The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-21
THE Y. NJ. c. A. MEETING.

1t Is generally admitted Dy every visit
ing delegate to the Y. NJ. G. A. conference
that the sixth annual meeting of the
General Secretaries is the best ever held
il the state of Kansas The delegates
naturally thought, from the infamous
things that have been said about Wichita,
thatit was very wicked town but since
they have seen it with their own eyes, they
have changed their minds. They, on the
contrary now think that it is pretty re-
spectacle city. that theSavior has as many
deciples here as anywhere else, of similar
size and they will go home with better
ideas and more accurate and favorable
estimate of the Peerless Princess. In
speaking with an EAGLE reporaer last
night one of them said; honestly and
candidly L had heard so much about
Wichita before coming here, that / ex-
pected to see every man have a
bowie knife in his belt, 4 six shooter
in his hip pocket and a
bottle of whisky in the other. / thought
it would not be safe to be out doors after
8 o'clock in the evening and that any man
who talked about Christ and the word of
God would be strung up by the thumbs or
jeered and scoffed at on every corner. In
stead of this condition of affairs existing
| have found that the community, as
whole, consists of Christian people, that
the Gospel not only can be. preached in
safety, but that hundreds are interested in
it and come to hear it. have been out
every night since came here until after
O'clock and | have yet to see the least
sign of rudeness. much less olatlawry. To
sum up the whole matter Wichita is quite
a decent city and is far ahead of cities OF
its size that | know of, whose people claim
to have a corner on the morals OF the state"
The exercises Yesterday were very inter-
esting from beginning to end and
good many excellent exchanges
of ideas respecting Christian pro-
gress and advancement were exchanged.
After the usual devotional exercises in the
morning very excellent paper entitled
Tried Effective Agencies for Young Men"
was read by S. P. Spencer of St. Louis.
The paper was listened to with interest
aud the fine ideas which it set forth were
highly appreciated. Mr.. Spencer was Sol
lowed by Willis K Folks of Wellington
who read a very valuable paper on "Our
Responsibility to Introduce Young Con-
verts to the Church and Christian Work"
Mr.. Folks is merchant of Wellington and
has been closely identified for many years
with Christian work in Sumner county.
And not only that but his faith is repre-
scented by his works in mundane affairs.
S. p. Luce of Leavenworth followed Mr..
Folks with an interesting and Instructive
paper ON boys work. The afternoons bust
ness consisted of short program which is
as follows:
Devotional meeting and Bible study.
A business mans suggestions to secre-
taries-suggested by contact with them,
j. B. Larimer, Topeka.
How to promote the growth and efficien
cy of our members, W. II. Holmes, To-
peka.
Practice VS., Theory, C. E. Caswell,
The evening services were also interest
ing. During the evening the gymnasium wa
open and the delighted visitors were shown
a sample of the work done in that depart
ment. About twenty young men went
through the physical exercises and to say
that they were interesting would not fully
express it.
Services will be held today according to
tue IolloWlng program:
MORNING SERVICE.
West Side Presbyterian-W. Boyd.
Olivet Congregational-W r. Johnston.
Plymouth Congregational - w. G.
Veazie.
EVENING SERVICE.
Olivet Congregational-Lerrego and S.
E Axtell
First NJ. Z. church-w. R Johnston /
and ". Boyd.
st. Paurs NJ. E. church-W. Fl. Sargent |
and C. f. Lukens.
Lincoln Street Presbyterian-W. n. /
Holmes and C. W. Talmadge.
Perkins Presbyterian-J. c. Coach and |
q. +. Carruthers.
Gospel messing at Y. N. c. a. at p. m. |
Y. W. C. A. will hold meeting &C the |
Congregational church at D. m.