The record-union., 1897-07-13

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.-The last
open sessions of the International Chris
tian Endeavor Convention We're held
to-day. The attendance at the morn
ing and afternoon meetings was large
and those who managed to obtain en-
trance TO either of the pavilions in the
evening were fortunate, for only %
900 could be accommodated, and TO-
900 more sought admission. Estimates
made by leading business men agree
that the people brought here by this
great gathering will leave not less than
81 900, 900 in our city. All the leaders
of the movement are pleased with the
success of their efforts, and with the
outlook for the future of the society.
Early this morning began the last
days work of the convention.
The topic at the prayer meeting was
Our Associate Members, the leaders
being John q. Spangler of Phoenix, A.
T.; Grant Leeh, Washington, d. c.;
T. F. Tucker, Lincoln, Neb.; Colonel l..
9. Hallimond. New York; A. T. Ring
gold, Gardiner, Me-; Leonard Merrill,
Los Angeles; Rev. s. H. Woodrow,
Providence; Rev. B. NJ. Long, York,
Neb., and Rev. Edwards Davis of Oak
land.
The daily hour for Bible study was
conducted by Professor Herbert L. Will
lett, Chicago, his subject being, John
"A Message Of Light and Love" He
said that the essence of sin is the de-
NAL of the life and reality of the life
and work of Christ, and argued that
love was the essential characteristic of
God and Of His children.
Tp,I, Of
delphia spoke at the United Presbyter-
ian Church on "Children's Meetings,
and How to Make Them Interesting -
illustrating his remarks on the black
board
AT MECHANICS PAVILION.
The morning session of the conven-
tion proper was opened in the Mechan-
les Pavilion by Rev. NJ. Rhodes of ST.
Louis.
After the usual praise service, de-
votional exercises We're conducted by
Rev w H Scudder of Tacoma. Then
the topic of the morning, Christian
Endeavor a Missionary Force" was
taken. The first speaker was Amos R.
Wells of Boston, who spoke on The
Tenth Legion" He said in part:
Some men pray for the millennium,
and don't give a mill toward its COM
ing. EndeavOrers, the chariot wheels
Of the millennium are made of conse-
Grated dollars We take an interest in
missions but we keep our money on
interest. Why, Endeavorers, every year
the United States pays twice as much
for corsets to squeeze the life out of
folks as can be squeezed out for foreign
missions.
And now what depends upon the
tenth? The church depends upon it.
Christian Endeavor work depends upon
il. Look at the burden of nine-tenths
and of the one-tenth. Is the tenth too
much for you to give? I have read of
a man with a soul so small that you
could take the little end of nothing and
whttle it down to a fine point, and
with it punch out the pith of the in
visible hair, and drag that mans soul
through the hole. Such a man might
call tenth too much, but surely no
Christian Endeavorer."
An address on Foreign Missions" by
Rev. ]. c. r. Ewing of Lahore, in which
he declared that the teachers from In
dia who have come as speakers to this
country are not representatives of the
HindoOism of to-day. but persons who
have absorbed the truths of the Sermon
on the Mount.
Rev. ]. r. Davis of New York made
an earnest plea for Systematic and
Proportionate Giving to God" He said
Immense exertions are made every
year in the community that I repre-
sent to raise the money necessary to
support our foreign missions. All sorts
of legitimate expedients are .resorted to,
and then we frequently fail. Now if
each of our 100000 members could be
induced TO give , cents per week to
this cause for which Jesus Christ gave
himself, we would have at the end of
the fiscal year a handsome surplus in
our treasury. And our church au-
thorities are beginning TO realize the
immense possibilities which are en-
folded in this systematic idea, and in
our UNCONVENTIONAL papers, our ecclesi-
astical courts, our religious services,