The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-13
THIRTEEN FIGURES PROMINENT
Unlucky Number in Church Declared
by Preacher TO Be Lucky.

! by Preacher TO Be Lucky.
/ The work OF the meeting at the Central
1 Christian church was materially changed.
4 The lesson was taken from the fifth
I chapter Of Matthew. The minister re-
+ peatedly warned the audience the evening
I before to bring their Bibles and began
I his talk abruptly by asking all TO open
! their Bibles TO Matthew, 5th chapter,
then asked different parts of the house
10 show who had brought their Bibles.
I One end OF the church had quite a num-
Der, the other not so many, and n tn,
chorus nearly every member held one
The manner was changed entirely. the
audience read the lesson, interspersed
with brilliant and pointed comments by
the speaker.
The Rev. COMBS had the audienc,
turn TO First Corinthians and called at
I tention 10 the number of the chapter,
IL being the thirteenth. and announced
that they were then TO read just thirteen
verses, ending with the thirteenth, which
he said was before the most important
verse OF all. lie also mentioned tn,
fourth verse Of the thirteenth chapter
Of Malachi, which ut beautifully into the
verses just read.
The evangelist then stated that no one
need be alarmed at thirteen Of ANYTHING.
thirteen dollars or thirteen Christians or
anything else. g" Thirteen is a lucky num-
Der. he said. There were thirteen orig
tnal colonies. and you know what they
have grown 10 be" The thirteenth verse
Of First Corinthians. thirteenth chapter
is this: And now abide faith. hone
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these is charity. And the fourth verse
Of the thirteenth chapter Of Malachi re-
fers TO even the prophets passing away
with so many other things
Following this the audience sang one
verse. followed by several short prayers.
often two or three being heard at once
Mr. Davis. following. sang beautiful
solo: Bear the News 20 Mother a
touching reminder ot how a wavward
boy VIII turn. when as many were re-
Gently living the brief painful space
between the receiving Of a mortal wound
and death. There were many eyes in
the audience which sparlled. but with
something the opposite of merriment.
The number thirteen has come 70 be
an almost invariable number in connec-
ton with affairs during these meetings.
WoEoerEltLF so. yesterday cau-aSlnE
committee was asked for and when they
came together there were Just thirteen Of
them They took thirteen different
streets and went I'D 70 Thirteenth street
and began the work Of looking over the
city 70 find out by actual investigation
how the city stands, and Rev Coombs
stated in his sermon on Christ in the
cases one was a woman who stated
that she and her husband never went q
church any more and that she could not
live as good q Christian life out % ths
church as in t. Il asked her" he said
have YOU any children She said yes
How manye" Three How old Is
the youngest one9 Seventeen years
old" Where are thew" only two OF
them are at home" No. mean where
are they reliefousiy2 She was silent
what could she saye
He administered 2 tremendously scath-
irE re5uke 20 mothers who train up n
daughter loosely. and when she runs OF
and ms-ries some WORTH SIS fellow. won't
speak 20 her. wouldn't speak 70 your
daughter. and you mother Why dow
here II the menaserie there IS a better