The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-04-24
THE REVIVAL MEETINGS.

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recitals appealed to the heart sense of the
old people, and old and young people
wept. Mr.. divers pathos touches the
tender chords Many young and some
old people gave their hearts TO God. ard
in acknowledgement went forward to
the front seats.
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Saturday afternoon next the services
will be especially for women. On the
afternoon following the services will be
especially for men. The lecture will be
on moral, religious aud hygienic ques-
tions. Tickets of admission will be is
sued, and an age limit enforced.
Yesterday fifteen prayer meetings
were held in many different homes in
the city, beginning at 8 :45 a M and
continuing for half hour, when the differ
ent leaders reported to the regular meet
ing at 10 a. m, in the rink Yesterday
was devoted to a day of fasting and
prayer.
Sunday morning, Mr.. Oliver said he
found Dodge City about the same as
other towns. Et was reported to him that
here the people of the different churches
were all united. He found it so, but the
unity was closer than he expected The
people were all froze together. Mr..
Oliver is dissolving this congealed con-
dition by telling great phy sical disasters,
an which lives are lost and rescued, and
the human sympathy which naturally
comes in times of such great peril. But
men and women, he says, on the
way to hell and there is concel n.
Conviction is not so much by preaching
but by people going to the unsaYed. Peo-
pie of the churches must go to the
saved in tears and heart searching words
for salvation of sonls. The way to reach
the people is through the pews and not
pulpit When men and women go to
men and women is when you perform
the work of Christ.
There is no bond of coherency like that
which uuites the Mormon church. Peo-
pie of the evangelical churches do not
stand closely together this. Evan
gelist Oliver made this lack of coherency
plain in one of his talks. He said let the
whiskey element be assailed and then
there general rally of its cohorts
1t was true of all organized bodies but
the church; where there many
contrary opinions and SO much disorgan-
lied effort. This might be explained in
the lack of sincerity and earnest effort.
People are faint hearted in upholding the
church. They lack assurance. Too
much of the work is perfunctory.
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CIapping of hands and laughter is al
lowed in these meetings whenever the
occasion permits such seeming levity.
The reverential awe is not disturbed in
the least by the unloosening of church
frigidity. The evangelist understands
how the people are brought together by
the power of spiritual force.
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MIR. Oliver believes in the religion of
hell fire and damnation. If there was a
heaven there must be hell. If there
was no hell there could be no heaven.
Those preachers who devIated from the
orthodox religion and followed new lines
of thought, he said, were mixed up in
seme scandal with woman. 1t was in
variabIy the rule so for as he knew.
The evangelist might have gone farther,
and said that is what was the matter
with Adam. And the question is not yet
settled. And men are striving with new
thoughts.
The evangelist is not in line with the
tsnew thought the s'deification of the
Intellect, a concentration of the mind
upon the subject in hand; and being OBJ
Iivious of environments; but every passing
thing disturbs him. This is natural.
His preaching is spiritual and not me
chanical.
The choir is potent force in the
meetings, which would be dull and list
less without the awakening influence
which the music gives. There are peo-
pie who deprecate the emotional eharac-
ter of the sermons who assent or ap
prove of emotional influence of the INNS
If the valves of reason could be opened
without an appeal to the senses we might
reasonably disapprove of the sensational
sermon; but we can neither receive the
song nor the sermon without turning
the emotional side. 1t is only the degrees
which we despise; and while the gentle
whispering voice would arouse the reason
in some people, il requires the ponderou
beating of the drum and the rhythmic
cadences of the song to put the dull ap
prehension in alertuess. The gentle in