The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-27
CONVENTION
AT MONTR0SE

ent, to the one thing. His many early
experiments and machinery failed. En-
gineers said his scheme was impracti-
cable. Just so. demonstrations of the
impossible In Christian work amount
to nothing. Edisons assistant, Mr.. NAL
lory, says his chief experimental thou
sands of times and made as many fall
ures, but was determined to succeed.
To succeed, he was willing to fail 1t
should be so with the Christian work.
er.
To do it, man has all the power
OF God for assistance. Edison had three
great aiding forces in his material
work, gravitation, momentum, mag
nctism. He built a crusher which pull
verizeS seven tons of rock in three
| seconds. A worker can accomplish the
so-called impossible. He can do it by
| putting himself in line with infinite
| forces. The successful worker is not
! strained worker; Gods aides work
| easily; the work is divinely wrought
"In doing the work of God we may
| expect to be assisted by what seem to
| be hostile forces. Things in, opposition
| become helpers. In Edson's crushing
| machinery there were 4,200 bearings
which, 1t was thought could not be
| fabricated on account of the fine iron
! dust which penetrated everything
| about the plant. This seeming oppo-
| sition was turned to an advantage by
arranging the bearings so that the dust
| was necessary to make them revolve
| properly. The lesson applies to the
| spiritual worker"
After the evening session there was
| an informal reception at the Young
| Mems Christian association rooms,
| where the delegates were welcomed by
| the mayor, Attorney A. II. Smith.
Tomorrow there will be three meet
! ings. In the morning there will be ad-
| dresses by Charles f. Hurlburt, super
! intendent Of the Pennsylvania Bible
| institute, Philadelphia; by ]. NJ. Chance,
| of Scranton. who will discuss music
! and it's relation to Young Mems Chris
| tian association work, and by f. II.
Beldin, of the Railroad association. of
! Scranton, who will deal with the yoke
Fellows Band" idea. Mr.. Hurlburt,
| Dr. r. S. Meixell of Wilkes Barre, and
! Clarence f. Cook of keystone acad-
emy. will take a prominent part in
| the afternoon session and Mr.. Hur-
burt will deliver an address in the
evening.
SPECIAL SINGING.
A feature of the meetings will he
special singing by the Scranton quar-
tette: George c. Hoffman, first tenor;
y. ID. Van Gorder, second tenor; Fritz
]. Frank, first bass and G.. A. MonE
second bass, and the cornet playing Of
w. II. Stanton, ir.. also of the Scran-
ton association, and all under the direc-
tion of Mr.. Chance.
Among those attending the conven-
ton as delegates, speakers or spec
tators, are: Rev. DR.. l. A. Lansing,
]. A. Lansing, George g. Mahy, T. w.
Pearsall q. l.. Barnard, Fred Behling,
Philip Hacndigcs. jr, Professor w. f.
Plumley, II. NJ. Brown, II. NJ. Brewer,
Of Scranton, C. w. Tiffany and Clar-
ence i. Cook, Of Factoryville; IT. w.
Davies, of Pittston; j. w. Raeder, DR..
Il. s. MeiXell, T. II. Atherton, Dr. F.
c. Johnson. and II. A. Fuller. of
Wilkes Barre; A. u. Van Gorder and
G. w. Benedict, Scranton; Christian
Walter, +. X. Little, II. l. Fisher. w.
II. Shepard, H. w. Dunnng, A. C.
Overpeck, g. r. II. Jackson, q. j. Kulp,
Herman A, Dean, Of Wilkes Barre; c.
w. Harvey, Harrisburg.
j. w. Raeder, Of Wilkes Barre, chair
man of the district committee. is i'll
and unable to attend the convention.
Assisting Carl Shafer, the Montrose
secretary is Thomas Thorburn, who Is
to be employed in q new line of state
work, He is a former secretary Of the
Sharpsburg and Aetna associations.
and is to he given charge of general
religious movements in districts to be
limited to county or counties. The
work, which is to be an experiment, has
not been fully planned. Mr.. ThOrburn
duties will be to organize Bible class
es and aid their officers in their study
and work. The idea has not been tried
but it will he started soon in Peckville
Priceburg, Dickson City, Jermyn and
the upper Lackawanna valley.