Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-11
As to the Revival.

Ed. RpgiSter-I have visited the much
talked of revival. | have heard the preach
er preach, and the singer sing, and am free
to say that l was better pleased with the
whole performance than | expected to be
when went. The lady is blest with voice
of great voume-a peculiar voice-one that
would attract attention IN any company;
and, after one gets used to its crescendo
gymnastics, her singing becomes an exceed
ingly pleasant feature of the meeting. In
commenting upon her singing we intend to
give no offence, for it certainly will attract
attention wherever she may go.
In the conduct of the services, we saw but
few of the eccen tricities on the part of the
evangelist mentioned in the REGISTER and
Truth. The evangelist, Mr.. Ruth, has
learned several lessons from the much de-
cried theatre. He understands how to APP
peal to the emotional nature of his congre-
CATION. He has what all public speakers
must have to be effective, an abundance of
animal magnetism. His talks are logical
and direct; if you admit his premises, you
cannot avoid his conclusions. Occasionally,
he Tolls brutal truths to both saint and sim
ner. He seems to be entirely sincere, and,
therefore, beyond the reach of ridlcule. AL
together, he is the kind of man one would
like to have OH his side among the boys in
| a hustle to carry ward delegation. he
breaches the old fashioned hell-he hasn't
| formed the shoel habi, yet-that we used to
hear and get scared at sway along back in
the fifties." II one has to have he'll preached
at him, it is comfort to know that it is the
| article warranted to
burn somebody, and not the sugar coated,
deodorised affair that one gets from the
modern pulpit. Personally, we are in favor
of the-well, sheol of our childhood.
His methods are, to say the least, artful.
First, he calls upon the saints to stand up
and be counted, and then, all that want to
become saints, to stand up; then, all that
want to be prayed for, to hold up their
hands. This is all right but we couldn't
help but think of the manner in which they
catch wild elephants in India. When a
wild one is found, two or three tame ones
are sent out to make his acquaintance. At
ter awhile, they start back to the corral; the
wild one goes with them, and, before he
knows it, the bars are up behind him, and
there he is. For one, | am not prejudiced
In favor of this method. If it is right tc
make new start In life, according to the
Methodist plan, come boldly out from the
crowd, in the old fashIoned way, and do so
No one has ever yet been hurt, or ever
laughed at very long, for doing what he sin
cerely thought to be right. When | see
some one timidly holding up his hand away
back in the congregation, and trying to hide
| behind the man or woman in front of him
[ cannot help thinking of the text-"Ht
: before my Father"
After all, a revival is but a stimulant APP
piled to start the moral circulation. 1t sim
ply starts the pendulum of the clock t.
, swinging; how long it will swing depends
upon he weights and the strength of thu
spring. l am not ashamed to confess to
; liking for a revival or an old-fashione(
Methodist class meeting: those who par
ticipate, seem to enjoy it, and sense o
good feeling and good fellowship usuall
y pervades the room.
| We have frequently watched with inter
4 est pious mother praying for a reprobate
= card playing, horse-racing son, or a goot
4 wife praying for an off color husband, anC
: nave greatly ItJolCGu ueH the sun OT nus
K band came into the fold. A man will TAX
= sides even in a dog fight, and we have al
t ways, in such cases, been on the side Of tn
o woman. And many time have we know
II the new leaf turned over at a revival to be
r come firmly fastened down, and the ma
s from that day forward to the end of his life
5 TO become a better man and better citizen
e Our enjoyment of these occasions has usual
is " been interfered with by some zealou
e brother or sister hunting us out, and then
o when we were unable to meet their views
e denouucing us as an inflde and treating u
il TO a liberal dose of birthstone without tn
- treacie.
is One thing we admire in the evangelist
II and it is most unusual; he is able to stan
if criticism without stocking up the furnace
: and incinerating the critic. After all, if til
If principles taught by Christ were lived up I
through out the world, locksmiths woul