The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-14
LYNCH|NGS ARE
DISCUSSED BY
ENDEAVORERS
Dr.. Chivers Draws Admissions
From CoIored Delegates as
to Crime and Uneducated
Preachers.

DENVER, Col, July 12.-Sunrise
covenant services in five churches
marked the opening of the fifth ano
last dav of the twenty-first biennial
international Christian EndeaVor con-
vention Large audiences ATTENDED
these early meetings, and thousands OF
Endeavorers pledged themselves anew
to carry on the work which the organ :
ization has undertaken. From $50 TO
$50 study classes were in session al
six churches.
China" was discussed by the foreign
mission study class. of which Rev.
Harlan P. Beach. of New York, was
the leader. Rev. E. E. Chivers, ID. D.,
of New York. led the discussion of
Our Brother in Black" at the session
of the home mission study class.
Mr.. Chivers drew from colored
preachers and professors present the
admission that no colored preacher in
the South is an educated man. The
missionary so\1ols, he thought, were
the best means by which the colored
preachers and teachers could be prop
erly trained.
Discusses Lynchinq.
The recent lynching of negroes was
touched upon, and Mr.. Chivers got all
the colored people present to agree
with him that the outrageS committed
by the victims of mob violence were
of the most fiendish sort, and called
for the most severe punishment.
But" said the speaker. there
should not be one punishment for a
black man and another for white
one for similar crimes"
Mrs Cecil Armstrong, of the Gar
field Boulevard Presbyterian church,
Chicago, whose special work in that
city is among the colored people, said
she had heard the superintendent of a
packing house company In that city
say that the negro was the probable
solution of the labor problem and I'M
less the labor unions became more ra-
tional in their demands the black man
would secure their positions.
A conference of floating society
workers" was held.
Treasurer William Shaw presided at
a prison workers conference at which
addresses were made by Miss Lolo V.
Murphy, Murphy, Iowa; Judge Ben B.
Lindsay, Denver; Rev. F. Emory
Lyon, Chicago, and others.
THE Field Is the World was the
topic of the forenoon mass meeting in
Tent Endeavor. Addresses on home
problems were delivered by President
w F. Slocum, D. D., Colorado Springs,
Col; Rev. Sherman H. Doyle, D. D.
Philadelphia, and others. DR.. Doyle
presented immigration statistics and
said
Morally and Spiritually Degraded.
MANY of those who came to us from
distances have no intention of spend
ing their days here. They are unde-
sirable socially. They are morally and
spiritually degraded. We must Amer
icanize and Christianize the world or
they will Europeanize and un-C Chris
tianize U.S."
of H.,
deavor, devoted to the consideration
of great problems of the day affecting
the nation, was one of the most inter-
eSting of the convention. The conclu-
sion of the programme had been al
most reached when the storm that
brought the great tent upon the speak
ers and the audience came.
Rev. DR.. F. D. Power of Washing
ton, D. c., presided. Rev. John R.
Harris, of Pittsburg, discussed "The
Liquor Problem"
Rev. John Balloon Shaw, of New
York, urged Christian Endeavorers to
stand for the study of the Bible in the
public schools. George A. Chance, of
Fall River, discussed 1.-THE Rights Of
Capital and Labor
Delegates from foreign countries
outlined What We May Learn Along
Social Industrious and Religious
Lines"
Praise meetings were held in some of
the big churches this evening. At the
First Methodist church banners made
by Christian Endeavorers in Oriental
countries were presented to state or
CARNATIONS showing as much as 10
per cent increase during the past year.
The first prize went to the Nevada
union. Other states receiving prizes
were Oregon. Wisconsin, Washington
and Alaska