Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
McLENDON At RALEIGH
Cyclone Evangelist Scores Greatest
Success.
Wins over 600 CHURCH MEMBERS

Total Cash Receipts Exceed Six Thou.
sand Dollars, Much of Which Has
Been Generously Distributed to Va.
rious Worthy Causes.
Pee Dee Advocate, May %.
Rev. Baxter F. McLendon Is Cpend-
ing few days at home with his fam
lily, after closing very successful
meeting in Raleigh. Next Sunday he
will begin meeting at Petersburg
Va.
The Raleigh News and Observer
said last Saturday:
Concrete evidence, as Senator Joe
Brown, of Columbus, would say, of
the McLendon revival, which ended
Thursday night so far as the people
of Raleigh were concerned, include
six hundred members added to the
several churches in Raleigh and $6,-
200 over, above and in excess Of the
expenses of the meeting. 1t is, finan-
cially, Mack's materpiece since he
was converted twelve years ago and
he left Raleigh yesterday afternoon
looking forward to next spring when
he can come back and pack a down
town tabernacle for every service.
Mack left for his home yesterday
afternoon, having been too busy with
company Thursday night to try and
catch an early morning train. The
tent collection on the closing night
ran his offering up to s5,1SS which
climbed to $5,3S2 before he went to
sleer Friday morning the mails
brought more. Raleigh people who
had not contributed sent offerings to
Mack at his hotel, and when the last
deposit was made in the bank Mack
was $4,000 better off than he was when
he came to Raleigh.
That is, the Offering for him
amounted to that much. But the cy-
clone evangelist has dispensed it right
and left. Returning to his room a few
evenings ago, he found four little girls
seven to fourteen-waiting for him
with a letter. The childre-: were from
the Methodist orphanaye, the letter
from their home town in South Caro-
lima. The letter said "call on Reverend
Baxter F.. McLendon for he Is your
fathers first cousin" The children,
through the orphanage officials, had
been trying to find out something
about their family history and the
answer in part was passed on for
Mack.
Mack read the letter and broke out
in a whoop-la-la Of joy. One look
was enough to convince him that the
children belonged to the McLendon
clan and then and there joy began
to reign with the children. They all
caught Mack at the same time, hug
ged him and kissed him on first one
cheek and then the other. Guests on
the mezzanine floor Of the hotel stop
ped to see the ceremonies through.
Mack gave them the information and
better than that. Before he turned
them loose he pulled out a gold note
for each of the four and told them that
they had found friend. y,
The colored people have shared In
tho McLendon bcneficence too. Mack
builds churches for them and contri-
butes to their schools and helps edu-
cate those of the race worthy OF help
He insists that they are his friends
and he proves his faith by works.
The campaign secretaries estimate
that six hundred new names have
been added to the several churches
in Raleigh while others have asked
for membership in churches at Clay
ton, Selma, Red Springs, Lumberton'
Sandford and a number Of other
towns. Of the six hundred, the First
Baptist got sixty, the Tabernacle
nearly one hundred, fourteen OF the
First Presbyterian and many for Pull
len Memorial, Pilot Mills Edenton
Street, Central and Epworth churches
Mack was warm in praising the peo-
pie of Raleigh as whole. The others
he didn't say anything about-0ust
didn't say. He is anxious to come
back to Raleigh and he believes with
his new organization he can come back
in great style. After coon hunting and
fishing in the Palmetto country for
week, Mack is going on to petersburg
and campaign there for five weeks
opening on May 25.
The above is from the news COL
umns of the News and Observer Ii
said editorially in the same issue:
MACK"
Evangelist Baxter McLendon made
q profound and unquestionably a bene-
ficial impression upon the people Oh
Raleigh. When he first came to Raj
cigh there were some who doubted his
capacity to do the things that 1t was
prcdicted he would do. But one hear
ing of the evangelist was enough TO
show even the halfway discrimln-
ating man that Mack is not an ordl-
nary person. No ordinary person can
draw a circus tent full of people night
after night and hold them at attention
all the way through a long service
There were those who criticized the
eyangelist's methods. The same thing
Is true of Billy Sundays methods. But
the people are growing more tolerant
They do not insist so much as they
did that everything must be done as
they think it ought to be done. They
or, many Of them at least, pegln u
doubt their own infallibility. Some
one has discovered that there are thir-
teen mistakes of life. One or thelf'
is to expect uniformity of opinions IN
the world. Macks ways may not De oul
ways but our ways may be wrong ano
Mack's right.
There is no question in the worio
that the coming of man like THIS IN
to a community leaves the community
in much better shape spiritually. A
revival of religion is always to be well
coined unless we do not believe IN re-
lie.ion, and nearly every moderately
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