The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-10


Farewell fellow sinners, / am free
from your blood;
NV sermons are delivered, / must
leave you with God.
/ have pleaded, entreated, I cannot
compel,
Till the judgment day breaketh,
must bid you farewell"
Charles Reign Scov1lle stood last
night, pale and perspiring, his collar
wilted. his kerchief grasped tightly
In his hand. facing a crowd OF 5000
persons who had packed into his tab
ernacle to hear his farewell sermon.
The choir struck up the invitation
song, Where He Leads Ne, l VIII
Follow"
For the last time in Keokl1k SEQ
vile stepped down to the plank before
his platform; for the last time he ex-
tended his arms imploringly, and lift
ed his voice to the great audience In
exhortation For the last time the
crowds appauded the trail hitters
who made their ways from all sections
of the building.
The throng yielded up 100 persons
pilgrims OF the sawdust trail For
the last time mothers eyes grew wet
as their sons, or daughters, or hus-
bands left their seats and started to-
ward the front For the last time
happy fathers, joyous wives, smiling
sweethearts. accompanied loved ones
down to glory row"
The Oldest Trail HITTER
One man. eigMy-nine years old. was
assisted to the front by two ushers
and took his hand for the Nazarene.
Another was seventy. The great
crowd was in tears during the entire
after service. Not a person left the
tabernacle until the last song was
sung and the last prayer said. The
hour grew late and at IL o'clock. with
the building damned to the guards,
and with small children sitting around
the platform and on the floor OF the
choir loft, a crowd Of more than a
hundred men and women stood in the
chill spring night outside the worship
shed striving to catch what sounds
they could from the interior
Down the streets for blocks could
be heard the voices of the chorus Of
500 persons lifted in song. Also could
be heard the large orchestra which
augmented the choir Finally the
service closed and Charles Reign
Scoville's Keokuk campaign, which
has lasted for the past seven weeks,
was over.
The Sidewalks Of the city were dot
ted with people going either to or
from the tabernacle almost continu-
Ill {~z- to.
lasted until near 2 o'clock At 3
o'clock the afternoon service started.
It was 6 o'clock when the second
service was ended AT 7:15 the build
ing was packed again, this time by
the largest crowd Of the entire meet
ing.
$4,000 Was Offering.
Scoyille received approximately s4,-
500 IN the thank offering. The bulk
of the offering was made at the morn
ing service. About $3.50 was raised
last night, however The offering
compares favorably with those gen
orally made the evangelist, it is said.
Tonight Scoville will give his lee
ture on the Passion Play and at 2:35
tomorrow morning viii leave Keokuk,
together with Mrs. Scoville and most
of the members of his company.
Scoville will go to Chicago. Guy S.
Williams will leave Keokuk at 9:15
O'Clock Tuesday morning, by way of
the Burlington, for his home m north
ern Missouri
There is no doubt but that yester.
day was the greatest day, religiously
IN the history of Keokuk Fifteen
thousand persons, it is estimated at.
tended the services of the closing day
of the meeting. One hundred and
seventy-three persons lined up dur
ing the day The total number of traf1
hitters is 1896. At Bmporfa, Kan.
the trail hitters numbered 4,2OO The
total estimated attendance here was
200, 600
The meeting last night was most
inspiring. 1t was a mixture of Joy
ousness-at the conversion of mer
and wonderland of sadness-over tn,
fact that the curtain was falling OF
the greatest revival ever held in thi
section of Iowa. The crowd wept a
] Scoville closed his sermon. 9Th
Books Opened and the Door Shut.