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Convention There Next Year.

Convention There Next Year.
Chicago, Dec. 19.-'.Ars you going
to London?'' is the usual greeting
among Christian Endeavorers now,
and with them no elaboration of the
question is necessary to explain that
it has reference to attending the
worlds convention of Christian En-
deavorers to be held in England
capital July Il to IS, 1900. Many
illinois Endeavorers are answering
the query in the affirmative. The
state union transported on committee
has just completed arrangements to
care for members and their friends
| who wish to go t. London and il is
thought that the delegation will in
clude fully $50 besides considera BILE
numb Der of persons who are booked
with private concerns.
A combination has been effected
with twenty-five other state unions by
which the delegates from all these
organizations will be cared for in a
body under contracts made for steam
ship, railroad and hotel accomm oda-
tions by the United Society of Chris
tian Endeavor at Boston. Under
these auspices several thousand En-
deavorers will embark at Boston be-
tween June 81 and July 3.
Christian Endeavorers may sur
the world by the attendance at the
prise London convention" said o. T..
Williamson chairman of the state trans
portation committee; land Illinois,
Notwithstanding her distance from the
seaboard, will be found right in front.
as she was ut the San Francisco con-
meeting takes place while the Paris
exp, sition is in progress great many
people will make the trip fer both at
fractions.
Illinois delegates will 60 from Chi
cago to Boston on a special train. At
Boston there will be a great rally of
Endeavorers, participated in by the
American speakers bound for London,
which will be Il convention in itself.
We we in Boston in 1895, YOU know.
and need no assurance of a warm re-
ception at the Hub. Tuesday, July
3, the main section of the party, in
Guiding the convention speakers and
the trustees of the united society, will
sail on he Saale of the North German
Lloyd line, and one or more other
boats, am not permitted at this time
to name. On July 4 everybody not
too seasick will participate in indie
pendence day exercises. Special care
Is being taken to provide for the COM
fort and entertainment of the dele
gates on shipboard.
The program will be the most
notable ever presented at a Christian
Endeavor convention. 1t is being ar
ranged under the direction of the Rev.
f. b. Meyer, president of the British
Christian Endeavor council, and on
account of the converging at Paris
next summer of large mum bers of fam
Gus men of the religious world, it will
not be difficult to prepare for it
London, 1900. will be, too, the most
cosmopolitan of all our conventions,
for reasons which easily suggest
themselves. and, believe, will have
more far reaching effects among the
mass of religious people the world
over than any religious gathering of
the century.
The Illinois delegation will pro-
coed in a body from Chicago. and if
possible to London, but after that
of course, we will divide for the Paris
and other tours. We shall return to
New York. In addition to the main
party from Boston. large number of
and Philadelphia, while some of the
Canadians will 60 from Montreal.
The Illinois transportation COM
mittee has opened a bureau at 1921
Association building, in charge of
Thomas Wainwright of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor.