New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-15
Philadelphia Police Laud
Sunday to Brothers Here
"If You Can't Boost Don't Knock Their Message
Was Gods Will That Detailed Me to bii'y
Tabernacle, Big Be-" Fowler Says

Now York In regard to Mr.. Sunday
.unnobow hate TO hear him called
Rillv you'll hear lot OF people say
be,s after the old coin. but they doh
know what they're talking about; oln,
ceritv is his middle name. Hes rear
ali tho wav. Moneys nothing to him;
~ heard lot Of people ca u him an OLD
Urn f,er. but when / asked them no"
much thew came through with they
ssid. Not n nickel And yet, says,
you're the birds who are doing all inc
nssning' He wasn't through as pan
nisyer when he refused a So,OOO con
tract 70 take a job in Chicago at 900
month n he wanted the money Woulu
he have done that? r..L.r
~ was born in a saloon. My fathet
and mother kept one. | enlisted IN sne
ormv and then went on the force. NY
advice il 10 do what Mr. Sunday tens
Won PERHAPS you haven't been KISSING
your wife as often as you should 20
homo and hand her few. got my JOY
through prayer. | studied for u anu
nraved FOR Il. and had 10 get up IN the
niddlc of the night and pay anothei
man 15 cents for staying on the JOB ~
extra hour TO get away, but I'm si"u
came ,,.,,
Took Two 10 Meeting
potro1oan Warren told of taking a
80 salesman and a mechanic otn
we're addicted 10 drink-to near gun
Ja, The mechanic had refused TO rs
ten and since had fallen down n nlgho
of stairs in a drunken stupor and Deeh
Killed. The rope salesman attended the
service and was converted.
"Did YOU ever hear of copper gong
20 heaven % he asked. "Well, that's
where I'm going. I'm on my way II
there's any way for Philadellphla cop.
ner to get there. ! guess ! nave Jus'
about as many temptations as any man
hut | can smile now any time. "hen II
Gets cold don't duck into the sal0oh
for bracer. get a cup OF coffee buV
il keeps me warm smiling.
Patrolman Miller had tried TO 60 20
Sunday school when he was htteen' puI
his father had dragged him out Ihe
New York policemen learned.
"Ive hit the world for twenty-SeVen
wears" he said. rye been almost
everywhere in this country ana 10
few others besides, and | reckon We
drunk enough booze to float a battle
shin. Right here in New YORK. I've
nearly been killed several times IN
brawls. I've been hit with a hatchet'
belted over the head with nooi cue
and busted over the dome with Dot
tie OF whiskey. But ! was spared
Whv? So / could come back here TO-
day and preach to you
Slang Not Main Asset
"The big thing about Billy sunday
l. NOT his slang" Patrolman Trumoull
asserted: otis not the fact that ne oc-
casionally rips his coat of; IT'S not the
fact that he was great ball player
nor that the newspapers give him more
free advertising than any otneI
preacher in the country. If that was
ali his work would be sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals. It's more. /
tell YOU it's supernatural.
"He has made some mistakes, lust
the same AS other men, but us luss
as one man told me: Hes pure gold,
with a few fly specks, but I'm not go
ing to refuse the gold for the ny
specks.' l., LII
An ex-saloonkeeper who had sold
liquor upstairs and down" told how
he had put the white apron aside for
ever. and another trail-hitter insist
ed that he lost 167 houses he was
taking care of by attending Sundays
meetings, but that he had been recon-
pensed tenfold A New York police
man who said he was on the trafic
squad at Times Square told how he
had been attending an open-air mass
meeting singing STAND up. stand up,
for Jesus" when a car knocked him
down.
Captain Williams. also Of the New
York force, closed the service with
prayer in which he hoped the word
would be spread and the churches
arouse themselves 10 spirit OF
prayer. Mrs S. R. Kendall. aged pres
ident Of the association, thanked the
visitors for their testimony.