The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-10
Women and Men Hold
Worship Apart al
Detroit.
CONSIDERATION SERVICES.
Big Christian EndeavQr
Convention Will Break
Up Today.

Detroit, July 9.-Although large
majority of the army of Christian En-.
deavorers in Detroit utilized the street
cars today, a considerable portion re-
Trained from reading the Sunday news
papers. The features of the afternoon
were the crowded meetings for men
and women exclusively, and a Sabbath
observance rally.
Thirty-five hundred men filled the
floor and galleries of Light Guard ar
mory at the mems meeting. The men
sang with fine enthusiasm, and a very
large proportion of them publicly
pledged that the occasion would be
with them a landmark from which
would date a better life" Secretary
Baer conducted the meeting, and Rev,
j. WILDER Chapman Of New Yorz
preached from Job, xviii:18, Eye shall
be driven from light into darkness and
be chased out of the world"
Mrs. F. E. Clark, wife of Presidents
Clark, presided over the womens meet
ing, which filled the Woodward Avenue
Baptist church. Mrs Joseph Walker Of
Queensland, Australia, led the deyo-
lions. The program of addresses was
as follows: THE women of Mexico"
Mr.. c. Scott Williams, San Luis, Po-
tosi, Mexico; THE women of China"
Caroline e. Chittenden, Foo Chow,
China; 1.-THE women of Asia" Jessie
Alderman, Chicago; "Womans work
for her country" Mrs. Howard NJ. Ing
ham, Jefferson, Ohio.
Westminster Presbyterian church
could not contain the audience which
ATTENDED the Sabbath-o observance gath
ering. An address upon Sabbath in
the home" was delivered by Rev. DR..
David McAllister of Allegheny, Pa,
Rev. c. N Howard Of Rochester. N.
Y, related at length some alleged futile
attempts made in that city toward
closing "the side door, Sundays. He
argued insistentIy that prohibition is
| the only true solution of the saloon
Iquestion. The closing speech was by
Hon. John G. Charlton, M. P, of On
| tario, on What the Sabbath may do
for us.
| Tonight an additional touch of soIem-
Unity was impaired to the meetings Of
the Christian Endeavorers. The gem
eralities of religion were in some meas
ure neglected and the evening worship
in 81 Protestant churches of Detroit
and Windsor took the form of Con
secration services" The capacity of
the churches was taxed, and the rapt
|attention of the crowds to the one sub
ject of conservation was impressive in
the SFedbeSL degree.
President Francis e. Clark conducted
the conservation services in the Wood
ward Avenue Baptist church. Among
the clergymen who directed the services
or made consecfation addresses were
DR.. Charles A. Jefferson of New York,
Rev. William Patterson of Toronto,
Rev: ]. L. Hill of Salem, Mass, Rev.
James Mursell of London, Eng, Rev.
Robert Speer of New York Bishop B.
W. Warnett of Wilberforce, O., Rev.
John Pollock Of Glasgow, Scotland, Rev.
John Henry Barrows of Oberlin, Ohio!
Rev. John E. Pounds of Indianapolis.
Bishop Fallows Of Chicago, and Rev.
DR., Floyd d. Tomkins of Philadelphia.
The big convention will end tomor-
row night. There will be Junior En-
deavor and missionary rallies in each
of the big tents, a prison work confer
ence. and great farewell gatherings in
conclusion.