The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. 39. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. S AOBODY could view the [ | upon thou- rangers who | thousands sands of s overran all parts of the;l y vesterday without tee]mgg at the Christian Endeavor Con- | ntion and its attendant hosts of itors is in the City in full force, flc of the gers had been i that dtide movement the of { hed ed. | | | | | great feature yesterday of the meetings While thousands sions at both pa-| treets were full every- was the beg 1ing 1S. se owing. Side streets | were | Van Ness | as much as Mar-| g its normal traffic. | feature of the as principal Pavilion meetings was t ng of important reports| and t tings and addresses of var pastors and committees. | Never has a larger or more enthu-| stic body of earnest workers S in San Francisco, and it s that aside from the at society is doing its | studying the Cit)" Their will | greatest object lesson City has ever had, and sure to redound to are State. coming good nefit of the State from the th co 1tion. A detailed report of yesterday’s proceedings appears in the col- that follow. T'o-day’s programme is a most rtant one from a Christian En- deavor standpoint. A ol of general instruction will conducted in both the | pavilions, while in the afternoon t various committees’ work will iscussed separately. > Jocal and State union officers will confer upon their work and the rays to advance it. LR A SEA OF EAGER FACES Scen Scenes at the Big 1anics’ Pavilion Yes- terday. be € b Great Mecl Important Addresses by Men Prominent in the Work. Heads, hats, faces, banners, Howers, buzz which always accompanies the con- gregating of a large body of people, was the general impression given by the interior of tbe aunditorium of Mechanics’ Pavilion | at the beginning of the services which l marked the opening day of the big Chris. tian Endeavor Convention at the begin- ning of the seventeenih year of the ex- istence of the order. | It was evident {from the packed condi- | | | | | | bunting and ihat indescribable hum or | | | | | tion of Mechanics’ Pavilion and the number o: cmpty seats at Woodward's that the idea had gone forth that tie cream was to be fcund at the former piace, but here is where the Endeavorers were misiaken, for the entertainment as well as accommodation was fully as goca at one place as at the other. Secretary Baer realized that the congestion atthe Hayes-street edifice came from this, and gave a vigorous talk on the subject. There was but one change from the orig- inal programme at the Mechanics’ Pa- vilion, which came through the unavoid- able absence of the Rev. Philip F. King of Texas, who was to conduct the devo- tional exercises. H. F. Shoup, D.D., of Dayion, Onio, was substituted. After the reading in unison by the en- tire audirnce of the One Hundred and T wenty-first Psalm President Clark an- nounced the new business committee, which was to have the meeiing in churge. The committee consists of John Willis Baer o/ Boston, Miles M. Shend of Wash- glon, D. C., and C. M. Hunt of Minne- sota, Dr. R. Dlle was then intro- duced as the presiding officer of the duv, and he in turn introauced Rev. Mr. Shoup, who a-ked for a congregational reading of Mathew v:1-12. This he fol- lowed with a short prayer, in which he in- voked diyine grace upon (he meeting and | an especial blessing upon the officers who were 10 conduct the various services, The committee of ’97, through itschair- man, Rolla V. Watt, of 8an Francisco, welcomed the visitors in the following felicitous address: ROLLA V. WATT’S ADDRESS. Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Endeavorers: This morning our dreams are realized, our hopes are fulfilled, our prayers are.answered; for we witness the assembing of an International Christian Endeavor Convention for the first time on the shores of the mighty Pacific. God bless youl Woare glad you are here; wel- come, thrice welcome. For'a weck prst we have followed you with | lapor of | Enown and read of all men,” and that thereby | tne youth of our sundown country may be 1nxpired to greaier zeal in all right « ffort, | day to day. | of work iswisely and vigorously carried on | d 25a0 pelo 3G Py L ? RREE ) The Platform for the Speakers at Woodwards’ ; Pavilion. tain, from hamlet and village and city—from | f Maine and the cow-paths oston, from Liberty Hall and the city Potomac, from Lookout Mountain and nary R from the pleins of Abraham siopes of Mt. Royal. from the Crescent ity in the South and the Windy City in the b, from the prairies and us of | the middle West, from the Rockies and the Salkirks, from the ranges of Texas and the | forests 'of Washington, little streams of humanity from a thousand hillsides, meeting | al last in one great river, whose irresistible currents swept on and on through the land of Mormon and the sagebrush of Nevada to | ke giad the city by the Golden Gate. [Applause.] 