The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15

of the church in 1888 held a revival, and
great results were realized. During the
pastOrate of Rev. G. S. Johnston in 1889,
the second conven ton of the South Geor-
gia Holiness Association was held On
Oct. %, 1893, the third convention will be
held
In 1890 Rev George w. Mathews was
made pastor of the church. 1t was in the
fall of 1880 that Evangelist w. NJ. Waller
held his great tent revival here. As re-
suit OF this meeting there were many
conversions, and a Methodist church was
organized at Waltertown and about 100
were added to the Methodist church here
Since then reviyals have been held In the
Methodist church every year and the re-
suit is shown by the increase in member
snip from $50 to 475. The love
feasts of the church have been
an important feature Of the Sunday morn
ing services from its early history 1t is
related Of Senator COlQuitt that while he
was governor he came here and entered
the church during the love feast hour.
He sat down in the rear Of the church
where he could hear distinctly every word
that was said. After leaving the church
he remarked that the love feast was I'M
like anything he had ever seen before, and
he appeared to be deeply affected by the
earnestness manifested by those present
During one of the love feasts several
years ago Frank l.. Stanton was
present. The scene greatly impressed him
and he wrote poem entitled The Love
Feast at WayCTOss," which has been
pasted in scrap books in many homes
The faith and earnestness of the mem
bers of the church has impressed visitors
The holiness meetings have caused many
people to cOnseCrate their lives TO Christ.
y remarkable instance where faith and
prayer have resulted in the fulhllment Of
their heartfelt desires, was on the day of
the election for representative to the leg
islature last year. There were two can
didates one was for barrooms, and
the other was for prohibition
The active members of the
church assembled in the old church at
sunrise and spent the day in HASTINGS and
prayer that the Lord would give the vic
tory to the candidate who was on the
Lords side. The bell tolled every half
hour in the day. When the announce
ment came that the prohibition candidate
was victorious, they shouted their praises
10 God The building committee is CON-
posed of the most Jealous members of the
church. Their names are as follows
Herbert Murphy, T. E. Lanier, w. j.
Smith, S. w. Hitch, VIM Parker, L. A.
Wilson, L. johnson and c. w. Mathews
Rev George w. Mathews has been
faithful and earnest pastor Of
the church for nearly four
years. He has worked untiringly for the
church. His labors in connection with
the building of the new church have been
unremitting and his words of encourage
ment have greatly added to the success
full completion of the work in such a short
time. Rev. William Howard Thomas, ia
miliarly known here as Uncle Thomas
is 81 years old. He has labored for the
good of the church from the first, and al
though he is feeble with advanced age,
he has watched the progress of the work
from the day it was begun, when helifted
the first spadeful of dirt from the foun-
dation. His songs have many times been
heard in the new church and his earnest
desire is to hear the gospel preached in
side the new house of the Lord.
"Uncle" Thomas is indeed a father in
Israel His walk in life has been pure
and faithful in the sight of God His
death will be q serious loss to the church
and community. E. T. M.