The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-18
LEAGUERS NOW NUMBER
TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND.
Attendance at the Detroit COnven-
ton Breaks the Record.


Detroit, July 17.-There was no les
SEEMING of enthusiasm among the Ep-
worth Leaguers, and Tent Ontario.
Auditorium Epworth, the Detroit
Opera House and the Central Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, where to-night's
meetings were held, were crowded to
their capacity again.
Rev. H. NJ Hamill of Nashville.
Tenn, in an address referred to the
negro question.
I'VE have made the negro" he said,
"a thing to be batted to and fro by
political parties, and we have forgot
ten his religion in a large measure.
What we need is to spend more time
in putting the grace of Christ in the
hearts OF the black people. What we
need to do to solve the negro problem
is to transform any instinct of savage
ry that may exist in the few of that
race, in order to stop the lighting of
faggots and the raising of stakes. 1t is
our only hope. And when you of the
North write resolutions condemning
hlOD Jaw that llAGy dIC llOl
Methodist hands that pull the ropes
and light the fires
Rev. A. B. Leonard of New York
spoke on the negro question. He said:
Nor is America free from the shame
and sin of depressing and cruelty
treating the children of Ham. Brought
here without their consent. as human
merchandise, liberated after two CEN
turtles of slavery by the exigencies of
war, they are now outcasts, socially
and politically, and, often denied the
right of trial by jury, they are shot
or hanged or burned at the stake. both
in the North and South"
Beginning with a watch serv-
ice at 6:S o'clock this morn
ing, to-day's programme for the
Epworth Leaguers, who are at
tending the sixth international conven-
ton of the league, comprised twelve
meetings during the day and evening.
Despite the early hour there was
good attendance at the meeting
watch, which was presided over by
ANCN. u. L. 4OWllC VI NIlCCAANdSNACs 1nd.t
in the Central Methodist Episcopal
Church.
At O'Clock four departmental con-
ferences began, which occupied the
rest of the morning. There was spir-
ituaI work in the Central Methodist
Episcopal Church, missionary work in
the Detroit Opera House, Junior work
at the Central Presbyterian Church,
and literary and social work, at the
Fort Street Presbyterian Church.
| The general topic of the three meet
ings, in Epworth Auditorium. Tent
Ontario and the Detroit Opera House,
was witnessing" The same pro-
grammes were followed at each meet
ing.
Following are the subjects discussed:
THE Epworth League and Personal
Testimony" THE Epworth League and
Our Unsaved Associates; The Ep-
worth League and the Indifferent Null
titude," and 1.-The Epworth League and
the Boy Problem"
In addition to the addresses on these
subjects and the usual devotions and
singing there were fifteen minutes of
moments of waiting" at each meet
ing.
At the headquarters of the reception
committee it was said to-day that there
are approximately $4,000 delegates in
the city. This estimate, Chairman
Southwick says, is conservative, as
half of the delegates coming in do not
take the trouble or the time to regis
ter. The record for attendance, here
tofore, was $1,000 at San Francisco two
years ago.
The weather is cool, with delight
full breeze.