Evening journal., 1895-10-04
THE CLOSING SESSIONS.
LAST OF THE SPECIAL MEETINGS
HELD IN GRACE M. E. CHURCH.

Services for Men and Women Held Sep
arately I'm the Auditorium and Chapel.
Rev. DR.. Hulburd Speaks Of the Hero
ism Of Free Misunderstanding Elder
Barrett Closes the Revival Tonight.
The special meetings held last even.
ing in Grace NJ Z Church were both
novel and interesting and made q glorious
finale to the revival which has been so
assiduously carried on during the past
month. The auditorium was devoted to
the men, and every seat was filed
There was not q boy or woman Ia the
audience, which exceeded 900
block of seats 10 the front OF the
church had been reserved for the cyclers
and this was filed by large delegations
from the Wilmington, Warwick, DelR
ware an5 West End wheel clubs. Many
Of the wheelmen were in uniform and
they left their wheels stacked outside the
doors during the service The,singing WAS
led by Rev F Burgette Short and a male
chorus, and was very impressive.
Rev Dr. Merritt Hulburd preached
the sermon. which was rather in
the nature OF br0therlv talk
with the theme as found In II
Samuel, K, i2: Let us play the men.
he stated at the outset that he desired
to speak with those present as brother,
not as a preacher, a teacher OF leader
AS one who was familiar with their
hopes and fears, their temptations and
liabilities. The subject Of his talk was
the Heroism OF True Manhood. which
be said was OF 'mposite nature made
up of truth, courage and love. The true
man Is truthful In All things. The false
man Is no man but simply a snake that
by some queer freak Of evolution finds
himself In an upsight position.
There are different classes Of doubters,
said the speaker, and Of these the
Insiucere doubter Is the worst. The
honest doubter was the seeker after truth
and the one who by seeking the truth
would ind it and by 1t would b, set free.
Oncs arrived at the truth the honest
doubter would surrender his whole
manhood to that truth
The true man has the courage Of his
convictions and In the face Of the whole
world does not hesitate to back them.
Courage does not exist In brute strength,
and the aggregation Of m1sole, which
for $40 600 is willing to stand up and
mash Gods image from the face of
another. is not true type Of courage.
The true man is loyal aud full of love
for his fellowmsn, love for the truth and
love for God In conclusion DR. Huiburd
made an impassioned appeal TO all those
present TO cast aside all doubt and
accept the truth and thus bec3me heroes,
true men.
After ths sermon Rsvs Hanna, Watt,
Howard and Morgan made brief exhorta
tions, and q service OF song aud prayer
was held In which tue women, who had
,ined the congregation after their own
meeting In the chapel. participated.
Taken all in all, 1t was glorious meet
ing
At the same time of the mems meeting
very large meeting Of women was held
in the chapel. led by Mrs. Washington
Hsstings, which was very interesting aud
profitable. The exercises consisted of q
song service. led by Mrs Benson. and a
testimony service interspersed with
prayer
To Decide on Future Services.
At o'clock this afternoon the Meth
odist ministers of the city, went into
session In Grace chapel to decide whether
to end the revival services at Grace
that have been held by the united
Methodlsts Of Wilmington
Unless they decide otherwise, TO
nights service will end the 6rsc,
Church series, after a most successful
and encouraging fortnight's progress
Rev l. K. Barrett. d d. presiding
elder of Wilmington district, will prescl
the sermon to night and Revs Shor
and Kooas will conduct the singing.