Our series of meetings began on the first Sabbath in September, and at the first invitation offered to the unconverted, at the 11 o’clock service, five came forward inquiring the way of life, and strange to say, each of that five was hopefully converted before the next Sabbath. There were several other inquirers during that week, but on account of repairs to the chapel, we were obliged to close our meetings on Tuesday of the next week. Eleven united with our church—six on profession, and five by letter. Not being ordained, it was necessary that I should get some other minister to perform the baptism and administer the Lord’s Supper. Elder Shuford, in charge of the Methodist church in this place, aided me, and the work was accomplished.
ANNISTON, ALA.
The revival work commenced in our county the middle of July. Since that date several churches of different denominations have been carrying on revival meetings. All, more or less, have rejoiced over the ingathering of souls.
Even our own little church has felt the visitation of the Holy Ghost and witnessed the gathering in of the sheaves into the Master’s store-house. We began our meetings two weeks ago. The first week we carried on a woman’s prayer meeting. The subject was, “That the church might lay aside every weight and sin, which doth so easily beset, and labor for the conversion of souls.” These meetings did a great deal of good, for when the meetings proper began, the church was ready to enter upon the Master’s work, which it did with great earnestness. The meetings closed with eight conversions. All united with us save one. Others are anxiously seeking for the blessed Master. There was an expression of great joy among my people to know that they had seven more to come around the Lord’s table and take with us the emblems of our Lord’s broken body and shed blood.
LAWSONVILLE AND THE COVE.
The church at Lawsonville has been blessed with a revival. There were seven conversions and four accessions to the church. At the Cove we enjoyed a revival season in which there were seven conversions and three accessions. The meetings did great good in reviving professed Christians, and bringing parties out of the path of the church to a realization of their responsibilities to God and society. I visited and assisted Bro. Snell at Kingston during a revival at that place, in which there were several conversions prior to my leaving, among which were four white men of respectability in that community. I have just returned home from a revival at my former station, Anniston, where much good was done in reviving the church, and turning some seven or eight souls from the error of their ways.