The San Francisco call., 1899-05-19

welcome you all because we have some
thing to be proud of. Everything is
thrown open to you In behalf of Ala
media County l bid you welcome to our
our hearts. We hope your stay here will
| be benefit to you as well as to us and
may We all bless in the future the days
The president introduced Mayor Snow
as one of those rare exceptions in mun1-
cipal government who was determined
r. w. Snow said:
1--WE are never so conscious of munich
pal defections as when we have honored
guests. We may have rival in the
southland at present, but we are not
mean city. Many of those who have been
struggling to find fortune in the rocks
have all been looking forward to nome
| in Oakland and many of them are now
among the 10000 inhabitants. The Chris
tian Endeavor has passed the stage Of eX-
pertinent. You are anxious to learn how
to perform the maximum of work with
the minimum Of expenditure. You are
young and jostle some of US older folks.
The world is more critical to-day in mat
ters of religion than ever before: You
are being measured by a rod that is very
have a convention that will be memorable
in Christian Endeavor annals. You cam
not fail to bless us. Your confidence and
your fervid Christian love cannot fail TO
inspire US, and when you come again, as
you will, we shall treat you better still,
for we shall have learned Of you"
j. X. Mclean, ID, welcomed the dele
gates 'It is indeed a pleasure said
DR.. Mclean, ION behalf of fifty or more
ministers of our city 70 welcome such a
bright-faced throng. We thank you for
coming and We want you to stay. On
behalf of the churches of these ministers
company of preachers will feel them
selves upborne by your presence at their
successive Sundays. Your presence Is an
inspiration. The battle here is heavy
sometimes as elsewhere. Oakland is nor
only a place of privilege, but a place of
contest. Sometimes it seems almost as
if the forces of evil were in the ascend
ant, but it is our duty and your duty to
August, 1882, that six boys and seven girls
gathered together in the First CongreSa-
tional Church and In reality organlzed the
first society of Christian Endeavor on the
Pacific Coast. The thirteen grew to
forty-seven in month, and that is
typical Of it's growth ever since. This
convention is the result of the seed sown
here just seventeen years ago and l well
come you to the cradle of Christian En-
deavor on the Pacific Coast.
Il wish to call yoHr attention to the
task that seems to appeal to US more on
this coast than to any other body of peo-
pie. In the land beyond the sunset there
is a great problem facing us-great diff
ficulties. Beyond us there is no more
west; the east begins. You are called
view of that for which we exist-to
be sword bearers, banner-bearers, cross
bearers, ready to go forth in the name or
Christ to carry to others that blessing
which we ourselves now enjoy: Be true
10 the opprtunity and God will give-you
grace passing your conception
Let the Blessed Sun Shine In." spe-
cially written for the convention by Pres
idcnt Lowell, was sung, after which Rev
F. Z. Clark, DID, president of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, returned
the welcome on behalf of the visitors and
delegates.
II have to speak to you from the words
thank you +" said Father Clark, "and 1t
is an easy task in view of the grand well
come that has been accorded us. / wish
to speak for a wider circle than is here.
l have come from many of your fellow
Endeavorers whom you have never seen.
Many of you are expected at Detroit in
July, and from no other State will dele
cry, California, 81 I bring you from
Detroit and from St. Paul and from Mani
toba and from Utah greetings~and reports
of progress. Nevada also sends greet
ings and / assured them all that their
messages should be delivered. California
not blame her Your influence should ex-
tend north and south, so as to nelp other
States who are not so favored in the mat
ter of population or of Christian infiu-
eEces. / bring you greetings from Ja-
maica, where for two and a half centuries
England has insured prosperity where
formerly Spain could do nothing. l bring
greetings from Cuba, where under Amer
ican influence Christian Endeavor work
is thriving and we shall hear great things
from that country in the future. One
year ago 1 supposed Cuba was the last
place where we would expect to find
Christian Endeavor societies. Not long
ago 1 was in India, and from there and
from China, Japan and from Europe I
have greetings to all Endeavorers, and
when I visit these places again I shall tell
them of the greetings and welcome from
California"
Rev Hugh K. Walker of Los Angeles
preached the convention sermon from the
motto Of the SO convention, "Refecting
Christ" In the course of his remarks
he said: christian Endeavorers are not
philosophers or Christian scientists or
theosophists or phylactery dealers or