1t1s my privilege this morning to welcome | you toCalitornia ou behall of tue commiitee of *94 (New Yurk), the committee of 95 (Mon- | treal), the commiitee of ‘97 (Boston sud Wash. ington), and from this incideut the old super- stitiou is easily proven that *ibe third time charms.” 1am also to welcome you on behalf of the Golden Gate and Alemeda County unions, vour hosts. and on behalf of the California State Union, also your host in a broader sense. On behalf of the Epworth and Westminster | leagues, Baplist Young People’s unions, and | all kindred organizations which have united | h us in one bond of fellowship in this, our love. We weicome you first and_above all for the sake of our Master, whose banner of love is over all and whose servants you are. He has said if we lift him up he wiil draw all men unto nimseli; and just ssWwe represent him in our thoughits, our words, our deeds, in our daily lives, so mun will see him. He holds in his huuds the solutivn of all our problems, sceial, political aud spiritusi. Itis the part of Chris- tien Endeavor to take these proferred giits and cff:rthem to mankind. We welcome you therefore because you are seeking to present the Savior of man to the world that the world may be made better. We welcome you tor your own sakes; your 10yunt enthusiasm, your thouthiful exrnesi- | your calm determinetion, your intelli- | e, YOUT iniegrity, your sincerity, your con- | sccration to a great ¢ause, commands our ad- | mirat.on, begets our love, and makes your will- 1N servants. { We welcome you because ot the millions of young peopie devoted to good citizenship, temperance and righteousness whom you | represen We welcome you because we believe you will be smong our people “living epistles We welcome you becuuse we believe your | coming will airect the thoughts and attention of our young peopls to higher aud holier things, and becius: many lives will be made better and more usefui by whatshall be uttered Ly (hese who will occupy this platform from We welcome you because we see the develop- ment of reform in political and civil life through your patriotic and commendable Christian citizenship movement. If this Jine vou will gradually but surely substitnte lead- ers for ‘““bosses,”” statesmen for politicians, and patriots for plunderers, and may God hasten thatday! [App.nuse.] What shall we say of ourselves? We are Wesierners of the true type. You see us as we are; not sham or hypocrisy; not much stealing of the livery of ueaven to serve the devil in,” for the devil's iivery is quite poou- lar enough out here. There i no special premium put on church membership, but if you are a caurchman you are expected Lo live it. In some of our towns saloons must have clear gless fronts and no screens; in others sa- loons are not permitted at all. But in most of the West snioons occupy the chief corners. As iu your Erstern ciiies, gambling is pro- hibited by law, but permitted without law. [(Leughter.] Th's vice seems to be increasing yerywhere and is one of the trinity of evils— emperance, gamoling and impurity”’— | which Christian Endeavor must stamp out. In the West you wiil fiud as loyal, as consecrated aud as true Christians as anywhere on God’s 1008100l Big try is confined to a few narrow £ouls, but every man has the rignt 10 worship God according o the dictates of his own con- | science. Philenthropy hes marked the history of Cali- fornis, us is evident by numerous parks, mon- umenls, musenms, pubuc institutions and churehes. For philanthropy on a lurge scale there are few parallels for Stanford University, the Lick Observatory, not to mention art in- | stitutes, hospitals, orphanayes and homes for all_classes of unfortunates, and associations and traiuing-schools for the young. You will be particularly pleased to find on this Western Coasi oi¢ of the best-equipped and most costly Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation buildings in Amerfca, A trip through Cninutown will soon reveal to the duilest observer why the ery “The Chinese must go!" became nlmost universal; but you will also find that the Christian people were not deterred by popular re judice irom doing their dutv. And while here you will doubtiess visit the numerous ‘missions maintained by the virious churches among the pcoples ffom hesthen countries. A scors or more of the convertsof these missions to- day welrrth:ew‘hlus caps with the purp:e band of “our reception committee. plause. Hundeds of Chinese girls have be[:nptvl:e‘:x:g irom the basest heathen slavery. Thers j« no lack of opportunity here for mixstonary effort and we are glad this is 1, be pre-ominently a missionary couvention, We caniiot offer you the historic settings of Boston Common nor the beauties of & National capital. Weare 100 you ¢ for such things; but we ate proud of our City, set on more hills thun Rome boasted, and . our Siate, with its varied and unequaled atiractions. It is true we sometimes take measures of credit to our- selves for these features which have made California famous—such as geniality of oli- mate, fertility of soil, richness of mines, beauty of scenery, advaniageous commercial our prayers over valley and plain and moun- situation, and boast as though we had made them. But we do this oniy In our more en- thusiastic moods; in caimer moments we realize with feelings of humiiity that all these blessings are a heritage directly from the bouniiful hand of God. [Appiause.