The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-07-12
ELECTION BY EADEAVORERS
Francis E. Clark Is Reelected
President.
BAER is AGAIN SECRETARY.
Business Session Conducted Under n
Pail Owing to the Death of One
Trustee and Serious Illness of Anothcr
in City Pulpits.

lin City PuIpIts.
Cincinnati, July 9-The Christian
Endeavorers were in possession of the
citys churches Sunday, and almost
every hour was occupied with services
somewhere. Much disappointment
was felt because Rev. j. Wilbur Chap
man of New York City could not con-
duct the meeting at the Central Chris
tian church, and no service was held
there. DR.. Chapman is seriously Ill
at his country home at Winona Lake,
Ind. Rev. Floyd Tompkins of Phila-
delphia and Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin
of Brooklyn presided at other morning
meetings in the city's largest churches.
In various pulpits visiting ministers
discussed the topic, Twenty Years of
Christian Endeavor." In the afternoon
three evangelistic meetings were held
simultaneously in the Music Hall audi
forum, for men, women and children
respectively. DR.. Chapman was to have
conducted the mems meeting, but in
his absence William Philips Hall OF
New York City, a layman, spoke on
Christianity as a Profitable Invest
ment." President Clark occupied the
chair a portion of the meeting.
General Secretary John Willis Baer
of Boston was in charge of the meeting
for women in Auditorium Williston,
which took the form of a temperance
meeting. Addresses were made by
Misses Margaret Koch of Waterville.
Me-, and Rhena Mosher of Westfield.
N. Y. The attendance here was the
largest of the three evangelistic ses-
sions.
The session of the business meeting
of the United Society of Christian En-
deavor, the corporation, was conduct
ed under pail owing to the death OF
one of their trustees and the serious
illness of another. The meeting was
opened by President Clark and special
devotional prayers for the late Rev.
DR.. Maltb.e Babcock, who committed
suicide in Italy, and for Rev. j. Wilbur
Chapman were led by Revs. Floyd w.
Tompkins of Philadelphia and w. II.
Mcmillan of Pittsburg. A resolution
of coincidence was ordered sent to the
relatives of the late DR.. Babcock and
a message of good will and sympathy
was telegraphed to Dr. Chapman. The
report OF Treasurer William Shaw was
| submitted. showing the total receipts
| for the year ended June to be $11 900,
expenses s10,S64, leaving balance on
! hand of S156. The following were
elected as general trustees: Bishop B.
w. Arnett, Wilberforce, o.; Rev. w.
! ]. Darby, Evansville, Ind; Bishop
Samuel Fallows, Chicago; Rev. Rufus
W. Miller, Reading, Pa; Rev. w. H.
Mcmillan, Allegheny. Pa; Rev. p S.
Henson, Chicago; Bishop A. Walters.
| Jersey City; Rev. j. II. Garrison, st.
! Louis; Professor James l.. Howe, Lex
ington, Va; Rev. H. F. Shupe, Dayton,
o.; Rev. ]. VI. Lowden, Providence;
Rev Canon ]. B. Richardson, London.
Ont; Rev. Cleland B. McAfee, Chicago.
and s. B. Capen, Boston. Treasurer
Shaw rendered his resignation as truss
tee and s. b. Capen of Boston was Sc
lected to succeed him. Rev. Cleland
b. McAfee was elected to succeed the
late DR.. Babcock. The following Of
ficers were then reelected by the con-
vention: President, Francis e. Clark.
| Boston, treasurer, William Shaw, Bos-
ton; general secretary, John w. Baer,
Boston, auditor, f. H. Kidder, Boston.
A new position of field secretary was
created and Rev. Clarence E. Eber-
man of Lancaster, Pa, was elected.
Among state presidents elected were
the following in the west: Illinois, A..
e. Mcdonald; Indiana, Rev. r. V.
Hunter; Michigan, Rev. f. p. Arthur;
wisconsin, Alexander e. Matheson.