The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-17
Aft Allen and w. X. Ray Had Busy
Sunday Of 1t, ard Successful
Week Closes
Today.
TAKING THE KELLEY"
Shop Meetings Have Helped Many
Men and Yesterday Afternoon
at Y. M. C. A. Was
Best Meeting.

One of the most successful weeks
of evangelistic services that has
ever been conducted in this city, clos.
ed today at noon when ALI Allen, the
reformed pugilist and W. K. Ray, the
down and out drunk of a year ago,
held shop meeting at the noon hour.
Both of these men who have en-
tered active christian life from the
lowest paths that have ever been
travelled by men and from a seas
board walk that was gilded. are salts
fed that they have accomplished
much and the directors and workers
of the Y. M. c. A. are gratified tina.
the evangelists have come.
Both Messrs. Allen and Raw left
this afternoon at two o'clock for the
north and Chicago
A Busy Day.
Yesterday was a busy day for both
men. In the morning Mr.. Allen spoke
at the United Presbyterian church,
in the afternoon the auditorium at the
Y. M. c. A. was filed with those who
heard his stirring address From
Prize Ring to Pulpit" In the even
ing ALT Allen spoke at the Christian
church to a large audience and W.
K. Ray spoke at the First Congrega.
tional church.
Shop meetings have been conduct
ed during the past week, in number
of the manufacturing plants of the
city. Straight evangelistic work is the
usual method pursued by Allen, the
former prize fighter, but in coming
here he has branched out from that
pulpit method and in doing so per-
suaded many men of the coming of
Christ and the value of taking the
right road instead of the sinful.
w. X. Ray, Kelley "Cured."
The story of w. K. Ray is one of
interest to every man who has been
having fight with drink Ray still
shows traces in his countenance of
the battle he had. In the third" per-
son he tells his story and recounted
it several times to his auditors which
here and in concise form is given be-
low:
He said: LET me give you an ex-
ample of how it works upon the un-
regenerate life, which is still more
marvellous. A young life insurance
man had become SO dissipated with
drink that his friends had lost nearly
all hope of saving him from a drunk
ards grave. He had taken the Kelley
Cure but in his moral and physical
weakness he had fallen again and
again. A missionary pastor got after
him and endeavored to lead him to
a vision of his opportunities as a
child of God, and to realize the power
of the gospel to transform his unre
generate body He was induced to
go for few weeks to sanitarium,
and while there heard and saw,
through course of illustrated lee
lures, the conditions of his fellow
men who were enduring a miserable
existence In heather lands. After he
had trampled under foot all the kind
nesses of his friends and those who
had his interests most deeply at
heart, he, like that Prodigal told of
in the parable of our Lord. heard the
voice of God calling him back to his
Fathers service, and "came to him
self He surrendered himself to the
Great Commission, and God wonder
fully cleansed his body and made him
over in the likeness of Christ I'M
mediately he began to labor for the
salvation of those about him. and in
less than two months was speaking in
churches of various denominations and
frequently was called to fill pulpits.
He gave up his former occupation of
selling insurance, and entered the
employ of large mercantile estab
lishment at small salary, where he
felt that he could better serve the
Lord and avoid temptation, although
no man ever endured greater tempta-
lions than came to him day by day
even while employed there. Soon
after his conversion he joined the
church and within six months was
elected an elder Today he is Give
WIRE in the church and community
and incidentally is giving every pos
sible moment of his time to rescue
missions and personal work for the
salvation of others, and the extension
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