The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-01
UNION REVIVAL SERVICES.
WILL BE INAUGURATED BY EVAN
GELIST CRITTENDEN TONIGHT.

Mr.. Crittenten VIII Reach Savan-
Smith Also Expected To-day.
Choir and "A Force of Ushers Or
gsnized-May BE Two or Three
Services Day According to
Length of Time ReviVaIist VIII
Remain-A sketch of Life and
Work of Mr.. Crittenten.
Mr.. Charles N Crittenden, who is to
conduct the series of union revival
meetings which are to be held in the
tabernacle at Bull and Anderson
streets. and which will be begun to-
night, will reach Savannah this after
noon. During his stay here he will
be guest of Rev. Ed. F. Cook. Rev.
N. Keff Smith of Darien, who will
have charge of the chorus, also will
reach Savannah to-day. He will re-
main with Rev. w. A. Nisbet during
his stay.
Until Mr.. Crittenden arrives it will
be impossible TO state the number of
services that will be given each day.
and the hours at which they will be
given. The number, as has been pre-
viously stated, will be determined by
the length of the series: should the
meetings be continued for three weeks
there will be two meetings daily while
if they last a shorter time there may
be three meetings a day.
The choir, which consists of the
choirs of most of the evangelical
churches reinforced by the addition of
IL. I,
tabernacle tonight at 7:45 o'clock. The
ushers were organized Sunday after
noon, as has already been stated in
the Morning News. In fact every
thing that the ministers can do to make
the meetings successful has been done.
Mr.. Crittenden has not only the con-
ffdence of the church people but of the
business men as well. When a man
with an income of 900 a year gives
up his business and his elegant home
and largely his place as one of the
leading business men of the nation and
goes out into the world to help rescue
the perishing and lift up the fallen, he
becomes a marked man and deserves
the sympathy and cooperation of all
good people.
Mr.. Crittenden, it is stated in a
sketch of his life, is a native of New
York state. Like most men who have
made their mark and left an
impress upon the world for good,
he was born and brought up
in the country on a farm.
He made his start in the business world
as an office boy and wore home made
clothes His rise was gradual but
marked He has always stuck to hon
est and legitimate methods in business
and owes nothing to wild speculation.
Being called of God to go out into the
world to search in the highways and
hedges for his fellows that he might do
them good, he trusted his business to
the Lord and other men. His business
still prospers.
In his evangelical work Mr.. Critten-
den has shown the same remarkable
skill and industry that characterized
his business career. He spent four
years as a worker in the slums. Be
cause OF i'll health he was compelled to
travel. While recovering his health he
went through the Holy Land and made
a careful study of the life and works
of Jesus amid the very scenes where he
went about doing good"
His knowledge of, and familiarity
with. the scriptures is remarkable
Aged preachers say they have not met
his equal. He is one of the most pop
ular evangelist of to-day, and has great
power over an audience. To him
heaven and hell are very real things
They are as real to him as they were
to John Bunyan. He believes like Ed
wards and breaches like Paul" says
one who knows him we'll. He is al
ways earnest and interesting and al
times eloquent.