} While you are in our City I trust you will eek out the bright spots rather than ihe dark ones; ascertmin for yourselves what we are doing on the west coast along the lines you have chosen for your activities. Note the evi- dences of malerial, moral and religious progress, and in so doing remember that not fif ars 8go on this littie peninsuis Yerba Buena wes christened san Francisco; 1t was then scarcely a hamlet, and was notincor- porated into a town until three years there- after And now, in conclusiop, let me remind you that at New York and Montreal and Boston and Washingion we invited you to California; | our iuviiation was broadar Ban shesiizsand this moraing, on our souvenir badges, on obr flegs, on our arch, on our banners, in flowers end shrubs in you to leeve your homes aud 10 travel thou- sands of mil>s through the burning heat of the July sun—California, ’97.” [Applause.] To California, to San Francisco, to our homes and hear's, welcome, & thousaud welcomes to youall. [Great applause.] WELCOME OF THE PASTORS. The next welcome wss from the pastors of San Francisco through Rev. John Hemphill, D.D., pastor of the Calvary our parks, vou will find fo- | scribed tne magic words which have induced | | \ y | sparkling stars on the midnightisky. What variety do I see before mel And what unity! We are mauy, yet one—one in Christ, one in sim—Christ 10 the world and the w Christ; or, as Dr. Cuyler once put it, in Christ for a world without Christ Your society has had but a brief nistory, but most blessed. It has lifted hundreds of thou- sauds of young Christiansoff their “Rowery bedsof ease” and put them o work,andas a | pastor L rej ice to bear this testinony before | ihis convention concerning the Endeavorers of my church; they have always been most | heipiul to me. Ihave never requested them | to do anything that they have not done | gladly, promptly and efficiently, They have been eyes aud ears aid hands and feet and tongue for their pastor. God bless this youngest-born of Christian societies. Live; Tive Jng; live yigorovsly: H3636 0Lu Tiply s LU bers, power aud Influ- | euce, ““lorever biessing and lorever blest, Iis past has been rich in biessing, and our 18 that its future may be richer far in ne than its past, a time of clear-seeing, and of laith-nower, and of earnest work, and of much prayer, and of abundant ontpourings of the Holy Ghost. May it rise equal to its | opportunities and exercise a resist.ess lever- | age for good on all the world. AMay its roots | strike downward as its branches spread out- | ward. F May the expanding of its circumference arise from mighty motions atits center, and the living energies of divine love in the heart | mow within this great City that you were so | partof the subs: send impulsive growth along the whole radius over her feet and thundered over her broad bosom, you wili come to the conclusion that the possibilities of future extersion work are great, not only in the way of welcome, but in others. Furthermore, I cannot help but reflect upon the fnct thai Rolla V. Wart, who has been so active and who has extended to you such a cordial weicome this morning, that when he, Dr. Dille and others bore to_the city of Wash: ington an invitation and followed it with leg- isiative resolutions—all of this must have con- viiced you that you would be welcome, and we are satisfied irom the numbers thai are convinced and came here feeling perfectly at home. Iregret extremely that Governor Budd was not able (0 be Liere this morniug 10 say & word of welcome to vou, Decause out ot his bi generoas heart ‘welcome fluws coplousty and turally as the water weils from the Sierra springs, but I 1ust feel that a welcome is necesSary more than in form. It must be an old-fashioned one, not bubbling like thy mountain spring, but reacned iike the old moss-covered bucket and drawn up with some effort. But I have become so accustomed to act the | tute in representing great | and smal! men that sometimes I think that | when the final call comes (0 some great man | he may not be entirely ready and ask that I | take his piace, and if he is & very good man. I am not certain that I would lose anything by the operation. E: The most pathetic welcome that comes to my PRESIDENT McKINLEY’S GREETING TO ENDEAVORERS. " THE WESTEKN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, --———— INCORPARATED CA 29,000 OFFICES'IN AMERICA. TIA NSMITS aué DELIVERS niessags oniy on copdftions LE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. linluiicy. which have been asented to by the sender of the tollow ing message. e i My oo e sl i o i el . 