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but used to go privately to New Brighton to hear 

 your minister (Brother Showers). I always took 

 a back seat. I was there when the power of God 

 was so wonderfully displayed on that last night 

 of the Holiness Convention. That finished me. 

 I now have that power within my soul and am a 

 Free Methodist on my way to Heaven.' Many 

 incidents of a like nature might be noticed." 



His year at that place was one of almost con- 

 stant revival. Throughout almost the entire 

 winter there were meetings in the church every 

 night. Rev. Oliver Gornell, who assisted in the 

 meetings for some weeks, estimates that there 

 were not less than five hundred at the penitent 

 form during the meetings. A great many were 

 clearly converted and almost as many more 

 wholly sanctified. A highly respected lady and 

 her sixteen year old daughter were clearly saved. 

 The father bitterly opposed them and treated 

 them very harshly, even beating his daughter 

 and threatening to kill her if she persisted in 

 going to the Free Methodist Church. He was 

 also greatly enraged against the minister because 

 it was under his preaching that the lady and her 

 daughter had become Christians. This man's 

 wrath caused Brother Showers to fully realize 

 what it meant to be reviled and persecuted and 

 to have all manner of evil said against him 

 falsely, for Christ's sake. Desiring, if possible, 



