The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-11-16
REV. L. 3. WARREN HAS
NOVEL EXPERIENCE.

When the Southbound southern IA |
cific train stopped at Beaumont Tues
day afternoon it was boarded by SO
maidens and three men. The maid |
ems were members of the Nordland |
company, one of the men were their
manager and the other two were
Rev. L. B. Warren, pastor OF the
First Baptist church at Beaumont,
and Dr. NJ F. Ham, evangelist. The
two last named had just closed a re-
yival at Beaumont.
The troupe manager looked like
male naturalization of the old wo-
man who lived in a shoe, surrounded
by a bevy of beauties, 80 in number.
He buttonholed the conductor and
asked for a special car but the man
i'm blue coat and brass buttons side |
stepped and the maids of Nordland |
vert into the regular chair car. Int
the meantime Pastor Warren had
wormed his way blushingly through |
the ranks of the chorus ladies and
had with the disjecta membra OF his
baggage engaged seats for himself |
and the evangelist. Thirty-nine SOU
brettes and two lone preachers were |
the sole occupants Of the coach. The
evangelist and the pastor sat side by |
side.
The pastor was next the window |
- he ~ Of ha
landscape, while the attention of the
evangelist was attracted to the liss-
some loneliness of blonde across the
aisle. He saw her big blue eyes grow
misty with unshed tears and the
drops welled up and came in rivulets
down her peach blown cheeks. In
n moment the evangelist's hand was
I'm his pocket. He drew out one of
Torrey's Vest Pocket Companions for
Christian Workers. Opening it at the
section where passages of scripture
for the comfort of those in sorrow
were collected, he marked some pas
sages with his pencil and leaning
across the aisle handed her the book.
The young girl thanked him and her
tears ceased to flow as she commenc-
ed TO read. Soon sunshine chased all
clouds from her brow and rising she
went from group to group up and
down the car showing the book and
reading the passages that had cheer
ed her heart. Soon girl after girl
came to the preachers and asked for
books until the supply from both va
Uses were exhausted and even then
one young woman gave her name to
the pastor, asking that he forward
her book care Of her company play
ing tonight in San Antonio.
IL was a strange scene there in
the coach. In one section four girls
were playing cards on a suit case, in
another one girl was reading aloud
q story from Smart Set" while
across the aisle third was, coming
the pages of Bernard Shaw's Man
and Superman in it's stage form
while between the card players and
the story book reader group of girls
were sitting with heads bent over
the word of God weeping in memory
of the scenes of childhood called to
mind by many words they had not
read in years.
Evangelist Ham aid Mr.. Warren
passed through Houston last even
ing en- route to the state Baptist con-
vention at Waco. In a few days Mr..
Ham will return to open up revival
here under the auspices of the eight
Baptist churches of this city Mr..
Warren leaves in few days to ac-
cept big pulpit in Chicago. The two
have just closed big meeting in
Beaumont where hundreds united
with the various churches and for a !
period of two weeks the Baptist
church was not closed and was not |
without worshippers at any hour of
the day or night.
While in the city Mr.. Ham met DIR.
w. s. Jacobs, Of the First Presbyter-
ian church, who cordially rendered |
the use Of his church for the revival |
and the cordial and mutual hope was |
expressed that the revival might |
leap UNCONVENTIONAL lines and be
taken up by all the churches in the
city,-Houston (Tex) Chronicle.