El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31
A PERTINENT SUBJECT
He Tells What He Knows
About Newspapers,
Orphanages and
RevivaIs

Last night Rev. Abe Mulkey opened
ten days revival at Tripity Nd. E.
church. The first night was devoted
Sim ply to au Introduction and outline
of the work iotended anu no effort was
made to secure results. The church,
how ever, was we'll filed vita people
and Rev. Mulkey held the atten tion
of alb throug hout. This morning he
preached at 1870 O'Clock His subject
was Courage" He had good au-
dience and will preach again to-
night.
Tomorrow morning he will hold SER
vices at ii o'clock a. the church. In
the evening he will speak ir Myar's
Opera house that has been engaged for
the occasion. Rev. Mulkey's subject
tomorrow night will be "My Expert
ences as Business Man" The opera
house has been engaged not only for
tomorrow night but also for the follow
ing Sunday night.
He will remain ten days and from
here will go to GaJesville, Texas, the
terminus of the Cotton Belt railroad,
to fulfill his next engagement.
This morning herald reporter
called On Rev. Mplkey at the residence
of DR.. "A. E. Grown on Magohin
avenue where he is stopping. He is
an interesting and pleasant tslker and
told many things of interest in his Is
years experience ss an evangelist.
"Mr. Mulkey", asked the reporter,
''bow do you find the times to affect the
work of the churches? Do you find
the same interest shown during the
time of prosperity rs few years ago
during the hard times?''
"Well, in my experience" replied
Mr.. Mulkey, 'I find tie peopls more
anxious than ever to hear me this
conducted during the present year. |
have been at Waco, Corsica "a, Crow
ley, La, and other places We have
had about $50 con versions so far and
have received some seventy five calls
for revivals already. | can fill only
twenty-four each year. That gives
me two month Or two weeks for each
and time to.travel from place to place.
From this you caa see how m uch in
ter est is being taken in the work. OF
course, the fact that | am constantly
travelling from place to place gives
some advantage over the regular pas
tors. During my fifteen years exper-
ieuce nave conducted about three
hundred revivals.'
FIRST RELIGIOUS DAILY.
L had the distinction" went on Mr..
Muikey, 'of gettiug out the fret reIi-
gious daily in the country snd it ran
for thcee weeks. just three times a.
long, by the way, as Rev. Sheldon's
did," he added with smile. 1T was
published at ClebuIns, Texas, ia
March. 1896. It was called the Abe
Mul Key Appeal and was gotten up to
advertise revival 1 was conducting in
the towD. [ tried to secure enough
space in the daily paper and when /
couldn't succeed there L started
religious daily and ran Ii
during the meeting. During its exs-
tence it circulated in fourteen differ
enC states.
ORPHANAGE AT WACO
VI have al orphsnage established
now at Waco" said the evangelist.
1T is known as the Texas Methodist
Orphanage butts non-secsarian in re-
gard to It's acceptance of children. We
have ons building for the BOYS and a
new one just finished for girls. The
origiaal plans called for $40 900 but Is
mas grown much larger. The cost of
the new building will be $50 OOO aud
have already collected sI3, ,O0O' y
Rev. Mulkey is CREST believer in
The power of the press aad THINKS the
churches should make use of IL In the
same way as a business maa
1--WE realize" he said 10 the ereporter.
that we need the use of. printers ink
rs much as any one and We know its
value.''