The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-20
DENVER WAS AN
EASY WINNER
Colorado Capital Gets Next Ep-
worth League Convention.
SIX MEETINGS YESTERDAY
SAME PROGRAMME FOLLOWED
IN EACH ONE.

Detroit. Mich. July 19.-with six
meetings today. all spIendidly attended.
the seventh International convention Of
the Epworth league. which DR.. J. NJ.
Berry and other officers of the league
say has been the greatest and most
successful in the leagues history, came
10 close. Denver was decided upon
for the next convention.
The resolution committee which has
Jurisdiction over the meeting place
net yesterday and heard representa-
tons from delegations from several
cues. including Minneapolis, Saratoga
Spilngs and Denver, and decided to re-
ser the selection to a subcommittee.
he pressure Of the Denver delegation.
which has done strenuous work to cap
iure the next convention. was so
strong, however, that today the COM
mittee recalled the matter from the
subcommittee and decided in favor of
Denver.
lhe same programme was followed
at all Of the meetings tonight. Adj
dresses were made on three subjects.
Christ Our King" His CONQUER
ing Kingdoms and my Place in the
Army" followed by "a waiting hour
for the descent of the Holy Spirit"
Official Resolutions.
The official resolutions Of the conven-
ton were also adopted by each meet
ing. In part they follow:
As in the past we stand for the
broadest Christian fraternity we hail
with special satisfaction every oppor-
tunity for practical cooperation with
Our young peoples societies in Chris
tan ministry and service.
We consider ourselves called to the
work Of personal evangelism. and we
enjoin all our members to enter the
fields now white with harvest. We
stand for present, an abundant and
a conscious salvation as essential to
that power of witnessing which wins
men. We thus send out to the young
hosts Of our United Methodism this ap-
peal for prayer holy waiting at the
morning watch. a pleading Of the prom
ises of the opening book for a revival
which may mean to the twentieth cen
fury what the revival of Wesley was
10 the eighteenth century, and to the
world.
"Epworth Leaguers, let us to oul
knees that we may WELD the spirit:
blade.
Call to Young People.
"To US, as to the young people OF
no other age. comes the trumpet call
Go We into all the world. and go we
must for. lifting up our eyes. we be-
hold i'm many lands gospel oppOrtuni-
ties rapidly becoming gospel emergen-
cies.
''To remain ignorant or Indifferent e
the cause of missions is to sin agains
light and to ignore the will of God
We a part of Christs great army
pace at his instant disposal our means
our service and ourselves. that the
world may be evangelical in our geu'
GRAFTON.
The gigantic iniquity of the Anglo
Saxon race is a fostering of the mon
strous traffic in intoxicants We believ,
the complete disfranchisement of TIT
business viii abolish dangers tina
threaten us and clear up problems tina
perplex Us
This whole evil organization is Z
fountain Of iniquity. whose streams
poison wherever they flow. 1t has n,
redeeming feature 1t is an environ
ment of perdition, hence we set GU
faces against this enemy OF God, an,
VIII give il no quarter i'm social life
in poiitics-in fact. nowhere until it 4
relegated to its own place
Ontario Tent Crowded.
The greatest crowd that has crowde,
IN Tent Ontario during the convention
vas present tonight. The 5000 seat
we're occupied, and at least 1900 peopl
were standing about the edges of tn
tent. Dr. ]. NJ. Buckley of New Yorl
VAS the first speaker, discussing
Christ Our King" He said in part:
we cannot affiliate with the Unita
-ians or any other body that does no
recognize Christ as king. If we ar
right in our belief and assertion o
his kingship they are unwittingly il
favor of honest blasphemers. If the
are right. we are idOlators. we mus
everywhere declare and maintain be
lief in His deity. I would be Willing
20 receive an honest doubter into tn
church. but If he dogmatically declare
that Christ is not God I would be a
willing TO receive a Mormon"
One of the finest gatherings OF tn
convention was the mems meeting q
Tent Ontario this afternoon, preside
over by b. F. Dieffendorf of Canajo
harie. n. Z. There were $500 me
present. and their voices swelling fort
in Onward. Christian Soldiers" tn
battle hymn of the Epworth league
was one of the stirring. effects OF tn
convention.