The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-07
The Twenty Thou
sand Delegates All
Under Canvas
SINGING ON THE STREETS
Addresses By Pounds, Han
son, Noble and Other
Orators.

Detroit, Mich, July 6.-Both 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
each contained it's full quota of so DOC
people and hundred of others who had
to be turned away, patiently occupied
standing room, outside the tents. Many
visiting delegates from long distances
came IN today, swelling the number of
stranger delegates, it is believed, be-
yond the 10000 mark.
| The convention DAYS are essentially
days of song. Although tonight the
cholr was divided between the two
tents. there seemed little diminishment
| IN the volume of song or much in the
NUMBER OF singers in each. AS for the
| audiences, their spiritual enthusiasm
expanded with the passage of the
| hours
Yesterday there was little street en-
thuslasm. Today the Endeavorers hon-
ored the invitation of the mayor OF
Detroit to sing. Street car loads of them
frequently spun along the streets, sing
ing as they went, many groups seng
by the wayside, aside from those who
joined the squadron by MONDAY work
ers in business houses and factories
Ihey sang at the afternoon rallies and
sang this evening en- route to the nisht
| gatherings, sang with redoubled vigor
after again assembling, land then sang
their way home.
AT this evenings exercises in tent
Williston, President Clark presided and
Z. b. Foster of Washington was the
musical director. The devotional exnr-
| C1SeS ad NV IT
Strong of Jackson, Mich, and the ten
minutes of quiet meditation and prayer
| of Rev. Eberman of Lancaster. Pa,
| The two principal addresses in tent
! Williston were delivered by Rev. Jonn
E. Pounds of Indianapolis and Rev. p.
S. Henron of Chicago, the former On
Dollars and duty" and the latter on
Satan and Cities Both were lister ed
| to with undivided attention by the
great audience, and bursts of applause
were frequent.
| In tent Endeavor the principal ad-
dress of the evening was by Rev. w.
/ A. Noble of Chicago. His subject was
| War against war"
THE Mormon question" was treated
by the Rev. DR.. w. NJ. Paden of Salt
Lake City, who made bitter personal
attack upon Congressman Roberts. DIR.
Paden insisted that a majority of the
people of Utah believed in poiygamous
marriage, and that beyond doubt such
marriages were still being consumma-
| ted. He charged Mr. Roberts with be-
ing an especially fragrant type Of po-
lygamist, and asserted that his cleo
| ton as law-maker had raised an is
! sue which Christians were bound to
| meet. He closed with exhortation 10
all Endeavorers to join, through their
| congressman, in Infringing about the de-
position of Utah's new congressman. 2
Frederick A. Wallace of Hopkins
| vile, Ky, outlined the progress of our
prison work, and urged the interest,
! prayers and active work of C. e. poo
| pie in behalf of prisoners.
| William Shaw, treasurer OF tie
United States society, made hit in
| his appeal for Floating Christian En-
| deavor." Said he: THE heroic dead of
Santiago and the living heroes Of Ma
Mia bay have called our attention to
the heroic stuff of which our heroes
are made, but long before this our
| Christian Endeavor had appreciated
! the possibility of our sailor boys. and
Antoinett P. Jones brought Christian
Endeavor to the sailors and started in
to enlist every jack in the navy to
Lord Jesus Christ"
If" said Mr.. Shaw, Il were % re-
hearse the moral victories jack has
won, the victories of Santiago and Ma
Mia would be outdone. 1t takes courage
| Of which you have no conception to he
a Christian on board ship.
Mine years of loyal service for the
sailors has only deepened our sense of
the importance of this work. The work
is worldwide, existing in Canada,
England, Japan, New Zealand, Swed-
en- as we'll as in the United States"
Besides the main meetings, Rev.
Chas. NJ Sheldon Of Topeka, Kas., the
author of I'm His Steps" tonight. III
| the First Presbyterian church, read a
Christian Endeavor story, written by
himself, entitled for "Christ and the
Church.
In the Woodward Avenue Baptist
church, Rev. Elwood G. Tewksbury,
missionary to China. delivered an IL
Illustrated lecture entitled THE hooe of
| China"
Rev. Francis f. Clarke, D. D., presi-
dent of the united society delivered
his annual message to the convention,
shortly after it had been called to. or
der. "Going and growing" was the
subject of his message.