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1884, Mr. Crist went to Indianapolis to participate in the first State Prohibition Convention. He was one of five to join in a call for the first prohibition convention in Boone county, September 8, 1884. This action made it necessary for both to retire from public school work and from all official recognition in the church; to face the opposition, innuendoes and contumely usually bestowed upon those who step out into any new line of action. He became an ardent supporter of the Prohibition cause. In 1886 he was candidate for Representative of Boone county; in 1888 delegate to the National Convention at Indianapolis; in 1890, candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction; in 1892, delegate to the National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio; in 1894, candidate for Congress in the Ninth Indiana District; in 1895, accompanied his wife, who was a delegate to the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention in London, England; in 1896, delegate to the National Convention at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and candidate for Governor of Indiana, on the Prohibition ticket; in 1897-1898, chairman of the Prohibition State Committee of Indiana; in 1900, delegate to the National Convention at Indianapolis. During the years 1891-1897, inclusive, there was held in Mr. Crist's grove a Gospel Prohibition service every Sabbath afternoon for four months each year to advance this great cause. In 1899-1901, inclusive, the work was continued by the publication of the Twentieth Century, a