The age-herald., 1899-07-22
LEAGUERS' SUNRISE
 PRAYER MEETING 2000 Delegates Congregated Around the Fountain. GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON Lectured in Tomlinson Hall Was Pre- vented By Indisposition Today
 Will Practically Conclude
 Conventions Work
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON

Indianapolis, 1nd., July A--1ne nISl Suh- rise prayer meeting of this convention was held at 6:3O o'clock this morning by the Epworth Leaguers in Monument Place. Probably 2,00o delegates congregated on the west side of the esplanade and clustered about the fountain.
 In the terrace stood the leader, Rev. R. ". Spencer. of Philadelphia, and behind him reared the tall shaft of the soldiere' and sailors monument. The scene was in- spring, and, with the singing, served to attract hundreds of people going to work, who extended the line of congratulation a block distant to Washington street.
 The regular programme of the morning was devoted to departmental conferences, which were held in Tomlinson hall, Ep- worth Tent and the opera house and four churches.
 A meeting of the state cabinet of Illinois was held this morning to meet committee from Peoria, where the state convention will be held in 1900, and the preliminary matters arranged.
 The reception committee worked all night last night with tireless energy endeavoring to register the names of arriving delegates, put despite lnlS NlSlidICe large uuiuDei of delegates have escaped the registration book, and it is not known definitely how large the attendance is. Six thousand are known, and with those unregistered the number was estimated this morning at 5000. The larger delegations are from h. diana, with ITO, Illinois 570, Ohio 50O Penn sylvania 160 Michigan 150, Iowa 1O6 and Kansas 113.
 In Tomlinson hall the first meeting was devoted to the discussion of spiritual work Rev. w. A. Frey, of Kalamazoo, Mich, presided.
 Rev. J. H. Reed Galveston, Tex, taking as his subject, Ways to Help Revivals," urged that the times demanded outdoor hand to hand work. The Epworth League was born for new day, he said, and must shake off the dust of centuries through studies of the eternal word work"
 Other speakers were Rev. J. H. Hazel wood, Dundas, Ont, and Rev. Gustav E. Hitler, Louisville.
 In the opera house the department of charity, mercy and help was conducted by w. r. Goreth, New York. Rev. H. w. Crews, St. Thomas, Ont, delivered an ad- dress on "Visiting Under the Direction of the Pastor." "It is dificult,'' he said, Ito get the poorer classes into churches be- cause of false ideas that the church is full of pride. The pastor should have associated with him visiting and relief committees whose members possess the qualifications individually to overcome this false idea and secure the message"
 Rev. Walter Merrett, of Boston, talked on "Epworth Homes and City Work"
 At the Second Presbyterian church Rev. w. H. Jordan, Sioux Falls, s. D., con- ducted the department of literary work. The principal address was by Rev. F. L. Nagler, Cincinnati, on "The Study and Use of the Bible'
 Discussional addresses were made by Rev. J. w. Bennett, Boseman, Mont and Rev. w. T. Mcclure, Marshall, Mo.
 At the Roberts Park church Rev Horace G. Ogden, Attica Ind presided over the department of social work. "The League and Its Members was discussed by Rev. T. c. Cransdale, Nashville, Tenn.
 The department of correspondence was held in the Plymouth Congregational church, conducted by Colonel w. P. Willis. Americus, Ga.
 Rev. J. w. Vancleave, East St. Louis, H.. used as his topic the question, "Where Are Your Members?" He asserted that the league exists solely for spiritual results, and the member who does not contribute something to the spiritual work of the chapter is so much dead weight.
 The department of finance, presided over