200 T3 27 e e (b a0 e el i A A or S AT R E BRI MERRA B a1 o comvened by Fequiat of vid susdeé- sdert the vosdlitions Bhcued abovs. _THOUS T. ECKERT, Presiaent and Genera. Manager. e ERSEAAT b Sk SRt S A 258, N 0Can 2 ¢ E 9, vl s 1307 RECEIVE an Francisco, Cala. “staddara Time: = Datea & _— e ———— € ) Presbyterian Church. Dr. Hemphill said : Several centuries ago_a monk of Picardy, named Peter toe Hermit, went up and down Europe pres ching a fiery crusade agains: those who held the sepulcher wher in the Savior of the world was laid, and he inspired the people wherever he went with hisown fiery enthus- insm. All Europe flew toarms. The watch- word, “Deus Vult.” burst from en thousand times ten tnousand lips, and the armies of Christendom precipitated themseives uvon the Holy Land with the awful war cry, “God wills it,”” echoing from rank to rank. Francis E. Clark, sometimes called Father Clark, the Peier the Hermit of the ninetcenth century, has for several’ years been going up and down our own land and other lands preaching a far holier crusade, kindling the fires of Christian zeel and icve on the altar of young hearts; and now, with a few battulions of his mighty army he has invaded California and we have surrendered unconditionally to him and them. Fellow-soldiers in the army of the Lord, I give you the miitary salute. “ We are not divided, all one One in hope aud doctrine, o Wnat & mighty convocation of Christian En- deavor:rs do I see before me, coming from the Eust and from the West and from the Norih and from the South, like thegreat world-gath- ering in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, I pray God that the resu.is of this gathering may be the same. Assembled. in one place with one accord, waiting upon God with earn- estness and expectancy, I pray that Pente- costal powers may descend upon you and us to fit us jor larger and better serv.ce for Christ and humanity in the days to come. Brothers and sisters in Carist, in the name of the pastors of the Golden West, in the nnme of our common heritage of fui:h, in the name of kindred ties which make us the heirs of all the ages, in the name of our common Lord and savior, we bid you welcome—thrice wel- come—to our City, to our State, to our churches, to our homes, to our hearts. We biess you in the name of the Lord. [Appiause.] I have scen many great and notable gather- ings in my somewhat brief life, but none of them affected me as this one does. This one inspires me, awes me. The spectacle I see before me reminds me of the old poetic images —the forest-crowned mountain, the fieid of corn swayed by the genile winds, the crested wauves of the ocean on a glad summer day, the of its life. True to its pledge, rue to 1ts past history, true to it: God and Savior, true to the eternul verities. May it go forward to new conquesis and shake the pillars of unbelief in every land under the sun. In a word, may the members of this convention receive such power from on High during these convention days ns shall coustrain thém to say that the Sun Francisco convention has been by tar the best conven tion that has yet been held. Some years ngo I saw the stars through the teiescope in the ob-ervators on Monnt Hamil- tou. S anding on the observatory on Mount Zion to-aay and looking through the teiescope of faith | see a grand future belore the S ciely of Ohristian Endeavor. I see its horizon thick- sown with brilliant stars. We seeonly a few of them as yet. The rignts of othe: stars are on the way. The darkness s not so deuse as it was. The morning ignt is breaking, and you are helping its cominz. Toyour ranks, then, and 1o your knees, gird you, brothers and sisters in Christ, for the blessed toil and speed its coming. It has been a great pleasure to me, as I deem it a great honor to speak this word of welcome to you in the name of the pastors of the Golden West, and in the nawe o! ali who acknowledge Jesus Lord. Once more we bid you thrice welcome. Ouce more we invoke such Pente- costal snowers of b'essings upon you that in the coming years the San Francisco couven- tion wili be referred (o as the Pentecostal con- veation by the peu of the historian, Governor Budd was expecied to be present and weicome the Endeavor rs in the name of the Siate, but he was de- tained, and Dr. Dille introduced Lieu- tenani-Governor Jeter, who made one o: the hits of the convention by his happy manner and well-chosen words, His ad- dress follows: WELCOMED BY THE STATE. Mr. President, I thought perhaps I could have the priviiege of standing back of the piatform and still be heard If not seen by this vasi audience, You seem to me to act as if you are already finally quite at home, snd to do anything further in form of welcome would be the merest form. To welcome meaus to receive with giadness, to make one feel at home, and aiter you have clambered over the backbone of our great Siale, then whee.ed mind this moment is that of the prodigal son, 1 think most of you have perhaps heard of this, There were no recepiion committees in that cese, no resnlutions passed by the Legls- lature and u.der the great sea! of state. Waen he was out having a good time with the bays the grief-stricken old_father, who v as on the lookout committe—ae looked afar off