The record-union., 1894-02-02
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLES UNION.
Welcome to National President Chap
man Yesterday.
Interesting Exercises and Some Excel
lent Addresses by Pastors and
Other Members.

through this department. A large num-
Der were present and took part in the eX-
ercises.
The afternoon session opened with de-
votional exercises by G. Y. Ballentine of
Woodland, which included the relation
OF experience by several members Of the
union.
Rev. John Downie of Petaluma, who
has seen between thirty-tive and fifty
summers and winters pass, next dellv-
cred an excellent and witty address on
"Our Young People and What We Think
OF Ourselves" He said that as young
man, with raven locks shimmerirg in the
daylight and with face innocent of the
razor, he wanted to inform the distin-
tinguished visitor from the East, in a
modest sort of way. how the young peo-
pie of this wild and woolly country re-
gard themselves. Some, the speaker
said, might dispute his youth. but they
must not judge by appearance and get
down to hardpan realities. lie was a
member of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union and that was sufficient guarantee
of his youth.
He belonged to a State that had the
tailest trees, the highest hills, The richest
stars, the smartest rogues, the finest cat
aracts and the champion prlze-hghter OF
the world. Some noted old Christian had
prayed, 20, Lord. give us good conceit
of ourselves; the prayer seemed to have
been answered, and it was not certain
that it need to have been made at all, Ior
our young people certainly have a good
opinion of themselves and think the
wisdom of the world will die with them.
There is nothing small about California,
he said, except, perhaps, its church col
lections, and therefore our young people
are the best and nobleSt OF all. They
catch greatness from the State.
We young people, continued the
speaker, think we are the brightest,
handsomest and smartest in the nation.
Who will you find like our young men,
and where are the equals of our girls, the
most beautiful Of the daughters of Eve?
How these darlings delight in close COM
munion. OF course, being Baptists. close
communion becomes natural. They are
all ready to become household angels. Ii
only Charles Augustus and The rest Will
ask them, "Wilt thou?" they wilt.
The Young Peoples Society have their
ideas, and they are not small. They say
to the old people, stand back and see
how we will acquit ourselves i'll fighting
the devil and in conqueriug the nations
for Christ. You can give us your ad-
miration and praise, but none Of your old
wise saws. We know just what the world
wants, and can supply it. You are be-
hind the times; stand aside and give us
rOOm."
Proceeding in graver strain. he said
these ideas were all very grand, but the
old fogies had been young once and bad
such IDEAS, but age and experience had
brought them wisdom and made them
safe counselors. Under the cope OF the
f.htJ M ha
every talent and room for all energies
and activities. We need a spiritual home
as well as q natural one, and that home is
the church. We have come to humber,
lruer and better ideas of ourselves than
those of selt-conceit and vangiory.
Alter some discussion Rev. J. C. Glib
son Of Chico delivered an apt and able
address on Having the Mind Of Christ
in Our Work." which was followed by
discussion and the reports of local soci-
ties and the election of officers, with
other business of the society.
President Chapman then spoke, giving
an account Of the Conference of the Bap-
tist Young Peoples Union of America,
and the manner in which it secured
paper and controlled its publication to
ill a special field between the union and
the church, finally changing its name to
the Baptist Union. The convention at
indianapolis had 900 members present,
he said, and they were earnestly working
for both the interest of the paper and the
union. He extolled Toronto as the city
where the saloons and places of amuse-
ment were closed and the people go to
church. The union, he said, must scatter
the seed of godliness over the country.
The following officers were elected
President d. J. Davis of Sacramento:
Vice Presidents, Miss Pearl Dan Of
Wheatland and Miss Matte Fisher of
Woodland; Secretary, Miss Leila Reider
of Sacramento; Treasurer, Mrs w. T.
George Purnell and L. II. Hawkins OF
Sacramento, Rev. J. G. Palliam Of Wood
land.
EVENING PROGRAMME.
The evening proceedings opened with
devotional exercises conducted by W. l..
CASTOR of Vallejo, followed by words OF
welcome on behalf OF California Baptist
Young Peoples Union, by President l..
D. Inskeep of Oakland; on behalf of Sac
ramento District, by w. I. Jordan of
Dixon, and on behalf of Sacramento B.
Y. p. u, by c. L. Jackson of Sacra-
mento.
Then came an address by President
Chapman, who thanked the members TOR
the words OF welcome given him, and said
even had they not been spoken he should
not have been unmindful of the welcome
eAONo
day.
lie spoke TO the young people on the
work they were engaged in. The test of
the work of Sunday school teacher is
the souls she brings TO Christ. When he
look ed upon these young faces engaged
in the work, he felt that great movement
was going on. He felt hope and en-
couragement in the right. Ii we would
wake up to tue fact that our boys and
Girls are dying of something worse than
consumption we would take more active
measures TO save them. The strength OF
the church and the hope Of its future lies
in lust such companies as that mere to-
night. AS young people grow older they
grow wiser, but they also grow more
cautions and less willing TO 60 into new
undertakings. Let us not have the ends
of ill-spent lives for The service OF the
cause; let us have young, fresh lives with
energy and strength to work. There has
never been anything good under the sun
that did not meet opposition tor IL. Ills
educational movement had Deen OPP
posed. He thanked God that 1t had
triumphed for it showed it was Of God.
Nine-tenths of our criminals. our
drunkards, our inmates of jails, are young
people. Satan works TO get hold Of young
neople and he was thankful that tins
movement had been started. But why
confine it TO BaptiSts? For awhile the
religion OF Christ was pure, Dut error
crept in. Men arose TO protest against
error. and since that time someone has
always been ready to protest against
error.
He claimed that the Baptist Church
stood where The first professors had stood,
and the other churches had driited away
from that ground. He wished, therefore,
that the young people should be brought
no in the Baptist Church.
The work OF the Baptist Young Peo-
ple's Union of America is educational. 1t
IS not missionary society, but will be
ready at the proper time TO ald when
necessary in missionary work. The
sneaker explained the object and work