The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-10
Y B G. U. AIMS
Addresses Made Last Night
at the Great Convention
IN This City.
REV. G. H. EATON D. D. TALKS
Business Transacted at This Morn
ing's Session-size Of the
Union.

me afternoon session of the Young
Peoples Christian Union Convention was
opened yesterday afternoon by the re-
port OF the Southern Missionary, the Rev.
W II. McGlaufiin. D. D. DR.. McGlauain
1oid OF the work In the South and how
churches are organized there. There is
now a church property in Hartman worth
SO, oo. The people Nare deeply Interested
and the services are well attended.
The superintendent Of the Department
q Christian Citizenship, Mr.. Herbert B.
Srtggs, recommended that the Sunday
coming nearest to the I'D day of Feb
ruary. Washington's birthday. OF a
year be known as Christian Citizenship
Sunday, with appropriate sermons by the
pastors and programmes by the Union
upon the work and aims of this depart
rnent.
The Rev. J. P. C~oddington. Of sorner-
vile, Mass, spoke OF Two Cents a Week
forsMissions, what the plan contemplates
ana what are its possibilities. He told the
story OF q ghost Who was frightened away
by being told it was time to take IN 4
collection, and he said that when the sub
ject OF Tive Cents a Week for Missions.
y mentioned theras are a number of peo-
PIE n the y F e y. who become ghosts.
This plan" Saf he, contemplafes the
raising of great sums for the Uniyersal-
list Church. Get the people to give first
and then they'll come to your church.
wnere their money Is, you'lI find them
president Felt. when the delegates gave
Their views upon the best ways Of collect
ing the money.
1T The Rev. pr: Nash. chairman q the
gan OF the Union, was greeted with deaf
ening applause as he ascended the plat
form to give his report. He said the SUBJ
Scrlprlon list q been increased In the
last year from 2,2So to 800. At the con-
clusion OF the report a subscription list
was started, and the delegates pledged
themselves TO find ss subscribers.
n evening session was opened with
devotional services led by the Rev. L. e.
Pease. The Rev. C. w. Sprague prayed
Mr.. e. Mumford Of Akron, Ohio. sooke
on the topic. The Young Men and the
Man Will either worship that which
brings him to a level with the beasts or
ne VIII worship that which is good. He
must worship sornethiag. What are our
young men worshipping today? When
women are eQual to men, when women
are granted equal privileges with men.
the world will be better. Woman's cause
is mans They rise or sink together,
church was impractical, that is why the
young men did not join 1t. The institu-
tional church is reaching them. Let Us
reach them In this way. If we can and
then touch their hearts"
Miss NJ. A. Bortle of Akron said:-.sTne
work of rhe Y. P. c. u. Is the Organic
life Of the Universalist Church. Your mis-
sion Is to build noble characters In trouble
some paths, and It is a mission better
than performing miracles. I remember the
day when u church had time but to de-
fend itself. That time is past, but the
TING for docsrinal sermons & not past
After singing Onward, Christian Sol
diers.s DR., Nash announced that DR..
Eaton's speech would not be given until
the Y. P. c. u. had made an effort to
raise $500 required. He called for a collec-
forward, with pledges for 500 more.
The Rev. c. II. Eaton. D. D., of New
York, then addressed the convention. He
sid came here tonight not SO much
heart beats in sympathy with you young
people. A one thousand times better than
rhetoric are the responses that you AVE
made tonight, and so I want only TO say
what the world has long since learned,
that youth lies nearest the fountain of
life. The secret OF civilization is TO be
found IN that person and that power that
the world for 1900 years. and that per-
son and power which viii be the centre
of all future history; the secret Of civiliza-
ton is to be found in that Young Man
who came into the world announced by
another young man crying in the wilder
ness; that Young Man who in Himself
grasped all OF humanity; by His thought
and by His love embracing the least and
the greatest in one great bond Of Son
ship to the universal God; that Young
Man who has rendered all youth divine
by assuming its form. May the benediction
of the Son of God and the Son Of Man
rest upon US as the conserving. the Great
ing, the, inspiring thought and motive of
this hour"
Miss Myers of Brooklyn charmed the
audience by the delightful name in
which she sang Coenen's Come Unto
MAJ ana tha meaxfnp then Adjourned