The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-05
THEY LIKED TOPEKA.
Christian EndeavOrers Win
Come Again in 1898.
The Tenth Annual Session
Closed Last Night.
More Resolutions Passed Including
One Taking Strong Grounds
on the Prohibitory Law.

The young people with bright faces
and wearing Christian Endeavor
badges and colors of pink and white
have gone from US, and only the recol-
lection of the tenth annual convention
OF the Kansas Christian Endeavor
unions remains. Topeka people en-
1oyed the convention, and the delegates
were delighted with their reception and
entertainment. 1t was the most sue
cessful convention in the history of the
union. Everything which had been
arranged was given with accuracy and
snap-a characteristic of Endeavor
meetings The decorations were beau
speeches excellent
Since the first meeting of the conven-
tion, which was held Tuesday evening,
there has been a steadily growing in
terest in the sessions. The large First
presbyterian church has been filed
every day, and in the evenings it has
been crowded and overflow meetings
have been held at the First CoDgrecro
ttonal church.
Last evening the closing meeting was
held at the first Presbyterian church.
Il was the most largely attended meet
ing of the session. People were crew
ed into the auditorium and the Sunday
school room, on the platform and in
the a1sIes. In fact, there wasn't even
floor space left.
Prof. E. o. Excel, who can sing Cos
pei hymns to please everyone told the
EndeaVorers how to sing to get the best
erect He said distinct articulation
was the main requirement. DR.. J. D.
Countermine, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, as chairman of the
committee on resolutions and greetings.
was called upon for a report. He told
OF MS experiences during the first day
of the convention.
THE first day. said he, someone
came up to me and said: Are you at
tending the conventiOn?' 1 told them
was. Then another said Have YOU
a pleasant stopping placer I told them
Very pleasant Then another asked
me if had registered, and I said I had
and there were all kinds of questions
asked me. I am new man in Topeka
but I've been sworn in and I want you
| to know that I'm a Topeka man now,
| through and through
DR.. Countermine then read tele-
| grams Of greeting from Christian En-
1 deavor unions in other states local
| unions in Kansas and from prominent
| individual mem bers in the east. The
! resolutions prepared by the committee
were then read. There were five and
! in them everyone who had helped to
! make the convention a success was
thanked In the fifth resolution there
| were seven sub-resolutions. The En-
| deavorers showed their sentiment in
! regard to prohibition in the following:
| 'FOurth-That we again emphasize
| our hearty Endorsement of the Kansas
| prOhibitory law. That we are opposed
| to the resubmission of this question to
| a vote of the people; that we favor the
| StricteSt enforcement of this and of all
| laws upon the statute books of our
| state, and that moreover, We deeply
| deplore that evident loss of manhood
! which is revealed in the conduct of that
| public officer who criminally fails to
| perform his official oath. May God
| have mercy upon the poor souls of such
and give us grace that we may make
| up for that wherein they have failed
| so that the cause of righteousness and
| truth may not suffer in Kansas"
! In resolution 5, part 6, the Endeavor-
| ers showed their appreciation of the re-
| ports of the convention as follows:
ITO the editors and reporters of the
! press of the city who have shown such
| thoughtful consideration and have
| given such lengthy, interesting and
| correct reports in their daily issues of
our daily doings."
The resolutions were adopted unani-
mously by the convention.
The committee on place of convention
| for next year reported through Rev F.
E. Mallory that as no offers had been
made by any delegations for the con-
vention next year the matter would
have to be postponed until the execu-
! tive committee could make the arrange
ments and announce later the place for
next year. Several of the young lady
Endeavorers said: "Oh, too bad" and
it began to look rather discOuraging,
when Dr. r. S. Magee walked up the
center aisle and mOtioned for recogni-
ton. He said:
1.-The convention has been a grand
success, and the Topeka EndeavOrers
feel repaid for their trouble in arrang-
ing for it by those resolutions. 1 think
l voice the sentiment of all the Topeka
Endeavorers when 1 move that we in
Vite the convention of 1898 to meet with
US in Topeka"
This was greeted with storm of APP
| plause A man near the front with
a loud voice arose and offered a sec
ond to the motion. When the vote was
put the convention as with one voice
said Aye"
So next June the eleventh annual
convention of the Kansas Christian En-
| deavor union will meet in Topeka Even
a larger attendance than ever is ex-
pected for the delegates are much
[ pleased with the way Topeka Endeav-
| orers treat them.
Rev J. F. COwan of Pittsburg, Pa,
made the closing address of the con-
vention He is a practical tall1er and
| his speech was full of Appropriate IL
Illustrations of the points he wanted TIC
emphasize.
The closing hymn was God Be With
You Till We Meet Again. and was
sung with marked effect Every one
of the l 500 people in the audience took
up the strain and made it a fitting close
| to an enjoyable session.
Rev NJ E. Harlan of Atchison Of
| fered the benedictiOn and the audience
| was dismissed.
WHEN YOUR MIN LISTERS DULL
There is No Remedy, so Says Chris