One year after the “tongues” revival, Evangelist Monteith began the second revival of the church of God in Bethany.  He was accompanied by three helpers.  Robert Davis and Mary were sanctified wholly.  So also was Jake Newby and Kate, old Mr. Stephenson and Charley Moss.  Thirty-five were converted, and twelve besides the ones named were sanctified.  Mrs. Thomas Jones was healed of tuberculosis and Dr. Horton, who had been her physician for three years, met her one day and was much surprised at her appearance.

“Why, Mrs. Jones, whatever has happened to you?” he said, “you look so well.”

“Hadn’t you heard about my healing, Doctor?” she replied pleasantly.  “At the meeting recently the Lord touched my body with His healing power and I do not cough any more, the fever is gone, and I am gaining two pounds a week.”

“My, if you folks keep on I will starve to death practicing medicine,” said the Doctor.

“Probably we shall not spend money for drugs, Doctor, but there will still be things you can do for us,” said Mrs. Jones.  “We are still under physical laws and your knowledge will be of great help to us in keeping well.”

In the advertising matter which Robert Davis published at the beginning of the second revival he publicly repudiated Mormonism, Russell’s “No-hell-ism,” Adventism, and announced that the meeting was under the auspices of the church of God.  The meeting itself was so sane, yet so spiritual, that it commended itself to every one who attended.  There were no excesses, and everything was done decently and in order.

On Sunday, the last day of the meeting, the evangelist preached on “The Church, the House of God,” and in the afternoon he preached on “The Church, Its Divine Ordinances,” after which thirty-nine were baptized in the river which flowed close by.  The minister stood on the banks and said: 

“We have met here this beautiful afternoon, friends, to administer the ordinance of baptism.  Jesus commanded His ministers in Matt. 28:19 and 20—­’Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:  and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.  Amen.’  We gladly obey the commands of our great Redeemer.

“Baptism does not save the sinner, but it is the answer of a good conscience, as Peter 3:21 says.  Baptism represents our death to sin and our resurrection to righteousness.  As Paul, the great apostle says:  ’Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.’  The whole idea of baptism is beautifully pictured in Romans 6:3, 4, ’Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:  that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.’