The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-10
ENDEAVORERSAD
Sixteen Thousand Delegates We're
in Attendance.
ANTI-oATHOLIO UTTERANCBs CUT.
Tho Committee Would Not Permit Rev.
DR.. Douginss to ventiIate His Well
Known Opinions-Anthony Comstock
Talks on "TOes TO Society,""

AhitAH WI Ab'N W HbNNAts
MoNTREAL, July 1O.-The big Christian
Endcavor 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.n
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 Why2 Because ofits bane
full effects on the young people. A child's |
heart was chamber of imagery. The |
four walls of that chamber must be dec |
| Grated The child carried into 1t many |
pictures and the spirit of evil stood by |
seeking to turn the child's mind in the
| direction of that which was bad.
| OF intemperance Mr.. Comstock had n
| good deal to say. II 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 Ss,aginery
| picture of the drunkard's cares on the
! canvas of the tent, and traced his down
fall The inevitable Christian and heart
broken wife ard barefooted children were
also in the picture.
His third foe, Gambling" was one that
worked quicker than the evil of intemper'
ancc. Mr. Comstock keeps a 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 scar on his forehead i'm evidence
Smallpox scabs had been sent to his house
tr v,1o Mt Iioaaga thara ap6 tbn of
other contagious diseases to his Office His
stenographer was even now 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
d "Marseillaise," as a sort of reioiuder to
( STAND Up for Jesus" which was sung at
the close of Mr. Comstocks address.
Miss Belle Kearney, of Florida, Miss,
followed and at times it was hard for the
audience to follow her, owing to the yells
of the crowd of Frenchmen outside, who
joined in after the applause to Comstock
with a howl that might have expressed
defiance, derisiOn or anything else but a
friendly feeling. The part of the canvas
chat had been lowered was raised up and
shut out from the sight of the audience a
dirty faced Frenchman who was initiating
4 the gestures of the lady speaker inside
II with the cleverness of a monkey. Miss
1 Kearney said in relation to gospel tenn
perauce," " that she brought greeting fro m
II tbp Of1 0DO MI hprc nj thn Wnunur ie bric
! tian Temperance Union and the 10000 of
A theyoung women's branch. They were all
, Christian Endeavorers in spirit. "All for
! Christ" was their creed, their watchword
+ 4 and their Cry.
. 4 "Senior Christian Endeavor" an address
4 by Rev res 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 the
Parks sisters.
An address on Gospel temperance was
lgiven by MIR. Thomas E. Murphy, the tenn
perance evangelist He was followed by
Mr.. A. w. Milbury, of New York, who
. Uold the convention How to Reach the
! Masses" Rev. A f. Dunning, of Boston,
3 then spoke on ",rhe Religious Press"
Social Purity" by Rev DR. Douglass
of Montreal, the most prominent Method
ist divine in Canada, was expected to be of
a rather sensational nature. The vener-
D 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 run
ming the convention, however, to permit
any more obnoxious sentimentalism to be
Q uttered from their platforms, and Doug
lass had therefore to submit his manu-
d script to the convention censors. The re-
: suit was a m ghty cutting down of the ad-
9 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 Eng glish part of the city There
the tent program for last night was car
ried out. Tne conservation sermon was
preached by Rev. b. Fay Mills, the well
known American evangelist, who referred
to the good work of the Christian En-
deavor society. The Drill hall was divided
off in states at the closing meeting, and
fully 10000 people in spite of the riot ru-
mors were present. 1t was the grand wind
up of the twelfth annual convention Rev.
T. 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-
tion he told the assembled people that the
70 soldiers would protect them, and that nc
e. violence need be feared at the hands of the
ve mob which numbered $4,000 The dele
9,t gates were escorted from the hall by the
+ military, singing their hymns as they
to passed along and the convention ended
G. without disorder.
The Weather.
Generally fair, northerly winds, becom'