Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-07-18
AT LABOR EARIll|
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR pELEGATESs
IN THE WHIRL AT BOSTON,
They Get Up with the sum TO AZ, -S
tend Early Morning Prayer
Meetings and Then At-ss ssss
tend the Various Big ttssS
Conventions.
THE PRESENTATION OF BANNERS.
England Secures the Banner for tile
Greatest Increase in the Nnm-
her Of Societies OrEunized.

Boston, July l4.-lne tulfu Oay s99VsAS
the fourteenth international Christlans
Endeayor convention opened with ll3s
ideal weather. Despite the immense
amount of energy expended by the
delegates at the great meetings OF
Yesterday and the greater meetings.
Of last evening, thousands Of them
were up with the sun this morning.
making their way to thirty churches
in the city and vicinity for early
prayer meetings, and it is estimated
that fully 10000 persons participated
in them. Besides the delegates, many
residents of the city attended before
beginning their labors for the day.
some of the largest meetings We're
those held in the Park street church,
near Boston Common; the Shawmuts
Congregational church, the Old South
Congregational church and the Old
Baptist and North Avenue Baptist
churches in Cambridge. After the
church meetings. rallies and song
services were held in the streets in
many parts of the city, and hundreds
of people on their way to work
stopped to participate in them. Many
delegates who did not attend the
morning meetings were astir early
bent on sight seeing, and went singly
or in small battalions to the various
points of interest about the city. The
morning sessions of the convention
in Tents Williston and Endeayor and
in Mechanics hall were attended by
the same great hosts that were there
yesterday. Before 8 o'clock throng
crowded the steps at the entrance to.
Mechanics hall singing Endeavor5
songs while they awaited admission.
On the common the scene was dupli-
Gated outside the tents. AS on yester-5
day hundreds were unable to secure
admittance at the hall and later re-
paired to the tents. The sessions In;
the forenoon partook more Of a busi-l
ness character than their predeces-s
sors. interesting reports of the in-s
formation committee and reports from
the UNCONVENTIONAL meetings taking
up an hour of the meetings in the
tents. Features of the sessions were
the presentation of the state banner
for the greatest proportional increase
in the number of local societies, by
Rev. Wayland Hoyt Of Minneapolis.
in Mechanics building; of the state
banner for the greatest absolute gain,
in the number of societies, by Rev. f.
E. Hailton of Newtonville, Mass, in
Tent Williston, and of the junior state
banners for the greatest proportion
ate and greatest actual gain in the
number of societies. by Rev. ]. r..
Cowan. u. D., Of Pittsburg, Pa, in
Tent Endeavor.
Addresses on the cardinal Princi-'
pies of Christian Endeavor," were
made at Mechanics building by Rev.
Knight Chaplin, D. D., Of London,
and Rev. o. A. Smith, d. D., of Ev-S
ansville, Ind; in Tent Endeavor by
Rev. s. P. Rose, D. D., of Montreal.
Owing to the international fame Of
the speakers these addresses attracted
much attention.
The open debates on live Endeavor
topics at each of the meetings were
earnestly participated in and were
interesting features.
William L. Ellis, of the Golden Rule,
in his report Of the information COM
mittee, told how the Christian En-,
deavor had spanned the world. In
Turkey. he said, is the smallest So.
ciety, Of two members; in Kentucky
there is society among the states
convicts; in the Toronto society thirty
young people We're converted in one
night, while society among the In
dians has assisted in leading forty -six
to Christ at one meeting.
Rev. r. H. Hamilton Of Newton.
vile presented the banner for
the greatest gain in the number of
societies to Rev. Knight Chaplin of
London. Eng, as the representative of
the English society.