People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-08-21
FRENZIED AS THEY GAVE.
The Sum of $1O1,5OO Raised for
Heathens IN One Meeting,

OLD ORCHARD, Me-, Aug. 9.-The
emotional convention is spreading.
There was one here today, but it was
not political. 1t was equally remark
able in many ways with the Chicago
convention. 1t was the mission day
DR.. Simpson and Christian Alliance
convention, and the day appointed
for the receipt Of offerings.
"The record has been broken for
giving for Missions" said the Rev.
.. W. Lelachuer, missionary in
China, to the Sun representative at
the close of the meeting. "The total
offering is SOL. 800, the largest
amount subscribed in single service
for the work. The money has liter
ally poured down like the rain"
"Either we have been in the real
presence of the spirit, or else this
great audience haze been under the
hypnotic influence of the speakers"
remarked cool business man after
the day was over. He is man not
a member of the alliance.
The stately pines and towering
beeches of the Old Orchard camp
ground, a veritable tabernacle of
nature, have looked upon many re-
markable gatherings. They have
heard the patriotic utterances of
Hannibal Hamlin in the times of po-
litical peril; they have listened to The
eloquence of James a. Garfield; they
have seen John B. Cough hold great
audience spell-bound; they have
caught up and reoheered the cheers
of the veterans when Devens and
Logan talked to them of battles
fought and won; they have looked
down and beheld crowds go mad
over the utterances of Names two
idols, dead and living, Blaine and
Reed; they have scattered with the
breeze of heaven the echoes Of songs
sung by thousands, thrilled by the
preaching of Beecher or a Phillip
Brooks; but never in their long years
have they been silent witnesses of a
more remarkable scene than that
which was enacted today. When DR..
Simpson arose to make his appeal he
faced a crowd of at least 10000
people. 1t was sn audience mads up
from every walk and condition of
life, and an audience thatsst for hours
banging ON the words of the exhort-
ers, laughing or weeping at the will
of the speakers, shouting hallalujahs,
and showing by the workings of the
countenances the earnestuess of their
interest in the services. 1t was an
audience that was finally to lose all
control OF itself on the fervor of its
faith, and in the end was to oontri-
butte, under its influence of what a
layman would call a religious evan
gelistic hYsteris, and in sums ranging
from nickel to $4,000, the sum of
S101,500. When soma of the givers
wake up tomorrow they will pinch
themselves to see if they we're awake
or only dreaming. DR.. Simpsons
sermon was brief. His theme was
that all are debtors to Christ, and
can never liquidate till they have
given everything and done every
thing possible. He said:
awe must sacrifcate; do what
hurts. God loves what hurts, be-
cause it smells of the sweet odor of
Calvary. must solemaly lsy the
command Of Christ upon you, GO ye.'
What will you do about it?"
Louise Shepard then sung a song,
and then the Rev. Lelacheur spoke
from The text, "What Have Ye in the
House?" He charged them to give
it all, if they would hope for joy
eternal. Then the subscriptions were
called for. The first was 81, and
was given by Mrs. F. E. Morrow, who
said she had gone without her supper
and breakfast, and was now going
without her dinner to give this.
Then came man who said he had
started from Springfi I'D with only a