The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-13
oHRIsrIAN ESDEaronEns, RAINY.


washington, July 12,-Thirty thous-
ana visitors is the number reached up
10 THIS time in the registration books
OF the fifteenth annual Christian En-
deaVor convention now in session. This
number represents all Endeavorers not
re@dents of WASHINGTON who have
come to the booths for their registra-
ton cards and badges since the OPEN
ing Oh the convention on Wednesday.
1t does not include the army of Wash
lhgtonlans and surburbanites who have
entered into the enthusiasm of the oc-
caslon, who are attending the constant
succession of meetings, and who are as
profusely decorated with badges and
ribbons as the Endeavorers themselves.
LII all who seek the meetings on the
white lot are counted as participating
in this connection the number is $4,000.
Not even at Boston, where there were
$4,000 registered as from the state of
Massachusetts alone, were there such
crowds at the evening meetings. as gath
cred last night and this morning in and
around the three big tents south of the
| White House. The local committee has
received warning to-day that large
| bodies OF delegates are moving on to
| Washington from Delaware, Maryland,
and eastern Pennsylvania.
| Secretary Baer stated that this con-
vention would outnumber in delegates
that of any convention ever held, if
the registrations from within the dis
trict were not counted. This he con-
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states like Massachusetts are exceed
ingly strong in Christian Endeavor So
cieties. The exact figures of each
states delegations will be made public
next week at the close of the conven-
ton. The preliminary sunrise prayer
meetings in thirty three churches and
the Bible book study in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian church ON Satur-
day were followed by the convention re-
assembling at $50 o'clock, as usual,
in the tents on the white lot. Tent
Williston was given UP to the Junior
rally. The Rev. George B. Stewart Of
Harrisburg, Penn, presided. The Ju.
nior Endeavorers were welcomed to the
city by Master Raymond Miles of
| Washington. This address was follow
ed by a patriotic exercise conducted by
Mrs James l. Hill of Salem. Mass, and
an address Of greeting from President
/ Clark.
At Tent Washington, an evangelistic
meeting exclusively for men was held,
over which Secretary Baer presided.
Addresses were made by Commander
i Booth-Tucker Of the Salvation army,
the Rev. j. WILDER Chapman of Phila-
delphia, and others.
/ A similar meeting for women only
was held in Tent Endeavor, Mrs. Baer
presiding. Here speeches were made by
Major Susie Swift of the Salvation
army, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett OF
Washington and others.
In his address this Sunday afternoon,
at Central hall. by Rev. DR. Alexander
i Alison of New York, his topic being
Sunday Observance he said:
''yoltaire the brilliant French infidel,
spoke like philosopher when he said:
IF Christianity shall ever perish from
the earth. you must first destroy the
Christian Sabbath Another French
man many years ago said to an Ameri-
can tourist. If France shall continue
her existence as nation. she must
adopt your American Sabbath
''The American Sabbath / like that
expression. 1t has the right ring to IT..
There is an American Sabbath! And
1t is the Bible Sabbath, too. Our faith
ers of immortal memory brought it
with them across the sea. The family
relation, the Bible, the Lords day,
these three were brought here by our
godly ancestors. They believed in this
blessed trinity, those sturdy pioneers.
And they believed in it so thoroughly
that they were prepared, If need be, to
die rather than surrender it to the adj
vocates Of a false philosophy and a
false religious system.
But there is not only religious side
to the subject of Sabbath observance.
There is also a secular one. We have a
right to make and to enforce human
statutes that shall call for the observ-
ance of the laws of God. AS matter
of fact, we have in every state in the
Union but one, what might be called
fairly good Sabbath laws, One state
has repealed it's laws on the Sabbath.
We hope, ere long. to have this chang
ed. We are glad the showing is so good
as it is Let us see to it that laws now
in existence are enforced. Public sem
timent is always potential. Christian
sentiment, if crystallized can control
public sentiment anywhere A great
city daily recently said in an editorial
If the Christian people of this city
would unite as touching the suppress
sion of an evil in our midst, the evil
could be crushed in month"; This
means that a united Christian senti-
ment will surely constrain the newspa-
pers to be its allies. They know the
power of a united Christian sentiment.
The trouble is with Christians that
they differ so much in regard to meth
DDS and details.
1T is only by Indifference of Chris
tan people, a sentiment below par on
the part of our church people, that it
can ever be possible for the American
Sabbath to be in danger.
THE Anglo-Saxon race owes every
thing to the Sabbath. What is the
great race in civilization? Is 1t not
the Anglo-Saxon? Let US remember
that no country has refrigerated where
the commandment Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy has been sa-
credly obeyed. This is true in Great
Britain, New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, and all the grand old
states of the American Union. What
has made the east and south will make
the north and west.
There are portions of our country
| u,l,a,-o Sabbath daU is thn worst