Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-11
CLOSING SCENES
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as to programme, speakers and large
attendance. Chairman w. H. Strong
OF the local committee appropriately
responded to the compliments rendered
before the two mighty audiences and
chiefly attributed the success of the
convention to individual faithfulness.
Inc score of white capped chairmen
OF local committees standing togethe,
then sang a stanza of IF Ever I Loved
Ihee, My Jesus. 'Tis Now" Great
britain's leading representatives
Misses Tressidier and Mursell of Lon
don. and Pollock of Glasgow. stood to-
gether and sang Britain for Christ
Ihen all sang stanzas Of God Save the
Queen and America"
DIR. ]. w. Chapman preached the
concluding sermon in Tent Endeavor-
er from the text Luke vic and 10, the
story of the healing Of the man with a
withered hand. The closing address in
Tent Williston was made by Bishor
John X. Vincent of the Methodist Epis-
copal church.
rms afternoon, the Juniors had theiI
innings. both in the audience and on lnt
platform; me Junior rally was carried
out in Tent Endeavor, the Detroit CHI
dren who took the leading parts being
massed on the platform to the number OF
1000 and upwards. The iloor was filled
with children and their teachers and the
leaders. The programme started with
singing of The Banner of the Cross.
Other songs followed. the children alter.
mating with those on the floor and ther
appropriately welcomed by Miss Eliza.
beth Austin, superintendent of the De-
troit Juniors Union.
World Wide Christian Endeavor" was
ttN
dren wearing placards and others carry
ing banners and other pictorial devices
Were. successfully brought upon the
speakers platform to show, first. the be
ginnings of Christian Endearor in Port
land, Me-, its spread in the United States
and Canada and its subsequent remark
able growth in the various countries OF
the world.
a huge map of the world had been sus
pended at one side, and as each country
was, reported for, boy on a staging
marked off that part of the world by fas
tening a star over it until finally the
world seemed fairly plastered over with
Christian Endeavor. Each bevy OF
Juniors rccited something in explanation
of their part of the picture, which was
The exercises closed with raising to-
Scthcr the British and American flags
thanked by the flags of all nations and sa
lutcd by the appropriate bugle call Rev.
DR.. Floyd w. Tompkins of Philadelphia.
addressed the children upon What Chris
tian Endeavor Means to the Boys and
Girls
The First Presbyterian church was
packed, this afternoon, with Endcavorers
listening to addresses on the subject OF
Christian Endeavor in Prison Work.
Frederick \. Wallis of Louisville, super
intendent of the Kentucky Christian I'm
deavor prison work. presided, and the de-
votional exercises were conducted by Ir,l
Landrith of Nashville. Tenn. President
Clark voiced the greetings of the Unite,l
Society to the prison workers and Ar
Wallis read a number of communications
from Endeavor societies within the walls
of several of the state prisons.
I'm Prison and Ye Visited .Ie' was the
subject of an eloquent address by Rev.
DR.. J. Wilbur Chapman of New York. In
earnest words, DR.. Chapman commended
the efforts of Endeavorers TO soften the
hard lives of those confined in prison ana
to bring 10 them some conception of
Christian ethics and inspiration to better
lives The meeting concluded with an in
tercstinS conference on practical methods
of prison work. conducted by Treasurer
William Shaw of Boston.