The record-union., 1899-07-11

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graduates you and all friends of peace
for the great success achieved proyid-
ing for a permanent tribunal Of arbi-
tration. WHITE,
president.
Hollis, Secretary"
The estimate of attendance at meet
:ngs gives total of 29S, 500. There
were $1,000 Endeavorers in attendance.
nciHoin; Detroit delegates. Thirty
Thousand five hundred persons sin1dl-
taneously attended strictly Christian
Endeavor meetings. These figures do
not include the sixty-six noon evange-
listic meetings, which had a total at
tendance of $4,000 and 100 confessed
conversions.
The Chairman of each State and
provincial delegation and those from
abroad were called to the platform,
and testified each for his people and
their aspirations as Endeavorers. Then
the respective delegations sang to-
gether, waved flags and gave other ev-
licences Of enthusiasm.
Df. W. Wilbur Chapman preached
the concluding sermon in tent En-
deavor from the texts Luke vic and 10
the story of the healing of the man
with withered hand.
The closing address in tent Williston
was made by Bishop John H. Vincent
of the M. E. Church.
| Bishop Vincent said in part: There
is a tendency in our modern Christian
and church life to forget the unit in our
anxiety to attract, enrich and insI ire
the multitude. Great congregations
drawn by fine music and elegant SER
mons, great conventions, filling colos-
sal structures and drawing repressu-
tatives from all parts of the country
and the world reveals a subtle infiu-
ence now at work in the church. On
the whole, it is a good thing, but all
such tendencies need careful scrutiny.
In Sunday school work the law of
simultaneousness is emphasized. 1t is
a problem how to get opportunity for
| thorough class work. Many of the
public reviews are superficial, even
where they are. apparently spontaneous
!, and enthusiastic.
The law of life is one at time
Doctors look after individual patients,
| lawyers after individual clients, life
insurance agents after individual ap-
I plicants, railroad conductors after in
/ dividual tickets and the needs of indi.
| vidual passengers. The best teach
ers forget the class in the single pupil.
This is Roman Catholic policy. The
| confessional is the outgrOwth of this
| theory. Priests, monks and sisters fol-
! low and cultivate the unit If small
churches and many churches have any
justification, it is the increase of op-
| DOrtl1nitV TO reach the unit.
1.-The church needs to make this en-
! phasis The power of the pastor is in
danger of being forgotten amidst the
4 glamour and eclat of pulpit oratory il
! the presence of immense congregations.
! The pastorate is, I am sure, too much
neglected The poor and the SICK are
not visited as they once were. The
divine process is One soul at time.
I When Jesus stood before the Laodicean
Church His process for entering the
Christless church was through the per.
sonal acceptance of each unit that
composed it. Behold, I stand at the
door and knock. If any man open the
door will come in to him.
Our financial plans are not the sue
cess they should be, because we do
not sufficiently develop sense of per-
sonal responsibility for economy and
intelligent contribution to every inter
est for which the church stands. It
is by effort for the unit in the family
and labor for the family as social unit
that we must build up church life ana
genuine Christian life. and promote that
great factor in church life in philan-
thropic endeavor, in social reform, the
human personality"