Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-16
ENDEAVORERs GO HOME
Their Convention Ends With a
 Big Conservation Meeting.
THE SOCIETY MADE WORLDWIDE.

A Platform ana Pr1nc1pleS AuOpteO De-
 nounoIng Political Affiliations and Setting
 Forth the Aim of the Association-CIOs-
 ing Services of an Impressive Nature.
 BOSTON, July 16.-The fourteenth in- ternational Christian Endeavor conven- tion is ended It has overtowered all con- temporary events in the city or state, per haps in the entilc country. During its con- tinuance more than 500 meetings have been held. Approximately 0,000 manly men and womanly women have come from all corners of the North American conti- nent as delegates Others have come from strange and distant and obscure lands, and the greatest and most powerful nations of the earth have been represented in this vast gathering.
 This great organization, the growth of which is from n membership of one in 1881 to more than ,, 300, 000Nin 1895, has been expanded into worldwide organization, and what its growth under its new possi- bilities OF the good its influence may do religiously, socially and politically in this land and all the rest of Gods foOtstool no mans mind can predict. Yet notwith- standing all its prominence of to-day and its newly created cosmopOlitanism, it re- mains as simple as ever, doing merely work of influence.
 An Enthusiastic WinduP.
 The convention held here has been the greatest religious event the world has ever seen, its promoters believing its influence for good incalculable.
 Three great meetings were held in BOs- ton last night. They closed the convention in a manner entirely befitting its charac- ter. Thirty thousand people gathered in Mechanics hall and Tents Williston and Endeavor.
 The meetings at these places were marked with a sort of spirituality that has not so notably characterized any pre- vious meetings of the week.
 Not that their gatherings were a jot less earnest than their predecessors, but there seemed to be deeper and holicr sentiment filling the three great composite bands that worshiped last night, a sentiment denoted by an absence of the wonted demonstration of the days that have passed.
 At all three great auditOriums the meetings were much the same. Consecra- tion, striving to get nearer the Master, was the subject of them all. The purely conservation services were led by President Clark in Mechanics hall, by Secretary Baer in Tent Williston and by Rev. Ne hcmiah Boynton, D. D., in Tent Endeavor. These leaders also presided at the rcspeo- tive meetings.
 Besides the singing and the prayer serv- ices, sermons by Rev. H. M. Wharton, D. D., of Baltimore in Mechanics build ing, Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D. D., of New York in Tent Williston, and Rev. John Potts. ID. D., of Toronto in Tent Endcavor were delivered.
 The petition of 50, GOO delegates, repre- senting a constituency of nearly 3, GOO, GOO, to Queen Victoria, relative to the condi- tion of Christian subjects in Turkey, was an important event and aroused great in- terCSt.
 While several thousand delegates will return to their homes today, the greater part of the multitude of strangers will re- main in town sight seeing until the end of the week.
 New York excursions have been planned for the next three days, and a large num- ber of tickets for them are already sold, and to Plymouth, Salem, Lexington and Concord, HOOSac Tunnel, the Berkshire hills, White mountains and Church Will. liston, in Portland, the birthplace of the society.
 The EndeaVOr Platform.
 In Tent Williston the declaration of the following platform and principles of the Society of Christian Endeavor was read by hN and was approved by the unanimous voice of the conventions:
 I've reatfirln our adherence to the prin- ciples which, under Gods blessing have made the Christian Endeavor movement what it is today.
 First and Foremost-Personal devo- tion to our divine Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
 "Second-The covenant of obligation embodied in the prayer meeting pledge, without which there can be no true So- cicty of Christian Endeavor.
 'Third-Constant religious training for all kinds of service involved in the vari- ous committees, which-so many of them as are needed-arc, equally with the prayer meeting essential to a Society of Christian Endcavor.
 "Fourih-Strcnuous loyalty to the local church and denomination with which each society is connected This loyalty is plain ly expressed in the pledge. It undcrlies the whole idea of the movement, and, as statistics prove and pastors testify, is very generally excmplificd in the lives of ac- tive members. Thus the Society of Chris tian EndeavOr, in theory and practice is as loyal a dcnominational society as any in existence, well as a broad and fra ternal interdenOminatiOnal society.
 Fifth-We rcatfirm our increasing con- fidcncc in tho interdenominationals spirit ual fellowship, through which we hope not for organic unity, but to fulfill our Lords prayer, That they all may be one. This fellowship already extends to all evangelical denominations, and we should greatly deplore any movement that would interrupt or imperil it.
 "Sixth-Christian Endeavor stands al. ways and everywhere for Christian citizen. ship. It is forever opposed to the saloon, the gambling den, the brothel and every like iniquity. It stands for temperance for law, for order, for Sabbath keeping, for pure political latmosphere-ina 0 word for righteousness. And this it does not by allying itself with political party, but by attempting, through the quick con science of it's individual members, to per meate and influence all parties and al communities.
 "Sevcnth-That all moneys gathered for missions be sent to the missionary boards of the special denominations"