Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1895-07-16
ENDEAyORERS GO HOME
Their Convention Ends With a
Big Conservation Meeting.
TIE SOCIETY MADE WORLDWIDE

Forth the Aim of the Association Clos
Ing Services Of an Impressive Nature.
Boston, Iuly 16-The fourteenth in
tcinaiional Christian Endeayor conycn-
tion IS ended Il has oycrtoWercd an con-
temporary events la the city or state per
haps in the entire country. During its CON
tlnuance moro than 500 meetings have
been held Approximately o0,0 600 manly
ncn and wonnnly women have come from
all corncrs of tile North American conti-
mont MS delegates Others have come from
strango aud distant and obscure lands, and
the greatest and most powerful nations of
tho enrth have been represented in this
vast gathering
This great organization, the growth Of
whiell IS 'FRONT.' membership Of one In 1881
20 inoru than y BOO 600 in 1895, has been
expanded into a worldwide organization,
ana what IT'S growth under its new posi-
hiliiios or the good its influence may do
religiously, socially and politically in this
lnnd and all the rest of Gods footstool no
man's mind cam predict Yet notwith-
standing all its prominence of to-day and
rs newly created cosmopoltanism, 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 eyer
eecn, its promoters believing its influence
for good ncnlculahle
Three great meetings were held IN Bos-
ton last night They closed the convention
in a manner entirely bniitting its charac-
ter. Thirty thousand peoplo gathered in
Mechanics hal nnd Tents Williston and
Endcnyor
The meetings at these places were
marked with q SOFT Of spirituality chat
has not 50 notably characterized any pro
vious meetings of tho week.
Not that their gatherings were q jot
less earnest than their predecessors,
bat there seemed Go be "A deeper and
holier sentiment filling the three great
composite bands that worshiped last night.
o sentiment denoted by an absence of the
wonted demonstration of the days that
have passed
AT all three great audtoriums the
meetings were much tho same. Consccra-
ton q striving TO got nearer the Master,
was the subject of thom all. The purely
conservation services were led by President
Clark Ia Mechanics hail. by Secretary
Bacr ia Tent Williston and by Roy. Ne
homiah Boynton, d. d., in Tent Endcavor.
These leaders also presided at the rcspoc-
two meetings.
Besides the singing and the prayersory-
Ices, sermons by Rev. III. NJ Wharton,
D. d.. of Baltimore IN Mechanics build
ing, Rev Samuel II. Virgin, ID. d., OF
Now York in Tent Wiliston, and Rev
John Potts, y. ID. Of Toronto in Tent
Endoayor were delivered
Tho petition of go 600 delegates, repre-
scniing q constituency of nearly 3, 600 600,
TO Queen Victoria, rolptivo to the c0ndi-
tlon of Christian subjects in Turkey, was
an important event ana aroused great in
tcrcst
While several thousand delegates win
return TO their homes today, the greater
part Of the multitude Of strangers will re-
main Ia town sight seeing until the end Of
the week.
New York excursions have been planned
for the next three days and u largo NUM-
her of tickets for them are already sold,
ard TO Plymouth, Salem, Lexington and
Concord Hoosac Tunnel, the Berkshire
hills White mountains and Church VIII
iiston, ia Portland, the birthplace of the
society
The Endeavor Platform.
In Tent Wilston the declaration of the
following platform and principles of tho
Society Of Christian Endeavor was read by
Rev Or, II. r. McEwen OF Now York,
and was approved by tho unanimous voice
OF the conventions:
We rcaflirm our adherence to the prin-
ciplos which, under Gods blessing, have
made tho Christian Endoavor movement
what it is today
First and Foremost--porsonal dovo-
tion 60 our divine Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ
Sccond--rhe covenant Of obligation
embodied i'm the prayer meeting pledge,
without which there can be no true So
ricty of Christian Endcavor.
"lhird-Constaut religions training for
All kinds Of service involved i'm the vari-
Gus committees, which-so many of them
as arc ncoded-arc equally with the
prayer meeting, essential 90 Society OF
Christian Endcavor.
tourth-Strenuous loyalty To the local
church and nc nomination with which each
society is connected, This loyalty is plain
" expressed ia the pledge II underlies
the whole idea of the movement, and, as
statistics prove and pastors testify Is very
generally sxompiiod in the lives of act
tive members. Thus Che Society 81 Chris
lian kndeaNnr in theory and practice, lis
as loyal a denominational society as amy
Ia existence as well as broad and fra-
tcrnul INSTRUMENTATION society.
"fiith-Me reailirm our increasing eon-
ldcnec in the intordonominational spirit
nal fellowship through which we hopo
not for organic unity, but TO fulflu our
Lords prayer That they an may DO one.
This fellowship already extends to an
evangelical denominations, and we should
greatly dcplore any movement that would
interrupt on imperil &c.
Standardization Endeavor stands al
ways and everywhere for Christian citizen
ship. IL is forever opposed Co the saloon,
the gambling den, the hrothel and every
/ like iniquity Il stands for temperance,
for law, Tor order, for sabbath keeping,
for a pure political atmosphere i'm a word,
for righteousness And this il docs not by
allying itself with a political party bat
by attempting, through the quick CON
science of its individual mcmhcrs, 90 per
meato and influence an parties and OIL
communities.
'Seventh-That an moneys gathered
for missions be sent TO the nissiouar,
boards Of the special denominations.
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Finishing tho Defender.