Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-04
TELLS OF REVIVAL
EvANGELIsTs cRossLEY AND
HUNTER BEGIN LAST WEEK
OF MEETINGS.

1.-THE Greatest Revival In the World"
Was the Subject Of Last Nights
Sermons - Welsh Chorus and Choir
viii Sing Tomorrow Night.
From Tuesdays Daily
The Worlds Greatest Revival" was
told about by ,Evangelists Crossley and
Hunter last evening at the First Meth
odist Episcopal church, where good
audience had gathered to worship with
the visiting ministers.
The meeting was opened with prayer
by the audience. after which. prayers
were offered up for those in any way
connected with the railway accident of
yesterday, and for all railroad men.
1t was announced last evening that
the Welsh chorus, together with the
choir of the church, would furnish the
music during the services tomorrow
evening Character Building" is the
subject Of tomorrow nights sermon.
A Great Revival.
Rev. Hunter took his text from the
second Chronicles, chapter Is, saying,
And the spirit Of God came upon
Azariah the son of Oded. And he went
out to meet Aza and said unto him,
Hear We me. Asa and all Judah and
Benjamin, the Lord is with you, while
We be with him. and II we seek him,
he will be found of you; but if We for
sake him. he will forsake you. Now
true God and without a teaching
for long season Isreal hath been the
priest and without law. But when
they in their trouble did turn unto the
Lord God Of Israel, and sought him,
he was found of them. And in those
times there was no peace to him that
went out, nor to him that came in,
but great veXations were upon the in
habitants of the countries. So they
gathered themselves together at Jeru-
salem in the third month Of the If
teenth year of the reign of Asa. And
they offered unto the Lord the same
time, of the spoil which they had
brought, seven hundred oxen and
seven hundred sheep
"Now my friends in this wonderful
chapter, I see many things. Here is
town of a great revival, where lots
had backsliden. Just like in Ottumwa
today there are lots who have back
sliden.
Tell me have you prayed for any
one today? Have you offered up
thanks to God for your good health, or
offered prayer for some unfortunate?
Here they had backslidden. 1t was
trouble that brought them to God. 1t
was trouble. Do you notice that many
only come to God through mountain
of difficulties There are some people
in this very city, who will not come
back to God until trouble approaches
toward them. Here 1t is. They were
without God and in trouble. The spir.
it Of God fell upon Azariah and he
commenced a great revival 1t made
them renew the altar of the Lord. Oh,
for the revival that will make people
renew the altar of the Lord.
The Spirit Of God.
"The spirit of God came upon Mar.
tin Luther, and you all know the re-
suit. The spirit of God fell upon John
Knox, and you, too, arc familiar with
his works. Oh, for John Knox today
Although he is dead, his prayers are
sung daily in Scotland. The spirit of
God came to John Wesley, George
Whitfield and see what it has done
The spirit of God fell upon Dwight L.
Moody and sent him forth to preach
the gospel. carry picture of Moody
in my bible, for in my opinion, Moody
was one of the greatest revivalists. The
spirit of God will fall upon any man
or woman in this church, who will go
forth and work for him.
The Revival Of Joshua.
Rev. Crossley spoke on the revival
of Joshua, as contained in the fifteenth
verse of the twenty-fourth chapter of
Joshua: Choose you this day who We
will serve, but as for me and my house
we will serve the Lord
eff I were to ask what was the
greatest revival in the world some
would answer the revival Of Pente,
cost. where over 5000 in one day were
converted. The greatest revival OF
the world was that Of Joshua at She.
chem, where tens of thousands and
hundreds of thousands were converted
in one day Some of you will say that
you don't think much Of revival that
is accomplished with such dispatch, but
my friends, the more extensive the
revival is, the more certain it is to re.
main in the fold. The more extensive
this revival in Ottumwa is, the more
certain we feel that those who were
converted will lead the better life
Joshua said: Choose We this day. AS
we look back and review our past life
we see that we have been serving
some one. There are only two to
serve. The one is the Lord Jesus and
the other is his Satanic Majesty. Ev
eryone is free to his own choice Which
will you take, the Lord Jesus or the
devil? Every one is free to make his
or her choice, and those who choose
the Lord Jesus will be saved. But we
should choose right away. want you
all to be Christians, professed Chris
tians, those who are not afraid to let
people know they are Christians. The
Importance of this very hour to pro
fess Christ should be realized. Which
shall it be? will be a Christian or ]
will not? Make your decision and
make it tonight. If you decide, I will,
nothing in heaven or hell can keep you