The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-22

C. {. CONVENTION.
Annual State Meeting Of
Endeavorers at Camden
Next Week.
DR.. BRETT'S ADDRESS
Address of the President One
of the Features of the
Programme.

The great Christian Endeavor event o.
the year for the young people OF New JET
sey will take place next week The hos'
of workers that meet yearly in the annua
State Christian Endeavor Convention will
this year he entertained in Camden. ano
a good time is assured for all who go. The
services will be held in the large Broad
way Methodist Church, and the pro-
gramme includes many interesting and
helpful features.
The delegates will gather Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 26. and that evening there Will be
preparatory meetings under the charge o.
the local committee.
wednesday morning the convention
proper will open. The first session VIII
begin at nine o'clock, and will be devoted
to addresses of welcome, business and re-
ports from the various departments, with
the exception of the first half hour, which
will be used for a convention prayer
meeting.
The afternoon will hold a variety Of
pleasant things. The session at 1:45, at
which Rev. John Wilbur Richardson, one
of the Vice Presidents of the State Union,
will preside, will include the annual adj
dress of the President, Rev. Cornelius
Brett, D. D.. of Jersey City, and a quiet
hour, ~conduced by Rev. Floyd W
T~ompkins, rector of Trinity Church,
Philadelphia. This session will be adj
Journed at 8 o'clock, when the delegates
will scatter to attend the various confer
ences, covering all departments of Chris
tian Endeavor work, to be held in differ
emit places. At the conference held by the
State Secretary, Miss Ida B. STEPHENS, of
Hackettstown, for the Corresponding Sec
retaries the general Secretary of the
United Society, the much loved John VIII
his Baer, will deliver an address. These
conferences will be followed at 4;l0
o'clock by UNCONVENTIONAL rallies, led by
prominent members of the various de-
nominations.
BY this time the delegates will feel
fhat the day has been crowded with good
things, but the GROWING meeting of the
day Is still to come. The evening session
will be an unusually interesting and pro-
fitable one, with two fine addresses, one
by Mr.. Baer and one by Rev. Kerr Boyce
Topper of the First Baptist Church of
Philadelphia.
In spite of a busy day on Wednesday,
the New Jersey delegates will, as usual,
be ready to attend the sunrise prayer
meeting to be held at the Calvary Pres
byterian Church at $50 Thursday morn
ing, in goodly numbers. An interval for
breakfast, then they will reassemble for
the memorial hou to be sheld in loving
memory of the late Rev. J. Clement
French, DID,, of the State Union. This
win be followed by an open parliament
session, in which several interesting and
practical subjects will be freely dis
cussed.
The juniors viii ave their especial
treat on the afternoon of Thursday. The
older delegates will form in procession,
and escort the Juniors to the convention
church., where a delightful programme,
with an address by Rev. C. H. Tyndall,
Ph.D.. of Mount Vernon, N. Y, will be
presented for their entertainment.
The farewell service, dear to all attend
ants upon Christian Endeavor conven-
tions. will be held Thursday night. After
the election of officers the presentation OF
resolutions and the awarding of banners.
the convention sermon will be preached
by that we'll known and inspiring speaker.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. DID, of New
York, and the closing conservation ser
vice will be conducted by Rev. L. R.
Dyott, of Newark.