Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-12
End of the Great G. E. Convention at
San Francisco.
MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER HELD
Delegates Planning Sightseeing
Expeditions About the Coast.
SPEECHES BY EMINENT MEN

SAN r fRANClSCO, July 1z-Nltn lne
meetings today in the Mechanics pavilion,
the most successful Christian Endeavor
convention ever held will be brought to a
close. The program for the day and even
ing is an interesting oGe. Besides the early
morning prayer meetings the Christian
Endeavor missionary force spoke at the
morning service at the Mechanc cs' pavilion
and the evanselistic force was at Wood
wards pavilion. In the afternoon the jul
nior Endeavorers will rally at the Mecian-
les pavilion anG practice school of practi-
cal Endeavor methods at Woodward pa
vilion. AT both paviions special consecra-
ton exercises will mark the close of all
proceedings.
Tuesday the visiting delegates or a great
majority of them will attend public re-
ception, to whieh they have been specially
invited by committee representing the
citizens of Oakland. 1t IS expected at least
10000 will cross the bay ami enjoy the
hospitality of the Oaklinders.
Many Excursions Planned.
With the end of the convention in sight
the thousands of visitors, delegates and
others will take advantage of the oppor-
tunity and the cheap rates to visit the
many places OF interest throughout the
state Arrangements have beer made for
excursions to Monterey, Mount Hamilton
Yosemite, Santa cla=a mountains STAN
ford University and other interesting
places, even taking in the southern coun-
try as part of their journey.
The rush for tickets for these "side
trips was SO great this morning that the
clerks could not keep the crowd moving
as rapidly as 1t gathered. At am. the
sale of excursion tickets began, and from
that hour until evening there was not a
minutes rest for the ticket sellers. For
the next three days the Yosemite route
Will have all the stages can carry. and
during the last fev! days excursionists were
going to the valley in parties of IUo, made
up ny the railway company.
Crowds at the Meetings.,
While the number of persons seeking
admission at the big paviiions this mora
ing was not quite so great as on previous
occasions, still there were packed houses
and the enthusiasm was as great as at
any time since the beginning of the con-
vention- In fact. 1t seemed as if every
Cne present desired 10 express his or her
satisfaction with the way the greatest
convention of Endeavorers ever held had
Pee peen ci, oonduted- There was praise fer
the reception all had received at the
hands of California in general and San
Francisco in particular and thankfulness
for the perfect weather which has blessed
the entire meeting.
ihNeSt"entS.
Rev Thomas Grouse of Baltimore spoke
at Woodward's Pavilion on Missionary
Investments" He said in part:
This utilitarian age Is likely to ask con-
corning any enterprise in which it Is in
vited to invest, Does 1t pay?' This question
Is sometimes asked concerning missionary
work In the spirit of selfishness and COM
mercial policy. To this it NAV be suffi-
Gent to reply as DIR. Pierson suggests 1t
tn nTet-
wnen authority is supreme | want 10
lead the minds of young people to think of
lhe spiritual returns that shall come TO
them as they give thought sympathy
praIe er, money, personal service and sacri-
nee TO the divine work of worldwide evan
gellsm. II Will be found true in the highest
ana most blessed sense. Give and ii shall
be given unto you"
Hcv. D. W. Chapman's Address
Rev j. Wilber Chapman of PHILADELPHIA
spoke on the subject of the "Outpouring of
the Holy Spirit He said:
we certainly need another pentecost,
and the need is always a prophecy of the
coming of that which should meet the
longing. The church needs IT. We behold
people today utterly forgetting the place
OF the Holy Ghost in the government of
the church. substituting man-made power
anu methods for His power and direction.
STOPPING 10 all sorts of methods for the pur-
pose OF raising funds to carry on tho urorL
OF the gospel, almost completely marking
out the line of demarkation between the
church and the world.
In the Hight of these things GOV, r.i,b
out hesitation, the church needs anot nor
rtntecost when the money changers shall
De driven from the sanctuary; when hypo-
ts oiLSs S!iaN ne cast out of the house of God
when the Holy Ghost shall he etven ha
place OF the vicar of Christ and when
the hre OF cleansing and of power shall
pDurn IN US from morning till night and
God send the church another pentecost >,
Mr. Wells on Church-Goinr.
speaking of the tenth legion" Amos r
Wells of Boston, In Mechanics Pavilion
had this to say:
Some men pray for a millennium and
uoh give a mill toward its coming En-
deavorers. the chariot wheels of the rniIIen-
mum, are made of consecrated dollars we
take an Interest in missions but we keeu
our money on interest. Why Endeavorers
every year the United States paws twice as
much for corsets to squeeze tbe Ure ON,
oi folks as can be squeezed out for for.
eign missions
And now what depends upon the Lords
tehthE The church depends upon 1t. The
Sunday school depends upon it. The Chris
uan Endeavor work depends on it Iook
at the burden of nine-tenths and of rhe
ten'h. Is the tenth too much for vo,, N
give? | have read of man with a SOM co
small that you could take the little end ot
nothing and whittIe il down to a fine noir,
ana wI'h II punch out the pith of the in
visible hair and draw that mans soul
through the hole. Such a man might cail
a tenth too much, but surely no Cbristian
Endeavorer-" -
Same Subject by Mr. Davis.
Systematic and Proportionate Giving n
God was the subject of Rev. John II
Davies. who said IN part:
Immense exertions are made eyerv vea,
In the community that / represent to raise
the money necessary to support our foreign
missions, all sorts of legitimate exped;.
ents are resorted to, and then we FREQUENT.
~ ran Now, II each one of your nine hun.
dred thousand members could be induced
70 give TWO cents per week to this cause
Tor which Jesus Christ gave himself. We
would have at the end of the fiscal year a
handsome surplus in our treasury And
our church authorities are beginning to
reaize the immense possibilities which ars
enioided In His systematic idea and IN
our denominational papers. our ecclesias
tical courts, our religious services the sub
Ject Is being brought up with growing fire.
quency and increasing favor, and those are
signs OF hope, not only because of tbs
nnancial power IL must give the church
but also because IL brings US back to tn,
scriptural method OF giving"