The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-05

| way on Fourth street. This avenue will
| pass along the southern border of the
| parade ground, past the row OF officers
| quarters and direct to the dock proper.
Tho Woodwork Evangelistic Services.
| SEATTLE, Feb. 4. 1898.
| To THE EDITOR: l take the following extract
from letter written by Rev. W. r Covert, of
| Findlsy, o., published in the Farmers Adrdnce
OF Midland, Ind, November Is:
| From Denvs: we went to Portland, Or As
| there were no trains out after our arrival we
| could not reach Newberg, where We had expected
to preach over Lords day. BEING unable t. ge:
| out to an appointment at the meeting OF Sister
Woodwork we went to hear Rev. Locke, form
| erly OF Pistsburg Smithfsld church. but now
pastor Of the First Z. church. of Portland,
Or. He has fine church building and an i'm
mense audience He preached a good spiritual
discourse on LIT Up the Standard"
o oa.,nls az msesna had
| Mrs. Maria B. Woodwork, and one of her CO.
| laborers. Ollie Daggett Mrs. Woodwork is one
lists In this country More than 5000 have pro-
1essed faith IN Christ under her iabors As
| chairman of the standing committee of the
southern Indiana Eldership, conveyed to her
| the eldershiD ordination and license paper. We
| understand she is now holding successful
Gospel revival meeting in Portland.
| Mrs.. Woodwork, with her co-workers, Miss
| Daggett, of Kansas, and Miss Eisenberg, OF In
diana. began revival services last week in O!ym-
pic hail, on Second street, holding services every
| week day at 2:30 and 1880 p. m, with an addi.
tional service on the Lords day at 1880 a. m.
The attendance, considering the inciemency of
| the weather, has been fairly good, q number
having already confessed conversion, and with
growing interest among the wo kers and sseed-
lily increasing attendance, hopes are entertained
that larger building will soon have to be 90.
cured. If none can be had, the evangelist will
send to Portland for her tabernacle tent, which
can be made to accommodate 1900 persons In
her thirteen years Of evaugeiistie work, she has
iabored with most of the evsngelistic churches,
including the Methodist, Presbyterian. Disciple,
Baptist and United Brethren, but most OF the
time she has felt constrained to go about her
Masters business, without either q denomina-
tionai or general CALL and as she came unher.
aided to Seattle the included facts pertaining to
her work have been gathered from various
| sources She makes no claim to education or
superior learning, having had but few advant.
ages In her early years. and when called to the
Masters work, she states that she promised the
Lord IL he would give her that spiritual an
nointing, which she holds to be essential to
every true Christian worker, she would devote
her Life AMI talents to His service and that she
received it, and that without any training or
special preparation she held her first service
relying solely on the Written Word and the lead
ing and teach ng Of the Holy Spirit. She
stepped out upon the water with much fear and
trembling, but the Lord sustained her and set
His seal to her ministry. by bringing . number
into His vineyard at her first service, and that
He has never failed to be present in eonvlcting
and converting power at any of her services
through all these years
She breaches the whole gospel as did Peter and
Paul, in plain. simple, but impressive man
ner. In appearance she Ii much younger than
her years, notwithstanding she suffered much
from Illness and bereavement, having followed
several beloved children to their final rest be-
fore entering the ministry, having but one child
left, . daughter, now married and settled in the
East Her husband, Elder Wood worth, who &C.
companied her in much of her work, also has
gone to his fnai reward. Still her face bears
the impress of peace. While speaking she
moves her arms and hands as If from the i'm.
pulsion of inward thought and feeling. aud at
times, when in the fervor of exhortation. her
countena nce seems aglow with spiritual light.
reporter of a leading Indianapolis paper, who
was sent TO one of her camp meetings. says:
More than 900 people were present, among
them not less than 100 ministers. Mrs. Wood
worth rose to speak, stood immovabls until
profound silence prevailed throughout the vast
assembly, when she raised her right arm, point
ing heaverward, and began one Of the most i'm
passionate 5iscourses i ever heard, her arm re-
naming as if fixed in vice for fifteen minutes,
aud the sermon continued Tor one hour aud
thirty-five minutes, during which cries for
mercy were heard here and there throughou
the assembly, many falling As If dead and re-
naming so Tor considerable time. At the con-
clusion OF the services several hundred went
forward for prayers, and over 1000 confessed
conversion before the meeting ended in many
cases more than douo ing the membership OF
surrounding churches
The reporter asked her how she could stand
the strain Of holding her arm in that strained
position so long, to which she replied:
was unconscious Of anv strain In fact I
seemed .sSe standing between the li-ing and
the dsad. and did not have power to with
draw it,
Again he inquired how she accounted for
the wonderful power that Frustrated many
during her meetings. TO which she replied:
The powe of the Holy Ghost: the very same
power that fell upon the people under apostolic
preaching; the same that was manifested under
Wesley's. Whi,held's. Peter Cartright's ana
many others Preaching IN our day. sinners
thus convicted II not converted remember moth
ing but darkness, but such as fall into frances
who are brought into the light, or those who are
already in the light have vivid remembrance of
glorious visions or the Heavenly home
Her labors have been wonderfully blest IN
other places and she believes the Master sent
her mere. and that He will crown her labors
with gracious ingatherings, as in other places
She certainly has received spiritual gifts of a
high order, and it will well repay the reader TO
visit her meetings and, es Nathaniel said, see
for himself The only support which the ladies
receive is that which 10 voluntary. aud wha.
little they make from the sale OF some small ser
mon leaflets and q volume containing a brief
history OF her life, call 10 the ministry and her
evangeiistic WORK. They came here paying their
own expenses rentsi and pay for the hail,
lights and fuel. and in order TO economize they
have rented - suit of rooms. even doing their
own cooking she ssys her only oject Is to
make expen es and tAe Lord thus far has sup
piled al t0e,I wants.
>he has uumovr of oud calls 20 return to
places wher- he has been, parties II ,iag To
seut them money for expenses OF going but she
Will not accent until she becemes convinced
that her work is doue in seattle.
ADDISON SMITH.
Evening Train on Great Northern,