Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-15
THE ENDEAVORERS
Hold No Sunday Services But
Attend Boston Churches.
PuIpits Filled by Some of the Most
Eminent Diyines in America.
Another Day OF the Christian Great Convention
Successfully Passed.

Boston, July 14-No meetings of the
Christian Endeavor convention We're held,
today, but the Endeavorers crowded the
city churches, where many distinguished
clergymen from abroad preached. An
immense congregation thronged Trinity,
In the morning, to hear Canon j. b.
Richardson of London, Ont who preached
powerful sermon upon Church Unity 1"
from Ephesians xiv 3. He said;
"Christendom finds itself, today, in q
state of dissatisfaction, at the root of which
is the feeling that unity is Gods work.
The Popes recent encyolical, while re-
markable' for It's gentle and devout spirit,
Is permeated with the assumption that
Rome is the one true church and reunion
must be upon her dogmas Any corporate
union with Rome is impossible, so long
as she retains her destructive, erroneous
doctrines. The one sad feature of Protes-
tantism is our endless divisions. Perhaps
no Protestant creed can offer platform
broad enough to bSta meeting ground for
all Christian. But Christians are not al
together to abandon their UNCONVENTIONAL
principles. The word of God, the two
creeds, the two sacranents, the historic
church unity. Whatever unity we obtain,
1t must be unity in adversely. May
there not be a spiritual unity amongst us
now, an Observation-Disclosures fellowship,
through this Christian Endeavor move
ment? | believe no movement of modern
times is so well calculated to bring about
the unity of believers along the lines
Christ meant. Christianity is personal
loyalty to the personal Christ"
Rev. Knight Chaplin of London, Eng,
preached to congregation which filled
Music hall at the morning service OF the
fremont Temple Society. His subject
was Liberty is Christian Service Through
the Power of the Holy Spirit. He said
that the common idea of liberty was
license. Liberty involved service to God.
Christ on the cross made the greatest
sacrifice in the cause of liberty which the
world has ever seen. By the freedom thus
obtained, men were bound to serve Christ.
In closing, he said that he did not believe
in beginning Christian work with such
force as to waste all their energies in first
impulses. The great nilsson of Endcavor-
ers was to evangelize heather nations.
The Dudley Street Baptist church was
packed long before the morning service
began. The sermon was preached by Rev.
Henry Il. McEwen, ID. d., of New York.
Taking for his text the parable of the
house built upon the sand, he used in
stances of ordinary difficulties in the cree
tion of buildings to illustrate the diff
culties encountered by the human soul in
developing sound character. The only
safe foundations Tor buildings were these
laid by God in the soil and rock. So in
Gods building, "a man without the right
foundation would be destroyed In spite of
the good he night apparently be doing
Lives, like buildings, should be made Of
fire proof material. He closed with des-
cription of the power of mental storm and
stress to improve those who withstand
them; drawing an illustration from the
life of Paderewski, who is said to have
derived his marvellous touch and inspira-
ton from the endeavor to please an in
valid wife by his piano playing.
Bishop Samuel Fallows, d. d., Ill. d.,
of Chicago, preached In the fremont
Street Methodist church, this morning,
upon Sanctiflcation. He said in part
The word sanctify'' includes expiration
and conservation. The church is q school,
the object of whose teaching is saintship
Christ, the teacher, never gets out of
patience. We have had lessons. Christian
soldiers are made only in the actual war
fare OF life. Virtue and holiness shall
come through fighting the good fight.
Christ and all the saints are ours and we
are one, no matter what our names, If we
are sanctified In Christ.
DR.. Arthur Little of Dorchester, presided
at o meeting upon Sabbath Observance,
held, this afternoon, at the Park Street
church, which was well filled with Chris
tian Endeavorers. In opening the speak
ing, he said that it was the duty of the
republic to see that the Lords day was
well kept
DR. 5. z. Rhodes of Montreal then com
pared the strict Sabbath observance in
Toronto with the looser observance in
Quebec and Boston. He thought that we
were not ready commercially to pay the
price Of the Puritan Sabbath. II some
rested, others must work, but he believed
by legislation every man ought to have
one days rest week.
W. H. H. Smith of Washington, said
that while the Washington Sabbath was
not ideal, church people had taken hold
of the matter and the newspapers could |
not be sold during church hours, and 1t
was dry city.
DIR. Page of Leavenworth, Kansas,
pleaded for the Puritan Sabbath In the
West where he said Sunday was a holi-
day. He spoke against the readers Of
Sunday papers, but not the papers them
selves
A Christian Endeavor rally was held,
tonight, in Winthrop Congregational |
church, Charlestown, by Maine delegates |
and was LARGELY attended. The speakers !
were Hon. r. W. Shaw of Houlton, Rev. |
Alfredo Brewster and Rev owen James |
of Eastport Rev Miss Brewster of Friend
ship, Me. made her first public appearance
in the pulpit during the convention on |
this occasion. Her subject was Zeal. "