The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-05
Charles Reign Seoviiie Will Give DIS
course Tonight That 1000
People Heard at
En,poria.
ANOTHER BIG SUNDAY
iRevivaIist Will Preach Two Sermons
Besides Talking to Men in tho
Afternoon-ChiIdren
Day Yesterday.
SERVICES TODAY.

SERVICES TODAY.
1900 a. m, at the tabernacle, every
body, Or. ScovIIIe.
800 p. M, at tho tabernacle, men
and boys only, Or. ScovIIe.
800 p. r., at the Christian church,
women and girls only, Dr.. UIio.,.
7:15 p. M, at the tabernacle, every
body, Dr.. ScoviIle.
Evangelist Scoville will preach his
sermon on "Infidelity" tonight. Thous-
Pnds of persons who have gone
through campaign with the revival
ist declare it is the greatest address
he has in his "repertory"' At EN-
rorta, Kansas, 5000 persons heard
the serman and 1000 were turned
away. Men and boys lined every
wall of the great tabernacle which
covered the greater part Of solid
block.
This afternoon scoville will preach
to men and boys only. The subject
will be Overcome or be Overcome"
The song service will start at 100
O'Clock. Mr.. Stewart will lead the
singing
At 800 o'clock DR.. Ullom will de.
liver an address to women and girls
only at the First Christian church
DIR. Waldraven will conduct the
chorus and Mrs. Scoville will sing at
both the mems and women's meeting.
In the evening the song service will
begin at 7:15 O'Clock. The great
chorus will be in the building by 7
o'clock, however.
This morning DR.. Scoville will
preach to everybody at the tabernacle.
The Sunday schools will march in
delegations to the worship shed as on
last Sunday Again, the evangelist
viii present Bible to the school
showing the greatest gain in attend
ance over last Sunday.
The tabernacle will be closed to
everyone except country people until
1O:5 so o'clock, it has been announced.
The children's Meeting.
DR.. Scoville held 1900 children
FOR an hour and half yesterday after
noon at the tabernacle with an enter
tanning talk which he illustrated with
numerous articles, including a steel
magnet, myriads Of carpet tacks,
nails, spikes. vases, etc.
One hundred and ninety-six chill
dren went forward at the invitation
service-which was hardly an invita-
ZION service dl dll. 4<O Sung was
sung as the children marched to the
front. No exhortation by the evangel-
1st was made: "All Of you who are
over eight years old-who want to do
right and live for Jesus, come down
here now" said the evangelist. II
am not going to coerce. I want you
to do Just as you feel like and just as
you think your papas and mammas
would have Won do
Some Illustrations.
The chi!dren's meeting was one of
the most successful the evangelist
has ever held, he said. He gave sew
eral quarters away joked the young
sters now and then but withal, held
them quiet with his illustrations Of
"why it pays to be pure and good and
kind
Scoville poured quantity OF
alcohol into a glass tumbler, poured
a raw egg into the flued and proceed
ed to demonstrate how friend John
Barleycorn goes about cooking a
mans brain" Later the evangelist.
to illustrate the hidden power Of sin,
hid a magnet behind sheet of paper
and drew lacks, nails, spikes, etc,
across the page He declared that
when a nail has become coated with
rust, the magnet won't work. When
you get so STEPPED in sin that you
won't hear the gospel, then God cant
help you," he said.
On Friday Night.
DR.. Scoville stopped in the midst
of his sermon on Dumb Devils Fri
dav night, and asked the entire aud