The record-union., 1893-05-27
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
The Approaching Annual Convention
at Montreal.
Encouraging Prospect of tho Next Con-
yention Being Held in the City
of San Francisco.

Probably very few of our readers have
any definite idea of the immense number
of Christian Endeavors that will come to-
gether in July next in Montreal. About
twenty-five thousand visitors are ex-
pected, and the local committees have
been hard at work for some time past
preparing accommodations, ETC., for this
vast number. 1t is the largest crowd that
has ever visited Montreal at one time, but
the city is quite able to care for 1t. Some
1000 visitors are expected from Pennsyl-
vania, 200 from Massachusetts, 700 from
Illinois, 500 from Missouri, 500 from In
diana, 800 from Michigan, 1000 from New
York, $50 from New Hampshire, 500 from
Georgia, $50 from Vermont, 400 from
Nebraska. 100 from Texas, 1000 from
Maine, 400 from Connecticut, 900 from
Iowa. 200 from West Virginia. l50 from
our own State of California, with the
other States yet to be heard from.
Montreal has no building large enough
to accommodate all OF the people who
simultaneously will desire to attend the
various meetings, but the Dominion Gov
ernment has permitted the use of the
large Government drill hall which will
easily seat 5000 persons, and have sut-
ticient room for platform accommodate
ing 1000; and permission has been OBJ
tanned from the city authorities to use the
celebrated Champs de Mars, adjacent to
the drill hall, and here a tent 30 by $50
feet will be erected, which will comfort
ably seat 5000 more.
One of the features of the convention
will be representative choir OF three
hundred voices. Quartets are to be Sc
cured from each of the States and Terri
tories and each of the Provinces of the
Dominion, and, in addition, one hundred
of the best singers in the city will be en-
gagged.
Reception Committees will meet every
incoming excursion one hundred miles
from the city. There will also be dele
gates from England, Germany, India,
Australia, Japan, China and South Africa.
The special train that bears the excur-
slonlsts from this State is expected to
pass through this city on the evening of
June 10th.
From the report of the State Secretary
at the recent State Convention held in
Fresno, it appears that there are at pres
ent 3O.S59 members of the order in Cali
tornia, divided into 653 societies. OF
these, 5l2 societies, with 26, 1874 members,
are seniors, and I4l societies, with 4, ,O60
members, are juniors. During the year
just closed there has been gain of 204
societies, with II, ,4l9 members.
A committee called the COMMITTEE of
1857 has been hard at work for over a year
past endeavoring to secure for California
the International Christian Endeavor
Convention in 1895. Thus far, twenty
eight States are already pledged to vote
for this State. This committee has left
no stone unturned in their work. Hon.
Johns Wanamaker, ex-Postmaster-Gen- q
eral, who Is one of the trustees of the
United Society, and who was in this State
last month, on his arrival at the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco, before he had
time to brush the dust Of travel from his
clothes. had to open and read twenty-four
letters from this committee, urging the
claims of California tor this convention.
The convention, if it is secured, win
necessarily be held in san Francisco, and
no less than fifty thousand visitors will
be expected.
What grand thing that will be for
California, so many OF our best young
people all over the country coming here.
SO many, coming from all parts of the
Union, cannot help but do good to our
State.