The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-18
WORD OF
WELCOME
Bishop Hamilton Halls the
EpwOrth Delegates With
Delight.

SAN FRANclsco, July 1S.-The follow
ing remarks we're made to the Epworth
delegates by Bishop J. w. Hamilton, d.
D., L. L. D., at the Mechanics Pavilion,
this afternoon. Mr.. President, Sisters
and Brothers Of the Epworth League, l
have been selected from the Methodist
Episcopal Church to speak a word OF
welcome to you for California. Pleasant
az is the duty, il is q task Of no small
wisdom which has been assigned to me,
for only avery large-acred, ,large-handed,
large-hearted, large.minded and royal
welcome will represent California, and
we have been admonisbed with emphas.
is, that it requires great and command
ing dimensions 10 reckon with all your
hoets for the hospitable reception and
entertainment we were bound to give
you. 1t is no mere Methodist greeting
which welcomes you today. Tho handi.
craft by which this building has been
made attractive, like very much OF the
preparation which has been making all
things ready for this welcome, has been
in very large part the work.of Presby-
terian, Congregational, Baptist and other
Christian minds and hearts and hands.
Thousands of Christian Endesyorers
join as heartily in the reioicings OF this
hour as If they we're all Methodists.
That something which we call "Wel-
come" is very sacred thing And yet
the word is nowhere found in the Bible.
II is thing Of the heart and very little
OF IL ever gets into speech. II many
things with which you have been iamil-
lar in your Eastern homes cannot be
found amid the simplicity or rusticity
ofour homes, you will find ample mag
niacence in the wide open fields, msjes-
tic forests, inspiring canyons and trans
porting mountain ranges Of California
You have welcome there TO help your
selves from our splendid abundance
We honor you today and take you to oui
, hearts because you are the Sons anc
3 Daughters Of Wesley, straight from Ep
! worth. You are the brothers and sis
ters Of the worlds best men and women
a This great commonwealth is no NOR,
3 only a great mining camp whose un
: : certain legends brought border men
with proAigate characters from tn
a Five Points of New York, the Sevel
. Dials OF London and the Botany Ba
y Of the South Seas TO make up a popula
a ton TO be dreaded and feared. Never
theless, there were taken out OF tn
G mines in the State last year nearl
: thirty millions Of dollars. But hetero
> geneous at the population lie, yc
anarchy hss given place TO stable gov
p ernment with pea aceable control. Th
u population is rapidly changing. Chri
IL tian missions will soon have penetrate
2, TO the remotest settlements. tt
"a Spanards first drove out the lndiani
~ the Mexicans then expelled IL
n Spaniards; the pioneers the Mexican'
n the first settlers the pioneers, and II
ls immigrants from the Eastern STATE
Il with immigrants from abroad are fa
i taking the place Of the first settler
10 The first missionary, who establishe
the Methodist Episcopal Church in tn
y city, and planted it in many OF tll
" surrounding towns, isnow the venerate
~ Bishop of Africa, william Taylor, VII
ls is still living in Palo Alto and who's
~ sun will go down in clear sky. III
A, Presbyterians had founded their missio
be few months before he came.
IL With the Japanese Stream an
Alaskan Current along our coast, u
Trade winds in from the east, We ha'
the climate OF both the temperate al
torrid zones. But what shall it profit
~ II we gain the whole world and a.
prohigate with our privilegesP III
." throne OF righteousness is the throne
! empire. Righteousness tendeth to III
Righteousness exalteth a nation. Gal
. iornia needs nothing so much today
~ the controlling influence OF mo
- righteous men and women. Nc
= that you are all here, you can do not
ing better for us than all to stay. VIII
n. a crusade il would be for thirty thousal
- Christian young men and women
=, build their altars over against o
NJ worship Of Mammon and the God
this world II YOU will think OF II al
stay, we will make you welcome III
NJ long. It is more to be desired than gol