Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-19
OLD FASHIONED
REVIVAL BEGUN
TROTTER MAKES IMPASSI0NED
APPEAL
Is Assisted by Rev. Or. Mcintyre,
Who Is Eloquent In His
Pleading for
Souls

Standing side by side with the rescue
| mission workers last night in the First
| Methodist church, seeking to lead souls
! to their Creator was the eloquent, pop
ular and honored DR.. Mcintyre. quite
! unlike the lecturer, who is known the
| continent over as one of the most elo-
qucnt speakers i'm Methodism, Dr. Nc
Intyre was IA good old-fashoned Meth
odlst minister beating time to the
tunes on his hymnbook and leading men
| to the altar. Standing by the altar in
the prayer service that followed the
opening of the series of evangelistic
meetings by Melvne E. Trotter, his
white hair glistening in the electric
! light, DR.. Mcintyre met every man and
woman that went forward with a
hearty God bless you" and n hand
shake.
| A regular old-fashionod Methodist re-
vival, the evangelistic meetings opened
last night promise to prove great
success. The Sunday school room,
with its gallery and all the class rooms
were crowded by interested people, and
tonight and during the week services
will be held in the main auditorium of
the church.
Trotter breaches
Will f.. Trotter, superintendent of the
rescue mission, opened the service with
short song service and then his
brother, Melvine e. Trotter, superin-
| tendent of the largest rescue mission
| in the world, gave an address to the
congregation such as probably they had
never heard before, for It's earnestness,
originality and practical experience.
81 am going to tell you what 1 think"
said the speaker, "for you Christians
can stand anything and those of you
who are not should become Christians.
l believe this book from cover to cover,
and they couldn't get enough on the
| inside, so they put some on the out
side-see those words, Holy Bible?
When you speak of holiness you imme-
diately think of Dowie and sanctif-
cation scares you and you look for
sanctfied holy crank.
"The gift of the brazen serpent was
God-given gift, but the Israelites took
it and worshiped it and God left them.
We today worship his gifts and he will
leave us. This children of Israel bowed
down to the serpent for 700 years, until
they were idol worshipers. and there
are a lot of people here in Los Angeles
that worship Gods gifts today. We are
going to get back to the old book and
worship God instead of theology. You
should not be less loyal to your church,
but more loyal to Cod
Some Live in the Past
"There are some people who are liv-
ing in the past. Things are just the
same today-why its you, knocking In
stead of boosting.
"A girl that would take a man away
| from God is counterfeit brass. You
can't keep q man in swaddling clothes.
Put pants on him, he will look bet
| ter.
Another thing, if you have vest
| pocketbook for personal Christian
| rr,,- &n
| the baby. 1t will be good for 1t to cut
it's teeth on the covers. Don't go by
any set program in saving souls. Why,
do you know, one time in our mission
a new convert got up to do little
personal work. He strode down the
aisle to where a lawyer sat and asked
| him If he wanted to go to heaven and
receiving an answer in the negative,
said Well then, go to hell Now I
thought he had spoiled it all. but the
next day that lawyer came back and
was saved; that little plain talk had
done him more good than all our i'm
passioned appeals.
Objects to Dancing
"If you serve God you can't dance.
God has a way of hitting the same
spot often-that's the way Fitzsim-
mons won the championship, by hit
ting in the same spot. Do you know,
friends, there are 100000 women in
houses of i'll fame over $4,000 enter
each year and over eighty out of every
| 100 come from the dance halls, and
they go to the dance halls from the
little. quiet home dances.
Some say, Well, I guess I am go
ing to the theater If / want to- Well,
that is the way, beginning by letting
down on the little things. One time a
woman asked me why l don't dance
any more-I used to- I asked her why
she didn't play with doll babies now,
and she said she had outgrown that
So had l outgrown dancing.
Say, If I was a homely old maid I
would go and get religion, it is a fine
way to get married. Another thing L
want to say for religion is that since
was converted l have never been
broke. l have been pretty badly bent,
but never broke"
Following the address of Mr.. Trot-
ter DR.. Mcintyre came forward and
gave an impassioned appeal, as man to
man, for the congregation to join in
prayer. An old-fashioned altar service
was held and many went forward al
large number of men asking for pray
ers.