Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-03
The Epworth League at Long
Beach.
District Conference of Metho-
dist Church South.
Rev. NJ. NJ. BOvard's Address at the
EpwOrth League.
Opening Remarks of Rev. George L. Cole.
The Meeting at the Bellevue-Ave-
nue. Church.

The Epworth League assembly opened
auspiciously at Long Beach yesterday
morning. The morning train was we'll
filled with passengers for the meeting,
who were received at the depot by the
Cuthbert family band and escorted to
the grounds to the sound of martial
music. The grounds about the taber-
nacle presented scene of activity, and
large number of tents were rapidly 60
ing up, while even the old "ark" had an
improved and renovated appearance,
with all its rooms thrown open to the
fresh air and the inspection of the pros
pective renters.
Promptly at the appointed hour Rev.
George L. Cole advanced to the front of
the platform, and, with a few appropriate
remarks, opened the first meeting of the
first assembly of the Epworth League
ever held in the United States. Rev. ).
HI. Weber made the opening prayer, and
was followed by Mrs. Alice j. Osborne,
who sang as solo 'The Ninety and
Nine" The lady has well-established
reputation as a vocalist, and the audi
ence were not disappointed in her.
Rev. Cole then made short address
of welcome. referring briefly to the ex-
cellence of the programme prepared for
this season, and predicting a very sue
cessful session. Mrs. Osborne followed
Rev. Cole with the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" the audience joining enthu-
siastically in the chorus.
The last thing in the morning session
was the annual address by Rev. M. M.
Bovard. He took as the foundation of
his remarks the verse, "Buy the truth,
and sell it not" He defined truth,
and declared that the aim of life
should be to discover truth,
and then not to sell it and thus make a
profit on the transaction, but to give it
freely to the world, as Columbus gave
America to those who knew not of it.
He referred to newspapers as great gath
erers and disseminators of truth, and
combatted the opinion that they would
rather tell a falsehood than the truth if
it was more sensational. Religious
truth was declared to be more worthy of
discovery than any other, and defined as
"the perfect picture of Christ and his
love, perfectly and faultlessly impressed
upon the heart and mind"
The afternoon session was given I'D to
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music at intervals by the Cuthbert ia
mily band and Mrs. Osborne. The even
ing was devoted to lecture, semi-hu-
morous in character, by Colonel l.. F.
Copeland, of Harrisburg, Pa.
Many OF the lecturers and speakers on
the programme are already upon the
ground. Colonel Balm, who is to speak
tonight, has been heard from, and will
be on hand in time. Colonel Sobieski,
announced for tomorrow, will not be
present. He was prevented from at
tending at the last moment.
The meeting tomorrow will probably
be OF great interest, especially to politi-
cal prohibitionists, as it is given over
especially to the discussion of prohibi-
ton methods, and it is reported that an
effort is to be made to make division
in the party and organize Southern Cali
fornia Independent of the state organiza-
tion, the convention of which was held
in San Francisco some time since, the
reason assigned for this action being the
failure of the state committee to count
proxy votes from Southern California.