The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-22

different classes of the association.
In January the city was dfstrieted and
canvasssd with the hope OF securing fur
niture, pictures, ETC., with which TO make
| the new rooms in this grand
building inviting and pleasant
| However the ladies with stout hearts,
sharp scissors, and big needles spent sew
eral days in making the best use of the
material an hand: 5000 was spent in fur
| niture and other articles of Use and adorn-
ment with the result you see in the rooms
over which they had charge.
The Auxiliery has paid up member
ship of foFty-nine with ten dollars in our.
| treasury and no debt. This .. m, we met
ia called session to consider ways
and means for reaching out a helping
hand to the street Arabs Of our city. A
| great deal of interest was manifested by
those present and we hope to carry our
plans to a successful issue during the com
4 ing winter.
| / hope the gentlemen of the association
will not consider the brevity of this report
criterion by which to judge of the inter
est OF the auxiliary In your work and sue
| cess but beg TO assure you in their name
that we stand willing and ready to carry
out your wishes all along our line of work.
The Sunday afternoon gospel meeting
next reported the following:
The Sunday afternoon meetings we held
every Sunday during the year. Our meet
| ings were well attended until the summer
months, but so many other meeting have
been going on and taken many our young
men away from us, but there were faithful
ones that stood by the work.
The object of our meetings is that young
men shall be reached who know not our
Lord. Another object is that the gospel
shall be preached in all its fullness, SO il
men come here that they can not go away
and say that they have not heard the gos-
pei preached in this hall
We have been wonderfully blessedin the
last year to have such men as DIR. Hast
ings. Mr.. Widensall, one of the national
secretaries, and McPheekers of st. Louis,
Mr. Cobb of Philadelphia. We
believe their presence with us
has encouraged many Of our
and pray more about the work. Let US
enter upon this new year with the idea
of doing more for the Master. Let us go
to work as if there were no others to
work, waiting no longer for others to do
what we can do ourselves.
Let us take every opportunity that pres
ents itself TO help those that are out of
Christ, and If we do this, the Master will
give US greater blessing than ever before,
boys to do more work for the Master. The
pastors of our city were also ready when
ever asked for their services in the work,
and Brother Watson gave US many song
services which added much to the interest
of our meeting. Many of our own young
men conducted many of our services.
Now a word for our workers. How can
we make our meetings meet with greater
results next year? We need to do more
personal work.
Result of work-Conversions and united
with the church 10; average at meetings
III
Professor U. P. Shull, for the nominal
ing committee, reported the following
eleven gentlemen, representing the various
churches named, to serve as directors for
the ensuing year:
From NJ. E. churchill. Imboden, Q. L.
Davidson and r. p. Murdoch
From Presbyterian church,. NJ. Allen,
A. E. Dodge, and G. E. Potts
From Baptist church,. f. Humphrey.
From Christian church,. w. Gill.
From Congregational church,. W.
Walters.
From German NJ. E. church-Dr. f. w.
Whitlock
From the Reform church,. T. Clader.
Reports were also read from the South
Market street bible class, the Junior de-
partment, the Seventeenth street Sunday
night cottage prayer meeting, the colored
mems bible class, the Friday night bible
class and the invitation committee.
After the adoption of the reports and the
election of directors. Mr.. Rutan made a
few remarks reviewing the work of the
past year and spoke warm words of en-
couragement to the young men to continue
in the noble work faithfully and well.
After the adjournment quite number
went into the gymnasium to practice and
others to witness the performances. The
association entered its seventh year today |
under the most favorable auspices.