Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-19

live up to all the rules of the society, ne
said, and all should live together in their
work and duties. Mr.. May referred to the
difficulty of finding a sufficient number
| willing to abide by the Judgment of the
| officers of the society in the making up of
| committees, and advised more concert Of
action. Mistakes could not always be
avoided he said, and all should bear and
! forbear- What was wanted, he explained,
| was fewer II cants" and more Il Wills
Business Methods.
| Mr.. John B. Sleman, jr., was the next
| speaker his paper being devoted to ''Busi-
| ncss-like Business Meetings." He re-
marked that few members of the society
realized the Importance and value Of bust
ness-like methods in conducting the work
| of the society and it's meetings. He would
| not favor or advise mere mechanical work.
| but plain, practical methods. He then
| si1etched an ideal business meeting of the
| society, suggesting that all new business
| should first he submitted to an executive
| committee. If that We're done, he was
| positive that much valuable time would he
saved and much more important work bet
ter and more quickly pei formed
Miss Susanna Moore devoted five minutes
| to discussing the Duties of the Cores
| pondlng Secretary
Til, Relation of the President to the
Committees was the subject OF Miss Anna
| j. Bells paper.
Officers Responsibilities.
committee of '96 was named the pro-
| gram for a paper en- THE Responsibilities
of Society Officers in Connection with the
Convention OF '96,'' but he explained that
he he'd been SO busly occupied with the
duties of the committee that he had no
| time to prepare written paper. He spoke,
however, of the unfcrtur ate delay which
had Eeen met in aScertaining certain great
ly needed information from the different
societies, and reminded the meeting that
if the convention was to be a success every
one should respond promptly when called
upon for information ana assistance.
1t had been intended to have general
! discuss sion of the papers read, but the late
| ess of the hour prevented and after
another hymn had been sung, the gather
ing was dismissed.
The Night Session.
The church was crowded to the doors at
1870 o'clock, when the opening mass meet
| ing began Every seat on the floor was &C.
cupied, and even the galleries were packed.
The meeting was preceded by the singing
of several hymns. The devotional exercises
were led by Mr. w. H. H. Smith. chairman
OF the '96 convention committee, who was
introduced by President L. A. Connor, jr
Mir. Smith said that he brought the greet
| ings OF the Virginia Endeavorers. The en-
tire assembly, In emulation of the custom
elsewhere, arose, and for a moment the air
was white with handkerchiefs.
Mr.. Smith then called for tWC-minute
season of sentence prayer, all rising. From
the intense stiffness came, one by one,
brief prayers from those who felt moved to
speak. 1t was most impressive moment.
President Common made a few introduce
tory remarks, to open the real work Of the
evening. He then called for song, and
response was made by the young ladies of
the Cosmos Quartet.
PASTORS Half Hour.
The Pastors Half Hour came next, con-
Quoted by Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis. The
first pastor to use the three minutes aliot
ted to each speaker was Rev. G. N. Luc-
cock, for the Presbyterians.
Congregational singing followed and
Rev. w. A. Credit talked for three min
utes on behalf of the Baptists. Rev.
Sterling n. Brown spoke for the Congrega-
tionalists. Rev. Mr.. S. NJ. Hartsock of
his reasons on behalf of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in q letter, which was
lead.
An AcrOstic.
Rev Walter r. Graham, for the Metho-
dist Protestants, took up every one Of
his $50 seconds by giving a new acrostic
on the societies title, Y. p. S. c. L. These
letters, he said, signify ''yeomanry." be-
cause the members OF the c. L. are the
kings bodyguard; "pomology," because of
the power revealed through the science Of
raising fruit i'll the kings garden; STRAIT
e.-y," because 1t reveals the art Of conduct
Ing q successful campaign for the king;
"chivalry,'' being the cadet corps of true
knight errantry of the cross. sent out to
protect the kings highway. and ''espion-
age" because it SENDS each member cut
with orders from the king to watch the
words OF each other and the movements
of the enemy.
Rev F. D. Power was to have spoken for
the Christian Church. but was detained at
the sick bed of his brother.
Mr. Ennis offered brief PRAYER for the
one in illness, before reading Mr.. Powers
letter, giving his reasons why he values the
c. e.
Rev. ]. E. Fout for the United Brethren,
said that he values the organiz2t ton be-
cause it means endeavor, work, service. 1t
puts the young people to work, i'll union
with one another.
The half hour was closed with few
reasons from Rev. c. ii. Butler, speaking
for the Lutherans.
Number of Members.
The collection was then taken up and
while the coins were juggling Secretary
SIeman made the announcements for the
other meetings He read a letter from
the Baltimore c. E. Union, sending greet
ings, which were received with waving
handkerchief. The total registration, he
said, is LIS, divided as follows among the
oiel, ominations: Presbyteriars. 4us; Bap-
tsts 2.6; Lutherans, So; Methodist Pro-
testants 81; Methodist Episcopals, 126;
cellaneouS, 100.
International Convention.
A hymn was sung by the entire assem-
blage, and then Rev. Henry T. McEwen of
New York, the chairman of the ~ New
York convention committee, spoke for
twenty-five minutes on the topic: How
Does 1t Pay to Entertain an international
c. e. Convention?' He spoke with great
force and enthusiasm. Washington, he
said, will become in 1896 a great magnet
for almost countless thousands. Religion
WILL of course, have something to do with
It, for the G. E. work is based upon re-
ligion- Patriotism, too. will have some
thing: to 10 With it. for many and li:any
Will he glad of the chance to visit the ma
tional capital. The local committee in
charge, he thought, was not wild in it's
innate that there will De from $1,000 to
100000 young people in attendance. The
railway officers can easily compute the
money value Of all this. So, too, can the
keepers of the hotels ard boarding houses.
Every Endeavorer, said Mr.. McE;wen. pays
his board bill. There was not complaint
in New York ON such score.
Mr.. McEwen spoke of the international
character Of the organization. and Of its
wonderful growth into every nook and
corner of the world. The organization, he