The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-25
Child EVANGELIST
Clarette Nora Avery Speaks
Her Little Piece Again at
Zion Church.

The remarkable little colored evangelist,
Miss Clarette Nora Avery, preached yester-
day morning in the Zion A. NJ. E. church on
Monmouth street. The church was crowded
| to the doors, fully half of the congregation
| being white people. Miss Avery was late in
| arriving and Pastor Biddle, after prayer lad
been offered by Sister Julia Foote's. and the
usual devotional exercises gone through with,
began to preach a sermon himself, taking his
text from John, 3: IA and Is. As soon as
it was announced that Miss Avery had
! arrived Pastor Biddle discontinued his dis
course.
He requested the congregation to sing the
Coronation hymn. While it was being
sung Miss Avery, accompanied by her
mother. assembled the platform and bowed
her head in prayer. After a hymn had been
sung by the choir she read the fourth chap
ter of st. Matthew and led in prayer, asking
God to give all pure hearts. The choir sang
when I can read my title clear and Pas
tor Biddle introduced Prof. Dart, of the
Charleston Industrial School. Miss Avery
is under the charge of this institution and it
is for its advancement that she is doing her
present work.
Prof. Dart gave a brief history of the girl.
She only ten years old, but for the past two
years has been preaching in the south. her
labors being very successful, hundreds being
converted by reason of her preaching. S
is not an educated girl and never went to
school, her powers, as Prof. Dart explained,
appearing to be supernatural, she being
called by Gods Holy Spirit to preach dis
word. She is only a child and has childish
wa S, finds great comfort in playing with
her msny dolls, and at times is so engrossed
with them that she will give but little time
to anything else outside of herreligious du-
ties. Consequently, reporters find it difficult
to talk with her. When she is preaching she
gives her subject all her attention.
PROOFS OF GOD.
The little preacher then came forward
She was attired in a black silk dress and
wore a black hat with black feathers. She
read the 18th Psalm and took her text from
the first three verses. From it she preached
a sermon on the existence of God. She said
that the whole system of nature and many
of the incidents of life prove that there is a
God.
I'm all the blessings we enjoy we know
there is a God. In sickness and death there
is e, idence of His being. If there was not,
why are we compelled to obey the laws
which encompass us. Those who doubt the
existence of God are in danger of being lost.
but their souls are precious and should be
brought to salvation. We find many unbe-
levers, many who are on the downward
road, who believe there is no God; but the
Christian knows there is a God to lead our
lives through the world, and who will keep
us free from sin.
"We want to correct the error of these
unbelievers. We wish to show them there is
a God. We want them to see for them
selves and they will find out, Sinners have
to be shown the way of salvation before they
are converted. While the sinner is brought
to see that there is a God, there are many
professed Christians who 90 not altogether
show the true Christian spirit or lead unex-
ceptionable lives, aud who could not have
been washed in the blood of the Lamb.
RELIGION EVERYWHERE.
ssThere is a God that rules both Heaven
and earth to prove this. All nature glows
with His handiwork, and it is even proven
in the leaves of the trees. If there is no God
why do we ask for mercy? Our doing so
admits there is a God. AS children should
follow the advice of their parents, it is our
duty to follow Christ. Prepare, then, to
follow Him who has said. Fear not to walk
in the valley and the shadow OF death, for l
am with you A child of God has all the
enjoyments of this life, therefore all should
worship Him. Look to Jesus, cling to the
Cross and seek SALVATION. 1t is not neces-
sary to come to church to get religion; you
can get it anywhere. You need not come
to church to pray you can + at home.
Il was converted when ] was a year and a
half old and / remember it well. Others
have told me about it, but there is no need of
that, because God keeps it in my mind. My
father taught me all l know about God, and
although he is now dead he teaches me yet,
and in the same way our Heavenly Father
teaches us all. Let US heed the voice of Him
who spoke as never man spoke. II you are
listeners to His words and heed them, you
will be saved: those that turn a deaf ear
wilIhaye no salvation but will know there is
a God.n
In conclusion Miss Avery made a feeling
appeal to all sinners to seek salvation. She
speaks in a low tone, necessitating the ut