Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
1000 TRAIL HITTERS'
WILL BLAZE A TRAIL
FOR BILLY SUNDAY
Converts From Coal Regions
Will March on Broad
Street and Sing on City
Hall Plaza Tonight.

r,.r,Iv before nightfall this evening
-, .,,or will march on Broad street and
. ,ho north plaza Of the City Hall VIII
.,,s inspiring Christian songs. These
NOR are part of an army Of many thou
,ds who. through the inspiration that
80 to them when they heard the Rev.
-, Sunday, baseball evangelist, de-
s,iod to acknowledge themselves pub
i,oiv as soldiers of God.
TLov cali themselves trail hitters,"
.nJ thew are journeying to this city to-
a., headed by the Rev. George u.
I,n,,ov IaS, general secretary of the Sunday
c.r,naipn Committee, from their homes
~ Wilkes-Barre and Scranton and other
tovns in that part of Pennsylvanla 10
bIaze the trail for BILLY" Sunday the
master evangelist .,-.
r,an however, even though they have
nss,p,od the strange title of trail hit
tors for they are just the same as men
,ound walking through Philadelphia
at,eats every day, excepting that all of
these converts are men of God. They
Nere not always so, as they VIII tell the
worshipers in some 500 churches In this
elty and vicinity tomorrow morning ana
oysring But since BILLY" Sunday struck
tbo wavs that are not just right, and
now they willingly 90 anywhere on the
Sabbath to carry the message OF the
gospel to other men.
DurIng the weekdays they may be found
working on the railroads, conducting
cases as attorneys in the courts, sitting
around the directors tables in the banks,
Watching the looms, digging coal In the
n,ires helping to build houses, carrying
otynrIyNNhnFn
kInds of employment, these same men
NAV be found when at home, for they
come from every walk of life. But they
feel they are of one family now-the
family that looks to God as its father
and they all come willingly to preach
together the same message that has
brought to them new life.
They do not mince words, but tell cold
facts about their lives as they were be-
fore Sunday went to see them and as
tbev are now since they walked down the
sawdust trail" They will appear in
teams of four in churches in all parts
Of Philadelphia tomorrow and tell the
stories of their lives and the lives of
others before and after taking the medi-
cine the baseball evangelist gave them.
In the afternoon. at O'Clock, there
will be monster mass-meetings for men
in all parts of the city, including the
Christian Association. At each of these
meetings there will be special music, the
Sunday hymns will be sung and about
80 of the trail hitters' will lead in the
demonstrations.
The mass-meetlngs are to be held in
the following places:
Grace Baptist Temple, Union Methodist @
hockslnk Presbyterian Church, Messiah Luth;
eran Church, Fourth Baptist Church. Sn5Iat SSntTIat
Church Chambers-Wyle Presbyterian Church,
Bethany Presbyteran Church. Third srob bBaRtstt s.
Allegheny Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.
St, ,Paul's Reformed Episcopal Ghurfhh' Church Tss-
formed Church, BridCsburg Methodist Church,
Frankiord Avenue Methodist r, Church ohnc Ger;
Presbyterian Church, Gethsemane Lutheran
church, West Philadelphia Y NJ G; Al First
United Presbyterian Church. University OF
Pennsylvania, Darby Presbyterian Church and
the Darby High School.