The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-12-07
ABE MULkEY
RAISED FUNDS
NEARLY $4,000 DONATED FOR
CHURCH PURPOSES.
Revival Meeting Ended
Sunday Night-Three Notable Ser
mons During Last Day, of the
EvangeIist's 54Sth Meeting.

At the Methodist church Sunday
night Abe Mulkey closed his very
successful series of revival meetings
with a spirited talk to crowded
house and then, in little over half
an hour, succeeded in raising for
the church $I,S92.00 in donations
ranging from $100 to $500. This
sum with $1,000 given by the
Church Extension Society will dis
charge all present Indebtedness of
the congregation.
In addition to this, announcement
was made at the wOman's meeting
in the afternoon that $500 had been
pledged by the Ladies' Home Mis-
sion Society toward the erection of a
parsonage. The society has divided
itself into eight small circles, each
of which will raise S1OO. With $500
given for this purpose by the
Church Extension Society, and a few
hundreds on hand, $1,000 resi-
dence for the pastor will be put up
on the corner of Washington and
10th streets, adjoining the church.
Work on this will begin Immediately
AS free will offering from the
members of the church, S105 was
presented to Mr.. Mulkey in token
of appreciation for his work during
the past ten days.
On Sunday morning, the evangel-
lists lecture to men only was heard
by large number His vigorous
and timely exhortation to them to
lead better, purer and nobler lives
will doubtless aid many of those who
heard to lift themselves upon
higher plane and live with the fear
of God in their hearts.
Sunday afternoon, Mr.. Mulkey
gave one of his characteristic ad-
dresses for the express benefit of
the women of Brownsville. In
hOmely phrasing, aptly Illustrating
his points with stories from his own
| observation and experience, he
strOve to set higher ideals before
them The choice of a husband was
one subject upO (which he dwelt at
length. He held up to criticism the
woman who was ready to marry any
man whom she CHANGED to fancy.
without knowing anything of his
character
The farewell sermon of Mr.. Null
key in Brownsville was entitled:
''The Last Call of Mercy" The text
was He that stiffenth his neck and
is often reproved, is cut off sudden
ly and that without remedy"
The speaker likened the church to
Noah'S Ark by means of which man
and the animal kingdom were saved
church, he said, mankind can not
be saved
The evangelist painted vivid pic
ture of the great JohRsttowfr- ffffooG
f1eseribing> the frantic ride down the
valley and through the doomed town
of the man who had discovered the
break in the dam and FASTENED to
warn the people in the path of the
tremendous wave of water, seventy
five feet high. that was rushing down
the valley behind him Many ieered
and laughed at him, and the police
tried to arrest him for lunatic, but
the majority paid no attention
whatever to his cries of warning.
Some few heard and believed. They
were saved This, Mr. Mulkey said,
is but an example of what is happen
ing every day to each living person.
In divers ways, the warning is be-
ing given by the church of the on
rushing tide of destruction, only to
be sneered at and disregarded by
many who, little later, are cut off
suddenly and without remedy.
Mr.. Mulkey gave some interesting
and pertinent examples of cases in
his own experience of men and wo-
men who had Paid no attention to
plain calls to repentance and had
persisted miserably shortly after.
ward
Just as constituted authority now
an dthen, for sufficient reasons. es-
tablishes dead line. which no man
may cross without permission, and