Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-09
BIC CONVENTIONS PROGRAM
Principal Events Of Meeting Of Christian
Church Next Month.
PROHIBITION RALLY TO COME FIRST
Communion Service for About Ten
thousand Members of the Church
Being Arranged for sunday
Afternoon. October 10.

The first meeting Of people who will take
mart In the Christian church convention
next month will be held at the Coliseum
Sunday. October ~. nearly a week before
the convention is to open. This meeting
will be composed OF the deacons of the
Christian churches Of Omaha. South
Omaha. Council Bluffs, Fremont, Platts-
mouth. Lincoln, Missouri Valley and sew
eral other towns near Omaha. They will
come to rehearse a part OF the service
Of the convention which will take place
the following Sunday, and will be, prob
ably, the most impressive service Of the
convention.
On that day, Sunday. october. 10. there
will be a union communion service at the
Coliseum, at which everv member OF the
Christian church then in the city will take
part. The service will be held at 2:30
O'Clock in the afternoon. and IL the at
tendance is what is expected more than
10000 persons will take part, and II NAV
be necessary to hold an overflow meeting
in one Of the churches close TO the
Coliseum. For this service it will be
necessary to provide a large number of
communion vessels, and, as the communion
can be administered only by regularly ap-
pointed deacons Of the church, the COM
mittee having in charge this service will
have to secure the attendance Of a number
Of these officers sufficient to serve the
largest congregation which can be brought
together in the building.
Prohibition Party Meeting.
The first regular meeting to be held in
connection with the convention is one
which has no Official connection with 1t,
but is to be composed of persons who are
delegates to the regular convention. This
is a national conference Of that part of the
prohibition party who are members Of the
Christian church. It is an idea which was
introduced at the convention at Mime
apolis last year and which promises to be
q feature of future Christian church con-
ventions. Last year, the day before the
convention opened, a number of active pro-
hibition partisans found themselves await
ing the opening of the convention and held
an informal conference, at which they dis
cussed party affairs. The result Of that
conference was the appointment OF a COM
mittee charged with the work of making
arrangements for another meeting on q
larger scale to precede the meeting this
year. This meeting has been called at the
Coliseum Wednesday, October Is, at l p. m.
and will continue until Thursday evening.
There will be an address by oliver w.
Stewart, national chairman Of the party,
and short talks by other speakers Of ma
tional reputation.
Convention Proper Opens Thursday.
The convention proper will open Thurs
day night, October l6. with a reception to
the visitors. Addresses will be made by
prominent citizens OF Omaha and Nebraska,
probably including the mayor and the gov
ernor. The regular business meetings will
begin Friday, October II, with the business
Of the Christian Women's Board Of Mis-
sions up for consideration. This board will
probably occupy two days with It's affairs,
closing with a session Saturday afternoon.
Beginning Saturday afternoon, a session
being held in another hall, there will be a
rally of the Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor. This is an interde-
nominational meeting and invitations are
now being sent to local societies Of this or
ganization in all churches and to the Bap-
fist Young Peoples union and Epworth
League, asking them to send representa-
tives. While the meeting is interdenomi-
national, the reports and the business
transacted will have especial reference to
the work OF the society in Christian
churches. the program being arranged by
John e. Pounds of Cleveland, O., national
secretary OF the society for the Christian
church. The evening session Of the Chris
tian Endeavorers will be held at the Coli
scum, with an address by some prominent
member Of the society.
Big Bible Glass Meeting.
The services Sunday morning will open
with a bible class at s o'clock. at which
all bible students OF the city and all visi-
tors are expected to be present. The pull
pits OF the city churches will be occupied
by visiting ministers at 10: 80 and II o'clock
In the morning, and at 2:30 the union
communion service will be held at the Col
fseum.
At the conclusion OF the communion serv-
ice there will be a union service for men,
under the direction of the local Young
Mems Christian association. The principal
speaker will be John r, Mott. That night
the visiting ministers will again occupy
pulpits In the city churches.
Monday morning the Foreign Christian
Missionary society will open its business
meeting, the sessions to continue for a
day and one-half. Tuesday at noon the
American Christian Missionary society win
begin it's work and continue until the close
OF the convention. This society is probably
the most important, one OF the church, as
II embraces parts Of all the work done
In the United States, including the church
extension society and the benevolent So
ciety.