Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-07
REVIVAL OPENS
| At penney MEMORIAL
| CHURCH MONDAY EvG
Another Big Crowd Greets
Harry Taylor and His4Assist.
ants - Harry Chamberlain,
Miss Taylor and the Union
Chorus Add Much to the En-.
joyment of the Evening

The first Of this weeks revival meet.
ings was held in the Penney Memorial
church Monday night, and as usual,
large crowd was in attendance. II Get.
tainly does look as though this week b
to be an even greater success as a revival
week than was last. Harry Taylor gave
one Of his characteristic addresses ana
kept the audience right with him from
the start. Among other things he spoke
of the famous picture Of the rock in the
midst of an angry sea, with the woman
clinging to a cross on its top, and q
legend. Simply to Thy Cross / Cling"
Mr.. Taylor stated that simply cltngins
to the cross IS not enough, that It Is
also necessary for everyone who cling
to that cross to reach down with the
other hand and pull some wanderer from
the angry waves.
He told of his own life before he ~
! came a Christian and of the former life
of Billy Sunday. and then said, There
are many men in this city who are now
blasphemers, who may one day become
as great a power for God as Sunday now
is He spoke of the sufferings of Je-
sus Christ, and said that it was neces-
, sary for Him to come to earth and suf-
fer. what kind Of God would He
have been. if He had stayed in Heaven
and listened to the songs of angels. with
the whole world going wrong?" asked Mr..
Taylor. HE owed it to this old world to
show His love. He had to suffer-
Mr.. Taylor stated that, although as
a boy he had been brought up to honor
and to respect the memory of English
heroes, his ideal man was Abraham
Lincoln. and he told the story of Lin
coins trip down the Mississippi with
load of farm produce, Of his visiting
the slave auction, his horror at seeing
men and women separated and sold on
the block, and his words at that time,
"By the Eternal God. if I ever get
chance to hit that thing, I'll hit 1t
hard" And Lincoln did hit slavery
hard, so hard in fact that he put it en-.
tirely out of business. Mr.. Taylor went
on to show that many people of today
are just as much in bondage as were
those poor Negroes. and added that
his work is to help to get them out.
He told a vivid story about a capni.
bal island, where every missionary who
arrived was kllleO ana eaten the mo-
ment he got to land. and several
brothers in one family shared this aw.
full fate Finally young Englishman
named Richards went there, with hts
bride, and the cannibal chiefs held q
council and decided not to eat him un-
til he put on more flesh, and before
that time arrived he saved them all
and made converts of them. 1T costs
to save souls" said Mr.
Taylor Pm ashamed of a man who
gets a barrel Of flour from q grocer
and pays for it, and then glories in the
fact that he pays his bills, and calls
that his religion. Why, the fact that
he does pay for what he gets is all that
keeps a man from being a common
thief" At the conclusion of Mr.. Tay-
lor's stirring address, Miss Ruth Tay-
lor rendered I'm Knock at the Open
Door," and. with several hymns by the
big choir and congregation, the meet
ing was brought to a close.