The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-17
THE CRITTENFON MEETINGS.
Tomorrow Night viii Witness the
Last of Them.
Anniversary of the Florence Mission
The EvRngelist's Stirring Ser
mon Last Night.

"God so loved the world that He gave
believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life"
This was the burden Of the sermon
preached last night by Evangelist Crit
tenton to big congregation at the Sixth
street Methodist Church. With deep
emotion and eyes filed with unshed
tears, Mr.. Crittenton portrayed the love
of God. 1 used to think more of the
wondrous love of Christ, said he, in
coming to this world and living in pow
erty and pain, and dying the awful
death on the cross for us, and yet who
can fathom the love of the Father Who
could allow that beloved Son to go
through that dreadful suffering? When
you realize how you love your own child,
then we can iaintly comprehend the love
OF God. Why, in the story of the Prodi-
gal son God is represented as running to
meet the sinner with outstretched arms
OF love, and tonight God loves the
prodigal boys and prodigal girls as ten
derby as eighteen centuries ago.
This evening, December Is, 1892, many
wandering boy and girl is coming
home 10 their fathers house. If there is
"
If there is anything that is heartless, it is
society. Let its most cherished member
make misstep or have a misfortune, and
they can let them slip down and down,
and should death claim them their faces
would not change particle. How differ
ent is the love OF God, that forgives again
and again, aud helps with tenderness and
love with unwearying patience!
Mr.. Crittenton startled his audience as
he told the story of man who wrote a
heart breaking letter, saying, 81 have at
tended your meetings, and you say that
Jesus can save all who have sinned-even
fallen woman. But can he save a man
whose heart was so black chat he caused
a wOman's fall? \ few years since | had
a lovely home-a wife and three children.
and when that dear wife and l would 90
to church with our little ones she would
look at me with pride and say, We must
bring them up so they will be as good
as you are, john Once she invited
young lady friend to come and visit
US. . God! she little thought she was
coming to her ruin. \ little while passed
by, and after struggling against my pas
sion and her own she yielded to me. and
/ basely deserted wife ami children and
home, and together we went to San
Francisco. l could not get work as a
bookkeeper, and went into a second-class
saloon as a bartender. We both drank to
uIOWu our Slldili6 anu I6lflOlSp. ana III
six months we were both drunzards.
Then | lost even that position, and she
upbralded me for not earning money,
and l said, with an oath, You can sup
port us both if you will, and drove her
to the streets and, Oh, God how can [
tell it? 1 lived on the wages OF her
shamel One day a man came into the
saloon and said, Lucy has committed
suicide!' and / ran to the room, and there
lay that girl, once fair and beautiful, now
drunken and ruined, bathed in her own
life blood. Gods voice seemed to speak
to me and say, Your work Your work =
And whenever l look in the glass l see
hell written all over my face, and the
face of that girl haunts me night and day.
Could God forgive such a man as l am
You say, Believe on Christ but Will my
believing take that girls soul out Of
hell 2"
Surely, said Mr.. Crittenton, those two
found that the way OF the transgressor
is hard" GOD is not Knocked; what a
man sows that shall he also reap.''
And yet, to all persistent ones, no mat
ter how deeply-dyed in sin, comes the
precious word Of God: Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as snow. Though they be red like Grim
son, they shall be like wool"
Among the prayers special mention was
made of the press, and the benediction of
you invoked upon Inese Whlte-Wlnged
messengers to every household.
Miss Halle Q. Brown, a bright woman
representing the educational work among
the colored people at Tuskeegee Uni
versity, Alabama, sang two beautiful
solos.
The Florence Mission anniversary will
be celebrated at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon.
Farewell meeting Sunday evening. The
| order of services will be: Singing, hymn
1859; prayer, by Rev. T. p. Tyndall,
chorus, by converts of mission; report,
by Mrs. j. H. Glide, Secretary; address,
by Rev. J. B. Koehne; testimonies, by
converts Of mission.