Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-07-23
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Its Convention at Detroit Is Il
Great Success.
About 1900 Delegates Already On
the Ground i Leading Wethodi>ts
Address Enthusiastic Crowds
at -Four Big Pcntecostni
Tcnt Meetings.

Detroit, Mich, July 17.-Last night
four great pcntccostal meetings were
held bv the Epworth leaguers in Tent
Ontario, Central NJ. f.. church, the
Detroit opera house and the Fort
Street Presbyterian church. Tent
Ontario, with a seating capacity OF
5000. was iammed to suffocation and
tho opera house and the Central Nj.
+. church were crowded to their ut
most capacity, while the Fort Street
church, which is only a short dis
tance from Tent Ontario and conSe-
quently suffered by reason of the
great meetin- there, was comfort
ably filed. At the headquarters of
the convention committee it was said
at 10 o'clock that the total registra-
tion of delegates had reached 1900,
with more arriving on every train.
Every seat in Tent Ontario was oc-
cupied and delegates stood about the
edges of the tent, which had been
raised to admit air, six and seven
deep. Back of the speakers and sing
ers' platform blazed a great electric
Epworth league emblem in colored
lights. 1t was an inspiring sight
when Rev. \. c. Crews, the chairman
of the meeting, stepped forward
and announced that Rev. G.. A. Reed
err, of Cleveland, would open the
meeting with prayer. Bishop Gallo
way. of jackson, Miss, bishop of the
Methodist church south, was the first
speaker on "The Eighteenth Century
Pentecost."
/ Mr.. Galloway recalled the pente-
! costal meeting in 1879 that resulted
/ in the founding of Methodism by
/ John Wesley and his associates, and
! graphically pictured the men who
were present at that meeting He
declared that Wesley and his coad-
tutors were guided by the divine
spirit in their founding of the church,
for, he said, nothing conceived en-
tirely by human instrumentality
could have achieved such mighty
things as has Methodsm.
Bishop Galloway, himself a south
ern man. referred to the late Presi-
dent McKinley's declaration while in
the south, that the Confederate
graves should be decorated on Memo
rial day as well as the Federal, and
his name was greeted with a great
burst Of applause.
Bishop Goodsell was to have spok-
en- on "The First Pentecost," but i'll
ness prevented his attending the con
vention. and when Chairman Crews
announced that his place would be
taken by Bishop .TCyce, of Minneapo-
lis, president of the Epworth league
the great audience broke into ap
the front of the platform.
The same program was followed NJ
the other three meetings and the
same subjects discussed hv the speak.
ers.
Detroit. Mich, July 1s.-There was
no lessening of enthusiasm among
the Epworth Ieaguers last night. and
Tent Ontario, Auditorium Epworth.
the detroit opera house and the Cen
traI NJ. f. church, where the night
meetings were held, were crowded TO
their capacity. Every seat in the bio
tent was occupied and people we're
turned away from the opera house in
/ gFeat numbers, while in the church
/ every pew was crowded and chairs
were placed in the aisles. '"Ine Field
/ Near at Hand" The Field Far
/ Away" and THE Part in the WORLDS
I Evangelization" were the topics of
the evening at all four meetinTs