The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-06
SOULFUL APPEALS.
Made to Immense Crowds by Evangelist
Crittendon.

Made to Immense Crowds by Evangelist
Crittentlon.
Mr.. Crittenton spoke to an assem-
blage last night that filled the Audi
forum. Tonight will mark the close
of the series Of meetings in Butte, and
tomorrow Mr.. Crittenton and Mr.. and
Mrs Moffat will go over to Anaconda
in the car Good News, where another
series will be held. The eight-day meet
ing in this city has been productive
of more good than a casual observer
may suppose. 1t has served to bring
large numbers of men, women and chill
dren together to listen to the earnest,
soulful appeals of man who has left
home. business and everything to
preach the gospel and use every en-
deavor to induce men and women to
lead upright lives, and especially to
teach their children the word of God.
The one dominant characteristic of
Evangelist Crittenton is his pronounced
and unmistakable earnestness in his
work. He is not a brilliant orator; he
does not assume to be. He is plain in
his every utterance and action. 1t is his
aim to convince by means of illustra-
ton rather than by delivery of flow
cry language spoken with dramatic eff
feet. His is an appeal emanating from
the soul. He is. however, a scholar and
knows how to talk but he does not de-
pend upon the classic arrangement of
words and the highly colored and pro-
fuse spasms of elegant diction to pro-
duce the effect sought. His hearer] en-
terrain the highest respect for the man
and appreciate the vastness of his I'M
dertaking. They also realize that he is
entitled to the unanimous thanks of all
Of Butte. This realization is brought
home to them by The fact that Mr..
Crittenton's mission is a laudable and
most worthy one. Last night he was
particularly earnest in his appeals to
those who have not expressed any APP
[ parent desire to embrace Christianity.
We may not meet again in this
world. l made arrangements 1G years
ago with the Lord to go to heaven. I
ask all of you to make the same kind of
arrangements. ] did not think three
years ago, when I was here before, that
I would ever return to Butte. We have
so many calls from other parts of the
union that it may be that we will not
return again to Butte"
Yesterday afternoon several ladies
met Mrs. Moffat in the Auditorium and
organized a Florence Crittenton rescue
circle. TWenty-seven members were
enrolled and the officers elected were:
President. Mrs. t. Frakes: secretary,
Miss Julia Laurell treasurer, Mrs.
Hensley. The first meeting Of the cir
Gle will be held next Monday afternoon
with Mrs. Frakes of No. Is South Idaho
street. and then the work will be
planned and discussed.
Mr.. Crittenton does not ask his hear
ers to defray his expenses. All the
money necessary for the current eX-
penses of the National Florence Crit
tenton mission has been paid by Mr..
Crittenton. Other moneys which nave
been received from time to time, as
rIo in, + no 11nr
manent endowment fund. Mr.. Critten-
ton is not simply nominally the presi-
dent of the national association, hut
in no time in the history of the work
has he been so actively engaged in d.
recting and controlling it as now. With
that business facility and training
which have made him master of COM
merce he has seen the necessity of
strict business methods in conducting
the association. as well as the various
homes in the chain. Busy as he is in
evangelistic work, preaching and hold
ing two and three meetings each day,
there is seldom a day that a letter of
instruction does not come from him to
the national officers. Every detail of
the work is referred to him daily. and,
therefore, although he may be in Cali
fornia and the headquarters in Wash
ington. it is directly under his control.
Speaking of the evangelist the mis-
sion's official organ says:
"While the officers of the national as
ISOLATION feel a delicacy in speaking of
Mr.. Crittenton in the official organ of
the association, they cannot forbear
saying that every day they find their
admiration and respect for Mr. Critten-
ton deepen. not only for his self-sacri-
flee and arduous labors in behalf of ':he
work and for his princely generosity to
it, but for the Christ-like simplicity and
humility which characterizes every
thing that he does. They also recog-
nize in their business transactions the
value of having at the head man who
has succeeded from a worldly stand
point
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