and he saw tiis ycuug man taking exercise on an empty stomach and he feil upon his neck ana kissed bim without form, and that \ oung man had the 1atted cal: killed and received suen a welcome as suits my notion of what a wel- come should be. 1e:m not going to attempt (o impersonate this grief-stricken father on this occasion, but shail assume that your eflicient reception rommittees have attended o that already. The fatted calf has besn slain—u great C.li- fornie calf. You have already had an oppor- tuniy to taste of the meat. And we are going 10 stay him some more and keep on as.long as you are with us, and see that you get the choicest cuts. 1 wns somewhat impressed with the remark of one o: the gentlemen in referring to the vouthful young gentieman you recognize as Futner Clark. The fdes that he should be the 1ather of so greata family as this is bey nd my comprehension. He w:s aiso alluded to, and entitled hereafter 1o be knowu, as the “Peter the Hermit of the West.”” Itis contrary to my notion that & hermit should be the father of so large a family as this. But he is the forrman of the army that has gathered into its folds over 3,000 000 of peopte. This organization hus been eble 1o grasp the idea of nnnx of purpose and to appreciaie what we used tc have to read in the oid-fash- foncd country school when we were |urnlng 10 make mark:—+In unity there is strength.’ And this is in accord with my opinion in these matters. Iam glad tosee that man’s measure is not taken in the mode of baptism in which he believes and that you work and act together as one people with & common hope and pur- pose and without wasting time in teeing whetner this way and that way of attaln‘~g the same resultis rignt. This organization works on broad lines and this is the effective werk that must tell and will tell. You have come to California to hold this convention and I now predict thatit will be known for years and years tocome as the grandest convention that the Christian En- deavor has ever held. If you had been two practical age more intensely practical than Christian endeavor and nothing in Christian endeavor more practical than our pledges. We beiieve in pledges. Safezuards they are, veritable guardian angels ofttimes, and yet objectors, driven to desperation for criticism, bave complained at endeavor because. for- sooth, they do not believe in pledges. More than once have we heard evein a man, fresh from the aliar oi beneficent Pythianism, or the open Bible of honored Free Masonry, where vows most solemn have been takei, b andly d clare, ““I don't like your Christian Endeavor Soclety because I dou’t believe in pledges.” There is nothing in our “covenant pr meeting pledge. the Magna Charia of C tian Endenvor,” which most Christians did not iu effect promi o at the altar of church memtershiy there is positively nothing in it tnatall Christiuns ought not to | do. We shail have much to say, also, and | somewhat to do ubout our cardinal cinsecras | tion meetings. So long s we rememb.r that | Jesus found it necessary to go to the mountain side to hold consecration +ud prayer s i the presence of his Father, so long wiil we deem it our holiest auty 1o cousecraie and recousecrate onr lives to our Lord. 1i he had to pray, we must. We shail have frequent oc- casion” to say that Christian Eudeavoi’s com- mittee work and methods siguity merely that God’s business iy bus , and that it ought 1o be done in a bus -iike way. Ii the average business man should attem pt to conduct his affairs upon tne baphazard, bit-or-miss, & ion plan-—or want of plan—of sum nes he wouid be bunk- rupt, and that r y; and Christian En- cvor has undertaken, s necessary parts of the churcbes to which they beloug, to put commonsense and prayer-vaptized method into the effairs of religion, “giviug eachactive sume specific work ‘for Christ and eh.’” Aui, by the way, the true stian Endeavores puts fn italics that litt.e ‘the” in the society’s motio—*“for Christ and il.ll" Church” to whicn the individual be- on Sume well-meaning but none too well formed people to the contrary notwithstan ing, Christian Endeavor is fuller of proper denominationalism and freer {rom improper secterianism than any other ou earth. It be- lieves in a parap truth—nomne the le: rased st true tement of an old )r the revision— To thine own church be true, acd it jollows a8 the night the day thou canst not then be | fnlse “to any enurch.”” Thus believing, and with 00 unkind word or feel.ng 10T LLose W Lo weeks sooner you would have witnessed us in alittie different mood for a few minutes. You | might have thought we were having an earth- quzke, but we were not. It was simply the great State of California in convulsions of joy | at the prosp:ct of having this organization meet with us. And if while you remsin here you should witness trembling and quaking of the earth be calm; vou are in mo danger. It will be simply California and her way of shaking hands with you. 1o extending & welcome to you in behalf of this State I cannot resist congratulating you that you are ab'e