Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-02-02
NOTES FROM CHAMBERsBURG, PA.

IST, DRAWING LARGE AUDIENCES.
LECTURE BY AN ESQUI-
MAU. ILLNESS OF
JACOB HoKE
AND OTHER
ITEMS.
Miss NJ. Maggie jenkins, the young
evangelist, has been conducting revival
services in the King Street United Breth-
rem Church during the past month. and
the meetings will probably be continued
for some time to come. Miss jenkins
was born near Rushville. Illinois, and
was converted at the age of fifteen, at a
meeting held near her home. by Rev. w.
M. Colt, of the Free Methodist Church,
of which she is a member. She was
deeply impressed, about four years after
her conversion, that she was called to
the evangelistic work, and the impress
sions she then had became more indeil-
BILE as the years went by. Her parents
to whom she made known her convlc-
tions endeavored to convince her that
they were imaginary, rather than real,
but no explanation which they gave
could satisfy her that they were vision
airy. Shortly after her conversion she
received the . baptism ofpower, quail
ification SO essential to all that would en-
ter upon calling SO great as that to the
ministry. During the greater part of the
years 1885 and '86 she iabored locally
with other evangelists in the vicinity OF
her home as we'll as elsewhere, and
while thus engaged enjoyed great peace,
but a cessation from her labors was al
ways attended with loss of power, and
brought to her condemnation and in
10 oh nd
the work for short time, and in conse-
auence of this inactivity in the Master s
work, she had lost the peace which she
had possessed. She visited her sister near
Halls Creek, Illinois, and while there
attended revival services, conducted by
Woodwork, the widely known evangel-
list.
Miss Jenkins was then suddenly over
powered and went into trance and the
vision she then had thoroughly cOnvinc-
ed her that her life's work was to be
calling sinners to repentance. She
then entered fully into the work and
assisted at meetings at Hannibal Mo-,
Halls Corner and Warrensburg, ILL.,,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, and during February
and part of March last, aided in revival
services in this place. Though SIZE had
many calls, she accepted an invitation to
come to Chambersburg, feeling that in
so doing she was obeying divine call.
Miss Jenkins is tall of stature, of stately
and commanding appearance, and one
of her hearers remarked +" is the
most perfect type of true Christian. y
She is a clear and impressive speaker
for one so young, and holds the at
tention of her audience as she narrates
in simple language the story Of the
Cross" But she is particularly distin-
guished for her musical talent and for
her well trained ard cultivated voice,
which rings out with such clearness and
fullness as to captivate those that hear
her. Although revival services are be-
ing held in two other churches in this
place, the King st Church where Miss Jen-
kins conducts services nightly is crowd
ed. She holds services at and at 80 p m.
each day, and during these meetings a
number have experienced change of
heart and professors have been led to high
er attachments in the divine life. Miss
Jenkins has already done great good and
if health permits her to continue in the
work, the result of her labors will doubt
less be incalculable.
AN ESQUIMAUX LECTURES.
On Tuesday evening last, Olof Kraver,
of Greenland, delivered a lecture to a
large audience in the First Lutheran
Church of this place, which was very
instructive and much appreciated. Miss
Kraver is the first Esquimau that ever
visited our town, and possibly the first to
come to the United States. She is like
all the inhabitants of the frozen region
from which she comes, of diminutive
size, being but 40 inches in height,
though she ways 100 pounds, having by
change of climate lost 90 pounds since
she left her native land, 10 years ago.
She speaks our language somewhat
broken, but what she narrates of the
manners and customs and mode of living
of her race is SO full of interest and so in.
structive that she holds the attention of
her audience from the beginning to the
end of her lecture. One is forcibly re-
minded of the trite saying, one-half of
the world does not know how the other
half lives y as she portrays life in land
where tie Bible and its influence have
never been felt, and where the edaca-
tional lamp has never shed its benignant
rays. Miss Kraver doubtless would new
er know of any other land than Green
land had it not been for crew of a
wrecked vessel who landed on the Island,
and after familiarizing themselves with
Esquimau language made known that
they were from Iceland and requested to
be conveyed thither. In compliance
with the request, Miss Drawer with 9TH
els of her race, started with the crew
over the frozen waters, in sleds, drawn
by dogs, and after wearisome journey
reached their destination in safety. It
was in Iceland that Miss Kraver attend
ed school for number of years, and
subsequently went to England and
thence returned to the United States.
The Greenlanders have no schools, no
churches, no railroads, no newspapers,
no telegraph or telephone, in short none
of the advantages incident to areligious
and civilized life and a temperate cline
They live in houses constructed of blocks
of ice which are lined within and the
floors covered with furs of animals The
Esquimau clothe themselves with double
furs and in that way are enabled to keep
themselves comfortable. They have no
chairs or other articles of furniture, ex-
cept the aristocracy who cover huge
block of ice with fur and use it as chair:
they subsist upon raw meat, the climate
being too cold for vegetables to flourish.
The night which is four months long, is
succeed by day of equal length. AL
though ignorant and deprived of the con-
venience and comforts as she finds them
in our country, she says the Esquimaux
are the most contented people on earth.
ILLNESS OF JACOB HOKE.
Mr.. Jacob Hoke, of the firm of Hoke
q Appenzellar. and author of The In
vasion of Gen. Lee in Pennsylvania, a
work that has had large sale, has been
i'll for some weeks, but is now GONZALES
cling. Mr.. Hoke came to Chambersburg
when boy and after growing to man.
hood engaged in the mercantile. bust
ness which he conducted for years very
successfully, and though yet member
of the firm does not give personal super
vision to the work. He has written a
number of books and is well and favora-
bly, known.
SNOW.
Snow fell on Sunday last, but the