The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-13
With Convention Hall Packed Clos
ing Service is Held Total Of
$40 Conversions Record
ed During Revival
LECTURE TONIGHT ON
"COLORED FOLKS"
Evangelist Responds to Requests to
Deliver Famous Address "Big
Bill" Goes to Pauls Valley
TO Open Meeting

The Mcconnell revival meeting end
ed last night. Convention hall was
packed to the doors, and beyond
Thirty-six persons publicly professed
conversion and many requested pray
er An earnest, eloquent prayer. in
which blessing was invoked upon all
those who had contributed in the least
to the meeting. was offered by the
evangelist and the vast congregation
was dismissed.
This meeting resulted in the con
version Of $40 persons and a cement
ing of Christian ties in Chickasha.
Churches were invigorated and spur
red to greater activity and the various
denominations brought into closer
fellowship as working organizations
with the same purpose. Church mem
bers were shown, sometimes with al
most startling and painful pointedness
wherein they were lax in their duties
and in fulfilling their VOWS, and were
melted to more sincere and earnest
effort.
In response to a demand that has
been growing for many days, Or. Nc
Council announced that he would lee
ture tonight on "Colored Folks prob
ably the funniest address he gives
from the platform. It is crowded with
anecdotes and dialect and impersona
tions and is ridiculously humorous,
while at the same time II presents a
faithful Characterization OF the negro
Of the south and some real history en-
tertainIngly told An immense audi
ence is expected, as the fame Of this
talk has permeated all of Oklahoma.
The song services Of yesterday aft
ernoon and last night we're conducted
by Ed Mcconnell, who viii depart to-
morrow for Lincoln. Neb. He assum-
ed the post OF Bob" Slower. choir di-
rector who left yesterday for Pauls
Valley with his wife. That couple
last night led the opening service of
Big Bill'' Tetley revival which will
run for one month in Pauls Valley.
DR.. Mcconnell will depart tomorrow
on a long lecture tour that will carry
him to many cities. big Bill" Tet-
ley. accompanied by II. W. Ferguson
and family, left this afternoon for
Pauls Valley. The evangelist will
preach his first sermon there tonight
and tomorrow Ferguson will issue the
first edition of daily paper that will
report the revival services exclusively
Mcconnell preached three powerful
sermons yesterday and two Saturday
the afternoon service of that day beins
In honor Of old folk with veterans oi
the civil war as guests of honor A
number OF veterans occupied from
seats and enjoyed the exercises, which
we're patriotic in character and inspir
ing throughout.
The evangelist played. for a time
the double drums and his son. Edwin
gave a fine exhibition of ragtime play
ing on the piano of patriotic airs t.
drum accompaniment. Ed Humphrie
and Edwin Mcconnell gave a fife an'
drum duet, and male octet warme'
tAe blood Of the audience with stirrin
songs. Miss Myrtle Barnhart gave
recitation, and Evangelist Mcconnell
talked on he beauty of peace and tn
sweetness of declining years.
The evangelist preached saturda
night on Gods Blackades of the Roa
TO Hell. delivering a forceful argumel
ia reveal that God is not willing fc
anyone to perish and that He is ne
responsible for mans ruin. tn
preacher showed how God has throw
up barriers everywhere and that ma
simply must compel himself to elm
over those in order to be lost
The biography of Enoch, who wake
with God for 800 years, although su
rounded by evil, was Sunday NOR
ing's revelation of one of the most 7
markable men in history. Enoch
life developed a splendid lesson whit
Mcconnell impressed with potency.
Continued on rage Two.l