE TEACHER, c.1916

MISS SAXE FAMOUS AS BIBLE TEACHER

Miss Grace Saxe, court stenographer, religious press reporter for Colonel Roosevelt, writer of religious text books, Bible teacher, tourist and general favorite wherever she goes, is the Bible teacher and leader of the prayer meetings of the Sunday campaign.

One has only to talk with Miss Grace Saxe just a few minutes to feel altogether assured that she has had many interesting experiences and has gotten every possible advantage from them. She is known in many countries in Europe and is considered by many persons to be the finest Bible teacher in the world at the present time. That is no idle compliment and the people of Trenton are now having an opportunity to hear this famous woman. She has not always been in Bible work, however, for several years ago she was leading a sternuous life as court reporter in St. Louis.

About this time her interest in Bible study and Bible teaching was aroused and she went to the Moody Institute to study. The famous revivalists, Dr. R. A. Torrey and Charles Alexander, were then stirring the country with their services and Miss Saxe became interested in their work. At the close of their evangelistic work in this country she went abroad with them and assisted them for two years.

Knowing that she could tell many fascinating stories about her travels and her work, the writer asked her about them one day and had a delightful chat discussing her adventures.

“I was with Dr. Torrey and Mr. Alexander for two years,” said Miss Saxe, “in England, Ireland, Scotland, Paris and Germany. I did not teach in Germany and only taught English speaking people in Paris.”

After completing her work with the evangelists she returned to London and for two years contributed to the London Christian, the oldest religious publication in the world, a series of articles on Bible study in the Old Testament. The Old Testament by the way is of engrossing interest to Miss Saxe, and once a Jewish girl came to interview her. It happened that the girl was well versed in the Old Testament and they discussed it to the exclusion of the usual interview.

But to revert to her work. At the invitation of a friend Miss Saxe went to Egypt intending to remain only a short time traveling. Her fame as a Bible teacher had already spread far even then and the missionaries hearing that she was in Egypt prevailed upon her to hold a series of Bible classes in Cairo, Alexandria, and other missionary stations. This she did, teaching the natives by means of an interpreter.

The missionaries in Palestine had also learned of what she was doing in Egypt and requested her to come to them and undertake the same work. She accepted the invitation and taught in Palestine for two months.

“When I finished my teaching, my friend and I took a driving trip north from Jerusalem to the Sea of Galilee and to Damascus and returned by the way of Baalbeck where we stopped wherever we chose and stayed as long as we cared to. Many of the famous places mentioned in the Bible we visited and during our stay there we would read everything that the Bible said about the place.”

It may be as a result of this trip that Miss Saxe can talk so fascinatingly about the places of the Old Testament.

After rambling about Palestine in this way she and her friend returned to Egypt for a summer conference.

“It is very hot in Egypt in the summer,” she said, “and almost all the missionaries go to the coast which costs them no more than to stay in the interior. They offered to stay in the interior the summer that I was in Egypt if I would conduct a Bible class. We had, of course, no adequate place in which to hold such a course and my friend sent to London for an immense tent. This arrived and was erected and for six weeks I gave four courses of Bible study. We held not only a Bible class but really a religious revival. I talked to many natives who would come to the tent, by means of my interpreter.”

At this time Colonel Roosevelt was expected to come out of the jungle and was scheduled to make several addresses in various mission stations. The religious press of America cabled to Egypt for the missionaries to get a stenographer to take down the Colonel’s talks. Stenographers do not abound in Egypt, however, and the task was easier said than done. The missionaries knew of my work as a reporter and cabled back to know if I would go, and the message came back to go ahead. So off I started and went up the Nile farther than I would have gone if I had not been going to meet the Colonel. I arrived several days before he did. Finally he came out of the jungle and I reported all of his addresses for the religious press.”

Miss Saxe then returned to this country and about four years ago became connected with the Sunday party, and has been the director of the prayer meetings and the Bible classes ever since. It is under her management that the plan for the block prayer meetings has been worked out and at the end of each campaign she organizes as many of these groups as desire to be organized into permanent Bible classes.

She is a woman of gracious personality and becomes extremely well liked wherever she goes. She is above medium height with black hair and dark eyes. Her smile is very cordial and her manner most delightful.

Of course, no story of Miss Saxe is complete without a mention of her fondness for cats. Many persons have a pet of some kind and a kitten is Miss Saxe’s favorite of all animals. There are days, of course, when she does not see her pet at all and when he is entrusted to the mercies of some one else. The little feline leads a happy life in spite of that and is doubtless proud of being the pet of so illustrious a person.

