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the six weeks’ meetings.Overflow on l.ast Night..For his last sermon Sunday «aved »J\is strongest, most logical and convincing address. T r« theme was And he said tomorrow. With all ft he oratorical power, gyrations, dra-Jmatic and pathetic incidents garnered .from twenty-three years’ vicissitude of experiences as a preacher, Sunday held spellbound an audience which filed every pew and available space !1n the tabernacle as he hurled broad-pides at those who had wavered in accepting Christ as their personalIsavior.Two hundred and eighty-seven con-1 i tveriF. at the conclusion of his sermon and prayer, came forward with a new look in their eyes as they announced their determination to lead henceforth Christian lives. It was ■the largest number of converts wrought at a single meeting.“God is calling upon von to forsake the bondage of sin and you have said ‘tomorrow* by your acts and byyour words,” 8unda\ said in the course of his sermon. “You are simply inviting God to push you into hell, and 1 tell you if you do not heed His word, that's where you'll e;o in spite rf the fact that He is trying to save you from perdition.His 1 ast Pica.“ Regard less rt the tear- and the pleading and prayers that have been for you, this, my last mee mg in Joplin, finds you unsaved. Friends, yon make a lasting mistake when vou Fteel your hearts agains: God. Cometo him now, because you never will have similar influences to bear upon you—this might be your last chance.Will you come?”Sunday afternoon he took for his text, “It is appointed unto men to die but once, and after that the judgment!'’ It was a text, be said, which every person in the world believes in I art. The meeting was for men only.It resulted in 212 conversions.Individuals who contributed $25 or more to the “Billy” Sunday subscription fund were as follows:$100—Hr. and Mrs. J. M. Evans. J. W. Freeman, Gilbert Barbee, Fred tTish, J.P. Walker and wife.$50—J. B. Hodg'/on, W F. Spurgeon.A. H. Rogers, Dr. S. H. Miller.130—Op car DeGraff.$25—Mrs. J. H. Taylor, H. H. McNeal, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boss. E. A. Potts. J.F. Dunwoody, H. E. Dangerfield. Mrs.G. Spence, S. C. Femes. A. B. McConnell,A. H. Waite, J. G. Si err. Mrs. A. H. Waite. C. E. Yates, C. G. Sellars, O. H. Richer, W. H. Picher. Mrs. H. E. han-gerfleld. A. B. Thomas, F. K. Butcher.£?• C- Humphreys. J. P. Walker._
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Jan 02, 1910
Page 24
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