Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-25

learned that we men of the United States
are known the world around by the
grafters We have produced" the speaker
went on to say. Just now it is popular
to be honest, but 1. is fad. I can as
sure you there are more insurance COM
panies to get into trouble, more bank
presidents and cashiers to run to Canada,
more thieves to be caught. II that Is
coming to you young man, 1t Is coming in
just the degree YOU leave God out OF
your life
Ingratitude, according to Mr.. Smith,
manifests itself in relation to ones par
entage or ancestry. Every one in the
Christian father or mother. but many are
| breaking the line of Christian ancestors
| and are not enabling their children to
brag of the Christianity Of their father.
Further. Mr.. Smith pointed out the fact
| that local young men are living In a
| Christian country amid Christian inf1u-
ences, but yet do not accept it. Recalling
| from the Bible the picture Of Christ on
the cross and two gamblers throwing dice
at the foot of the cross for Christs gar
ments, he declared that many young men
| today are wearing Christ's garments, but
are afraid to acknowledge the ownership.
| Beware. lest we forget Jehovah" he
concluded.
The meeting was notable to the Christian
| workers by reason of the large number of
those in the audience who at the close of
| the address signified their intention to
| try to lead Christian lives.
At the Evening Session.
At the evening session in D. A. r. Hall.
Judge Spencer of st. Louis presided part
| of the time, and later D. W. Ross of
| Montreal, the vice president. Mr.. Virgo.
| the Australian singer, contributed vocal
| selections.
President Hall of Union Theological
Seminary advocated a union Of the hu-
| man race. with Christ as the binding tie.
The supposed isolation of the nations
| of the east and the west, he declared, is
| due to mutual lack of knowledge and
| confidence, and hostility has been the
| melancholy result. Some. however, be-
| lieve. he declared, that the unity of the
human race is fact. some day to be
realized. Like ship blowing through
| the pillows and rising after each plunge
| into the water, so the buoyancy of the
belief in this doctrine keeps it alive.
This unity, the speaker added, will
never be accomplished by a cessation of
hostilities and the arbitration of disputes,
because such is negative conception.
The idea of bringing all nations to one
language, one form of government. the
same customs, etc. cannot be accepted
as bringing the desired result, he added,
because the individuality of nations and
races is necessary. The conception for
unity Is spiritual.
tons and guarding against the fusion OF
ideas of any nation regarding laws and
customs into those of another. the speaker
pointed out. some organization principle
spiritual way. This organization princi-
pie. the speaker declared, is the Lord,
Christ.
Principle of Spiritual Unity.
1.-THE time has come when the Christian
church must take the opportunity to as
sumo this principle of spiritual unity of
the human race in Christ and must ad-
vance into the world solely with the spirit
and gospel of the essential Christ" Mr..
Hall also said.
Turning next to the time when the city
of Rome was set afire and the Chris
tians were accused of incendiarism, Mr.
Hall declared that the reason for the
charge was that the natives claimed the
Christians had hatred against all the
world. The modern orientals, he declared,
indict Christians of today in the same
all others in the world retards the ORR
entails from accepting Christ. To remove
this idea the Y. NJ. c. A. Is establishing
the basis for a fellowship between the
youth Of the east and the west.
Among Students Of China.
Y. NJ. c. A. work among the 1900 stu
dents Of China who flock every year to
Toxic was described by F. 8. Brockman,
national secretary for China. These stu
dents are taking the educational advan-
tage OF the Japanese capital to ht them
selves to become the leders of the mil
lions Of Chinese people in a few years.
When they first began to flock to Toxic,
he stated, literature was placed in their
hands which denounced and DETAINED the
Christian religion and the missionaries
feared for the results, II the students re-
turned to all parts Of China and spread
SUCH ideas. In the first year, it was
| by Christian influences; but in the first
year along more than 1000 men were
made members of the Y. NJ. c. A. branch.
John R. Mott of 'he international com.
mittee. who has Travelled around the world
| several times in the interest Of the ASSOC
| citation. said that it Is the aim of the as
ISOLATION to Christianize as many of the
| students as possible and to neutralize the
others; SO that they will be friends of
Christianity.
"Compensations for Service was the
subject on which DR.. W. T. GrenfelI Of
Labrador spoke. In the joy In the use
OF ones talents where it win do others
good, he stated, he found the compensa-
ton for service. twenty-five years ago,
he stated, he stood up in a meeting con-
Quoted by Dwight L. Moody and promised
to lead Christian life. Eight year later,
he attended similar meeting also con-
| Quoted by Mr.. Moody. After the second
| meeting, he went up and told DR.. Moody
how much he felt indebted for the inspi-
| ration of the first meeting.
What have you been doing since?" WAS
| all Mr.. Moody said.
At Colored Mems Branch.
The mass meeting Of the colored Y. M
c. A, in the hall Of the True Reformers
yesterday at $3.50 o'clock pm, was at
| tended by about 1000 men. A service Of
song was led by Benjamin Washington,
secretary of the branch. Lewis johnson,
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. Of Buxton,
Iowa, presided. and introduced Register
w. T. Vernon of the United States Treas
ury. who invoked the blessing. after which
| r. P, Hamlin, secretary at Brooklyn, read
the third chapter Of Genesis. This chap
ter was used as foundation for a talk
by w. E. Fenno, religious secretary of
Y. M. c. A. work of the world.
Clarence G. White rendered several So
lections on the violin. International Sec
rotary ]. Moorland invited the delegates
| to the convention to be present tomorrow
at the Lincoln Temple Church. corner 18th
| and r streets. at p. m, when the citizens
| Of the city will tender the visitors q re-
| ception.
Mr. Fenno took as a subject. How the
Devil Fools U.s." He said among other
| things: Il am glad to be selected as q