The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-15
ANACONDA NEWS.
RESCUE FALLEN WOMEN
A Powerful Appeal Made by
Evangelist Crittenton.
UNION SERVICES HELD
An Immense Audience Listened to the
Address-True Christianity the Key
note of His Plea--A Circle
to Be Organized
SERVICES HELD

In the morning about 500 persons lis
tened to the words of the inspired
speaker and the human nightingale,
Mrs. Moffatt On the stage were the
pastors of the various churches of the
city, and the united choirs from all the
churches.
The services We're begun by Rev. Mr..
Cleland of the Presbyterian church, who
read the 18th chapter of st. John. Rev
j. A. jenkins Of the First Baptist
church and Rev. Mr.. Cederherg ofShe
Swedish Baptist church offered prayers.
Mrs Moffatt sang The Holy city with
marvellous power and expression.
st. John H. 2S The master is come,
and calleth for thee" was Mr.. Critten-
toms text. His discourse lasted an
hour and was of particular interest,
exhorting the people to roll away the
stones of neglect, Indifference, world
illness and discouragement from their
lives and thus clear the way for bet
ter living.
As the hour for the afternoons lee
ture on Rescue Homes approached
the Margaret theater slowly Hlled until
but few vacant seats were left tor the
tardy ones. Fully 1000 persons We're
seated. when, promptly at O'Clock.
the services We're opened by singing
by the choir and audience. Rev. J. A.
jenkins of the Baptist church read 'the
touching story of Mary Magdalen and
Miss Macdougal of the Presbyterian
choir sang 20, Hear lie, My Savior
in her customary pleasing style. r.
H. Isman presided at the piano and
Mr.. Bryant handled mastery bow on
the violin. Rev. Mr.. CederbCrS of the
Swedish Baptist church offered prayer.
Mrs. Moffatt sang her masterpiece, NO
body Cares and Nellie Conroy,' and
enraptured the audience with her me-
1odious tones.
Mr.. Crittenton's lecture was replete
with interest. He spoke from the text
Isiah AZ, %, and he said:
1.-THE question is frequently asked,
Why are these homes called Flor
ence Crittenton Rescue Homes?''
will tell you. My little daughter died,
and thus called me, through repent
.ance, which was brought aIout by the
death of my child.
Il had too many friends who pulled
down my morals as fast as I'sfied to
build them up. With these so-called
friends I became bound in a chain of
habits I found impossible TO break.
When any one here below lifts up
cry from the depths of his or her soul
God will bend the heavens and break
the chains. and he can rise up from
the pits of despair After seven months
of misery God brought to my mind the
10Th verse of the Sd chapter of Revela-
tions, AS many as | love rebuke and
chasten; be Jealous. therefore, and re-
pent.' This | tried to get out of my
mind, for | didn't like it. [ began to
wonder how God could love me. 1t
broke my heart and | Wept. | thought
of my little girl, who WaS above. ana
resolved | would so to her. ! was sick
pf hI,Si
it is all burned up don't care | knelt
down and resolved that I'd never come
from my chamber until ! had settled
my fate for all eternity. should be
lost or saved? | came down saved
man. My load of misery rolled off and
| promised God I'd be obeGient to His
commands ] went with slum mis-
sionary and visited two poor girls, who
had sinned l found them in a miser-
able cellar, and there they were re-
deemed. / talked to them and found
they had no place to go should they
leave their miserable abodes. unless
they went to another as bad. Sixty
days later the door Of the first Flor
ence Crittenton Rescue Home was open
ed This was 49, years ago.
Poor tired, miserab BILE. dOwntrodden
girls, 300. 600 of them in Christian Amer
lea, and the Bible is in the hands of
nearly every citizen. All over the. land
rises the cry. stone them! Stone them
w nat causes TINS awful state OF f.l
fairs? Our missionaries throughout
the land have kept careful memoran
da of all causes of the downfall Ct these
girls, the flower of our land. Thy
keep a record of their calculations and
state that the principal causes are
dancing, drugs. mock weddings and
wages that will not keep soul and nody
together. A young widow got post
ton in A big city and became a COM
petent worker. She got $3.50 per week,
and when she asked for an increasa
the manager of the firm referred her
to the lady bookkeeper. who would :ell
her how to make extra money. She
went. Where is she now?
"rhe question is frequently asked,
Can they be saved?' OF course they
can. Did not the Savior come to save
all, regardless Of quality q sin? If
] believed that they could not be saved
I'd give up the Bible and say it was il
failure.
''When they come to Christ they be
come new creatures, they are not a
patchwork but new creatures.
Just consider this: There are 5000
fallen women in America, 1000 in Lon
don and $4,000 in Benares, India. Their
average life is five years and they us
ually die of consumption. These ranks
are being constantly filled, 10000 every
year, 5000 every month are laid upon
the altar of lust. These are taken from
our homes and fresides. You remember
few weeks ago the papers came out
with flarng headlines stating that 1000
young men had been killed in the war.
You don't see big posters announcing
the fact that 1000 girls go every 50 days
TO unknown graves through sin. No.
indeed, These good peopl" say Hush!
We mustn't talk of such things"
"In New York d fallen girl, some
mothers darling. gets i'll, The hectic
flush of the c"nsumptiVp cOlorS h"r
check The am hula comes and takes