New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-21
CHRIST, TIE CHAMPION"
Chicago Pastor DeliCers address to
Labor at Des MoineS.
IBy Telegraph to The Trlbune.1

(By Telegraph The Tribunal
Des Moines Iowa, May 20-"AIy prayer Is tnat
every workingman in this great audience may take
Jesus Christ as his champion But most earnestly
do 1 pray that every one OF you may take Jesus
Christ his Saviour
With these earnest words which might well have
been spoken in one of the churches of the city, the
Rev Charles Sickle of Chicago, closed his insplr-
ing address on tho champion of Labor IN the
Auditorium this afternoon. A few hundred mem
bers OF the General Assembly were in the auuiehce,
composed Of between three and four thousaHu
Workingmer
CT,urch and Labor Department OF the Board Oh
Home Missions Of the Presbyterian Chulcn' y
which Mr.: Sickle is superintendent III. ia a.
L. Thomson secretary OF the board. preslueu. 1"o
Dr. D. Stuart Dodge. president OF the noaro. o.e.s
the opening prayer. The hymn An Han ule
Power of Jesus Name was surg by the audience
Ben Lewis a coal miner from this state. sang TWO
solos most effectively A chorus OF the S"eu'sn
Society, made up of mechanics also sang Two u
three times. Then came four addresses from ira
ternal delegates who represent their presDyteIes "
various cities-J. Gray Bolton. Of Philadelphia
John Bancroft Devins. of New York; s Edward
Young Of Pittsburg. and E P. Hil'. OF Portland
Dr. Bolton brought the greeting Of ninety thou-
sand laboring men with whom he was associated
in Philadelphia. and told the preachers ana the
v-orlxing1nen how they could mutually help one
another DR. Devins, who was for several years
the pastor Of Mr.. Stelze iE New York paio g 0e-
served tribute to the members CT the Oeh'idi Heu
GRATED Union to which he is delezate, ana ms
statement that this union recently sent a large
contribution to San Francisco to be used III re-
lieving distress IT. general rather than connhhs II
20 those who were members of the labor unions,
ms heartily appiauded DR. Devins pleaded with
the preachers and the workingmeE present to study
the question in which each class is especially IN.
teres,ed as IA as possible, from the viewpoint OF
the other class DR.. Young also had word Tor
preachers and laborers. urging liberation ana NUT
ual acquaintance DR. Hin said that he had
learned three lessons from his years of study:
First that the labor movement is OF the
mightiest factors Of civilization; second that
among laboring men there is 2 widespread dlssat-
iefaction with the churches and. thnd, that the
workingmen are not wink different to-day from
the men of old who loved and honored ana Io4-
lowed Jesus Chris.
A. L. Trick. president OF the Iowa State FEEDER
alton of Labor presented Mr.. SteZle as the man
who under the leadership Of the Man Of Naza-
reth is doing. much TO bring together the Church
Mr.. Sickle gave what would have been under any
What think ve Of Christi Although the meeting
lasted two hours, not man stirred until us eleS
deep impression upon the cleTgyInen present.
Nearly every Protestant churG tln 9ne clergvnen
DR.. Henry Dyke. of Princeton, spoke 10 an the
half hour before the service began.
DR.. Hunter Corbett told the thrilling story OF ms
life and experiences in China When he went there
the number Of Christians in the empire did not ex-
Geed & some o Say ha daa The Evening
the college board held a popular meeting in the
auditorium. DR.. Robert Mckenzie Of New 9oPk,
president Of the board, presided The speakers
we're DR.. w H. Roberts, the stated clerk; Dr. John
II. Converse of Philadelphia; President Holden OF
Wooster University: Miss Hargaret Henry, Of Ten
nessee. and DR.. !. s Dickson, the secretary or the
college board 1885,,
No word has been received from the Cumberland
Assembly in Decatur, further than that those VINO
opposed the union have been out-Voted IN the as
seTnbly and that decision has been reached IN
the Civil Court The situation here remains I'M
changed pending developments.
Il IS understood that Dr. Herrick Johnson OF
Chicago, has withdrawn his opposition to the Pres
byterian Prayer Book and has sent telegram
stating that he misunderstood the committee re-
port or would not have opposed It at the outset.