Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-12-13
REV. BILLY SUNDAY AT BOSTON.
impresses OcOnee Minister, Now
Chaplain in the Navy.

U, S. S. Melville, Boston Mass,
Dec. Editor Keowee Courier:
When good things come to me al
ways think Of friends back in Oco-
nee that l would like to have share
them. Of course this is not always
possible, but SO far as am able to.
want to pass this special good thing
along to as many as will read it.
In this city there is revival in
progress such as this world has never
seen. The preaching is being done
by Rev. William Sunday, D. D., OF,
as he is better known. BILLY" Sun
day. For this special service the
good people Of Boston erected a
Tabernacle that seats 1900 people,
and will hold 20,000-the largest
building ever erected in the world
for religious purposes-and, strange
to say, this vast building is filled to
the limits two and three hours be-
fore the time for the sermon and
thousands are turned away, for l
have seen and was one Of $1,000
who could not gain admittance on
the night Of November 18th, when
there were 1900 students to hear
the sermon.
Greater things are happening in
Boston to-day than l ever dreamed
it would be my privilege to witness
or ever expected to see in this old
world Already 1850 have been
converted, and the city is stirred
from center to circumference. and
the devil is on the run as sure as you
live
Last Sunday afternoon Mr. Sunday
spoke to men only. There were 49,
600 men present at this service.
More than 1900 were converted at
this one service, and twice as many
rcconsccrated their lives AS Mr..
Sunday pictured the awfuness of
sin and its effects. man after man
tainted and were carried out of the
tabernacle like dead men. Remem-
ber. these were men, not women;
and it was not due to bad ventila-
ton, for the ventilation Of the tab
ernacle is looked after by exprets. 1t
was due to their guilt and conviction
OF the sins pictured with all the
power Of man sent from God; the
truth went home to their hearts and
men cried out for help; and, as is
always the case when men turn to
God in earnest, many-tO be exact
i.220-found n Great Saviour.
Twenty eight hundred years ago a
Prophet Of God cried out, in Hosea
1912. For it is time to seek the
Lord Surely that warning is need
ed to-day. and | believe that William
A. Sunday is as mach prophet to
the Goth century as were Hosea or
Isaiah OF old. There is no need to
be ashamed OF the fact that you are
a follower Of the Man Of Nazareth,
out rather the men Of this city are
ashamed Of their sins. 1t is not only
the right thing, and only thing, to be
q Christian, but il Is tho Nopu,ar
thing Listen TO me. The day is
romm&-and | expect io live to see
it---whGn .t will he the popular thing
10 he Il Christian throughout the
world 80 see an army Of 20. 900
souls crowded into a great taber-
nacle to see thousands turned away
because there is no more room; to
hear great choir Of 1000 trained
voices sing His praise, and to see
thousands being saved, is enough to
lnelt heart of stone and cause the
world to sing out indeed and in
truth, "Praise God from whom all
.icssings tiOw!" If, under the de-
nunciation Of sin by "Bllly" Sunday,
men faint and become as dead men,
men groan the groans Of death and
rush from the building weeping tears
OF sorrow, what do you suppose will
happen when, before God, Every
tongue shall confess and every knee
shall bow?"
From afar, I want to cry out to
those people that I love-the people
of Oconee-"For it is time to seek
the Lord" Repent ye! and turn to
Cod"
With kind recollections and prayer
! remember the good people back at
home. Milton O. Alexander,