The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-08-14

thoroughly discussed, and the great
temptations the editor has to over.
| come with the liquor advertisers
One thing was suggested, and that
was a Christian Daily, conducted by
Christian Endeavors. Another thing
thoroughly discussed was the theatre
and this was DR.. Sheldon's views on
the subject, that people required a
certain amount of play, and that
there was no harm in a good clean,
moral play or moving picture
show, and most of the audience
seemed to agree with him.
Saturday afternoon was all devOt-
ed to Junior and Intermediate work
at the Park. The program was very
good indeed as carried out by the
younger members of our Christian
EndeavOr society. One thing | must
make special mention of was new
organization of International Junior
work, OF which one of our own Iowa
delegates, Mrs. E. l.. Condor, of Lee
Grand, Iowa, was elected president.
Saturday evenings program was
very interesting. Among the must
cal numbers was solo by Indian
Pete, in his native tongue and dress
ed in Indian garb, and then Elmer
N. AafOnsO, of Chico, California, an
educated Indian sang number of
times during the convention He
has very fine tenor voice. The
first address of the evening was that
of Rev. r. P. Anderson, associate
editor of The Christian Endeavor
World" Boston, Mass, his subject
being 'What Christian Endeavor has
done in the Peace Propaganda He
spoke Of the hearts of the young
people Of America being right on
the peace question. He suggested
more international correspondence
among Christian Endeavors. The
next was unique address from
Bishop Alexander Walters (colored)
d. D., A. NJ. E. Zion church, New
York City. Bishop Walters went
back to the time of slavery, and the
progress made in the past so years.
He spoke of how the old south
closed their doors to the black man,
and now the new south has thrown
wide its doors to the black man. He
also talked of the friendly attitude
of the white man toward the black.
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lucky. He talk was enjoyed by all
present.
Another we'll known editor, James
Alexander Macdonald, of 1.-The
Globe Toronto, Canada, closed the
evenings addresses with young
Americans and World-Peace." His
speech mas more of a political ma
ture.
Sunday morning everyone arose
early to obtain a front seat at the
Auditorium Endeavor, to hear the
sermon delivered by Rev. w. A. Sun
day, better known as Billy Sun
day, the well known evangelist He
compared the average church men,
Der today with the life of Judas. His
talk was very plain and he scored
the church members from start to
finish. He said if there were any
present who did not care to listen to
him there were plenty of exits to
til the close of his sermon. He was
kept busy during his two days stay
in the city preaching to Overlooking
audiences in different parts of the
city.
On Sunday afternoon there was a
Mems meeting held at the Auditor
ium Endeavor, and Women's meet
ing held at Auditorium (Theatre
Beautifully. l tried to gain admit
lance to the latter building but the
building was overfloWing when
reached there, turning women away
by the hundreds. There were sever
al of Iowa delegates in company that
afternoon, SO after we could not get
into the building we scattered to
various places, some going to the
booth at the park, and some to
sightseeing places, and l boarded the
train and came out to Glendora to
the home of my cousin. l did not
return to Los Angeles for Mondays
sessions as that was the last day.
There were a number of prominent
speakers on for that day, and songs
were given by delegations from
Hawaii, China and Japan and the
farewell message was given at the
Park by the Rev. J. Whitcomb, D..
D., pastor of the Temple Baptist
church, Los Angeles.
Iowa delegates have scattered in
various directions for sightseeing
and visiting friends and relatives,
and a.few are returning via the Ma
tional Park, but all are returning
with a feeling of satisfaction that
the convention was we'll worth the
time spent in attending, and the
Iowa people with a resolution to
again meet at the next convention
to be held in two years from now.
Yours in G.. E.
Helen Whistler.