The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-15

eSaleS nad not looked TOT strength ana confidence in the right source,
 The delegates then sang hymn 54 and MT, Jacob Davis followed with shorC address, and after him George E. Shor- ter spoke to the delegates for five min utes. The devotional exercises were then closed with prayer.
 MT Torrey then assumed the chair manshlp of the convention. but he made no reference to the criticisms he had received from the local chamber of commerce the previous night, When asked by a reporter if he desired to make any statement in regard to the matter he answered, "Oh, no; l have nothing to say"
 Attorney Henry O'Brlen of Toronto, Canada, was the first speaker His sub ject was Hospital Work" He said that he had been converted to the Lord eighteen years ago and since then had labored for the spread of the gospel among hospital patients. ''We have now home for the indlgent persons who are discharged from hospitals. There are many such, It is very ire quent occurrence to see poor man leaving the hospital without money or strength, and little home in which to live for little time is godsend. This home closely resembles a mission and we aim to do Christian work and to place Christian comforts at the disposal of the inmates.
 "Then, again, we visit -sshe regular hospitals of the city. Our band of vis- itors number about fifty and we visit
 the various wards in a systematized
 manner"
 pr. O'Brien was followed by Rev. David Allen Reed of Springfield Mass, who gave a sketch of the new Christian and industrial school in that city.
 MT. Reed said the church was at last waking up to the value and necessity of industrial work. He said that the aime of his school was to fit industrial workers for the home and foreign mis- sion fields, to give the development of foreign lands those who can apply a fine knowledge of mechanics and ma chinery. A worker with this ability, MT Reed said, could gain very readily the sympathy of the people they aim
 to reach In the home field MT. Reed | declared that an industrial missionary could go into the factories and shops and induce the thousands of young men who are indifferent to the church and | drifting away from it.
 "The same can be said of the girls in the factories said MT. Reed. "They, | too, should be labored with and in- | duced to lend their strength to church | ;o1 I
 is an organization inside the church
 which says to the young man or young
 woman who spends his or her money
 and time in frivolity. Give up your
 strength and we will take better care
 of you in health, sickness and death.'
 "We find hundreds of young men in the shops who have never been even
 asked to come into the religious and social work of the church. We have
 not cared for the temporal side of these men. Christ cared for that side.
 We believe that if we appeal to these
 indifferent men in a fair spirit we can bring them back to service in church | work Men of wealth, culture, refine ment and education are beginning to evince cordial sympathy with the league and when they take a firm atti- tude on the subject, the workingmen of the land will be brought into the church"
 Rev. Thomas Bone of St. Catherine's, | Canada, told of a similar movement in
 the factories of that city. He said that open air meetings had been insti- tutued in the five great manufactures q II, |, H..
 Workmen can be easily reached Rev. R. A. Torrey of Chicago said that two things were noticeable about the Christian condition of the working
 men of the country. First, they are conspicuously neglected and second,
 they are very accessible.
 | Rev. F. M. Lamb sang "If We Knew the Cares and Crosses" and the indus | trial workers of the country were re- membered in brief prayers.
 Prayer was offered for MT. Reed, his
 work, and for the Christian men and
 girls in our factories. Rev. MT. Lamb then sang "If We Knew"
 The Tuskegee Normal Industrial in- stitute of Tuskegee, Ala, was the next subject and the speaker was Robert w. Taylor, a colored gentleman of Tus- kegee. ...... He described how the Tuskegee mis- sion sent out agents through the south teaching the colored people of that sec tion to abandon the single room log cabin for better dwellings, and also for the establishment throughout the south of the little red school house." Prayer was then offered for the Tus- kegee mission and for MT Taylor. A colored male quartet from the Vir- ginia institute then sang the hymn Shine On"
 At this stage of the proceedings Sec retary Collins introduced two resolu- tions one of which caused a warm dis cussion.
 MT. Collins read the following:
 Resolved, That with great gratitude to our Heavenly Father for blessings to this, the ninth annual convention of Christian Workers in the United States and Canada, We extend the sincere thanks of this convention to the local committee who provided funds and ar ranged the local details of the conven- ton; to Calvary Baptist church for the use of their church building, and to Dwight Place church for it's courteous