Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-08
LOOKS FOR SIXTY THOUSAND
Committee Expects a Large Crowd at The
Christian E~ndeavorer Convention.
PLANS LAID FOR A MONSTER MEETING
Program Vow Completed So Far ms
the Main Features Are Concerned
Three Thousand Workers
on the Local Committee

WASHINGTON. April 1.-THE general out
line Of the program Of the fifteenth annual
Christian Endeavor convention. which will
DO held in this city July 8 to 10, was an
nounced today. 1t is expected that fully
1900 people will attend the convention,
which will open Wednesday evening, July s,
with twenty-five meetings held in twenty
two of the largest churches of the city.
On every morning of the convention there
will be held at $50 O'Clock from twenty to
thirty early morning prayer meetings in as
many churches.
The formal opening of the convention will
occur on Thursday morning in the three
great tents. which will be pitched upon the
White lot. Just south of the executive man
sion. These will be called Tent Washington,
Tent Endeavor and Tent Williston, and will
seat 10000 persons each, including a chorus
choir of /, 900 voices. At these opening sessions
which will be held simultaneously at $3.50
o'clock, addresses Of welcome, the annual
report OF Secretary John Willis Baer, and
the annual address Of President Francis
Clark will be given.
On Thursday afternoon there will be held
about thirty denominations rallies. The
rallies of the Presbyterians, Baptists and
Congregationalists will be held in the three
tents and the others will be held In large
churches. The topic for consideration Thurs
day evening will be Christian Citizenship"
The topic for Friday is, Saved to Serve"
The morning meetings will be held in three
tents and in the afternoon conferences for
the discussion of Christian Endeavor COM
mittee work will be held in many churches.
In the evening one of the tents Will be given
over to evangelistic work to the citizens of
Washington, while in the other tents, Central
hall and six churches, programs of great
.4.r.a4 10 I-,Jon - will hn nrnUilp1
Saturday will be 'Out Door Day." AT
1890 an open-air praise service will be held
at the Washington monument. The En-
deavorers will then march to the capitol,
where it is hoped brief addresses may be
delivered from the steps of the seat of gov
ernment The Junior Christian Endeavorers
will hold an early prayer meeting on Sat
urday morning and a grand rally in one of
the tents on Saturday afternoon, in which a
choir and orchestra composed entirely of
children will lead the music. Saturday af-
ternoon will be given up to sightseeing
by most of the Endeavorers, while Saturday
evening will be devoted to receptions of the
state delegations.
While these state rallies are being held
on Saturday evening the three tents will
be given over to meetings for citizens only,
at which leading Endeavorers and evange-
lists will speak.
No services will be held on Sunday morn
ing in the tents, every one attending the
service IN tne CnuTCUeS. on ouH-
day afternoon an evangelistic service will
be held in one of the tents and in the other
and in many churches there will be
held denominations missionary rallies. These
missionary rallies will be a
new feature this year and, it is believed,
prove a very successful one. At the
same hour there will be held in Central hall
a meeting devoted wholly to the question
Of the American Sunday. The tents will
be closed in the evening.
On Monday morning the Worlds Christian
Endeavor union, formed last year in Bos-
ton, will hold It's first annual convention.
The afternoon will be devoted to excursions
and in the evening the convention will close
with the sermons and usual conservation
in each of the three tents, Central
hall and five or six large churches.
The local committees, numbering nearly
900 workers., are busy preparing details
of arrangements for entertaining the hosts
who will come and choruses aggregating
4 900 voices are already rehearsing the con-
music.