The Portland daily press., 1893-07-10

Teen LhOuSaDQ w ere 1hSre.
MONTREAL, July ga large number
of people attended sthe meeting in the
Christian Endeavor tent this afternoon.
Anthony Comstock delivered an address
on sFoes to Society, Church and State"
The foes specified were intemperance,
gambling and evil reading. The address
was well received. During its delivery
a large crowd of French Canadians gath
cred on the court and police station steps
and peered at the speakers platform
! through place from which the canvas
was dropped to let the air in. They be-
came noisy afterwards and had to be
dispersed by the police, one leader being
taken into custody, This summary ac-
ton induced them to scatter after sing
ing the "Marseillaise'' as a sort of re-
joinder to 'sStand Up for Jesus" sung at
| the close CT Mr.. Comstock's address.
Miss Belle Kearney of Florida, Miss,
spoke on Gospel Temperance" 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
howls that expressed anything but
| friendly feeling. Part of the canvas
that had been lowered was raised and
| shut from the sight of the audience a
Frenchman who cleverly initiated the
gestures of the speaker. ''Senior Chris
tian Endeavor,'' the address by Rev.
! Charles Perry Mills of Newburvport,
Mass, brought the last meeting in the
big tent to close. Before adjourn
ment Treasurer Shaw made an official
announcement that the number of dele
| gates attending the convention was
10000. He assured timid delegates
that no violence need be feared at
the evening session of the Drill hall
meeting for ample police protection was
promised. He said it was not deemed
advisable to hold an evening session in
the tent. This announcement was re-
ceived in silence.
| The drill hall was crowded this
| afternoon. The meeting was more than
usully enthusiastic. Bishop Samuel
Tallows of Chicago, presided. = The or
dinary routine was enlivened by a cornet
duet by the Parks sisters. An address
on Gospel Temperance was given by
| Thomas E. Murphy, the temperance
evangelist. His speech was of the ordi-
nary prohibition character. A native
Canadian, A. w. Milbury, now of New
| York, told the convention just "How to
Reach the Masses An address on
"The Religious Press, it's Part in Our
/ Work" was delivered by Rev. A. E.
Dunning of Boston. In his address on
Social Purity" Rev. DR.. Douglass of
Montreal, remarked that the sin of Eng
land and America was not so much in
temperance as impurity. He charged
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rupt literature, the theatre, divorce and
the deflers of the purity of woman.
AT the st. James Methodist church, in
the English part of the city, the tent
| programme for tonight was carried out
and conservation sermon preached by
Rev. B. f. Mills, the well known Ameri-
can evangelist. The drill hall was divid-
ed off by states at the closing meeting,
and fully 000lpeople, in spite of the riot
rumors, were there. 1t was a grand wind
up of the 18th annual convention. The
firs4 order of business was the report of
the resolutions committee Rev. t. Ell.
Lewis of Westminster, Md, preached
| the closing sermon. A conservation SER
vice and Mispah brought the formal pro-
| ceedings to close.
Among the resolutions adopted was
this: Resolved, that as representatives
of the million and half of Christia an
Endeavorers of Americassand the world,
we hereby in the name of God, in the
interest of humanity, in behalf of integ.
rity and rising young manhood and wo-
manhood of the world, solemnly protest
against the desecration of Sunday by op-
ening on that day the Columbian expo
sition which is national not local
and that should therefore represent the
sentiments of the whole people.