Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-07
.ENDEAVORERS PLAN
FOR STATE MEETING
ANNUAL CONVENTION TO BE
HELD AT PASADENA
Committee Expects $500 Delegates to
Assembly of California Unions.
Prepare Elaborate Program
for Entertainment
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PASADENA, June 6.-Christian En-
deavorers of Pasadena are busy, and
will be for three weeks, preparing for
the state convention of the society to
be held here June % to 20. Thirty
five hundred delegates are expected To
attend this convention, and to all
whose fare is $40 or over the Pasadena
members of the union expect TO ofter
lodgings in the homes of Pasadena peo-
nle, which will include four nights and
breakfast on five days. The other
meals will be provided in some way
as yet undetermined.
In variety of program and enter
tainment the local Christian Endeav-
orers are engaged in planning novel;
ties which will surpass any other con-
vention ever held in California. The
Pasadena Presbyterian church has
been selected as headquarters for the
convention, and in it all the daylight
sessions will be held. The evening
meetings will be held in a big tent to
be situated a block from this church.
The convention committee Is COM
posed of John D. Mersereau, chairman;
Miss Mabel Merrill secretary, and w.
s. Windham, treasurer. The chairmen
of the subcommittees are as follows:
Entertainment F. l.. Brown; recep-
ton. Mrs. A. B. Williams; music,
MacD. SNOWFALL; decoration, Oliver
Kriess; registration, Miss Carrie
Young: halls, E. L. Eldridge; ushers
and pages George w. Braden; press,
f. w. Bailey; excursions, L. e. Jarvis;
pulpit supply, Rev. f. NJ. Dowling.
Many pleasant trips have been
planned for the delegates during their
stay in this city, among them being ex-
tn a " ostrich farm.
Mount Lowe, the orange groves of Co
yina and Azusa the San Gabriel mis-
sion, Sierra Madre canyon, the
beaches and other places of interest.
The intermediate picnic will be one of
the big events of the social side of the
convention.
To Establish Postoffice
Through the efforts of Postmaster j..
w. Wood arrangements have been
made for the establishment of a
branch postoffce at the Pasadena
Presbyterian church, where a trained
postal clerk will have charge of the
mail for the delegates and the sale of
stamps and delivery of letters.
Among the famous speakers who will
be heard at the convention will be
President John Willis Baer of Occiden-
tai college, secretary of the worlds
union; DR.. J. r. Pratt, famous evan
gelist of New York; DIR. Elmore Harris
of Toronto, Canada, said to be one of
the strongest Bible teachers on this
continent; DIR. L. A. McAfee of Berke-
ley; DR.. Matt S. Hughes, pastor of the
First Methodist church of this city;
Miss Sadie Ambrose of Los Angeles;
Rev. r. A. Hadden and Rev. T. c. Hor-
ton of the Los Angeles Bible institute;
Leo S. Rogers, the Junior expert of
Berkeley; Rev William T. Patchell,
pastor of the Congregational church in
San Jose; Rev. stephen G. Emerson of
San Diego and a half dozen other bril-
liant minds of the state whose places
on the program have not yet been de-
termined.
The theme for the entire convention
is personal Responsibility" and this
will be amplifled in the addresses and
services to be held morning, noon and
night by the delegates.