Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-16
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Vigorous Crusade Of the Pastors and Mr.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Services Held

Vigorous Crusade of the Pastors and MI.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Services Held.
The morning meeting of yesterday
seemed to be the most largely attended of
the series. 1t became an inquiry meeting
at its close, and several conversions were
reported. Very soon after its close, Mr..
Hammond and several of the ministers,
and also few laymen in a carryall, went
to the railroad shops, where large open
air meeting was held during the noon hour
The men were attentive and courteous /;
songs were sung, and many tracts were
distributed. This meeting will be contin-
ued from day to day, and as it is better or
ganized a large choir will be in attend
ance.
Two open meetings were held on K
street last night, one conducted by Mr..
Hammond and Rev. Mr.. Mediation, at
Sixth and K streets, and the other by Revs
Needham, Bander and Filben, at Fifth
and K. For this meeting
A LARGE WAGON HAS BEEN EQUIPPED
With light seats and an organ. Crowds
gathered at both meetings and short ad-
dresses were made by the ministers At the
close OF these meetings an urgent invitation
was given to those present to attend the
meeting at the old Pavilion, and many fol-
lowed. AT the hall the crowd was larger
The choir kept up vigorous singing, wait
ing the arrival of the ministers. Nearly all
were present except Rev. DR.. Wheeler and
Rev. Mr.. Somers, both of whom were kept
away by sickness. Mr.. Hammond read
the story of Gethsemane and offered prayer
Rev. Mr.. Filben, in making the announce.
ments, said that much more turned on the
meetings than any supposed. He spoke of
the visit of a
BRoKEN-HEARTED WIFE
Who had called upon him during the day,
pleading for interest in her husband who
had been attending the meetings, and who
had become awakened, but who was
slave to his appetite for drink. She spoke
pitifully of the distracted home and her five
needy children, saying that her only hope
for her husbands reclamation lay in his
conversion, and she begged interest in him
and prayers in his behalf During the
meeting there was distributed to nearly all
present an illustrated sheet, which con-
tanned the following letter, written to Mr..
Hammond while in Washington, D. c., by
a man who was converted in his meetings ::
Subsequent to my conversion, as you
know, | frequently testified to the saving
power OF Christ in my regeneration. But
terribly depraved and lost condition which
| was in prior to my conversion, particu-
larry in regard to my slavery to rum. The
subject was too mortlfying to me to speak
OF 1t IN public, though | sometimes felt
condemned for not doing so, as it might
have had a good effect upon others who
were victims of the same wretched vice. |
was reared by Christian parents and nur-
tured in the Sunday-school. AT Is years
of age | stepped out from under their in
huence into the abyss of worldly pleasures,
aad sought them in the bathrooms, theaters,
gambling dens, rum mills and other places
OF infamy, only, however, to find grief, dis
tress, heart-burnings and bitter remorse.
My constant indulgence in the accursed
cup for twenty years had become second
nature with me, and to control the appetite
was impossible. The fact of my living and
dying drunkard, and my helplessness,
was so loathsome to me that craved death;
and on one occasion went so far as to at
tempt to take my own life by drinking
three ounces of laudanum, but through
the providence of God was discovered at
deaths door and saved. / also lived
through delirium tremens twice. | shud-
der at such revelations, now that | can
realize
THE TERRIBLE PERDITIoN
Which | escaped through the great mercy
of Christ; but suffice it for me to say, that
from the time received the blessed assur-
ance of the forgiveness of sins, and the re-
generation of my heart, through the
redeeming blood of Jesus Christ, | have
never from that moment to this had the
slightest desire to take a drink of liquor
Whereas, prior to that time the appetite for
liquor was so intense that had no more
control over it than starving man would
have to resist food when placed before him.
Nothing but the miraculous power of
merciful God ever saved me from drunk
ards grave; and while my whole soul
pours out in humble gratitude to my Re-
deemer for His wonderful mercy to me, |
so greatly fear the return of that terrible
appetite that | endeavor to keep myself
constantly under the influence of His Holy
Spirit by unremitting prayer, in the faith
that He is not only able, but will save me
from that as well as all other sins. Ny life
now Is one of almost uninterrupted sun
shine and happiness. Those things that
once seemed to afford me pleasure l now
abhor, and my sole delight now is in the
association of Christians. | am never so
happy as when on Saturday evening we
young converts assemble, and strengthen
the bonds of our Christian brotherhood by
relating our individual experiences as to
our spiritual progress from week to week"
Mr.. Hammond's text was Kings, v, Is:
WASH AND BE CLEAN"
words" he said, spoken to ,Naaman,
the leper, by the prophet Elisha" He
said he wanted to call attention to the Incl
dent, not for what was in it in itself, but
for its parallel to the leprosy of sin that
tainted all humanity, and the provision
for its cure, and the method of its cure.
Specially, the oneness of the remedy for sin,
and the anger of men before its simplicity,
and the completeness and suddenness of
the cure when willing to comply with
the conditions. Leprosy is a very strik-
ing type of sin. We in this country do not
know much of it, only occasionally is there
a case. III the old world it abounds, and it
is conceded that for it there is no earthly
cure" He gave
TOUCHING ACCOUNT OF LEPERs
That he had seen in his travels in the
Holy Land, and said: a dwell on this
only to show you your estate as leprous
sinners in Gods sight, and your need of
cure, the utter absence of an earthly cure
1t is not pleasant to talk thus to men, but
| it is duty. You may not see it, but it is
| fact, and you should the sooner ask God to
| show you that you are
Il come, these Christians come, to tell
| you OF cure as the little Jewish maid did
to Naaman. But Naaman believed the
little girl, and finding the prophet and
| oDeying his injunctions, though reluctant
ly, it is said His flesh became to him as
| the flesh of little child
TRY THE SIMPLE GOSPEL.
Say, Lord, believe; help thou my un-
| belief and it will be with the leprosy of
your soul even as it was with Mammals
leprosy."
The usual inquiry meeting followed,
large numbers remaining, and at the close
! of this there was an experience meeting of
workers and young conyerts-the whole
closing about 10 o'clock
The meetings will be held to-day as yes
| terday. Morning meeting at the Central
| NJ. E. Church at $50; noon meeting at the
transfer table at the railroad shops, near
the paint shop; and the open-air meetings
on X street, at o'clock also the usual
| Pavilion meeting.