River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-07-18


PRESIDENT CLARK.
ultaneously by Secretary Baer in
Mechanics building, by Rev. John Bar
stow, Medford, Mass. in Tent Willis
ton, and by Mr.. J. L. Chessman, Cleve-
land, O., in Tent Endeavor.
The Report In Part.
Every useful wheel must have ITS hub Ev-
cry hub to be useful, should have its wheel
Figuratively speaking Christian Endeavor
is a useful wheel; certainly Boston is
the Hub. AS are in the Hub let US
turn the wheel upon its axis. and from
the hub view its revolutions Its circumfer-
ence equals that of the globe, and its spokes
number thousands upon thousands Last year
our wheel was strengthened by 1850 new So
cieties for spokes, If you pleased This is
the largest incre Sc for any one year since the
wheel commenced revolving. fourteen years
$50.
Spoke" after spoke passes our vision
rapidly in this whirl OF inspection, in all A.
80 OF these 47l2 are from other lands. the
United Kingdom heading the list with
2.645 which figure includes $50 from
Wales, Il2 from Scotland and So from Ire
land Australia now has no less than 1909;
Africa 80. China, 81; France 81, India. III;
Japan So Madagascar. 49, Mexico. 25 Turkey,
80. West India islands, SO, and so on until every
country is represented. save fve, Italy, Russia,
Iceland, Sweden and Greece
And now the 'spokes' from the Dominion of
Canada come into view. Ontario. with her re-
markabie growth Of the last year. leads with
1895; Nova Scotia, 3ss; Quebec, s6i; New
Brunswick I52: Manitoba. 1856; Prince Edward
island g.; Assiniooia. So; British Columbia.
20. Alberta 10; Saskatchewan. 5 In ALI count
ing in Newfoundland. SlOj. an increase OF
,223 during the past year
And now our view from the Hub dis
closes the balance OF the Wheel all bearing
aEa1S ri
Pennsylvania still leads with fi3s, New York
next. Win SEE; Ohio, 2.7o1; Illinois, 244o'
Indiana. 1,762; Iowa. 1903. Massachusetts
I3Ug; Kansas ,2f7 Missouri, 1.l33; Michigan.
I.Os1: New Jersey. 1Oij. etc. In all. from the
United States, 3S4l2, a against 2s.6g6 last
year.
In addition to the s,s59 Junior 'spokes
from the United States there are 500 from
Canada and PA from otner lands. making in all
Gle Junior societies, with a membership of
$4,000 Pennsylvania still leads the Juniors.
with 10 3. New York. not very far behind
with ego. Illinois next, with 40; Ohio 623;
Indiana, 40, California, 4l4, etc.
And now we have counted the spokes
as they have swept by our vision. total OF
Al .2e9 societies with an individual member
ship from every cline and every nation. with
SKINS OF varying color. of which $50 are red
90 800 are yellow. lO9 400 are black and 2S4S,560
are white: in all, great interraeial brother
hood of 2473,5i0
we nave feacneu the rim OF our wheel, tht
felly. Our felly' is made mp of the fellowship
of over thirty evangelical denominations.
In the United States the denominational
representation Is as follows; The Pres
byterians still lead, with b.:s3 Young
People's societies and 2.69 Junior
societies; the Congregationalists have 1890
Young Peoples societies and l,g)S Junior So
cieties: the Disciples OF Christ and Christians
26s7 Young PeoT,e's societies and s62 Junior
societies; the Baptists 1850 Young Peo-
pies societies and s)l Junior societies.;
Methodist Episcopal, p3l Young Peo-
pies societies and SOL Junior societies;
Methodist Protestants. s5S Young Peoples So
eieties and 2l7 Junior societies: Lutherans,
5es Young Peoples societies and 245 Junior so
cieties; Cumberland Presbyterians, 500 Young
Peoples societies and 23i Junior societies, and
so on through long list.
THE Chicago union has had ir its possess
sion for a year the banner awarded at Cleve
land for the most aggressive Christian citizen
snip warfare Chicago's record this year Is
even more worthy than her last II has been
decided. however, after careful deliteration,
that the report made by the Syracuse union
entities them IN the custods OF the Christian
citizenship banner for the coming year
The crown of the movement is our beloved
INSTRUMENTATION fellowship
IN all, lOs Is5 have joined the churches
since the last convention. In 1890, 10000
new church members we're reported; in 81.
So 500: in SO. i2OOJ0; in 90 I5sOO0; Ia "a.
1888 $50 and now in 'g5. 202.lso In the last six
ears. si62S5
Afternoon Rallies.
Twentv-four UNCONVENTIONAL rallies
were held Thursday afternoon in as
many churches, the leaders being
prominent members of the different de-
nominations
At o'clock p. m. Mechanics hall
was opened, and within half an hour
it was so densely packed that the
doors had to be closed. Thousands gath
cred before the building and an over
flow meeting was held on the steps, at
which Rev. Henry Montgomery, of
Belfast. Ireland; Rev. James Pollock,
of Glasgow, Scotland, and President
Z. ;. Clark spoke.
Rev. Francis f. Clark, d. D., of Bos-
ton. president of the United society,
then read his animal report, after
which Secretary Baer announced that
the trustees had unanimously voted to
hold the convention of ~ in San Fran
cisco. providing satisfactory railroad
rate could be obtained.
FRIDAYS Sessions.
BosToN. July l5.-The third day of
the fourteenth international Christian
Endeavor convention opened Friday
with ideal weather. Despite the M
mense amount of energy expended by
the delegates at the great meetings of
Thursday and the greater meetings in
the evening. thousands Of them werr
up almost with the sun Friday morn
ing. making their way to thirty
churches in the city and vicinity, to
attend the early prayer meetings that
began at $50 o'clock a. m. and lasted
fortv-tive minutes.
The morning sessions of the conven-
tion in tents Williston and Endeavor
and i'm Mechanics hall were attended
by the same great host that were
Their, Thursday. Before 9 o'clock
throng crowded Tie steps at the en-
trance of Mechanics hall sing
ing endeavor Songs while they
waited admission. On the Com
mon the scene was duplicated
outside the tents. As on Thursday
hundreds were unable to secure admit
lance at the hall and later repaired to
the tents The sessions Friday fore
noon partook more of business char
acter than their predecessors, interest
ing reports of the information commit
tees and reports from the denomina-
tional meetings taking up an hour of
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