The Portland daily press., 1901-02-02

abufe Of Christian Endeavor conventions,
taough he hah much more to say about
tae use OF Christian Endeavor oonven-
Z ms than be had to say about their
ab se lie proved to be, as was expected,
on, OF the most Interesting speakers OF
tins day. lie showed, In the first place.
how Il Is the natural law for organic
sub7tance to convene and how, from the
begi uning,it has been the principle Of the
Chriftlan church to convene. So that
TO- ie christian Endeavorers TO convene
Often Is net unnst1ral, nor is 1t contrary
II the laws of the church. He then
or eiiy sket ohed some OF the good things
W i5h come from these conventions
illuttratlng each one in a happy, and
o tsntimes humorous, vein. In the first
plase 1t leads to acquaintancesh1p. and
ne spoke of the first Christian Eudeavor
convention ne had attended at Saratoga,
end OF the wonderful effect It had upon
him. Then, in humorous way, he said
that these conventions led to many mar
rlsRes being made, and for his part he
thought that ibis was the most blessed
function of ali resulting from thess con-
ven tlons, for some OF the beft homes In
this country were built under the roof
| tree of Christian Endeavor. lie also said
inst these conventions, held now In he
North ana now in the South, had done
more 70 bridge over the red gap caused by
the Clvi! War than anything else, and
IoT Lno6e reasons bneso conventions eXeIt-
ed great influence upon patriotism.
Another thing these conventions did was
to incite ana instruos, and then tbs mag
niiicent witness they bore TO Jesus
Christ showing the power of His church.
lie said that some peonle mplained
about these conventions, because they
cost too much, "Weil,'' he said, ''they
do cost lot, but they have stimulated
more givirg for the missionary cause
than anything else the world. . This
statement was loudly applauded. His
talk was very interesting and instructive,
and was fitting close to a most interest
ing afternoon,
THE EVENING SESSION
The Second Parish church was packed
to the very doors ut t he evening service.
seldom has this big editice held such
crowd as was present last evening Rev.
Joseph X. Wilson ID. d., OF Portland pre-
sided In very happy manner and the
three addresses were most interesting.
Kew. Edwin Z. Wilson of woodfords con-
Quoted the devotional exercises and there
was singing by large chorus and a
pleasing 500 by DIR. IL 81 Nickerson.
The frat speaker was Rev Richard
pjader. He Is Swede who has travelled
much ami has been in this country some
time tut not long enough to have fully
dropped his foreign accent. lie is force
ful speak ar and last evening dweit most
ly upon the text Separate ye from the
others' showing why the Christian
need not seek earthly pleasures to be
happy. de related several pleasing anec-
dotes and his witty remarks kept the
large audiencs is great good humor. Rev.
william Patterson of Philadelphia, form
erly OF Toronto was the next speaker,
taking for his subject 1.-The revival of
Spiritual interest" In the first place he
explained with great olearness what a re-
vlval is. A plant that is dead cannot be
revived but another plant that is whiting
and dropping for want of water may be
revived In the physical world man
who Is over worked may be revived by
giving him rest but the man who Is dead
the world knows 1t is a waste Of time to
attempt to revive. 60 1t is in the spiritual
W orld. II man Is spiritually dead you
can't revive him but If he is whiting for
want of nourlshment he may be revived.
The speaker went on to show that when
persons are strong ard we'll they are in
terest I'd in every thing that is going ON
sbout them. Tney read the papers and
keep posted as to all current events. But
h N they are sick thsy care nothing for
any OF thess things. so 1t is with man
when he is spiritually weak. He cares
nothing for anything that Is spiritual.
! The world today marvelously lacks an
interest in spiritual things
MIR Patterson then went on to show
| ha hFnu uuh
! by the Christian kndeavor. God wants
1t to come and 1t will come just as soon
as the world makes up Its mind that 10
wlnts It, We oan hattan the coming OF
Is revival. Ihe sin OF the church today
| / 3, in doing nothing for their brethren
| lhe church that Is halt dead is not a very
attractive place for the young person.
| Youth does not Ike the hosp tails be-
cause 1ere is too much pain and sul1er-
ing to be seen there ana some churches
are as doIefuI as a hosItal. When the
world seeks to hastan this revival which
will I'LL the world with JOY 1t Will come
a nd NOT before thet time.
+: The ne It speaker was Rev. DIR. David
J .mes buIrsll OF New York. lie took for
mis- subject "a revival OF Civic Righteous
mss and his extremely interesting ad-
dress was followed with deep attention.
lie said In part;
/ call your attention to four facts.
First, Ours Is a Christian Nation. From
the day OF It's discovery it has been conse-
Grated 20 the religion OF the true God.
Second, It IS net what Chriftian nation
onQht to bs. We lament the prevalence OF
ung dliness In our social and civil life.
An4rd. The blame must be laid most
largely ON Christian people. They con-
s,itute nearly one taird of our population
ami hold the preponderance OF influences.
Every way John Foster said truly POW
err to this laft atom is responsibility.
Fourth. The remedy lies IN Revival OF
Civic righteousness,
An objestion is made to the interfer-