Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15

lNote-Treasurer G. Haw gives
the foregoing figures as correct.
although failure to collect some of
the pledges may make differ
ence.)
AS fitting close to the great series
of revival meetings which Evangelist
w. A. Sunday has been conducting inl
this city for the past five weeks, yes-I
terday was a day of unprecedented trly
umph for Mr. Sunday, his party. ths
ministers and business men who have
so earnestly aldea him in his work.
Fully $4,000 people were addressed nj
the services yesterday, either By Mr..
Sunday himself or by members of HIS
party who conducted the overflow
meetings and services in the afternoon
In the various churches. 1t is estimate
ed that $4,000 of this number managed
to hear Mr.. Sunday himself at ones,
of his three services. The tabernacIe
was jammed to overfowing at ali
services and thousands were then unl
able to gain entrance to either the
tabernacle or the overflow meetings,
and were turned away.
The total number Of converts fo5
the day was 455, which with the previl
GUS number makes a grand total of
3,440 to date Several hundred more
are expected to take their stand thia
evening at Mr.. Sundays farewell ada
dress and sermon
The free-will offering to Mr.. aundaH
was also creditable, amounting to tha
magnificent sum OF $7,353.77.
The Speakers Of the Day.
| In the morning at 10 o'clock Mv.
ISunday conducted a service for everv1
body at the tabernacle. In the afterl
noon three services were held. Mr.
Sunday addressed record breakina
audience of men only at the taber1
nacle at 2 o'clock In the afternoon5
At the same hour Mrs Muirhead
spoke to working girls In the First
Methodist church while Miss Miltsn
addressed the other women of the cttH
in the First Congregational church. I'M
the evening the meeting at the taberI
nable was addressed by Mr.. Sunday
while H. H. Dunlap conducted n GIL
| gantic overflow meeting in the First
Baptist church.
Afternoon Service.
Previous to the taking OF the SUBJ
scriptions for Mr. Sunday in the aftl
ernoOn Judge M. A. Roberts address,
ed the men for few minutes. Hst
emphasized the good that the evanj
! gelist had accomplished In the city,
and citing from knowledge of condi-
tons gained from years on the judicial
/ bench, he drew several appalling pic-
lures of the actual sinful conditions,
which exist in the city and which, he
asserted, would be done away with as!
a result of the upheaval caused by tho
evangelist and his work Rev Dayiesj
also made brief address along much,
/ tho same lines
4 Before entering upon the sermon IT,
the afternoon the evangelist took oc-.
4 caaion to speak of the extreme condi.
tions which he had met here in the
4 city. He stated that nowhere had ne
been so bitterly opposed by the ele-
ment against him. He also asserted
that nowhere in the history of his
i work had he been more ably and con-
i sistantly supported and aided than
u ue Hdu mere Ny tHs heHlDefS OF Lnts
i Ottumwa Ministerial association and
Il the business men and citizens who
4 had affiliated with the ministers in.
seeking the reformation Of the city.
In this connection Mr.. Sunday tooh
occasion to pay beautiful tribute to,
IT. d. Foster, and one of the most;
prominent and influential members oE
the committee backing Mr.. Sundays
work.
Il feel constrained to say just nj
word about Mr. Foster, Mr. Sunday
said, "I'ye been in this work for years 4