The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-12
CHICAGO AWARDED
NEXT CONVENTION
Christian Endeavorers Will Go
to Windy City for 1915
Meeting.
Especial to The Times Dispatch ]

Los Angeles. Cal. July I.-Chicago
Tor 1915 Christian Endeavor Conven-
ton. After hotly-contested election
to-day among the board of trustees
of the Christian Endeavor Society as
TO the place OF holding their twenty
seventh biennial convention, Chicago
was awarded the prize on the third
ballot The convention will be held
the second week In July.
After the busiest sort of n day the
10000 Christian Endeavor delegates
paraded tonight. starting from Sixth
and Olive Streets to the Fiesta park.
Auditorium. where, at o'clock, the
great concert OF the convention was
given.
The Christian Endeavor Orchestra
and grand chorus of 900 voices from
Los Angeles. Pasadena, Long Beach
ana Glendale provided the program.
Billy Sunday. evangelist. was the
principal speaker at the meeting in
the temple auditorium at 7:45 o'clock.
The church controlled by the com
PORTABLE and well-to-do is futile in
strument in the solution Of the prob
lens created by the relations of capital
ana labor 1t Is a Conscrvator of vested
interests and worships the God of
things as they are. and until the church
rc-establishcs Christs principles of SO
clai relations human and industrial
Justice must remain a mere figure of
speech
In substance this was the dcclara-
ton OF Or. j. a. Macdonald. editor OF
the Toronto. Ont. Globe. to-day in the
principal address delivered before the
general assembly of the International
Christian Endeavor Convention
Mere Denominations.
From my point OF view as n news
paper man. the churches of America
alike in the republic and the Domin-
ION have in the past been in danger
81 losing the national outlook and be-
coming mere denominations OF tho "a
tcllectual and the well-Io-tio
1hts was the assertion OF Or. Mac
Donald in the course Of his address
on The Problem of Capitol a,:i IL
Dor as Related to the Churches"
All over America" said MI Mac
Donald, there has grown up an indus
trial absolutism more baneful and
much more arrogant than that OF any
stuart queen, but where Is the church
Il John Knox that will stand against
tyranny and oppression for the Will oil
God and for the rights OF mem
What does the comfortable church
OF the wel-to-do know about the prob
lem OF work or Of wages? How can
IL hear the passionate cry OF the chill
Gren OF American, 1000, 900 OF them
wheels Of our vast, heartless Industrial
machine? How can it measure the
agency of women whose only altcrna-
tive is starvation or shame?
God Of Things mn They Are"
WHY? Because Of the church's So
cial apostasy Once again the church
has become the conscrvator Of vested
interests and worships the God OF
things as they are"
AS remedy. Or. Macdonald urged a
return TO the mode OF living establish
ed by Christ and practiced b. the prim-
tive Christians. when Jews and Ro-
mans, Greeks and barbarians did live
together happily and did work to-
gciher helpfully through all the rcla-
uons OF Industrial service in every
day life"
campaign for efficiency and OK
ransion was launched at to-days SEES
sion. Plans TO increase the society's
membership and to harmonic the work
were advocated at each OF many meet
inGs in the various churches OF the
city.