Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-10-28
THOUSANDS HEARD EVANGELIST
GEORGE STUART AT HIS SER
VICES YESTERDAY - THE
SERMONS WERE FINE.
MEMS MEETING GREAT
The Largest Congregation of Men
Ever Seen Together In Pales-
tine CompIimented Evan
geIist Two Meetings
For the Ladies.

The Herald, with the amount of
space at its command, could not hope
to even summarize about the various
meetings held in this city yesterday,
in connection with the Geo. Stuart
meeting, but it believes no one will
challenge the statement that it was
the greatest day religiously the old
town has seen in many a long year. If
ever before in its history. The day
dawned murky, and low clouds hung
threateningly in the sky, but by 10
o'clock the sun came through~and the
day turned out to be an ideal one for
such a program as had been outlined
for the meeting. The people came by
the hundreds and thousands and they
came in good spirits.
The first service of the day at the
tent was a union Sunday school ser
vice, attended and participated in by
the children and teachers of the Cen
tenary and Grace Methodist churches,
and a large army of happy children
were present. Rev. Stuart did not par
ticipate in this service, but good
talk was made by Pastor Kilgore Of
the Centenary church, and the rest of
the program was interesting and en-
joyable to the children. Rev. Kilgore
made Just such talk as the children
could enjoy.
At IL o'clock Rev. Stuart preached
his first sermon for the day, and 1t
y was a good sermon. The evangelist
selected for his morning theme the
need of family organization and dis
cipline and the need of God in the
-hame He declared there was bnt one
great 4estion, national or interna-
tional, and that was the question OF
the home. He said when this question
was settled and settled right, all
other questions were settled right He
said parents need Gods help in bring
ing up their children. He drew many
said a child must be conquered, and
he recommended prayer and hickory
to get the results. He said prayer
was necessary, because no parent
should whip child in anger. He said
love could do great things in the
home, and without love little could be
haa
tiful pictures of happy homes he had
known, and every one of them was a
home in which God was honored.
But, possibly, the best meeting of
the series so far was the mems meet
ing in the afternoon at $3.50. The big
tent was full of the representative
men of the town, possibly fifteen hun
bred men being present A choir OF
a hundred male voices furnished the
music. Men we're at the pianos, with
other instruments, and with song
books made famous music under the
direction OF the leader, Mr.. Ramsay.
In fact, the ladies would not have be-
make such music. Evangelist Stuart
conducted this service, also, and
preached a great sermon to his biz
audience of men. 1t was a clean ser
mon, manly sermon to manly men,
and it fell on good ground. The sub
ject of the sermon was THE stuff
to- .-ni1
you couldn't make man unless you
had the stuff to work on. You couldn't
make man out of a coward, because
the man was not in that kind of stuff,
declared the evangelist. But he said
there were different kinds of courage.
But the courage he was talking about
was the kind that dared to do right
under all circumstances. He said
that was true moral grit He gave
many illustrations to demonstrate
this kind OF grit The evangelist also
spoke of many habits men had that
they ought not to have. He drew
some strong pictures, and concluded
MS earliest lain WIN d ohOib oPl'o'ii
TO all men to lead a better, cleaner
life. And the scene that followed his
sermon was a remarkable one. Hun
dreds of men went up and pledged
themselves to quit their old lives and
be better men. Many went forward
for prayer, and a great number con-
fessed religion and pledged their lives
TO the church and to God. The meet
ing continued until almost 6 o'clock,
and men still fingered after the bene-
diction to talk and shake the preach
er's hand again. 1t was the greatest
mems meeting ever held in Palestine.
At the same hour the mems meet