The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-05-09
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AFTERMATH
National Associations Largest
and Most Enthusiastic Meeting.
Origin of Work, Now Recognized AZ
Important Mission Field-GeneraI
Secretary Harvey Pays Graceful
Tribute to Morristown

A"Pohs sdht MISSION Fleld-UeneraI
Secretary Harvey Pays Graceful
Tribute to Morristown.
The reports from the delegates who
were In attendance at the National
American McAll Convention held in
this city last week are to the effect
that it was the most successful gath
erlng of the kind ever held in this
country. We take the liberty of pub
lishing letter received from Mrs.
Harvey, the general secretary, also
brief account of the work. The lat
ter was unavoidably crowded out last
week.
Philadelphia, May 9Th, 1909.
Editor Chronicle:
The memories of the American
McAll Association annual meeting of
1909, will be those of an embodiment
OF gracious hospitality, beautiful
homes, perfectly arranged "details in
the management and conduct Of the
convention, with setting of most
lovely country under a food of well
coming sunshine.
| know it is the unanimous opinion
OF all who attended the meeting in
Morrlstown that in every particular
IN size, spirit, perfection of arrange
ment and bountiful hospitality, this
was one of the most successful ever
held.
The Association owes debt of gra-
titude to the Morristown Auxiliary
for the executive ability with which
it ran the wheels of the necessary
machinery SO smoothly, that caring
for over hundred delegates with all
their needs, seemed most simple and
easily accomplished task. From re-
llevlng each guest of the care of so
much as consulting time tables. to
hlling the South Street Church with
large audience for the evening meet
ing, everything was planned so as to
most fully minister to the success of
the convention.
1t is not to be wondered at, that
with such favoring surroundings, the
meeting was one Of peculiar enthus-
lasm and inspiration. Every speaker
seemed at his best and the President
voiced the feeling of all the delegates
when she said, "There has not been
one dull moment in all the sessions. ("
The full and reliable report If the
meeting in the Chronicle was much
appreciated by the guests, who,
through it were enabled to send some
idea to less fortunate McAll workers
OF the inspiration and good things
enjoyed at the 10th Annual Meeting
in Morristown.
Very sincerely yours.
HARRIET HARVEY,
General Secy.
The history of the McAll work in
France shows what ccnsecrated Chris
tians can do to remarkable extent. The
work began in August, 1871, when Rev.
R. W. McAll then nearly fifty years of
age, and pastor of the Congregational
Church in Hadley, England, in company
with his wife visited Paris for needed
change and rest.
They began, in the more quiet part of
the city, by distributing tracts in French
which were kindly received. Thus en-
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most desperate quarter of Paris, which
had been the stronghold of the Com
mune and the scene of the most terrible
events of the Reign of Terror. One
evening they took their station before
large cafe, at. the angle of the great ex-
ternal Boulevard and the crowded Rue
de Belleville. AS they offered their
''little books, a workingman stood forth
and said to them earnestly, "If any one
will come among us teaching religion.
not of hierarchy and superstition but of
reality and earnestness and liberty, very
many of us are ready to listen" 1t was
like the cry from Macedonia. In Novem-
ber of the same year they gave up
church and home in England, and
sought residence in wild BellevilIe
itself. In January, 1872, in the Rue
Julien Lacroix, not far from the spot
where the priests had been murdered by
the communists, they opened their mis-
sion-room. 1t was done at their own
charges, even as they have since freely
given their service, wholly drawing their
personal support from their private re-
sources. A second mission station was
opened in February, and third and
fourth in April. Friends arose in Scot.
land and England, as well as in France;
while even the far-off United States
sent fifty dollars during that first event
full year. The work has prospered; until
now, including Marseilles and the Lit
toraI, there are so stations and about
13 200 sittings. In the McAll Mission,
even apart from the consolidation, the
Report for 1882 shows 1851 religious
meetings during the year, and total at
tendance III, 1898; while the expense of
the entire combined work was only $6i.-
600. Well may we exultingly say,
''This is the Lords doing; it is marvel
lous in our eyes"
The expansion of the work into differ
ent cities in France has been, IKE all
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