The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-05-04
A NAN AMONG MEN.
Rev. B. 0arradine, Evangelist, and his
Methods Of conducting Revivals.


Rev. B. 0arradine, Evangelist, and his
Methods Of conducting Revivals.
For more than week past pro-
tracted religious revival has been go-
ing ON in the Methodist church in
this city under the evangelical Iabors
of Rev. B. Carradine of ST. Louis, Mo.
The distinguished divine is "re-
former A preacher after the pat
| tern of Martin Luther and John Wes-
ley and is breathing the breath of life
into the dead corpse of Methodism.
He has been singulaFly successful here
and elsewhere and holiness is his
one great and only theme. He did
not draw the large audiences that Mr..
Culpepper did, but it was not be-
cause he was lacking in spiritual
strength, and power, and magnetism,
and feryor, for he is abundantly sup
piled with these gifts; and, besides.
possesses more grace, and polish and
scholarly accomplishments, but he
breaches on lines the churches have
fallen away from he breaches doc
trine the modern churches have re-
jected, but which, if made the chief
stone of the corner, would re-energize
and re-vitaliZe them and give them
somewhat Of their old-time powerand
make them something more than
painted and hollow sepulchers If
church members would lead holy lives
and carry their professions of faith
and humility into the activities and
actualities of every day life, it would
largely cure, if not entirely eradicate,
the growing school. of unbelief. The
explanation of the dnllness and dead
ness of the churches is because they
carry their professions into practice
only for little while in perfunctory,
| formal, make-believe sort of way, one
day in a week. They have too much
soiled spiritual linen to be laundried
on that day, hence, as Mr.. Carridine
says, too much of it goes over for the
next week to be laundried by the
| preacher on the next seventh day and
it accumulates in quantity and odor
from week to week. The infidel press
do not charge the Salvation army with
hypocrisy and say not word against
their methods or their practices. In
rescuing the fallen; in visiting the
slums; 10 preaching to the poor, and
coming in touch and daily contact
with the degraded, they get almost if
not more sympathy and encourage
ment outside than inside the churches.
II religion is anything We see its core
in their lives. MIR. Carradine is hitting
out on right lines aud is at least bring
| ing the Methodist church back to the
paths trod by Wesley, Fletcher and
Whitefield.
Mr.. Carradine is yet a young man.
He started out in life as a clerk in a
dry goods store in Yazoo, Miss. He
felt called to preach about twenty
years ago and during which time filed
some of the largest pulpits within the
bounds of the conference, notably at
New Orleans and st. Louis. For four
teen years he preached in the ordinary
way of the average preacher and drew
his salary with the punctuality, regu-
larity aud Importance of Congress-
man. About five years ago, under the
preaching of a very holy man, he says
he received the second blessing and
ever since has felt entirely consecrated
and sanctified. lie gave up his FASH
ionable churches, and the big salaries
and luxurious homes attached to them,
to become rowing evangelist, going
whittier called and whatever distance
called. A month ago he was in Cali
fornia. He then answered a call to
come to Florida and is now on his way
to Texas. He takes up no collections
and depends for the support of his
family and his travelling expenses en-
tirely upon voluntary contributions.
He is wonderful man. breaches
twice day on one theme and leaves
the subject apparently wholly unex-
hausted as one would judge from his
next and every after effort.
We believe him to be good and
sincere man and regard it as no part
of extravaganza to say that he has
accomplished more spiritual good in
Ocala than has been done by all the
preaching Of many previous years for
as he says you can't pop popcorn in
oo1fi ckiIlaf Hot eft,f ;c xubaf 4I,a
churches need and he made the spirit
ual fires glow with heat.
His coming to Ocala did this~much
at least: He showed the churches
where they are at !" and it's hoped
set the leaven at work for better things.
An Old Song.