The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-27
CONVENTION OF
ENDEAVORERS
c. {. Marks of Salt Lake Is
e-eIeCted President Of
the Organization.
RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED
MISSION WORK AMONG FOR
EIGNERS IN UTAH URGED.

The eighteenth annual convention Of
the Utah Christian EndeaVOr Union was
held yesterday at the Central Christian
church.
G. L. Marks of Salt Lake was re-
elected president of the organization.
The other officers who were elected at
yesterdays meeting are William Blum
Of Salt Lake, first vice-president; Will
lam Mcclure of ogden, second vice
president, and Miss Eva NJ Fleming of
salt Lake, secretary and treasurer. The
new board Of directors chosen consists
OF L. II. Page. Robert JeSSup and &. II.
BTOdus of salt Lake, s. H. Goodwin of
Provo, Miss Hazel Snyder of KaysviIIe
and Miss Serena Nelson Of Mt. Pleas
ant
The morning session, which convened
al 1880 o'clock, was opened by an ad-
dress of welcome by Rev P 4. Simp-
kin Of the Phillips Congregational
church, G. F. Marks, the president of
the union, made a brief response to the
speech. After a paper on How to
Make the Prayer Meeting Most Helpful
TO Young Christians was read by Miss
Mabel Jones of Salt Lake, the business
meeting Of the convention was called
TO order. The reports of the various
committees were made and the officers
for the ensuing year were elected. The
convention then adopted the following
resolutions:
Resolutions Adopted.
The Utah State Christian Endeavor
Union in annual convention assembled
do hereby resolve
First-That for the deepening of the
spiritual life Of our members must de-
pend the only true growth in our sOcle-
ties.
SecOud-That the state union continue
to help i'm close fellowship write all
Christian societies and lend every as
sistauCe and cuCgUTa cement to the or
gauizgtiou Of new societies where mis-
sion work is now carried ON.
ThIrd-That each society be urged 20
engage in some definite mission work
FoUrth-ThaJ tho Christian Eudeavor
and kindred societies of Salt Lake City
be organized to- urge mission work
among the foreigners i'm our midst. es-
PeCialIv among the Japanese
Fiftn-That q copy Of these Tesoiu=
tons be sent t. each of the societies.
The convention then took a recess uu-
til the afternoon session.
Papers Read in Afternoon.
The afternoon session of the conven-
tiou was started by a short song serv-
ice. William Mcclure of Ogden read d
paper ON "The Responsibility of
l.. .E-Ftaf t1Ilf9lttHg- ne paper was
followed by a general discussion ON this
subject. The attention of the cuuven-
ton was then devoted entirely to mis-
zioua~v work. and Miss Fanny Thome
of Salt Lake presented q paper on The
Opportunity and Duty of the Christian
Eu5eaEor Society il Missionary Work"
During the discussion Of this paper the
convention recommended that special
mission work be done among the Japa-
ue@e of the state and also that a sun
d1v Bible class be arranged for them
Nj kOhaya-hi Of ogden. the president
NJ "a Christian En5eavor society Of
Japanese which has tweuty-fOUT mem
hers gave an interesting talk ON this
subject. He said that the mission work
among the japanese that was being
taken up an over the country was meet
iuC with great success
IN the evening session DR.. William
TaGeu Of the First Presbyterian church
gave z scriptUTaI reading Rev. Will
lam Ross LLOYD of the Central Chris
tan church spoke on The Relations
of the Christian EndeavOT Society and
the Church" and Rev. :. A. HaywOrth
Of the East Side Baptist church talked
on What the World Has a Right to
Expect Of q Young Christian"
During the evening entertainment the
Westminster QUaTtette consisting of
NfeSsrs. McKera han, Johns, TToxaH and
Johnson. rendered some pleasing mem
iu- members.