Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-21

the first Sunday when the first company of volunteers had pledged themselves to do as Jesus would do the different meet ings had been characterized by distinct impulses or impressions. Today the en- tire force of the gathering seemed to- bs directed to this one large purpose. It was meeting full of broken prayers, of contrition, confession, of strong yearning for new and better city life, and all through it ran the one general cry for deliverance4frem the saloon and it's awful curse. "
 But if the First church was deeply stirred by the events off the week gone the Rectangle also falt moved strongly in its own way The death of Loreen was not in itself so remarkable a fact. It WAS her recent acquaintance with the people from the city that lifted her into special prominence and surrounded her death with more than ordinary im- pertanee. Every one in the Reetangle knew that LCreen was at this moment lying in the Page mansion up on the avenue. Exaggerated reports of the nlagnificence Of the casket had already furnished ma5erial for eager gossip. The Rectangle was excited to know the details of the funeral Would it be public2 What did Miss Page intend to do? The Reetangle had never before mingled even in this distantly personal manner with the aristoeracy on the boulevard. The. opportunities for doing so were not frequent. Gray and his wife were besieged by inquiries as to what Loreen's friends and acduaint- ances were expected to do in paying their last respects to her, for her ad- quaintance was lalge, and many of the recent converts were among her friends.
 So that is how 1t happened Monday afternoon at the tent that the funeial service of Loreen was held before an immense audience that choked the tent and overfowed beyond all previous bounds. Gray had gone to Virginia, and after talking itsover with her and Henry Maxwell the arrangements had been made.
 s.I am and always have been opposed to large public funerals, said Gray, whose complete wholesome simplicity of character was one of it's great sources of strength, "but the cry of the poor creatures who knew Loreen is so earnest that do not know how to refuse their desire to see her and pay her poor body some last little honor What do you think. Mr. Maxwell7 I will be guided by your judgment in the matter I am sure that whatever you and Miss Page think is best will be right. =
 -s.I feel as you do,' replied MT. Max we'll Under most circumstances | have 8 great distaste for what seems like display at such times, but this seems different. The people at the Rec tangle will not come here to 8 service. I think the most Christian thing will be to let them have the service at the tent. Do you think so, Virginia r
 '.Yes, said Virginia sadly. Poor soul Ido not know but that some time l shall know she gave her life for mine 1, We certainly cannot and will not use the occasion for vulgar display. Let her friends be- allowed the qualification of their wishes 1 see no harm in 1t. v
 So the Arrangements were made with some difficulty for the service at the tent and Virginia, with her uncle and Rollin, accompanied by Henry Max { well, Rachel, President Marsh and the fsQuartets from the Firsta church, went down and witnessed oneof the strange scenes of their lives. It Happened thas that afternoon q noted newspaper cor respondent wss passing through Ray. mond on his waysto an editorial COZ vention in a nei ghhoring city. He heard of the con- ntelaplated service at the tent and was present sthat afternoon. His description of it was written in graph ic style that caught the attention of very many readers the next day. A fragmantsof his account belongs to this part ofIthe history of Raymond:
 s'ThereswasS Sasyery unique and un- usual funeral service held here this aft ernoonEat thegEstent of an evangelist, Rev. John Gray.S down in the slum dis trict known as the Rectangle. I he oc- casion was caused by the killing of a womanSduring aifelection riot last Sat urday night. It seems she had been re- gently sonverted during the evangelist meetings and was killed while return :. ing from one of the meetings in com pany with other converts and some of her friends. She was common street drunkard, and yet the services at the tent were as impressive as any l ever witnessed in metropolitan church over the most distinguished citizen
 s'In the first place, a most exquisite anthem was sung byla trained choir. II struck me. of course. being a stranger to the place, with considerable astonish- ment to hear voices like those ons nat, urally expects to hsar only i'll great churches or concerts ;It such a meeting as this. but the mysJ remarkable part of the music was D solo sung ny n strik- ingly beautiful young woman. a Mis- Winslow, who, if 1 remember rightly, E is the young singer Wno was sorghS fol