Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-10
SEVENTY.SEVEN CHURCHES
Christian BndsavOr Delegates Take Posses
sion of Baltimore Houses Of Worship.
MONSTER MASS MEETING FOR MEN
Miss Ellen VI. stone Addresses Gather
ing of wOmen-Henry w. wilber
Talks of Greed and
Graft.

BALTIMORE, July 9.-Nothing. perhaps
could give more impressive idea of the
interest aroused in this city by the Chris
tian Endeavor convention, which closes
tomorrow night, than the fact that spe-
cial convention services at which sermons
were delivered by some of the clergymen
among the visiting delegates, were held
this morning in seventy-five churches of
various denominations and at night twenty
one conservation services were held simul-
taneously in as many churches and that in
every case the size of the audience was
limited only by the capacity of the build
ing. In addition in the afternoon monster
meeting for men was held at Armory hall,
at which Rev. Charles Stelzel Of Chicago
and Rev. w. f. Blederwolf Of Monticello
Ind, were the speakers, and during which
800 men professed conversion, and at the
Lyric Mrs James L. Hill of Salem, Mass,
presided over meeting for women which
crowded the building. At this meeting the
principal address was delivered by Miss
Ellen M Stone of Macedonia, who, among
other things said that in Turkey, where,
according to the speaker the government
will not put down the btigands, 1t is pos
sible for such experiences to take place as
was hers.
OlhtI hlAtlilbOh hlStAihbe "SAS AA~'N- -
Harlem Avenue Christian church, where
prison Christian Endeavor was discussed
by Chaplain A. G. Gates Of the Kansas
Industrial reformatory and others, and at
the Associate Congregational church, where
a boys and girls meeting was addressed
by Rev. Carey Bonner of London, England.
Greed and Graft.
The principal meeting of the evening
was held at the Lyric, which was crowded
for the second time today. Secretary Won
Ogden Vogt of Boston presided and the
first speaker was Henry W. WILDER of
Philadelphia, who, taking as his text I'm
iuuitous Siamese Twins" said:
Nearly everybcd dy outside the ranks of
the Christian Endeavorers fancies that
the American idea in government and what
we are pleased to call American civilization
ride safely. and finished on the mgh tde
of lasting success. But popular SUPERFICIAL
olGnion at this point is more than haf
Up to date our country has been simply
splendidly victorious over its obstacles and
adversities. 1t Is now on the borderland,
il not in the midst of its testing time. Greed
and graft may preside as death 8 mead
ernment and still the question that deep
answers to deep and asks of the ordinary
citizen is, What are you going to do ABOUT
It?
The conspiring corruptionlst who uses an
Indifferent and venal citizenship to give MIN
power in the primaries and potency IN the
municipal or the larger legislature cannot
alone imperil or impair free government
To render him unable to steal or buy po-
litical victories more morally virile cit
izenship must approach the ballot box with
the confidence OF a sovereign and the con-
cerned conscience of a serving patriot.
Men without poison in their bodies and
disease microbes in their blood, without the
canker of vice in the heart and the consum-
ing fire of abnormal appetite in their per-
sons, may arise superior to poverty, may
avert Industrial disaster, may make the
despot and the demagogue cease from
troubling
health and moral vigor, and feed and fat
ten the third and thirty-third vice which
makes so many of the electorate of the
land mere clay in the hands of the schem-
ing politician and the selfish time e-server.
They both tend to debauch the person and
him industrially physically and morally
impecunious. One of these vices takes the
fresh clean-Visaged and rosy-cheeked
youth tans his cuticle on the outside, max
ing him smoke and spit his manhood away,
drying up the life juices until the horse
and stronger stimulants and drives him
from the cigarette to the beer schooner,
from a street smoker to a saloon loafer.
The descent is thus easy from the home
to the grogshop; from the attitude of
manly self-respect to condition of de-
reeds like himself, from whom sane civic
action and concerned moral conduct are
hardly to be expected.
other speakers were DIR. Mary Wood AL
len of Ann Arbor, Mich; Rev. r. c. Wiley
of Pittsburg, Pa, and Rev. Samuel Nc
Naugher, S. I. B., Of Cambridge, Mass.