The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-13
CRUSADERS OF THE CROSS
THE DAYS SERVICES OPEN EAR
LY IN THE MORNING.

Thousands of EndeavOrers Gathered
in 2I Churches OF boston, Cam
bridge and SOmerViIIe-'Fnith
Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ
For Strength" the Topic tn All the
Churches at the Opening Meeting.
Boston. July 12.-The Christian Endeav-
orers this morning at $50 gathered by
the thousands in twenty-one churches of
Boston. Cambridge and Somerville, whore
prayer meetings were held All the meet
ings were upon the same topic, Faith.
Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for
Strength" Nearly all the leaders were
visiting clergymen and delegates. The
motings were conducted upon lines SINH
lar to those Of the regular endeayor devo-
tional societies.
Mechanics Hall was filled at $50 ociocis.
when the trustee, Rev. NJ Rhodes. D. D.,
OF st. Louis. NO., called the meeting TO
order.
Rev. Wayland Hoyt, d. D.. Of Mlnnea-
polls, with brief address, presented the
state banner for the greatest proportion.
| ate increase in local societies to the Brit
new societies were organized last year.
II was received by William Patterson of
! Toronto, Ont, who will carry IL TO ths
! territory, which is so distant that no rep
resentative is present at the convention.
The meeting adjourned at noon and
/ scores Of evangelistic meetings followed
/ throughout the city.
At Tent Endeavor Prof. Howard b.
Gross Of the University Of Chicago was
| the presiding officer. The meeting was
| fun Of enthusiasm over the Christian En-
| deavor movement, and the general tes-
| timony was that the Christian EndeaVor
| Society is a natural and effective ally of
the Christian church of whatever denom-
| ination.
In Tent Willlston President Francis Il.
| Clark presided, Percy II. Foster of Wash
! ington, d. c. led the praise service and
| Rev. Mr.. Mitchell of Wilberforce Univer-
| sity, Ia, offered the prayer.
Tho Joint rally OF the African Methodist
| Episcopal church and the African Metho-
| dist Episcopal Zion church was reported
| by Rev. r. Haywood Sttt. a witty and
/ able colored man, who said he represented
the 100000 black children of Father
/ Clark. The colored people had followed
/ the white people into the Christian En-
4 deavorer movement. They had been fol-
lowing white men for many years. They
| had followed them to America. White
men came to America as interlopers. Col
! ored people came because they were in
| vited and urged TO come. They had fol-
/ lowed white men into the congress or the
nation. They had followed them TO the
| jails and the penitentiaries. They dld not
want to follow any longer They would
say to the Christian Endeayorers, We
are not following you, we are with YOU"
| Rev r. W. Lewis of Meridian, Miss,
| represented a young denomination, the
Cumberland Presbyterians, born In 1910,
church that believes in non-sectarians,
and in non-sectionalism, chureh that
/ knows no north, no south.
The Rev Allan b. Philputt. d. D., re-
ported from the Disciples of Christ, de-
nomination fourth In size in the United
States and third in Christian Endeavorer
membership.
Winslow M. Bell, of Milton, N. Y, spoke
Of the success Of the Christian Endeavor
| movement In the Society of Friends.
! Rev. Willis 8. Hinman of Columbia, Pa,
reported from the Lutherans and said that
! the mother church of American churches
was glad to be a child of Christian En-
deavor.
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody spoke in
! Fanuen Hall to an audience which packed
the hall upon obstacles TO salvation.
Miss Bell NJ. Braine, of Springfield, o.
presided at missionary committee con-
| ference which crowded the Clarendon
| street Baptist church at y. m.
| A conference on systematic and propor-
| tional giving followed at 4 o'clock. Miss
Frances B. Patterson of Chicago, presided
and spoke Of the efficiency of personal
work in inducing Endeavorers TO give a
| reasonable proportion Of their incomes.
A conference of junior independents held
| at the Warren Avenue Baptist church this
| evening was presided over by Mr.. Percy
| j. S. Ryan Of New York. There was the
usual large Christian Endeavor audience.
| A meeting for @ conference of the state
! and provincial societies Of the Christian
| Endeavor was held at the Y. NJ. G. a.
/ building at p. m. George Mcdonald or
| Altoona Pa, presided and directed the
! discussion Thlrty-fve states and prov
| inces were represented. The questions dis
| cussed were the finances of the state
1 unions, extension OF missionary work,
| whether it can be done effectually by state
| unions; the establishment Of state cor
/ respondence committees as a means Of
/ keeping track of individuals who go away
! to other states or counties. etc.
An important meeting for the formation
/ Of a worlds Christian EndeaVor Union was
/ held in Mechanics Hall at p. m, with
/ nearly 5000 present.
Rev. Frances E. Clark, D. D., president
/ of the United Society of Christian En-
/ deavor, presided and stated that this was
no new thing as it had been considered
/ more than a year.
II was unanimously voted to form a
/ Worlds Christian Endeavor Union and a
committee of five was appointed with Rev.
Cloze as chairman with power to formu-
late a constitutionson the lines Of the one
read to the meeting. Rev. Mr.. Cloze then
| proposed that the meeting elect Rev. DR..
Clark as president, and this was done unan-
| imously. Dr. Clark accepted the Office for
one year and suggested that tho first gen.
eral meeting be held in Washington
next year with the United Society con-
vention, and this suggestion was adopted.
]. Wills Baer was elected secretary ten
tatively and William Shaw of Boston
| treasurer.
The accommodation committee at 5
| O'Clock this afternoon had registered 49,
| S62 delegates from all the states and ter
ritories.
FIRE IN A COAL SHAFT.