Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-03

earnest meeting. The same choir that
sang at the afternoon services rendered
excellent music under the direction OF
Prof. ]. q. Hammond. Mrs. Kate Fitz-
gerald sang a beautiful solo. Rev. Cook
occupied the pulpit with Evangelist
HSdley and DIR. Cook read from the
scriptures and made fervent prayer.
Mr.. Hadley spoke touchingly. He
has q manner OF speech that is mag
netic. He seemed TO delight in calling
the new church the tabernacle, and said
it would be the coolest summer resort In
Wheeling, and delightful place TO spend
an hour. He said the ouly ticket need
ed for admission was an unsaved man,
and be desired all Christians to bring
such. He said, 81 stand before you
redeemed drunkard; l never drank a
drop OF liquor until was eighteen. l
told my mother l wouldn't, and
l had the sweetest, dearest moth
err that ever lived. We had
home out In Ohio, such sweet home,
l love yet to think Of it, and l can yet
see mothers dear chin tremble with
anxiety for her children-and me, she
seemed to love best Of all. One time /
took drink frem a persistent intoxi-
Gated fellow. Two weeks later l could
drink half pint OF whisky down at one
drink. Shortly after this mother died,
but she never knew Of my sin. l went
to study medicine, then / went to trav-
eling-but was drunkard, my home
was broken up, my position was gone,
and hope was lost. One night l was
sitting in a gin mill in Harlem and had
been drunk for five weeks night and day.
AS l was sitting there, great
presence came into the room. l was
seated on a whisky barrel, but all at
once it came and l knew the presence
was Jesus. Boys, II you ever see Jesus
you'll know Him. My sins stood out
in gilt letters against my conscience.
Then | stepped TO the bar, and said l
never again would take liquor. / finally
went to Jerry McAuley's Mission and
knelt down and said: "God have mercy
on me a sinner" Never from that
second have known what il is TO have
the taste for liquor. | then commenced
to preach the everlasting gospel, and
never from that day 10 this have
missed day In telling some poor soul
OF Jesus"
Mr.. Hadley here called bis co-worker,
Jerry Griffen, 20 address the audience.
Mr.. Griffen said that eight years ago
he was a vagabond, and because he told
tbs world so was because he thought 1t
would do his God some good.
He thought there was vast field here
in Wheeling, among its great factories.
He prayed earnestly for the outcast,
lonely, helpless and broken-hearted.
The meeting was interesting through
out, and faces were seen in the audience
which had not been observed in a
church in years.
With this article is shown cut Of the
front elevotion Of the new tabernacle.
1t was designed according to plans OF
Mr.. Hearne, and is So feet wide and 80
feet long, containing two large halls,
each 50xS7 feet The first floor will be
divided into two store rooms. The au-
dicnce room on the second floor is well
lighted and ventilated, and has a seat
ing On pacity for over 900 persons.
j. A. HOLIDAY & Son had the contract
sor the building, and the work was done
by the following sub-contractors: Stone,
Frese e. Son; brick, Jacobs 81 Giles
pie; painting and glazing, d. c. Kurner;
tin work and Patric furnaces for heat
ing, r. V. Ankle & Son; plumbing and
gas fitting, Adams 81 McKown.
AFTER a night with the boys