The Daily Missoulian., 1910-11-26
EVANGELIST LOWRY
COMING soon
LOCAL CHURCHES 70 BUILD BIG
TABERNAcLE-AN EDITORIAL
VIEW or REVEALS.

The evangelical churches of this city
have united in inviting Evangelist
Lowry and his party of workers to
visit Missoula and on January l. 1911.
will begin a revival campaign which
is expected to stir the city from center
to circumference. A large tabernacle
seating about 1000 is to be erected for
the accommodation of the crowds that
will want to attend Below is given
an editorial from the Winona (Minn.)
Daily Republican-Herald, which pub
lished Evangelist Lowrys sermons in
fun each day during the campaign in
| that city. Winona is a city about the
size of Missoula. 1t is expected that
in our own city.
''Messrs. Lowry and Moody, the
evangelists. concluded their five weeks
revival in Winona Sunday night, and
through their ministration nearly one
thousand persons chose the better life.
These men have been earnest and
faithful in their work, and no one who
has attended their meetings can call
in question their conscientious en-
deavor to make better citizens. better
neighbors and better church people OF
all whom they could reach. That the
city has received a moral uplift from
these meetings must be conceded. by
even those who criticise revival meth
DDS, who have had misgivings as to
!, the permanency of the work accom-
plished and who have, as it were
viewed from the hilltops the great
crowds which have passed into the
tabernacle every night and wondered
if good could come of it. Well, good
| has come of it. Winona has had it's
eyes opened spiritually. The old and
the young alike have been benefited
and some people have been taught to
turn their thoughts on the better
way and open their hearts to divine
l teachings who possibly have never
been reached before. The large
number of young people. boys and girls
who have thronged the meetings, and
many of whom, perhaps, needed a
helping hand, win be all the better for
/ the evangelsts' labors, and given higher
ideals of life than they have ever
had before; and if these young Wi
nonans have been brought face to face
with life's great problem from moral
and spiritual standpoint, it would
more than repay all the money spent
for the meetings and all the labor be-
4 slowed upon them.
/ "Many of the people who made up
! the crowds which filled the tabernacle
4 during the five weeks services were
i from the masses of the people, largely
4 from outside the churches, which is
unmistakable evidence that this great
outside throng is only waiting for an
effort In their behalf, made in such a
way that they can feel and under
stand, to move up higher and become
better citizens and better neighbors
This is why the far reaching work done
by Messrs. Lowry and Moody should
be supplemented by the churches, room
made for the thousand who have set
their hearts upon a new life, as well
as for the hundreds. who, while not
making an open manifestation at, the
meetings, We're none the less moved
to think seriously that after all there
is more in life than the glitter and
the sham that leaves the blind devo.
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record when they recall the past and
begin to hope for the future.
but granting every man and woman
their own opinions Of revivals, the rea
questions before Winona are: Did Mr.
Lawry's meetings here do good? Have
they come up to the expectations of al
who We're interested in them? we be
lieve both of these questions will be
answered in the affirmative by every
minister of the churches which tool
part and by all citizens who have beer
brought in close contact with thu
work, and there are. many outside O
both these specially interested ,classe:
who quietly admit that the city ha.
been given a moral uplift that is bount
to have permanent benefit"