The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-27
DR.. Shade Abandons Medicine
And Begins Advertising Jesus
Physician with twenty-five Years Practice in District Will
Tour Nation in Auto in Unique Publicity
Campaign for Christ.

lis physician by profession and for more
! than twenty-five years has maintained
an office at 72S Thirteenth street north
west. The last day OF this month DR..
Shade Is to close the door Of his medical
office forever and is to forsake his pro-
, fession. becoming publicity herald for
Jesus Christ.
He made the decision last Tuesday
morning. he says. The matter was set
tied while he was on his knees in prayer.
Well. Hallelujah," he proclaims, II
made the decision with shouts of Joy
and praises. God whispered me approval.
Forsaking my profession. am leaning
upon the Lord TO- help. have no money
and I do not know where any money is
coming from, but am sure that He who
cares for the sparrows will not see His
own hungry nor their seed begging
bread"
Shows Religious Fervor.
DR.. Shade proudly declares he has a
religion with a SAVIOR in It. He says he
Is praying without ceasins and that he
anxiously Is awaiting the return of the
Lord. When he tells about his con-
version, tears always flow to his eyes
He punctuates his sentence with excla-
nations Of "HalleluJah," GLORY"
GLORY to God" When the Spirit burns
within him he just has to break loose
and advertise Jesus
DR.. Shade says he had been converted
in 1876 and had Joined the chucrh and re-
manned a nominal and formal member.
but he states he had fallen from grace
and lost the presence of the Holy Ghost.
At a. m. on September %. 1912, he was
lying on his bed at his residence, 152
Adams street northwest, he says, when
a voice spoke to him, saying:
Come, now, let US reason together.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be white as snow; though they be
red like crimson. they shall be as wool"
of God, and that the great depth of his
inner nature was touched as never be-
fore. He said at once:
'Oh. Lord. II you will only take me
back and make me as one Of your hired
servants. I will bring forth fruit mete
for repentance"
Thereupon. says the doctor. the Heav-
emily Father received him at once into
His open arms Of love and tender COM
passion. and he wept for Joy until the
break of day. 'Hallelujah! Glory to
God"
Preached in Franklin Park.
Last summer DR.. Shade preached three
times a week in Franklin Park, speaking
on Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday aft
ernoons from l to o'clock and dis
tributing tracts among his hearers.
He established the Holiness Mission at
Sixth and NJ streets June IA, 1914. He
says the Lord directed him to 90 to the
southwest, for that section needed the
Gospel most. DR.. Shade and his lieuten-
ants have not a very big congregation.
but they say the harvest is ripe and that
they are in the midst Of a great field for
labor. Every evening the Advertise
Jesus Band holds an open-air meeting
at Four-and-a-half and NJ streets south
west and at o'clock the service is ad-
journed to the mission.
I'VE are nothing more or less than
old-fashioned Methodists who want the
love-feasts and class meetings and other
customs of the Wesleyan days pre-
served" says DR.. Shade. I'VE felt that
the Methodist church was losing much
Of its vigor and was forsaking many Of
its priceless traditions SO We seeded
to form congregation Of those who