Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-03
HAMMOND'S LAST MEETING.
CLOSING OF THE REVIVAL
SKETCH OF THE WORK.

SKETCH OF TIE WORK.
Speeches by the City Pastors-Their |
Opinions of the Work Accom-
plished by Mr.. Hammond.
Last evening Mr.. Hammond formally
closed his four weeks of labor in Sacra-
mento. In the amount OF work done by
those engaged in the effort, it has been a
remarkable season. All, pastors and Chris
tians, have been working, for leading
characteristic of the evangelist is his power
TO set and keep others working. But
Mr.. Hammond. himself has been in
labors abundant" He has always held
three services a day, sometimes four or
five, besides inquiry meetings, some
of this work involving the exhausting
effort of speaking in the open air twice
each day. Yet Mr.. Hammond seems to
close the services in better physical condi-
ton than when he began. Every minister
of the Pastors Union, at whose invitation
he came to the city, has been active, and
they have labored heartily and in full har-
mony with Mr.. Hammond.
THE SPIRIT OF UNITY
Which has prevailed among them has been
striking feature of the work They have
shown eagerness in commencing and up
holding Mr.. Hammond to the public by
being present and taking part in all the
services. They have been present at the
meetings at the railroad shops and on
the streets, and in this new work, and
in the unaccustomed exercise of open-air
speaking they have taken ready part, often
with Mr.. Hammond speaking 10 several
hundred at these places with the closest at
tention from their hearers. There have
been abundant reasons to believe that many
deep and lasting impressions were made at
these services.
THE PREACHING TO CHILDREN
A speciality of Mr.. Hammonds is work
In which he has had large success This
work from the first won the hearty approval
and cooperation of the pastors. This has
been especially pleasing to Mr. Hammond,
as be says that he has sometimes found
even good ministers who were slow to realize
that children and young people could IN
large numbers be led TO Christ in a few
meetings. This phase of the work has been
the most successful in this city. About
$50 children and young people have taken
the covenant. This covenant reads as fol-
lows: Il believe l have found Jesus to
be my precious Savior, and promise with
his help to be his loving child and faithful
follower all my life" 1t is evident to those
who are familiar with this work that
MANY YOUNG PEOPLE
In the SuDday-schools OF the city, of vari- |
Gus ages, have been converted. Teachers |
4,.,o g.. L
is prince among the children; his power |
with them is remarkable, and no less re-
markable is his ability to make them COM |
prehend fully whatever he sets about to |
discuss before them after this clear, conf |
prehensive action, decision with the chill |
dren seems matter of course.
A feature of the campaign, of which |
for obvious reasons little has been said |
in the public assemblies, has been the |
missionary effort with the abandoned. |
Numerous trips have been made by Chris. |
tan ladies to the lower parts of the city, |
and one by one the houses of fallen women |
have been visited, and religious converse
ton entered into with the inmates
AN INTERESTING CHAPTER
Could be filled with the record of these |
visits. Hearts apparently hard were |
touched, and places of revelry were for the |
time places of tears. Many freely bewailed |
their sin, and wept over purity bartered |
away and homes deserted, and impressions |
were made from which these noble ladies |
yet expect to see fruit. Some collateral |
features of the work are evident in the city, |
The pastors all report increased attendance |
upon and interest in their Sunday services |
since the opening of the meetings, some |
reporting an increase of fifty per cent. |
Good Judges say it has awakened |
a new interest in religion throughout the |
community, and the outcome of this new |
interest will be manifest to the churches |
for long time to come. All the influence |
of Mr.. Hammond's work is directed |
strongly and persistently by Mr. Ham
mond himself towards the churches. He /
shows supreme loyalty to the churches and |
to their pastors, and never for moment
allows himself to discount them He |
speaks kindly of and commends and de-
tends the regular ministry, and the pastors
will find their hands strengthened by his |
work. Many eyangelists pursue q vastly
different course.
MR.. HAMMoNDs TRAITS
In his public work are earnestness and
thoroughness, coupled with the power to
organize and to work Others great zeal
and charity, and disingenuity and broad |
sympathy that are infectious. In his pri-
vate life he mingles simplicity and sin
quaintance that he is a man of one work.
Those who are nearest form the strongest
attachment to him. OF other character
istics of his work and its details the
RECORD UNION has spoken from day TO day
DIR. Dwinell, who came to Sacramento
specially to attend the meetings, thus writes
in the Pacific of this week:
"On Friday last took a run up to Sacra-
mento 10 have taste of the revival meet
ings conducted by the well-known evan
gelist. Rev. r. p. Hammond. He mas all
his old power, softened and sweetened.
The audiences are large and are held spell
bound under his presentations of the Cos
pei. He holds closely to the old biblical
doctrine. but his illustrations bring il down
to mems hearts and make it emnently
practical. have not heard SO much fun
damentsl Christian truth warm and throb-
blng with sentiment and emotion and pas
sion, aud illumined with anecdote and
illustration, in many a day as in his dis
courses. 1t is great thing in these times
that the fundamental gospel is the basis of
all his appeals, and that those brought into
the kingdom through his instrumentality
are born OF the spirit of the Word. There
does not seem to be SO much effort to col
lect names and count numbers as | have
sometimes known, yet the hopeful CONVEX
sions, was told, reach into the hundreds
My own impression is that far larger bless
ings are now held ont to the churches in
that city than they have yet received"
At the meeting last night, Mr.. Hammond
pursued the unique plan of introducing
the various ministers as belonging to differ
ent churches from their own. The plan in
its operation created much merriment. He
first introduced
REV. Mr.. BAUDER,
OF the United Brethren Church, as a
Moravian missionary. speaking strong
words as to the zeal of the Moravians in
compliment to the brothers activity in the
meetings. Mr.. Bsuder said "Yes, every
true Moravian is a missionary. and | feel
very proud of the kind words of Mr.. Ham,
mond. l have. indeed, been willing to go