The age-herald., 1901-07-08
Sunday Services Began With Quiet Hour Services at
 Different Places
4 PARTNERSHIP WITH CHRIST
Many Persons Responded to Invitation to Announce Themselves for the Iiance-Gen. Towards Address
 "Our New Responsibilities"

Cincinnati, July 1.-The Christian En- deavorers began Sunday with three quiet hour meetings of one hour each held in three of the largest of the citys churches. The various pulpits throughout the city were occupied during the rest of the morning by the visiting ministers, whose topics were Twenty Years of Christian Endeavors." The attendance at these meetings were large, especially so at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, where the Rev c. M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kan, spoke
 The afternoon was devoted to three simultaneous evangelistic meetings in the Music Hall Auditorium. These meetings were classified for men, women and chill dren William P Hall of New York city conducted the mems meeting and spoke on Christianity as a Profitable Invest ment."
 MT. Hall called upon those who would accept of a partnership in Christ to re- main after the meeting and publicly an- nounce themselves. Many did so, and MT. Hall knelt in the aisles of the hall and prayed with them.
 The meeting for women in Auditorium Williston was conducted by General Sec retary John W. Baer of Boston. Addresses were made by Miss Margaret Koch of Waterville, Me, and Miss Rhena Mosser of Westfeld N Y. The burden of their remarks was temperance. not only in the use of intoxicating drinks, but of tobacco as we'll.
 Tn the Auditorium Ohio the children held sway, led by the new field secretary, c. E. Beerman of Lancaster, Pa. Treas urer William Shaw of Boston and Miss Kate H. Haus of St. Louis Addressed the children, illustrating the dangers of cigar cites and other smoking, and bad reading. Mrs F. E. Clark of Boston, the wife of President Clark, spoke of the Junior Christian Endeavor and its accomplish ments for the young people.
 At the conclusion of the big Music Hall Auditorium rallies, three special meetings were held in the Central Christian Church, the Ninth Street Baptist Church and the Second Presbyterian Church.
 Treasurer Shaw of Boston presided at the session at the Central Presbyterian Church.
 General Towards Address.
 Major General O. O. Howard then spoke of 'Our New Responsibilities" saying in part:
 Since the incoming of what is called higher criticism, and during the last two decades of theoretic evolution, taught to our young men in colleges and extended occasionally with controversy to our the ological seminaries, it has become the fashion to lay stress upon the earthly life the naturalistic life of men, women and children here and now. Even in our best sermons we miss the Old Testament scriptures Illustrations abound which show more reading of other books and less study of the Bible. It seems to have become the custom, with our younger clergymen especially, to treat children and youths as they do plants. Their environ ment is studied; the development Is be- gun and continued, and co-relations from babyhood to the kindergarten; from the kindergarten to the grammar school. with the industrial thrown in; from the gram mar school to the high school and from the high school to the college. academic, professional, trade or commercial stage,
 "I do not object to the severe criticism of the scripture text and the most search ing investigation as ito what holy men of old really wrote when they were moved by Gods holy spirit, but do distrust all fierce triumph which some men manifest when they show, or think they have shown that Washington was not 0 good man; that Shakespeare did not write the books reputed to him and that Moses was not the composer of the Pentatouch. I object to the partisan spirit which un- dertakes to wrench from us that which we have loved and trusted and believed in and worked with from our spiritual childhood to our spiritual manhood. Truth we want Truth we welcome. So let us have the whole truth, and send forth men and women into the field as missionaries and endeavorers to exalt the Savior who are able to teach the simple truths which men and women need and proclaim the good tidings of great joy continually and without reservation. AS we proclaim the truth in our enlarged possessions, in all our sparsely settled