Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-21
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR GREETINGS,
Visitors Invited to Remnin and lake
Thcir Home In the West.

Representing the Christian Endeavor
union of Omaha, Arthur Chase followed
with a brief address. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: l
am sure 1t gives me pleasure TO say to you
tonight that | bring you the greeting of a
thousand young people who compose the
Omaha Christian Endeavor union, and that
j. in "A measure. take their place, for 1t
would be too lengthy a service If we should
permit each one of our young people to say
to you that we are glad to welcome you
within the boundaries of this city. l am
sure that 1t is a pleasure to see gathered
here so many Christian young people. and
yet there have come with the young peo-
pie some who are not so young. There
have come vita the young people to this
city some who have grown older in Chris
tian work and experience, and we wei
come all. / am glad you came and gave us
the opportunity to welcome you. We have
might show to them our hospitality and
Christian friendship, ana they have de
clined; you have accepted, and we are glad
l want to say. too, and 1 must be brief.
because our time is limited, in extending to
have found from your, short stay here, no
doubt, that the people of the west are
something like the people of the east. They
are simply eastern people tranSplanted,
and you know that even n cabbage head
sometimes improves by being transplanted.
applause and l~aushter) sometimes go
down to my old home in the east, and it
is amusing to observe how little they know
about what we know; G.aughtsrl
i"ARN At'i w "NA' up"h NA w SllAl ASllF
and | will, give the people Of the east the
credit of having great intellect and they
%raphies, and they are people who can no.
tice a city of four or five thousand in
habitants that has been in existence a
number of years; and yet a city of 10000
Inhabitants, such as Omaha, they are UNI
able to LOCATE unless it might be in the
further express their knowledge of affairs
they asked whether the delegation that was
there from the west and those who repre-
GnntnI slrnh Iar from fhn I a I a n~ from
the city!
know that you had a better knowledge
OF things before you came, and that you did
not tell the conductor to let you off at the
state of Omaha. Uaughter.) But you were
tHiiy toyaad where v tb;nE yot9 = were coming when
the majority of the people who will be here
in attendance upon this convention have
ncver been west of the Missouri river be-
fore, and you are not very far west of 1t
just now, and yet you are on the very edge
of the empire where your missionary soCi-
cites and where your colleges have been
sending trained men and women TO do no.
existence as a church.
And so we say TO YOU that you can keep
on sending the best of your young men and
young women to the west: there Is room
out here for all of them. We did not ask
for the other element; It is not the time
and, If some of you become so attached to
our western air, and our western city,
8 Hoa G Sone Tedter to W yemai of doing w things sHa,1 th at
glad to welcome you: we shall be glad to
welcome you into a Christian fellowship in
this city. | ought to say. too, that you will
find If you remain that the Christian people,
the people that | am supposed to represent
In our Christian Endeavor union-I cannot
say of the other observation-disclosures you to
no single denomination; for our union in
cludes all denominations; and so our fell
lowship Is wide; our motto is one not sec
one is your Master, even Christ. and all
We are brethren" And you and |, and ali
of us, can stand together II we be Christ's
under that banner, and we can also add
those words that you have chosen, that
under, rallied under, in all of your conven-
lions, Whose we are, and Whom we
Again I welcome you to our city in be-
half of the Omaha Christian Endeayor
union. Applause.)