This Week in Christian History: RFRA, Oswald Chambers Dies, Billy Sunday Revival
Billy Sunday Boston Revival Event Draws 70,000 - November 12, 1916
This week marks the anniversary of when the famed evangelist the Rev. Billy Sunday held a revival meeting in Boston, Massachusetts that drew approximately 70,000 people.
Preaching from a temporary tabernacle on Huntington Avenue, 15,000 of those who came had to be turned away due to the crowding. However, Sunday would remain in Boston for ten weeks, drawing approximately 1.5 million people during that time.
"His acrobatic antics, colorful language, frank discussion of sexual mores, and retinue of performers smacked of a vaudeville show. But his masterful preaching moved many to commit their lives to Jesus," explained Mass Moments.
"The sermons against the evils of alcohol that he delivered in Boston, long remembered as among his most powerful, helped win passage of the constitutional amendment that made prohibition the law of the land."
