Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-06-23
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
The Greatest State Convention Ever
Held in the Northwest Has Just
Been Held in Payette-More Than
Two Hundred Registered Delegates
From Outside of Payette-OVer
Three Hundred People Eat Dinner
Together.

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Three Hundred People Eat Dinner
Together.
The eleventh annual convention Of
the Christian churches in South
Idaho has just been held in Payette.
The gathering was an amazement to
everyone who witnessed the attend
ance.
The convention was held one year
ago in Weiser. The largest attend
ance in the history of South Idaho
conventions was reached there when
1orty-two certificates were filed. Al
that convention Minister Peters of
the Payette church, under instruction
from his own congregation, presented
an invitation to the convention to
hold the 1910 gathering in Payette'
and the invitation was accepted. AS
the months passed and the time Tor
the annual gathering drew near the
local church and the state board
of missions began preparation for the
Payette meeting. Letters were writ
ten to all of the churches, rates were
secured on the railroads, and in or
der to put the matter more forcibly
before the churches Minister Peters
made a tour of the churches with
pressing invitation to attend the con-
yention. The men of the local church
were carefully organized into one
association with J. H. Weider as pres
ident, and in these two organizations
committees were created to care
for the various phases of the coming
meeting. 1t was the general feeling
that this convention was going to
outmeasure anything in the line OF
state conventions in Idaho, and pre-
parations were made accordingly. En-
tertainment was furnished free for
the entire period of four days and
five nights.
The time for the coming of the
delegates arrived. Everything was
in first class shape. The visitors
were relieved of every care. The
entertainment committee was on the
ground to welcome them; conyen-
tion baggage man cared for the bag
gage and a corps of messenger boys
piloted guests to their homes where
the hosts were not there to do 1t
The very first session
on Thursday night was an eye-opener.
The house was packed. There were
more delegates already on the ground
for the very first session than had
ever been in attendance upon an
entire convention before, and they
continued to come until when the
final registration was made up there
were 2O2 names on the roll, and
some got away without being regis
tered That number does not in
clude the large local attendance.
The convention was blessed with
the presence of national workers in
the persons of Mrs. Atwater, presi-
dent of the National Christian Wo-
mans Board of Missions, |. N. Nc
Cash, General Secretary Of the Amer
lean Christian Missionary Society and
]. H. Mohorter, General Secretary of
the National Benevolent Association
of the Christian Church. The ad-
dresses of the national characters
were of a very high order and their
presence an inspiration to the con-
vention visitors. Mr. T. S. Hand
saker of Walla Walla, Wash, Sup
erintendent of the Northwestern
Christian Home was also present and
added much to the pleasure of the
meetings.
II would be hard to find gath
ering of this kind where there was
every indication of as careful and
complete preparation of the parts of
the program. There were some gems.
All were good, some of unusually
high order, and a few real gems.
An impromptu gathering of great
significance was a Christian Brother
hood banquet held at the Hotel Pay
ette Saturday evening when an even
forty men ate together and listened
to addresses by Mr.. McCash and
Mr.. Mohorter upon the Brotherhood
movement.
Sunday was naturally the climax
of the four days meeting. Registra-
tion lists kept pouring in to the en-
tertainment committee indicating
that there would be host of people
to spend Sunday with us. And so
It was. The trains Sunday morning
were loaded. Carriages and automo-
biles in large numbers came from
neighboring towns, even as far as
Nampa and Boise. The ladies Of the
Dovaffa church nndar tho fnOrp than