Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-06-05

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Mr.. Sunday next directed his energies
to the spiritual -rejuvenation of Fargo,
North Dakota, 3 community, which
according to all published reports,
stood in need of such attention. Ralph
R. Wolf, secretary of the Z. M. c. A,
defines the campaign as starting
March 7 and concluding May IL, 1912,
with conversions numbering S,159, and
a free viii offering of $5,026.
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, was the
last place that meetings were held
prior to the summer vacation of 1912.
The Beaver Falls meetings. according
to Rev. Geo. B. Laird, opened May 16,
and closed June, "a, 1912. The CONVEX
sions were over 4,229 and the free will
offering was $10,357.56. Rev. L. X.
Peacock, Homer A. Rodeheaver, B. ID.
Ackley, Mr.. and Mrs. Gill, Fred Sci
bert, Miss Grace SAKE. Miss Anna Mac
Laren, Miss Frances Miller and Mrs.
Sunday added their energies to this
campaign.
F. S. Reader, editor of the Beaver
Valley News, which was within b
zone of the Sunday influence, writes,
HE was a great blessing to u val
ley"
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, practic-
ally a suburb of Pittsburg, was the
scene of the second campaign of the
fall Of 1912. The work started there
November 3 and continued for six
weeks, during which time 10,022 con-
verts were made and a free will offer
ing of $13,438 was secured. The as
sistants were the same as those who
co-operated at East Liverpool.
From McKeesport with only a few
intervening days of rest spent at his
home in Winona Lake, Mr.. Sunday and
his party came to Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, because of the peculiar
cosmopolitan nature of its inhabitants
and the extraordinary Importance at
tached to politics in that city at all
times of the year, aud the further fact
that. the legislature was in session,
and that the Inauguration of the gov
ernor would take place during the
period of the Sunday campaign, led to
repeated predictions, both publicly and
privately expressed, that the usual re-
suits attending Mr.. Sundays efforts
would not be forthcoming as they had
been in the past. Seven weeks were
destined to disapprove every n Of
these assertions and to establish new
high marks In all the lines of his eff
forts, most of which have not at this
writing November 10, 1879 been
equaled.
Joe Speice, the architect, who had
taken the place of Colonel Gill as adj
vance man, builded for Columbus the
largest tabernacle ever erected for Mr..
Sunday, and the glory of the work
which he carries on Including the
choir loft which seated over 1900 peo-
pie the auditorium had a capacity of
1000 seats, and this with few excep-
lions was tested at every one of the
SO meetings, so that at the conclusion
it was estimated that almost 100000
persons had sat under the spell of this
wonderful mans preaching.
The total number of converts was
1888, of whom 2,189 came forward on
the last day, thus eclipsing all evangel-
ical records of modern times.
Mr.. Sundays offering was $4,000;
the amount collected for current ex-
penses was BIS ,187.81; collected for
charity, $~2,381.55; special offering for
the women in the Sunday party ST.
1855; grand total of moneys collected
during the campaign ~$44,432.68.
The nursery, which was in a build
ing adjacent to the tabernacle, cared
for 1884 babies during the meetings.
A check was issued to the mother of
each baby to avoid confusion.
The revival opened December 20,
1912, and closed February 16, 1913.
It was during the Columbus cam
paign that Mr.. Sunday vas compelled.
somewhat against his will, to repeat a
number of his sermons, because often
the IL, 900 who crowded the tabernacle
was only a portion of the throng which
demanded to hear certain of his well
known sermons.
Columbus also broke all records for
the women only" meeting, Mr.. Sun
day being compelled to give the same
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and tour de force of such magnitude
that 1t a only be appreciated by
those who have heard the evangelist
through one of his large and exciting
discourses.
The press of Columbus estimated
that on that day 10000 women heard
Mr.. Sunday. They began to seek adj
mission as early as s o'clock in the
morning; doors were opened for the
first meeting at 1920 and closed at IL.
and at 11:45 the first sermon was
preached, concluding at 1850. The
second sermon followed Immediately
and the third was given in the even
ing.
To fully appreciate the significance
of these figures it is necessary to add
that during all the morning hours a
cold drizzling rain was falling. The