The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-07
S7AqG c. &. CONVENTION
Paterson Filled With Chris
tian Endeavorers from
Towns and Cities.
BURRELL ON SABBATH OBSERVANCE
ANIMAL Addresses by DR.. Clement
French and DR.. Cor
uelius Brett.
BURRELL ON SABBATH OBSERVANCE
Especial 10 THE Jersey city News."l

| dcavor Convention now being held here.
THE public buildings all fly the American
flag and many of them are draped in the
| colors of the State Union, orange n
black. A large number of residences are
also draped in these colors, and almost
| every house has at least one flag. The
Endeavorers began to arrive Tuesday
| night in time for the rally held in the
Y. M. C. A. hall, and yesterday morning
they came from all over the State, reg
istered and received the badges before
the first service of the convention, held
at three o'clock in the afternoon. The
badges presented to every Endeavorer
are white silk, with orange and black
letters. They were woven in one of the
silk mills and they are extremely pretty.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building, where the prin-
cipal meetings are held, is decorated
gaily. All the rooms and the halls have
C. E. banners and American flags. Be-
hind the platform the entire wall is
hung with white cheesecloth, edged with
orange and black. The same coiors are
draped around the balcony and are
caught from the corners of the ceiling TO
the centre. On the platform are one hum
bred and fifty chairs for the large con-
vention choir.
The opening session was held at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, preceded by
a half hour song service. The State
President, the Rev. DR.. ]. Clement
French, presided. DR.. Cornelius Brett of
Jersey City was seated near him.. The
devotional exercises were led by the
Rev. A. w. Thompson. In calling the
convention to order DR.. French said
Everything depends in a convention
like this on the way it begins. | hope
you nave all come here intending to
smile, to be helped and to bless" He
read kilograms of greeting from the
North Carolina and Pennsylvania State
Unions and then said:-"One week 6 we
were all in the doldrums; we thought
everything had gone against US. A few
days later DR.. Brett suggested hat should
the anti-gambling amendment be carried,
as we hoped, we sing the long metre
Doxology. We are now able to sing it,
though we haven't much to brag of.
There are many Christian people who
should be ashamed of themselves. Still,
I believe, the success of the amendment
is due to the Christian Endeavor -Socie-
ties in the State. (Applause.) We will
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When the Doxology had beCg sung the
Rev. William E.. Davis, of Lebanon, Su-
perintendent of the Christian Citizenship
Committee, made his report. His remarks
were similar to those made by DR..
French. He said:-'The Christian En-
deavorers have done much to bring the
victory over which we rejoice. Ihere are
other issues the society must. consider IN
the interests of good citizenship. l nave
tried to come into touch with every IN
dividual society in the State and | have
- -E-1 = CHI nm M
tee to the roll. The State Committee
has done what it could to carry the
amendment and it regrets the majority
was not greater"
Burrell of New York, who made the adj
dress of the afternoon. His subject was,
sabbath Observance. He sald:-1o
people are talking about your election and
amendments. That was all right, but let
the past go. You hayen't such a mar
gin on the lase election that you need
new. | wouldn't give that (%snapping his
fingers) for the man that wouldn't bring
his religion into politics and everything
he does. l wish you would send a re-
quest to Boston to tell all the Christian
~E.ndeavorers in the world to turn the
matter of Sabbath dissertation upside
people who haven't the right notions of
bath founded on9 What is Sunday OBJ
servanee in a reasonabie sense gronnd de-
tll- L Nh 1O1 - wa tANhAt -
never ~abrogated that holy command
ment. The second great fact on which
the Sabbath rests is a physical fact. The
body God has given us requires one sew
enth of the time to rest. 1t runs down
after six days, and the Sabbath is the
key God has given us to wind us up. The
could get along without it in the Reign of
Terror. Then they found they had TO
ave a day. and they tried one in ten.
Then they had to come back to it and
arant "A law 10 make every seventh G1V
one Of rest. 1t doesn't pay to work on
the Sabbath. In the long run we can
than out of seven consecutive days. This
third fact is the industrial. The fourth
is home. We lose our homes If we lose
our Sabbaths. oh, God, keep our homes
baths we give up our homes. Ia is the
day a man makes the acquaintance of
his wife and family. And the fifth fact
is a civil fact, to wit, no country can
broke Gods Sabbath and lived, n never
will! Dur country has been a Sabbath
observing country from the first. God
last as long as they kept His Sabbath and
and God made them keep it. The sixth
fact is that of personal rights My right
to a Sabbath observance depends on a
Sabbath observance law. l have to
make others keep the Sabbath so that l
they lose their personal rights when they
come here and then get social rights. We
make q plain dicker with them and they
must not bring their beer gardens and
Continental Sundays with them. One
more fact-the spiritual fact-the very
top. Gods mandate is the bottom of 1t.
and this is the top. Man is made in like
ness of God. Now when Sunday comes
il is made for man. not for his body but
for the ma made in the likeness of God.
What are you going to do about 1t, this
Sabbath observance? The two things
You must look out for in your own per-
sonal reformation, are. first, the sunday
newspaper, and, second, the bicycle.
Qaughter.) Let your wheel alone on un-
day. j can see when a man might ride
to church on his bicycle. except for his
example. But don't you do it for pleas
ure." DR. Burnett cited Bible authority
for not riding on Sunday. found in Isaiah.
He continued:-1The Sunday question is
a pivotal point. God is sitting out the
young men and women to see who of
them have sand enough to say, I'll dc
the right whatever 1t costs.t'
DR.. l.. w. Hathaway said he thought
any man would be a fool who would try
to make Il speech after DR.. Burrelf. He
then proceeded to tell about the Sunday
Observance Committee OF the National
Society. and asked Endeavorers to report
all fragrant acts OF disobedience to Sun
day laws The Rev. Mr.. Jones of Bay
onne pronounced the benediction.
Evening sessions We're held in the ". M.
c. A. building and the First Baptist
Church. President French presided at the
Y. N. a. ana Vice President Brett at
At the Y.~M. c. A. the devotional ser
vices were led by the Rev. j. B.. Church
Of Paterson. The welcomes were made by
the Rev Franklin E. Miller and the Rev.
E. w. Thompson. DR.. French responded.
The address of the evening was made