The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-08
Evangelist Lockhart Spoke to Big
Crowd Last Evening at the
Special Meetings in First
Christian Church
$ THERE A HE'LL?
Now That the North Pole Has Been
Discovered, People Would Like
to Know About the
Other Place.
Communicated

lCOmmun1cated.1
Mr.. w. F. Limit, singing evangelist.
and Mr.. Hughes opened with a duet
on Eternity is Near most dramatic
service. The duet was well received
and the congregational singing was
beyond comparison. Limit is different
from all other singers. He sings with
his voice, his body and every part OF
his personality. The music fairly
drips off his finger tips. 1t is an in
spiration to even watch the man work.
Evangelist VIM. ]. Lockhart chose
for his theme last night the dramatic
incident of the feast of Be!shazzer,
"Thour art weighed in the balance and
found wanting" was the text and so
forcibly was the sermon that three
fourths of the audience stood for
prayer as the evangelist prayed God
for forgiveness for the many light
weights in the church.
Such a scathing denunciation of sin
is not often heard but SO tender was
the appeal of the preacher that tears
were often in the eyes of many He
took up different ones of the ten COM
mandments and emphasized Jesus
Christ's Interpretation of them Idol
try, murder, theft, adultery, when de-
fined as Jesus defines them, were
found the most common Of sins. None
could listen to the dramatic picture
without realizing the awful sinfulness
! of sin.
| Evangelist Lockhart and Limit re-
Gently closed meeting at Lockhart,
Texas, and we clip the following edi.
torial from the Register of that city:
| What is going on at the Christian
church? Go there and see. Step in.
side the capacious auditorium any
/ night and you will see 1t filed, nay
| packed, and the lecture room like
wise. with the open windows and
doors hanging full of people anxious
to lose no word of song or sermon.
/ And all the people of all churches,
and no churches say, that LIMIT is the
greatest song leader and has the
greatest chorus ever seen in our city.
/ The music rolls out like a mighty
tidal wave and the whole town has to
! stay awake to listen.
After the songs and prayers in the
preliminary service are over, a small
1 sized, dark-haired and dark-complex-
/ ioned man steps out and begins to
preach and seems not to have one
! moment to waste, so intense is his
manner, so rapid his utterance He
catches UP the audience and holds 1t
! tight-gripped in sympathy and atten-
/ ton till almost every heart is attuned
to the speakers will. Mr.. Lockhart
is certainly powerful speaker and
he does not ignore any vital element
of human nature but drives straight
at heart and brain with logic, reason,
common sense and with the Bible. He
flays sin and sinners whether In the
church or out of it. The society de.
voice to whom cards and balls are
all in all, and to whom poodle dogs
are better than babies, receives caus-
tic treatment, as does the red-handed
murderer of the unborn child. Vice
and uncleanness of all sorts are
severely castigated, the sot and the
"cusser" and the church hypocrite
are all tossed in the blanket together
Any man or woman who is practicing
anything they are ashamed of, are
made to scringe at the fiery lambast
ing given to all meanness, public and
private Such plain talk has not
often been heard here.
There have been conversions every
night during the meeting and 1t bids
fair to make record for revival
work in this part of the country,