Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-21
NATIONAL Y. P. C. u. C0NvEN-
TON.

One of the interesting mid-summel
gatherings held this year in the middle
WIS.,, was the National Young People,
Christian Union Convention of the Uni
versalist church, at Akron, Ohio, July
s to Is. Upwards of 1000 delegate:
were. 10 attendance. Each state dele
CATION had its banner and special songs
The enthusiasm and fine courage OF
this young host, the work undertaken
and the devotion exhibited, auger much
for he cause of Christianity in years to
come. One can scarcely appreciate the
magnitude of religious accomplishment
without witnessing the spectacle of
such convention. Sunrise prayer
meetings brought out hundreds and
the spiritual uplift of these meetings at
the beginning of each day was mar
yelous. During the past year this body
has erected and paid for chapel in St.
Paul costing $4,000, and the work of
completing the church at total cost of
$4,000 is projected. At Little Rock,
Ark. missionary is maintained and
cha II is to be built the coming year.
The church at Hartman, Tenn, has
been dedicated free of debt and pre-
sented to the Universalist denomina-
ton. The Atlanta church is entirely
paid for and prospers remarkably. 1t
has enlisted three able ministers in
Universalist work the past year. Dur
ing the reading of reports a delegate
suggested that the young people fur
nish room in the Blackmere Home, for
girls, now in process of construction at
Toxic, Japan, and the waving of more
than . hundred hands each holding
dollar bill made an exhilerating specta-
Gle. Two representative of the sunrise
kingdom were in attendance, Miss
Annie, delicate little lady who has
been educated at Tufts college, and
viii soon return to her people, to carry
the high ideals, hopes and promises of
Christianity to her benighted sisters
there, and Mr.. Saka, lately ordained in
the Escry Day Church of Boston, as a
Universalist clergyman.
Prominent speakers from all parts of
the country were in attendance. Mayor
g. w. Kemple for the city of Akron,
and DR.. A. B. Church for Buchtel Col
lege, welcomed the convention. Busi-
ness houses, public buildings and resi-
dences were decorated in the national
union colors-white and blue, all the |
protestant pulpits were occupied on
Sunday by Universalist ministers, and
on Sunday evening, at the grand mass
meeting in the big opera house, an
audience of $500 listed 20 Drs. Thomp-
son, of Jersey City; Shutter, of Mime
apolis, and Nash, of Lombard Univers-
ity, at Galesburg, H., who spoke in
spiring'y upon the great quickening
themes of christian faith and conduct.
This closing session ended when the
vast smbly clasped hands and sung
together the beautiful ''God Be With
You," and then, as it passed down the
aisles and out upon the streets, joined
in the hymn, Nearer My God to
Thee" People everywhere caught the
refrain and the silent streets resounded
with song.
Monday special train and chartered
boat conveyed an excursion to putin
bay" the scene of Commodore Perry's
victory on Lake Erie. Tuesday oc-
CURED banquet at Silver lake, the
famous summer resort of Ohio's Tip
Top City" A picnic was had at the
old home of John Brown in the suburbs
and Wednesday the conventioners paid
a visit to the tomb of President Nc
Kinley and were received at the family
home at Canton by Mrs. Mckinley 1t
was great occasion, and next year, at
Providence, the young people from far
off Florida and Washington, will meet
again with those from Wisconsin and
Texas, and all the other sister states to
rejoice in the larger hope and holier
life and plan definite practical, soul
saving work, i'll the name of Christ
and his church. B B. G..