The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-17
Ill HEALTH.
I'LL muafv III
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WILL CAUSE
HIM TO CO
THE REV. J. [. ABORTION TO RE-
TIRE FROM MOUNTAIN VIEW
CHURCH AND LEAVE BUTTE
So Informs Elders at Fourth Quarterly
Conference-Expresses Regret That
Physical Conditions Of Himself
and Wife Necessitate Change
Expresses Best Wishes for
Success Of Church.

For some time there have been reports
to the effect that the Rev. J. l.. Albritton,
pastor of the Mountain View church
would be compelled because of the i'll
health of himself and wife, to leave
Butte. This DR.. Albritton confirms and
in SO doing expresses his deep regret and
sorrow.
DIR. Albritton has been in Butte three
years and has been most successful in
his ministry. 1t was owing to his efforts
that the Mountain View church was
built.
At the meeting Of the elders of the
church in quarterly conference Satur-
day night DR.. Albritton said at the emf
Of his report:
In closing my report to the Fourth
quarterly conference I would say that
the church. as far as I am able to see
and judge, is in good condition. While
the Sunday congregation may not be as
large as it has been. the prayer meeting
is better attended than at any time
since I have been pastor here and the
Sunday school was never In SO pros
porous condition. The class services
are we'll attended and spiritual and the
Epworth League is doing good work ane
is in condition now to do better.
Ill probationers. During my pastorate
here I have taken into the church 257
members and 2o3 probationers. I have
watched the growth Of the church with
an enthusiasm sometimes almost border
ing on frenzy-for I have felt that
Mountain View church could and does
mould the status of Methodism Of Mon
tana. #tq
II have tried to declare the whole
counsel of God-and I have served this
people without Partially. I have
wounded the feelings of some Of my peO-
pie and l have spent sleepless nights
over it, I have reproved what I con-
s!dered to be wrong among our highest
and lowest; I have worked till am a
nervous wreck and my nights are spent
in wakefulness and my days in anxiety.
II feel that I cannot do any more in
Mountain View church.
THE church is built and the debt is al
most entirely provided for. The church
occupies a position it has never occupied
in the community before and 1 turn
away from the scenes Of my hardest la
| Dor and expect while the humble worker
! ceases his work with you, that the work
will go on. I pray God it may go with
| better success and less friction than eve,
before. I shall never cease to thank
| God for the humble poor have been per.
mitted to lead to the Lamb of God who
taketh away the sins of the World"
| Last night DIR. Albrittbn preached 9
| sermon on the successful man, taking as
his text Isiah 46:S, Among other things
| he said: eff Clay who once stood in The
pass of the Allegheny Mountain listen.
! ing to the tramp of thousands was alive
| today in the Rocky Mountains he could
stand and above shrieks of locomotives
and thunderings of large trains hear the
tramp of millions. The world is moving
| as it never moved before. The spirit OF
| progress and invention is alive today as
| it never was before. The press is active