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SANG IN THE STREET CARS.
CHRISTIAN ENDE NVOR ENTHUsI-
Assn Is INCREASING.


and interesting Addresses DeIiv-
ered-Dr. Pounds on Giving--The
Devil Treated by DIR. HenSon-Dr.
Mobiles Argument Against War.
Some Christian EndeaVOr Statis-
ties.
Detroit, July 6.-Both of the great main
tents owned by the United Society of
Christian Endeavor were used tonight
for the first time durng the eighteenth
International convention. Both contained
their full quota of 10000 people and hun
dreds of others who failed to secure ad-
mittance patiently occupied standing
room all around the outer edges.
Many visiting delegates from long dis
! tances came in to-day, swelling the num-
Der of visiting delesates, it is believed
beyond the 10000 mark
The convention days are essentially days
of song. Although tonight the United
choir was divided between the two tents,
there seemed little loss in the volume
! of song or in the number of singers in
each. As for the audiences their spiritual
enthusiasm expanded with the passage Of
the hours.
Yesterday there was little street en-
thusiasm. To-day the Endeavorers hon
ored the invitation of the Mayor Of De
trot to sing. Street carloads OF these
! finally swung along the Streets singing
! as they went. Many groups sang by the
wayslde, aside from those who joined the
squads of MONDAY workers in business
houses and factories.
Ten thousand people crowded into Tent
! Williston for this evenings exercises.
! President Clark presided over the meeting
and P. S. Foster of Washington was mus
| icag director.
The two principal addresses in Tent VIII
lston were delivered by Rev. John E.
! Pounds of indianapolis and Rev. DR.. F.
S. Henson of Chicago the former on Dol
lars and Duty" and the latter on Satan in
the City" Both were listened to with I'M
divided attention by the great audience
and bursts of applause were frequent
How Men should Give.
The following are extracts from Dr..
Pounds speech:
There are three nerve centers in the
| spiritual man: The head. the heart and
| the pocketbook. The reason congre cations
| start when money is mentioned is because
| the last is the most sensitive of the three.
| And yet, did they but understand it, the
| philanthropists are the happiest of men.
| True joy is in giving, not in getting. The
| child who runs after the rainbow, eX
| pecting to find the end of it resting in Il
pot of gold, is not more sadly disappoint-
ed than the man who runs after pot
! of gold expecting to find it resting on
| the rainbow of iOV and Deape.
The fault is not wholly with the pew,
either. When darkness covers the preach
er. gross darkness will cover the peopie
Self-seeking should have no place al all
in the pulpit. When every man is for him
self, the devil will take the foremost
las wen as the hindmost. Were the Mas
ter on earth again. the man who views his
preaching on Sunday as a necessary pre-
| liminary to drawing his salary on Mon
day would be driven out offthe pulpit with
a whip of small cords. If your cougrega-
ton can't get "a certain preacher by Of
fering him an increase of salary, don't
get him. For he who mistakes the jingle
of the guinea for a call to preach will
mistake the tread of the wolf for the
rustic of the doves wing, and the flock
Will be destroyed. After all, the worst
that can be said of Judas was that he was
mercenary For the love of the money
was the root of all the evil. The Judas
kiss of to-day betrays the love of women,
as well as the Lover of men.
The go-as-you-please method-taking a
| collecuon-is really the lack of a method.
A collection is what people would IA her
give than be bothered and leads to the
time when people would rather be bother
ed than give at all When a collection is
taken up for missions, enthusiasm -
missions is taken down. The missionary
offering should be the elimination of the
years work When the hat IS passed
the opportunity for a large gift passes
with it, The preacher who merely passes
the hat deserves to lose it, for he has no
head to wear it on.
Most business men give enough to
maintain good standing with their fellow
members, but thus measuring themselves
by themselves and comparing themselves
among themselves, they are neither wise
nor liberal. And as the standing with
men becomes more assured, the giving be-
comes Jess So Liberality naturally di-
minishes as the social recognition in
creases. The trumpetblowing method
sounds well. but is generally lacking in
sense. and always in dollars. The giving
a part of what is laid by, the method of
cheap and emotional appeal is always I'M
certain in its present effect for good, and
certain in it's future effect for evil. The
people who have given because of your
passionate appeal viii afterward feel that
they were trapped and will harden them
selves against you III the AuIute.
As TO the Devil.
Among other things DR.. Henson said:
1.-THE devil has lost none of his ancient
subtlety. but has whetted lbs edge the
rather against the hard experience Of the
centuries Some things he has learned I'M
doubtedly. one is that persecution is not
adapted to accomplish Christienitys ex-
tnction. for the hood of the martyrs has
ever been the seed of the church. He has
discovered that sugar-coated pellets
charged with poison do deadl.er work
than lions claws. and that to counterfeit
Christianity is a better way 10 beat Chris
tianity than to come out into the open
and fight ii, and that such internal de.u-
sions as Spiritualism and Theosophy and
Christian Science win more successfully
accomplish his purpose than blatent in
fidelity and blasphemous atheism. Bat
some things he practiced in the beginning
that all his experience and cunning have
never been able to improve upon
did say tina the worst Of all the dew