The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-29
Furious Playing Of Indifferent Pro-
fessing Christians Comes at
Close Of Sermon Vote
to Continue Meeting
MANY CONVERTED
AT MEMS MEETING
Evangelist Bases Stirring Sermon
on Brains and Backbone" on
Story of Daniel Mrs. Slower
Speaks to Women

a number OF persons who signified
that they were protesting Christians
but who sat, inert and uninterested.
and who indicated that they didn't
care rap whether everybody else
went to hell or not, created tempest
IN the person of Lincoln Mcconnell
last night. He flogged them furiously.
numerically, cyclonic rebuke barb
ed with stinging bitterness issuing
from his lips in torrent of biting ac.
cusation. He announced that he would
preach tonight on Hell and who's
Going There
Il don't care what official position
you hold" he cried. his face inflamed
with passion, as he leaned forward and
flung his words into their teeth. IF
you have professed Christianity yet
declare by your actions you don't care
for the salvation Of others, that you
don't intend to work for the rescue of
others, that you are satisfied to go to
heaven by yurself, then you're either
liar, hypocrite or blackslider!
Don't you ever think you're going to
get into Gods heavenl You're fixed
for hell as sure as Gods word is true,
How many Of you people. You
Christians standing and who. want to
see others saved, who want a real re.
yival of religion in Chickasha--
many of you will pray for these cold.
dead, Indifferent lizard-like, snaiI-like.
snake-like professors of religion who
ought to come out here to the front
and acknowledge their sin? God help
these miserable creatures who think
they're going to slip out Of hell by
themselves, and are satisfied"
Prayers for dead" Professors.
The evangelist prayed. He called
on God to arouse ''deadT professors OF
Christianity, to compel them to realize
their duty and be compelled to do it
if it required a cyclone to wake them
up to it.
An overwhelming majority of the
congregation voted for continuation
of the revival when the evangelist.
who insisted that he wasn't in rage
but who declared he wanted to know,
stated that if the church going, pro-
Tossing Christian part of Chickasha
did not care for the salvation OF this
town no sense existed in him remain.
ing here to preach himself sick in this
heat He demanded to know whether
or not the people wanted the meeting
to continue Or wanted it to stop tight
now.' The congregation, somewhat
stunned and awed by the suddenness
and force of the preachers statement.
shook itself together and voted almost
unanimously for the evangelist to con-
tinue his efforts.
The close of last nights meeting
was the most tense and thrilling since
the revival opened. 1t concluded day
of Christian activity which resulted in
( the conversion of many. the greater
number Of converts being grown men
who professed their change of life and
heart at service for men only in the
afternoon. At that time Mcconnell
| preached on Brains and Backbone, =
taking for his example the Biblical
character Daniel, who advanced frona
a slave into the trusted advisor of the
king Of Babylon.
He prefaced his sermon with fine
tribute to the intelligence OF men and
a declaration that heh oped this week
to preach sermon on the or.
der Of that which declared the divin-
ity of Christ and which created pro
found interest Friday night He said
some folk have a very vague idea ol
) religion and Christianity and there /:
+ deal of wonderment and misappre
+ hension regarding the soHl OF man thai
/ he would like ia explain.
Lesson from Daniel
(, He then went into rather minute
4 description of that marvellous old cit,
4 Of Babylon, ana how the Jews werl
o taken captive into Il, among then
n (Consinued on Page Four.)