The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-05
OVER 5000 PEOPLE.
nam EVANGELIST CRITTENToN
At TABERNACLE LAST NIGHT.
MANY IN AFTERNOON ALSO.
.-,TYNC CAPACITY OF BUILDING
NOT EQUAL TO THE DEMAND.

sneciaI Selections Form Part of Pre-
narnfory Song Service-NOOn-Day
services to Be Held in Christ
church for Business Men-Service
for Young People Friday and for
children Saturday-Many Persons
AL. for Praycr-WOmen Asked TO
Remove Their Hats ''fOr Good of
tbe Meeting and the Glory OF
God"
More than three thousand people at
tended the meeting in the Tabernacle
last night: 1t was by far a larger
Gathering than has been present at any
o+ber OF the services since they began,
last Thursday. Not only were all the
cats in the Tabernacle itself occupied, |
b,it those on the outside as well, and
even then many in the audience were
forced to stand.
The sermon by Evangelist Crittenton
was preceded by the usual song SER
vice of which a part was quartette,
"TAm a Pilgrim, 1 Am a Stranger"
sung by the choir of Trinity Methodist
Church. Miss Albert deFour, Miss
Mary Gross, Mr.. w. F. Treece and Mr..
w R. l.. Roberts: also a male quar-
tette Lights Along the Shore" sung
bv Mr.. Treece, Mr.. L. B. Fowler, Mr..
Roberts and Mr.. c. D. McCardel.
Special selections will be sung as
part of this service also tonight.
The first lesson, the twenty third
Psalm, was read by Rev. w. A. Nisbet,
pastor of Westminster Church, who
also delivered the opening prayer. Rev.
Ed f. Cook, pastor of Wesley Monu-
mental Church, announced that ser
vices will be held at 4:30 and at $50
o'clock p. m. each day, and announced
also that, beginning to-day, business
mems service would be held daily in
Christ Church Sunday school room be-
ginning promptly at noon and lasting
forty minutes. Other special services
will be held Friday night for young
people, and Saturday afternoon, for
children. These services while intend
ed specially for certain classes are open
also to the general public.
The Tabernacle Fund.
Rev. Mr.. Cook, as president of the
Ministerial Association, called the at
tention of the audience to the fact that
the ministers desire to retain the Tab
ernacle for 'all moral and spiritual
uses for which it may be needed. and
that, therefore, a collection would be
taken up to assist in paying for it,
He further stated that he was nervous
and fidgety himself when he attended
meeting and couldn't see the speaker
and said he felt that there are many
other men who are the same way,
therefore, as a special request he
asked that the women of the audience
remove their hats, for the good of
the meeting and the glory of God"
Mr.. Crittenton preached from the
text But seek We first the kingdom
Of God and His righteousness and all
these things shall be added unto YOU"
Matthew, vi:33. MANY people," he
said wonder why they don't get along
better, whereas, if they would but
think about the matter the wonder is
that God lets them live at ALL mas
much as they don't do what he has ex-
pressly commanded them to do.
WHAT Christ wants you to do He
tells you plainly in Matthew V, vi, vii
IN sermon the most wonderful that
ever was preached" The speaker ex-
planned this necessity for the seeking
OF God and illustrated it by a num-
Der of anecdotes of men and women
VINO, through sin, have fallen to the
lowest depths of degradation and de-
spalr, and yet who, when converted
have Won back their places in society
and business.
Seek Gods Kingdom First.
REST assured" he said, that if men
and women would follow this COM
mand, Seek We first the kingdom of
God and it's righteousness the world
would be different; if everybody would
do as Jesus Christ tells us to do there
would be no necessity of jails, of laws
or of the sixty homes for women that
are scattered from Maine to Califor-
MIA"
lie told of the consequences that
sometimes come to persons who put off
thls invitation to accept Christ by cit
ing the case of a man of whom Dwight
L. Moody used to tell Moody met
him, he said, and heard his story to
the effect that when he left home his
mother had given him this text to
guide his life, Seek We first the king
dom of God and his righteousness" but
mat he had been satisfied to seek only
The goods of the world and now that
ne had secured much of them he no
longer had the desire to seek God.
Moody himself was converted shortly
after this conversation and bethinking
himself of this man and his story re-
ing the man and inducing him to join
the church, but when he had reached
homo he found that the man had be-
come insane and was the inmate of an
asylum. There Mr.. Moody visited him
only to find him a hopeless case with
ever the burden of his speech the text
mat his mother had given him and
winch he had failed to obey.
Many Went Forward.
AT the close of the sermon Mr. Crit
tenton first invited all that thought
themselves saved to stand, then those
mat wished to be saved, and finally
an to stand that they might be pray
cd Tor. Many came forward later and
gave their hand to some one of the
minister's assembled in front of the
platform, a token of their desire for
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