The San Francisco call., 1897-07-10

! invited aid from Christian nations in her col
| legeS and other schools.
ProfeSsorships of English, French, German
| and Russian have been established. Many
! leading men, without waiting for the Govern
ment, nave opened schools where the English
| language is taught. Three of our California
| converts have been employed as teachers in
| this school. The directors of the Sui Ying Col
lege in Ci Ming said to our preacher, whose
| chapel is located close by. eff your superin-
! tendent will furnish us a professor OF English
( we will believe in Jesus every seventh day
| l. E., every Sabbath this professor is granted
! the privilege TO teach or preach Christianity
TO these students. You may be sure that our
brother, Lew Chong, who has been called 10
| this professorship, has seized this grand OPP
portunity. He has not only been holding
services Sabbath days, but has evening
Bible-readngs also. The students of all the
Government schools at Tientsin on Sabbath
Christian churches.
How were all these remarkable concessions
brought about? Christianity is the main
spring of this new movement 1t Will keep on
working until China is thoroughly Chrisuan-
lied, for until then she could never have per
feCt fellowship.
The first Chinese Christian Endeavor society
organized in America was at our mission in
Santa Cruz, Cal, in 1891. The second one was
by the Conversational Chinese in this City on
July o. 1892. Now there are about twenty
five socieues in California, embracing q mem
bership or over Thousand.
We will carry this fellowship to China. In
L
Endeayor conventions have been held during
the past three years at Shanghai. These So
cieties number 119 and embrace member
ship of 4321.
This Will help to harmonic the Chinese in
China. When this is done the fellowship of
the East and that of the west Will unite the
hemispheres and make real and visible the
oneness OF our human race in Christ.
Miss Harriet Green of England checked
the applause, with which she was greeted
hv vi hat che had nnt five n.
utes' time she did not want any of it
taken by the audience. She made strong
plea for further work among the dark
countries, and showed how grave was the
need of help in China, India and Africa.
| DR.. B. K. Wilbur. the medical mission
ary to ALASKA, told of the work in the
! frozen north and made an urgent appeal
f)r assistance to carry further the WORK in
that country. He told of the way in which
| the Christians there were giving their
money from slender store to keep the ma
| tiyes from going hack after they had been
1 brought to the light.
/ Rev. J. S. Coming OF Canada greeted
the audience in the name of 200, 900 Chris
| tian Endeavorers, and claimed the begin
ming of the order because DR.. Clark was
| born in the far dominion. He gave vent
| to patriotic utterance regarding the
Queen, and at the mention of her name
the audience rose and burst into loud ap-
dent Clark called for the singing of the
| international hymn, God Save the
Queen" and America, +" to which the au-
dlence responded with vim.
Rev. Silas Meade, d. D.. president of the
Australian union, became so filled with
ardor that he went far beyond his limit
notwithstanding the continuous ringing
OF the buzzer. As the delegate VINO was
to talk for Scotland was not present Presi-
dent Clark called for Miss Somerville, his
sister, and presented her to the audience
Her quiverlng lips and tear -dlmmed eyes
showed how deeply she felt and her
tongue refused utterance to her thoughts.
Mr.. Dickey, a boyish lawyer from Ha-
waii, represented the sea-girt isles and in
troduced Mr.. d. L. Nowney, native Ha-
waiian and be first president of the first
Christian Endeavor Society established
there. He sang a Hawaiian song, which
was received with great applause and then
gave the Hawaiian greeting OF Aloha oe
Oka."
Rev. Russell H. Conwell OF Philadelphia
was too i'll 10 attend, and Rev. Ira Land
rith of Nashville, Tenn, was substituted
to address the meeting on the topic,
christian Endeavor Promotes Interde-
nominational Fellowship" His address
was re ceived with applause and laughter,
and he told story alter story and made
points from each of them. kee ping the
attention OF the entire audience to the
closing words. He be an his address with
the story of dog with an Endeavor ap-
plication, which will bear repeating. He
said:
There is a story, which in spite of it's
great age, has done me valiant service on
more than ore occasion. L remember to
have used it when the people said, You
cannot get the convention for Nashville
in '9S, and if you did get it you would not
know what to do with itP We answered
this by saying that last week Nashville
entertained from fifty to seventy five
thousand people-alI strangers-and did
1t, and she can do it again, too.
"There was certain man out hunting
and he had along with him fine dog, but
when he got into tine depth of the woods
the dog, who was of al ambitious spirit,
ran eff and left him alone. But pretty
soon, he said, the dog met bear and ran
and ran and the bear ran after him, and
the dog got so scared that he ran right up
a tree. A man heard him tell the story
and said: But a dog cannot climb a tree
He answered: Well, that dog had to; a
bear was after him.
~ said l could not fill the place OF DR..
Conwell, but Baer got after me and 1
had to. Now. will you please not press
that figure any further? There is dog at
the other emo of il"