The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-25
A DRUNKARD ON EACH ARM.
Good Women Embrace Fallen Sisters
 The Dawson Type of Revival

nectady more than two hundred minis ters of all Protestant denominations from the towns round about met in that town last week ill an interdenoml- national conference. In tne afternoon the visiting ministers formed part of a large audience, which was addressed by the Rev. pr. Dawson, who described his methods of work at the Highbury Quadrant church of London, and told how their success led to his present 1 special missions as a revivalist in the l United States. Here is a very striking extract from his address:
 T was invited to read a paper at 1 the Free church council, held that year In England's city of pleasure, Brighton. At that council the subject of how to reach the Man on the Street, as We l English call it, came up for discussion, and the suggestion was made then and, there to grapple with the problem. Ac- cordingly torchllght parade through the city was organized.
 l Headed by band and by several of England's most prominent ministers, the procession started. In its ranks marched several hundred Christians, lawyers, doctors, college professors, ] bankers, large employers of labor and others equally prominent. Saloons were visited. Hymns were sung while we marched, and by the time we got back to the Great Dome, as the place of meeting was called, fully two thou sand were in the ranks. Passing into the building the throng crowded the ! hoT m gEO E,o oi1 1lh \ sim T1If Gospel service was held, with an after meeting-or inquiry meeting, as we call it. About seven hundred stayed for this meeting, filling, crowding, all the rooms back of the stage. As l passed into one of the inquiry rooms l saw at a glance what was lacking in my Lon- don church work. The first person I saw was my daughter on her knees, with her arms round the neck of a fal- len woman, trying to lead that soul to Christ. I saw, I realized, that as Christs minister, as Christ's ambassa- dor. had not been bringing people as near to Christ, nor Christ as near to them, as He would have me do.
 1 Returning to London l startled my congregation with the proposition, and 1 though some shook their heads in dis l approval, many more approved, and that most heartily. Our regular week. ly prayer meeting, which had been | barely kept alive for years by half a | dozen respectable White-haired old gentlemen, became a prayer meeting in fact as we'll as in name. Hundreds of our usual fifteen or twenty hundred I rA, .lNo
 meeting. Men prominent in London's s wealthy circles stood up and prayed. Women, society leaders who had never opened their lips in public before, arose and led in. prayer. Young men whose only aim in life had been frivoHty, publicly confessed and cried for par don. Week after week this went on in ever increasing force.
 "rhen proposed night parade and saloon visitation. One November night, in g. drizzling rain, fully one through a mile and a half of London s busy streets. Not word of incivilfty in any of the many saloons we visited
 asking the inmates to join our ranks and come to our meeting. Men and women, many women, we marched
 through that dri2zling rain, headed by l two Salvation Army bands, till our procession was almost as long as our 1 route. It was then l saw my respeCta- ble white-haired old gentleman coming tout of saloons. as also I did myself
 with a drunkard on each arm. Then I saw the good women of my church
 walking arm in arm with their fallen sisters to the meeting.
 And what meeting! Seven hum dred men, all under the influence of drink, sitting together in the body of the church. Sing, you say? They did Ising. I never heard so grand a volume
 of sound. They sang Rescue the Per-
 ishing' and understood every word they sang. Keeping at it they sang them 1 selves sober with the dear old Gospel songs. Then the inquiry meeting till
 long after midnight. Names and ad-
 dresses were taken. Later I received
 some into my church, as also did sur
 rounding churches, but our aim was not
 so much to make church members of these outsiders, as I call them, as to make them better husbands and better
 wives, better mothers and better fath- CTS, better sons and better daughters
 and we succeeded, just as similar work
 for Christ here and everywhere always will succeed.
 "Our work among the fallen women was to get them into homes as ser
 wants, or into refugees, or some places
 where they would be cared for by
 Christian women, and built up in bod
 fly health as 8 necessary prelude to building them up in spiritual health.
 Here must pay just tribute to what
 consider the two most noble and most practical agencies for good among us.
 I refer to the Salvation Army and the sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic
 church. Never once were my daugh-
 ters, whose work was entirely among
 fallen women, or myself, refused when we took an unfortunate to one of their
 refuges to be cared for. The dear sis ters would say: We are so sorry, our
 house is so full; we are sleeping on
 the floor ourselves, but-bring her in,
 bring her in.' And so it was with the
 Salvation Army-always ready. al"
 ways willing. ."--New York Sun.
 | lRAvAGEs OF SOME GREAT FANE- INES