The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-10
HONOR roll
Doings Of the Convention at
Washington s Bicycles
and Missions.


WASHINGTON, July 10. 1Sss.AThe sec
ond days business of the fifteenth an
nual International Christian Endeavor
Convention began today at the appointed
hour, $3.50, in the two tents near the Wes-
ley NJ. f. Church. Tent .Willistony is
still in a state of collapse, and the crowd
that would have found accommodations
there was distributed between the Wes-
ley churches. The usual six O'Clock
prayer meeting, held in thirty-three city
churches, and the meeting for Bible
stucy in the New York Presbyterian
Church. preceded the formal opening.
Ihe one topic in the four great meetings
was Saved to Serve and attention was
devoted to the Junior workers societies.
Secretary Baer presided at the Wesley
M. e. Church meeting, and addresses
were delivered by Miss Grace L. HYDE.
of Massachusetts,; Mr.. C. j. Atkinson. Of
Toronto; the Rev. Peter Afnslee, OF Bal
timore, and others. Bishop Fellows. of
Chicago was in the presiding officers
chair at tent Washington. Here speeches
| were made by Miss Kate Haus of ST.
Louis, the Rev. E. S. Williams Of
Memphis. the Rev. Theodore 4. Cuyler
Of Brooklyn and =. WILDER Chapman Of
Philadelphia.
President w. r. Harper. of Chicago
University, who was to nave presided at
the tent Endeayor meeting, being
abroad, his place was taken on the plat
form by John T. Beckley of New York.
Mrs. Clark, wife of the President Of the
United Societies, delivered the address on
the Mothers Societies. Speeches were
also made by the Rev. g. L. Work, of
Cincinnati; w. F. Wilson, Of Toronto, and
H. w. Wharton of Baltimore.
President Clark presided at the Central
Hall meeting, inc the Rev. DR.. Charles
A. Dickinson of Boston spoke on the eIn-
termediate Societies OF Christian Endeav-
Or" He was followed by the Rev. John
Whitman. of the Washington Column
bian University.
President Whitman spoke on the key
word Emmanuel common to the two
Testaments. He found that God is with
US as a method Of revelation, as a prin-
ciple OF life and as a pledge of attain
ment.
Successive disclosures of Gods presence
and character lave been made as man
was able to receive them.
Viewed as principle of life, President
Whitman explained tina spiritual and
physical parts of man were closely re-
lated; that a new impulse had been inn
parted to the physical life by the touch
OF God, and that the new impulse became
the source of new life.
As a pledge of attainment the motto of
the redeemed life Is tsSaved to Serve, A
man has a very meagre notion of saliva
tion if, indeed, he is saved at all, If he
regards his life as an end in itself. The
immediate form of life under the DOM
nation of the new impulse is obedience
to the will of God. Its ultimate form is
free development under a central and
symmetrical impulse, and life is a reali-
cation of Divine order and an application
Of Divine power.
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Rev. j. II. Wadden Of Phiiadeiphia also s
| spoke.
One of the features of the large meet
,nH 9"f b one uh hoine I, 81 en nf m namea ~
continuous sheets OF paper rolled mp on
hose reels after the manner of petitions,
ssed, When Ihenn p ,t @ & for n Imgress " ! s sfa
! young peoples societies. 1881 junior So
~cieties, representing t~hirty-fve States,
four foreign lands, and showing contrib
utions of SIS. o22. 6S to Home and Foreign
Mission Boards and s2o6, 1921 TO other de-
OF this the Clarendon Street Baptist So
| ciety, Boston, and the Calvary Presby-
terrain Society, Buffalo, each gave IN ex-
The noon Evangelistic meeting was
CONDUCTED today by the Rev w. H. Tow
GERS conference in separate churches of
Corresponding Secretaries. Junior Super
| ~1ntendents, Missionary Superintendent,
| local union officers, district secretaries,
| State and Provincial officers, from 2:30
to 4. Committee conferences, prayer
meeting, Sunday-schooi. social temper
ance, good literature, Christian Citizen
ship, committees, etc, from $3.50 to $3.50,
ana conferences of workers in advanced
Endeayor lines, mothers and parents So
| cieties, intermediate and senior societies,
| life savers societies. travellers and hoat-
ing societies, from 2:30 to $50. The work
| of the life savers societies will be illus
trated by stereopticon views in colors,
conducted by the Rev. J. L. Wells of
Jersey City. In the evening there will
be the usual line of meetings in tents and
churches. Workmen are now engaged re-
| erecting tent Williston. The want of this
tent has interfered greatly with the ac-
| commodations of the convention, as it has
been impossible to entertain the great
crowds that seek the White Lot for each
meeting. The tents will afford seats for
about nine thousand people, but fully
twice as many are constantly wandering
| about unable to gain Abundance. Add to
| these the crowds in the church and pub
lie hall meetings and the number who
are seeking the daily sessions of this
convention must exceed fifty thousand, a
large proportion being Washington peo-
| pie.
The first of the bicycle runs planned
for this convention took place today,
starting from Lafayette Square and Yer
mont avenue. Fully 800 wheels were in
line, many being gaily decorated with
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