New Britain herald., 1917-01-22
SUNDAY Power FOR
GOOD IN AMERICA
Mr.. Cook Believes Net Balance Is
on Side Of Evangelist

Rev Warren F. Cook, pastor of
Trinity M. K. church, delivered a lee
Furo last evening on BILLY" Sunday,
the evangelist. Rev Mr. Cook has
seen and heard Sunday on numerous
occasions and has studied his meth
OBS While he does not agree with all
That Sunday says and expressed the
opinion that Sunday does not agree
with all his own statements, he be-
heves the evangelist is q power Cor
good in the nation. incidentally, he
lstated that Sunday was anxious TO
talk to large numbers of New Brit
ain people # he conducted a cam
paign in Hartford and would insist
on the tabernacle being constructed at
a point convenient to New Britain
people.
Rev. Nj. Cooks address follows:
4 have heard Mr.. Sunday on vari-
GUS occasions, before mixed audi
fnces, before men alone, on the lee
turc platform. before college students,
before bodies Of ministers. etc
have heard the stories of some of his
most fam Gus converts, and have list
cnod to the recitals of those who have
supported him prominently in his
campaigns. [ have eagerly read the
studies of his work, which have been
made by judicious men. I realize,
however, that to form correct es-
innate of a man of this type, one hot
only needs to hear him a few times,
-Eout one ought to so through a CAM
paign with him.
''Mr Sunday was member of the
old Chicago White Sox baseball team
lie was sitting, one night, with
group of friends, on the curb of Van
Buren street, in Chicago. when some
singers came from q gospel mission,
and invited them TO come in. Sunday
left the other fellows and went to the
mission, and was converted. I have
never heard him go into details about
that conversion. 1t has always seemed
that it was q straight facing about
and changing of his life. That was
thirty years ago. He, says that he
never goes by the place without stop
ping, taking off his hat and praying.
One day he did this, and a crowd be-
gan to gather A policeman came up
and asked him if he was sick. He said
No, My name is Bill Sunday. I was
converted here thirty years ago and
never go by this place without saying
= a word of prayer The policeman put
out his hand and said, Put 'er there,
y
and will keep the crowd back while
you pray
Baseball Or Y. NJ. c. \.
%'Soon after Mr.. Sundays CONVEX
sion he faced the question of signing
baseball contract for $500 a month,
or taking a position in the Y. M. G.
A. at $50 a month. In his perplexed
mind, he turned to his wife, and said,
M &c inf 10
replied that thai was his business. He
had decided for Christ, and he needn't
try to shift the responsibility on to
her. Mrs. Sunday, however, has al
ways been a hearty supporter since.
"For the last ten years Mr.. Sunday
has been coming rapidly into fame.
He has had what seems to be mar
Vicious results in melting men to
: change their lives. In such cities as
Scranton and Pittsburgh, and Phla-
delphia. Detroit and Boston, Mr.. Sun
day has had marked results. He turns
in another week to the city of Buff
falo, and then to his largest endeavor
New York city, where he is backed by
corporation recently formed, and
where there is a new feature to his
work, which never before has been
undertaken, that of q teen-age CAM
- d1SH. IN FEBRUARY Tlu til6 FeQ6Td-
ton of Church in Hartford will take
uDS the question of inviting him to
that city and it looks now as though
he would be invited. Mr.. Hubert the
secretary of the Hartford Y. M. 9. ~,
In conversation with me this week.
said that Mr.. Sunday had expressed
hope that the City of New Britain,
where he had played ball in his
vaunger days, and still has some old
friends, might endorse the Hartford
Invitation. and if New Britain shonld
endorse it, the tabernacle would be
built in q place where the New Brit
tain people would not have to change
cars to get to it.
His Methods.
''The invitation given by anv CITY
must be a very unanimous invitation.
At first, when he was speaking in
smaller cities he required that all the
Protestant churches should unite in
The invitation. Now, when he speaks
In cities of much SIZE he only requires
to get a sufficient majority of the
prominent churches and church men
/, to insure success.
His preliminary work IS CAM
paign in itself He has an advance
man who goes to the city weeks ahead
and forms a general committee, with
Its sub committees for preparation.
Numbers Of prayer meetings are
started in all sections Of the CITY.
meeting several times week, 50 that