The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-08-07
The International &. r.
Convention at Seattle
By MRS. W. II. CLULoW Yakima City

the north WTOte IHe uecldTdllOH anu
freed the negro, God has intrusted to
the south the greater honor, blessing
and opportunity of writing the dec
laration which will mean the death
of the saloon and tie freedom of the
cursed liquor traffic.
''Our Sabbath Dissertation is MAX
ing of this an immoral and crimi-
nal nation aud, unless we stop, re-
pent and properly observe Gods day
we will have to suffer an awful ma
tional judgment.
"As the wave of civic righteous
ness has rolled from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the Pacific back
to the Atlantic, let this convention
speak as never before on the ques-
ton of good citizenship. We have
in the past suffered not so much
from bad citizens as from bad citi-
zenship of good citizens.
1.-THE grafters, boodlers and politi-
cal thieves who are today filling our
offices, who have plundered our pub
lie treasures, who have stolen our
franchises and who have sold our
common rights to public service cor
porations, never would have been
elected to our councils, legislatures
and our national halls of congress,
had our Christian citizens done their
full duty. 1t was their bad citizen
ship that permitted such infamous,
undesirable citizens to ever gain a
footing in any municipal, state or
national government"
DR.. Clark in his annual address
gave partial description of his
South American tour, where he has
been recently doing pioneer work
for Christian Endeavor. Following
he gives a description of statue
on the border line between the re-
u
rests on the crest of the Andes,
where the only pass over the noun
tain is more than 10000 feet nearer
the stars.
The statue is a figure of Our Lord
Jesus Christ holding His cross and
with appraised fingers pointing every
traveller to the skies. 1t was erect
ed to celebrate the conclusion of
the boundary dispute between the
two republics, which long threaten
ed a disastrous war.
On the base of the statue are SYM
bolic figures of the two republics in
bar relief representing Argentina
and Chile clasping hands, and un-
der meath is the motto "He is our
peace who hath made both one"
DR.. Clark asked the convention to
consider a few moments what may
be called the three great departments
of Christian Endeavor.
The prayer meetings are training
schools in expression.
The committees are training
schools in service.
The unions are training schools
in fellowship and united action.
First consider the weekly Endeav-
or prayer meetings. There is some
thing sublimely important in the
thought of what it has become
Nearly 10000 held every week in
the year. Multiply this by fifty and
you have the approximate number
held every year.
In every nation of every oonti-
nent is heard the voice of Christian
Endeavor every week. This signi-
fies that Christian Endeavor is a
great world training class in the
expression of religious life.
In speaking of The Hague confer
ence he said 81 believe many more
conferences will be held until at last
men will beat their spears into prun-
ing knives and nations learn war no
more"
The peace conference was referred
to many times and by a rising vote
of the audience the expression of
sympathy and international amity
was sent to the conference.
DR.. Clark was unanimously elect.
ed president. 1t was fitting recog.
milton for his work for Christian En-.
deavor for over a quarter of cen,
tmry. He founded the society in
February. 1881. and since that time
1t has extended throughout the
world under his able leadership.
Other important elections at this
time were VIM. Shaw secretary and
Fl. N. Lathrop treasurer.
In recognition of his work for
Christian Endeavor DR.. Mathews of
Seattle was elected to the corpora.
ton Of the Christian Endeavor SO.