Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-15
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION
Miss McPherrin of Oakland Reelected
President for the District.
WORK PROsPERs DURING YEAT
No Sessions TO he Held During Morn
ing and Closing one of the Con-
ventiOn to he Held in
the Evening.

Miss Mary B. McPherrin of Oakland was
honored by the convention of the seventh
District Iowa Christian Endeavor union
Saturday by being reelected president
for the ensuing year. Tne other Officers
elected are: Vice president, Rev. L. e..
Harris Of Logan; secretary, Miss Helen
Z. Allen of Logan; treasurer, Ross Will
liams Of Council Bluffs; Junior superin-
tendent, Miss Sadie Pugsley of Wood
blne; missionary superintendent. Mrs. A
A. Robertson of Oakland; Bible study SUI
perintendent, DIR. J. George OF, Atlautic.
The place for holding next years con-
vention was not determined upon yester-
day.
The delegates to the sixteenth annual
convention of the Seventh District Iowa
Christian Endeavor union put In a busy
day Saturday. Three sessions were held
and at each, besides considerable business
being transacted, many interesting al
dresses were given and matters Of great
import to the members were discussed.
In her annual address Miss Mary Nc
Pherrin. the president spoke most en-
couragingly of work in the district. say
ing, in part:
I believe our work throughout the district
has taken many advance steps during the
last months. In whatever 1 may have been
able to do TO help advance our work, l
| WISH " GADAEEH ILL., 81 aNdNhhG " NoSA Va
the officers who have labored with me,
they have been faithful and consecrated In
every detail pertaining 70 our WORK gSd TIE Fa,e
lowship which has been 80 manifest In all
our work together shall never be forgotten.
From my observation / believe the En-
deavorers throughout our district are earn
est and faithful and are doing aggressive
work for the Master or. course we tnd
here and there local weaknesses, but this
we must expect.
During TIE year ! have endeavored to
espoeciaily thss Junior. / believe we must
have Juniors IL we are to have real Chris
tian Endeavorers in the future. / hope the
time will soon come when every church In
our district has a Junior society,
During the year new societies have been
In membership. from here and there over
our district comes the cheering report that
the Endeavorers are more faithful, more
spiritual, more DESTROYS OF rendering service
for Christ, more pdayerful, more ,conse;
Grated to the winning OF SOUS, more loyal
to the church, and SO FOR these e amS sna r p
double our efforts For Christ ana TINS
Church"
Prosperous Year.
The report OF the secretary, Miss Heller
e. Allen, showed %fifty-four societies, in the
district union with a total membership OIL
1856. A total Of $1,6sO.Oe was contributed foi
all purposes. i've new societies were or
ganized during the year. several old one'
were reorgan!zed, and six disbanded.
The attendance of delegates yesterday
reached the $50 mark, but the sessions wer'
attended by many guests. The evening ses
sion attracted an audience which filled the
large auditorium. A feature of the eveninl
session was the address of Rev. l.. o. Bairt
Of Omaha, WHO took as his subject
WANTED. Workers"
There will be no session of the conve
ton this morning and instead the visiting
delegates have been invited to attend til,
services at the churches having member
ship in the City Christian Endeavor union
The convention will be brought to a clos
with the service this evening at which tn,
newly elected officers will be installed. TIL
installation will be conducted by Mrs
, Hattie s. Carruthers of Hastings, Neb
state junior superintendent of the NJ
, braska Christian Endeavor union.
These committees were appointed at tn
morning session by the president, Mis-
Mary b. McPherrin of Oakland:
! Nominating Committee-Glen Jackson
Logan; Emma Paulk, Harlan; Mrs. Jenni
l.. Coe, Woodbine.
5 Resolutions Committee-Rev j. A. M
9 Kenzie, Woodbine; Thomas Tacy, Wood
bine; Mrs. A. A. Robertson, Oakland.
I Committee on Place of Meeting-Ros
. Williams, Council Bluffs; Helen Aller
4 Logan; Miss Mary B.. McPherrin, Oakland
3 Auditing Committee - Charles Tuppel
Woodblne; Nora Mccullough, Griswold
e Everett Wright, Council Bluffs.