New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-20

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! does Philadelphia purpose doingl
This question was answered prompt
w. Sundays work Is to be the only
evangelical campaign waged there
There will be no follow-up. >.
"Tbe prominent men OF Philadelphia,
Philadelphia Sunday hacker said,
brought Sunday here because they
thought he was the one man who could
achieve n real moral uplift. We have
no reason TO complaint think we can
cheer. When Sunday leaves Philadel-
mia the evangelical campaign Will De
over. The profit is that the converts
will 90 to the churches. The ministers
will be left in charge of the work OF
/ bringing men and women 20 God
/ won't the difference in the meth DDS
/ ~ Sunday and the Philadelphia min
listers bring the situation back TO It's
"WSTl have to wait TO see. I think
Sunday had sown seed which will de-
yelop fruit. lie has opened thought
on religion. see good results. l
can see no bud-nipping frost.
Foreman "fIit the Trail"
When Me friends or associates OF q
man know that he has hit the trail
they make him the subject Of humorous
/ (so-called) endeavor. In large plant
the foreman was affected by the sun
day meetings. He attended all of them
for the first three weeks. In the sec
/ ond week-he had scotfed through the
first week--he "hit the trail" On ar
irving at work one morning he an
nouDced that he had religion.
/ This man was notorious for his pro-
| family and his tobacco chewing. In
/ the morning after his conversion ne
was the gentlest Of bosses. NOT
( an oath left his tongue And he suf-
] fered through the day that saw no to-
bacco Guided in his cheek
/ The next morning, when he got to the
/ building. he found q trail Of sawdust
/ leading from the entrance of the build
/ ing TO his Office. On his desk the
/ floor in front of it-were Il hundred or
so packages of his favorite chewing to-
| baccO.
Did he sweari 49,.
/ Stranger, you are asking question.
] He swore He threw that tobacco right
( left. north, south, east and, they say,
west. He was mad. That night when
work was done he dragged half OF the
men lust under him 20 the Tabernacle.
Three days later the men who h lid
/ plaved the Joke confessed and, at the
next Saturday evening meeting. they
I "hit the trail" Two joined church,
and they are still members.
There was a Unitarian. He thought
Sunday was a joke Sunday couldn't
help anybody lie was out for the
money. The Unitarian went to the
/ Tabernacle He went again on the day
following. The Unitarian thought Sun
day was an effective talker, though Sun
day said things quite displeasing 20
him. There might be something IN
what he said.
The Unitarian was about forty years
old He felt himself slipping. lie
hadn't paid much attention TO church.
! He didn't rely much on his own Judg-
ment He thought q staid Unitarian
/ friend Of his. a woman, could give him
a clearer idea Of what it all meant. SO
he took her.
/ That night Sunday harpooned the
! Unitarians. WIN the meeting was
over the woman, her face crimson with
rage, said to her escort:
81 am sorry ! came here. That man
insulted me- shall never speak TO you
after tonight. You had no right to do
this"
Three days later the woman was in
the mans Office.
81 regret what said to you the night
Of the Tabernacle meeting. ! have
thought it all over 1t has worried me
VIII you 90 with "a tonight"
Proportionately, The Unitarian Church
has made larger gains than the
churches Of any other denomination in
Philadelphia. Twenty persons have
Joined the church since the campaign
was opened. Unitarians are compare
lively few in Philadelphia.
few days ago the convention of the
clergymen Of Philadelphia was opened
at Norristown. Speakers declared they
had actually traced one Of every eight
new members TO the Sunday influence
This means that the new members ad
mitted that Sundays work had sent
them there. Think Of the OF rs who
might have been Influenced ON the
same direction. but did not want %
tell frankly the reason for their move
Sundays big object is to kill the
liquor traffic. His supporters he is
doing it. They tell you that less liquor
is sold in Philadelphia than ever be
fore They point 20 the advert sements
in newspapers Of saloons for sale.
"Boshl" the dispensers Of spirits re-
tort "This is Lent. Drinking always
falls of during Lent. Look at the sa-
looms near the Tabernacle Since the
first few days the number Of bartenders
in those salons has doubled"
Helped Efficiency in Store.
Does this mean anything?
The manager Of a big department
store said:
"I'm interested in efficiency. The en-
ployes call me an efficiency nut Per
haps / am. ! think there is enough
time lost through lateness in arriva.
Of employees and their preparations foi
going home TO make another institu
ton successful. We are making money
We can make more.
81 am for Sunday. But I didn't Try
20 make our employees go to hear him
In some of the stores the rector'
formed delegations of workers to go &c
the Tabernacle. didn't think it wise
here. In the third week about three
hundred men and women from our
place heard Sunday. Now, practically
all Of them have heard him. I'd like &c
show you the time cards covering the
time Sunday has been here and the
three weeks before he arrived.
eve figured that before Sunday got
here 81 per cent Of our employees were
late. Individually, it amounted 10 moth
ing Il ran from one TO eight minutes
Now the thing figures down to 7 pei