The Portland daily press., 1894-07-12

Rev. y. A;Iy!er, pastor, presiding, KEY.
M. M. blntord, of Richmond, lnd.,
spoke on The Spiritual Life of Endeav-
orers, and "JoePs Prophecy" was the
Barnes, OF New York city, while Rev.
Charles A. Dickinson, of Boston, talked
of THE Life THAI Tells
A the Calvary Presbyterian church,
Rev. ". Mears, DID,, pastor, presld-
ing, the addresses were on "The Deepest
Thing in Christian Endeavor, by Rev.
Gilhy g. Kelly, d. D., Owensboro, KY.
Rev. Pleasant Hunter, Minneapolis,
MINI.
At the Durham Avenue Disciple
church Rev. A. b. Chalmers, pastor. pre-
siding, Christian Endeavor and Chris
tian Citizenship" was the su bject of Rev
H. b. Crosse, of Chicago, ILL.,, and
christian Endeavor as Training
School," that of Rev. Tennis S. Hamlin,
ID, of Washington, DC.
z. At the Euclid Avenue baptist church
Rev. H .Applegarth, DID,, pastor, pre-
siding, the first address was on "Possi
bllities of Christian Endeavor," by
Miss Anna M. Edwards, of Cleveland,
Ohio. "St. Paul's Endeayor" was the sub
ject of Rev George Dana Boardman, d.
D. of Philadelphia, Pa. He said
Brothers, I believe in many of our
for our health of body and our health of
soul, that every one of us could become
an accomplished gymnast. Neverthe-
less, there is a nobler gymnasium than
any physical gymnasium demanding
rsterner regimen exacter discipline,
frmer will, stouter muscle, DETER skill,
drawer movement than any you shall
is the gymnasium of the soul, the
palestra of the ten commandments, the
stadium of the beatitudes. God grant
that in that spiritual arena where the
wrestling is not against flesh and blood
but against all powers of lawlessness
every one of us may wax valiant IN
fighting. turning to fight armies OF
aliens"
We hear grea deal in our day about
Progress, Development Evolution" and
the like. Some of 1t is skeptically false
much of it is sublimely true. In fact,
evolution is prominently a Pauline idea;
recall our text; Not that | have al
ready obtained etc. The truth is, there
is 10 such champion of Progress as the
Evolution as the Evangel of Jesus. The
difference between the evolutionisn clof
fDarwin and the evolutionism of Paul is
this: Darwin busies himself with, what
man has been--Paul busses himself, with
what man can be; Darwin looks back
wards, and SO bruteward Faul looks for
ward, and SO Christward; Darwin finds
the issue of evolution in man-Paul finds
the Issue of evolution in Christ.
At the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian
church, Rev. Charles Townsend, pastor
presiding, tine addresses were" The Float
ing Society of Christian Endeavor" by
Miss A. p. Jones Falmouth Mass. and
s@The Hand of Man. By Rev. P S. Hen
son DID,. of Chicago Ill.
At the Second Presbyterian church
secretary John Willis Baer of Boston,
Mass. presiding "Golden Opportunities
for Christian Endeavor" was the theme
of Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney. of Cleveland,
Ohio, and "The Supremacy of the Cos
pel," that of Rev. Henry Barrows DID,,
of Chicago, Ill. Among other things
DR.. Barrows said: 1t is good to breathe
once more this atmosphere of youthful
Christian enthusiasm. At the last con-
vention which attended, that in New
York, heard the late venerated DR..
Schaff say: Christianity is not dead. "
He felt new faith in the triumph of
the gospel as he saw the thronging
thousands and heard the sublime elo-
quence of Christian hymns speaking like
the sound of many waters and saying to
his soul: "The Kingdoms of this world
shall become the kingdom of our Lord
and His Christ" Dr.. Schaff"'s latest
testimony for His Master and his final
plea for the reunion of Christendom were
made at the historic gathering, when
the representatives of the non-Christian
world met for the first time the dis
cip1es of Jesus in the parliament of relig-
ions II has been my duty and good
fortune since | last met with you in an
international meeting to form large ac-
quaintance with the representatives of
other faiths, to come into friendly and
sympathetic relation with the disciples
of Buddha and Confucius, and I am glad
of this great opportunity to express my
augmented faith in the supremacy and
the sufficiency of Christianity as the only
religion vital enough to meet all the ne
cessities Of man, and large enough " to
cover the whole round globe and hold ii
to the heart of Cod"
Nothing is more delightful to me in
the whole history of Christ ian Endeavor
than the growing enthusiasm for mis-
sionary work among the young people Of
our society. AS have seen the record
in our church magazines of the gifts 10
foreign missions credited to this, that
and the other Endeavor organizations,
have realized that the type foundrles
of our cities have been called upon for
enormous supplies of the capital letters
Y.P. S. G. E. DR.. Clark's voyage around
the world and what he has written OF
his observations has helped to quicken
IHls mASsloudIy cHIu uSlaSIu, anu UOnlSut
/ hope to make contribution to the
same glorious end by showing that
Christianity is supreme among all faiths
of the world, past and present. At the
First Presbyterian church Rev. VIM.
A. Knight, assistant pastor, presiding,
the meeting was for men only. The
address was on the Environment OF
Young Men," by Anthony Comstock
of New York city.
At the Plymouth Congregational
church, Rev. Al. Waugh, Cleveland,
Ohio, presiding christian Endeavor
Among the Life Savers" was described
by Rev. S. Edward Young, Asbury, N. j.
christian Endeavor for the Times.n by
Rev. Ralph W. Brokaw, of Springfield.
Mass, and Rev. John I. Buckley. b. d.
of Philadelphia Pa, also spoke.
At the First Baptist church, Rev. "A. G.
Upham, D. D., pastor, presiding. "Chris-
tian Endeavor in the Twentieth Century,
was the subject of Rev. VIII. Mcmillan.
ID, of Allegheny City, Pa, and rive,
Temptations Special to Christian En-
deavor," of Rev. Wayland Hoyt, DID,, of
Minneapolis, MINI.
At the YIN. C. A. auditorium, Rev.
Rufus W. Miller, of Hummelstown, Pa.
presided. The topics and speakers were
"The Brotherhood of Andrew and.Philip, u
Rev. H. Prugh, DID. of Pittsburgh.
Pa; "The Travellers Union of Chris
tlan EDdeayOrn Mrs w D. Wing Pal