Evangelist Dug Up Facts On Congregants, Revival Closes Early

Illinois, 1909

EVANGELIST DUG UP ANCIENT FACTS

Havana, Dec. 4 — The series of revival meetings which has been going on in the Methodist church during the past three weeks closed last night. The end was rather unexpected since it was announced that they would be continued until at least Dec. 19 at the time they were begun. It seems that the Rev. E. B. Adams, the evangelist in charge, has lost a few influential friends among the members of the church by his manner of digging up incidents that have occurred in years long gone by and hurling them into the teeth of his congregation, and the unsupported rumor is going about the streets to the effect that his course was not pleasing to the people of the church generally and that this state of affairs is responsible for the sudden closing of the revival series.

—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, Dec. 14, 1909, page 2.