Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-05-25
CEREMONIES
MARK CLOSE
OF REVIVAL
Evangelist BisderwOlf and
Party Leave City Today
Campaign Was Successful.
GAVE FAREWELL SERMON
LAST NIGHT

Amid touching scenes that showed
an unusual warmth of feeling, the
two weeks campaign which DR.. w.
u. Biederwolf and his able assistants
have been waging in this city, came
to close last evening. A thousand
people thronged the Auditorium.
People have come to love DR.. Bieder-
wolf and the sincerity of that senti-
ment was manifested in no uncertain
way.
In many ways the final service
was a memorable occasion. Those
who were there will not soon erase
from memory's walls the impress
sions of this concluding meeting
with the great evangelist who has SO
swayed the multitudes during his
stay in Perth Amboy. Mems hearts
were touched by the tender and
sympathetic spirit which permeated
the service, and half hundred gave
themselves to Christ before the
lights in the building were turned
out.
Good-byes were said to DIR. Bieder-
wolf and his party with pang of re-
gret that this vicinity is so soon to
lose the efficient reviyalist and his
earnest assistants.
DR.. and Mrs. Biederwolf, Miss
May Parshall and Rev Mr.. Ackley
left this morning for a one days
stay in New York Tomorrow they
will pass through here again on
their way to Atlantic City, where
they will remain for a short while
prior to disbanding for the summer.
The evangelist and his wife will
spend the summer at Winona Lake;
Mr. Ackley at his home in Hillburn,
N. Y; and Mr.. Rhodeheaver on his
farm at Akron. Col. The latter left
this morning for Philadelphia, but
will join the party in Atlantic City
tomorrow.
There will be no more meetings
this summer. Syracuse, N. Y, will,
in October, be the scene of the next
campaign. DR.. Biederwolf, during
the past year, has been in many
parts OF the country, and his efforts
have earned him much needed
rest.
Last night the evangelist was pre-
sented with a check for something
like $3.50, the amount realized by
the free will offerings He acknowf-
edged the check by short address
OF thanks He thanked In turn all
who had contributed to the support
and success of the meetings the
pastors, the press, the singers, the
ushers and their assistants and all
who had helped in any way to fur
ther the movement All of the party
in turn made short addresses, thank
ing the local church workers for the
kindness and consideration they had
been shown during their stay here.
Rev. Biederwolf's Sermon.
In part, Rev. Biederwolf's fare
well sermon was as follows:
II should like to preach a sermon
on the great need of the church. Be-
loved, II the kingdom of God does
not increase can tell you why. It
is because the church does not want
it to. The word of God tells us that
AS soon as Zion Travelled she
brought forth her children, and this
has been the experience of the
church in every age of her existence.
1t ought never to be necessary to la
Dor and plead with the church be-
fore she is ready to come up to the
help ~of Christ in saving the world.
Revival Is great word; nature
needs It; commerce needs it; poll
tics and patriotism need 1t and ! can
hardly conceive of condition of the
church in which there wouldn't be
room for at least a little of it In
religion. This is a strenuous age
and the trouble is we have allowed
the rush to steal our minds away
from God; the age Is intensely ma
terialistic, not in belief, but in prac-
tice Our mistake has been in not
..s,r h hn
selling is q holy thing, and that we
ought to- take our Christ into the
store and Office with us, that every
act of our life should be a worship
of God and every article we possess
is a means of communication with
Him. We need more prayer ana
more reading of the blessed book,
and such a conception of our reia-
tion to God would bring us to 1t; and
let man thus be in touch with God
and as surely as the Son of God was
concerned for him he will find the
burden of the world weighing down
upon his heart and be ready at a
time like this-nay, at all times-to
give himself in loving sacrifice to
help his fellowmen up to God Be-
loved, If the church of God were
true, you could not keep the world
out of it,
"And I'd like to preach a sermon
about the power of the gospel. Some
people have said that the gospel is
losing it's power to draw. Well, 1t
doesn't look very much like it this
evening, does itP Then / think a
sermon might we'll be preached
about this beautiful spirit of fellow
ship that has been manifesting itself
during all these days. have thank
ed God for 1t every day since have
been here, and shall never cease to
thank Him.
Should you like to have me give
you a little recipe for a happy life7
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