The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-01
Will OPEN SATURDAY.
TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL CON-
VENTION OF @. e. SOCIETY
AT CINCINNATI
$4,000 DELEGATES TO ATTEND
FRANCIS e. CLARK, FOUNDER OF
THE SOCIETY, WILL DELIVER
ANNUAL ADDRESS
MANY MEETINGS TO BE HELD

CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 3O-Next
Saturday the twentieth International
Christian EndeaVor convention begins in
Cincinnati. Preparations have been made
for $4,000 registered delegates and many
visitors.
The meeting will be held in Music hall.
and the two Exposition buildings ad-
Joining 1t. Odon hall, in the same square,
will be used for conferences and sec
ton meetings.. Music hall has one of the
finest pipe organs in the country. The
two Exposition buildings have been fitted
up with large platforms for the choirs,
the Christian Endeavor colors Of red and
white are most prominent in the decora-
tions
Saturday evening the welcoming adj
dresses will be delivered by Gov. Nash
and local representatives. Responses will
be made by delegates from the states
Canada and foreign countries Presi-
dent Francis E. Clark will deliver his
annual address and Secretary John Willis
Baer will present his annual report.
The only Sunday service Of the conven-
ton will be in the afternoon, the morn
ing and evening being occupied with the
regular church services in the city, vis-
iting ministers preaching in all Of the
churches Monday, Tuesday and Welnes-
day sessions will be held morning, aft
ernoon and evening in the three audi
toTiums None than $50 speakers VIII
take part in the programme of the sew
eral days, among them a number OF
representatives from foreign countries,
large number of foreign missionaries and
prominent ministers. The laymen will
be represented by Gen. o. o. Howard,
Hon. 8. B. Capen, of Boston; Wi liam
Phillips Hall, of New York, and others.
The music of the convention will be
one Of the special features, a chorus Of
1,200 voices having been drilled for many
weeks. This chorus will be divided among
three halls and will be led by three of
the best known leaders of cho1rs in this
country.
Complete arran gements have been
made for the reception Of visitors and a
committee Of 900 members of Christian
Endeavors societies will attend to this
work
In addition to the programmes for the
three large halls, where seating accom-
modations will be arranged for 1900
people, there will be daily meetings at
a. m. in three of the largest churches
in the city. Moons there will also be
evangelical services held in the market
places, factories, shops and public build
ings, so that the entire day, from 8
a. m. until 10 o'clock at night will be
crowded with meetings, and visitors Will
pick those meetings in which they are
most interested Inc omclal programme
is a booklet Of sixty pages, giving the
programme and a list of speakers for
each session in every hall and church or
other meeting place. Among the promi-
nent speakers who deliver addresses are:
DR.. Cornelius Woelfkin, Rev C. Camp
bell Morgan, who has recently come from
England to take the place so long occu-
pied by d. L. Moody; Dr. George Purves,
of New York; DR. r. A. TORY, of Chi
cago; Will R. Moody, DR.. Charles M
Sheldon, and DR.. T. S. Hamlin of Wash
ington, D. c.; Dr. Wayland Hoyt and
DR.. Milton Merle Smith, of New Yo.k