The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
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ScOyille EVangelistic Meetings
Draw Large Crowds.
Fifty-Two Converts Credited to
Sunday Meeting.

With record of total attendance
for the day of seven thousand and
fifty-two converts the Sunday sessions
of the great Scoville revival meeting
We're adjudged a success. In the morn
ing the Christian churches of the city
held union service at the Auditorium
and at night many persons from the
various denominations of the city as
well nonchurch members were pres
ent to hear DIR. Charles Reign ScovilIe.
whose fame as revivalist preceded
him, standing room being almost at a
premium.
The meeting Sunday night was
heralded by the band of Shawnee camp
| No. $500 of the Modern Woodmen which
| played on Kansas avenue. Later the
| band played at the Auditorium
The song service was an enthusiastic
one w. p. Rockwell varied the pro-
cedure by asking the men to whistle
| the air and the women to hum it the
| same time The large chorus on the
platform helped out materially in the
were greatly appreciated as were the
duets by Mr. and Mrs w. P Rock
well.
| Dr. Scoville took his text from the
| fourteenth chapter of Matthew. He
| told graphically the story of the be-
heading of John the Baptist. when
a bad woman gets after a man. he
declared, chat man had better make
| for the tall timber. Women are
| schemers, God bless them. They are
good folks though-they are blessings.
''Ffguratively I can see John the
Baptist as he pointed out Herod's com
panion and told him that the woman
angry flush that must have come over
that woman's cheek and the murder
Gus look she darted at him. At that
very moment she resolved to revenge
| herself and you know how she did it.
For a wonder she kept things to
men knew anything about her plans.
Herod was going to entertain and
probably every one of them were
awaiting with expectancy an invita-
| ton. The day of the party came and
there was much wine drinking. The
orchestra was not like the one we have
here with us this evening. The more
wine the members drank the faster
the music became.
"Then came Salone the dancing girl.
Herod was on fire with the wine that
he had consumed, and finally he made
his offer of the gift of half his king
dom. The plan of the woman was
| bearing fruit. Give me the head Of
John the Baptist she cried. l can
picture Herod's big red face turning
white. but the drunken Herod yielded
to the wish.
JOhn me nSdu CoiliS JILL
Did the girl want it? No. She took it
to her mother and all the guests at the
party possibly remarked, oh, l see
and understood the cause of the great
entertainment.
81 pity the dancing damsel, the
drunken king and the wicked woman.
have never said a mean thing about
man that drinks. I've seen some
mighty mean things about the saloon.
but not the safoonk epper-save the
man.
81 tell the people that the only OBJ
lection I have to the American bedbug
is the way he gets his living l would
say it was a, nice bug If it got its Nv
inc in some other way
'sIf I had one MESA ge for the preach
ers of today I would say don't come
before your people with a subject but
with an object. The great big wicked,
aching, stingy, wicked world wants the
ministers to tell of the world as it is.
Nov you get this: The Bible viii
keen YOU away from sin or sin will
keep you away from the Bible. Thar
man down inside that sees and thinks
is the one that Christ gave his life for
Saturday night DR.. Scoville talked on
the value of prayer, but he said that
PRAYER is not sufficient in the Chris
tian life. 81 am a great believer IN
nraver., said he. Jesus prayed all
n s,f1t before he delivered that great
sermon on the Mount. Prayer succeeds
-,-I,c,o ox,arx,+I,ino else fails"