Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-28
''CREAT DAY
FOR LORD. "
AND HENRY ALLEN, TOO
ONCE MADE A SPEECH
IN MEXICO.
"Afterward I Got All the Con-
ceit Taken Out of Me-"

President Fairbanks of Indians
made a speech in Mexico. All tn
Republicans hereabout and man.
Democrats, too, were here to hea
him. After the Vice-President
speech one Henry Allen, edito,
and politician of Wichita, Kan
sas, a regular cyclone of a speak
er took the floor. But the listen
ers by this time were tired anC
arose and scattered for theil
homes. It is this Henry Allen W.
are interested in in this article
He's been converted to the "Olt
Time Religion" and calls himsell
sinner saved by grace" d."
He believes, too, that $4,000
is very modest sum to pay Billy
Sunday for being the cause OF
converting 5000 people at one
meeting, and from the number OF
"Amens" he got from the Metho.
dists, Presbyterians, Baptists and
whatnot at Methodist Laymen s
meeting in Kansas City, Kans., re-
Gently his idea is good.
The eloquent editor had been
billed to speak on the "Problem
Of the Efficiency of the Christian
Church as One of Right Adjust
ment to Jesus Christ" r light at
the start he admitted, however,
that he was new to the fold, only
few months removed from the
world" and that he wouldn t
tackle his assigned subject only as
1t was applied in his conversion.
I've been in the church three
months, and | ought to have been
in twenty-five years." he began.
when | was converted | thought
1t was a great day for the Lord. |
prided myself on being some
what of speaker, so when | re-
celved an invitation a week later
to make speech to a men S meet
ing | accepted gladly. l went
ahead and made up that speech
without much of the Lord s help.
and then | went down to the meet
ing to make it. But the Lord took
the conceit out of me. | thought
1t was speech cause | made it,
but found different.
They've made lots of fun of
me since I've been converted. A
very smart newspaper man in To-
peka said it was all right for me
TO get religion, but wanted to
Know why | got it from a travel
ing evangelist instead of patron
Nlng home trade. That's lust
Wnere the secret of my salvation
came in. | had been reared in a
Christian home, graduated from a
Methodist school, and had gone to
church in Wichita. but the local
%IVatlon hadn't maze their goods
attractive to me.
! went down to hear Billy
sunday one night. Thought it
would be fun to hear him sock it
10 Inc church members. I intend
'o TO stay until he got thru with
'he church men, and then / was
gong to leave. But ! stayed too
long | wasn't converted by his
or by the music, but by
the >~7t'1]arful spiritual life that
was turned loose on me by the
IIen church workers. They tele-
pnoned me every Nve minutes,
I'ylng they were praying for me.
'oid my wife l was gettins-sick
hat, but | WASH tt was gets,
"'g sacred. l thought I was too
p'Onlhent to join the church. |
ss''ually thought when | did go up
V"I mat 1t startled the Lord.
O"' l don't think He was any
."Ore startled than when the head
''iltor of my office went up and
'0n,esSed messed his sins, right beside me.
MY conversion has worked a
"onoerful change in my news
PAPER office. What will you think
1u'n tell you that just the other
WI one OF my five pressmen,
Sn 'he press was running bad.
ana 1t looked like we were going
20 De too late for the suburban