Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — WHIRLWIND REVIVAL STIRRING GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

WHIRLWIND REVIVAL STIRRING GOODLAND

Large Tabernacle Erected to Aceom modate the Large Grows Attending Nightly. The protestant churches of Goodland have united in an effort to wipe out the wickedness of that city, and a big revival Is in progress. The meetings were started by the various churches, and then continued in the opera house, and turned over to'Evangelist O. A. Newlin. Mr. Newlin is assisted by W. A. Maltbie, an evangelical singer, who has organized*a choir of seventyfive voices. Meetings are held each afternoon and evening, the business of the town is suspended at 6 o’clock, and everybody goes to church. The crowds have grOwn so rapidly that no building In Goodland is sufficiently large to house them, and a temporary tabernacle has been erected. The tabernacle is 65x85 feet and will seat 1000 people. The first board was nailed in place Monday morning, and the building finished and the first services held in it Wednesday evening. The material and labor was donated.