Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-05-07

Liddle, Mrs. Matte Page, .Thomp-
son, Mrs. Mullen. Miss Lottie Tickle
is the organist and leader of the
choir. The singing here, as at Falls
Mills, was spirited and inspirin. =,
Few people outside know it, but this
is one of the very best schools in the
county. Mr.. Liddle is head mechan-
ic at the large Nemours powder plant
and is happy and prosperous. He has
a face strikingly like that of Napoleon
Bonaparte. / don't mean Napoleon
H." my horse, known to the readers
of this paper, but to the great mill
tary genius of the name. Liddle is
about four times as large, physically,
as was the small military hero of
France, whom he so strikingly resem-
bles, and is doing a work Napoleon
knew nothing about, and whose pur-
pose is to save the bodies as we'll as
i the souls of men, instead of destroy
ing them.
MRS. STURGIS SPEAKS.
At the close of the "few remarks"
made by the visitors, a lady, Mrs.
Sturgis, of Falls Mills, who had come
along with d. d. Baker and his wife,
and others from that section, asked
the privilege of Saying something"
and of course she was allowed to
speak her mind, or part of it at
least. She is President of the w. C.
I. u. at Falls Mills, and hoped, she
said to organize society at Midway
and she will, sooner or later. Nobly
and grandly has this organization
battled for years against intemper-
ance. Mrs. Sturgis said that the fact
that West Virginia and Virginia had
voted out the saloon was most graf
flying, but that the Union would new
er be satisfied until national prohibi-
tion was an accomplished fact, and
she'll see it if she lives out her al
lotted time. And so we closed the
Midway meeting. Several people
asked me about Mr.. Spring, who
preached there before moving to Taze-
well. The people liked him and hoped
to see him and hear him preach again.
The Midway and Falls Mills schools
will send representatives to the an
nual meeting next month.
THE GATES REVIVAL.
l took the late train into Bluefeld,
and hurried to the sanitarium to see
my friend, Henry Hampton, who is
under treatment for some stubborn
and more or less serious stomach
trouble. He seemed TO be improving
and hopes to get through without a
surgical operation.
l went to Bland Street Methodist
church at Z o'clock. Every possi-
BILE seat seemed to be filled. The large
auditorium, galleries, aisles, vestibules
and all were packed and had been for
an hour. This is wonderful revival.
1t began a month ago or more in the
skating rink and was transferred to
Bland street, Mr.. Wiley's church. UP
to this time there have been some
thing like 5000 people to make pro-
fessions of conversion in Bluefeld
within the past few months. About
1000 of this number are credited to the
Gates revival, which continues with
no sign of abatement in interest.
l am not going to undertake the i'm
possible task of description of Mr..
Gates or the great revival. 1t can
not be put on paper, or in cold type.
Hoanker, the faithful reporter, is do
ing fine work reporting the meetings
and he doesn't write shorthand either.
He can beat me. 1 don't see how he
does it so well. One thing certain, the
power of these meetings is not in Mr..
Gates or his sermons. Physically, he
is weak. AS a sermonizer, he would
be put down by critic as a failure.
Spiritually, he is strong indeed. He
has no catch words or phrases or per-
formances. He has plain speech. He
prays and prays. He talks to and with
his God, and then tells the people
what he knows and feels. This seems
to be about the whole of it. However
he has the help of the consecrated
pastors of the city, and large num-
Der of good men and women workers.
One things impressed me-the men
and women who came forward knelt
at the "mourner's BENCH" as we used
to call it. They seemed to be "con-
victed." Their surrender seemed
hearty and entire. But / adhere to my
determination not to attempt to de-
scribe this meeting or the preacher.
Bluefield has been captured, whether
conquered and reformed cannot be
determined until the June elections.
So far as / could learn, few, if any,
of the politicians "have believed on
him."
REV. DIR. WILEY.
1t was my pleasure to meet the
scholarly, earnest pastor of the Bap-
tist church, Rev. Mr.. Mabee, and the
genial, much beloved pastor of the
Bland Street Church, Mr.. Wiley, and
to enjoy an evening and night not
soon to be forgotten, in the hospitable
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley. He is
nicely and comfortably fixed" The
parsonage is fine, and was never oc.
cupied, am sure, by TWO finer peo.
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