The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-08
TENTS LEAK BADLY.
Endeavorers Sing Justify
Under Their Umbrellas.
QUESTION OF ATTENDANCE
Is Raised Between Secretary
Baer and the Newspapers.
QUESTION OF ATTENDANCE

| Detroit, Mich, July THE mooted ques-
ton Of the number of people brought into
Detroit by the Christian Endeavor con-
vention cropped out at the outset Of to-
nights meeting in Tent Endeavor. when
Secretary Baer took occasion TO publicly
| criticise the Detroit newspapers for say
| ing that the influx Of delegates from
other states was not nearly as great as
had been anticipated in the local commit
tees estimate. Mr.. Baer said that he had
no statement yet to make as to the at
tendance, as compared whit other years.
He promised to make one later, but ne
called on all Endeavorers present to rise.
A large majority of those present stood
I'D. which Mr. Baer assumed TO be PROOF
of his view of the attendance question.
The newspaper estimate Of the total OF
visitors is 10000 in round numbers. Mr..
Baer denied that anybody connected with
the Christian Endeavor committees mad
ever told Detroit people that they mad
reason to expect that $1,000 Endeavorers
would attend At all events the secretary
insisted that the Christian EndeaVor tents
had never before been so crowded ana
overlooked at every one of the main meet
ings.
Bishop B. W. Arnett (coloreO presided
over the Tent Endeavor meeting. Kew
Ouayle of Indianapolis, one OF the speak
ers on the evening program, was an
nounced TO have been called TO Kansas
CIV 10 the bedside of his dying father.
n r.
ouavIe. The devotional exercises were
led by r. K. Patterson OF san Francisco
and the moments of meditation ana
PRAYER by Rev. George E. Sopher OF 81
Paul.
The address of the evening was by Pres
ident John Henry Baarrows or OoerIlA
college. During its delivery the ram
again descended, increasing until the noise
ON the roof almost drowned the SOUND OIL
DIR. Barrows voice and he was cohpeIeu
10 desist Umbrellas were raised ali over
the tent, but comparatively few lett ana
the crowd stayed and sang song alter
sonp. overcoming I'LL sounds OF the storm
and all ideas Of increasing discomfort
AT length the rain ceased long enough to
allow DIR. Barrows to proceed. He said IN
part:
.-rhe idea of the Christian college Is not
reached by turning out students VINO are
merely believers in Christianity, VINO con-
sent calmly and andifferently to It's creed'
IL aims to fill its students with the spirit
Of st. Paul, to make them alive IN the
service OF Christ, and to fire them Whit
the enthusiasm of humanity. 1t purposes
IN send them forth equipped with the
knowledge Of that Book which more than
any other has kindIed the imagination
and the moral sentiment OF mankind. The
president of Clark university believes
that the BlBls Is being slowly re-revealed
as mans textbook in psychology; dealing
with him as a whole-h!s body, mind and
will And President Gilman affirms that
the ethics of the New Testament will be
accepted by the scientific, as well as the
religious faculties of man.
There are special reasons today which
show that the part taken by the Christian
college in our national life is growing i'm
portant and strategic. America, already
the richest of nations, Is TO become lar
richer The number of the wealthy will
be increased, and millions will have most
of the comforts and even luxuries which
the very rich now enjoy. The tendency OF
opulence Is to enervate. Christian charac-
ter needs to be hardened and fortified
against luxury. And a manhood that
can stand money, is what the Christian
college aims to produce, and what Oberlin
college has produced in the few men of
her graduates who have given their lives
successfully to the getting of great for
tunes. AS a character
building institution the Christian college
holds an unrivalled place. Some studies
are difficult, but the forming of character
is both the difficult and the most import
ant task given to the Christian teacher.
1t is the most difficult, for 1t Is a far
harder task to form single moral virtue
than TO become philosopher Virtue Is
the habit Of doing giod; and habits grow
with us longer and more pitentially than
the knowledge of the facts OF science and
history. Germany does not think it safe
10 educate her children leaving out relig-
ion. In France the schools are proving a
prodigious ethical failure, because owing
to a not unnatural fear of despotic priest
craft, the highest truths and motives ara
omitted from the school life. Crifinal sta
tistics N France, as well as in America,
indicate that there IS a horrible failure
somewhere in the education Of the youth
We are witnessing strong reaction in
favor Of ethical training; but il is plain
that the code of morality which ignores
religions is both incomplete and ineffect-
i've. Morality without religion Frederick
Harrison pronounced 'rattling Of dry
bones Those who have the admin!stra-
ton Of schools and colleges should give
heed rot only TO character but to coavic-
tons in those who are called upon to
teach. For II has been truly said that
'ocle man can sow more tares In a single
day than a dozen men can root up in a
month What men need Is not only truth
but an inclination 10 obey the truth. And !
a code of morality, however pure and pAr-