The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-30
SUNDAY CREW TO
 RECRUIT IF CALL
 FOR WAR IS MADE
Saws He Will Turn Taber nacle Into Enlisting Sta
 tion, If Needed

 are sure taking a lot of back talk from the Kaiser" remarked William Asher Sunday as he unfolded his newspaper and sugared his breakfast coffee.
 q wish, Lord, you'd tell America to help wipe Germany off the map' as you commanded Israel to destroy the idolatrous and corrupt Canaan ties. Count Billy Sunday in up to ms neck when the war comes. The evangelist, who has taken Bu1- falo and is poised for Spring drlVe against the New York division or Sa- tan's army, is ready to turn the fight against "Teuton frightfulness the minute Congress gives the word." Will Call for Recruits "WhatI I do?" he echoed. Why, I'll turn that New York tabernacle Ii into a recruiting station. I'll call TOT recruits-volunteers for Christ ana United States Army. I'll have re- cruiting officers there to sign them up." :. Billy Sunday believes the United States will be at war with Germany before he opens his Gotham rev1val campaign n the tabernacAs at Broa V way and One Hundred and Sixty Eighth street on Easter Sunday. It there is g. call to arms he believes his first duty is to the nation rather than tG New York.
 In the summer of 1862, when Ab- raham Lincoln called for volunteers, Sundays father left his log cabin at Arnes, Iowa, to become a private Tn Company E of the Twenty-third Iowa
 
 contracted measles and died, and four months later little Billy was born.
 .I'd be a. poor urutt of O spineless pacifist,' said Billy, recounting the story, Eff didn't show up in the front rank now, wouldn't I?"
 To Talk on Preparedness
 If war with Germany does not come before the New York campaign be- gins Sunday will inject the probability of war into all his sermons, warning against the dangers of unprepared- ness and urging his hearers to heed the Scriptural injunction to "Girds on the sword"
 The danger of impending war has gripped the entire' Sunday party here. All the men workers are professedly ready to volunteer for service at any deOTS0 M. UuSIilcSS manager and Billy's son, has offered his services to the government as a military aviator. A large battleplane is under construction for his order at the Curtiss plant here, and today George Sunday, with Milly and "Ma" Sunday, visited the factory and in- spected the craft.
 With his campaign here drawing to it's close, Billy Sunday has already picked out the house where he will bivouac while conducting his assault upon the forces of evil in New York City.
 Find House In New York.
 The evangelist and his party will occupy the home of Mrs. William Nj. Kingsley, in One Hundred and Eigh- ty-Second street, near Riverside drive. The dwelling contains twenty-two rooms. There. are eighteen persons in the Sunday party. It is only a minute from the tabernacle by auto mobile.
 'I realize New York is vastly big ger proposition than this," said Sum- day as he gazed out at the sea of faces in the tabernacle here. "But New Workers are the same as Buffalon-
 
 Podunk. They are surrounded by more temptations, but that doesn't make 'em Weaker-it makes 'em stronger. Then they're more sensi- tfve-more quickly touched, It think. I'll get 'ep."
 The campaign here will end next Sunday with Billy preaching four times in ten hours, a whirlwind fin ish. The result of the eight weeks revival is difficult to estimate. In round numbers 25,000 persons have shaken Billy's hand and professed themselves to be s'tail hitters.'' How many have actually been converted to the Christian creed cannot be stated. Opinion, while divided, leans to the belief that Sunday has done some good"
 A proposal that he insure himself against disability to cover loss due to his possible inability to carry through the New York campaign was vetoed by Billy Sunday. His advisers urged him to take out $75,00 or $1OO, ,000 of short term insurance.
 New York Men at Buffalo
 we have three members of the New York evagelistic committee with us to get inspiration for the big cam paign next month" Homer Rodeheav- CT. the choir leader, told a gathering of 17,000 persons at the Sunday Ia bernacle. James ID. Speers, chair man of the New York committee. George Arnold and John Callahan were here to complete arrangements for MT. Sundays revival in New York
 Forty-five hundred trained singers today have been selected for the tab ernacle choirs of the Rev. Billy Sundays evangelistic campaign in New York City. Hundred of names had to be placed on the reserve lists. The campaign which begins Easter Sunday will last three. months. While the number chosen repre- sents what is actually required, Chair man Edward M. Willis, of the music committee, announced that the male choir will need several more singers to complete its personnel. A special choir of 2,500 selected men and wo- men will sing at the tabernacle dedi- eating exercises on Sunday, April 1, when Governor Whitman will speak. One of the biggest rallies preceding the actual campaign will be held on Sunday afternoon in Calvary M. E. church, at One Hundred and Twenty ninth street and Seventh avenue. TN