The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-11-14
Republished by Request. |

tRepublished by Request.I
The blessing of God has been poured
out upon Henderson as never before.
a grand work has been accomplished
| in our midst. Men who have hereto
fore given little or no thought to the
great question of their souls salvation
have been made to think and act.
Many who seemed almost unapproach-
| able-not so much because of their de-
PRAYED sinful natures perhaps. as their
moral self-righteousness-have been
reached by the preached Word and have
put their faith and trust in a higher
power. We have never witnessed any
thing like it before. Plain, simple and
unassuming in person, Evangelist Pear
son has impressed himself as no man
ever did who has been amongst us be-
fore, and he has left the imprint of his
work stamped indellibly upon the COM
munity.
Mr.. Pearson closed his work Tuesday
night. His sermons toward the close
were better than at the beginning-if it
were possible to make them better.
He seemed to grow upon you and the
more you heard him the more you
wanted to hear him. People sat two
hours and half, including the prelimi-
nary services and all, on benches with
no backs to them, and were sorry when
the preacher finished his sermon. Such
clear-cut thoughts, such sound logic,
such apt illustrations, such beautiful
truths and such comforting words. one
did not weary of hearing. And that
voice, soft, gentle, tender and touching.
How sweet and pathetic when appeal
ing to poor dying sinners. How in
tensely earnest and affectionately en-
treating. How eloquent, how sublime.
Charming speaker. Wonderful man.
People bend their heads forward and
eagerly listen to catch the last faint
whisper Of Rev. r. G. Pearson when
ever he speaks.
Our report Of the meeting last week
closed with the service of Wednesday
night. Up to that time the Evangelist
had preached some splendid sermons,
strong, powerful and convincing, but,
he had by no means done his best work,
either in point of preaching or the fruit
seemed to grow more intensely in earn
est and he preached as he felt. Thous-
ands of people fiocked to hear him. Many
were deeply concerned, while greater
numbers still quietly rejected the Saw
Jour and were going down to death and
eternal ruin. The great warm heart
Of the preacher was moved for them.
He felt the weight of responsibility that
rested upon him. He preached the
Gospel plain and simple, holding up
dying and loving Saviour and pleading
the mercy and goodness of God. He
appealed to mems reasons and eXhOrted
them to turn from the error Of their
ways, forsake sin and accept Christ.
We never heard such preaching before.
And Mr.. Pearson did not preach in
vain. In his own masterful manner
he met every objection that men give
for not becoming Christians and left no
stay no hope for them itseemed. Deep
down into their hearts he sent the
pointed arrows of truth and love, and
lifted the veil of doubt and mist that
clouded their minds on this great ques-
ton of salvation and redemption by the
blood of Christ. We have never seen
any one who could make it palmer than
Rev. r. G. Pearson land the true secret
of it is that he breaches from the Word
of God. The Bible is his chart and
compass and without that he recognizes
no authority. The saving power of
Gods grace and His willingness to ac-
cept all that come unto Him is brought
out in beautiful colors, while the loving
and sympathizing Jesus is held up as
an example Of Gods love for His child
reE. The applied blood of Christ is
never lost sight of in his discources and
the way of salvation is made so plain
that the most ignorant mind or the
most hardened sinner can lay hold
upon it. ''Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved,'' is the
one important truth the Evangelist
seeks to impress upon his hearers. He
has no creed that is not based on the
mercy and goodness of God, and he
breaches no doctrine that does not en-
brace crucified Saviour and the re-
mission of sins through faith and the
cleansing power of His shed blood. He
takes the Bible as his authority and
quotes the Scriptures freely. His points
are clearly made, his illustrations apt
and his propositions always based on
logic and reason. Asa vigorous thinker
sound reasoner, ready speaker and
earnest. faithful preacher, we have not
heard Mr.. Pearson's equal.
The great meeting closed Tuesday
night. Henderson has been blessed as
never before. A wonderful work has
been done and the end is not yet. Good
seed have been sown and outside of the
results already seen they will spring uI
and blossom and bear fruit in the years
to come. Over 800 persons have pub
licly acknowledged Christ and say by
their act that they will come out from
among the world and serve Him in fu
ture. Numbers of back-sliders have
been reclaimed and thousands of church
members have been revived and bap
tized afresh with the spirit of the Hol,
Ghost.