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MT. and Mrs. J. $. Sanford 2'd Return
 from Epworth League Convention-In-
 teresting Interview With MT, Sanford
 Story of the Convention-Grand Avenue
 Baptist Church Trains Ministers.
 Mr. and Mrs. John c, Sanford, 2d, of East Pearl street, returned Saturday evening from the International convention of the Epworth league, having represented as del egates the chapter connected with the East Pearl Street M. F. church. Miss Lillian Gladwin and Miss Jennie Messer, members of the same chapter, returned earlier in the week.
 Tt was great gathering of Methodism at Toronto, Canada, the greatest assembly of that church ever yet held" said Mir. Sanford yesterday, when asked about the results of the convention, Tt was an inter national gathering, at which not all the countries where the Epworth league Is es- tabllshed were represented. There were delegates present from India, Norway, Swe- den, and other lands Among the New Ha- ven party were Mir. Stannard, Miss Hattie y church, and Rev. c. B. Ford, formerly pas tor of the Howard Avenue church. DOT ton of the New Haven party went via Mon treal, but we went on a special train from Jersey City over the Erie route. In our party was a delegation of sixty-tive from
 Bridgeport and there was quite party from Naugatuck and other Connecticut towns.
 Texas sent a big delegation, one party of from 400 to 300 coming into Toronto on one train. There were fully 30.000 Metho-
 dists in attendance upon the convention, 24, GOO having registered at the headQuar- | ters held in the Massey hall This hall seats fully 5000 people and many Of the | meetings were held tnere There were sev- at once; some of the largest meetings hay | ing been held In the Metropolitan M: E. | church, which seats 2,500 people, This Is | the largest Methodist church in the world | and cost $10,000 Meetings were also held in one of the large Presbyterian churches. 'The welcome meeting was held at Mas sey hall. Addresses of welcome were made 1 by the mayor a prominent Methodist, Pre- MT. Carmen, who spoke for the Canadian | Methodsts. There were responses by Bish- op Fitzgerald of the NJ. E. Church South, | and others.
 
 | days and evenings, and was exceedingly Interesting and profitable throughout. On Sunday at nearly all the churches Metho'
 dist bishops and clergy delivered the ser
 mons to large congregations. There were | excursions to several places in the vicinity
 of Toronto, but the larger number visited
 Niagara either going to or returning from | the convention
 The singing at the convention is worthy
 Of especial mention; it was splendid. Among | those whose singing was particularly me
 was Prof. Excel, author of Songs foi l Young People, book used in the Epworth | league meetings.
 The Epworth league was organized ir
 1889 and now has 22,300 chapters, and
 counting the Junior league, the membership | convention will be held in Indianapolis 'On our return we stopped at Niagara
 Falls and Ocean Grove; at the. latter, place | great number of MethodistS have already
 arrived and religious meetings are held day and evening""
 1 At the Grand Avenue Baptist church yes
 terday morning Dr. Sage announced that h 1 the twenty-five years since that church was
 organized 1t had sent out from Its member
 ship three preachers: Rev +. M, Thomp
 son of the Memorial church, Hartford; Rev | Frank Ludington of shelton, and Rev 1 Louis J. Bamberg, who next Sunday Is tC
 begin his pastorate at South Norwalk. MT
 Bamberg was present and made the first 1 prayer.
 Rev; MT. Abbott supplied the pulpit of 1 the NJ. E. church yesterday, and next Sun
 day Rev. F. Cunningham, former pastol
 of this church and now of Long Island will | preach.
 l Mich. preached at the Grand Avenue Con 1 gregational church yesterday Next Sunday ] the pulpit will be supplied by Rev Ir l Swift of Lansing Mich.
 | Praise Service at Grand Avenue Congrega- l tional Church, 6pa proico spryrp was piypn the | Grand Avenue Congregational church last | evening by the quartette choir of the 1 church. under the direction of Mir Harry | Woodstock, the orgauist. with the assist ance of Master Ernest Dillon of the Trinit, | church choir. MT. Woodstock had arranged
 delightful programme which, despite tho | warmth of the evening. was sung through l out with excellent spirit The quartette die
 good work and esnecial credit is due tho i soprano, Miss Hofer, for her sympathetic | rendition of the solos in Fosters anthem ''The Souls of the Righteous The snecia | feature of the service was Master Dillon'F
 singing of the obligato soprano part in tn, l portion of Gounods "Galia" which wa 1 given, and of an arrangement of Strelez 1 ki's Happy Days" Master Dillon has beer | q soloist at Trinity for several years and i' | one of the most valued members of tn, | choir His voice Is of beautiful quality ant
 used with no little skill The contrast be | tween the pure, high tones of the boy'' | voice and the mature quality of the voices
 in the quartette made a lovely effect; Th' | high natural at the climax of the ''Jeru
 salem rang out splendidly above the othe | voices.
 | Mir Woodstock is one of the most skilfu | organists in the city and he has specia | gift for registration. He gets number O | fine color-effects by his clever manipulation of an instrument that is Tar rom new @ aiit | excellent work with his singers and hi
 services are very much appreciated in th' | church.