Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-12-08

!sssssso limited supp y os ssie staple.
s.;ss .,gs Absat 1Mr. Fife and
sfis sS4'Faching.
Tn sseea House every day at
lao :sse Sad every evening at Z
sscloek witnesses the assembling
s'ssis s's a Eazge and. appreciative con-
igregation. Mr.. w. P. Fife, the
well known evangelist from North
Caroline, is conducting a revival
meeting inthat building.
Although Mr.. Fife has been in
Edgefeld only since Sunday, his
warm and genial disposition has
won the hearts and confidence of
the people of our town. His mag
Fnetism is wonderful, and he can
make us cry or laugh as he desires.
Every one has an urgent invita-
tion to come and come promptly,
and the people of the country are
invited to attend and participate
in the religious services.
Iii the last.town Mr.. Fife visited
he was asked in what place he
would conduct his next meetings,
he replied, "In Edgefeld," where
upon he was told that he would
@strike a snag there" Mr.. Fife,
not daunted, said he blessed God
for the hard cases for they were
the ones he desired through Gods
help to reach. Mr.. Fife has won-
;derful faith, and we know that he
will, through Gods help and the
prayers of the Christian people of
Edgefeld, reach the hard cases.
Mr.. Fife says that his heart is
much bigger than his body, that
he is a big-hearted fellow and that
the boys will like him when they
know him better.
We heard one young man, that
had been given = hearty hand
shake, say, not that he liked Mr..
Fife, but that he s'kneW Mr.. Fife
liked him." which We believe
means about the same in the end.
This shows, too, what a genial,
kind manner the evangelist dis
plays. Here is another illustration
of his generous nature, which he
says was misdirected generosity:
He sail that az late as 1884, at the
time of the election of Cleveland
and Hendricks, he was Keeping q
grocery with a bar attached, and on
the night of the election had made
q little speech to 1900 men; after
this speech he invited them all to
come in and he would knock the
head out Of a barrel of whisksy for
their especial benefit. This invi-
tation they accepted, and Mr.. Fife
does not boast of, but deplores the
fact that he was the cause of the
drunkenness of many citizens that
night. He further said they
thought him fine fellow then, but
that when he left that place and
after some time returned to it q
Christian, these same men said
they hadno confidence in Fife's
religion, and declared they
wouldn't hear him preach, however
he said that before his meetings
there were concluded many of those
same men had been brought to a
knowledge of the truth as it is in
Jesus.
Mr.. Fife says he had been ac-
cused of preaching for money, but
that although he believed he got
more money for preaching than
any man in the United States
except Sam Jones that now he
could not draw check for a hun
dred dollars. He says that some peo-
pie think evangelists live on souls
anyway, but he thinks it would
take a hundred such stingy narrow
ones as that of the man who think
that way to make q bait. Mr.. Fife
says lie hasn'ta a stingy bone in him
and that if he thougat he had and
knew whore it was, he'd cut it out.
He has been called a fool, a
fanatic, and crazy, but he says if
he is crazy he knows his asylum is
up in heaven and that the Lord