In Trenton, this animal is “John,” a gray and white kitten, named in honor of three of the Times Staff members.

The Times (Trenton, New Jersey) · Sun, Jan 16, 1916 · Page 6 Downloaded on Mar 10, 2026

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Frederick George Fischer, c.1909

Note: The following is from the 1909 Billy Sundat souvenir program, c. 1909.

Frederick George Fischer

Fred G. Fischer

THE Rev. W. A. Sunday says that “Fred” Fischer (he always calls him by the pet name of “Fred”) is the best chorus conductor in the world. The evangelist ought to know. He has been with all the great evangelists from Moody and Sankey to Torrey and Chapman, and is acquainted with the most successful chorus leaders and soloists in the work to-day. Mr. Sunday’s high ideals of what the leader of gospel song in his meetings, at least, must approximate unto are attainable only by those who are born leaders of men. He is after results, and believes the gospel can be sung into people as well as preached into them.

He has been with Mr. Sunday nine years. That alone speaks volumes. He has qualities that wear well. He is first of all a Christian and always a gentleman. He has proved resourceful enough to stand the strain, the changes and the demands of the years. He knows what the people want and gives it to them.

When Mr. Fischer leaves a city all the choirs and congregations uniting in the meetings note the impulse of his splendid work. They want to sing. So a revival in congregational singing takes place. And every local chorus leader knows better how to conduct a chorus and what people like to sing or listen to.

Nature and art have done much for this remarkable man, but the grace of God has done more. And it is noticeable that he never allows his chorus or himself to sing for entertainment or simply to kill time. The motive which dominates Fred Fischer is responsible for the remarkable results, and stands the test of time. For no one is so cordially welcomed wherever he has been than Fischer.

Frederick George Fischer was born at Mendota, Ill., July 11, 1872. His mother, who was a sister of Peter Bilhorn, (of the well known Bilhorn Bros., publishers, Chicago) was burned to death when Fred was a year and a half old. When ten years of age the family moved to Laramie, Wyo. He entered the big moulding works in that city and became an expert mechanic in the bolts and nuts department. At eighteen he was converted in the Baptist church at Laramie, and was awakened to his inheritance, a rare voice, and to his call to a wider service, the evangelistic field. Failing sight forced the diffident young man to mention his ambition to his uncle, Peter Bilhorn, who discovering his nephew possessed a voice worth cultivating, gave Fred every advantage for its cultivation, always with the object in view of using his voice to the glory of God.

After studying voice culture under such masters as F. W. Root, Frank Webster, and W. W. Hinshaw, in Chicago, Mr. Fischer started out on the strength of his Lord’s commission “to sing the gospel to every creature.”

In January, 1900, Mr. Fischer’s chance came. He was ready in all but an adequate wardrobe. And those who have been accustomed to see the always immaculately dressed and groomed musical director since he has been with Mr. Sunday, have no idea of the struggle he had to look decent, nine years ago, when Sunday wired him to take charge at Bedford, Iowa. He split the only coat he had under the arms in his anxiety to make things go, and to show he could “deliver the goods” he knew Sunday wanted. He made good, and has kept on doing so ever since. Mr. Oliver and Fred Fischer are the only musical directors Mr. Sunday has had in his nearly seventeen years of public work.

What there is in his line Mr. Fischer knows by heart. His audiences will do what he asks them because he has a purpose in some of his strange requests. Everything Fischer does leads up to decision and service for Christ. And that is why when the invitation is given, and half his chorus will sometimes leave to work among the undecided, this modest, patient, and loyal gentleman sticks to his post, and the true reason why,—everybody loves Fred Fischer.

Did converts of Billy Sunday campaigns ‘stick”?

Three years after the Carthage meetings, a Mattoon, Illinois newspaper said that 80% of Carthage converts were still “living the new life. While two years after Keokuk, 75% of the converts “are still leading the new life.”
– JG-TC: Journal Gazette and Times-Courier (Mattoon, Illinois) · Mon, Mar 19, 1906 · Page 1.

Five years after the Belvidere revival of September 1901, a Belvidere newspaper reported that membership of Belvidere Methodist church in 1901 was 500 persons, and five years later it was 850, showing the ‘stickiness’ of Sunday converts over a long period of time.
– Belvidere Daily Republican (Belvidere, Illinois) · Mon, Mar 26, 1906 · Page 2.

