The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-07
FIRST YEAR CONCLUDED
Resolutions Of Regard for Rev.
j. L. Albritton.
UPBUILDlNG THE CHURCH
His Administration as Pastor Has Given
Complete MISUNDERSTANDING
Efforts Are Apprs-
ciated

| soou IelioW yesterday. The good
pastor of very large flock concluded
MS first year in the parish yesterday,
ana to prove to the world that the rev.
erend gentleman is giving entire salts
FACTION to his congregation and the pill
lars or the church, the official board
through Ex-Governor J.. E. Richards,
presented him with a copy of the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were read to
the congregation. The resolutions are
signed by ]. E. Richards, chairman of
the board, and c. s. Jackman, secre-
tary, and are as follows:
Whereas In the providence of God
| 1T has been the good fortune of our
church to be served for the past ten
months by Rev. J. L. Albritton, D. D.,
| and
Whereas, His services as preacher
and pastor have promoted every in
terest of our blessed Zion. and the
church has felt the inspiring force of
| his work through growth in numbers
| and harmony in effort in all that goes
to the upbuilding of the cause, and
Whereas, The conference year is
! drawing to it's close with it's record of
prosperity and growth, so satisfactory
to the members of this congregation,
| be it therefore
| Resolved. That we hereby record
our entire satisfaction with Dr. Albrit-
| tons ministrations as pastor over us,
our appreciation of his untiring efforts
| in behalf of the church, and our thanks
! for the good work he has accomplish
ed; and, further, that we unanimously
| request that he be returned to this pas
| torate for another year to continue the
labors so satisfactorily carried on; and
Resolved, That these resolutions be
forwarded to the presiding bishop
| through our presiding elder, as our ex-
preston of confidence in Dr. Albritton
and our request for his return"
The above was unanimously adopted
| by the official board of the church on
Monday, July 81.
Mr.. Albritton will go to Livingston
| tomorrow to attend the conference of
the church. 1t is the unanimous wish
| of the congregation that Mr.. Albritton
| be returned to this charge. From the
| first he has worked faithfully to build
| up his congregation. One of the first
steps he took after arriving in Butte
| was towards the enlargement of the
| house of worship. This step finally re-
| suited in the tearing down of the old
church and the beginning of the cree
| ton of a magnificent $4,000 church
| edifice. This, it is believed, will be
dedicated the first week in December.
| In 1.-THE Greeting the weekly publ
|
| the pastor says:
with the present number we close
| the second volume of The Greeting.
| The st-,yolume was paid for by the
Epworth League. Then the official
| board assumed the responsibility of
the leafet,, and placed the cost in the
general budget of current expenses.
With this number the conference year
closes, and with the opening of the
new year the new board will assume
| the responsibilities of the new
| year, Whether or not they will de-
eide to have the paper continued is
| question for them to consider There
have been many kind words spoken of
| the little paper and very few criti-
cisms passed upon it. We have not
sought notoriety by it, nor have we
| advertised ourselves or any person.
We have endeavored to advertise
Mountain View church and to keep
our services all the time before the eyes
| of our people. We have urged our peo-
| pie to attend the class meeting, the
prayer meeting. the Epworth League
services and the Sunday school, We
| have made no effort to excel in liter
airy line. This has in no respect been
our object. Our whole and only aim
| has been to hold the services of the
church before the people and try to
get them to be faithful to all theNinter-
| ests of the church. The paper has not
! satisfied us, by any means (whose work
does0, but we have had it distributed
with a consciousness that we were
| trying to do good. II circumstances
| should be such that the official board
| should desire us to continue The Greet
| ing, we shall be pleased to give the
work to it. But If they should think
| otherwise, I shall neither be disap-
pointed nor displeased.
Conference. what does it mean to
the preacher? 1t should mean much.
He goes to receive from the hands of
the bishop an appointment to work a
year for Christ and his church. While
we do not believe in men being in
spired to-day as they were in apostolic
times. but we do have great faith in
God having something to do in the
making of appointments in our annual
conferences. Let the prayer meeting
next Wednesday night be mainly for
Gods blessing to rest upon our con-
ference at Livingston"