Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-16
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
Assembling of the Tenth Annual CO
vention of the Young PeonIe,s Society

Upwards of Fifteen Thousand Enthusi-
astic Young Workers For Christ and
Ills Church' In Attendance, with Father
Clark at Their Head.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. July Sunny
skies, balmy air, hospitable homes
this was the days welcome of the city
OF Minneapolis to the throngs of youth
full Endeavorers who have been troop
ing INTO town ever since daybreak.
The multitude is even larger than the
hard working local committee of '91
had counted on, and even now it is
certain that the influx of visitors
and delegates to the decennial conven-
ton OF the Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor, will pass the Is, 900
mark set for it, and that the con-
vention will be the largest in
the society's history. All the morn
ing was busily spent in getting
the visitors domesticated. very in
genlous and thorough system has facili-
tated this work of quartering the visi-
tors in hospitable homes all over the
city.
Couriers met the twenty-eight special
trains at points 40 or SO miles from the
city. They provided each delegate
home to which he was assigned and
explicit directions how to reach it.
This, com bined with an admirable sys-
tenn at the dcpots, served to accelerate
matters we'll
The convention was formally opened
at o'clock. The great hall in the ex.
position building, seating II, 600 people,
had for two hours been resounding
with songs of thousands-strong chorus
at rehearsal, led by Lewis P. Lindsay,
of st. Louis.
DIR. Clark called the decennial con-
vention to order. After the prelimi-
naries of prayer and music Frank B.
Daniels, chairman of the local commit
tee of 81, stepped forward and well
coined the delegates.
Rev. ii. H. French, D. D.. of Centen-
airy Methodist church, welcomed the
host in behalf of $50 Minneapolis
pastors. He paid a glowing tribute to
the influence and standing of the min
listers he represented. Minneapolis, he
said, had a church to every 1000 peo-
pie. All of these said: welcome"
Rev. DR.. Robt. Christie, DID,, of the
House of Hope Presbyterian well
coined the convention in behalf of the
pastors of st. Paul.
John H. Elliott, local secretary of the
Y. NJ. c.. A. was the last speaker to say
welcome. Every true-hearted associa-
ton man, he said, as loyal son of the
church, rejoiced in any organization
such as that represented here so
grandly.
The evening session was opened at s
o'clock Rev. c. H. Tiffany presiding.
Fully $4,000 delegates were in attend
ance. After prayer, which was offered
by Rev. L. B. Spear, General Secretary
Baer read his annual report. In this
report he said:
Another year has gone and we meet again,
Divinely blest by the tie that binds our
hearts in Christian Endeavor, and 1 am to
tell you of the breadth of the Christian En-
deavor movement. Last year Mt the St.
Louis convention we were thankful for
of societies over the previous year,
the number of societies in the world being
hob, an increase over the previous year of
3,34l. This year we have much more to be
thankful for, our increase having been 5,261,
making the total number to date 16, PA. The
Christian EndeavOr movement has become
world wide. Three hundred and seven So
cieties have reported from across the water,
and there are others from which we have
not heard. We have now reached the mill
lion mark. At Chicago, in 1889, we reported
49,, 900 members; last year, at St. Louis, Co.,
600, but this year we have reached the grand
total of I,o06, $780,
After this report and singing by Ira
D. Sanley, the celebrated evangelist,
the secretary read cablegram from
Melbourne, Australia, greeting the del
egates assemb led.
President F. E. Clark, of the interna-
tional society, better known as Father
Endeavor Clark. then delivered his an
nual address. Among other things he
said:
We have come together to- might for the
tenth international and inter denomina
tiOnal gathering of a great movement
among the young Christians of America.
1t is fitting that we should consider for what
this movement stands. The two principal
features in the Christian Endeavor So
ciety are fidelity and fellowship-ndelity
to the local church to which each society
belongs; fellowship cemented by Il common
name, common vows, common methods of
service. Does such fellowship make any of
you less loyal to your own church? l leave
the answer with you and know what it will
be. There are no divisions among the hosts
of darkness. There sects in hell.
The Evil One marshals all his forces in his
assaults against mans soul. His forces
are not weakened by factious disputings.
/ am not rejecting on denomnati ons, but
do deprecate the spirit that is unwilling to
allow any common bond between young dis
ciples. Let us say-all Baptists and Metho-
dists, Presbyterian and Congregationa!fsts,
LutheranS and Disciples, Moravians and
from east and west. north and
sOuth-let us all join the glad refrain zone
is our master, even Christ; and we are ali
brethren
A telegram was read from Bishop J.
H. Vincent of the Methodist Episcopal
convention sermon, saying that on ac-
count of a severe attack of bronchitis
which came upon him while en- route,
he was compelled to stop at Chicago and
give up his trip to the convention.
DR.. Otis Tiffany, of the Hennepin-
avenue Methodist Episcopal church,
then addressed the convention, taking
the subject 1--WE are one in Him. DIR.
Tiffany is vice-president of the inter-
national society, and his address was
enthusiastically received. After further
devotional exercises the convention adj |
journed for the day.
Experts Set to Work.
Foster yesterday afternoon instructed |
Messrs. Brown and Faunce, the ex-
perts appointed to examine the Key |
stone and Spring Garden banks in |
to make a complete and |
examination of those banks, |
exercising their own discretion as 10 |