The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-22
MISSOURI PASTOR
PRAISES DR.. OLIVER
Baptist Minister Mt Lamar, Mo-, Writes
DR.. Shepherd Compromises Were
Brought to Time.

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In a letter received this week by
DR. j. f. Shepherd of the Presbyterian
church and read by him at the taber-
nacle Sunday night, Rev. d. F. Risk,
pastor of the Baptist church at Lamar,
Mo, tells of the success of the reyiv-
al there and throws light on the atti-
tude of Dr. Oliver toward compro-
misers The letter follows:
Lamar, Mo, Feb. 16, 1916.
DR.. John Shepherd,
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Dear Brother:
We have been blessed with a great
revival l thought that it might en-
courage you for me as one of the
local pastors to write and tell you
about it. Inasmuch as you have been
fortunate enough to secure the same
party we did.
We were very fortunate in getting
DR.. Oliver to come to us But we in
duced him by organizing the whole
county in the campaign. Unfortunate
ly the weather conditions and bad
roads made it impossible for the conu-
try people to come in, and the train
service for coming and returning to
the small towns was also bad. New
ertheless. we had great meeting in
spite of the difficulties
We had 929 decisions. Considering
the size of the town (2400 population)
it was the greatest meeting ever held
in Missouri The Lord gave us more
than we asked for. The results were
more than we expected.
All the churches have been greatly
strengthened. The great majority have
already gone into the churches with
out having to hunt them up. Those
who were converted all have red hot
testimonies that thrill the hearts of
the people who have prayed and look
ed forward to this campaign for ten
years. The churches are TRANSPORTED.
The old members are like different
people Our town has been trans
formed and l feel like l had been
translated. For l never expected to
see such a great change. The working
force of my church has increased in
force 100 per cent, in power it has
increased wonderfully because of the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit
There are a number of things that
made this possible. In the first place
there was great spirit of prayer
throughout the community. The peo
pie talked to God about men and then
went out to talk to men about God.
We could never have accomplished
this work without either of these
forces.
Another thing that was absolutely
essential all of the ministers were
in harmony and striving to see a great
victory regardless of unconditional
results. We stood behind Dr. Oliver
in everything he did or said. When
things were getting pretty warm for
they began to go to their pastors for
sympathy. We were determined to
see sin eliminated from our church
life if it cost us our pastorates. The
result was great victory for us all.
DR.. Oliver is a fearless preacher.
He will not compromise under any
condition. Like the apostles after
they received the Holy Spirit he
speaks with boldness. If you stay
by him you will go through for vic
tory. If any of the preachers get
cold feet and begin to softsoap the
ungodly church members you will more
than likely defeat your efforts. We
know from experience. Your COM
munity couldn't be any more difficult
than this one.
Dr. Oliver is the greatest preacher
| have ever heard. And l have heard
some of the greatest in the country
He gets his results from the preach
ing of the Word. There may be times
in your campaign when you think
that everything is on the rocks, and
you may feel like censuring his meth
DDS. Don't do it. We had three such
crisises in our campaign. Follow Oil
yer and you will come out all right
For he is a man of great prayer.
can explain the results of his preach
ing in no other way. For there isn't
anything of the emotional type in any
of his messages.
The people got mad here and cursed
him and said they would never go to
the tabernacle again, but the great
majority OF these men were converted
And now they give the best testimon-
les of all. That attitude is a fine indi-
cation. Our meeting didn't begin until
the people were stirred as to their
sins.
Our law enforcement league Zone of
the results of the meeting) has been
able to compel the druggists to send
back their booze and forfeit their gov
eminent licenses. One has already
done this and the others will have to
do it or go to the pen. we have affi-
davits piled high against them For
years they have been operating I'M
molested
1t is impossible for me to tell you
all of the blessings of this great cam
paign. l will remember you all in
prayer.
Yours in Him,
d. +. RISK,
Pastor of the First Baptist Church.
p. S.-We had no trouble in financ-