The awful stillness was broken when the Evangelist arose and said, "Praise God for his matchless salvation." He made a few preliminary remarks and the corp of singers began to sing.
And such music seldom issues from human lips.

It was not overwhelming in point of its artistic qualities.

The compositions were of the simplest sort.

But the singers sang from out of the abundance of redeemed souls, and there was a heavenly inspiration accompanying the songs that simply overwhelmed the hearts of sinners and overjoyed the hearts of saints.
One song that especially gripped the audience ran thus: "Do you triumph, O my brother, over all this world of sin?
In each storm of tribulation, does your Jesus reign within ?" CHORUS: "I am reigning, sweetly reigning, far above this world of strife; In my blessed, loving Savior, I am reigning in this life." When this and several other hymns equally inspiring had been sung, Evangelist Blank arose and said, "Let us pray." At this the audience began to make arrangements to stand, for it was the custom in Mount Olivet Church in those days to stand while the preacher "made" his prayer, as Deacon Gramps expressed it.

But the Evangelist had the notion that when the heart is humbled before God the body should be in a like position, so he reverently and unpretentiously knelt beside the rough board pulpit.