The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-27
A COWBOY EVANGELIST.
Rev. Hamilton Dawson Has Come
Out Of the West to New York.

New YORK Times.
A western evangelist has come all the
way from the lard where the giia monster
thrives. from San Augustine, n. n, TO
subdue the windmilIs Of vice and destruc-
ton In New York. The Rev, Hamilton
Dawson Is his name. and he has begun
work on box at Broadway and Thirty
ninth street. There he spoke last night.
and there. he intends to speak until he Sc
cures sufficient money tc hire a hall
The Rev. Ham" Dawson, as he wants
10 be known. says that his ideas of evan
geiism are new. he Will not collect more
than cents from any man at meeting.
and he is entirely opposed to sudden con-
version.
No man was ever converted In one min
ute or two minutes, or two months" he
said last night after he had finished bis
sermon. Sam Jones claims to have con-
yerted men by looking at them. but know
differently Half the people who think they
are converted are only excited. II is easy
To prey a mans sensibiities as Sam
Jones does. and tell him all about his
poor mother and the Little old home. and all
that. Sam Jones does that kind OF work.
When he finds that the mother story
won't work good. he begins on the little
baby. the child with golden hair and blue
eyes, and il he can't catch a mar with
one he Is almost certain 10 do so with the
after giving up a five-doilar bin TO hear
such rot Is foolish. The chances are that
the next five-doi.ar bin he gets he viii use
In buying drink To drown his sorrow for
being such an ass.
II intend to convert New Workers slow
iy. / want them to learn the Gospel by
degrees. and when they feel sure that they
can meet their Maker with a contrte heart.
then let them say so. Nothing is ever ac.
complished In day. My plans wouldn't
work out In San Augustine. The boys out
there went take to Christianity worth a
Nhoop. They say Il is meant only for wo-
men.
az was a cowboy once, and took TO
reading Mocdy's sermons, ard then heard
Sam Jones. and one night l was talking
against him, and l made such a good Ar
gnment tina, the boys said I'd do for a
preacher. SO / started our. / went to
church every day al ella. Many days /
was the only one there. and once, when
the minister turned up missing, took his
place. So, you see. / came by the title OF
reverend naturally
When the boys heard tina; had turned
my life was miserable and when they
heard that l had given up drink they
threatened 10 make trouble for me- SO |
moved I'D San Augustine. ] couldn't get
into a church there. and Logan 10 preach
In The streets. | have succeeded in con-
serting thlrty-;wo men in New Mexico but
the field there is too small. ] came To New
York because | heard IL was wicked, and
would be a good field.
II do not believe in begging for money.
Most eyangelists preach only for money.
ard l once heard a man who was preach
ing In Arizona say that the country about
there didn't deserve 10 be saved because
no one would chip IN at his collections.
must have money but ] VIII never take
more than cents from any man. ] like
New York. but IL Is too large. | had to
study the streets before began 10 preach
/ don't know them very well yet, but | am
getting more accustomed 70 the place ey-
cry day. When ] am not lost | can be
found at the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION rooms lSs East Eighty-sevent
street: shall be pleased 10 see any one -
The Rev Ham na wS0n is tan aud
angular clean shaven and bald He wears
his trousers inside his boots. ard a great.
wide sombrero- Tits voice - strong and
clear and his words are full OF conviction.
Altogether he Is valuable ard olctuf-
esaue addition 10 the uBcrgan iged asSoci-
alton of Broadway evanEellsgs.