The Portland daily press., 1895-07-15
THE ENDEAvoRERs' SUNDAY.

THE ENDEAVoRERs' SUNDAY.
No Meeting Held by the Convention and
Delegates Visited Various Churches.
| NO meetings of the Christian Endeavor
conven Ion We're held today, but the En-
deavorers crowded the city churches
Where many distinguished clergymen
from abroad preached An immense con-
gregatlon thronged Trinity in the morn
ing to hear Canon J. B. Richardson of
London, Ont, who preached powerful
sermon upon church unity from
Ephes1ans 14-3 He said Christendom
hnds Itself today in state of dissatisfac
ton, at the root of which is the feeling
that unity is God work. The Popes re-
cent encyclical, while remarkable for its
gentle and deyout spirit, is permeated
with the assumption that Rome is the
one true church and reunion, must be up
on her dogmas. Any corporate union
with Rome is impossible so long as she
| retains her destructive and erroneous
doctrines
The Dudley street Baptist church
was packed long before the morn
| ing service began. The sermon, preached
BY Rev. Henry L. McEwen, D. D., of
New York, taking for his text the parable
Oh the house built upon the sand. He
used instances of ordinary difficulties in
the erection of buildings to illustrate the
dlihculties encountered by the human
soul in developing sound character. The
only safe fundations for buildings were
those laid by God in the soil and rock.
Bishop Samuel Fallows, ID. d., LII.
D., Of Chicago, preached in the fremont
street Methodist church this morning up
on sanctification. He said in part: 1.-The
word sanctify includes expiation and con
ssecration The church is a school, the
object of whose teaching is saintship.
Christ the teacher, never gets out of
patience. We have had lessons that
Christian soldiers are made only in the
actual warfare of life, virtue and holiness
shall come through fighting for the good
fight Christ and all the saints are ours
and we are one, no matter what our
names, if we are sanctified in Christ.
DR.. Arthur Little of Dorchester, pre-
sided at a meeting upon Sabbath obser-
vance, held this afternoon at Park street
church which was well filled with
Christian Endeavorers. In opening the
speaking he said it was the duty OF the
republic to see that the Lord S Gay was
well kept.
DIR. S p Rhodes of Montreal, then COM
pared the strict Sabbath observance in
Toronto with the, looser observance in
Quebec and Boston He thought we were
not ready commercially to pay the price
of a Puritan Sabbath. If some. rested
others must work.. but he believed in
legislation, that every man ought to have
one day S rest a week.
| W. Ell. Smith of Washington, ID. c.,
said that while the Washington Sabbath
was not an ideal, the church people had
taken hold OF The matter and newspaper
could not be sold during church hours,
and that it was a dry city
! Dr. Page of Leavenworth, Kas., pleaded
for the Puritan Sabbath in the West,
where, he said, Sunday was a holiday.
| He spoke against the readers of Sunday
papers, but not against the papers them
selves.
/ Treasurer VIM. Shaw Of the United
Society of Chritian Endeavor, spoke
| briefly.
Rev. John Pollock Of Glasgow, Scot
land, denounced Sunday street cars, and
Rev. M. ID. Kneeland of Boston, closed
the meeting with a fervent appeal Tor a
| better observance of the day.
| Rev. DR.. Patterson of Toronto, preached
at Berkeley Temple this morning from
| Ezekiel He claims that the prophecy
that the bones of the Jewish nation
should be brought together was being
fulfilled. He said that the great hindrance
to Gods spirit was the selfishness of
Christians.
The First Baptist church was filed to
the doors this evening when Rev. Wyland
Hoyt, d. D., of Minneapolis, preached
upon Christ's touch Of the bier in raising
the widows son. Ho called attention to
the fact that Christ could have performed
the miracle without touching the bier
and the touch was given that he might
place himself ON the same plane of cere-
monial defilement with the mother who
had doubtless touched it and become un-
clean according to the Levitical law He
then detailed other experiences of Christ s
character. Christ touched the bier of
humanity in His incarnation. in His
suffer- ngs, in His human weakness, in
His atonement. In closing he expanded
the thought Of Christ's resurrection and
as ascension as an experience parallel
with others mentioned, claiming he was
in touch with human nature even after
the ascension.
The evening services. were held in Music
hall under the auspices of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeayor
The hall was packed with Endeavorers
The speaker was Robert E. Speer of New
York, secretary of the Presbyterian board
of Foreign Missions, taking for his text
the words, 9 Ye are not your own, ye are
bought with price. He argued that
the life of each individual belonged to
Christ. He made fervent appeal to his
hearers to act upon the lesson he had
drawn from the text. No other meetings
were held under the auspices of the
Christian Endeavor The city churches
were crowded to hear sermons delivered
by noted clergymen. Among well known
preachers of the evening We're Rev. W. G.
Biting, D. D., of New York city, in the
Highland Congregat ional church.
Maine Delegates Meet.
z Boston, July 14-The Christian En-
deavor rally held tonight IN Winthrop
Congregational church, Charlestown, by
Maine delegates was largely attended
The speakers were Hon. W. r. Shaw of
Houlton, Rev. Alfred Brewster and Rev.
Owen James of Eastport. Rev. Miss
Brewster of Friendship. Me, made her
first public appearance in the pulpit
during the convention on this occasion.
Her subject was "Zeal. =
Editor Lingane Assaulted.
Providence, July I'D. +. Lingane.