Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-26
OF ABOUT 1900 HEARS
GREAT GvANaELlsT's FIRST
SERMON OF CAMPAIGN.
BREACHES ON HOLY SPIRIT
AND FLAWS TINE CHURCH
Sunday Jumps From Doctrinal Dis
course to Present day Evils, While
Big Congregation Follows His Every
Movs-sinains Of Choir and Audi.
snes inspiring Feature Of Meeting.

The big tabernacle was three
fourths full when the Sunday morn
ing meeting, the first Of the campaign,
opened with a short song service led
Thy Mr.. Fred Fischer The choir of 300
and the audience, both separately and
together. sang "Fullness of Power"
RESCUE the Perishing,'' Battle Hymn
of the Republic" and 81 love to Tell
the Story" An orchestra Of four
pieces, and Mr.. B.. d. Aclley at the
piano, accompanied the singing.
Rev. M. N. Smith opened the service
proper with a short prayer and intro
duced AIr. Sunday, whom he described
as "the man Of the hour" and ''the
modern prophet of God.'
The noted evangelist was greeted
with hearty applause as he stepped to
the front of the platform. He said 1t
almost seemed unnecessary to be in
troduced to the people of this city, so
many of whom he used to know so
we'll.
Remembers Old Friends.
| MIR. Sunday said the first person he
thought of as he got off the train at
the union station was Colonel Bowler.
Then he named over those he remem-
bered, some Of whom are dead, some
of whom have gone away, and others
who are still here and whom he has
seen. Among those were Jim" Nc
Combs, CAP Sborthill, John Turner,
H. z. j. Boardman, Florence and Mrs.
Abel, Kinney Williams. :, Oh Blaney,
'sTim" Brown, "Joe'' Johnston, Ham"
Miller, Merry and Julius Pappe, S. G..
Mcfarland, ANDY" Wilbur, 'Ben"
Morgan, A. T. Orchard, Charley"
Lander. "Phin'' and GAP Balch, Fred
Grumme, "Gharley"e Click, sAb" Click,
"OW Binford, Archie Cox. BILLY"
Ward, "Dave' Wilbur, end deacon"
and Frank Willard He referred feel
Iingly to .Grandma" Willard, with
whom he used to board, and Of the
many changes in the city since he
had gone away.
"lt's Up to You.'
Rev. Mr.. Sunday prefaced his SER
mon with a. few. Introductory SEN
tences, and introduced those of his
party who had arrived.
ct bring you nothing new" he said,
ttbut I may put it in a new way. l
may say some things you do not like.
I don't care if you don't. If what I
preach is the truth, it's up to you; II
it is not, it's up to me-
Mrs. Sunday Thanks Two.
Immediately following the introduc-
ton of the Sunday party, the members
of which mounted the platform for that
purpose, Mrs. Sunday thanked two Local
men. A, %. and D. G.. Wilbur, the latter
of whom is now dead. "There are just
two people / want to thank" said the
evangelist's wife, lone is gone, the 9TH
err is here. They are Dave" and
"Andy' Wilbur and want to thank
them for loaning Mr.. Sunday the SIC
which took him to Chicago so l. could
get him" AS she retired the crowd ap-
plauded loudly.
Collection Amounts to $e6.15.
eve are going to take the collection
now to pay the current expenses OF
the meetings." announced Mr.. Sunday
before beginning his sermon, "and as
soon as we get the money for that We
will stop. You people have heard lot
about me being a CRATER but when
worked down here in furniture store
no one called me a CRATER" Nhe col.
lection amounted to $96.15.
Sermon on the Holy Ghost.
Sundays sermon was from the tex
found in Acts 1872, "Have We received
the holy ghost since We believed" The
evangelist spoke for forty minutes IL
his characteristic rapid fire style, Gov.
ering the entire platform in his strid.
ing. He defined the holy ghost as the
invisible power of God by which mater.
ial manifestations are wrought. He de-
parted time after time from the patti
of thought he was following to take {
whack at the chuych and its do-noth'
ing members and to day crime ant
vice and ungodifness. In each OF these
departures Sunday rssorted to his tav'
o1ite slang expressions.
Manifestation ~ Holy Ghost.
Rev. Mr.. Sundays sermon was II
part as follows:
"When Jesus was baptized in tht
river Jordan, what looked like a float
ing snow flake-a dove-the NANTES
tation of the spirit. Of God, came dow1
and alighted upon him. There have
been only two such manifestations
You can not analyze them. We cal
see the fruits, which are live, Joy
long suffering, gentleness. goodness
and faith.
"Jesus was the personality of thu
spirit of God He was born, he died ant
he was resurrected. You are person
tality."
Knowing Your Business.
Departing from the direct theme o
his subject Sunday emphasized thu
necessity Of every man knowing hi
business thoroughly. Every merchan
must know his business or go to thu
mat" he said. "He must know 1t from
! start to finish. The man who can stand
. in the marts of trade and never dill
his flag to hell has my. admiration. I
some of you Holsters know more abou
this preaching than do, come up her;
and do it,
Its my desire this morning" he con.
tinued," to give scriptural and ortho
dox delineation of the holy spirit upol
which we depend to bring hundred
upon hundreds OF men to Christ. 20
whom the hearse is now. backing up It.
take them to the grave intheir sinful
ness, You are not child of God un.
less you are a,christian.
spsaks Of Holy Ghost.
sPaul said to the hotel man a
Epheusus: who is that bunch?' Th'
hotel man replied: They belong to thu
church OF CDrfnth,s