Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-03-23
|DES MONIES GOSPEL
TEAM DOES GOOD WORK
Meetings Held in This City Result in
About Thirty-Five Con-
versions.

union meeting held by four of tn
city churches-Method Baptist
Christian and United Brethren
headed by gospel team of sever
people from Des Moines.
Members of the team occupied tn
pulpit at the morning services il
each of these four churches, and il
the afternoon women's meeting wa.
held in the U. B. church, a mas!
mems meeting in the Christian
church, and a young peoples service
in the Baptist church.
About thirty-five conversions are
the result of the days work in this
city, this team being only one OF
many that go out weekly from Des
Moines. The members of each team
go wherever they are called for the
day, simply for expenses, and hope in
turn to enthuse the Christians of the
towns in which they hold their meet
ings, that other gospel teams may be
organized to go out to smaller towns
in the community and hold religious
services.
AT the Methodist church last
night, after two hymns were sung by
the congregation, a special number
by the mems chorus and prayer by
Miss Pearl De Jarnette, county SUI
perintendent of Polk county, G. G.
Watkins, deputy secretary of state,
one of the members of the team, took
charge of the services. In short
talk, he stated that the members of
the team were all laymen, but if the
whole world were to be brought to
Jesus Christ it would have to be
through the efforts of laymen OF the
churches and no one else. Rodney
Selby, a lad of North High school,
was the next speaker. He will be
Quackenbush-Selby, a former resi-
dent of this city, who died few
years ago in Des Moines. He is a
nephew of Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Quack-
enbush of this city and in clear, ring
ing, boyish voice, he told briefly what
the Sunday meetings in Des Moines
had done for him. His youthful en-
thusiasm elected rousing "Amen"
from the large congregation.
Following Mr.. Selby, Mrs. Floyd
Miles of Des Moines spoke a few
words of the change in her own home
brought about by the religious
awakening experienced since the
meetings of last fall in the capital
city.
c. J. Spencer, Des Moines attor-
ney, was the next speaker, and he
spoke very briefly from one of his
favorite verses in the Bible enlarg
ing little upon the simple state
ment that Simon of Cyrene carried
the cross of Jesus Christ. He spoke
of the sweeping results of the Sun
day meetings, how the capitol build
ing and its inmates were first reach
ed, then the court house, then the
city hall, and at last down into the
business section where the wave
swept the business and professional
men off their feet with a realization
that life is short and the time to do
for Jesus Christ also lin
tied.
Isaac Wilkinson of a Des Moines
wholesale grocery house, was the
next speaker. He told briefly what
the gospel had done for him so re-
Gently. For twenty-five years a
he had tried all liquor
cures in vain, but how one night at
the Billy Sunday meetings during
the hearing of Sundays famous SER
silently as he sat in the audience.
mastering up courage enough
to make public confession he made
a new start and up to this time he
has felt no return of the dreaded ap-
petite. The change in his home life,
and in his own physical condition,
etc, was spoken of.
Following Mr.. Wilkinson's person.
al experiences, Mr.. Watkins arose
and asked the audience if it was not
worth all that it cost Des Moines to
have Billy Sunday to know that this
one man had had these three months
of peace as a result of his ministra-
tions.
Miss Pearl De Jarnete, county su-
perintendent of Polk county, then