The Penn's Grove record., 1920-10-15
Eriksen's Close In a
Blaze of Glory
Much Religious Instructions
Given and Thousands
Stirred

Eli M. Eriksen, who began meetings
in the Baptist Church, Penns Grove,
Sunday, September 18th, and expected
to close October 10th, continued four
days longer so eager were the people
to hear him. The Church was filled to
standing capacity Wednesday with 500
present and never was there more re-
ligious fervor here than during the
singing of the closing hymn, "God be
With You All Until We Meet Again"
The Church was filled beginning the
first night, with small disturbances for
a few nights. When the crowd out
side became nearly as large as that
inside, meetings were held in the
tabernacle four nights last week with
60O n 700 present. Pastor Fred J.
Peters IN charge estimates that dur
ing the eighteen meetings about ten
thousand were present with mission
airy interest spreading.
Mr.. Eriksen's personal story about
being a monk in a monastery, Dun
dee, Scotland, and how he was con-
verified to evangelical Christianity by
the singing of a Salvation Army las
sic, was most thrilling. Her name
was Miss Emma Lundquist. After
70 years he met her last May, Both,
In Los Angles, Cal He also met in
Los Angles Edith O'Gorman, who
escaped from a convent in Jersey City
In 1867. She is now a venerable lady
70 years old. The story of her life
has been read by 100000 since 1881.
Mr.. Eriksen classes the converts
and monasteries as papel prisons be-
cause persons r not allowed to leave
them. If persons become SO godly
saints in them they should come out,
mix and mingle and SAVIOR society, in
daily life. True Christian saints
should need to hide nothing. For
thousands to be supported in converts
and monasteries in practical useless
idleness is a useless and burdensome
expense on society. There should be
public inspection.
Protestants have nothing to hide,
nothing to be ashamed of. All they
ask is for others to read and think for
themselves and not to be mental,
financial and political slaves to a
priest, bishop and pope, who are no
more than other godly men, but for
the ecclesiastical office held thru the
superstitious fetish believe of those
who fail to have a mind of their own.
Mr.. Eriksen's conversion has been
like thousands of others since the con-
version of St. Paul, Martin Luther,
John Calvin, John Huss, John Knox
and others. He is eager to preach
the Gospel of salvation to all in love
and kindness to those in darkness. He
is opposed to the principles and sys-
tenn, when the Church took on as a
compromise with ancient paganism
and the governmental system of
Babylon. The days have passed, if
they ever were needed, when persons
need to believe such personal burdens
of worship and financial strain to pay
for a system which is now useless for
the propagation of the principles of
goodness found. in the Bible. Pagan
and historic Church traditions are no
longer needed for a free people.
Mr.. Eriksen praised the loyalty of
the people to the principles of free
government. He said he was
in a town where he had more loyal sup
port and enthusiastic audiences. His
sermons and lectures gave a backbone
to Professionalism it never had in this
region before and he shook the super
situations of many Catholics who have
begun to read and think for them
selves. Love and sympathy is given
to those who do not see the light
which our Pilgrim fathers brought to
America and has made the United
States the freest and greatest nation
on earth.
Two of the verses sung by Captain
E. Lundquist, in There, Denmark, are
as follows:
o Boundless Salvation
o Boundless Salvation, deep Ocean OF
Love,
o fullness of mercy, Christ brought
from above:
The whole world redeeming, Sc rich
and so free, :,
Now flowing for all men, come roll
over me.
And now, H~allelujah, the rest of my
days
Shall gladly be spent in promoting
His praise;
That opened His bosom to pour out
the sea
Of boundless salvation for you and
for me.