On Billy preaching . . . c.1906

A person who witnessed Billy preaching at Princeton, Illinois, said this of the Evangelist’s preaching:

“When it comes to preaching Billy is a storm, a whirlwind, a cyclone, hurricane, a tornado, a-well, everything indicative of power. He preaches like his life depended upon it. He preaches like he had it to do.” Adding, “As long as Rev. William A. Sunday stays on track and labors to call men back to the old path – the gospel path – he should be allowed to work without opposition from Christian people, even if his methods are sensational and unique and his language at times is shocking.”

Bureau County Tribune (Princeton, Illinois) · Fri, Mar 9, 1906 · Page 3.

February 11 – March 11, 1906. Princeton, Illinois – Billy Sunday

From February 11 to March 11, 1906, evangelist Billy Sunday conducted a major revival campaign in Princeton, drawing sustained crowds and producing significant conversion totals that reinforced his growing reputation as one of the most effective evangelists in the Midwest. A temporary tabernacle seating approximately 3,600 people was filled nightly, indicating the strong regional interest in Sunday’s preaching and the extensive cooperation of local churches.

The meetings quickly produced measurable results. One report noted 919 conversions in a single day on February 24, illustrating the intense response often seen at the height of Sunday’s campaigns. Despite severe winter weather—including one of the worst storms of the season on March 3—attendance and participation remained strong. By March 8, newspapers reported 1,298 converts, and by the close of the revival on March 11, the total number of recorded conversions had reached 2,325.

Contemporary observers described the atmosphere in Princeton as spiritually charged. A visiting pastor reported that the “city was aflame with the revival spirit,” while others praised Sunday’s dynamic preaching style, likening his delivery to a “storm” or “cyclone” in its intensity. His methods, though sometimes criticized as sensational, were widely regarded by supporters as effective in reaching large audiences—especially men—who might otherwise avoid church.

The Princeton campaign also contributed to Sunday’s rapidly expanding influence across the region. Shortly afterward, newspapers noted that since October 1905 he had reportedly received about $12,000 in offerings and recorded 9,000 conversions, with 20,000 conversions attributed to his work across the Rock River Valley of Illinois. The Princeton meetings thus formed a significant chapter in the early expansion of Sunday’s evangelistic career.

Sources:
The Dixon Evening Telegraph, March 2, 1906, p. 5.
Bureau County Tribune (Princeton, IL), March 9, 1906, p. 3.
Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, IL), February 26, 1906, pp. 1, 5; March 8, 1906, p. 4.
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier (Mattoon, IL), March 19, 1906, p. 1.

Billy Sunday: the man and his methods (period newspaper, c.1905)

The Man and His Methods.

“It is impossible to describe William A. Sunday. He simply gets there. While he shocks some of the staid old deacons by his rough and ready way of putting things, the great throng stand on and applaud. He has a wonderful gift of street slang and he uses the choicest of it. He can preach using as fine English as any man in the country, but he is dreadfully lonesome doing it. He likes to employ language people best understand.

He is a slight man, weighing less than 140 pounds, but is wiry and as scienced as Jeffries. He is a bundle of nerves, and from the moment he throws a beautiful fur coat from his shoulders to the close of the meeting every nerve is put in play. Those who hear him go away stating that he cannot stand it long to work with the nerve force he does, but he has stood it for eight years and is as able today as he was in the beginning. He pleads, he entreats, he prays and weeps, and the crowd are with him. Few men have the power to sway crowds like Sunday. He can cause them to break out in peals of laughter and can make them weep copiously as he appeals to sympathy. He is great on storytelling and can embellish with all the facial expressions necessary. He is so agile on the stage that without any trouble at all he can lean over backward and touch his head to the floor, and, if occasion demanded, could turn a flip with the best of them.

It is this that undoubtedly arouses the curious and those who wish to be entertained. But it doesn’t end there. He can preach powerful sermons. If you go once you go twice and if you go twice, you will find that at the close of his month’s services you have been present at about every service.”

– The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) · Sun, Feb 26, 1905 · Page 9.

January 13 – February 12, 1905. Mason City, Iowa – Billy Sunday revival

January 13 – February 12, 1905. Mason City, Iowa

Billy Sunday conducted a month-long revival campaign in Mason City, Iowa, from January 13 to February 12, 1905, during a period when the city’s population was only about 8,300 and total church membership was roughly 3,000. A temporary tabernacle constructed of rough boards and tar paper—heated by six furnaces to withstand winter conditions—served as the central venue for the meetings.

