Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-29
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvos CONVENTION.
An Interesting Programme Carried Ont.
Reports OF Oficers-DiscussIons.
SPECIAL TsLsor1En To fhs R.nist.r

heports OF Ohcers-Discussions
Special TELEGRAM to the REGISTER.
FAIRMoNT, July 2s.-The second day
OF the first annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor Union Of West Vir-
ginia showed large increase in attend
ance. The session began this morning
with devotional exercises by President
Wright. An address of welcome for the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor Of Fairmont was delivered by H.
Z. Manley. Mr.. Manley is an impress
i've speaker, and held his audience dur
ing his entire delivery. Prof. U. S.
Fleming responded on behalf of the
convention in an appropriate speech.
The roll call Of the societies
and written reports were next
heard. A we'll written paper on
''How to Study the Bible," by w. c.
Carnahan, Of Wheeling, next engaged
the attention Of the convention. Mr..
Carnahan dwelt principally upon the
study Of the Bible by books with the
following outline for each book:
1. Principal divisions of the book.
photographed location Of events. 3-
Period Of time covered. Author. 5
Circumstance under which written.
6-Object. Peculiar characteristics.
S-Principai events recorded. 9-Lead-
ing character. 1O-Types of Christ. Il
-Prophesies, messianic. 12-Doctrines,
subdivided-1 God, man, sin, 4
redemption. 13-Epochs OF the Bi-
BILE. The paper was well received and
was discussed by several.
Mr.. H. d. Boughner Of Clarksburg
then followed with, "How to Use the
Bible" He advised the reading OF the
Bible more in the Sunday schools; that
the more the Bible was read the more
enlightened became the reader; that
the reading of the bible is the food Of
the soul. This subject was also dis
cussed at some length.
The following committees were then
appointed: On place OF next meeting;
Denominations; Resolutions; Announce
ments; Finance.
The afternoon session opened at las
with praise service conducted by Rev.
r. B. Whitehead of the Fairmont Nj. 2.
Church. To this service many respond
ed in encouraging remarks. Next came
the report of the corresponding secreta-
~, S. B. Davis, OF Salem, w. Va. Mr..
Davis report showed a very large in
crease in societies and members since
the last convention some six months
ago. At that time there were only &c
societies in the State. Now they num-
Der 40, with membership of near 900.
In connection with this the reports OF
several OF the societies were heard. The
report was then adopted.
j. A. Hopkins and Rev. Mills having
been delegates to the national conven,
tion in Minneapolis, Minn., remarked
at some length upon the trip, narrating
some pleasing events.
The next exercise was paper on
"Giving," by Miss Kate Ebert, OF the
Fairmont society. Miss Ebert's paper
aration and contained many good idea:
upon giving. God gave His all for u.s.
why cannot we give our all to the work
OF Christ? Then the giving of one-tentb
Of our earnings to the Christian work
was well received. This subject was
discussed by different members OF the
convention, all giving their idea Of the
best method of giving.
Rev. George B. Stewart then con-
Quoted the question-box exercise. Each
member of the convention was furnished
with slip upon which question was
written in reference to the manner of
conducting societies, etc. A great
many beneficial questions were asked,
which Rev. Stewart answered to the
advantage of all. Rev. Stewart re-
marked upon his personal experience OF
the manner Of raising money for church
purposes. He spoke decisively against
bazars, socials, ice-cream parties, etc,
and claimed that for every penny earned
in this manner dollar is lost. His re-
marks on this question elicited much
applause. These exercises were all in
tersperSed with appropriate music.
Tonight at 7:30 a Junior Society
model meeting was conducted in the NJ.
p. church, with large attendance.
The exercises consisted Of the
discussion of the various methods
of memory teaching and a song
service conducted by Lee Raymond of
the home society. At S o'clock Normal
Hall was packed to its capacity to
listen to the addresses Of Rev.
George b. Stuart, President OF the
PENNSYLVANIA State Union, and Rev.
A. L. Reynolds, Vice President OF the
Ohio State Union. After these addresses
AN hour was spent in social chat. The
convention will assemble again in the
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