The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-05-08
THE REVIVAL MEETINGS.

pie who listen to the sermons do not get
in responsive chord with the preacher
Want of attention and understanding may
also mean lack of spirituality Peo-
pie are not going to give much attentIon
to a subject on which their mines do not
rest. The nearer gives eloquence to the
preacher
Much can be learned from the revival |
whether we approve or disapproye what
the minister says. We use his meth |
ods of analogy and draw the distinctions
of right and wrong; but good audience
cannot make good preacher out OF
poor material However poor congre-
CATION may spoil a good preacher a
good man cannot be made out OF some
vile man who has not the clemens Oh
good in him.
We sometimes harshly criticise the
evangelist and deprccate his methods; but
our mental vision Is obscured through
prejudice and we fail to understand that
he is only a delineator of human charac-
ter, exhibiting all the forms of human
traits III a single exposure. Each apostle
of Christ had distinctive trait of char
acter, and the twelve formed a different
type To reach the several types of hui
man nature may be more than one man
can do, but there is always a terrible
struggle to accomplish the purpose
The object lesson is the modern meth
cd in intellectual progress; 1t IS true IN
the moral and spiritual realm The
preacher says harsh things to change
your course of mind. You think he has
a lack Of ethical culture. and shocks your
notions of pulpit propriety and niniste-
rial dignity You overlook the rudeness
if the ssCome to jesus appeal is fully
realized Mr.. Oliver pounds and pounds
with emphasis and effect; he cuts and
Iacerates, but he lacks the healing balm
the persuasiveness of Jesus. He brings
his birds down because he shoots them OF
the wing.
He is on the f1r1ng line all the time.
The local clergy will take of tn
MAIN, the blind and the halt. Amen
In his sermon Saturday night on ten
perance Mr.. Oliver told some hoIribl
things done by the demon whisky Tn
passions of the people were aroused an
the speaker was imbued with the spiri
of his sermon, for he said if necessar
he would go with gun in hand to clea
out the joints. While speaking oil
Oliver was almost frenzied-his eye
flashed fire, his countenance was rigie
his gestures quick and nervous, his Voie
without tremor but firm, once in awhI
throwing his tall form backward an
brushing his hair back over his forehea
he was a picture of anger and determii
alton. The whites of his eyes glIstent
with each bodily gesture, and were III
speakably the emphasis of the min
Had a joiRtist heard that sermon
would have trembied with fear and u
tured more curses and threats than
ordinarily does towards the temperan
orator
The writer heard John B. Goug
the great temperance orator, speak seye
al times, and while Mr.. Oliver folio
some of the same lines of thought, J
there is a aScomparison in the vigor
speech and the arousing of passion
the people.
Cough rendered his scenes of the
temperate life in tragic manner, and
conviction was complete.
~
Rev d. Mccormick appealed to
congregation for the free will Offer
Sunday, and Notwithstanding the r
prevented many people from attendi
the morning service the subscriptI
were large and liberal. Sunday aft
noon Mr.. Mccormick referred to.
sstalk'' and s'threats' which had b.
made about the meetings and the ey;
gelist. He said some things had b
published of the evangelist 1t remin'
him of the story about the coon and
skunk. The coon had trodden on
preserves of the mephitic and a g
odor rose between them; and his sku
ship highly Incensed sought to qua
with the coon; and at the skunk's adv
ces the coon backed away. Challen
for his lack of combativeness
coon said he could lick him, but she
he get into fight with the skunk
would be obliged to remain away f
home for a week. The moral, Mr..
Cormick said, would be expressed
Tom MeNeal's fables, don't get miSe'
with a skunk.
Mr.. Mccormick spoke of the h
words which had been spoken by
evangelist. Their delivery was prob
justified to the extent that they aro
the people. though they We're the m