s there, to-night. There
have been revival services in three other churches. The meetings held in
our place were indeed a season of refreshing from the presence of the
Lord.

Our chapel was crowded on Thanksgiving morning; the sermon was preached
by Rev. Dr. Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church,
followed by an address by myself. The pastors of the Berean Baptist
Church, Methodist Church and the Lutheran Mission were on the platform,
the Plymouth Church holding a service of their own. In the evening we
held a Thanksgiving praise service, in which about one hundred persons,
including thirty-five of the converts, gave short thanksgiving
testimonies.

Last Sabbath I baptized fourteen by immersion and received twenty-seven
into the church on profession of faith, and three since, making a total
of thirty. Rev. Eugene May of Osage, Iowa, one of the delegates I met at
the World's Sunday-school Convention this summer in London, gave us a
powerful sermon on the characters of "Dives and Lazarus Contrasted." In
the evening I preached a sermon to the church on "The Christian Armor"
and we had the Lord's Supper. Last night, after addressing the young
Christians on "The Way to God," as illustrated by the worthies of
Hebrews eleventh, we had them testify on how they came to Christ, the
one thing they did and what they got. The answers were all intelligent
and to the point. _Decision_ was what they did, and _Christ_ was what
they got, were the answers put in various forms. At the close of the
meeting I asked a gentleman, a member of another church, the Berean
Baptist, who always attends our special services, to say a few words. He
testified to the help and inspiration he had received from the meetings;
that he had never listened to clearer testimonies of conversion than
those given by the converts, and that they were doubly blessed in having
"_our pastor_," "yes," he said, "I will say our pastor, for he is pastor
to this whole community and city, lead you to Christ, and train you for
service." His remarks were warm and sympathetic, but too personal for me
to report more than the above, which is but the key-note of the kindly
feeling that many of the best Christian people of other churches have
toward us, as they have seen our little church come up from almost
nothing to its present position of service in this community. It has
been the Lord's doings and it is wondrous in our eyes. We have already
begun the work o