TO HAVE SERMONS DEPOSITED IN VAULT

BILLY SUNDAY GOING TO TAKE PRECAUTION AGAINST FIRE.

Citation: The South Bend Tribune. Tue, May 13, 1913 ·Page 7

Just Now, Evangelist Has No Duplicate Copies of His Famous Addresses—Ackley Does Work.

“No, I have only the one copy of each of my sermons,” replied Billy Sunday to a question as to whether he had duplicates of his sermons.

“These sermons are not in full,” continued the evangelist, as he showed the books in which he keeps the addresses that sway so many thousands; “they are just mere skeletons of the sermon and no one else but myself can read them, or at least I don’t think that anyone else can.”

Mr. Sunday was asked if he could remember the sermons if they were stolen and he replied that he recalled the majority of the material that composed them. He says that he intends to have duplicates made of the sermons and have them put into a safety deposit vault so that if one is stolen or should be destroyed by fire or in some other manner, he will have a copy.

“I thought at first that I would be able to get them copied this summer,” he said, “but it don’t look like the work will be accomplished, as I have so much to do this year.”

B. D. Ackley, pianist of the Sunday party, and secretary to the evangelist, copies the sermons of Mr. Sunday. This work takes up quite a bit of the pianist’s time, as Mr. Sunday is continually adding and detracting from his sermons as he acquires new material from many different sources.

“I always let Ackley fix up the sermons. He has a knack for doing things up pretty and nice,” said Sunday, while talking of his work.

“Now, boss, just because we have company you don’t need to make fun of me to my very face. He knows that I can’t fix them right,” said Ackley, as he turned to the visitor.

“That is all right; you do it just to suit me,” replied Sunday.

It is probable that sometime within the next year or so the evangelist will have all his sermons duplicated and deposited in a safety deposit vault.

The South Bend Tribune. Tue, May 13, 1913 ·Page 7