The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-29
AT The
TABERNACLE
c-E:>-lNe ROOM WAS AT A PREM
jIN SUNDAY NtcGT.
And the Large Audience Gave Remark
ably Close Attention to the Preach
ing Of the Gospel.

Rev. George Gates, the Louisville
evangelist, reached Columbia Satur-
day evening and went to work. The
promptness with which he went to
work was something startling to the
local brethren, who had thought that
Mr.. Gates, who had just come from a
long, hard meeting, would rest up for
the night at least. But he did not; he
had hardly hit the town before he
called the pastors and a few laymen to-
gether, and held council of war, as
he called it, against the enemy. The
council lasted from eighth until after
IL o'clock, and the plan of the seige
and attack was thoroughly gone over,
and, we feel justified in saying, will
be thoroughly carried out, and will be
hard to resist.
Mr.. Gates is young man yet; and
it does not require any student of hui
man nature long to decide that he is
a man of strong and winning person
ality. He is virile and high strung.
He shows his acknowledgements
blood. He has the rash impetuosity of
a high bred Kentuckian, with Tennes-
see lineage, who has gone right. He
has the fire in his eye, the strong
mouth and the big jaw bone on either
cheek, which says almost as plain as
words can speak, Il am, in one sense,
a Daniel Boone kind of man; when
I'm sure I'm right ! go ahead, and the
Devil himself can't stop me"
Mr.. Gates conducted two services
at the Tabernacle Sunday. At the af-
ternoon service there was fairly
good attendance The cream OF the
christian citizenship of the town, Mr..
Gates said, and fine attendance after
making allowance for all the lazy peo-
pie who sometimes thought they were
christians, but preferred to sleep on
warm Sunday afternoon, rather than
to go to the house of God and wait for
His blessing At the first service he
never expected to find present the
bush Baptists," or the lilly Metho
dists," or the Peter Presbyterians.
Bush Baptists," he said we're those
who moved in from the country ant
left their membership where they
came from. And lilly Methodists'
! were those who toll not, neither de
they spin" And Peter Presbyter
+ ians," he said, were those who "fol
. lowed afar off"
/. Mr.. Gates took for his text the ques
ton Peter asked Cornelius; Acts 10
!, 90; Il ask therefore for what inten
We have sent for me?" He wanted Il
0 know with what intent the pastors ant
:, their colaborers had sent for him
:, Is It. he asked, to amuse the crowd
merely to entertain or please then
and send them away laughing or feel
ing good? II that is what you want
you have the wrong man. Have yo'
sent for me to enlarge your churcl
. membership with men and womel
who have signed some sort Of card
i expressing some sort Of feeble dc
Q sire to unite themselves with tn
4 church, without ever having confess
) ed their sins, and asked God to for
r give them, and surrendering all Il
O HIM II that is what you want, turn
i ing to the pastors) you have sent 10
v the wrong man. Have you sent 70
d me, under Gods direction, and wit
!. the help Of these faithful pastors an
O their faithful co-laborers, TO storm tn
q citadel Of sin in Columbia, and +
bring 10 this town down pour o. oil
time re.ilion: a Holy Ghost Teviya
\ where sinners viii be born again, an
n regenerat ed by the blood Of the Lamb
. If that is what yon want, then ] az
n glad. If that is what you have sen
n for me for, then pray for me and pra
n with me, and pray altogether, and al
n the devils in he'll cannot thwart God
= will to bless this people with an oil
\ time penticogt. He did not believe
\ he said in men fooling themselves
i luEs COuIN uDL AODi bOus tBSlG 40 IA
D salvation without repentance, comics
. sion and regeneration, and he did no
D want any penitent at this altar t
. think that he could be saved in an
. other way save By faith and througl
n the atoning blood Of Christ.
n Mr. Gates made strong impression
, upon his hearers, and at the conclu
= sion of the service, without any spe
: cisl invitation being extended, larg
. number Of the congregation went for
. ward to meet him, to shake his ham
. and to pledge him their prayers an
. support during this effort for the bet
\ terment Of Columbia and the glory 0
. God
\ At night Mr.. Gates spoke Of the dut
n and responsibility Of one man to an
q other God expected every man TO d
. his duty 10 his brother man. Ever