The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-23
THE LEAGUES THIRD DAY.
A Spirit Annexation and Enthusiasm Marked
the Work Yesterday.

San Francisco. Jly 20.--A spirit of ami
nation and enthusiasm marked the work
of the third day of the International Ep-
worth League convention.
A long program Of speeches was gone
through with commendable promptness,
all being listened to with the deepest in
= terest and applauded with hearty enthu-
siasm. Open air meetings were held at
half dozen places in widely separated
districts of the city as well as the music
stand In Golden Gate Park and the court
OF the Palace Hotel. Song services.
prayers and speeches made up the pro-
gram at these meetings which were at
tended by crowds.
Among the speakers was the Rev. E. M.
Taylor, d.. D.. of Cambridge, Mass, who
spoke of 'The Christ Life in the New
Century in Practical Benevolence." He
said in part:
1.-The fascinating story of the nine
teenth century may be told in few
Comprehensive words. The accumulation
of wealth, the development OF natural
resources, the Capitalization of power.
This may be abbreviated to one clause:
Christian progress. The task of the new
century is to distribute this wealth for
the higher end of our civilization. Life
is not great grab bag in which each
one Is interested only in what he may
pull out Of it, Nay, it is a generous col
lection plate upon which each one is per-
mitted to nlace the riches of a conse-
Grated personality. / owe the world a
life. not the world owes me a living
should be the maxim of Christian self
hood
THE almighty dollar is one of the great
forces that is to rule the twentieth GEN.
fury. but it is the dollar plus the richly
endowed and Christly consecrated self
hood of the one who holds this wealth
IN trust.
Constitutions for spreading knowledge
are productive of more good than institu-
lions for Furnishing crime. 1t is deeper
wisdom to shut up gin mill than to open
q gold cure for drunkenness.
The Rev. Charles B. Mitchell, D. D., Of
Minneapolis. Mimi, spoke Of "The Young
Peoples Movement in the Nineteenth
Century"
MANY a church today" he said, would
hardly have the name to live were it not
for the presence and power of those be-
longing to it who are under twenty-five
years of age, and further boldly aver
that no Methodist church can be found
today which can not honestly attribute
much of its life and power to it's Ep-
worth League. Pews long vacant are now
filed with inspiring youth, and every pas
tor finds his loyal legion to be composed
almost wholly of those who wear the Ep-
worth badge. All departments Of church
life have felt the quickening powers OF
this great movement.
1.-The wonderful nineteenth century will
be remembered on history's page for
many things but for none more than for
this: The young Christians of North
America, banded together for Christian
service, came to know no section, East
or West. North or South, not even a
national boundary line between the Uni
ted States and Canada. They recognized
two flags, 1t is true, but they both stood
for the same noble principles. The Ian
gage. the liberty, the institutions, the
civilization were the same under each. :"
The Rev. r. T. Keeney, of Auburn,
New York, spoke of 1.-THE Christ Life in
Social Relations in part as follows:
Social problems and relations are con-
stantly becoming more complex. The
great need for their solution in this or
in any century is Christine Christ love,
the Christ vision, the Christ life. Christ
did not recognize our present divisions
OF society into the upper, the lower. and
the middle classes In his sight every