The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-22

SERVICES ARE:
NOW CLOSED
SERMON LAST NIGHT
WAS LISTENED TO BY AN I'M
MENSE CROWD WHICH PACKED
THE BUILDING.

MENSE CROWD WHICH PACKED
THE BUILDING.
The Williams tabernacle meetings
closed Sunday night. All day Sunday
was tense with cumulative interest.
The storm rained us out Saturday
night, except a few dozen people. BY
Sunday morning the sky had cleared
with most beautiful Oklahoma day.
Many hundreds wended their way to
the place of worship at an early hour.
With no particular flourish of trum-
pets the people made a generous free
will offering to DR.. Williams as a to-
ken of appreciation for his splendid
work in our midst for the last five
weeks. He came to us without any
guarantee of stipulated amount, 1t
was agreed that on the last day of
the campaign We would give him the
entire offerings made at the three ser
vices. But of his own accord, and
most generously, DR.. Williams said he
would accept only the Sunday morn
ing Offering. 1t is characteristic of
all DR.. Williams meetings always and
everywhere that he leaves a most de-
lightful spirit behind him. The many
Interruptions and the bad weather
had interfered greatly with the col
lections for current expenses. DR.. Will
liams did not want to have any Such
troublesome amounts left behind him,
which explains his generous propo-
sition.
DR.. Weith made a statement after
DR.. Williams had retired and before
certain rumors that had been set
afloat about our evangelist since his
coming to our city. These, he said, had
been run down and traced to their
source, and had been laid before DR..
Williams. He said Or. Cooper and
myself have gone to headquarters
and come before you with authority,
with first-hand information and we de-
clare unto you that any and all re-
marks from any source which in any
way reflect upon the character of DR..
Williams as a man, a gentleman, a
Christian, and a minister of the gospel
while in our city and as the guest
of all our churches, are utterly false,
malicious and of the devil in every
particular" You ought to have heard
that congregation cheer. They shouted
amens, clapped their hands, shouted
approvals, they rose in mass and
continued their vOciferous demonstra-
tons. A similar attack was made on
Or. Bulgin while he was here and
continued after he was gone. ArdmOre
gives such people to understand, now,
here, and forever after, that reputable
men of God who have come to bless
our city cannot be successfully attack
ed. Notice is hereby served on them
that their absence is more welcome
than their presence, and they need
not stay on the order of their going.
DR.. Williams morning address,
much shorter than usual, was on the
Eternal Love Story from John 3:16.
1t was a beautiful discussion of the
"Old, Old Story" of which no report
can be made here. The amount of
the free will offering made to DR.. VIII
liams will be announced later.
Sunday night the great tabernacle
was packed and jammed with humani-
.ty. People were awake to the fact
that an unusual man had been in our
midst His resourcefulness is most re-
markable in every way. He had de-
livered a great address at the high
school in the afternoon and was ready
for the great closing effort of our
meetings. He rose to our highest ex-
pectations. After a few preliminaries
and a special offering for current ex-
penses, he began his sermon on Hebs.
BIS "The Hardening of the Heart,
or the objectionable SIM" was his
topic He preached with tremendous
power and carried his great audience
with him. The Spirit of God came
nightly upon the people. There were
more than thirty inquiries forward
for prayers, and most of these were
adults, and some heads of families
The meeting held till nearly eleven
O'Clock, and the people seemed loath
to depart.
The series of meetings has been pc
jculiar in many ways. in Interruptions