The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-17
Bishop Galloway Makes Forceful
Plea Before Epworth League
international Convention.
PENTEs0STAL MEETINGS HELD.
Seventeen Thousand Delegates
irving on Every Train Yk
Now in Detroit and More Arriv-
ing on Every Train-Bishop
Joyce Loudly Applauded.

Detroit. Mich, July 1s.-Four great pente-
costal meetings were held by the Epworth
Leaguers in Tent Ontario In Central NJ E.
Church, the Detroit Opera-house and the
Fort Street Presbyterian Church tonight
Tent Ontario, with seating capacity of
5000, was damned to suYocation, and the
opera-house and the Central NJ E Church
were crowded to their utmost capacity,
while the Fort STREET Church, which Is only
a short distance from Tent Ontario, was
comfortably filed.
AT the headquarters OF the Convention
Committee it was said that the total reg
istration of delegates had reached 1900,
with more arriving on every train.
The Reverend A. c. Crews, the chairman
of the tent Ontario meeting. announced
that the Reverend G. A. Reeder of Cleve-
land would open the meeting with prayer.
Bishop c. B. Galloway OF Jackson. Miss,
Bishop Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. was the first speaker on The Eight
zenith Century Pentecost" He described the
Pentecostal meeting in 1893 that resulted in
the founding of Methodism by John Wesley
and his associates.
DIVINE GUIDANCE.
Bishop Galloway declared that Wesley
and his coadjutors were guided by the
divine spirit in their founding of the church.
for. he said. nothing conceived entirely by
human instrumentality could have achieved
such mighty things as has Methodsm. He
spoke OF the bicentenary Of John Wesley
and said:
Let the spirit of those bicentenary DAYS
bring US closer together as members of one
great ecclesiastical family. There is spirit
abroad that calls on us, north and SOUTH
and demands that We lock shields and unite
together against the common foe"
In the course of his address Bishop CAL
loway referred to the late President VIII
liam Mckinley's declaration while in the
South, that the Confederate graves should
be decorated or Memorial Day. as we'll as
the Federal. and his name was greeted with
a great burst of spontaneous applause
APPLAUSE FOR JOYCE
Bishop d. A. Goodsell was to have spoken
on The First Pentecost,'' but Illness pre-
vented his attending the convention. and
when Chairman Crews announced that his
place would De taken by Bishop /. w.
joyce of Minneapolis. president Of the Ep-
worth League, the great audience broke
into applause.
Y. was the third speaker of the evening at
the tent, discussing The Object OF Our
Present Waiting.
The same programme was followed at the
other three meetings, and the same sub
jects discussed by the speakers
The convention was opened at 2:30 o'clock
thlS AFTERNOON with three great meetings,
one in Tent Ontario, at the corner of Fourth
and Lafayette avenue, one in the Detroit
Cpera-house. and one in the Central NJ. h.
Church.
Each meeting followed identically the
same programme-addresses of welcome,
responses and keynote address.
The large chorus which was organized
among the local singers to furnish the
music for the convention was divided and
one-third of the membership sang in each
auditorium under the leadership of Evan
gelists John Hills. ]. NJ. Black and Charles
D. c. Tillmsn.