The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Sixteen Thousand Delegates Were
in Attendance.
ANTI-oATHoLIO UTTERANoEs CUT.


DR.. Douglass to yentilate Bis Well
Known opinions-Anthony Comstock
Talks on "Foes to Society,""
MONTREAL, July 10-The big Christian
Endeayor tent was crowded yesterday
afternoon by an audience anxious to hear
Anthony Comstock, of New York, in his
address on Foes to Society," Church and
State"
Mr. Comstock nominated the foes to
church, society and state as intemperance,
gambling and evil reading. OF the three
the last was the worst the world had to
contend with Why? Because ofits bane-
full effects on the young people. child's
heart was a chamber of imagery. The
four walls of that chamber must be dec
Grated The child carried into it many
pictures and the spirit of evil stood by
seeking to turn the child's mind in the
direction of that which was bad.
or intemperance Mr.. Comstock had
good deal to say. 1t was one of those evils
which especially in the case of high license
came into force by the SO called classic
consent of people who represented them
selves as Christians. He drew an imaginery
picture of the drunkard's career on the
canvas of the tent, and traced his down
fall The inevitable Christian and heart
broken wife and barefooted child rem were
also in the picture.
His third foe, Gambling" was one that
worked quicker than the evil of intemper-
ance. Mr.. Comstock keeps scrap book,
he says, in connection with the New York
Society for the Suppression of Vice. He
quoted some statistics and incidents from
it.
In the pursuance Of his work in stamp
ing out such evils as he had enumerated
his life had been attempted. He pointed
to a scar on his forehead in evidence.
Smallpox scabs had been sent to his house
to plant disease there and the germs of
other contagious diseases to his Office His
stenographer was even now q crippled and
helpless man because Of this action on the
part of his enemies
During Mr. Comstock's address a large
crowd of French Canadians gathered out
side and peered at the speakers platform
through a place from which the canvas
had been dropped to let in the air. They
became noisy and had to be dispersed by
the police, and one of the leaders was
taken into custody. This summary action
induced them to scatter after singing the
"Marseillaise," as n sort of rejoinder to
"Stand Up for Jesus" which was sung at
the close of Mr.. Comstock's address.
Miss Belle Kearney, H Florida, Miss,
followed and at times it was hard for the
audience to follow her, owing to the yells
of the crewd of Frenchmen outside, who
joined in after the applause to Comstock
with howl that might have expressed
defiance, derision or anything else but a
friendly feeling. The part of the canvas
that had been lowered was raised up and
shut out from the sight of the audience a
rt, pol,, ,h,,,
the gestures of the lady speaker inside
with the cleyerness of monkey. Miss
Kearney said in relation to gospel tenn
perance," that she brought greeting fro IN
the 200, 600 members of the Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance Union and the 10000 of
the eyoung women's branch. They were all
Christian Endeayorers in spirit. "All for
Christ, )" was their creed, their watchword
and their cry.
'Senior Christian Endeavor," +" an address
by Rev. Charles Perry Mills, of Newbury-
port, Mass, brought the last meeting in
the big tent to close.
Before adjournment the treasurer, Mr.
Shaw, made the official announcement
that the number of delegates attending
the convention was 10000 He also as
sured the timid delegates that no violence
need be feared at the evening session at
the Drill hall, for ample police protection
had been asked for and promised How
ever, it was not deemed advisable to hold
an evening service in the tent. This an
nouncement was received in silence.
As usual the Drill hall was crowded In
the afternoon. Rev. Bishop Samuel Tai.
lows, of Chicago was the presiding officer,
while the ordinary routine OF the proceed
ings were enlivened by cornet duets by tine
Parks sisters.
An address on Gospel temperance was
given by Mr.. Thomas E. Murphy, the tenn
perance evangelist. He was followed by
Mr. A. w, Milbury, of New York who
told the convention How to Reach tho
Masses Rev. A. f.. Dunning, of Boston,
then spoke on 1.-THE Religious Press"
Social Purity" by Rev Dr. Douglass,
of Montreal, the most prominent Method.
ist divine in Canada, was expected to be Of
rather sensational nature. The vener-
able preacher has a habit of coming out
very strongly on any subject he takes up,
and is such determined opponent of the
Roman Catholic church that something of
a startling nature was looked for. 1t was
not the intention of the committee rum
ming the convention, however, to permit
any more obnoxious sentimentalism to be
uttered from their platforms, and Doug
script TO tho convention censors The re-
suit was m ghty cutting down OF the ad-
dress. and the official copy contained moth
ing to hurt the feelings of the Roman
| Catholic citizens of Montreal.
st. James Methodist church is in the
west and English part of the city. There
the tent program for last night was car
| ried out. The conservation sermon was
! preached by Rev. b. Fay Mills, the well
known American evangelist, who referred
to the good work of tho Christian En-
deayor society. The Drill hall was divided
Off in states at the closing meeting, and
fully 10,0W people in spite of the riot ru-
mors were present 1t y as the grand wind
up of the twelfth annual convention. Rev.
4. j. Lewis, of Westminster, Md, preached
the closing sermon.
Resolutions denouncing Sunday opening
of the Worlds fair were unanimously
passed before final adjournment.
1t was at one time intended to dismiss
the Drill hall meeting by the rear door,
but President Clark, on assurances from
the militia that they would protect all the
delegates, caused the front doors to be
used. Before pronouncing the benedic-
tiou he told the assembled people that the
soldiers would protect them, and that no
violence need be feared at the hands of the
mob, which numbered 1900. The dele
gates were escorted from the hall by the
military, singing their hymns as they
passed along, and the convention ended
without disorder