Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
Twentieth Annual Convention of
the International Christian
Endeavor Society.
CINCINNATI FILLED WITH DELEGATES.

CINCINNATI FILLED WITH DELEGATES.
The Gathering Promises 40 Be the
Largest in the History of the So
ciety-Synopsis of President
Clark,s Annual Address and Sec
rotary Baer's Report.
Cincinnati, July THE twentieth
international Christian Endeavor con-
vention began a fve-days' session in
this city. The registration of delegates
and visitors is unusually large, and
the indications are that the attend
ance will be the largest in the his
tory of these great gatherings. In ad-
dition to the receptions and rallies at
different state headquarters. the bust
ness session of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor was held during
the forenoon, at which the annual re-
ports of the officers and business
agents were submitted.
The annual session of the trustees
was held during the afternoon.
The grand openings with welcome
addresses and the annual address of
L ICS1ICul S1dIh I'LL tAC dAAAddA AZ
port of Secretary Baer took place
simultaneously in the A~uditoriums at
night. Three large auditoriums and a
large hall have been arranged On the
old exposition grounds adjoining
Washington park, on Elm street. A
large platform has also been con-
structed in Washington park for
overflow open-air meetings.
Music hall has been designated as
Auditorium Endeavor; Power hall is
called Auditorium Williston, and Hor-
ticultural hall is known as Auditorium
Ohio. Odeon hall is the fourth in this
group.
DR.. Tennis S. Hamlin, of Washing
ton, d. c., presided at one of the night
meetings, with F. Fl. Jacobs, of Brook
Ign, as musical director.
Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago,
presided in the other, with Percy S.
Foster, of Washington, D. c., as mu-
steal director
President Clark's Annual Address.
President Francis E. Clark, in his
annual address, said in part:
For every age God prepares his agan-
c:es. As the bee is made for the flower.
as the birds wing fits the air, and The
lin of the fish the yielding water, so in
his plans and methods to the needs of
THE nineteenth century saw peculiar
perils assail the young man. b saloon.
the brothel, the gambling den, CONNER
cialism, and materialiSm laid their traps
for him. But God lookea down from
the middle of the entury the Young
Mems Christian association was started
10 set young men at work for young men
in a new evangelism
The days of the rampant infidel and
atheist are in the past. as / devoutly be-
lieve. No Robert Hume could to-day
world. No Voltaire or Rousseau could
number his followers by millions. Rob-
ert Ingerson to-day is little but a men,
DRY of eloquent bathos and pathos.
But something more insidious and
harmful. a thousand times, than blatant
infidelity is the foe of the church of the
scepticism of life rather than of tall It
is the Indifference m is born of luxury
and of fashion. The twentieth century
church needs the Christian Endeavor So
ciety because it needs the prayer meet
ing. 1t needs more tho~roughgoing and eff
fective organization in church life and it
needs to be more united.
THE new century will be a century of
mighty combinations and tremendous ag-
gregations of material forces. There
should be a combination of the Christian
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harmony for the advancement of the
Kingdom through their own churches
and denominations.
The Christian Endeavor society does
not aspire to be such a trust for the
church-at-large, but it does aspire to pro-
mote harmony and brotherly love and
united service for the kingdom of gu.
Lord and for their native land"
Synopsis of Secretary Baer's Report.
The report of General Secretary
T1I-o wants poa~ rx-a~ -, oo - Ell
lows:
I'm 1891 the close of the first decade of
Christian Endeavor, there were 16, ga SO
~cietieS. and we returned hearty thanks
to God for He hath wrought. In this
year 1901. at the close of Christian En-
deavor's second decade. we must en-
ploy the same numerals though different
ly arranged, to tell our numerical
strength, for the 16. ga societies have be-
come 81. 427. The nearly one million mem
bers have become nearly four millions.
This growth is marvellous, and nothing
comparable TO it can be 1ound in his
tory. The rapidity with which the So
cieties have multiplied is so familiar, hav-
ing compelled attention around the world.
that we have in late years ccepted tflat
fact as commonplace. | remind you of
this wonderful numerical extension OF
Christian E~ndeavor because it proves to
me beyond a doubt that ours is not a
society, but a broad, inter-
denominational. international. and inter-
racial brotherhood. Man a organize
a society, God creates a movement
9TH net increase in number OF new
societies since we met in the great Lon
don convention last uly is nearly two
thousand members. In other words. the
net increase during the past year equals
the total number of societies organized
during the first seven years of our SPLEEN
did history. There have been more than
2, 900 new societies added to the lists, bur
the net gain has not been quite that. be-
cause we have had to drop from our fell
lowship societies that rave disbanded tor
various reasons, or that have become ex-
clusively de~nominational societies.
The interdenominational fellowship.
which has been from the first a blessed
fruit of Christian Endeavor, has, during
the past year, been fostered a. never
before. There was a time when 1t seemed
deavor would be imperiled. but those days
have gone never &c return, we believe.
The UNCONVENTIONAL loyalty of local Chris
tan E-ndeavorers is seldom challenged,
but, on the contrary, we find it officially
and heartily commended by many ell
clesiastical courts and assemblies in many
denominations.
lone of the most gratifying facts to re-
port is steady growth in foreign and
missionary lands Secretary Chaplin, OF
the British section, reported an in
crease of so societies., particular men
ton being made of the number of Episco-
have been organized the past year in the
Church of England This, and other
splendid achievements by our English
brothers show conclusiyely that the great
london convention was blessed of God.
Indeed, nothing shows the adaptability
of Christian Endeavor to every climate
and country more a the fact that there
are national Christian Endeavor unions in
the United States. Canada, England.
Scotland. Ireland, Wales, Australia,
France, Spain, Germany, South Africa.
India, China, Mexico and Japan, and that
Christian Endeavor leaflets and constitu-
tons MAY now he found in Chinese. JaDa-