Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
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Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
Byers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) -- History; Warner, D. S. (Daniel Sidney), 1842-1895
After the close of the Sandy Lake meeting he went by invitation to
Greenville, in the same county. He first held an evening service
on the streets, in which he spoke to a large audience. This was on
Friday evening, September 5. The rest of the services at Greenville
were in a grove in the country. In his report he tells of his being
mercilessly beaten by a drunken man and of his wonderful escape from
injury because of divine protection.
We praise God for having sent us here. We are confident that much
good was done. One brother, who had been wonderfully converted
and blessed, had actually made an appointment at a schoolhouse
and talked to the people by the Holy Spirit. People were moved,
and asked the man to speak again. But he consulted his Methodist
priest, who told him it would never do in the world for him to
attempt to speak and exhort without license, and that if he did
so he would be brought up and tried. The poor man was scared down
and was on back ground; but he promised us to rededicate himself
to God and go straight forward in God's will. May God bless and
help him. Such is the pernicious work of the devil under the mask
of what he calls "our church." We hope in the providence of God to
return to Greenville again. A sister told us that we would receive
persecution for pay. Well, praise God, we were well remunerated in
that kind of currency for Christ's sake. It has brought the "leap
and rejoice" with "the spirit of glory and of God" in our soul.
After the grove-meeting we spoke again on the streets of Greenville
to a very large crowd of attentive hearers....
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