Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-04-22
After the ReUiUaI
What:2

Albuquerque has been -ngularly
favored by the presence of many dis
| tinguished visitors Among recent
ones was Mr. q. r. Barrett
MI Barrett Is NOT a minister Of the
gospel Ia the technical sense, but
for three weeks aud half he minis
tered faithfully to those who waited
on his ministry OF evangelism As
/ he said, he preached every kind Of
sermon ia try and meet the needs Of
/ all kinds Of people ana he succeeded
\ in reaching many While there Will
I be many vino viii recall this series
/ Of meetings as one in which their
| faith was strengthened and their
/ hope In Christ confirmed, and many
others who viii remember ID as the
| Happy day when they fixed their
I choice and when Christ became to
{ them a living presence, a strong and
comforting friend and these things
are of much more than passing inter
terest TO many a home and many a
heart--yet these meetings mean more
than even these things to Albuquer-
que
The people Of this great and grow
ing city are under lasting obligations
h. lne Albuquerque Ministerial assoc
citation for inviting Mr. Barrett to
come to US.
Some, who went only occasionally,
did not perhaps, have a fair chance
to Judge him as those who attended
all or nearly all of his meetings His
style was varied, but his purpose was
one and only one, He seemed in
tensely Interested that those who
named the name Of christ should de-
part from all iniquity and that all
who had not taken on the name Of
Christian should do so, and that I'M
mediatelE ana that all should realize |
that the coming to and remaining |
With christ IS the one great business
Of life
The moral tone Of the whole city |
has been improved, Even those who |
did not attend the meetings must
have felt the rise In the spiritual Their |
mumeter Then the pleasant inter- |
tons under such favorable conditions |
for discovering that we are ALI one !
in Christ Jesus dld much to pro- |
mote community interest ANA brother |
Illness for which Albuquerque may be |
said to be already noted
How may we as a people retain the |
effects Of this series Of /
revival meetings? Well they ought /
not to be dropped cut as simply a |
new thrill, but dwell upon, talked
over, not "cussed,' but discussed. We
should remember his fierce, yet scrip
urul dcuunciatiOn of evil in all its
forms, his even more awful arralgn-
meut Of the effort to be a world
ling" and It follower of Christ ut one
and the same time, his fearless por-
,ruyal Of the dread condition of the
finally lost, his vivid yet tender pie
Lure Of the GOOD shepherd" seeking
and finding and caring for the lost
sheep, his simple yet searching expo
sitiou OF GODS word and his SPLEEN
did example of not sparing himself
IN amy way but tlrelessR laborng %
SHOW himself a Workman that neetf@
eth not to be ashamed. rightly divid-
ug the word Of truth
some may not be constrained to
define rightly just as Mr. Barrett
lid, but mtil those who wait on our
are more Chrls,like, more
devoted to the good of others, and
more Interested in the spread of
thrlst's kingdom than he Is, we may
10 wen to "be swift to hear and slow
o speak,
While the people Of Albuquerque
nay do well to remember Mr.. Barrett
Ind his themes, they win DO better to
dllOW the example of some people of
,ld Of whom 1t is said they We're
more noble than others, in that they
eceived the word with all readiness
# mind. and searched the scriptures
tally, whether these things We're so