The Portland daily press., 1895-07-15
SATURDAYS SESSION.
christian EndeavOrers Held Entllusias-
tic Meetings in the Rain.


approaching Eud of the Mighty Meeting
Rev. Mr.. Pratts Address.
Boston, July g. 3-Today on the Common
there gatheredEa vast body yariously esti-
mated at between 40, O,00O-and So 600 peo-
pie. The clear skies of early morning
were already marred by ominous clouds
and President Francis e. Clark, d.
d., Father Ehdeavorer Clark" as he
is lovingly called by more than 2, 800, 900
men and women and young men and
maldens, glanced fearfully skyward, but
opened the services at the appointed hour.
Then came the heavy rain, but the dis
comfort OF thousands of dripping, push
ing umbrellas did not prevent mighty
rendition OF Onward, Christian Sold
iers. DR.. S. F.Smith, author of 'Ame-
RIGA, was then introduced and the
thousands sang verse of the old hymn
in hearty compliment to it's author. BY
| this time the rain was descending in tor
| rents and President Clark announced an
adjournment to the big tents Endeayor
and Wiliston, near by.
REV. D. NJ. PRATT'S ADDRESS, &
Among the addresses today was one
by the Rev. Dwight M. Pratt of Port
land on "Good Citizenship" He said
l stand here to speak for the East the
far-oh, "down east portion of this great
land. do SO with some degree of con-
fidence for Maine has endeavored to do
her part in the formation of good citizens.
She has given this organization to the
world which stands first and last always
for the noblest possible type of manhood
and Womanhood; she has done more in
law and practical effort than any other
portion of the globe in temperance reform
and for the prohibition of the saloon and
last but not least, it was left to her to
furnish q man who had brains and COM
mon sense enough to make rules by which
stupid and inefficient Congress could
transact business.
One who would fulfil his part as a
good citizen must, next to his duty to
God. recognize his obligations to his fel-
Iowmen. When Abraham Lincoln was
President of the United States hei sum
M moned President McCulloch of the Bank
OF Indiana to Washington as Comptroller
OF the Currency. After two years of in
cessant, patriotic labor he was again sam
moned by Mr. Lincoln to the more aidu-
GUS position of Secretary of the Treasury.
1t was the darkest hour of the war. The
finances of the nation were in critical
condition. Mr.. McCulloch felt that be
could assume no greater responsibility.
MIR. Lincoln called him into his Office,
looked at him with his sad, weary eyes,
and throwing his arms over his shoulder
said = You must, tho country needs you y
In that spirit of selfsurrender and sacrifice
Mr.. McCulloch served the country with
great unselfishness and devotion. This
is good citizenship. This is patriotism
The determining forces in national life
come from private citizens, not from
Official power. Had there not been con-
secrated citizens in goodly number who
recognized their obligations to humanity
there never would have been Lincoln to
voice those obligations and make them
effective in law. The emancipation proc
lamation originated in the writings of a
congregational minister, for Lincoln him
self acknowledged that DR. Leonard
Bacon's book on slavery first led him to
those clear convictions which issued in
the famous proclamation of 1862. Nor lis
this all. The chief honor here falls to- a
woman. 1t is generally conceded that
Harriet Beecher Stoves "Uncle Tom S
Cabin did more than any other one
thing to break the fetters Of the slave
Look at the formative influences of that
remarkable era. John Brown, Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Mrs. Stowe, DR.. Leon
ard Bacon made the career of Lincoln
possible. A wool dealer, an editor, a
lawyer, minister's daughter, a clergy
man illustrate the forces that go to make
up republic. A devout sense of obliga-
tion to humanity on the part of Christians
will regenerate society. No man with the
spirit OF Christ can betray his country in
civil office, can surrender to the saloon
through fear of disaster to business, can
accumulate millions and ignore the wants
of suffering humanity; can witness
poverty, crime and growing corruption
without being a reformer
The age calls for men who will place
righteousness and the public welfare
above personal prosperity Ii the evils of
the world are ever to be overcome they
will be overcome by the unselfshness and
heroism of selfsacrificing love on the part
of all who call themselves followers of
Jesus FChrist Whether a man be a
Phillips Brooks, a Mark Hopkins, an
Edison, a Vanderbilt or Rockefeller
God calls him in each instance to be alike
serviceable to humanity
Mrs. Ella d McLaurin took for her
topic Information concerning Christian
Endeayor and Missions. - She said:
Christian Endeayor was born in mis-
sion band. The missionary spirit is it's
soul and life. Missions are it's distin-
gushing badges among the nations of the
earth. The great commission is wrought
into the very warp and woof of our
pledge.
Our aim is a. The appointment in
every society of a live missionary COM
mittee all at work with this definite pur-
pose. (2) The monthly missionary meet
ing, where we introduce Joseph to his
brethren, where we are brought face to
face with the worlds need and our power
to meet that need. (3) The missionary
library has proved a successful weapon in
Staying the two giants, Selfshness and
Indifference. These bright, wideawake.
real live missionary books are mighty in
their results. In one society in which the
leading member was opposed to foreign
missions, by planting some real live mis-
sionary books, they began to read, to pray
and to give, one member giving his life
to the work (4) The missionary stereop-
ticon has become a mighty factor in our
work. With it we have spent the evening
in Europe, Africa, Asia, as we'll as i8
America, and have looked into the faces
of those who have actually known the
taste of human flesh, but have been trans
formed into Giving witnesses known and
read of all men," A message that will
produce such results ought to be carried
at any cost, (5) Christian Endeayor bsS