Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-13
WORLDS c. E. UNION.
II Is Duly Formed at tho Great Meeting
In Boston.
MOODY IN rAsEuIL HALL
The Famous Evangelist breaches 10
n Large Audfence-San Francisco
IN. Meeting Place in 1897 for the
EndeavOrers.

BOSTON, July 1.-THE Christian En-
dsavorers at $50 gathered by thousands
IN twenty-one churches of Boston. Cam
bridge. and Somerville. where prayer
meetings were held All the meetings
were upon the same topic-"Faith. Trust
ing in the Lord Jesus Christ fol
Strength
Nearly all the leaders were visitins
clergymen and delegates. The meetings
were conducted upon lines similar TO those
Of the regular Endeavor devotional So
cieties.
Mechanics Hall was filled at $3.50. wher
Trustee Rev. NJ. Rhodes. d. d.. OF 81
Louis. Mo-. called the meeting 10 order
Rev. Wayland Hoyt. D. D.. OF Mlnneapo'
lis. in a brief address presented the State
banner for the greatest proportionate IN
crease in local societies 10 the British
Territory OF Asslniboia, In which eighty
three societies were organized last year.
1t was received by William Patterson, OF
Toronto, who will carry II 10 the Ierr'
tory. which Is SO distant that no repre-
sentative is present
The meeting adjourned Mt noon. and
throughout the city
At Tent Endeayor Professor Howard
y. Grose. OF the University OF Chicago
was the presiding officer. The meeting
was full OF enthusiasm over the Christian
Endeayor movement, and the general tes-
timony was that the Christian Endeavor
Society is a natural aud effective ally OF
the Christian Church.
TENT WILLISTON.
In Tent Wrliston President Francis f.
Clark presided. Rev. Mr.. Mitchell. OF
Wilberforce University, Iowa. offered
prayer
The Joint rally Of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church and the African Metho-
dist Episcopal Zion Church was repre-
scented by Rev. Haywood a. Scott, who
said he represented the 100000 children
Of Father Clark.
The colored people followed the whites
in the Christian Endeavor movement.
They had followed the white men to
America. White men came TO America
as interlopers. Colored men came be-
cause they were invited. They had fol-
lowed the white men into Congress. and
into the penitentaries. They did not
want to follow any longer They would
say 10 the Christian Endeavor Society:
1--WE are not following you; we are with
you"
Rev. r.. Il. Welsh. OF Meridian. Miss.
represented a young denomination. the
Cumberland Presbyterian, born in 1910,
a Church that believes in non-sectarian-
ISM and non-sectionalism, Church that
knows no North. no South.
The Rev. Allen b. Phillips, d. D.. spoke
pf the Disciples of Christ. a denomi-
nation fourth in size In the United Staes
and third in Christian Endeavor mem
bership.
Winslow NJ. Bel, of Milton. n. Y, spoke
of the success of the Christian Endeavor
movement in the Society of Friends.
Rev. Willis Shinmann, OF Columbia,
Pa. reported from the Lutherans. and
said that the mother church OF American
churches was glad TO be a child Of Christ
ian Endeavor.
EVANGELIST MOODY.
Evangelist Dwight. L. Moody spoke in
Faneui Hall to an audience which packed
the hail, upon obstacles to Salvation"
Miss Belle Braine. of Springfield; o..
presided at missionary conference which
crowded Clarendon-Street Baptist church
at +. NJ. a conference on Systematic
and proportionate giving followed at
o'clock. Miss Frances Il. Patterson, Of
Chicago, presided and spoke of the eff
cheney Of personal work in inducing En-
6eavors to give reasonable proportion
OF their incomes.
a conference OF Junior Independents.
held at Warren-Avenue Baptist church
this evening. was presided over by Mr..
Percy j. s. Ryan. of New York, and
there was the usual large Christian En-
leavor audience.
A meeting for conference of State and
provincial societies of the Christian En-
deavor was held at the Young Mems
Christian Association building at Il. NJ.
Mr.. George Mcdonald. of Altoona, Pa,
presided, and directed the discussion.
Thirty-fve States and provinces were re-
presented. The questions discussed were
finance and State unions. and the extern
sion Of missionary work, whether
1t can be done effectually by State
unions. the establishment OF State cor
respondence committees, as means OF
keeping track of individuals who go away
TO other States and countries, etc.
WORLDS c. l.. UNION.
A meeting of the Worlds Christian En-
deavor Union was held in Mechanics Hall
at 4 o'clock, with nearly 1900 present.
Rev Francis T.. Clark, ID. d., president
of the United Society of Christian En-
deavor, presided. and stated that this
was no new thing, as II had been
considered more than year
The convention voted 10 form "a w OrId )
Christian Endeavor Union, and COM
mittee Of five was appointed. with Rev.
Mr.. Close as chairman. with power 10
formulate a constitution on the lines Of
the one read TO the meeting.
Rev. Mr. Close then proposed that the
meeting elect Rev. DIR. Clark as president.
and this was done unanimously.
DR.. Clark accepted the office for one
year. and suggested that the first gene
raj meeting be held In Washington next
year, with the United Society Convention,
and the suggestion was adopted
j. Willis Baer was elected secretary
tentatively. and Mr.. William Shaw. Of
Boston. treasurer.
The Accommodation Committee at
o'clock this afternoon had registered 40
g62 delegates. from all States and Terri
tories.
FRISCO IN 81.
The Board OF Trustees of the United
Society OF Christian Endeavor have acted
on the applications of the delegations
from the three Pacific Coast cities. which
desired to have the convention of 1897 AT
San Francisco or Seattle. and have de-
rided that the convention two years hence
shall be at San Francisco.
THE WOMAN OF 1T.