The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-09
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR WORK.
Progress on Missionary Matters Read
to the Convention.

TO Che Convention.
Montreal, July S.-Another series of
prayer meetings, five in number. were
being held in the churches of the city
TINS morning on the part of the delegates
10 the annual convention Of the Christian
EndeaVor societies. They were followed
9urihS the morning by meetings in the
ullu hall and the tent. at both of which
there was full attendance. The meet
ing aJ the drill hall was devoted to mis-
SONS. ). L. Mershon of Evanston.
IL, *ened the speaking by an address
on "Mlsslonary Literature, Why Used
and How to Use It." He was followed
py Miss Ella B. McLaurin, of Chicago,
whose theme was missionary Meeting,
How Conducted" "
After an open meeting" led by Rev.
Gilbert Reid of China, in which the ques-
tion, What is Your Society Doing for
MlsslonsF' was discussed, Rev. w H c.
temple of South Boston delivered an
ADDRESS on . Missionary Money; How to
Ralse It," The method he suggested was
to pay it yourselves.
An address by Rev. J. T. McCrory of
Plttsburg, Pa, on THE Reflex Influence
OF Missionary Effort" closed the meet
ing.
This afternoon denominational rallies
churches and junior rally in the Ameri-
can Presbyterian church.
Secretary Baer makes the statement
That outside of the big convention in New
York last year this has been the greatest
convention ever held.
An anti-Romanist speech by Rev Mr.
"A. karmarthar has created considera BILE
antagouiSm against the delegates on the
part of the lower classes of the French
nd # f1,n Il,
TINS morning have articles calculated to
ia nthis feeling.
REV. LEE OF ATLANTA SPEAKS.
just as the people were about to enter
the tent for the evening session of the
convention another terrific shower came
up and the meeting in the tent was aban-
doned. The programme was carried out
in its entirety in st. James Methodist
church. 1t was presided over by Presi-
dent Clark. An address, The Raw
Material of a Great Life" by Rev. J. w
Lee of Atlanta, Ga, brought the substi-
tute meeting to a close.
The drill hall was literally packed
Secretary Baer presided and the roll call
of the states was the first business.
Then winner of the local committee's S
banner for 1898 was announced. Phila-
delphia won the handsome trophy, haV-
ing Travelled 1893, 600 miles
Rev. George A Wells of Minneapolis.
MINI, then delivered his address on In
ternational Fellowship"
TRYING TO RAISE A RIOT.
At this iuncture 300 French students
marched up to the door of the drill hall
bearing couple of French flags. Sub
Chief la Pointe captured the flags from
the bearers and thumped their heads to-
gether, whereupon their companions
aJ1tf 1,n
the would be rioters eff
and dispersed them, although
the people were not aware of it. Two or
three hundred volunteers in plain clothes
were dispersed throughout the armories
on either side of the audience and their
commanding officers were on hand to look
after them. Shortly after 10 o'clock the
meeting dispersed without any collision
with the mobo fully 1,000people that filled
the street in front of the exit.
A SHOWER OF STONES.
The seed sown by Rev. Mr. Karmarhar,
the HindOo delegate, in making an attack
on catholicism resulted last night in one
shower of stones To-day it brought
around the approaches to the tent lot of
tract distributors. These are the titles
of the tracts they passed around to the,
or at least to such of them
as would receive them after their nature
had become known. what do Catholics
believe 2" "Too good to be true" A
tract whose opening sentence read as
follows: There is a large class of pro-
testants who cannot believe our (the
Catholic) religion, because it appears to
them too good to be true " POpery and
the Apostles, or the Bitter by the Bit, "
was another which closed with the
words: Long live Plus X, successor of
the apostles" And ''PurgatOry" was the
title of the last one. Where these tracts
came from no one seems to know.
Some of the Endeavorers were stoned
last night on the Champ dc Mars. This
matter was brought up by President
Clark in one of the sessions to-day and
the conventions sympathy was at once
withdrawn from the delegation when it
was learned that one of their members
had given rise to the row by boldly stat
ing in a loud voice and in the most fire.
quented part of the Roman Catholic city
that the mother of Christ was an aban-
boncd woman