New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-15

Standing in front OF the flaming
text. God Is Love" spelled out IN
miniature gas lights in the rooms OF
the International Christian Police AS
ISOLATION. 226 East Fifty-eighth Street
seven policemen and half dozen other
treil-hitters from Philadelphia yester-
dsv relayed TO a gathering of New YORK
policemen and their wives the message
Billy Sunday brought them two years
ago.
"If you can't be booster, don't
knock" was the advice conveyed by all
There was "Big Ben" Fowler. OF the
18th philadelphia Precinct. who was
Billy Sundays sergeant-at-arms in the
tabernacle there. There was Sergeant
Jchn W. Blackburn, who SAID thht
PRAYERS brought him his promotion ana
VINO predicted that in New York Sun
dsy would "knock 'em Off their seats.
There was Patrolmnn George Bradley,
bald Of head and white Of mustache,
who played on the same ball team with
Sunday. and hadn't saw HIM Tor
twenty-seven yehrs" until he met him
in the Philadelphia tabernacle.
On His Way 10 Heaven
Then. too, there was Traffic Patrol
man Samuel Warren, VINO said he was
or his way to heaven "it there was any
way for a copper TO get there. mere
was Walter Sorrows, OF the Harbor
SQUAD, twenty-siX years in the service,
who bought booze by the gallon until
the evangelist closed his liquor &C
count, and Reserve Patrolman 7. MI.
Ter. whose Bible now occupies the sneit
where he used to keep his deck Oh
cards and bottle Of rye. And, hnally,
there was Patrolman Trumoull, VINO
urged all the policemen present to
pray for their brother oihcers unth
Sunday came to town.
1T was Gods will that ! was de-
tailed at Billy Sundays tabernacle
Fowler explained. land I'm proud TO
say to-day that I'm Christian police
man. When Billy came TO town ] heard
things that opened my eyes. ] was
GOOD man morally, but not spiritually.
| was right up there under the gun
about forty feet from Billy, where he
couldn't miss me.
But for days was on the fence, un-
til one evening hymn got 10 me. Going
home / sat on the back seat Of the car
on which the other policemen ut the
tabernacle were discussing the meeting.
That night / couldn't sleep. The next
cay hit the trail.
Encouragement Needed
"All il needs is q word OF encourage
ment. II I'd have had that | wouldn't
have had 10 wait until | was fifty TO
become a Christian. I'm not going to
knock the church people, but I'd been
10 church a lot of times and nobody
had ever given me hand. You'll hear
people call Billy a CRATER. Don't let
them kid you. If you have friends IN
the police or fire departments VINO
should lead better lives see what you
can do with the powers that be TO
have them detailed at the tabernacle.
Somebody worked that with me, but |
didn't know anything about 1T.
Send your daughters to the ser
mons for women only. Go yourselves
70 hear The DEVILS Boomerang Up-to-
Date. or Take the Hot Cakes on the
Griddle.' It's hummer. Now, in
stead OF walking my beat with head
bowed and hands behind my back, !
90 along whistling. God bless that
man. Billy Sunday! | love him."
Bradley, too, was detailed at the
door where Sunday couldn't miss him,
he told the gathering.
"God didn't intend that anybody
should be lost" he said. When we
20 out on our beats now we don't hear
Of the badness there used TO be"
Coppers Need Friend
owe been copper for fourteen
wears" Blackburn testified. "a copper
has to be out in all kinds Of weather
and against all kinds Of people. If
there's any one who needs a friend
like Christ, it's copper plkin' up
and down the streets Of town ike