Those Were the Days presentation at Oregon Depot

The June 29th “Those Were the Days ” presentation at 10:00 AM at the Oregon Illinois Depot will feature Dr. Tom Wadsworth of Dixon. The speaker’s subject will be “Billy Sunday’s Remarkable Revivals in Sterling and Dixon, in 1904 and 1905.”

Wadsworth’s one-hour presentation will reveal why the famous evangelist came to Sterling in 1904 and to Dixon in 1905, details about the special “tabernacles” built for these 5-week revivals, descriptions of the music and preaching in these meetings, opposition to the revivals, the results of the meetings (1,500 conversions in Sterling and 1,300 in Dixon), and an assessment of why they were so successful.