Attendance was substantial for a community of Mason City’s size. One January meeting drew 2,000 men, while associate evangelist Ira E. Honeywell simultaneously addressed 1,000 women in a separate gathering. During a notable men’s meeting on January 29, Sunday delivered a forceful sermon condemning social vices; more than 50 men responded for prayer and conversion. The revival continued despite severe winter weather, including temperatures reported at twenty below zero.

By the campaign’s conclusion, the meetings had produced approximately 700 conversions, including 200 on the final day. Sunday received a $1,800 love offering, while an additional $2,500 was raised for campaign expenses and $800 for the city’s poor. Contemporary newspapers widely reported the revival and praised Sunday’s energetic preaching style and his unusual ability to sway large crowds.

Billy Sunday on the Chautauqua Circuit: The Brief but Notable Season of 1910

In the summer of 1910, Billy Sunday stood at an interesting crossroads in his rapidly expanding ministry. By this point he was already nationally known as one of America’s most electrifying evangelists. Cities across the country were beginning to build large tabernacles to accommodate the crowds that flocked to hear him preach. Yet during the summer months—when revival campaigns often paused—Sunday occasionally appeared on the Chautauqua circuit, the great American network of traveling lecture assemblies that combined education, entertainment, reform movements, and religion.

Unlike many lecturers who spent the entire season touring the circuit, Sunday’s 1910 Chautauqua schedule was surprisingly limited. He appeared only at a handful of assemblies, and his comments to the press make clear that this was intentional. Sunday had been offered lucrative opportunities to spend the entire summer lecturing. One newspaper reported that he declined an offer of $20,000 to devote the season to Chautauqua work, explaining that the exhausting schedule would leave him unable to conduct revival campaigns in the fall.

“The report that I am to retire is all pure nonsense… I refused $20,000 to give my time to Chautauqua work this summer, as I would be worn out and could not preach before January.”

Sunday’s priority remained evangelistic preaching. Nevertheless, the few Chautauqua appearances he did make during the summer of 1910 provide a fascinating glimpse into his growing national popularity and the remarkable drawing power he already possessed.

Whidbey Island: The Northwestern Chautauqua Assembly

Sunday’s Chautauqua engagements began on July 24, 1910, at the Northwestern Chautauqua Assembly on Whidbey Island, Washington.

At this gathering Sunday delivered a message titled “Forces that Win.” Like many of his sermons, it blended moral exhortation with vivid biblical storytelling. Reports indicate he illustrated his message with the story of David and Goliath, a favorite example of spiritual courage overcoming overwhelming odds.

Even among the prominent lecturers and performers typical of a Chautauqua program, Sunday stood out. His dynamic speaking style—rapid delivery, colorful language, and dramatic physical movement—contrasted sharply with the more measured lecture format audiences often expected.

Hillsboro–Litchfield: A Midwestern Assembly

In early August Sunday appeared at the Hillsboro–Litchfield Chautauqua, running from August 4 through August 11. These regional Chautauqua assemblies usually featured a mixture of lectures, concerts, political discussions, and religious addresses.

Sunday’s presence on such programs reflected the growing recognition that he was not merely a revivalist but also one of the most compelling public speakers in the country.

Maxwelton, Washington: Crowds Even in Small Communities

On August 6, Sunday spoke at the Maxwelton Chautauqua in Washington, addressing a crowd estimated at 4,500 people.

The size of the audience is striking. Maxwelton itself was a small community, yet thousands gathered to hear Sunday speak. Even outside the large urban revival campaigns for which he would soon become famous, his reputation alone was enough to draw impressive crowds.

Patterson Springs: Record-Breaking Interest

Another Chautauqua stop came on August 10 at Patterson Springs. Newspapers noted that Sunday had previously delivered a lecture there that produced $3,600 in ticket receipts, reportedly a record for a single Chautauqua lecture.

This financial success reveals something important about Sunday’s role in the Chautauqua movement. He was not just a preacher filling a religious slot in the program. He was one of the circuit’s major attractions, capable of drawing large audiences and generating significant revenue.

Even so, Sunday resisted becoming primarily a Chautauqua lecturer. His heart remained in revival work.

Lake Whatcom: The “Human Interest” Lecturer

On August 24, Sunday appeared at the Washington Assembly Chautauqua near Lake Whatcom. Promotional material advertised him as delivering the program’s “human interest” lecture, a category that perfectly suited his style.

