Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-18
NOTED CHURCH DELEGATES ARE
 ON s. s. YUKON
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF PORTLAND CONVENTION RELATED-AT-
 TENDED BY THOUSANDS
ARE TOURING ALASKA
Services Will Be Held in Seward by Some of Most Prominent Speak
 CTS in United States

At the recent Thirteith Information
 al Christian Endeavor Convention held
 in Portland from July to 10, inclu-
 sive, Edward P. Gates, of Boston,
 general secretary, stated there was a
 registration of 15,000 delegates. Twen-
 ty special trains arrived in Portland,
 carrying thousands of Christian En-
 deavor delegates from all parts of
 the United States and Canada.
 Two years ago at the international
 convention held at Des MOines, 12,000
 Christian Endeavor delegates regis tered. The growth of the movement during the last two years and increas-
 ed enthusiasm on the part of the con- stituent groups are responsible for the increased registration, it is re-
 ported
 1 Clifford Pinchot, governor of Penn 1 sylvania, who it is reported is mem 1 Der of the party of noted church dele gates on the steamer Yukon, gave the
 opening address, on Conservation of | American Ideals" On account of the
 nations birthday being on July 4, the theme of the session was Christian Citizenship" The Rev. Dr. Francis 1 E. Clark, familiary known as Father Endeavor' Clark, who founded the l movement A years ago, in Portland, 1 Me, presided at the session. Dr..
 Clark is on board the Yukon. He also gave an address during the con-
 vention on From Portland, Maine, in l 1881, to Portland, Oregon, in 1925"
 in which he briefly reviewed the his tory of the movement from it's incep- tion to the present active member
 ship of approximately 100000
 l Among the other speakers at the
 convention were the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Polling, of New York, who is ac- companying Dr. Clark on the present 1 trip to Alaska; the Rev. Dr. Mark A.
 Matthews, nationally known divine of | Seattle the Rev. Dr. A. Ray Petty 1 and Harry Holmes, of New York; the
 Rev. Dr. James Kelly of England,
 president of the European Christian
 Endeayor Union; the Rev. Dr. William
 Hiram Foulkes of Cleveland; the Rev. F. o. Marsden, of Alaska, the Rev
 Seizo Abe and the Rev. Seijiro Ve-
 mura of Foochow, China, and the Rev. J. Christy Wilson of Persia.
 Among the conference leaders were
 Clarence c. Hamilton, A. J. Shartle,
 and the Rev. Stanley B. Vandersall
 who with MT. Gates share the respon- sibility for the conduct of the world
 wide organization whose motto is For Christ and the Church"
 A brief personal history of the dis tinguished visitors to Seward follows: William Hiram Foulkes is a gradu- ate of Mccormick Theological Semi nary of Chicago, H., 1901; was hon. ored with the degree of LID. at the
 College of Emporia, in 1915. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1901 and was pastor at Elmira, H., from 1901 to 1904. In the succeeding years he was pastor at Clinton, Iowa;
 Portland, Oregon; Rutgers Church, New York In 1913 he was named general secretary of the Ministerial Relief and Sustention of the Presby- terian church of the United States Francis Edward Clark American Congregational clergyman, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873, and at Andover Theological College in 1876. He held Congregational pastorate at Portland, Maine, from 1876 to 1883, and was pastor up to 1887. In 1881 he organized the Willistin Young Peoples Society of Christian Endea- vor in his church at Portland, and in 1887 became president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, which sprang from it, and editor of it's off
 cial organ, The Golden Rule. He pub lished "The Children of the Church and the Y. P. s. c. E. as a Means of Bringing Them Together" (18SS); Worldwide Endeavor, the Story of the Y. P. s. c. E. From the Beginning and in All Lands" (1S96); Fellow Travellers; a Personally Conducted Journey in Three Continents; New Around the World" (19O1); an ac- count of experiences on the Trans-Si- berian Railway; and other minor works in the interest of the society.
 Clifford Pinchot, governor of Penn