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NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Billy Sun
day’s trail hitters came to town yes
terday. Some 500 of them, from
Philadelphia, Syracuse, Paterson and
other places where Sunday has held
revivals, scattered throughout the
city and suburban communities and
talked religion in 250 churches, meet
ing houses, and Bible class rooms.
Most of the visitors had hit the
trail because of Billy Sunday’s exhor
tations, and they came to tell New
Yorkers of their experiences. Among
the n imbef were many business men
of means and prominence. Also there
1 were doctors, lawyers, ministers,
former saloon keepers, policemen, and
men who were “down and outs” be
fore they hit the trail.
Yesterday was the active beginning
of the Billy Sunday campaign. The
trail hitters were the forerunners
whose purpose it was to warm up the
peopie of New York for the recep
tion of Sunday himself on April 1
From now until then, committees wifi
work, preachers will exhort, men,
women and children will visit homes—
ail of the forces of revivalist Protest
antism will unite to stir things up to
the boiling point for Billy Sunday.
The chief purpose of the trail hitters'
visit, however, was to further the
work of the Rev. George G. Dowey, of
the Billy Sunday corps, who wil! re
main here and attempt to organize
100,000 men in the metropolitan dis
trict into Bible classes to work for the
revival in April.
The big delegation of trail hitters
arrived about 9 o’clock yesterday
morning on a special train from Phil
adelphia. They poured into the sta
tion here singing revivalist hymns and
shouting, “We’re going to capture
i>{cw York for the Lord”—“Gotham
for God”—“Manhattan for the Mas
ter.” They were met by about 100
ministers and church laymen who
joined in the revivalist demonstra
tion.
Each member of the visiting party
wore a badge bearing his team num
ber, and each minister wore a similar
badge bearing the number of the team
which was scheduled to visit his
church first. Fifteen minutes after
the trail hitters’ train came in ^Gie
teams were speeding in automobiles
to their first meetings.
The teams traveled and talked all
day, about 200 of them stopping long
enough to eat in the Clendening hotel,
at Amsterdam Avenue and 103d St.,
100 or so more who went to the sub
urbs congregating for luncheon at
Yonkers, and the remainder taking
food wherever they happened to be
at the luncheon hour. The Philadel
phians went home last night as they
came—in a body—singing and shout
ing “for the Lord.” Another such
party as received them saw them off.
First New York Hitters.
The first New York trail hitters
came forward yesterday too—not
waiting for Billy Sunday. There
were ten men in the West End Pres
byterian church, where a team from
Philadelphia spoke in the morning.
After the vistors had narrated their
religious experiences the Sev. A. Ed
win Keigwin, pastor of the church, in
vited any who wanted to see God to
come forward, and the ten stepped
forward.
There was another who hit the trail
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in the Harlem Reformed church. His
name was withheld, but it was said
that he was a man well known in the
neighborhood for his love of liquor,
and that after listening to the trail
hitters’ talk expressed a desire to
hear more from them. They made a
personal appeal to him and he was
converted. He said he’d never drink
again, wanted to join the church and
“get right with God.”
The leader of the team that went
to Grace Methodist Episcopal church
was George T. Porter, recently candi
date for mayor of Philadelphia on a
reform ticket and for several years
director of public safety there. He
told of the lasting results of Billy
Sunday’s campaign in Philadelphia,
saying that 1,800 policemen of the city
had organized a Bible class as a result
of Sunday’s preaching, and that a
Bible class in his own church which
had 12 members before the revival
now had 500.
One of the most important meetings
of the morning was that of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.’s Bible class in the!
Fifth Avenue Baptist church. Mr.j
Rockefeller was present and sat on a j
front bench, but he took only a silent
part in the proceedings. G. N. Sage
president of the class, opened the
meeting. He told something of the
Billy Sunday campaign, and intro
duced Harry McGee, a carpet manu
facturer of Philadelphia, and the cap
tain of the team.
Mr. McGee told the 125 men present j
that Billy Sunday’s real message was
not about punishment and hell, but
about love. Mr. McGee called upon
Billy Marshall—there was a familiar
ized first name for almost all of the
speakers—and Mr. Marshall told how
he had neglected religion until he
heard Billy Sunday. Mr. Marshall
then sang one of the Billy Sunday |
songs, and when he had finished Mr.!
McGee introduced Albert H. Kemmer-.
er, who said that Billy Sunday’s re- j
vival would be the biggest thing in I
New York since the days of Moody, j
“And Billy Sunday’s message is to
men,” he said. “Everywhere he has
preached great numbers of men have
been converted. After the revival in
Philadelphia 12,000 new members
joined 100 of the leading churches and
5,000 of them stuck.”
There was a lively meeting at Grace
Methodist Episcopal church, whose
pastor is the Rev. Dr. Christian F.
Reisner, one of the original Billy
Sunday men of New York. And Dr.
Reisner preached about Billy Sunday,
revivals and trail hitters last night,
much of his sermon being devoted to
“Paul, the Trail Hitter.”
Another big meeting yesterday was
in the Christian Police association’s
rooms, at 226 East Fifty-eighth street.
Here a party of Philadelphia police
men, who came under Billy Sunday's
influence, many of them from attend
ance at the tabernacle while on duty,
told as many New York policemen and
their wives as could pack into the
meeting room what it meant to be “a
Christian copper.” G. W. Brady, who
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played baseball against Billy Sunday
when the revivalist was a professional
ball player told how good luck had
caused him to be detailed to the taber
nacle.
“Big Ben” Fowler, also of the
Philadelphia force, said that he had
been detailed to duty in the taberna
cle, and he stood within 40 feet of
Billy Sunday preaching.
“He couldn’t miss me,” he said,
“and I thank God for it. Thank God
for Billy Sunday.”
Defends Billy Sunday.
While about 100 churches in and
near New York yesterday had trail
hitters to prepare for Billy Sunday’s
coming campaign, the task of publicly
answering criticisms made against
Mr. Sunday was assigned to the Rev.
Dr. Daniel Russell of Rutgers Presby
terian church, Seventy-third street
and Broadway. Dr. Russell said that
Sunday is an exceptional men, and
that in public and business life men as
exceptional as he demand and receive
far'more money than does the evan
gelist. Besides, he explained Sun
day’s expenses to maintain his effi
ciency campaigns and his benefac
tions. He concluded that Sunday’s
money methods are above reproach.
In the matter of theology, he asked
whether everybody agreed with every
body else on that subject, and as to
slang, he said that unusual methods
alone will attract attention, and that
only unusual methods will crack the
complacency of the public. Conclud
ing, he said:
“Why bother ourselves about these
trifles anyhow ? They are not mo-'
mentous. A little money more or less
when so much money is lavished in
other directions—why fret? Nobody
charges that wrong use is made of
money by Mr. Sunday. If people want
to give him money instead of spend
ing it in other directions who cares?
As for theology, Sunday preaches
enough theology that we all accept.
As for slang, some of it is capital, and
a few years hence will be a part of the
classics of our common speech. Here
is a man with a message. “Let’s get
the message and use it.”
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