Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-01-16
SECOND WEEK OF
REVEALS AROUSES
GREATER INTEREST
1000 Attend Largest Meeting Of
Series Sunday Evening
Chorus Work Fine.
MANY CONVERTS ENROLLED
Evangelist Haudenschield Deliv-
ers Stirring Addresses to
Large Crowds.

Gathering momentum with each
meeting, the revivals in progress in
Olympia showed greatly increased en-
thusiasm this week, many new con-
verts were added to the rolls and the
pastors of the city are enthusiastic in
their praise of Evangelist C. r. Hau-
denschield for the effective manner in
which he is conducting the meetings
AS announced in another column,
series of meetings for the outlying
districts of the county will be held at
the tabernacle during the coming
week and the ministers of the city are
anxious that all those farmers and
Notwithstanding their wives and
children-who can, will attend the
meetings.
One big feature of the revivals is
the singing of the chorus of more than
100 voices, under the leadership of
Owen F. Pugh, an associate of Rev.
Mr.. Haudenschield, and Mr.. Pughs
own solo work A big portion of each
evening service is given over to the
singing and the interest is so great
that where the local ministers had to
seek the members of the chorus before
the revivals started, each night now
sees new applicants for positions in
that body.
The largest meeting of the series
occurred last Sunday evening when
more than 1000 people crowded the
tabernacle at Fifth and Franklin
streets, many standing in the aisles
and along the walls throughout the en-
tire meeting. 1t followed morning SER
vices in all the churches and the spe-
cial meeting for the women in the af-
ternoon, attended by more than 1000
women and girls of the city, when the
evangelist, handling the truth without
gloves, drew one word picture after
another of the relations of young wom
en- to their companions and declared
mothers were responsible for the con-
duct of their daughters, warning them
that they should at all times know
where their girls were and in whose
company.
More converts, in addition to those
who went forward at the close Of one
of last weeks meetings. made public
professions at the close of Monday
nights meeting, when 500 people brav-
ed hard rain to attend the services.
The evangelists subject was sin, tell
ing how the world, the law and God
deals with sin and making an earnest
appeal for confession.
"The world is merciless," he declar-
ed. ut takes no excuse for the fall
ure of man or woman. 1t has no for
giveness for the wrongdoer. 1t knows
only the measure of the law. But God
is ready and willing to forgive and
when He forgives He also forgets."
One of the most vivid addresses he
has made during the revivals was de-
livered by Evangelist Haudenschield
Tuesday evening when he carried his
1000 hearers spellbound through a
dramatic recital of the events in the
life of Christ from the start Of the
Passover to the close Of the day of
resurrection, and at its close more
than a score of persons, mainly boys
and girls, responding to his impas-
stoned plea, went forward to acknowl-
edge the claim Of Christ in their lives.
"They have taken away my Lord,
the words of Mary Magdalene when
she found the empty tomb after the
resurrection of Christ, formed the
evangelist's text Wednesday evening,
when he told of the place Christ occu'
pies in life, literature, art, music and
preaching, and appealed: Hes just
pleading with you tonight, my friends
that you turn over to Him the key
board of your life and let Him bring
forth the music of Heaven as He alone
can bring it." More people answered
the evangelist's call to confession.
Thursday, with the all-day meeting
of the w. c. Y. U. at the Methodist
church, Evangelist Haudenschield's
regular Bible study class in the after
noon and the usual evening service
was one Of the busiest days of the re
vival to date, the cottage prayer meet
ings being suspended that morning
The w. c. T. U. meeting was giver