The San Francisco call., 1905-01-08
NEWS OF The COUNTY OF ALAMEDA o
MUCH GOOD WILL COME OF REVIVAL
for Receiving Evangeists at the
Great Rally to Take Place Next March.

OAKLAND, Jan. 7.-Preparations for
the great evangelistic rally, which is
to be held in this city next March, are
being rapidly completed and the com-
mittees in charge of the arrangements
details of the prospective meetings,
which are to be held simultaneously
in different parts of the city.
The evangelists who are to conduct
the services in Oakland are now in
Denver, Colorado, where they will hold
services until January %. From there
they will go to Los Angeles, where
meetings will be held until February
II. AT the close of the Los Angeles
rally they will come to this city. The
services will begin on March and
will continue for two weeks.
Reports from Eastern cities where
the evangelists have conducted ser
vices tell of the great success of their
work. In Binghamton, N. Y, 1000 were
converted during the meetings and at
Colorado Springs, at the closing meet
ing, 500 people signified their intention
of leading a Christian life. More than
two hundred of the merchants of Col
orado Springs closed their stores on
the Thursday before Christmas that
their employees might have an oppor-
tunlty to hear the eyangeliSts.
The committee in charge of the mu-
sic for the revival is now completing
the organization of four great choruses,
and the rehearsals of these choruses
will begin in a short time.
The arrangements for the meetings in
the districts of the city will be directed
by three sets of committees. as fol-
lows: Central district, Rev. Charles r.
Brown president, Rev. H. J. Vosburgh
vice president; East Oakland district,
Rev. Owen Hottie president, Rev. Rob-
ert Whitaker vice president; West Oak
land district Rev. j. c. Bolster presi-
dent. H. f. Burgess vice president.
There will be a meeting of the gen.
eral committee which has supervision
of the campaign on next Monday even
ing in the First Presbyterian Church,
at which time it is expected that it will
be definitely decided what evangelists
will be assigned to each district. The
officers of the general committee are:
President, Rev. z. E. Baker; vice pres
ident, Rev. E. r. Ollie; secretary, s. P.
Meads; treasurer, s. M. Dodge; press
committee, Earl S. Bingham, H. B.
Mowbray and l. N. Halliday: music
committee, DR.. O...S. Dean, w. B. Rag
land and DIR. Ray E. Gibson; finance
committee, E. S. Finch, 8. NJ. Dodge,
Irwin Ayres. J. H. Stevens and c. E.
Cornell. There are also twenty-five
other members, one pastor and one lay
man representing each of the eleven
denominations.
Carl S. Bingham, the chairman of
the press committee in discussing the
coming revival, said:
"Evangelistic movements have been
successes or failures in proportion to
the interest taken by the Christians of
the community in which they have
been held. The Oakland church mem
bers have reason to look forward with
confidence to the great meetings to be
held in March, when four of the most
noted evangelists of the country are
to conduct services for two weeks, II
the large attendance at the week of
prayer services Is to be taken as any
significance of the interest taken in
the evangelistic campaign"