The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-18
THURSDAY, JUNE IS. 1885
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
The EVANGELIST.

Mr.. Dixon G.. Williams has bee
preaching in Pulaski since last Sat
urday night. He breaches at $50
am, 80 andAS p. IN. From the
first his audience has increased and
people hurry early at the night ser
vice to get seats. At $3.50 the
church is comfortably crowded.
There have been several professions
is at one service-and the inter
est increases. Mr.. Williams is ex
ceedingly bluf-painfully plain
and at first his almost personal as
saults upon sinners and their sins
and upon church members and
their faults excited anger and re
mark. He announced at the first,
however, that he expected some
body TO get mad and he didn't care,
and it gradually dawned upon those
who were riled that it did them no
good ami they couldn't help them
selves, and they began to simmer
down, then smiled, then fell in line,
then got earnest-and now admire
the young man. His reputation for
being bluff and talking out in cold
steel English brought the peple out
at the start to hear him We be-
lieve now that other influences
bring them out. Mr.. Williams is
not unlike Sam Jones in the effect
of his preaching and in his drawing
powers. We cannot see why there
is any difference in the secret of
their respective powers. 1t would |
be difficult to imagine deeper
conservation than our man is I'm
der. As he says himself, he
practices hundred cents in
the dollar religion and plays it for
all il is worth. He runs the risk
of being called crank in stating
his close communion and al
most tangible relationship with
Christ. The writer never heard an
ordinary preachermortal go that
far before, and we had to stop and
think and call up what we knew of
Dixie Williams and his generous
nature and his good strong
common sense before we could re-
sist his invitation to consider his
brain in disorder. We have con
cluded that he is right and that
such conservation will bring any
man into like experiences.
There are varied opinions upon
him and his words. He says some
startling things. Sometimes his
mind gets on a rampage and the
most astounding statements are
hurled whistling through the air,
and they always strike the proper
person. The first time a man goes
TO hear him he is disappointed, the
next time interested, and finally en-
yet he is plain and
there is no extra oratorical effort
and no display. We can find no
other answer to the inquiry
for the secret of his power and sue
cess than that it is God who work {
eth in him to will and to do. He |
nas forsaken all things that would
hinder in the slightest degree the
nearest possible approach to his
NJ aster and he devotes every me
nent to the study of His word and
will. So deep is his faith that he has
passed the confines of hope and has {
rent the vail that cOnceals the real {
He has realized that the
result TO him is assured beyond per-
adventure and he can almost grasp {
il now. 1
The people of Pulaski believe in J
Dixie Williams, and the people l
from the country are coming in in
scores. Some of the out-breakers ,
ire trembling and surrendering. If
We are not greatly at fault we
IAN see in the next ten days some
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