Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-26
AuSpiciOuS Start For the Noun
tain View Church.
INDEBTEDNESS Is RAISED
Congregation Contributed $4,000 at
Two ServiceS-Dr. lift
breaches.

The magnificent new Mountain View
Methodist Episcopal church was opened
Yesterday, although the formal dedlca-
ton will not take place until next Sunday.
After the sermon yesterday morning, Rev.
Albritton spoke of the church
He said the building had cost furnished
$29, 900, Of which amount $4,000 had been
pledged, leaving an Indebtedness of S.
900. The pastor called for subscriptions.
Within thirty minutes $500 of this
amount was pledged by persons in the
congregation, leaving a balance of $1,4OO.
At the evening service this amount was
pledged, every cent of the Indebtedness
was provided for, and the building will be
turned over to the board of directors
next Sunday without the usual church
mortgage.
When the subscriptions were called for
at the morning service w. A. Clark, Jr.,
subscribed $500, and like amounts were
subscribed by the Sunday school board,
the Ladies' Aid society and a gentleman
whose name was withheld. Ex-Governor
Richards photographed his greetings and a
gift Of $3.50. DIR. Ilirf had charge of the
collections and he evinced "a money rals-
ing talent that would have made him sec
rotary of the treasury, had he not elected
to go forth and spread the gospel of the
gentle Nazarene over the wilds of the
west. When the Ladies' Aid society's gift
was announced, DR.. Ambition said the la
dies were reserving of the highest praise.
'Inded, they are. I always stand by
the ladies' replied the man who had
fought so well for the sanctIty OF the 1u-
ture Utah Tome
II should say you did," replied Dr.. AL
britton. For instance, the Roberts case.
The pleasantly was followed by a list of
500 subscriptions.
All the pastors of the city were present,
and occupied seats on the pulpit platform.
DR.. lifts text was:
"Out of the Ruins of the Ond Rises the
! New Castle. Death Does not Enc all"
He spoke Of the life after death, Of the
deeds of men which live forever. From
vegetable death comes "a harvest of life
| sustenance. Struggle and %privation pre-
cede moral growth. Heroic self-sacrlf1ce
suffering and toll are rewarded in death
which lives in memory, and all this is nee
essary in the laying Of the foundation for
higher civilization Inc a purer religion"
The sermon was a powerful one, edo
| quent, logical and made doubly impress
sive by the magnetism of the brave old
lion Of the church, the man who made the
courageous fight against Congressman.
| elect Roberts, and who succeeded in
| arousing public sentiment against the
p~olygalnous politician.
The church was crowded again last
night, DR.. Albritton preaching the SER
mon. At the conclusion of the sermon the
subscription was again opened and the
scenes of the morning service re-enacted,
the necessary $1,400 being raised in a very
| short time.
DIR. Tiff addressed an audience in the
Y. M. C. A., rooms yesterday afternoon.
| He spoke eloquently on the need Of such
an organization in Butte He told of his
conversion when a boy, IA years of age.
Tell me there is nothing in it." said he,
"but as sure as the sun is shining over us
today, did there come to me the light of
joy on that night forty years ago. stand
here as a servant of the divine Lord and
tell you that it is our duty to SO out and
bring into the fold those hundreds OF
young men in Butte.