The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-09-17
Mr.. CELL S MISSIONARY TOUR AROUND
THE WORLD.
Three cities aud Three Eeyivals In West
rrn Australia.
NINTH LETTER.


After the wonderful meetings in
Adelaide, about which ! shall have
OCCASION to write later, came on to
Fremantle, Western Australia, upon
the German steamer, "Oldenburgh, 4"
and for the first time floated on the wat
ers of the Indian Ocean. The cause of
my visiting this State was an intense
desire to preach the Gospel to the
people of this newest part Of the great
Anstral continent TO be inhabited and
developed, and decided to come ont
here rather than visit Tasmania, it
being impossible for me to go to both
countries because of the early freez-
ing over of the harbor of Vladivostock
in Siberia.
At Fremantle | was met by COM
mlttee of clergymen and business men
and left that same night for Perth,
the Capital of the State.
PERTH
Perth is beautiful city situated on
the banks of the Swan River, contain
ing population of some 40, 600, Amer
lean electric tramcars and almost all
the Improvement that go with mod
ern hustling city. For 10 days | con
Quoted services in the Queens Hall in
Perth, which has the largest audltori-
nm III Western Australia. Daring
this time over 1900 handed in their
names as converts, full 1000 of whom
were men and women, So great was
the desire to hear the Gospel during
this revival that four meetings were
held III one night, and on several oc-
casions the large audience room was
crowded twice night. | conducted
the largest meeting for men ever held
In the State, the Queens Hall being
packed and hundreds turned away,
One night in order to gain position
where it was possible to see aud hear
the outer doors having been closed
some men climbed to the roof ant
looked in and listened by the skyligh
ventilators. / happened to spy then
Just as the collection was being taken
up, and | suggested that somebody
should gather the offering on the roof
This was received with loud laughter
and man on the roof at once dropped
down shilling piece. This Peril
Gospel campaign l consider one o
the most remarkable, if not the mos
successful of all the revival meetings
connected with the present series
of Australian simultaneous missions
There were many remarkable Incl
dents connected with this movement
/ will mention few. One nigh
when over % per cent of the peopl,
remained to the after meeting, | saw
some boys in the gallery and no on,
speaking to them. | pointed to ,
protesting christian, and asked her I,
have kind word concerning tn,
christian life with the lads. This sht
did not do, and I made remark oil
two supposed to be sufficiently force
full to bring her to her spiritual senses
man who had heard all this, motion.
ed to me and handed down two cards
one containing the name of one of the
boys, who had just professed CONVEX
sion, and the other containing his owl
name. He had come into the build
ing an unconverted man and feeling
impressed with the need of the boy,
he had asked the Lord to forgive hi
sins and save him, and then at one,
lent hand to the boys. Upoi
another occasion man professe,
conversion and handed in his nam
and at once asked for blank slip t,
enclose with letter which he pro
posed to mail to his wife in Victoria
asking her to accept Christ and com,
out on the Lords side. In servic,
for women only" some go professe,
conversion and by an oversight tn,
workers were not properly divide,
so that the acceptance cards were no
properly passed, but so great WAS tn,
desire of the women protesting con
version to hand in their names and gt
the full length in the matter, that
without any suggestion from me they
came forward to the reporters table
and took conversion cards, filed them
out. and handed them in. This move
ment becomes more and more marvel
lous in our eyes when we bear in mind
that the entire population of the State