The morning times., 1896-05-04
HAHY SPEAKERS CHOSEN
Program for Christian EndeaVor
Convention Decided Upon.
MEETING In THE BIG TENTS
Official Opening VIII BE Held Under
Canvas on the White Lot, Although
Opening Meetings Are TO Be Held
tue Evening Before In Twent y three
Churches-Topics for Discussion.

With unabated zeal and enthusiasm
| and with more definiteness OF form aud
! purpose the arrangements for entertaining
tie tens OF thousands of Christian En-
! deavorerS who will come to Washington
| In July are being pushed to completion.
Ana Wine every possible effort is being
put forth 10 ma Ike tie stay OF the delegates
| ln Washington pleasant, the program
committee of tie United Society of Christian
EnuoaNoF Is !ah;Tthg earnestly To present
most helpful and practical program. The
| speakers are being selected with great
deal OF care, and II is confidently expected
! that the program of the convention will
be In every respect the best yet
Every delegate should plan to arrive
| III time TO attend the opening meetings,
! which Will he held in twenty hree churches
! Wednesday evening In most cases the
| pastors of the various churches will pre-
Size, and after two addresses OF thirty
minutes each tie service will conclude with
what viii be called a quiet hour The
topic for all these meetings Will be, Deep
ening tie spiritual hfe.''
There will also be given on Wednesday
| evening tnree lectures Illustrated by stere-
opticons. Rev. George E. Loveioy has
been secured to give an illustrate ed Iect ure on
! g Armenia Rev. Frank s. Dobbins of
Philadelphia viii give another Illustrated
| lecture on "The Celestial Empire and
Land of the Rising Sun The third will
| he given by Rev. f j. Stanley of N ewburgh,
| N. Y.
THE FORMAL OPENING.
The official opening Of the convention
! comes Thursday morning in the great tents
| on the White Lot, and the presiding Of
! flcers viii he Rev. E. Clark, ID. d. Rev
! Teunis S. Hamlin, d D., of this city. one
or the trustees OF the United Society of
/ Christian Endearor, and another trustee. the
/ Rev. III b. GroSe of Boston, Mass. The
/ chairman of the committee OF 90, Mr. W
| II. II Smith, will make one OF the addresses
! of welcome, DR.. II. Greene will speak for
| the pastors and Commissioner Ross will
/ speak for the District OF Columbia
! The responses will be made by Mr. Giles
! Kellogg of San Diego, Cal, president OF
/ the California union; Bishop Alexander
! Walters, 4. d Jersey City, N. j., and Rev
! Canon j. Richardson, London Ontario.
! Secretary Raer's annual report and Presi-
| dent Clark's annual address will be given
at each OF these tents that morning
Thursday afternoon will be devoted to de-
/ nominational rallies, the tents being used
/ by the Prcsbyterians, CoBgregationaIists
and BaptiSts. respectively. The eother meet
/ ings will be held in the churches. to the
| number Of twenty-five or more.
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
Thursday evening the general topic viii
be Christian Citizenship" Mass meetings
! Will be held in the three tents on the White
Lot, in CentralHan. ana also infive churches,
as follows: Calvary Baptist, First Con-
gregationaI, Foundry. Episcopal. irst
Presbyterian and New York Avenue Pres
byt erian.
Many eloquent AMI helpful speakers have
been secured for these meetings, among
whom are Rev. Henry II. Russell, Columbus,
O.; Rev. R. s. Macarthur, d. d. New York
] ff, aagN1.
| Springs, Colo; Mr.. Booker T. Washington
Tuskeegee, Ala; Rev. c H Mead New York
! city; Rev. P. s. Henson, d. D.. Chica GO H.;
| MT Thomas Murphy, New York CITY: Rev
! Alexander Alison, d. D.. New York CITY.
! Hon. IL. L. Castle, Pittsburg. Pa; Miss
! Jessie A. Ackerman, Chicago. H.: Rev.
NJ. F. Troxell, Springfield, H.: Rev William
RAIDER, San Francisco, Cal; Mrs. Ruth
Baker, Boston. Mass; Bishop Alexander
walters, D. D.. Jersey City, N. J.; Rev J.
w. Flfield, Chicago, H.: Rev. J. W HamiI-
ton, ID. D.. Cincinnati, o.; Bishop Abram
Grant, ID. D.. Atlanta Ga; Rev. H.K,
Carroll, ID. D.. New York city; Rev F. E. f.
Hamilton. Newtonville. Mass: Rev joseph
! Brown Morgan, Chester. Eng: Rev. J. r..
McCrory, ID. D.. Pittsburg. Pa; Mr. WI.
| Board, Wilberforce, o.; Hon. 8. E. Nlchol-
! son, KokomO. Ind.
SAVED TO SERVE"
| TO Serve and meetings will be held in
! The morning in the three tents That
! morning there Will also be new feature
namely, the Junior Workers NEE ting. to
be held in Calvary Baptist Church. The
| morning VIII be devoted 10 practical papers
| DISCUSSIONS and open parliaments on the
! Importance of the work for bows and girls
! therebeing now over 0 600 Junior sorie ties
General Secretary John Willis Baer will
preside.
Friday afternoon will be given to COM
| mittee confer ences, to be held in the
! churches.
Friday evening one OF the Itents will
! PROBABLY be given over to q NEE ting for
| cluZens only; the other two tents Central
| Hall and the five large churches being used
| for the Endeavorers.
Inc plans Tor Saturday morning are
not complete. bat there Will certainly be
| held at 8 O'Clock In the morning an oueu-
| air praise service around the Washington
| Monument. The only session of inport-
| ahce IN the afternoon is the Junior rally
| IN Tent washington. 1t is hoDed that
| at about $40 that evening there NAV he
held grand patriotic song service in the
vicinity OF the Monument, to be conducted
| by the combined choirs Of the convention
under the leadership of Mr.. Percy s.
Foster.
MEETINGS FOR CITIZENS.
In the evening the Endeavorers are
expected to attend the receptions and
state rallies that are being planned for
IN 'he churches that they Will be using as
state and provincial headquarters.
while the Ende avorerS are having this
social time, new feature of the con-
Vention will be enjoyed, namely two
sessions in the large tents for citizens only.
The general topic will be "Christian
EndcaVor, It's Aims and Possibilities. -
The speake will be trustees of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor.
1t is expected, although not definitely
decided, that one of the tents will be used