The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-03-14
REVIEW OF lJN|ON.EVAnGEl|ST|G.
MEETINGS C0NDUCTEDBY

so hopeful. Our people are begin
ming to see thai we must have IL
larger building, and want you to
pray with me- that the Lord will
bring that about for his glory. Ours
is the only Methodist Church be-
tween. Elk: River and Morris street,
and here are a great multitude Of
people, possibly ten thousand people,
and a ssSft many of them are Meth
odists, or! prefet the Methodist de-
1omiratiQn, and our church only has
seating capacity Of about five hun
dred. At Sunday school, last Sum
LAY morning l had thirty-seven me-.
in my Bible class. There were two
hundred and sixty-seveu in Sunday
school, and the church was taxed at
the morning service TO it's utmost
capacity to seat the people. Our
people see vision tlow of what God
wants us to do for his glory as we
mover seen it heretofore Within the
last six months We have had 125 ad-
1itions to, the Church, sc during This
campaign, and there are 40 Or so
more who say they want to unite
|
think, a small part of what will be-
| done.
so far as what has taken place
here at might is concerned, SO much
of the time i was so busy trying tu
lead some soul to Christ that | hard
| ~ had time to sec what was taking
place Some of che scenes here nave
been almost Undesirable When in
! the presence Of lIcw born souls the
| Penteccstal power Of God wound fail
upon the people and hundreds would
be made to rejoice in his saving
| grace.
THE best thing possibly l havo
not mentioned, and it is this, that
Brother Gates has taught. SO many
people how TO bring souls to Christ.
Heretofore IN Charleston on this
side Of the river (I,do not know. how
tit is on Brother Binford's side}
church work had largely gotten to
be thing Of form, church suppers,
and serving suppers and looking af-
ter the tables Of the church, and
thore was no tine for winning souls
to Christ. However, 1 think that q
! great army Of workers. have been
trained il this meeting who will con
tinue to do this work after Brother
Gates is gone from us, and that their
lives will mean much for Gods
glory"
Rev. l.. G. johnson.
DR.. T. c. johnson, Pastor of the
} Baptist Temple, says: .-...--.......-.. ..
1T is hard to recount all the
blessings that We have obtained III
? these services. Like Brother Webb
, the first'tinle | heard Brother Gates
speak on his first Sunday evening
with us, it struck the right chord in
my heart and | felt that something
was gorag to be accomplished Now,
from the very first Of these meet
inss l have received many special
} blessings. 1t is hard to estimate the
: value Of these sermons Oil, faith
They have ben wonderfully helpful
to me and | am sure they have been
helpful to all who attended these
} meetings with any regularity what
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> "Brother Gates methods, so far as
he has any methods, have been in
some sense unique. ! think that we
have all learned d great deal in tn eS,
meetings as to how to via souls. AS
to my church, the morning conSrega-
ton has at least doubled since these
meetings commenced. The evening
congregations have bctl overflow
meetings, but they have been 1arg>
notwithstanding the: fact. Most Of
our people are hero at the evening
services. They want TO be here, and
We encourage them 70 come and help
in the services here. AS to our Sun
day school it is growing larger all
the time. l think that We all ought
to feel greatly encouraged in this
work for the Lord, and may VIC keep
Our enthusiasm up-an1- go right
along working for God out Of sea-
son as well as In ami the Lord will
bless us in the effort"
| DR.. y. S. Potts, IN whose church
tho Memphis meeting started, said
,at tie close Of our campaign that he
! had spent four Years in the seminary
four years in college, many years il
! the passionate, but had learned moro
about how to win Il soul during our
meeting than h, had ever learned all
| the former years Of his life at the
college, seminary and in the, pas
| torate. Il have prayed God to make
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