The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-09

Arlington Baptist Young Peoples
union was held yesterday, both after
noon and evening, in the Providence
Methodist Episcopal church on North
Main avenue, was attended by up
wards of 100 delegates from various
parts of the county, and proved
most helpful and inspiring meeting.
The sessions were to have been held
in the North Main Avenue Baptist
church, but as that edifice Is now on
its way up North Main avenue this
was found to be impossible. Both al
ternoon session and evening session
werer presided over by Rev. Botzong,
of Waverly, the president of the
union for several years and who was
again honored by being unanimously
reelected to that position.
Thomas Lewis opened the afternoon
session with a prayer, after which a
brief address of welcome on behalf
of the North Main Avenue church was
delivered by Miss Jennie Thomas. The
first speaker was-1rev. C. A. Spalding,
who briefly explained the great and
multitudinous advantages arising from
the holding of these rallies. He was
followed by Rev. S. f. Matthews, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, who
spoke upon "The Place of the B. Y.
p. u. A." among our denominational
agencies.
TEN-MINUTE TALKS.
The next feature of the afternoons
| programme was a series of ten-minute
| talks on the relation of the young
| peoples society to the Sunday SER
vice, to the church prayer meeting
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! Anna Mute, Mrs. p. F. Botzong and
Mrs. L. M. Gates, respectively. Many
| practical ideas were advanced in
! these talks, which formed the sub
| ject of ten minutes discussion by
number of the delegates present
The next speaker was Rev. G. r.
| Smith, who spoke >on Unifying Ten
dencies in the Baptist Denomination"
telling of the various organizations
within the church which tend to unite
closely the members of this particu-
lar denomination. The last two ad-
| dresses of the afternoon session were
made by Miss Lena Clark and DR..
| r. G. Beddoe, who spoke on "How to
Catch Old Juniors sid Young Sen
iors," and THE Social Life and Devo-
tional Meetings of the Young People"
o'clock, all present joining in the
singing of several hymns. The nom-
mating committee then presented its
report and the following officers were
elected: President Rev. p. F. Bot
gong; vica-president, Rev. S. G. Read
ing; secretary, Miss Anna Mute; ex-
ecutive committee, Rev. r. NJ. Thomp-
son, Rev. Mr. East and DR.. r. G.
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September in the Blakely Baptist
Baptist church adjournment was
taken at $50 until evening.
The evening service was opened al
7.15 with an inspiring song service
after which most earnest and force.
full address on christian Citizen
ship" was given by Rev. Robert F. Y
Pierce, pastor of the Penn Avenue
Baptist church. While Rev. Mr.
Pierce made no direct local applica
tion in his remarks, nevertheless i
could be seen that the recent case!
of alleged municipal rottenness in thi'
city furnished the basic points of hi
, discourse. He dealt with the practi
cal and not with the ideal side o
the question, and said that politica
conditions demanding a higher typ,
! more evident.
A DRAMATIC INCIDENT.
An address was also given by II
NJ. Hunslcker, of Philadelphia, a mem
Der Of the executive committee of tn
national association. He spoke prin
: cipally upon the necessity of contrib
utinG to the national endowment fun
now being raised. The feature of tn
evening was the singing of littl
Tommy Morris, a lad about 10 year
old, possessed of a beautiful sopran
voice, When he had finished Rev. MI
Pierce held him in his arms an
kneeling with him prayed that Co
/. might consecrate his life to His grea
, work.
I The evening session was brought t
a close with the pronouncing of ben
| q a1irtiOn nv Mr. HunSiCker