Smyrna times., 1892-07-13
Union EndeavOr Twilight Meeting

Christian Endeavor of the Presbyter-
ian and Methodist churches of this
town to hold Union Twilight meet
ing on Sunday evening to correspond
in time and sentiment to the closing
meeting of the great international con-
ventiOn then being held in New York.
The meeting was held in the lecture
room of the Methodist church, Mrs. i.
M. Price, the President, in the chair,
and conducting the exercises, which
consisted of singing, prayer, scripture
reading in concert, experiences &C.,
with marked freedom from the stilted
methods of the days of yore.
AS matter of information and to
give some idea of the spirit and enthu-
siasm of the great body in New York,
as well as the impression made upon
the worldly minded people of Gotham,
extracts were read of the proceedings
of Thursday and Friday evenings, the
first by Miss Katie Beckett and the
second by Miss Eva Swinney. Ed
ward M. Boyd was called on by the
President to give reasons why young
people should become members of
Christian Endeavor Societies." which
he did in modest statement of we'll
defined thought, drawing lis illustra-
tions from incidents of the time aud
place.
G. B. Taylor was likewise asked to
give synopsis Ofwork that Christian
Endeavorers should do, and responded
In defining that work to be personal
work, earnest and direct through both
organized and individual channels. In
drawing simile between the Ponte-
cost of old and the Christian Endeavor
uprising of this day, he saw in the
meeting at New York demonstration
of the spirit of prophecy when the
sacred writer said the spirit of the
Lord should be poured out on all
flesh"
In the day OfPentecOst where were
gathered people from all the nations
round about, each heard in his own
tongue the wonderful things that were
revealed. One of the prophets, Zeph.
aniah, had foretOld the time when the
word of the Lord should be declared
in one language. That prophecy had
been partially fulfilled in the Interna
tiOnal meeting in New York, when
people from America, Europe, Asia,
Africa and the Islands of the Sea had
met and communed together in one
language the old Hebrew, lost in the
Ten Tribes and reproduced in the En-
glish language through descendants of
that stock. He believed we were ap.
preaching day of greater revelation.
and if christians would work as thew
should, many of the young men who
spend their Sundays in the club rooms
and lounging about the corners and
| n Ifra in IL, IL
fame and vulgar language, would be
brought to higher and more useful
| purpose in life.
After number of short testimonies.
the lamps were turned up and Miss
Swinney delegated to read the follow
ing letter which had been received
from Rev. &. G. Adams, pertaining to
the convention, its size, spirit, &c
1852 w. 18th street, N. Y..l
July 8, IL Pm.
My DEAR SIR:
came ON yesterday afternoon. went
to the Canda, on Lafayette Place. got
my register and badges, and there
began the serious business of COnyen-
ton routine. 1t is hard work to at.
tend such gathering with profit, and
when its proportions are so colossal as
this ones, the difficulty is multiplied.
l cannot give you a description of it in
any sense or degree. If you put the
square bounded by Commerce, Union.
Mt. Vernon and Delaware streets
under one roof, you have something
like Madison Square Garden. Into
that march the whole population of
smyrna. Clayton, Dover, Middletown.
New Castle and Milford, and YOU have
the COnVentiOn-part of it. Let Della.
ware City besiege the doors and turn
into an outdoor meeting in Madison
Square; let Georgetown get into Mad.
sou Square Presbyterian Church. St.
Georges, Odessa and Port Penn
into the Marble Collegiate Church and
you have the rest of it. The numbers
are estimated all the way from 10000
to 10000.
Thos@VhO objected to New York
said that it was too big to shake. but
everything has felt the influence of
this vast crowd, whose members nav
their own expenses, whose officers
have no pay, but increasingly hard
work, whose speakers get no fee.
Reporters, hotel and railroad men
all were slow to take in the magnitude
OF the thing. When the secretary said
2O'OOO delegates, the reporters wrote
lO,OOO. When one hotel man was
spoken to about entertaining some of |
them he said, III take them ALL" |
He could accommodate 1900.
The spirit of the Convention is fine.
except that love of display is carried a
little too far, and there is very mani.
fest effort in spite of their motto ''Loy.
atty to the Church" to stir up the M.
e. Societies to disloyalty to their church
authorities.
hardly know what to say for your
twilight meeting. was pleased at
the way in which the missionary spirit
showed itself, for that means Genuine
Christianity awake Alaska was rem
resented by little Innuit from S;tka.
Japan by a Miss-(didn't catch her
namel from Toxic, whose gentle voice
aud dark eyes reused universal sym-
pathy. China by Jue Hawk, whose
American home is in st. Louis, and
who made telling stroke when he
said be was thankful for what he could
get and that though he had no chance
on political platform, there was room
Tor even Ohinaman in Christianity
and Christian EndeavOr, aud further
when he said, ''Since you will not let
the Chinaman come to America to
learn Christianity. is it not plain that
you must send more missionaries to
China?" The applause he received
should have been mingled with shame.
India was represented by Rev. S. V.
Karmarkar, of Bombay, who spoke
well, as Indians always do. Africa bv
1. 5. ResOlOw, of BendOo, Libaria. the
son of an African prince, who gave up
his position rather than give up Christ
Spain, the Sandwich Islands. Australia
England, Scotland, and the Cape Colo.
MES were represented also.
Many societies are practicing self
denial in order to raise funds for mis-.
sions. Numbers of societies sumner,
pupils in mission schools or missionar.
les or native preachers. "Go thou and
do likewise" was in the air, though no
one said it. The societies that have no
junior societies, got bit of scoldiny
ana the question asked pass On
Why bqVa't yOW Junior Society 81,
CRoFTON C. ADAMS.