The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-07-08
MIGHTY HOST GATHERS.
international Convention OF the EpwOrtf
League Opens in Cleveland

the beginning of the first international
Epworth League Conference to be held
here to-day and the following three days
BY tonight it is expected that 5000
delegates will be present. Before the
conference is over it is thought that the
number will be doubled. Delegates are
arriving thick and fast All day to-day
a constant stream poured into the CITY.
At . O'clock Music Hall presented
lively appearance. Last evening the
state Prohibition convention concluded
its deliberations and the EpWOrth COM
mittce on decorations lost no time in
taking down the temperance banners
and other decorations peculiar to the
cold-water people, and banners more
appropriate for the Epworth League
were substituted. The beautiful hall
was fairly covered with bunting and
graceful banners, bearing words IA
niliar to all delegates, We're prominent
bout the stage and along the galleries
At2o clock Wilson NJ. Day, of tn
itv, called the conference to order All,
in few words of hearty greeting wei
coined the visitors to the city in which
the Epworth League was founded.
Mavor Robert Blee was next intro
duced, and in an appropriate address
extended a cordial welcome in behalf of
the city. Gov. William Mckinley WAS
received with prolonged cheers as he
advanced, and in his peculiarly happy
manner welcomed the delegates in be-
half of the state Of Ohio. He said;
Mr. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE En-
WORTH LEAGUE: l am glad and honOred to wei
come YOU TO the state of Ohio. visit 10 a
birth place is always interesting. 1t eXcites the
teudcrest emotions and recalls the sweetest
gcStivc of oSpeCtion and introspection, and
if intervening years have been successful to
congratulation and felicitation.
You could have had no better state in which
to lie born than Oho-no better place i'll Ohio
thauthe city of Cleveland. We are proud of the
fact that the Epworth League started here, and
lvwelcomc the daughter to her home and to our
hearts. We share in the pride which the
Christian world feels for the great achievements
already recorded, and of the certain promise of
sill greater ones Yet to be recorded
The purpose of your organization is worthy
Of the highest commentator. However we
may differ in our religious beliefs, your aims
command the approval of those who respect
good conscience and the value of good char
acter. The league seeks to build up the moral
nature and to promote the intellectual culture
OF the youth OF the land. 1t looks
after the heart aud the health of the
young people, and neglectS neither. 1t is
calculated to secure ell-rounded manhood
and womanhOod. 1t provides moral and mental
equipment. 1t engages the mind with useful
.
and reason, piety and patriotism, and gives
strength and purity to the church and to the in
situations of the country. 1t enists the youth
and strengthens the spirit and courage OF one
If The greatest religious denomination OF the
world, and turns them into a well disciplined
army, to battle for the noblest cause in whic n
mankind ever engaged-the cause of the Master
and of man. 1t keeps young manhood pure,
and saves il before evil sins have dsrkened its
life. This arouses the nopler instincts of our
nature. and it promotes by its uplifting hand the
hos Il love
destiny of the age. 1t never blasts. but bright
"ns character II is not only a national but an
international agency for good The whole
world is its field Ii has ctfaced all sectional
lines within our own country and embraces all
nations and tongues where a Christian altar is
erected and the songs of John Wesley are sung.
II has ignored all lines of the Methodist Church
south aud the Methodist Church North; and the
. Young propIe of the Epworth League of both
ssacti%ns have Joined in uubrokcn union forever
. II is broad enough to include Methodists under
. every name and under every cline: and here to-
duy Won have the chosen REPRESENTATIVES of all
Methodist denominatonS-no only from the
United states, but from England, from Canada,
japan Shi4 liala az al" al are wei
Whata motto YOU have adopted, It is itself
an nspiration-"Look up lift up" 1t encour-
ages the best asrra,tlul,S ana Is W"Glhy 70 he
L'I, ca, I and nd mind il viii lead yn,I 70
greater conquests for church and citizenship
and country.
PAL 5i"Il@ PIE b ,e QUE E"g F f
The nen of the swect-spiiited and gifted BishoT
SIMPSON I've 1--WE 10 MAKE hi our own cH ir "a
Nv, 49,, othcr church that evaIts o,n
CHRISTI That broad Christian lihorahtv lie,
at the basis Of your league work Keer
It there helgyi ltt IN our , own agvotgd
chnr ,'1 ana religious organization which iifts
up and broaden, out humanity yielding to all
the fullest religious liberty, the fullest freedom
claim for oursclves1the right to worship God
science , 49, -, -,
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