The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-23
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAY0R CoNVEN-
TTON IN THIS CITY.

Wonderful Progress Shown by the Re-
port of the secretsry-Greetings to
Similar Conventions Elsewhere.
The third annual convention of the New
jersey Christian Endeavor Union met at
the Tabernacle Congregational Church
at eleven o'clock this morning. Dele
gates were present from all over the
State. Few local delegates were present
at the opening. More from the upper
portion of the State are expected on the
afternoon trains.
The large auditorium was well nigh
filled with an intelligent body of Chris
tian workers, the majority of them
women. Several beautiful banners We're
displayed.
President John T. Kerr opened the con-
vention with appropriate remarks, and
afterward extended an invitation to the
clergymen present to take seats on the
platform. The Rev. Mr.. Skellenger, of
Dunellen was elected temporary scribe.
Among the prominent visiting clergy
men were the Rev. +. A. johnson, of
Chester, N. j., who led the preliminary
devotional exercises; the Rev. Vernon B.
Carroll, of Tenafiy, the Rev. w. w. Jor-
dan, of Bound Brook; the Rev. G. Jones,
of Newark; the Rev. J. III. Owens, of
Perth Amboy; the Rev. J. F. Whitney, of
Jamaica, Vermont. OF the local clergy
men, the Rev. Horace Scudder, the Rev.
E. L. Stoddard, the Rev. John Krantz
and the Rev. Paul Van Cleef were in the
audience.
COMMITTEES
The Enrolment Committee was ap-
pointed as follows:-W. j. Hamilton. of
Newark; E. T.. Wilson, of Blackwood; the
Reed, of Heigtstown, and the Rev. 4. E.
Packman of Greenyille.
A proposition to have the Executive
Committee appoint secretaries for each
county in the State to make perfect
the State organization of the union was
referred to the Committee on Resolu-
tions.
In his annual address Pres ident Kerr
returned thanks for the courtesy he had
received at the hands of the members of
the union. He declared that the past
years visits to the various societies in
the State had been the pleasantest he had
ever spent.
A telegram from the New York
State Convention, now in session at Sara
toga Springs, was read by State Secretary
Frank B. Everitt, announcing that 49,
600 Endeavors in the Empire State send
love and Christian, greeting to the New
Jersey Endeavors."
The secretary was instructed to send
scripturai greetings to the Empire State
Endeavors in the familiar words of l Cor.
16, l3-"Watch ye, stand fast, etc."
To the Vermont Conyention:-"N New
Jersey, 5000 strong, sends greetings and
prays for her sister State in the words of
Paul to the Philippians 10, 11.'
To Massachussetts:-"N Jersey En-
deavors with the prayer of PHILIPPIANS 2;
1, @"
Mrs. Horace Scudder will bear to the
Connecticut convention next week the
following greeting Jersey shakes
hands with the Nutmeg State. Unity is
is power, and Christian unity, Christian
success. May the Heavenly Father join
with His undying love our hearts In love
and our hands in service. And may the
day be speeded when His church shall be
glorihed on earth as it is in heaven"
The following are extracts from the
State Secretary's report, read at this
afternoons session.
'sIn July, 1886, we numbered eighteen
societies. At Newark in 1887 ninety-two
societies. At our last State Convention,
at Trenton, we reported 191 societies To-
day we have 29S societies, an increase of
fifty-six per cent. during the last year.
cat present Essex county is the banner
county, numbering "a societies. Hudson
follows with 80; Middlesex Monmouth
and Cumberland pressing close
1.-The denominations are represented as
follows:-P Presbyterian, 80; Baptist, 76;
Reformed, AZ; Methodists, SO; Congrega-
tional, 2l. Several other denominations
have one one society each, and the de-
nominations of nineteen are unknown.
There are three junior societies, one of
which is located in Jersey City.
There are thirteen unions, with an ap.
proximate membership OF $4,000 Three
fourths OF the upper part of the State Is
covered by these unions and the lower
1T.ff 80 txyV, aou,a 10 id 10
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
The following is the order of exer-
cises:-
MORNING SESSION.
11:00-Praise and Prayer,
Leader, Rev. F. A johnson, Chester.
Reorganization.
Presidents Address
AFTERNOON sEssoN.
2:00-We elcome Words,
George t. whyte, Jersey.
Report of the Secretary and Treasurer.
2:20-Addresses.
How can our societies be made mos efficient.
Rev. c. II. Jones, woodside.
b. By their memqers,
Miss Lydia A. West, Hlghtston.
2:40-Addresses Local Unions.
q. Their advantages.
Rev. Frank Fletcher West Hobokeu.
b. Successful methods of operation.
Halsey Hammond, Boonton.
Christian Endeavor and Christian Unity,
rev. n Is. England, Newark.
S:20--Address, ''Follow Me-
Rev. H. B. MacCauley, Bound Brook.
3:30--Address,
The Motives to Christian Loyalty.
John 7. Sproull, Arlington.
4.40--Address
The Will and its Relation to Higher Standard,
Miss A. Louise Dettmer Newark.
3:50LPrayer and Conservation,
Leader, Rev. John Handley, Bridgeton.
4:10-Question Box.
4:30-Business.
Reports Election of Officers etc
EVENING SESSION
7:15-Service of Song.
Leader George H. Corfeld, Jersey City
7:30-- Addresses.
Rev. Henry Spellmeyer, D. D., East Orange.
Rev. Charles f. Deems d. D., New York;
Adjournment.
"Mizpah.' ''Till we meet again"