The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-08
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
OPENING SESSIONS OF THE TENTH
 ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

Churoh-Junior Raily-Addrcss by Mrs.
 Alice May scuddcr-Evcning Meeting at
 tho Hyperion-Addrcss by W. IT. Beach.
 The tenth annual conference of the Y. P. s. C. B. societies of Connecticut opened at the Calvary Baptist church at o'clock yesterday afternoon. with about 800 delegates in attendance. Be- fore the afternoon services had closed, however, about 1000 had arrived. and many more are constantly arriving from all over the state. The large church was completely filled from the opening to the close of the services.
 The opening devotion was led by Rev. c. A. Northrop of Norwich Town. after which Rev. Dr. J. E. Twitcheil, pastor of the Dwight Place Congrega- tional church. made a short address of welcome in behalf of the New Ha7 ven churches. He spoke with great earnestness of the interest he had taken in the Y. F. s. c. E. since its very foundation, and addressed words of encouragement to the delegates to take heart at the success which had always attended the work of the or ganization In all its endeavors.
 MT. D. B. Tucker, president of the New Haven Christian Endeavor union, then spoke few words. welcoming ho kau Sv hah ahal nF hn Haven union. Rev. c. A. Northrop then responded briefly in behalf of the state and avs followed by Rev. w. A. Richards of Hartford, who also re- sponded in behalf of the state union. At 4:30 the rally of the junior Y. P. s. c. E. societies was held under the direction of the New Haven union. D. B. Tucker, president of the New Haven union, presided. All the junior societies which were present occupied the front seats in the body of the church. The address by Mrs. Alice May Scudder of Jersey City. N. J.. was
 most appropriate for the junior En- deavorers and was listened to by them
 with close attention, as we'll as by the senior Endeavorers who were present.
 She is a very entertaining speaker After her address 8 short consecra- ton meeting was held.
 During the exercises of the afternoon
 the following telegram was read by President Barber of the state union: Chicago, H., Nov. '. 1894.
 Illinois sends greeting. Ephesians
 three. thirteen. .l . " &s8 1T. H. sPOONER. | It was also announced that Instead of l private prayer at 7:15 o'clock, this
 morning, prayer meetings would be
 held at 7o'clock at the Davenport | Dwight Place, Grand avenue Baptist, Howard avenue Congregational and
 Humphrey street Congregational
 churches. '". At 7:3O o'clock the convention re-as- | sembled at the Hyperion for the evening
 session. Ashort praise service was held first, which was followed at 8 o'clock
 by the address on Fellow Citizens With the Saints" by MT. w. H. Beach of Jer- sey City, N. J. The address was a most inspiring one and closely held the atten- ton of the immense audience, with | which the theater was filled. He spoke in the main as follows:
 "The earnest throbbing desire of every man that loves God is that we carry the
 cause of Christ on to victory. What then
 is the duties of Christians as regards citizenship? We are not perfect, of course. But we are in advance of our fa- thers. So we have g. greater responsi-
 bility, and should try to do our whole
 duty as Christians.
 By the church bye and bye every
 social wrong will be lighted, every
 community made pure, every demagogue
 cast down from power. By 1t evil will l be finally conquered. Vice cannot be ob-
 liberated by the law, but 1t can be re- 1 strained. And the. way to do this is by the banding together of all who have
 the good of the nation st heart. Now I l believe there is no other name given un-
 der heaven by which men can be saved than that of eJsus Christ. You may not
 think that has any reference to politics. But there is no politician in the world that can arrive at real success who has not faith in Jesus Christ.
 But you may ask, are you going to
 soil the church in the dirty pool of politics? I answer no, a thousand times, no. 'i Ea ra. The church is to be a sort of John the Baptist in all political reform. It is to go in advance and blast out the
 rocks of infideltty which are in the way Of course reforms do not come in a | y . ho cired in day. With God a thousand years are as one day and one day as a
 thousand years.
 Tt has been said that it Is now time
 for the Y. P. s. c. B. to take hand in politics But think it depends a great
 deal on what hand and with how many fingers. you take hold. Can 1t be
 thought possible that 2 society like this can affiliate itself with any political party independent of the church with which 1t is connected? Dear brethren, it is impossible. We hear a great deal
 about civic sense and civic duty. It
 seems to me that what we need is more common sense and religious duty. The Christian Endeavor society is no convenience for a crank. don't like crariks These political cranks are very destructive. There Is no such a thing as paedging the Christian society politically to any political body. Chris tian citizenship involves earnest, pray erful, consistent common sense and req sonable efforts to make the little piece of world in which we live better and more Christlike. When the Christian