Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-26
REVIVAL MEETING AT
 MT. CALVARY CHiJRcH

Rev. Dr. J. L. Griffin. who is called the national evangelist, and has been preaching in this city for the last two n'@hts, conducted what he called an old fashioned Holy Ghost meeting on Wednesday evening" in Mt. Calvary Baptist church and is to follow it up this (Thursday) evening with an open air meeting on Union square, where he Will lecture on Solomon's temple. Dr. Griffin had his audience in the church worked to q high pitch of en- thuslasm Wednesday night with an almost constant chorus of Amen" or
 1es, Yes" or "Hallelujah" from half dozen at the same time in approval i ot what he was saying in the course of ,, ms sermon. Several women wept and | tossed themselves back and forth in thelr seats while one particularly en- l thusiastic ono left her seat and paced l back and forth in front of the pulnit 1 with her hands in the air as she kept 1 repeating Praise Him. Praise Him, 1 Halleluiah."
 i The preacher continually asked for endorsement of what he was saving by snapping out What do say?" or "Ain't
 got a witness here?' to which the | response came from all sparts of the
 house Yes. Yes. I'm with you.''
 He preached from the text The child | sneezed seven times after it was dead
 relating in his own way the story of Ellsha's raising of the widows child,
 as well as several other Biblical stories
 Before he reached his sermon he
 gave a lecture in which his style was a reminder of Billy Sunday and led l some to call him the "colored Billy 1 Sunday
 Get converted before you get sancti-
 lied, he said. What do you say? Ain't
 1 right? The first degree in the Kings
 college is, B. A.-born again. Yor
 woman with good husband, what dc
 you want to go flirting with three ol
 four other men for? You have then sitting around the house and telIine
 how easy the old man is to get alone
 with. Why don't you stick to him
 Tell the truth and shame the devil. It:
 funny how people will believe lie but tell the truth and you have, to ge
 across the street to prove it. I'm no
 preaching to make you love me- Tn
 telling you the truth. Mind your owr business. There's fifty people right or that floor tonight that's lost a eoof
 meal Of victuals watching somebody
 else. Why don't you get in and dt : some work for the Master? Gideon hac 32,O00 men. but only 300 of them wa. , | good workers. Moses, had 500 900 peo
 pie, but he could find only F to go ant spy out the land, and 10 of them cam,
 back liars. Don't blame the salool
 keeper. you men; drink his liquor al day. Your breath smells too strons now from sitting around on barrels al
 day and fighting flies and talkin. : about your neighbors.
 f Pm not a college man. he said il
 another place in his lecture. I've beel Il to college twice, but it was on busi I ness. I saw the president and nasse, right through and came right out. H
 had a word to say to parents, toe You people are going to church, bu ', your children are going to h-l. The, D ain't got no manners. and no respect l they're sassy just like you, for the, got it from you. What do you say?
 Midway in the service he invited hi c congregation up to shake hands wit n him and in a minute was surrounde f with an eager group striving to ge = hold of his outstretched hands.