The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-10
THE JUNIOR WORK.
The Last Afternoon of the
G. E. Convention Devoted
to the Children.
DR.. BRETT AGAIN VICE PRESIDENT
The Rev. ]. 1. Wells Talks Of
Life Savers-Reports Of
the Year.
Special to the Jersev Citv Ne,g,.

cPecfut 70 tHe Jersey CITY NelUS.
PLAINFIELD, Oct. 10, 1S9s.-The CLOSING
sessions of the Christian Endeavor 0
vention were held here yesterday. A,
the morning session reports were present
ed by the Press and Life Saving Depart
men5s by the Superintendents. the Revs
G.H. Ingram and J. Lester Wells.
Then representatives from the tneoIogi.
cal seminaries were heard. Mr.. Edward
More L~aughlin, for Princeton: Otto T.. r.
Mohn, New Brunswick; NJ. ]. Trenery,
The Rev. Isaac J.. Lansing, D.. D.. of
Boston. gave one of the very best ad-
crosses Of the convention upon the sub
gect, VINO breaches the Whole ospel?''
The last speaker of the meeting was the
William Shaw.
At the noon intermission evangelistic
meetings were held in the factories.
Ine afternoon in convention hall was
devoted to the Juniors, and a notable ses-
sion It was, More people were in the hall
than ever before. On the outside thou
sands Of people stood to see the Juniors
enter the hall.
The Rev 4 W. spooner. D. D., Super
hsenuenl OF the Junior Department, gave
MS report as follows:-
Two years g we reported 81, 3s3.67 for
missions Last year they were somewhat
larger, while this present year the con-
s06.9 81, an increase of over 100 per cent.
In two years.
In gifts from many Junior societies
are larger than were at one time ex-
pected from the entire church. One So
ciety in Essex county reports $500 to
missions alone.
One year ago. as an incentive to strive
for larger things for Christ, 1t was de-
cided TO prepare a roll Of honor upon
which should be written the names Of
all the societies contributing during the
year, through the channel Of their own
church boards, not less than IS for mis-
sions; and to prepare a badge banner"
upon which should be placed the badges
Of those societies contributing not less
than $40 through their own boards. We
believe that the societies have felt the
influence of this anticipated honor, n
that the large increase in gifts is due,
IN part at least, to this fact. The fol-
lowing figures Will be Of interest to ALL
Forty-fve societies CAV S. or more
through the church boards; 6 societies
gave $ or more. not through the church
through the church boards; 10 societies
gave $40 or more, not through the church
boards; As societies gave less than IS to
missions; SO societies gave nothing.
One society reported having given rs
cents and all through the boards The
Superintendent making that report Is to
be most highly commended for having
given the little society credit for all that
it did. though it seems to be small
All honor to the society, great or small,
that does it's best
What higher compliment, what warmer
pidfSS' csti 1Sii 1iOlu int plesSSu ipS VI
the Son of Goo h nat which was
spoken with reference to q poor. shrink
ing woman, eager to render some service
of love:-"She hath done what she could"
In summarizing the work of the year I
have e~ndeavored to group 1t by counties
SO that all may see the condition Of the
work In different parts of the State. Let
it be borne in mind that this is not strict
ly accurate, for in all the counties there
are some societies whose superintend-
ents failed to report the work of the year.
The order Of arrangement is with refer
ence to the amount of money contributed
during the year to missions through the
channel of the church boards.