Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-06
MEMBERS ARE SIGHTSEEING
Minneapolis Selected as Place fol
Next Gathering.
ADDRESSES AT FINAL SESSION
Rev. Frank o. Hall Discusses Social
Attacks Old Individualisn.

With an enthusiastic demonstration al
the close and the singing OF onward
Christian Soldiers the National Young
Peoples Christian Union OF the ohiNef-
salist Church. which was in session III
the Church of Our Father. 18th ana Il
streets. for five days. adjourned last even
ing.
Members of the convention visited Ar
lington. Alexandria and Mount Vernon To-
day. and this evening many of the dele
gates will depart for their homes. Others
will so on an excursion down the Potomac
aboard the jamestown.
At the closing session announcement
was made that Minneapolis had been Sc
lected as the next meeting place July
to "A, 1909 with the understanding that
the sessions of one day be held in ST.
Paul.
President Childs also announced that
the missionary collection at this conVen-
ton amounted to 5000. an average or
more than S12 per delegate. Inc average
he said, is higher than any in the history
of the organization, with the exception or
the convention at Detroit last year.
Discusses Social Problems.
Rev. Frank Oliver Hall. DID,, of New
York; Rev. l.. NJ. Powers. DID,, Of Mas
sachusetts and Rev. G. 1. KERN, DID,, of
Indiana delivered addresses at the clos
ing session. DR.. Hall. who is favorite
orator at the Y. P. c. L. conventions,
discussed the social problems. The So
cial problem of today" he said. rs now
can men and women live together to pro-
mote the happiness of all? The answer OF
Jesus was that they should live as If they
were Gods children. living in Gods
world. Mere intellectual attachments can
no. solve the social problem Men OF
great brain power may be menace. Inc
most dangerous anarchists in this coun-
try are not immigrants in the back rooms
of Paterson making bombs. They are
men of great intellectual ability, who
haunt state legislatures and bride men
to make laws to protect special interests
and allow unrighteous things. Beauty
will not establish the kingdom of God.
We are meeting in the most beautiful
city of this country. But this city has
its share Of vice and crime. The worst
gambling he'll on earth is the surprisingly
beautiful Monte Carlo. Liberty does not
necessarily mean the coming OF the king
dom of God. Often license comes hand in
hand with liberty.
There have been many dreams of the
ideal social state Our favorite way in
America to realize it is to get together
and pass laws. Strange we should have
such faith in law when SO many laws are
evaded and nulifled often by the con-
nivance of the men who make them.
More recently men have been advocating
collectivism or socialism. That is not the
way to reach the kingdom. I am not a
socialist. but 1 believe that socialism is
the next thing we will try.
THE very people who hate socialism are
forcing socialism upon us. They are
making their great combines. BY and
by the people will have to choose be-
tve cen an oligarchy on the one side or
socialism on the other. and they will take
socialism.
What Jesus taught was that We are to
seek righteousness and peace and love
in the individual life, and then society
would take care of itself
by all means let us have broad intel
lectual culture. BY all means let us have
beauty-parks, Fairgrounds. art galleries.
etc. BY all means let us have liberty
and law. BY all means let us have single
tax, collectiveism, socialism, il you please.
II am not afraid of any of these things.
but let us have first of all individual
righteousness. Seek We first the kingdom
of heaven -