The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-17
AUDITORIUM PACKED
 ID HEAR DR. Y0AKUM
Big Meeting at Orpheum To-
 morrow Afternoon
BLESSING" IS SUBJECT
Says He Does Not Want to Add An- other to Already Terrific List of Churches-Meeting This 
 Afternoon

Long before the hour set for Dr.
 the auditorium in the Chamber of Com
 merce building the hall wasN packed
 to the doors and only standing room
 was available when the big 1usty Call
 ifornian entered the hall to open his
 meeting.
 pr. Yoakum addressed his audience
 on the subject, "Blessing-the Blessing of God to Man" He had never heard
 1t satisfactorily defined. he said but he thought Gods promise was clear enough in Isaiah. 5Sth chapter and the | 14th chapter of Luke, 18th, 18th and | 1dth verses.
 | He had seen many instances where
 men and women had been blessed of God by being prospered in material and l spiritual ways and in bodily health
 not only of themselves but their chil- dren and children's children when they remembered the poor. When we make feast the scripture tells us plainly enough whom to invite; not our | friends or kinsmen but the poor" he said pr. Yoakum, holding up the Bible | in his hand asked Minister of the gospel, here is Gods word. What are you going to do about 1t? Freezing cold church member, what are you going to
 do about it? Christian, what are you going to do about 1t? Are we remem-
 bering the poor?"
 pr. Yoalxum had been often asked
 what was the basis of his work. He
 had started years ago without reputa- ton or bank account, nothing but fath
 in God. From correspondence received
 even the Czar of Russia was interest,"
 ed in his work and several big New
 York preachers were inquiring into it. What was the basis of work? he was
 asked. He was even asked. What was
 the basis of his church? This made him
 smile. He didn't want to add another
 church to the already terrific list of churches, sects and creeds, 720 of them. | The basis of his work was this lesson:
 Isaiah. 5Sth chapter and Luke, chapter IA. There, you've got the whole thing. 1 Our Pisgah work doesn't start from money or big head and pride No, It starts from little head and big heart
 without anything but God to look to-" l Like many other upheavals. reforms
 and resolutions, Dr. Yoakum states the birth of the Pisgah movement was un-
 attended by ceremony It sprang from | the heart of one man and one woman.
 The intent was simply a good deed to 1 one drunkard. The fulfillment is not
 yet, but in Los Angeles alone 300 sin-
 weary, homeless, friendless drunkards.
 tuberculars, cripples and erring girls
 are being fed, clothed, housed, loved
 and redeemed to join the thousands
 who have heretofore come within the
 sheltering care of the movement to live upright wholesome. healthy, | Christian lives"
 l At the close of the service the usual | invitation was issued to the sick and afflicted to present themselves for prayer and healing. But said Dr. Yoakum, mo backsliders need expect anything of God who will spew them | out of his mouth. Ye must be either hot. or cold. God will heal a sinner quick as lightning, but those " speak evil and listen to and speak
 reports and backsliders need ex nothing. Why, we are even backslid over the telephone these days" sta
 the doctor.
 l These successful meetings will cd | tinue today at D. m., lasting durino1 the afternoon. All afflicted and sick ones are invited that they may be 1 healed.
 | Tomorrow there Is to be big aft
 ernoon meeting, the Orpheum theatre
 having been specially engaged for the
 occasion, and at p. m. until D. m. Dr. Yoakum will address specially | the ladies, missionaries and ministers. At o'clock the meeting will be open | to the public and will continue for an hour or two. | In the evening Dr. Yoakum will con- clude his services in Birmingham by | his address at the Rev. J. A. Bryan's church, Third Presbyterian. Avenue G
 and Twenty-second street