The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-22
IEAGUERS
 CLOSE LABOR Officers Chosen for Two
 Conferences. BISHOP cANDLER SPEAKS Methodist Pre1ate Delivers Inspir-
 ing Address. Meeting for Southern Half of State Will Be Held Next Year in selma,
 With Rev. J. B. Airey.
 Presiding.

Aobie, June Z1.-tcpcCldij-On the closing day the Epworth League Con- Nention elected officers. chose Selma as the next meeting place or the Alab3ma League Conference, heard an inspir- ing address by Bishop Candle-, and ahe delegates enjoyed a trolley ride.
 The New Officers.
 Officers of the two Epworth League Conferences of the State were elected as follows:
 The Alabama League Conference. or South Alabama Conference-Presiden Rev. J. Bruce Airey. of Mobile; first vice-president. Miss Nell Glenn. of Pen- sacola; second vice-president. Miss Louise windham, of Mobile; third vice president Miss Mary Skinner. of De- mopolis; fourth vice-president, H. w. Rice, Of Camden: secretary. A. W. Dahlberg, of Montgomery; treasurer. Q. M. Robb, of Pine Apple: junior su- perintendent. Mrs. H. T. Strout Pol lard
 District secretaries-Mobile. Miss Minna Moore; Selma, Miss Edith Rice; Montgomery, G. A. Grant; Troy. Rev. Frank c. Hastings. of Brundige; Mari anna, Rev. H. M. Andrews, of Colum- bia; Pensacola. Miss Nell w. Rich ards: Prattville, Miss Louise Davis; Greensboro, F. W. Chapman; Eufaula, vacant.
 North Alabama conference-Presi-
 
 vice-president, Miss Emma Thornton; second ice-president, Miss Annie Will Hams. of Ellisvil1e: third vice-presi- dent. L. D. Patterson, of Birmingham; fourth vice-president Miss Carrie Newman, of Talladega: secretary, Miss Helen Gill. of Huntsville; correspond ing secretary. Miss L. E. Pugh, of Bir- mingham; editor for the Epworth League department of The Alabama Advocate. W. G. Henry. of Pratt City: Junior superintendent, Mrs. Boyd, of Gadsden.
 the next meeting of the Alabama league conference. there being no other place 3n nomination. The meeting place for the North Alabama conference was left to the president and his cabinet
 Miss Colleen Moore sang a solo this morning, precedin gthe delightful speaker, Rev. MT. DuBose. the general secretary of the league, from Nash ville. The subject of MT. DuBoses ad- dress was How to Make Successful Men and Women.
 He said the anatomy of success was composed of prayerfulness, helpfulness, Fellowship to books. social fellowship and the love for little children. His main theme was that ones life is what one makes it. and is the result of what ones ideals of life are culti- vated.
 The delegates to the conference en- 5oyed a trolley ride throughout the city this afternoon. going over the principal car lines in two special cars.
 Bishop CandIer Speaks.
 The conference closed tonight when Bishop Candler delivered an address 4o the conference.
 At the close of the night meeting farewells were said Many o fthe dele gates left for their homes tonight.
 khA ITan East" said Bishop Candler. but in truth there Is nothing far about the East now. Distance has been contrac- ted, if we may not say utterly annull- ed by the speed of modern transporta- lion.
 'Fwhen Dr. Young J. Allen went to China, fifty years ago. he was some six months on the journey. whereas when I went out last summer. I was out only three weeks. The Far East is our near neighbor. The ends of the earth have been brought together. And this fact means much.
 ''The nations of the earth being no longer foreigners, but near neighbors to each other have become a great family, and no member of this great family can suffer without all the rest suffering with it. The condition of health and disease, light and darkness, Christian and heather tend to a com mon level throughout the entire world. The whole race must soon be all Chris tian or all pagan.
 ''The Oriental nations are the popu- lous nations. One third of the human race live in Japan, Korea and China. With these multitudinous people and commercial and political relations must become increasingly intimate and Important.
 "The first ages of the world saw the maritime commerce of mankind con- fined for the most part to the Medi- terranean sea. After the discoveries of Columbus the Atlantic ocean, be- came the scene of that trade. The time is now at hand when 1t will move into the Pacific. The cutting of the Pana- ma Canal must accelerate the move ment, and as a consequence, the Unit ed States, especially the South. Is vast 1y interested in the welfare and pro gress of the great nations who live on the other side of the Pacific.
 Pagan faiths repress the productive mowers of men while Christianity makes them fertile and fruitful. China Christianized, would want a hundred fold more of the things of other na- tions, as Pagan China wants, and Chrtstianized China would have a thousand fold more resources in It's hands with which to satisfy It's wants as Pagan China. If every adult Chl-
 
 ment annually the fact would raise the price of cotton a cent a pound.
 This mighty, ponderous East. which has slumbered so long, is awakening 4o new life and is calling for new light l--the light of Christian civilization. The whole East is athirst for what Orientals call the Western learning. and the Western learning Is so much the product of the Christian religion and is so permeated with Christian in- fauences, the East can not obtain the one and utterly escape the other. The Western nations ought to answer this thirst for Western learning by sup plying in abundance the pure water of our holy religion. That would secure the prosperity and the peace of the Orient.
 sgThe danger of any conflict between any Oriental power and our own coIn- fry is increased or diminished by the absence or presence of Christian influ- ances among the Oriental nations. If Japan. Korea and China are Christian nations, they will be trustful and friendly nations and. on the other hand, if they remain heather nations, they will be suspicious and hostile. We must, give them Christ or they will give Jzs5 trouble
 you will not understand me as 'Joining in any cry to create war scare in the reference to any near aproach of war with Japan. Such talk IS as mischievous as 1t is groundless. Japan will not make war on any na- ion in her present financial condition. al-. Aa An aRff inc