The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-28
HELD THREE MEETINGS
Large Crowds Listen to Com
missioner Eva Booth.
AN IMPRISONED SERMON
Congregations Taxed the Capacity OF the
Auditorium-She Aroused Great
Enthusiasm Made Thir-
teen Converts.

The visit to Butte yesterday of Com
missioner Eva Booth of the Salvation
army was notable event for the local
Z Salvationists. Rarely have they ever
4 had such congregations as attended the
/ three meetings which Miss Booth ad-
/ dressed at the Auditorium during the
/ day and the result of the meetings af-
! forded much encouragement to the Butte
corps Miss Booth preached salvation
/ sermon in the morning, arousing much
| enthusiasm, which prompted IL of her
/ hearers to confess religion. In the art
ernoon she devoted her remarks chiefly
to arousing an interest in the proposed
establishment of a shelter for men in
Butte. and in the evening delivered an
other impa ssioned religious sermon and
reviewed the work OF the army under
her command The Auditorium was
filled 10 its capacity at all three of the
meetings.
In the morning, after the usual OPEN
ing exercises, Commissioner Booth an
SUBJECT SUBJECT "T6gues of Fire. Which was
treated in an able manner. In the course
OF her remarks she said:
Tongues of fire are tongues OF love,
Of kindness, speaking tenderly, consid-
eIately TO all and of all. A man told me
once that he was damned and all
through word wrongly, wickedly
spoken" The speaker then exhorted her
hearers to guard against uttering words
that might have such a terrible effect,
and turning her attention to the army
spoke words of encouragement, urging
every soldier to go in for baptism of
Tire, assuring them of Gods grace to
meet the DEVILS darts and conquer. In
closing Miss Booth appealed to all pres
ent who desired to embrace religion to
forward fpfNRntlV
that IL went forward from the audience
and confessed the faith.
The Auditorium could scarcely accom-
mediate the people who assembled at the
afternoon meeting, which was opened
with prayer, followed by an exquisite
vocal duet by two members of the local
corps at the conclusion of which Com
missioner Booth called Ensign Woodruff
forward, and eulogiZing the work she
had done in Butte, conferred upon her
promotion from ensign to adjutant. amid
tumultous applause from the audience.
Miss Booth then spoke upon the sub
ject of the benefits of shelter to the
unfortunate men of city and said if
sufficient encouragement were offered,
shelter would be established here.
The evening meeting was the most large
ly attended of the day. The Auditorium
had been full at both the previous meet
ings, but in the evening II was packed to
suffocation and hundreds of people filed
up the stairs and down again, unable to
SO much get chance to look in the
doors. Miss Booth took for her subject,
"Thy Way and Thy Doings," and in sub
stance said:
you arc all treading some way; the
path is self-chosen. You may not desire
to admit II, but you have chosen it. You
did not choose its difficulties or snares.
nor did you intend to go down as others
who have trod it, but all the same you
..h1 fxrrn Dli f.f
which the Bible spealks-the way of the
saint. pleasantness and peace. and the
way of the wicked which is darkness. 1t
is impossible to tread the way of the
wicked and not do wickedly. All the same
there is a certain class of sinners whose
doings are worse than others One man
drifts the way that leads to hel. and drifts
there as forgotten of Cod another
strews the path with deeds so dark that
he is stepped in iniquity. Mans doings are
important. Forgetting them does not OBJ
literate them. What about yours?'
The speaker then dwelt upon the va
rious forms of mans misdoings. and con-
tinuing. said:
Men stand in the way of men. When
you look for help and comradeship and
there is no man TO respond it is because
every man is for himself
Miss Booth closed by wildly painting
the beauties of virtue and the happiness
saint contrasted with the degrada-
ton and sufferings which come from the
misdongs of man which she had de-
scribed.
Miss Booth was particularly eloquent i'm
her delivery last evening and frequently
stirred deeply the emotions of her audi
ence. At the close OF the meeting it was
announced that as one result of Miss
Booths visit to Butte. the shelter for
men of which she spoke during the after
noon. and which has been contemplated
for some time. will be established. Miss
Booth and her party leave this morning
for Helena, and from there will continue
her journey westward.
Grnnf Nni,t harm train lea for g.