Sunday’s talks often mixed humor, storytelling, social criticism, and passionate moral appeal. He could move easily from a humorous anecdote to a blistering denunciation of vice, particularly the liquor trade. This blend of entertainment and moral seriousness made him an ideal Chautauqua speaker.

Richmond, Indiana: A Crowd of Eight Thousand

Sunday’s most dramatic Chautauqua appearance of 1910 came on August 28 at the Richmond, Indiana Chautauqua.

The crowd numbered roughly 8,000 people, and Sunday delivered one of his most famous temperance sermons, “Booze.”

Contemporary accounts describe a performance that was nothing short of theatrical. Once fully warmed up, Sunday removed his coat and launched into an explosive denunciation of the saloon. At one point he grabbed a red flag representing the liquor trade, hurled it to the ground, and stamped on it before triumphantly seizing the American flag to symbolize moral victory.

Such dramatic gestures were typical of Sunday’s style. Critics sometimes mocked them as stage tricks, but audiences loved them. They reinforced his reputation as the relentless enemy of alcohol and social vice.

Why the 1910 Season Was Short

One of the most interesting aspects of Sunday’s Chautauqua activity in 1910 is how limited it was.

Rumors circulated in the press that he might be retiring from public speaking altogether. In reality, the opposite was true. Sunday simply refused to devote the entire summer to the lecture circuit.

He explained that constant Chautauqua travel would leave him exhausted and unable to conduct the revival campaigns that he believed were his true calling. Instead, he used the summer months partly for rest and partly for select speaking engagements before returning to the intense schedule of fall revivals.

This decision proved wise. Later in 1910 Sunday conducted major campaigns in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Iowa, drawing enormous crowds and recording thousands of conversions.

A Glimpse of Sunday’s Expanding Influence

Though brief, Billy Sunday’s 1910 Chautauqua season reveals several important aspects of his rising influence.

First, it demonstrates the extraordinary demand for him as a public speaker. Even isolated appearances drew crowds in the thousands.

Second, it shows that he was already a major figure in the reform movements of the era—especially the temperance crusade.

Finally, it highlights Sunday’s own priorities. While many speakers made their careers on the Chautauqua circuit, Sunday viewed it as secondary. His passion remained revival preaching and evangelism.

In hindsight, the summer of 1910 marks a moment when Billy Sunday could have easily become one of the most lucrative lecturers in America. Instead, he chose the harder path—returning to the sawdust floors of revival tabernacles and the exhausting pace of evangelistic campaigns.

And in doing so, he continued building the ministry that would soon make him the most famous evangelist in America.

What was the religious temperature in the Midwest c.1910?

The following article excerpt was carried in several newspapers in mid August 1910.

MIDDLE WEST HAS A RELIGIOUS FERMENT

In Chicago Itself Other World Matters Have the Floor.

“The rest of the country can hardly realize the breadth and the depth and the fervor of the spiritual tumult which is stirring the Middle West with Chicago as its center. Chicago newspapers regularly carry columns of sermons in their paid advertising columns. In Chicago street cars are displayed glaring placards advertising the “Book of Mormon,” and 48,000 copies have been sold in the city during the past two or three years. Billboards are covered with big four-sheet posters in colors, calling upon the public to attend great free mass meetings in the Coliseum, with a gospel choir of 2000 voices as the special attraction. Every Sunday morning the Auditorium—the largest theater in the city—is packed with the congregation of Central Church, and every Sunday evening Orchestra Hall is filled with people attending the religious services, which are supported by a voluntary club of Chicago business men. And during the clement season of each recent year scores of Middle West towns, with populations of ten and twenty thousand people, have practically dropped all their ordinary occupations and given themselves over for weeks at a time to a strange, fanatical religious ecstasy, under the acrobatic ministrations of “Billy” Sunday, baseball evangelist. And these are only the more normal the more nearly orthodox manifestations of the spiritual unrest.”—Henry M. Hyde in Collier’s.

The Buffalo News. Tue, Aug 16, 1910 ·Page 5

Women’s Wok for Women – Miss Miller (Billy Sunday’s campaign team, c.1909)

Some one has said “To make ‘soul winners’ out of church members” is the business of Miss Francis Miller with the Sunday party. Her greatest opportunity comes each afternoon at the close of Mr. Sunday’s sermon. Christians of all ages and experience gather before her on the platform to be instructed how to use the Bible in meeting the excuses and answering the questions of sinners. She is an expert in teaching how to diagnose the sinner’s heart and apply the specific Scripture remedy chapter and verse. For years she was a passive church member when a sermon on “Personal Work” by Billy Sunday opened her eyes to a great responsibility. Mr. Alexander led her into Bible study and Grace Saxe made her eager to do Bible work. She carries ordination in the Congregational church and has had experience in pastoral work. Miss Miller’s work in other places is being duplicated in Cedar Rapids.

