Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-06
CITY HALL. FILLED
ON SUNDAY EVENING !.
At Big REVIVAL

Gathering Proves the Largest
Since the Services Baean-Mr.
Taylor Thrills His Audience
and Music Is Some Of the Best
That Has Been Heard
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Sunday evening ct 10 the CITY hall
contained one Of the largest crowds that
ever attended . revival meeting In the
city. the big choir occupied the entire
stag and an enormous sign In black
letters on . white backgrounds. IN
Choir" served ~ stage setting for the
singers. Harry Taylor. the evangelist.
who is doing such effective work in this
field, said: II don't believe there are fivs
people in this hall who are not already
Christians. who are not planning to be-
come Christians 1t some time. These
have been planned. not to make
Christianity hard for you. but to make
It easy. I'm not here. to make Baptists.
I'm not here to make Methodists or EpaA.
copalians. I am here merely to make
people do what they know themselves -
the right thing for them to do."- 1Ae add
cd that 1t is q years since last summer
that he came to Maine. and said Il love
this grand old State"
He then spoke Of the murder ana SUIT
eide out on the Thomaston road last
Thursday evening and drew a vivid Pic
turs Of the affair and it, cause. .'so get
ting q very effective Temperance lesson
out Of the occurrence. He said: You
can't run a saloon without boys any
more than you can run sawmiM With
out logs and It seems to me that the mon
who have been saying that We ought to
have high license in this State should
turn their coats right now. There 10 just
ono way in which to deal with the liquor
question. and that Is to put this trafiic
out and to put Jesus Christ In" said Mr..
Taylor.
Before the offering was collected Mr..
Taylor told Q story about an old colored
preacher whose congregation was rather
backward about coming forward with
their money. II seems that the congro-
cation had been bemoaning their hard
luck. and the darby preacher said. ''Now
friends. ef you'se been having all kinds
oh hard luck an misfortune, Anil tols
you how TO get rid Oh 1t. How many
here IL got q half dollar?" The Negro
congregation dug around and managed 20
find q number Of the desired coins. ana
the pastor said: Look at dem coins IN
70 hans, Is stars on 'em. u arrows on
de- oder side. how does you all spec -
hab any luck while you IL carryin' dat
number aroun' in 20 jeans. Throw 'em
away, niggers, chuck dem right In dat
box dat Brudder Sniff am passin' AMONGST
you, and all your hard luck will pass
away" .....
During the collection Of the offering
teh choir sang "Sweeter As the Years
Roll By" with Harry Chamberlain and
MISS Ruth Taylor singing the verses ~
a duet and the choir coming In on the
chorus. Rev. c. g. Mosher then an
nounced the weekly meetings which
are to be held at the Penney Memoir.
al church for this week. after which
Mr.. Taylor requested all the men In
in the big crowd to lend their unquAl-
flied assistance to the work for the
week. He stated that he IL going home
to vote Tuesday for Hughes. taking q
200-mile trip for the express purpose
Of casting his ballot, and he asked IL
the men present did not think that. II
q stranger in town would take such .
trip to vote. they ought 70 be willing
to make little sacrifice for the work
being done In our city.
He also said that during tho past
week about $50 people made up their
following. and that they want double
that number this week. Harry Cham
berlain rendered vocal solo. ''Ie
Christ Is Crowded Out" In q manner
which rendered the big han 90 still,
that a dropped pin would have made
itself heard. Mrs. Reed sang fine solo.
In Jesus" and Mr.. Taylor himself
rendered Tell Mother I'll Be There"
with q zither accompaniment which he
also handled very skilfully. He took
for his text the story Of the ProdiEal
Son and after reading Il. told the story
of his coming here from England, and
said: Il didn't write back to mother
for seven months, for when Q fellow
liz hanging around street corners and
making cheap talk 1t IL hard to write
home" He told Of going to little
postofiice and finding II letters from
home. Of his shame and grief at the
sight Of the tearstained pages hts
heart broken mother had sent him,
and Of his voyage home. and the arrtv-
al.
Mr.. Taylor has seen something Of
life. and many = handkerchief. came
out. many q tear stole down q quiet
face as he told Of his arrival home and
his mothers welcome there by that
waiting anxious mother. This 10 the
secret Of his power as q worker, he
can bring tears from the heart, and
he can also raise a hearty laugh when
he feels that It will do good. His lam
euase gets to people, and fairly makes
them respond to his will. At the close
OF the meeting he asked all who had
served God as long as he had to stand
up and quite number did so. Then he
asked for the 1o-year workers to rise
and got more. Finally he asked all who
would promise and try and lead the
Christian life to rise, and q crowd rot
to their feet. They waited and shook
hands with him after the meeting and
each got some CHEEKY word.
Miss Nellie p Rackliff oassed Sun.