The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-04
MRS. woODwORTH's REVIVAL.
It Has Closed at Hartford City Amid the
Greatest Excitement.

It Has Closed at Hartford City Amid the
Greatest Excitement.
Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
''The half has not been told" concerning the
wonderful revival at this place. No pen could
have exaggerated the scenes that have occurred,
nor tongue given expression to words that would
have painted in the least incidents that have
transpired. The evangelist lady said that she
received scores of letters from all parts of the
country, many requesting her presence to carry
on a revival Among the list on Saturday was
letter from a distinguished physician, an infdel,
stating that he had read the accounts descriptive
of the scenes enacted at the meetings, of the
tranced condition of so many persons. He
wanted the evangelistE opinion of the cause. and
wished her to tell him how to obtain such "a
pearl of great price'--that these things were to
him truly mystery.
Yesterday John NJ Hickman, ex-editor Of the
Hartford City News and postmaster at this
place, expressed conversion and his glowing and
impressive account of the wonderful transition
from darkness to light. and his earnest appeal
for others to TASTE of the riches of salvation,
awakened an enthusiasm seldom witnessed.
Last evening the evangelist delivered her fare
we'll eXhortation Her voice, rendered hoarse
and feeble by long continued labor and overex-
ertion, was freed from any embarrassment by
these conditions and rang out clear and distinct
and her plea was the most impressive of all
others, and had q wonderful and telling effect
upon the audience. We are not exageeratrg
when we say that at least two hundred of that
vast audience were engaged in prayer in an
audible voice at once.
AS many as twenty reporters have been here
from different States to see, hear and give an
account of these meetings This morning q
Boston paper sends a representative, but he
comes at the eleventh hour. Yesterday quarter
ly meeting services were held at the church,
Elder Robinson officiating. In the afternoon
| they gave way for Mrs. Woodwork, and class
meeting or experience meeting was instituted,
in which all of the young converts participated
giving evidence OF the change in their condition
| from death to life, from sin and condemnation to
| favor with God.
Seven were tranced or in an ecstatic condition
last night The shouts Of newborn souls !"
prayers by the saints and singing by that i'm
mense concourse of people, together with the
senseleSs gihberiSh of a thoughtless and giddy
throng of dudes and dudesses, was babel con-
fused" Yesterday about forty united with the
NJ E. Church, and 127 expressed conversion as
the result of the revival. The evangelist asks
not, and apparently cares not, for assistance
only to supply her wants, and her husband who
is dependent upon her laCor for living. The
lady recognizes the great good done her by the
publication of her meetings in the Enquirer and
makes public acknowledgment of the same in
the presence Of the vast throngs that assemble
to hear her.
BY a wise and prudent course, an upright and
ehaste walk and godly conversation she has
silenced the tongue of calumny, and secured to
herself praise and adulation from the very lips
that fired their venom and anathemaS at her,
while she was trying to bring them to repent
ance.
Last night was the last of this series of meet
ings, and the evangelist made the finest plea of
all her ministrations at this place. She could
have been heard blocks away. She cried out at
one time in a voice that startled every one of
that large assembly: 'Open your hearts to God
and He will open Heaven to you" Almost every
town and neighborhood around this city fer
miles have been represented. Last night gen.
tleman from indianapolis was present and par
ticipated. The evangelist does not indicate her
destination when she takes her departure to-day,
but Union City is earnestly laboring to secure
her services, and she probably will engage in re-
vival services there