St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-13
TO INITIATE CHRIST.
Christian Endeavor Workers
SWoop Down and Capture
the City.
Great Meeting Of Earnest Hen
and Women at House Of
Hope Church.
Father Clark, Organizer Of
the Society, Given a Great
Reception.
FepVent and Practical Ad-
dresses Delivered by Fore
most DiYines.

! gathering. Essentially it was mass
meeting. The most famous divines and
most eloquent and rhetorical speakers
of the organization delivered addresses.
The church was simply packed so that
il was a physical impossibility for one
arriving a little late to secure admis-
sion.
DR.. Clark, the "father of the En-
deavOr," as he is designated by those on
intimate terms with him, happened to
be a dilatOry arrival. DR.. Deems. of
the Church of the Strangers, New York
city. was addressing the vast assem-
bage when the father" arrived. One
OF the uShers had been posted at the en-
trance to apprehend the eminent preSi-
dent of the convention when he should
appear. This was necessary if he were
to be heard at all, for he could never have
made egreSS from the front. through the
choked up entrance and crowded aiSles.
By this usher he was escorted to a side
door, near the pulpit. When the presi-
dents beaming face was seen by DIR.
Deems, as the former was approaching
a position on the platform near the
pulpit, DR.. Deems suddenly paused in
his discourse. He gazed earnestly
and solemnly at the smiling face of the
late conner. and then impulsiVely turn
ing to his audience, he said:
MY friends, l feel constrained to
stop long enough to introduce to you
Father Clark"
The latter arose from seat that he
had just assumed and bowed graciously
and smilingly. This influenced the au-
dienee to a
Burst of Applause.
As the father resumed his seatIDr.
Deems persisted:
81 just wanted to interiect little
elOquence into my speech"
DR.. Deems was in felicitOus mood,
and he spoke at some length. The
theme was that of the past week at the
Minneapolis exposition hall, 'Chrstian
| Endeavor" He had been introduced
in few happy remarks by DR.. Christie,
| the pastor of the church. The latter
announced that the widest latitude
| should be accorded all the speakers.
! They should speak on the topic of
Christian endeaVOr, and that is liberal
enough to embrace all denOminatiOnal
views and doctrines. 1t reminded him.
he said, of the rector of a church. Once
upon a time new pastor delivered a
discourse. DR.. Christie asked the sex
ton:
Did he stick to his teXt?''
''Stick to his text, sir?" returned the
blunt sexton. ''Well, he just announced
what it was and then took TO the woods"
Hence, DR.. Christie was willing they
should take to the woods so long as they
kept to the text Christian EndeavOr."
DR.. Deems said, BLESSED be the
dead" and then ampliied the aphorism
by exclaiming that what has not Christ
in it dies. Looking over the audience
with critical eye he said that he had
rather fiud hereto in st. Paul than
man without any conviction whatever.
His experience had taught him that it
is easier to convince a hereto than
a manswithout opinion. He spoke at
length upon the aims of the society. 1t
fits the lawyer for an honest and up
right professional career. The same Of
all the understandable doctors. the
teachers, everybody. Referring to the
fact that the organization includes in
its membership all the various denOmi-
nations of the Christian church, the
doctor said that it was impossible to
melt up all the Christians in Christian
dom and cast them in one mold. He
urged that the freshness of youth sits
With Beautiful Grace
upon the browS of the members, and
then explained that it was simply the
dew of vouth-the breath OF Christ.
Yet the organization draws into its
ranks the venerable labOrer in the vim
yard of the Lord, such as Father Clark
and even older men.
He referred with enthusiasm to the
magnificent Inequalities that have been
accorded by the management of the
$500 road to the 200 eXcurSiOniSts that
had come over that line from New York
and Boston, and he repeatedly pro-
nounced the word Zoo"
Zone of the managers of the Zoo"
said he, 'come to me the other day and
said, doctor, the management of the
Zoo wants me to say to you that they
wish to send you home any day that
you may wish to return. You select
your route to Buffalo and | will get the
transportation
Then followed a relation of the ex-
clamatiOn of surprise that had been
made by this manager. Some sort of
an impeachment, it seems, must have
been encountered Ell route from the
seabOard to Minneapolis, whereby
delay enSued. This manager
wanted to voice the opinion iof the
management of the road in saying that
had the 200 passengers been railroad
men, they would have gone mad and de-
StrOyed the tracks and burned the cars
because of the trouble. But instead of
precipitate action, the Christian En-
deavOr disciples sang hymns and prayed
and had a delightful time in the in
term of seventy-tw0 hours.
The doctor then took up more techni-
cal phases of the theme. He insisted
that Jesus is the sweetheart of all the
young ladies, the husband of the wives,
and the brother of the men. He an
y,Ounapd m hQ had iOiOpd tba church
thirty-seven years ago.and he had found
that there was no friend but Jesus.
He had worked on and on, and he
advised that course, and then enJoined
that the members must pray and
Thank God
in remembrance of what had been
encompasSed. He advised that all
should be faithful to their local church
that each man must follow Jesus in
his own church.
Il would have no other society of
young people in my church than the
| Christian Endeavor," he pursued, and
| he recOunted in graphic and picturesque
| language the incidents of the trip from
New York to Minneapolis via the 800"
and he then gave way to President
! Clark.
Father Clark repeated, substan-
! TALLY, his powerful address given in
| Minneapolis. He recited in eloquent
| phrases and rounded periods the OBJ
| iects. aims and accomplishments of the
| Christian Endeayor society. 1t had
! been started when it had but few in
! fiuential friends, but it had spread and
! grown until it is now in all parts of the
world. He spoke Of the meager attend
ance that was had at the Saratoga con-
ventiOn, and then compared it with the
magnificent gathering that had char
acteriZed the present gathering. 1t had
| grOWn-it has grown down and up, as
well as broad. Its roots have reached
! deep in the rich soil and its branches
wave high towards heaven.
''StilI, find that there are many in
| telligent people," he went OH, ''that
/ misapprehend our society have been
! asked here if 1t were not something
| akin to the Salvation Army. Others
| have asked If it were not like the Chris