The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
SANG BY THE WAYS|DE
A Flood of Christian Melody in
Detroit.
CROWD Is STILL GROWING
Twenty Thousand Endeavor Delegates
in the City Standing Room
Only in the Two Great
Tents

Detroit, Mich. July 6.-Both of the
great main tents owned by the United
Society of Christian Endeavor were
used tonight for the first time during
the 18th international convention and
contained their full quota of 10000 peo7
pie and, as usual, hundreds of others
who failed to secure admittance pa
tiently occupied standing room" all
around the outer edges.
Many visiting delegates from long dis
tances came in to-day. swelling the
number of stranger delegations beyond
the 10000 mark. The convention uays
are essentially days of song. Although
tonight the choir was divided between
the two tents, there seemed little di-
minishment in the volume of song or
much in the numbers of singers in each
As for the audience, their spiritual en-
thusiasm expanded with the passage Of
the hours. Yesterday there was little
street enthusiasm. To-day the Endeav-
orers honored the invitation of the
mayor Of Detroit to sing Street car
loads Of them frequently spun along the
streets, singing as they went. Many
groups sang by the Nayside aside from
those who Joined the squads of noon
day workers in business houses and
factories. They sang at the afternoon
rallies, and sang this evening en- rout G
to the night gathering-sang with re-
doubled vigor after again assembling
and then sang on their way home.
Ten thousand people crowded into
tent 'Williston" for this evenings ex-
ercises President Clark presided over
the meetings and p s. Foster of Wash
ing'ton was musical director.
The two principal addresses in tent
'Wdlliston' were delivered by John f.
Pounds of Indianapolis and Rev. DIR. p
S. Henson of Chicago, the former on
Dollars and Duty" and the latter on
Satan and Cities" Both were listened
to with individual attention by the en-
tire audience and bursts of applause
were frequent.
In tent "Endeavor'' the principal ad-
dress of the meeting was by Rev. f.
A. Noble of Chicago. HIS subject was
War Against War
The Mormon question was treated by
Rev. DR.. w. NJ. Paden of Salt Lake.
who made bitter personal attack
upon Congressman Roberts. DR.. Paden
insisted that a majority of the people
of Utah believe in polygamous mar
riage and that beyond doubt such mar
rieges are still being contaminated. He
charged Mr. Roberts with being an es-
pecially fragrant type of polygamist
and asserted that his election as a law
maker had raised an issue which
Christians were bound to meet. He
closed with exhortations to all En-
deavorers to join Through their con-
gressmen in bringing about the deEo-
sition of Utah's new congressman.
Frederick A. Wallis of Hopkinsville,
Ky, outlined the progress of "Our
Prison Work.
William Shaw, treasurer of the
United society, made a hit in his ap-
peal for Floating Christian En-
deavor." He said:
The heroic dead of Santiago and the
living heroes of Manila bay have called
our attention to the heroic stuff of
which our heroes are made"
IF" said Mr.. Shaw, IT were to re-
hearse the moral victories Jack has
won, the victories of Santiago and
Manila would be outdone. 1t takes
courage of which you have no concep-
ton to be a Christian on board ship"
Mr.. Shaw also spoke of THE Travel
ers' Union" which he asserted had
regenerated many a travelling man into
being a very different species of indi-
vidual from the typical drummer" of
former days.
Besides the main meetings, Rev.
Charles Sheldon of Topeka, Kan. the
noted author of In His Steps," to-
night in the First Presbyterian church
read a Christian Endeavor story writ
ten by himself, entitled Our Christ
and the Church"