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Show OR, BY OSIWM IS HERE TO OPEN TIE TABERNACLE Evangelistic services will be Btarted this evening at tho Union Tabernacle, Twenty-seventh street and Washington Washing-ton avenue, when Dr. Henry Ostrom. the ovangelist, will give his first address ad-dress and the tabernacle will be dedicated dedi-cated for the United Christian campaign, cam-paign, extending through March. Evangelist Ostrom arrived this afternoon after-noon from Chicago, plans for the series ser-ies having been fully arranged by the nine church Joining in the movoment. Albert Simpson Reitz, the choir di rector, has been in Ogden several days. Henry Ostrom has had a remarkable remark-able career as an evangelist. It started start-ed In Whitewater, Wisconsin, a number num-ber of years ago when the Baptist, Congregational and Methodist churches church-es united In a campaign. During the years that have since passed the evangelist evan-gelist has dono work throughout the country and across its borders, even crossing the oceans. He has conducted conduct-ed seven series of services in Chicago Chi-cago and five in New York. Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Baltimore on the east coast with Los Angeles and Portland on the west, with scores of cities between, be-tween, have shared his labors, all evangelical organizations uniting. With Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, another an-other great evangelist, he started the "simultaneous campaigns" In Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. These attracted probably more attention than the "Laymen's Missionary Mission-ary Movement." For three summers he preached in Wall street from an automobile. He has spoken before crowds of elite and to men in factories, shops and mines Ills work as an evangelist is different differ-ent from that of Billy Sunday, yet declared to be as powerful and as interesting His methods have won the endorsement of governors, lieutenant lieu-tenant governors, mayors, judges, ministers of many denominations and other prominent men. |