The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-09
26 BIG RALLIES.
@. e. Delegates Occupied With
DenominatIOnal Conference.
Hall Wouldn't Hold Those Who
Wanted to Hear Sheldon.


delegates to the Christian Endeavor
convention today was occupied mostly
by denominational conferences. There
were twenty-six of these rallies held in
the various churches about the city
during the afternoon. and they were
and they were attended by almost all
the delegates and visitors
The day opened with the usual two
daily quiet hour services, conducted by
the Revs. Floyd ". Tompkins, of Phil
adelphia, and cornelius Woelfkin, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. A special meeting was
held during the morning at the Cen
trail Christian church. where the Rev
c. Campbell Morgan, of Baltimore,
gave consecutive Bible teachings. Rev.
J. F. Carson, of Brooklyn, also spoke,
his topic being 1.-The Holy Spirit"
THE personal equipment of Endeav-
orers and all those who seek to be well
provided with all requisites, spiritual
and temporal, necessary to become sue
cessful workers. was very interest
ing subject discussed at the Ninth
street Baptist church, under the direc-
ton of Miss Margaret Koch, of Water
Vile, Me. She took as her topic The
Relation of Expression to Power I'm
Christian Endeavor Work" Many
earnest EndeaV0rers attended and
sought advice as to the best ways OF
their launching into the work in more
vigorous, aggressive manner. The en-
thusiasm displayed among the Endeay-
orerS seems to grow as the days wear
on, and when they return to their re-
spectfve homes could they carry the in
fection with them it would soon stinu-
late the million members of the Chris
tian EndeayOr society to the greatest
religious revival in modern times.
The three great auditOriums were
thrown open to the public at $50 a. m
for a discussion of THE Twentieth
Century, Rev. J. H. Garrison, of St
Louis, presided in Auditorium Ohio:
Rev. Canon ]. B. Richardson, OF Lon
don Ont, in Auditorium Endeavor.
and Rev. Allan B. PhiIputt of Indian
apolis, in Auditorium Williston- Five
minute speeches were the order, and
many were made by the visiting clergy
men.
Among the unlimited speakers who
addressed the three n eetings were, in
Barr of Oberlfn, O., who spoke on THE
Power of Prayer; Rev A. J. Lyman.
of Brooklyn. The Power of the Bible;
Marion Lawrence. Toledo, O., The
Power of the Sunday School, and Rev.
F. W. Gunsaulus, of Chicago. The
Power of the Church in the Nation"
In Auditorium Endeavor, THE Power
of Christian Endeavor" was treated by
Power of Evangelism" by Rev. Viii
liam r. Hail. of New York, and The
Power Of Noble Life" by Booker T.
Washington, of Tuskegee. Ala
In Auditorium Williston. Rev. John
son Myers, of Chicago, treated on Its
Supreme Need; Rev. James Chalmers,
Of Elgin. H., Its Place an the Com
munity," and Rev Wayland Hoyt, of
Philadelphia, on Its Mass Meetings"
The meetings were adjourned to
allow the Endeavorers to join in the
MONDAY evangelical work in the fac
tory and tenement districts
tort Lf-1r7 Loo
last night was in many respects the
most remarkable of the convention.
The principal speakers were 5. q
Capen. of Boston. and Rev Charles M
Sheldon of Topeka. Long before the
hour set for the n Getting the immense
auditorium with its seating capacity of
over 5000 was packed. and the ushers
were forced to close and bar the doors
in the faces Of the clamorous crowd
President Francis Clark presided Rev
Mr. Sheldon read his address on the
Daily Paper of the Twentieth Century
from manuscript. He was enthuSlas-
tically received
He did not assume, he said, that
there We're no good daily papers Meth
er did he assume that the press was
hostile to suggestions which simply
had for their object the possible bet
tering of journalism; but he did as
sumo that there was a very large and
undeveloped field open to the daily press
which was not at present cultivated
A marked feature of the paper
should be, he said, prohibition, and an
other feature the prominence given to
the work done by Christian missionar-
les The paper should also take very
large account of the social movements
Of the times. The standing question in
its business and editorial management
should be. What is the best thing for
the best interest of the city? What will
promote the welfare and happiness and
morality of the entire family?'' He as
serted that goodness is news, and could
be made to be intensely interesting
news. Another large cause that the
daily should champion is the question
of the Sunday that America ought 10
have Cash without character he said,
was poverty: and the nation could not
have character unless it preserved 4
Christian Sabbath. The commercial in
terests of this republic. he said. were
playing to the tremendous interests at
stake in the matter of character and
moral growth of the people, and the
daily paper which acknowledged this
fact and made it prominent would be
the paper that should hold the place of
the highest honor among the people
who love the republic. He expressed
the hope that in some way the Chris
tian Endeavor organization would be
the means of establishing such an or
gan for righteousness in more than one
great city in this country. The possi-
bflities for such journalism, he said,
We're big with Christian ambition If
their efforts they could establish such
papers in every large center of popuIa-
tion,and they would prove to be mighty
SOURCES. of real f1oxvar- in chs ming fF.o