The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-12
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Christian Endeavor Convention
Assemblies IN Detroit.
Ten thousand People Attend the Wei.
coming Rally in Tent EndeavOr
"A Message from President
Mckinley : Old cmcers
Are Re-elected.


Are Reelected.
Detroit, July 6.-The afternoon O
the preliminary day of the 18th annua
international convention of Christian
Endeavor was showery, but towar,
evening the sun broke through tn
clouds and travel from all parts of tn
city to the Christian Endeavor ground
began. At sundown long lines o
young people wended across the greer
fields about the white tented city, al
converging toward Tent Endeavor, be
meath whose broad canvas the welcom
ing rally was held. The crowds poured
In through the four entrances on eth
er side and down the six broad saw
dust-covered aisles, until the grea
tents capacity of 10000 was filled
after that, crowd of outsiders oh
tanned sight and hearing through drop
ping of the tent walls at either side.
The Christian Endeavor red ant
white was suspended in hundreds o.
broad streamers from the lofty roof t.
the caves. A thousand white
capped young men and maids com
posed the choir on the big stage, tn,
front of which was occupied by the
officers and clergy.
At 1880 the comparative silence was
broken by strains of "The Son of Goo
Goes Forth to War;" followed by
"rhere Shall be Showers of Blessing,
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" etc, in
all of which the great crowd enthus
iastically 6oined.
There was enthusiastic applause
when Secretary Baer read the follow
ing telegram from President McKin.
ley:
"Rev. DR.. Francis Z. Clark, Detroit
Mich: On the occasion of the 18th
international convention of your soci
ETY. desire to express my cordial in
terest in it's work, my best wishes tc
those assembled with you in conven'
ton and my earnest hope for the con
tinuance and increase of the great re.
suits which the efforts of the Chris.
tian Endeavor society have achieved. .
Next on the programme came re.
sponses from foreign lands. As Rev,
William Patterson, of Toronto, came
forward TO speak for Canada, some
one struck up God Save the Queen.
The Canadians on the platform tooI
up the strain and in moment the
huge tent was reverberating with the
chorus of the British anthem. The
friendly relations between Canada and
the United States, particularly with
reference to religious matters, formed
the burden of DIR. Patterson's address.
For Australia response was made by
Rev. j. II. Walker, of Queensland; for
China by Rev. Elwood G. Tewksbury.
missionary m the vicinity of Pekin;
for Turkey by Rev. Lyndon S. Craw.
ford, for many years missionary in
that country; for Japan by Rev. Oti,
Carey; for Mexico by Rev. Scott Will.
Jams, and for the United States by Rev.
Arthur ]. Smith, of Georgia.
Rev. DR.. Francis T.. Clark was re.
elected president of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor at the meeting
of the trustees. john Willis Baei
was reelected secretssf and William
Shaw treasurer. Representatives on
the board of trustees of the United
Society were elected from each state
territory and the provinces of Canada
Detroit, July both of the great
main tents owned by the United Soci
ETY. of Christian Endeavor were used
last night for the first time during tn,
international convention and both
contained their full quota of 10000 peo
pie and, as usual, hundreds of Others
who failed to secure admittance pa.
tiently occupied standing room" all
around the outer edges. Many visit
ing delegates came in yesterday, swell
ing the number of stranger delegatei
beyond the 10000 mark.
Detroit, July s.-The mooted ques.
tion of the number of people brought
into this city by the Christian Endeav.
or convention cropped out at the out.
set of last nights meeting in Tent En-.
deavor, when Secretary Baer took oc.
casion to publicly criticize the De.
troit newspapers for saying that the
influx of delegates from other statei
was not nearly as great as had been
anticipated by the local committee.
A novelty which aroused great en-.
thusiasm was the introduction OF Rev
Mr.. Mazerona, native Cuban and an
evangelist among his people. who ex.
pressed his thanks to the American
people for the liberation of Cuba.
Detroit, July 1O.-Although large
majority of the army of Christian En-.
deavorers in Detroit, untitled the
street cars on Sunday a considerable
portion refrained from reading the
Sunday newspapers.
The features of the afternoon were
the crowded meetings for men and for
women exclusively, and Sabbath OBJ
servance rally. Thirty-fve hundred
men filled the floor and the galleries OF
Light Guard armory at the mems meet.
ing. The men sang with fine enthu.
siasm and very large proportion of
them publicly pledged that the occa.
sion would be with them a landmark
from which would date better life,
Last night an additional touch OF
solemnity was impaired TO the meet
ings of the Christian Endeavorers. The
generalities of religion were in soms
measure neglected, and the evening
worship in 81 Protestant churches of
Detroit and. Windsor took the form Of
"consecration services"
Railway Commission Knocked Gu
Lansing, Mich. July 6.--The Mich.
igan supreme court yesterday decided
the case brought to test the validity OF