Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-14

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CHAPTER XII (Cont,uedj
Rev. W. s. Dysinger, pastor of tn
First English Lutheran church O
Wheeling. In a public meeting tw
years after the campaign said ever
church in the city had derived wonder
full results from the campaign; tina
practically all of the new member
who were converted during the re
vival are still in the church and tina
Wheeling people were benefited NOR
ally, physically and financially. Rev
Mr.. Dysinger cited three instances o
good Mr.. Sunday had accomplished
that had recently come to his atten
ton.
.sThe first," he said, was the case Of {
huckster he had met on the street. You
see that good horse and wagon and tha
wagon load Of producer tho fellow sale
to the minister Well that's what Billy
Sunday did for me-
1.-THE second was the case Of wife de-
oerter, who had been converted and hac
vide for them. Another was that Of la
borer who had, previous to the campaign
been satisfied with living in little shack
entirely too small for the needs OF his
family. He hit the sawdust trail during
the Sunday meetings and Immediately
doubled the size Of the dwelling. Billy
Sunday and his preaching made me do 1t,
the fellow told Rev MIR. Dysinger, when
the minister asked him what had brought
about the change.
''The minister said his own church had
Teosived 2SS new members as result OF
<he campaign, and less than dozen had
dropped out since. He laughingly ex-
plained to the audience he wished to lay
particular emphasis on the fact he II the
pastor Of Lutheran church.
"'If tho people don't stick the minis
ter said in conclusion, don't blame Billy
Sunday. It isn't his fault. Rather you
shculd lay 1t at the door Of the ministers
ana the people,"
Making another Of his long jumps
Mr.. Sunday next directed his energies
to the spiritual rejuvenation Of Fargo,
North Dakota, community, which
according to all published reports,
stood in need Of such attention. Ralph
r. Wolf, secretary Of the Y. M. c. A.,
defines the campaign as starting
March Z and concluding May IL, 1912,
with conversions numbering 3,159, and
Z free WIN 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 1929 and the free will
Offering was $10,357.56. Rev. L. K.
Peacock. Homer A. Rodeheaver, B. D.
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. 8. Reader, editor of the Beaver
Valley News, which was within the
zone of the Sunday influence, writes,
"He was . great blessing to our val
ley"
McKeesport, Pennsylvania. practic-
ally suburb Of Pittsburg, was the
scene Of tho second campaign Of the
fall Of 1912. The work started there
November 8 and continued for six
weeks, during which time 10,022 con-
verts were made and free will offer
Ing of $13,43S was secured. The as
sistants were the same as those who
co-operated 1T 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 it's inhabitants
and the extraordinary Importance at
tached to politics in that city at all
times Of the year, and the further fact
that. the legislature was in session,
and that the inauguration Of the gov
ern0r would take place during tie
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 one OF
these assertions and to establish new
high marks in all the lines of his ef-
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 capacity Of
10000 seats, and this with few excep-
tons was tested at every one of the
SO meetings. so that at the conclusion
1t 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 2,1S9 came forward on
the last day, thus eclipsing all evangel-
zeal records of modern times.
Mr.. Sundays Offering was $4,000;
the amount collected for current ex-
penses was S19,1S7.81; collected for
charity, s2,3s1.55; special Offering for
the women in the Sunday party ST.