The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-07-18

! North Carolina Party Arrived Wcd3Gs-
day Moraing-TheirH Headquarters
Next Convention to be Ii !d
San Francisco, California.
Rev. A.. D. Thaler sends TIE
SENTINEL the following interesting
letter, dated July IOth,. from Boston,
about the great Christian Endeavor
Convention, which is being held in
that city:
The great Boston conventions
looked forward to by the many thou
sands of Endeavor2Ts, all the world
over, has begun. This is the 18th
annual gathering in the history Of the
movement, and bids fair to eclipse all
its predecessors in numbers and pow.
er. 1t is now still impossible to say
what tue total attendance will be,
but the estimates SEM in by the va
riuus State excursion managers,
though still incomplete, foot up to
about $4,000.
The North Carolina party formed
at Greensboro on Monday night, July
Sth, and went North via Southern
and Pennsylvania railroads and the
Fall River steamship line, arriving in
Boston at 9:30 this morning. A very
cool breeze was blowing at the time,
the result of heavy rains yesterday,
but very different was the reception
of the Boston EndcdvOrcrS, who had
sent out committees as far even as
Fall River to welcome the incoming
thousands, and to make easy the way
Of any perpIeXed individual. The
members of these committees all wore
Yachting caps of crimson and white.
Others were also at the Park Square
station to welcome and escort to
State Headquarters the delegation
the moment the train rolled in. In
fact it seemed more like a hOme-com-
ing than first visit to a strange city.
The city is fairly aglOW with color,
the crimson and white, the colors of
the Boston Q. +. Union, being blend
ed and interviewer in every conceivable
manner. The business as well ass the
resident sections are profuscly deco
rated, no time or expense being spared
to show that 1.-THE Hub" appreciates
the coming of the singing hosts thai
are coming from all parts Of the world,
for not only are the United States and
Canada represented, but delegates
from the other hemisphere are either
here already or are on their way. The
public gardens are deliberately deco
rated with Christian EndeaVor en-
bems woven in flowers and with
arches covered with the watchWOrds
Of @. +. The badge given each dele
gate upon registration consists of q
red disk stamped like hub, and sus-
pended by white silk ribbon in
scribed "Boston, '95." This badge
alone can admit the wearer to any
session of the convention. Tonight,
III twenty of the largest churches of
Greater Boston there were simultan-
eOus meetings Introductory to the
first formal session tomorrow. AT
these meetings there were heard many
famous speakers, and sometimes the
keynote of the whole convention is
struck in these preliminary gather
ings. A majority Of the North Caro-
lima delegates attend the Pilgrim Con-
gregational church, in the Dorchester
District, where three men IF power
were listened to, Rev. DrS. erase, OF
Chicago; Kelly, of Kentucky, and
Boyd, of North Carolina. During the
latter part of this meeting the
Minnesota delegation began to arrive,
several hundred strong. The North
Carolina headquarters are in the
Stoughton Street Baptist Church,
Dorchester District, and every cour-
tesy is being extended in the name Of
our Master.
The trustees of the united societies
of the Christian EndeavOr have decid.
ed upon San Francisco as the place foI
holding the convention in 1897.