Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-22

has only the effect Of moral impetus, how
ever. in behalf Of the coast. as the real Sc
lecting will be done later by another COM
mittee.
The society's president. Harvey o. Bree-
den Of Des Moines, has been III for three
days and the task OF presiding was assumed
by Rev. T.. z. Cramblett. president Of Beth
any college, West Virginia. George L.
Bush Of Texas conducted the devotional
service. DeLoss Smith Of Indiana was the
leader Of the song.
President breeder Delivers Address.
BY supreme effort, President Breeder de-
livered his address on The Gospel for this
Age" which is quoted below. 1t was per-
haps the most notable address. viewed
I purely from the religious standpoint, Of the
entire convention and there was not a stir
during the entire time Of its delivery, but
afterward there was a round Of applause
that fairly shook the building.
Enthusiasm over good things OF another
sort was aroused when reports we're taken
up. That OF the acting board Of managers
was made by Benjamin Lyon Smith, cor
! responding secretary, who stated that 10
churches had been organized during the
past year by the home missionaries. that
p, $50 people we're brought into churches
by the same agents; that every IS brought
a convert and that there are now 10000
disciples In the Mississippi valley.
Reporting for the Board Of Church Ex-
tension, Corresponding Secretary George w
Muckley stated that this board has built a
church for every Ave days OF he last year;
that $3.50, 900 in loans has been paid tack
since the society's beginning and With It
| ecn mn f1Foraaf The fail rapprfe Of hut
the extension and mission board were sum-
mazs ed in The Sunday Bee.
F. NJ. Rains offered prayer and Charles
u. White OF Illinois, the newly chosen field
secretary Of the church extension board was
presented to the convention and spoke very
briefly.
Rev. c. E. Plattenburg Of Ohio read the
report Of General Superintendent Pounds OF
the Christian Endeavor work, the latter
having been detained at home. This report
also was reviewed in The Bees Sunday edi-
ton.
Reports of Committees.
For the absent chairman, Rev. George
Darsey. Rev. B. B. Tyler read the report
Of the prayer meeting committee, which
report stated that the topics for 1903 are
now ready at the church publishers; that
the committee would recommend that 1t:
membership be increased from FIVE tc
seven and that it be given a full year. oil
: from convention to convention, to pre-
pare it's work. with the further recon-,
mendation that the committee for 1904 be
, appointed now. B. L. Smith put these lat
ter recommendations in a motion. which
carried, and the new committee will b'
/, appointed soon.
!, /. n. McCash then made the report Of tn,
committee on recommendations, the prin.
/, cipal Of which we're those favoring the Pa
cihc coast for the convention of 1905; sug
= gesting that the Missionary society here
4. after let the state boards Of Nebraska
I Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky take care o
these states and turn its attention to thos'
wherein the Disciples are not so strong
that the prohibition movement be endorsed
but that the matter Of having a regular
4 time for its discussion reserved on ever!
program be left to the discretion Of the cor
responding secretary and through him L
: the board Of managers; also that there b
left to him the matter of railroad rates AM
: that special rates for ministers attending
! prohibition rallies be left to state boards
The committee recommended the endorse
ment Of the miniature Jerusalem which tn
Jerusalem Exhibit company proposes I
e build at ST. Louis, but stipulated that thi
endorsement is given with the understand
n ing that there be an entire absence Of tn
Oriental features that characterize th
n average midway attraction.
h Mahomet and the Mountain.
After the disposal Of Rev. Morgan's pro
% test on the convention site resolution Rev
n Howard T. Cree OF st. Louis was called {
n deliver his address on "Mahomet and th
Mountain with the noon whistle echoin
te in the ears Of 5000 persons who had sat fo
Y, three hours and were tired. II placed tn
speaker at a great disadvantage, but he wa
A. OF magnificent voice ana managed to hol
1t his hearers to the end. II is his though
ID that In the matter Of cvangeliEation III
IN mountain has come to America, the Ma
81 homet, in the persons OF the sreat and cor
Ne stantly increasing numbers Of foreigner
For examples, he stated that during Ii
~ decade ending 1870 Italy, Poland Dnd RussI
n furnished but l per cent n our immigrant
rs but that in the decade ending 1900 thol
al countries furnished so per cent; hat Gel
H. many, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden ar
he Denmark, which used to furnish most Of Il
II, inflow. now furnish but a very small DIT,
m portion. Further, he stated that ;he p,
N, cent of persons Of foreign parentage IN S
a. Louis is 81 per cent; in Chicago. ~ per cen
In Iowa, AZ per cent; in Nebraska, A. D.
cent.
President Breeden's Address.
President Breeden's address was In pa
ia as follows:
Neither pray l for these alone, but Z
e all them also who shall believe on r
ut through their word; that they all may
ny one as thou Father art In me and /
!. Thee, that they also may be one in us tn
OF the world may believe that Thou hast Sc
&C. me = xvii. 20. This divine prayer
ed prophetic. 1t is the gospel In outline I
every age and peculiarly, emphaucally
no this age. How perfectly IL presents I
a., gospel for this age no man can understal
,la until he has nrst discovered and analyz
his own age.
as In America the present is an age OF 4
nd mocracy. The evolution of government h
brought us a long way from the thro
upon which a king sits sceptered a
ol- crowned. In this age as in no bther I
Ip- welfare OF the common people enters In
- the composition of government and CO
~ stitutes It's chief concern. Education, g.
ence, art, liberty, religion have all Z
lat scended TO the many and in governme
a. the people reign. The common people q
er' determining our art. our literature, 0
ote newspapers, our public schools. All [
om great formative influences of the natl
a. are in the hands of the democracy.
IT, For the realization of Americas hol
bis the dream of democracy, our own gloriu
church Is almost diyinely favored. OF [