The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-24

which some people are saying as they
always say about an evangelist. Is that
he is a CRATER want to say that
Mr. Scoville in his preliminary ar
rangements with us. laid less stress
on money than any evangelist we
ever had anything to do with. His re-
qutrements were so reasonable and
fair that Mr.. L. A. Hamill. Mr. G. w.
Durrett and myself agreed to serve on
the finance committee, though we
had refused to do so in the case of
another evangelist.
1T may be we'll to state that Mr..
Scoville required us to pay the rail
road fare of his party to this city;
furnish board and lodging for them
while here and he assumes all the rest
of his expenses, paying out Of his
own pocket the entire salaries of his
workers-and they do not look to me
like a cheap bunch. We must, OF
course, pay for the tabernacle and the
otner local expenses and the offerings
taken in the meetings will be ap-
piled to this purpose until they are
| paid. Then Mr. Scoville gets the of.
rerings on the last Sunday as Is Gus
| tomary.
''The finance and executive commit.
tees heartily endorse the financial side
of Mr. Scoville's plan and appreciate
highly his attitude on this point.
want to say word about the crit
icism so often made that such meet
ings as these are only flash in the
pan and leave no permanent results
This Is a mistake. A week ago last
Sunday night | sat in my own church
and noted that twenty-five per cent OF
the people in the audience were
brought into the church at the time OF
the Sunday meetings, twelve years
ago next October. | can take you tt
churches all over town and show yOl
that a large proportion Of the mer
and women who are now bearing the
burden and doing the work OF those
churches are those who came into The
church at that time
It looked as though everybody il
keokuk was there last night
Every seat in the big tabernacle wa!
filled and about fifty had to remain
standing in the rear Of the building. I
is estimated that counting audienc
and choir, there was in the neishbol
hood of $500 persons at the Scovill
meeting.
seven rows Oh DeHCueS IRON lW6U L.
to twenty-five deep were filled by tn
gigantic audience. one OF the larges
} that has ever gathered for any set pun
pose in Keokuk, while choir Of neal
" FIVE hundred. was seated behind tn
: speakers platform in the choir stant
The building was excellently lighted
. was warm and dry and decorated t
an extent that was very pleasing t
= t.-- hn
lent and the speaking and singin
, could be heard plain and distinct i
the most remote corner Of the hug
> building.
The opening Scoville meeting in tn
! big shed" was a success in ever
l sense of the word The audience wa
). enthusiastic and liberal with it's a.
= nlause for a we'll turned phrase and
] we'll sung song. The audience bega
n arriving as early as $50 o'clock an
Il continued to pour in until $50 o'cloC
i although the great body was seated /
40 the time set for the opening.
/, Not Enough Seats.
: The committee that was in charE
~ scattering the sawdust and placir
in the benches yesterday, worked L
: iii the very hour of the opening
| the meeting, but was unable to plat
| enough benches in the building
| seat tho great throng that gathered.
4 Although the committee believe
that il had enough benches to cor
| fortahIv seat one Of the largest au
| fenCps that has ever gathered
| Ke0kuk. in a short time every SCI
| was taken and it was necessary Il
| committee OF volunteers to carry
| additional benches for several hu
| dred late arrivals. The benches, Q
| cent in one unfinished section. ran
tho very back of the building ar
then a large number of people had
stand
The audience was composed
every class in keokuk- These wi