The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-22
ITS FIRST SUNRISE MEETING.
SOME 2,OOO LEAGUERS ATTENDED
THE EARLI PRAYERS.

They Clustered About the Fountain
in Monument Place, indianapolis.
Lectures and Patriotic Concerts At
the Night sesSion-BiShop Fowler
Delivered Lecture ON Abraham
LincoIn-Gen. Gordon Was Indis-
posed and Did Not speak.
indianapolis. July 2l.-The first sunrise
PRAYER meeting of the Epworth League
convention was held at $50 O'Clock this
morning i'm Monument Place. Probably
2OO0 delegates congresatei on the west
side of the Esplanade and clustered about
the fountain. Rev pr. w. y. Spencer of
Philadelphia led the meeting
In Tomlinson Hal the first meeting was
devoted to the discussion Of spiritual
work. Rev W. A. Fry of Kalamazoo,
Mich. presided In the opera house the
department of charity mercy and help
was conducted by W. f. Goreth of New
York.
Lectures and patriotic concerts constitu-
ted the programme of the Leagues night
session. The first half hour was devoted
TO patriotic songs, after which Bishop C..
II. Fowler -of Minneapolis lectured in the
tent and Rev James NJ. Buckley of New
York and Rev. A. Carmen Of Toronto in
an opera house.
Bishop Fowler delivered a lecture on
abraham Lincoln" in the course of
which he said:
| "Epworth Leaguers, there is a great les
son in the life and work of Lincoln Tor
| Il To-, t1.ar- for ri -
| zeal times from the common people. Ian
| coin came from a Western cabin and Grant
| came from a little leather store in an OBJ
| scure Western town. Now God, in mar
| velous way. is opening the fed under Sc
| curity Of our flag. and it may he that il
| is for some great purpose in His kingdom
| that He is also raising up this vast army
| of educated young men and women Wl1H
| Christian zeal
a new spirit is in the earth. I am not
| a prophet. nor the son of a prophet but
| 1 am a student of the Prophet. and il
| seems to me that in our day is being full
| filled the promise about the pouring oui
| of the holy spirit upon our sons and daush-
| ters They hll the atmosphere of the
| world with better ideas, and set up great
| moral and spiritual Judgment throne be
| fore which nations and kings and empe-
| rors and czars must bow. To-day we
see a great hard, selfish army in France
| Inundated before the moral sense of the
| common people. and made to give justice
to poor Dreyfus, poor Jewish victim Of
| prejudice.
More than this, We see all the great
| nations assembled in their representatives
| at The Hague upon the invitation of the
| Car of All the Russas the On.y surviv
| ing representative of absolute power OF
| all the earth, 10 see If there is not some
| possible way to lift the burden of the great
che,
| common people. We see them agreeing t.
| a permanent court of arbitration. which
shall settle national difficulties, not by the
| arbitrament of the sword, but by reason
| We are come into marvellous times. We
are in the rapid where events of Creates
magnitude rush by us every hour. AL
ready the United States and England set
tie their grievances peaceab.y. Now Ger
many and Russia and France are step
| ping upon the elevated plane. These grea
| nations thus set for peace will not let tn
smaller nations fight The billions o
treasured millions Of laborers now waste,
in desolat ting the world will be turned int,
the productive channels of peace, mutt
| plying the comforts of the common peopl
| and furnishing the agencies for the speed,
| evangelization OF the world Brothers, lie
US rightly read the events, hear Gods cal
| and go forth to reap the world for tn
ages are rolled together at our feet"
| Gen John b. Gordon of Atlanta, VIII
was TO have lectured in Tomlinson Hall
was prevented by indlsposition. an
| Bishop McCabe, Wen known as the Chan
lain of Libby Prison" lectured instead
His topic was THE Bright Side of Lif
in Libby Prison" Rev. Carmen and Rev
Buckly both spoke on "Anglo-Americal
Relations"
At the Second Presbyterian Church
Rev. w. H. Jordon of Sioux Falls, S. D.
conducted the department of hterar
work Al the Roberts Park Church Rev
Horace c. Ogden. Attck, Ind, preside
over the department of social work, AM
the department of correspondence wa
held in the Plymouth Congregations
Church, conducted by Col. w. p. Wall
Of Americas, Ga
The department Of finance, presided owe
by B. L. Paine, Lincoln, Neb.. was he'll
in the Meridian street Methodist Church
Evangelistic services were held in the ten
by Rev w. l.. Munhall of Germantown
Pa.
At 10:30 o'clock new departmental sub
iects were taken at the different meetin
places. New leaders presided and the pro
gramme of the speakers was changed. Tn
entire morning session was in this wa
devoted to addresses There was no after
noon session. The time was occupied b
a band concert at the state fair grounds
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