The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-10
WILL 1T Be The LAST
OF tho Revival Meetings p An
Immense Congregation
HOLDS an ENTHUSIASTIC JUBILEE
Service at tho Fourth Street aIctho.
dist Church-..Thc sl1o of tho Meet.
ing Totally Unexpected by the Pas.
'tor...An Experience Meeting, in
Which Many Relate tho blessings
Received.

Regular services were to be held yes.
terday. evening at tho Fourth street
Methodist church, and tho extra
benches which were used during tho re.
vival services were all placed out OF the
way. But tho people KEEP. coming in
swarms, and before long 1t was nccea-
sary to bring out tho extra camp stools,
chairs and benches, to accommodate tho
over increasing congregation. All tho
extra seats were filled and In the rear
aisle and hall good many people were
standing. Seeing tho immense congre-
CATION, the pastor, Rev. DR.. "A. B. Riker,
concluded to turn the regular SER
vices into a grand jubilee meeting,
TO celebrate the close OF ono OF the most
successful rovivals In the history OF the
church. The decision WIS very accept
able to tho vast audience, which then
took part with the greatest zest in the
subsequent proceedings.
After tho singing Of few verses from
hymn %, Presiding Elder Meek led in q
iervent prayer. DR.. Rikcr delivered no
set discourse, but in q few words re-
viewed tho revival services extending
over the past seven weeks and resulting
in the conversion OF 40 sinners. Alter
he had preached four or five times, he
remarked, some OF tho members OF the
church had expressed fear that tho
continuous labor would exhaust him,
but, thank God, he had held out for
over seven weeks and his health instead
OF running down, had visibly i'm.
proved. When he had yentured the
opinion that the room in which the
services were held would be too. small,
his hearers, no believed, were incredul-
GUS and were, perhaps, even inclined to
laugh at the idea; yet during the SER
vices on many occasions the church
was too small to hold comfortably tho
large congregations and many were
obliged to stand in the class rooms and
hallway. lie concluded by calling on
all those who felt that they had re.
ceived Gods blessing during the revival
services to recitc their experience.
Ihirty-two men and forty-two women
and young girls responded to the wish
OF the pastor by giving expression to
their feelings on the blessings received.
One man thanked God that he had be-
come Christian at last, and was heart
lily sorry that he had not been fol-
lower OF Christ twenty years ago. A
female convert told how her friends had
endcavored to dissuadc her from attend
ing the revival meetings and had laid
snares before her in the shape OF invita-
tons to euchre parties and other temp
tations OF the devil; she had withstood,
aided by tho grace OF God, all these pit
falls, and had finally fully made up her
mind never to touch card again.
The pastor called on all converts to
come forward to the altar, and the mem
bers OF the congregation took turns in
shaking the hand OF the new Christians,
while hymns were sung and q genuine
Christian good time ensued.i..,
This evening converts. meeting will
be held, and DR.. Riker will address
these recent acquisitions to the Chris
tian ranks. The revival services were
to be, closed on Monday, but the meet
ings had ell been so well attended and
the interest seemed toSaincrease. SO
much, that the dateSs Of: closing
was extended to include Tuesday even
ing The size OF last nights regular
meeting proved that the interest was
not exhausted, and the jubilee services
were the result. While this evenings
services for converts arc supposed to
conclude this most, successful ofEre-
vivals, yet it would scarcely be safe to
assert that 1t will BIO veritably the last
meeting. The enthusiasm aroused and
the interest manifested is so apparent
that it would surprise no one ii another
evening is tackled on, or eventual the
revival will not close before the end Of
the week.