The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-19

Sunday next the great evangelist
whose name we write above will APP
pear nj the tabernacle, lately erected
for him, in series of meetings cover
ing about two weeks. His visit 10
Waco last fall aud the startling results
following II, are all fresh In the minds
of the people. Since lie left here after
the close of his series Of "meetings'
he has grown to enormous proper
lions as one of the active moral influ-
ences of America. He demands at
tentiou at our hands, however little
we may be inclined to fall in with the
tenets Of his faith. More than any
other single individual except Grant,
he has been distinguished during the
past year by the attention OF the
press aud the people Of the. country.
In New York, Brooklyn Nashville and
at other points south, we have had re.
marketable reports of his doings and OF
the well-nigh supernatural power he
has exercised over the people, both
of high and low degree, OF ignorance
aud intelligence, Of wealth aud power
~, of religious and irreligious opin-
ions. There is power in the appar-
emily unlettered man which Is mex
plicable upon any other theory than
that It is heaven-borD, derived directly
from devii.e, sources. AT least this Is
| what is claimed for him by his follow
ers and we have no present or future
purpose of disputing 1t. We shall
deal with its Manifestations only, aud
leave the task of its explanation TO
others more able and more willing to
attempt it. In Brooklyn nc
preached to vast crowds Of
people a people not remarka-
BILE at any time for the
strength aud vigor of their re-
ljgious fervor. Indeed. they had a
very large per cent. of inildels, skep-
tics and scofiers among them. No
matter, they came and humbly bowed
at the affairs erected among them by
the swarthy little Georgian. Even the
great preacher who had invited him
there, and under whose auspices the
services were held, came with the I'M
numbered crowds and knelt with them
before the mercy seat. In cultured
Brooklyn, where Beecher, Talmage
and other ecclesiastical phenomena
have been laboiing for quarter, OF
indeed, for a full third of a century
there lived and listened men who's
hearts remained all untouched b,
: divine grace until the brave littl'
: southerner in the homely vernacula
OF true crackerdo@, came among
them with his dreadful denunciationl
and with his soft, honied words o
n hope and confidence. Later on, II
! Nashville, the proud capital of one o
our leading southern states, this sam
: insignificant looking little maj
preached, and the crowds OF rentecos
were not more dense, nor did the grea
apostle gather from his oyer-rip
harvest field, larger number o
sheaves than did the bold little stran
ger whose alma mater was mort
Georgia grog shop or the dense, quie
forests, beside whose quiet, seclude'
: and shaded streams his heart was lie,
i, TO God, and the wicked w0rldlinI
, bloomed ont into one OF I'll
greatest ministers of whicl
the christian religion ha
had to boast In all the Dinteen hun
! drcd years of its history. Gods way
are not our ways, and they are yer.
wonderful and the rising up of thi
great teacher from an origin so oh
sc,ire aud so mean ia competent evi
dence of this.
This man comes 10 Waco for Waco
good. lie does not intend TO d,
harm, to avenge any wrong or Il
serve any bad, immoral or selfish pnr
pose. If he beckons one drunkard
J from the dangerous haunts of th,
vice, IL he induces one profane man
TO mend his course, If he succeeds Ia
reforming one libcrtinc or wins but
one lewd woman from the ways ol
sin. his mission will be a grand one
aud he will be entitled TO the graft.
tudc Of every good citizen of Waco
The EXAMINER bespeaks for Mr.
Jones the resDectful attention and