Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-07-06
ENDEAVORERsATsT. PAUL
Twenty-Fourth international Chris
tan Endeavor Convention Will
Open Wednesday.
CHerald Specially

st. Patl, Mimi, July 6.-By tens
and hundreds the enthusiastic young
delegates are pouring into st. Paul
for the twenty-fourth international
Christian Endeavor convention, which
is to be formally opened in this city
tomorrow. It is expected that by to-
morrow at noon twenty thousand visE
itors will be here to attend the pHo-
ceedings of the convention. They
come from all parts of the United
States and from Canada, with Smaller
delegations from other lands iR which
the Christian Endeavor movement
has gained a foothold.
When the international officers
reached the city and opened their
headquarters at the Hotel Ryan they
found the local arrangements for the
entertainment of the convention to
be of the most perfect and elaborate
character. For several months the
St Paul and Minneapolis committees
have been diligently preparing for
the gathering, I They announce that
comfortable Accommodations have
been prepared for all visitors. Pub
lie buildings, hotels and many bust
ness houses are decorated in honor
of the occasion.
The Sessions of the convention will
be held in the Auditorium, which
has "a seating capacity of over $4,000,
while auxiliary meetings will be held
IN the Central Presbyterian church,
Ihe Metropolitan opera house and in
/several smaller halls. The Armory
will also be used for convention pur-
poses. Here there has been installed
an exposition of missionary work all
ever the world. There are exhibits
of all the books, tracts and lectures
written upon missionary work, and
displays of the civil, moral and re-
ligious progress made within the last
ten years.
This is to be the Singing Conven-
ton" Not only will the delegates
sing at the meeting, but they will go
from place to place in the street cars
singing their Endeavor hymns Dr.
Clark, the founder of the society, has
sent word all over the world that this
convention is to be the greatest sing
ing assemblage in the history of the
organization. There will be many
praise services, and great patriotic
service Thursday afternoon on the
steps of the capitol, led by E. o. Elk
cell of Chicago, Percy S: Foster of
Washington and F. H. Jacobs of New
York Saturday evening Mendei-
ssohn's great oratorio, "The Elijah, /"
will be sung in the Auditorium with
a large chorus and eminent soloists.
There will be little routine business
to transact during the convention.
The only actual business meeting will
be held tomorrow morning in the
Hotel Ryan, when the annual bust
ness meeting of the United Society of
the Christian Endeavor Corporation
will take place. At this meeting the
officers and trustees of the United
Society for the ensuing year will be
elected, and the annual reports of the
officers and business agents will be
presented. One of the matters to be
+. discussed is the project for the cree
ton of great international head
quarters building in Boston
The regular opening of the conven-
ton will take place in the Auditorium
tomorrow evening, with the Rev. DR..
Francis E. Clark, president of the
United Society, presiding. Address
of welcome to the delegates will be
made by Governor Johnson, repre-
senting the state of Minnesota; May
Or Lawler, representing st. Paul; the
Rev. H. C. Swearingen, representing
the churches of st. Paul, and j. P.
Moore, on behalf of the committee.
Prominent speakes to be heard at
the subsequent sessions of the con-
vention include Senator Albert ].
Beveridge of Indiana, William j.
Bryan of Nebraska, Dean H. L. Will
lett of the. University of Chicago,
Rev. Floyd w. Tompkins of Philadel-
rhia, Bishop Samuel Fallows, and
Mrs. Bessie Laythe Scovill, president
of the Minnesota W. C. T. q. Greet