The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-15
TABERNACLE
NE 7|NGS ON
CLOSING WEEK
, -GREST FROM SATURDAY TO
p DAY NIGHT WENT FOR
I, WITH A RUSH. EVANGEL-
ls1 n FINGERS EXCEL.

entering upon their fifth and last
week. The interest from Saturday af-
ternoon to Sunday night went forward
by leaps and bounds. No report can
give anything like an adequate state
ment of the progress. Boys and girls,
men and women, young men and
maidens came forward for renewal
restoration and conversion as at no
other time in the present campaign.
Something mysterious which is moth
ing other than the Spirit of Cod came
upon the people in great power. With
more than usual force the evangelist
spoke, and the singer sang, while the
people awoke to their duty to with
hold their tongues from criticism, and
to work and pray with all their hearts.
The meetings are now where they
ought to have been earlier in the
series. AS it is, there is left only one
more week for this united effort which
is not likely to occur again for some
years, untold good has been accom-
plished. The last week can be made
the richest of all. Every plan and eff
fort on the part of the evangelist and
the churches from now to the close,
will be cumulative in force. Some
thing special for every afternoon and
evening is the order. 1t has required
some time to gain the right Of way
for this mission in the business
thought and interest within our city.
This kind of work is the very best city
business. In spite of all our trade
and local products, this would be a
most undesirable place to live and
rear our families, if there was no
evangelical Christian faith here and
no enterprising pastors and churches.
The city ought to turn out in mass
and put the stamp of universal ap-
proval upon this greatest of all con-
Germs for time and eternity.
1t was intended for Saturday night
to hold only a short service. The
evangelist timed his address accord
ingly. 1t was based on Acts 3:19 Re
pent therefore and turn that your
sins may be blotted OUT An unusual
thing occurred, the speaker first de-
livered his sermon and bethought him
self in time to announce his text just
about the close. He showed by very
clear argument, apt illustration and
personal incidents that the truth was
very plain to those who were willing
to obey the same; that the seat of the
difficulty in accepting Christ is in the
heart and not in the head. In this
meeting we caught a glimpse of the
great blessing that came on Sunday
1t is conceded by all that the great
est sermon of these meetings was
that on Sunday morning. Everything
conspired to make this record. The
congregation packed the tabernacle.
The singing was the best. Hearts were
subdued by prayer and tense with re-
The theme of the SER
mon, Christ's Prayer in the Garden,
was most appropriate to the stage of
the meetings. The discussion was
with great pathos, Christian sympathy
and spiritual insight. The closing ap-
peal of the evangelist, who spoke from
an exalted spiritual vision, crushed
our hearts and melted us to tears. God
was glorified in his truth by his Spirit
in the presence of all the people. Our
Lord is betrayed, sold today for sill
yer, pleasure, selfish interests by some
who profess to follow him, just as
Judas did while he was agonizing in
the garden. Many more tarry in in
difference near the gate of an unbe-
lieving world that hates our Lord as
eight of his disciples did on that event
full night Even those closest to him,
MS bOoOhi llICAuo, mo DONJ ~
sleep on today, as the three did while
the sweat drops of blood. lord, is it
I?" The fountains were broken after
that sermon. Who could doubt the
presence and power of God?
The mems meeting in the afternoon
was. a continuance of the interest of
the morning, "Steps in the Life of
Fast Young Man" based on the parable