Evening journal., 1913-03-18
HOBSON WILL
SPEAK in
CHICAGO
Thousands VIII Greet Hero Of
Santiago at the Sunday Even
Ing Club Meeting Next
Sunday
HE WILL BE GREETED BY
A NATIONAL AUDIENCE

CHICAGO. March 1s.-when Rich
mond Pearson Hobson addresses the
Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Sun
day evening, March %, he will hnd an
audience Of 5000 people waiting for
him. Hundreds more will have been
turned away
Anywhere else he would find him
self talking to a local audience: but
in the Sunday Evening Club he viii
find a national audience. made up OF
people from hundreds Of cities and
towns
For this unique organisation is Chi
cago's special provision for the
strangers and travelling men In the
city. as we'll as its own residents
without church affiliations and ac-
customed to seek diversion down town
Sunday evening
The business men of Chicago who
support the Club. are proud OF the
fact that Sunday after Sunday 1900
people, most OF them men. walk past
the theater, concert halls, picture
shows and other places Of amusement
IN the Chicago loop 20 The meetings
of the Sunday Evening Club TO hear
good music and an inspiring talk by
some man OF national OF international
reputation. The President of the
United States. members OF tho Senate
of France. members OF the British
Parliament the foremost evangelist
of Japan. senators, governors. judges,
educators. social workers editors.
presidents of great corporations, and
the most distinguished clergymen of
all denominations are among the
speakers who have appeared or will
appear before the club.
Among the men prominent in public
life who have addressed the club on
religious topics during the last fve
years are; Ex-President Taft, Justice
Charles 2. Hughes, Governor Thomas
r. Marshall. of Indiana; Former
Governor Edward w. Hoch, of Kan
saF; Former Governor j. Frank Hanly,
Of Indiana; Former Governor Samuel
r. Van SAINT, of Minnesota. Former
Governor Joseph W. Folk, Of Missouri;
Former Senator Albert ]. Beveridge,
of Indiana; Senator Thomas p Gore.
of Oklahoma; Honorable William j.
Calhoun. Minister to China; Honor
able John W. Gulland, NJ. p, London;
Baron 'Estournelles De Constant
Clifford Pinchot, Honorable James r.
Garfield Honorable William Jennings
bryan. Honorable Henry b. McFar.
land, Honorable John Barrett, and
Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey.
Prominent educators who have beer
speakers include Or. Henry Van Dyke
OF Princeton University: President r
BENJAMIN Andrews, Of the University
of Nebraska: President William Low,
Bryan. of Indiana University: Presi
dent BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler. of tho
University OF California; President
George f. Vincent, of the University
Of Minnesota: President Jacob G.
Schurman, OF Cornell University;
President r. ]. Mcconnell, of De
Paw University; President David
Starr Jordan. of Leland Stanford Uni
versity; Professor George Jackson, OF
Toronto University; DR.. Herbert
Lockwood Willett. of the University
of Chicago; Professor @. A. Johnston
Ross. Of Presbyterian College, Mon
treal; DR.. Edward A. Steiner. OF
Grinnen College. and President Hollis
B. Frissell. of Hampton.
Among the authors and editors are
DR.. Lyman Abbott editor of the Out
look: j. A. Macdonald, editor OF thu
Toronto Globe; Norman Hapgood, for
mer editor of Golfers Weekly; Err
man J. Ridgway. editor of Everybody's
Magazine; Hamilton Wright Mabie,
associate editor of the Outlook. ana
Samuel McChord Crothers
Miss Jane Adams. Jacob Riis. Rob
ert r. Speer, Owen r. Lovejoy. DR..
Wilfred T. Grenfell Rabbi stephen s.
Wise. Jenlkin LLOYD Jones. Booker T.
Washington and Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch
are some of the workers for social
hetterment who have made stirring
talks
Many prominent clergymen have left
their pulpits to address these three
thousand among them are Bishop
William Quayle. of Oklahoma City;
Bishop William Lawrence, Of Boston
Bishop John H. Vincent. Of Chicago,
Bishop Charles P. Anderson, of Chi
cago: Bishop Charles Edward Cheney
of Chicago: Bishop William f. Nc
Dowell. OF Chicago; Bishop Charlel
d. Williams. Of Detroit; DR.. REGINALD
J. Campbell, Of London: Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills. Of Brooklyn: Rev
Frank W Gunsaulus. OF Chicago
Rev. Francis G. Peabody. Of Cam
bridge: Rev. David ]. Burrell. OF Ne'
York, Rev. W. c. Biting, of ST. Louis
Rev. Robert J. Burdette. of Pasadena
Rev. William Spurgeon. Of London
Rev. David Ross. of Marin. Scotland
Or. Frank Oliver Hall, of New York
Rev. Charles Stelzle, of New Yorl
and Rev. John p. Jones. of India
Big business" has had its reprI
sentatives on the Sunday Evenin
Club platform, too, to give persona
expression OF their attitude and b.
liefs about Christian citizenship.
c. Bartlett, Charles S. Holt, David
Forgan. Homer A. Stillwell. RichaI
c. Hall, Edward P. Bailey and Sc,
mour Morris are among those WI
have spoken at past meetings.
A feature OF the meetings that p
evoked a great deal of favorable con
ment is the choir Of eighty traint