The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-10
MAKES A STRONG
APPEAL FOR NEGRO
Booker 7. Washington Address
eS Christian Endeav0rerS.
is WARMLY RECEIVED
TELLS OF HIS WORK AMONG
TIE CoLoRED PEOPLE.

Cincinnati, O.. July 9.-The fourth
dav Of the conference of the Christian
HifdeavOr society was a light one as
far as the programme was concerned,
I but the EndeavOTers were out en- masse
at the two big meetings today. 1t was
another beautiful Gay, somewhat hot
/ ter than yesterday, hut not oppressive
~ So At the last moment the three
/ Dig music hall rallies were cOnCen-
Jrdted into two meetings, which were
held in the Auditoriums Endeavor and
/ WillistOn.
This same arrangement will very
probably hold good tomorrow Audito-
RUINS Endeavor and Williston are am
ply sufficient to accommodate the En-
deaVorers, and, besides. a number of
the speakers have failed to put in an
appearance. Five Of the prominent
ones are absent all being sick. Those
not present are the Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman, the Rev. George D. PurVes
! and the Rev. Charles 9. Hall Of New
York; the Rev. John Henry BaTrOws of
| Oberlin o., and the Rev. F. w. Gun
saulu .cagO.
Aft,-. N, Eual quiet hour meetings
in the morning. which open every days
programme, the big auditoriums were
thrown open for a discussion Of THE
| twentieth Century Church The Rev.
Cannon b Richardson of London, Ont,
III ColLEu dG AUDITORIUM E10QHaNQF.
The chief address was that of Prin-
cipal Booker T. Washington Of the col
Ored normal school al Tuskegee, Ala
He took as his subject 1.-The Power of
! a Noble Life" As he advanced to the
/ front Uf the stage to speak he was the
recipient of a tremendous ovation, and
/ he had not proceeded far into his ad-
dress, which he cleverly punctuated
with dialect and other stories of the
colored folk, until he had won a warm
spot in the hearts Of his hearers. He
traced his own career from that of a
slave, and told of his work among the
people of his race.
Appeal For the Negro.
I do not believe in all the history OF
the country" he said, has there been
such Eeed for strong, unselhsh, pure
and intelligent men who are willing to
sacrifice ambition. position fortune and
comfort for the welfare of their fellow
men. The nOblest lives and the one
thing worth living for is the oppOrtu-
nifty to make some individuals more
/ happy, more useful
He made an impassioned appeal for
his people, and asked that they be
judged by the best among them. and
not the lOWliest. He said the privilege
of teaching and enlightening a fellow
human being was the highest privilege
given to any man. and that he long
against the white man in the south
was un-Christiau, and that he was glad
to note that this spirit was rapidly
gaining a fOOthOld among his people.
in Auditorium WillistOn. where the
Rev. Allan 3. Philputt of Indianapolis,
presided, a number Of addresses limited
to five minutes each were made. The
Rev. Charles NJ. SheJdOn of Topeka,
Kan, was among the speakers.
Miss Margaret Koch Of Walkerville,
Me, conducted a personal equipment
conference at the Ninth Street Baptist
church. The members of the board of
trustees and other officers of the United
society gave a banquet to President
| Clark at the Grand hotel at noon. He
was presented with a beautiful silver
/ loving cup in cOmmemoratiOn of the
twentieth anniversary of the Christian
EndeavOr. In the afternoon DR. Clark
attended the Congregational rally at
/ the Walnut Hills Congregational
church. where Samuel E Capen of BOs-
ton presented to him an immense me
mortal signed by over 200 of the lead
ing educat tors. editors. clergy and bust
ness men in the United States, as an
| expression of thaukfulness and appre-
citation for the work that Dr.. Clark
has done in organizing and guiding the
! Christian Endeavcr.
Annual Junior Rally.
What was probably the prettiest of
/ the Of the cOnventiOnwasthe w,
! the meetings of the convention was the
annual junior rally held in Auditorium
/ Endeavor in the afternoon. Treasurer
William Shaw of Boston welded the
gaVel. Secretary John Willis Baer adj
/ dressed the meeting. Then followed
numerous exercises by the junior En-
! deavOreTs of the local churches and the
/ children Of several orphan asylUms.
Z The children, dressed in white. filed the
; immense stage and made very pretty
/ picture as they filed across the length
/ of the footlights to sing and go through
their various eyOlutiOns.
The older Endeavorers spent the af-
/ ternoou in their respective denOmina-
tional churches, of which there were
/ twenty-six, and which were held in the
various churches about the city. There
were receptions and rallies at the va
rious state headquarters, and in order
/ to allow the EndeavOrers to attend,
/ Music hall was darkened and tomorrow
will be the closing day Of the conven-
ton.
/ The German Endeavorers adjourned
/ their convention tonight with services
at the Zion church.
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