Evening star., 1896-11-27
RES CUE OF WOMEN
The Orittenton Series Of Meetings in This
City.
Views Of a PhilanthrOpist ON the Re.
dcmption Of Ontcasts-The Last
Of Meetings.

The series Of meetings, heretofore men,
tened In The Star, ito be held in this city
by Evangelist Charles N. Crittenton. the
founder of the Florence Crittenton Mis-
sions, whose special field is the rescue Of
fallen women. will begin Monday evening
next at Metropolitan M. E. Church, or the
First Congregational Church. as may in
the meantime be decided upon. and con-
tinue In one or the other during the ensuing
two weeks.
At O'Clock Monday afternoon a welcome
reception will be rendered to Mr.. Critten-
ton and his co-workers in the parlors and
social room Of the First Congregational
Church, from to 6 o'clock. Rev.E.D. Bailey
OF the local board Of directors will preside
Inc program will be follows: Music,
All Hail the Power of Jesus Name;"
prayer, Rev. DR.. r. H. McKim; addresses
OF welcome: For the clergy, Rev. DR.. g. M.
Newman; for the church. Rev. Dr. Hugh
Johnston; for the Young Mems Christian
Association. Mr.. w. N. Multer; for home
missions. Mrs. Clara L. Roach; solo, I'm
the secret Of His Presence" Miss Mary
Tuthill. The following will also, it is ex-
Pected, speak briefly: Bishop Satterlee.
Bishop Hurst and Rev. DIR. J. E. Gilbert.
responses to the addresses will be made
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n. Crittenton. The exercises will close with
the singing of the doxology.
Mr.. Crittenton's Plans.
Mr.. Crittenton, who is now conducting
evangelisttc meetings In Baltimore, will
close his services there Sunday afternoon
with grand mass meeting in Mt. Vernon
Place M. E. Church, and on Monday will
preach In Washington, coming in his own
car Ihe Florence Crittenton Rescue Car"
ana which is transported free of charge
by all the railroads throughout the United
states because of the great work Mr. Crit
tenton is doing by this means for human
ity.
Many letters of welcome and invitation
nave been sent to Mr.. Crittenton from
prominent ministers and churches here
win assurances of support, among which
are the Congregational ministers, the
Methodist preachers meeting the Central
Union Mission. while Bishop Hurst and
Bishop Satterlee have both expressed their
intention to attend the reception at the
FIRST Congregational Church at o'clock
Monday, and to speak words Of greeting
and commendation
Through Convention.
Mr.. Crittenton's one plan to rescue fallen
women. as stated by himself, is conversion
The laws passed by Congress and the
various state legislatures are said to be
and necessary. But the only way you can
ever check or abolish the evil is to get the
women converted, and the men, too A
man who has been regenerated by the pow
er Of Christ is not going to lie and steal,
and he is not going to commit greater
crimes.
so we simply preach the gospel to the
girls Poor creatures! They do not want
to continue the lives they are leading.
They are glad Of any way of escape. But
what can they do? Nobody will receive
them.
They have been the despised and abused
of earth SO long that even they can hardly
believe we are willing to go down to them
end take them by the hand the same as we
do any other kind of sinners and say: The
blood of Christ was for you, too.
Our homes are not solution of the
problem We do not intend them as such.
They are simply an evidence of good faith
to show these girls that we really mean 1t
when say there Is an opportunity for
them TO take up a new life, and that we
will stand by them whatever the world
may say. l.-
Some people ask sometimes if the wo-
men really can be saved. Why, of course
they can. Is the power of Christ limited to
people who have kept themselves respecta-
BILE? Even church members ask the ques-
ton sometimes. Over and over again 1t has
been proven.
I'VE have hundreds of letters in those
cases from girls who have been redeemed
and who are walking in the new life. 1t is
really strange that people should ask such
a question. Now, have been redeemed by
the blood of Christ, and 1 know it. If all
the people in the world should say 1t were
not so, it wouldn't affect me, for 1 know it,
1 have experienced it. If Christ can take
a business man with his head full of busi-
ness and worldly things and redeem him
He can redeem the lowest sinner in the
gutter who is unsatisfied with his life any
way.
What should be done? Well, the church
people should get together in burning zeal
to carry this gospel to the outcasts and tell
them there is still life for them. A great
revival and great conservation among
church members will have to come before
this gospel shall be carried in power to
those who have sunk to the depths and
given up hope.
Another thing that will have to come is
single standard Of morals for man and
woman. Ever since the time of Adam the
man has been blaming the woman and has
succeeded somehow in getting an impress
sion abroad that he was not equally guilty.
The blame has fallen heavily through all
the centuries. and the weight of it falls on
the victims of men. This must be changed
From the very nature of the sin both must
be equally to blame. You can't cast out
the woman and receive the man.
Il don't know that the evil is on the in
population is increasing so fast it is hard to
say about the increase or decrease. l do
not look for its complete abolition at once.
l think 1t will be with us till the millen-
mum. Only the reign of the gospel can ever
rid this earth of II -