The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-25
The HOLINESS MOVEMENT.
Some Words by Or. Carradine en-
EXtremisn and FanatiCism.


my correspondents will have to direct
| their letters hereafter to my home adj
| dress, PIG DAYTON St. St. Louis Mo
iron, which place they will be forwarded
| TO me.
On Friday morning, Oct. 23rd, Bro
| Rinehnrt and | opened II ten days meet
| nag in Quitman, Ga. AS the town had
been favored with many protracted meet
| ingS before, we looked for nothing but
an exceedingly difficult fine OF course
we found ridcule ana opposition. but
| pushed on full of confidence in the truth
and saw one of the most powerful meet
ings that was ever known in the town in
this part of the State.
From the beginning we had full affairs;
| and from the sixth day to the close saw
seventy To one hundred people at the altar
ut each evening service and nearly us
many at the morning hour. The greatest
| power was manifested i'll the last three
days. III
| There were one hundred and forty CON
| yer sions, reclamntons aud sanctifications:
| of this number there were about eighty
| conversions and rccamations. The meet
| ing took in all classes and ages Old peo-
| pie. young people, children, rich and
| poor, were all ut the altar, and all alike
| were blessed.
y prominent man in our church said
| to IL lady living down here that holiness
| preaching was One-sided gospel. If he
| had seen the old men and women, young
men and young ladies, together with peo-
| pie who had not been to church in years,
and Sunday school children at the altar
| seeking and obtaining salvation and pro-
claiming it with happy faces, he would
have been compelled to have said "Wcll.
| If it is one. SIZED, it is anyhow II big sided
| Il Il.
! IL character of preaching that gets sinners
| converted RECEIVERS the hackslidden, and
leads Gods people into Perfect Love
The last service | held | rcques ted all
that had been blessed in these three WAYS
to come up and shake my hand, and it
| took ten ninutrS for the column of shin
| ing faced people to pass by.
| The meeting was held in Il tent as it
was felt that no church building could
| accommodate the crowd. This proved
true. as even the tent Itself with its SUI
perior capacity proved insufficient.
The morning audience sprang to five
| hundred, AMI the night congregation WAS
| variously estimated from Il thousand to
| eighteen hundred. People came from
| numerous towns in Georgia and Florida
| One gentleman came from Key West.
Another man walked 200 miles from the
interior of Georgia to be present. though
of course we know there are some who
' would have walked 200 miles not to he
| present.
| This gathering of the people from every
direction TO my meeting show the deep
| interest felt in the holiness movement.
! and as study their rapt attention and
rcsolute speeches and actions | see that
the ''mOvement' has come to stay.
AS have Travelled from California to
Massachusetts,, and from Iowa to Florida
have made gradual kind of discovery
which has profoundly impressed me; and
that is that the Holiness movement is
| getting its great momentum and forward
! sweep as to the human side, not from the
| preachers, but from the laity. 1t is true
! that we have here and there faithful
preachers, :. but the greater part of the
ministry who even believe in entire sane
LITIGATION by faith, are timid, fearful and
silent They are apprchcnsiye of severe
landings in various quarters, and so
when even convinced of the doctrine are
not aggressive This being the case, God
seems to be moving upon the laity in
every direction to rise mp, defend, and
spread the truth of instantaneous sancti-
fication through conservation and faith
in the blood of Christ. Some of the most
effective sprcaders OF the doctrine ait lay
men who hold large and heaven honorcd
meetings ami never think of calling
themselves preachers, and possess no Ii.
cense. They are men of such prominence
wealth, and UNREASONABLE Christian
character that thus far there has been
no official act to stop them. In addition
! have been struck with the number Of
wealthy men who are obtaining tnis bles-
sing and are now using their money to
hi: =
and i'll every way spread the blessed doc
Urine and experience. In every State
visit find this to be the case. One IIoli.
ness Association has reserve fund of
two thousand dollars by which it assists
small towns to have evangelstic meet
ings
As these leading laymen have had no
convention, no opportunity by which they
could come TO an agreement and act in
concert, this unanimity of action all over
the United States can only be explained
in one way, viz, that Gods Spirit is NOV
ing everywhere upon these hearts and
minds. If the preachers are afraid to tie
clare and push the old Methodist doctrine,
and still older Bible truth of holiness by
faith. then God will find men who will;
men who lave no salaries to lose, no
church position to forfeit and ministerial
head to be decapitated
rs for this writer. he has no doubt
bout the final success of the movement.
His main dread is in regard to mistakes
that may he made in the holiness ranks
One is the conc.out'M mistake. about
which we have written, and SO need not
repea' 1t is not for us to leave the
church. Let the crowd who do not like
the teaching of Our founders leave if they
Will, hut let us abide in the shin