Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . I. Rev. J. W. Van Cleve, Rev. Robert Stephens,Danville, 111. 1907 Historical Address. 153 the swing of conquest. If we had more of that kind of preaching today, themonotony of our modern religious services would more often be broken up bythat piercing Pentecostal cry, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Thefathers did not need the modern evangelist. They were their own Merrill at a campmeeting in Iowa a few years ago was vigorouslyemphasizing that point. Evangelist Weber was on the platform in ch


Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . I. Rev. J. W. Van Cleve, Rev. Robert Stephens,Danville, 111. 1907 Historical Address. 153 the swing of conquest. If we had more of that kind of preaching today, themonotony of our modern religious services would more often be broken up bythat piercing Pentecostal cry, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Thefathers did not need the modern evangelist. They were their own Merrill at a campmeeting in Iowa a few years ago was vigorouslyemphasizing that point. Evangelist Weber was on the platform in chargeof the evangelistic services. No sooner had the Bistop finished than jumped to his feet. Yes, he said, that is true about the fathers,but we have no such preachers, and no such preaching as that now-a-days,so we must have the evangelist. Come on! The good Bishop himself had tosmile at the way in which he had been turned down. But the fathers hadthe fire and the power, and the march of their might was divine. God wasin it. Did they preach about the Church? It was on


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