The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-02
COLE FIGHTS SIN
REMARKABLE SUCCESS ATTENDING
HIM IN WICHITA.
Family Gathering Last Night at the
First NJ T.. Church Prayers
Asked for by Scores OF Persons
Something About the Major and
His Work in the Good Cause.

Major Cole last night did not even read q
Scripture lesson nor take other text than
the love of God and His power 10 save. He
| said he wanted this TO be a Saturday night
family meeting, and called on those in the
audience with relatives, or acquaintances
still "out of tine fold" to rise and ask for
the prayers of the good people for them.
! The responses were prompt and numerous
coming from every part Of the house and
| from all classes of people. Pray for my
father" ''I ask the prayers of the good
people for my two sisters, "Go1's people
will please pray for my erring boy"
Pray for the members of my
Sunday school class" Il want to
announce that at the beginning of these
| meetings / asked the prayers for two of
| my Sunday school pupils and ] Iow have
| 10 announce the conversion OF one and
| the other i 5 unable TO attend these mest-
| ings aud | want the prayers that she may
| be converted i'll the silence of her own
| chamber 20 tie cause of our Lord aud
| Savior Jesus Christ" "A dau Shter whose
| father is a gambler and whose mother is
unconverted, asks me TO beseech the
| prayers of Gods people for their salvation.
Il ask the prayers for two girls whose
| father is throwing every obstacle possible
selves 10 God u
The foregoing are specimens of the
| scores of public requests that came in an
| swer to the majors invitation and they
were greeted with fervent "amens," aud
praise God" from the euthused workers
in the vineyard.
Major Cole is peculiar and interesting
leader for such eyangelistic work AS is
now being carried on. He iutersperses
| the requests and prayers and songs with
apt remarks, quotations aud startling
comparisons, awakening the religious
spirit in the audience to high
pressure degree aud producing the
most gratifying results to his co-laborers
Nor are the latter inactive. Quite to the
contrary, to the indetatiguble efforts
mental and physical-of the associated
pastors and lay members of the churches
is IN great measure the success of the
movement indebted. Converts are daily
morning and eveuing-augmentlng the
now large number lat the mourners' beUch,
and the harvester of souls Is said to have
not gotten under Roadway OF full steam
even rs yet.
Major Cole is a born evangelist, magnet
ic, running over with nervous force, of re-
markably acute and active mind. fertile in
resources, with an experience in life that
has given him an ineXhausJIble fund OF an
ecdotes from which he draws freely and at
the right time TO produce the most telling
effect. His SMILES are as pleasing rs they
are trite and his earnestness is 50 manifest
that he carries his audience with him
where he wills. The major is in the
neighborhoOd of the half-century mile
post aud he is enjoying the mental
ROBUSTNESS of mature manhood. He is the
son of Methodist preacher and until
the great fire of ChicagD QS7D was pros
porous business man ia that city to whose
citizens the word cant" is unknown. He
was converted but a short time before the
big fire and in 1873 he decided to devote the
remainder of his life to work of spreading
the gospel and IN saving human souls. He
is member of the Presbyterian church,
but is radically catholic in his views. He
has brothers prominent in the Baptist aud
Co1gregat ional churches aud sister who
is a leader among Methodists. He says be
is Presby-B -Bapti-Congre- -Metho--any
thing and everything to bring the
lost to God. He mas travelled eX-
tensively during the past twenty years.
both in this country and IN Europe. aud the
testimony OF others is unanimous to the
effect that he has been the instrument
through which many have forsaken the
paths OF sin.
That Major Cole with the help of his as
sistauts, has already produced deep I'M
preston upon Wichita Is indisputable.