Miss Miller’s Bible work in connection with the revivals conducted by Mr. Sunday has ripened in the school of experience. At first she came on the ground at the close of the revival and organized union Bible study classes. Experiments of this kind at Knoxville, Iowa, Kewanee and Kankakee, Ill., revealed that the work done in this way could not be made of permanent value without local leaders, which was not always available. The experiment was tried out beginning in advance of the revival. Miss Miller went to Muscatine and Galesburg two weeks before Mr. Sunday to prepare the personal workers for his coming. Later Miss Miller worked during the three last weeks of the meetings and then remained two weeks after the close to organize the local Bible class work upon a permanent basis. This was the plan pursued at Springfield where forty-five district or neighborhood Bible classes were formed with a central training class for the leaders. These classes were interrupted by the summer vacation period but the classes took up their work this fall with about one thousand members working in the various districts. A class was formed among the so-called “society girls,” the girls of leisure, in well to-do homes. They call it “The Worth While Bible Class,” and they have been aggressive in Y.W.C.A. and associated charity work. One Bible class in Springfield supplanted a card club. The girls gave up their cards for Bibles. There was no breaking up of existing social ties but a change of bonds. No new social lines were drawn but a new directive of interest was taken. Many girls who have been stimulated to take up personal work have gone to Moody Institute for training. Word comes from Boulder, Col. that sixty high school girls hold regular Bible study meetings in the high school building. Miss Miller is one of the busiest workers of the Sunday party. She meets with the home girls of leisure at 10 a.m. The fifty gathered at the home of Mrs. Frank Watson Friday may be regarded as typical; at 11:15 three days of the week she meets the Coe college girls; at 12:15 she talks about 150 high school girls at St. Paul’s M.E. church; at 3:00 holds a personal workers’ class for everybody and at 6:30 for clerks, teachers and others. Careful plans are being made to insure systematic Bible study after the close of the big revival.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Thu, Nov 18, 1909 ·Page 5

Miss Frances Miller

TRUE today as it ever has been, the title, “church member,” or “Christian,” are not synonymous with “soul winning.” Miss Miller, with Bible in hand, finger on chapter and verse, persuades you—yes, convinces you they should be—that they are. To make “soul winners” out of church members is her business with Mr. Sunday’s party, and she does it. Skilled herself through years of study and practice, she stands before her class of hundreds, each afternoon at the close of Mr. Sunday’s sermon and schools them to meet the excuses and questions of the sinner, not as the quack with the patent cure all, but as the trained physician who diagnoses, then prescribes. With clear, logical reasonings, deduced from Scripture, carried by a clear, far-reaching voice, she instructs how to diagnose the sinner’s heart and apply the specific Scripture remedy with chapter and verse.

Miss Miller herself was not always a soul-winning church member. For five years she was not. A church member, simply, she thinks, because she was asked to be. Reared in a Christian home, honest at heart, she was ready. When Billy Sunday, about sixteen years ago, broke the truth to her in a sermon on “Personal Work,” she surrendered to it. Mr. Alexander led her into Bible study and Grace Saxe made her want to do Bible work.

She was born in Minnesota, grew up in North Dakota, lived in Illinois, was educated in the high school at Waterloo, Iowa, and college at Fargo, N. D., and afterwards taking a two years’ course and finals in the Bible Institute in Chicago.

She spent a summer with Mr. Williams and Mr. Alexander, organizing Bible classes, etc., one of which at Vinion, Ia., still continues, and that is over ten years ago. Her first year out of college she had charge of two Congregational churches near Valley City, N. D., and later was ordained a member of the Congregational church.

Besides “personal work” classes she teaches systematic Bible study classes, special prayer meetings in Y.M.C.A., laundries, shops, high schools, etc., at times and places convenient for the many who cannot attend the regular services. Morning and afternoon she does it, conducting four or more meetings a day and plunges into the vast tabernacle in the evening hunting for someone to lead to her Christ.

Her Bible is pre-eminently a part of a great revival campaign in supplementing the preaching by preparing intelligent workers and grounding converts in the Scriptures. Thus two of the weakest spots, two chief causes of failure in modern revival work, are cared for.

The 1909 Springfield souvenir campaign booklet