The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-19
The Beginning of the Closing
of Lent.
A SEASON OF REVIVALS
Miss De Merritt, the Evangelist Made
Her Farewell Last Evening, But was
Subsequently Induced to Prolong Her
stay-A Glass Confirmed by Rev. Gruhler

Holy week commenced very auspi-
ciously in many of the churches of town
yesterday, especially in the English Bap
tist church, on South Jardin street, where
eight baptisms were made, and in the
Primitive Methodist church, where the
ardent and very successful evangelist,
Miss DE Merritt, took her farewell after a
season of revival work highly satisfactory
to both herself and the congregation OF
the church. But after the service Miss
De Merritt acceded to urgent requests
and will remain here for three nights
more. On Wednesday evening, next, she
Will positively retire. During her stay
Miss De Merritt has made about twenty
eight converts.
The congregations of the Welsh Con-
gregational and Welsh Calvanistic Meth
odist churches also entered upon the last
week preceding Easter with excellent
spiritual nourishment dispensed by Rev. f.
r. Lewis, of Scranton, at the former
church, and Rev. John j. Williams, Of
Lehigh county, at the latter.
At the Trinity Reformed church last
evening Rev. Robert O'Boyle preach a
very interesting sermon on "Peter's
Denial; Our Warming" The church was
crowded and next Sunday will witness
the increase of this congregations mem
bership by fifteen all heads of families.
There was very impressive service in
the German Lutheran church yesterday,
when a class of eighteen young people
ranging from IA to II years of age was
confirmed 1t was an occasion Of special
pleasure to Rev. John Gruhler, the pastor,
as he christened all but two members of
the class in their infancy and it was his
twenty-third class since his first connec-
tion with the church. 1t was comprised
of Charlotte Ecker, Laura Stone, Ida
Lenberg, Florence ScburZ Bertha Klatt,
Lizzie Carls, Martha Gable, Carrie Seel-
bach, Charles and Frederick Holderman,
Harry Ecker, Charles kaufmanu, John
Hafner, George Pegslow, Adam Stauffen-
berg and Frederick Carl. The chancel of
the church was beautifully decorated
with fresh flowers for the occasion and the
choir under the leadership Of Prof. Zeitz,
rendered choice program. The attend
ance was said to be larger than at any
time since the dedication of the church.
except on the occasion of funerals, and
Rev. Gruhler says that the class was one
of the best prepared hehas confirmed.
Holy week is given to the last week of
Lent, closing with Easter Sunday and
beginning with Palm Sunday. 1t is also
called Passion week, though the Roman
and Greek churches apply that name to
the preceding week, commencing with
Passion Sunday. In all the Anglican,
| Greek and Roman churches, the Easter
season is one of joy, of religious feeling, of
| freedom from the restraints of the pre-
ceding forty days of Lent. The greater
number of Protestant churches do not
celebrate this week, but its observance is
| increasing and successful revival work
has been especially noticeable in Shenan.
doah during the closing weeks of Lent
this year.
Easter observance this year promises tC
1 hp nf gI1ph q oh a ~ ptnp a hos haaV
witnessed in long time, as a consequence
of the strange revival throughout the
country which has been ascribed to the
hard times and the preparations in many
of the religious denominations have beer
on most imposing scale.