to sit_here for a brief time and rest, kissed by the chaste kiss of the Caii- forniasun, while others less fortunate than to take ibis trip have trouble, and are sunstruck on every hand; that you are not obliged to be back ad assist the Governor of your Siate in finding the State lines after one of those cy- clones you have ‘here passed by, You sre all full of faith, buil will have to | exhort you to use it as yoli passover the cou- fines of this great State. Unless you have it you canuot be made to believe in a small while all that yeu will see. Icannot afford to risk my reputation telling you what wonder- ful things you will see in this State. Iassume | thatyou are all going to the town where I live—that is, Santa Cruz! a city surrounded by scenery the most beautiful of any in the universe. I say this without regard jor my reputation, because I know you al: will agree with me. 'And when you see the big trecs sixty feet in circumference, so large that i wou d 1ske thirty of you standing shoulder to shoulder to girdle it, and vou are told that it 18 300 feet in height, and that 120 feet 120 years ago was biown from the top, please sc- ceputhe statemeni and do not go to asking what has become of that piece. 1 greatly regret that my time will not permit me to remain through the couvention. I cor- dially ask you all to remain and mske your home anywhere in this State, and when you are compelled to return arrange your affairs as s0on as possible and bring yourselves and vour energies over here where you can do | good work. We have broad acres in cultiva- tion and broad acres in brushy wildness, and | our people are largely in the same condition. We have a large number of good Coristian people; we have a lurge number whose hearts may be in virgin wildness, but as soon as they are sown with the right material they will be in the vanguard of things thatare good in this world, the same as the rest. 1 thank you for the magnificent welcome | that you have extended to me, and will now extend 1o you u we come to the Siate of Cali- 1oruia on beha fof tue Governor of the State, | James H. Bu.d. The solo, “Praise the Lord, O My Soul,” | by Holden, was then sung by Mrs. Martin | Schuliz, soprano of the First Congrega- | tional Church choir of Oakland. She was | accompanied (by special request) by Sam- | uel D). Mayer, organist and chorster of the First Congregational Church of San Francisco. THE VISITORS RESPOND. The welcoming being finished it was now the turn of the visiting thousands to tell how well pleased they were with their reception, and this was done in a most happy manuner by R-:v. Ira Landrith of Nashville, Tenn., in the following words: Mine is an overwheiming embarrassment of riches. To me is committed the task tre- mendous of expressing the boundless grati- tude of an almost numberless muliitude, and all for a welcome as rich and beauiiful as your glorious sunset laud and as deep and wide as the ocean wiich bathes your gold-standard shores with fres-cilyer spray. Who wouldn't be embarrass d by such riches? Avd to be compeiled to spent all this fortuue of iervent apprecintion in fifteen minutes of time is just a ittle too much to expect of even this prodi- gal son. We are welcome—there can be nodoubtabout | it; tor hasn't Watt sa.d so, and ail Ea<teru En- deavorers have long since learned to !ook for a halchetand cherry bark. Besides, hasu’ the | ministerial legislature of the Golden State | enacted th s wolcome into a Inw of love and gond che r, and his nou the Governor of this Golden Stete authorized exeeutive approvel of this benign s atute? On b-balf ot some thousands of young Americans who have taken Horace Greeley's sound advice, and on behall of worthy representatives of most of the rest | of the eartn, I thank the commitiee of ’97, the Golden Gate pastors, the State of Calitor- nis, the rest of '.Ke delightful afiernoon side of the Rockics, and a league or so of old ocean, for o welcome o _evidentiy sincere, so gratify- irgly subst ntinl und so admirably expressed as 10 helpless;y paralyze ali my Southern su- periatives of appreciation, and to render weak and puny every gigantic adj:ctive I had more recently appropriated for this occasion from the agents of wheat iands in Washington and the owners of fruit farms in Oregon and Cali fornia. No, 1o, I can’t tell you how grateful we are for this welcome, but in common with the host of my companions I can show you, if you will watch the way we use your gift of hospi- tality through these days of dutr and delight; and again | say unto you, waich. He isthe wor hiest guest who leaves a blessing in the home where he iy entertained, and in the name and for tue sake ol our Master we would be worthy guests. We have come across the continent, some Of US across the sea, praying that God may use us 1n helping you us well as bless us through you. We have cone to learn and teach *‘more, more :bout Jesus,” and ore the restless waves talk 10 us of eternity, and weaith aud produective soil, and mountains filled with trea-ure trove, tell of the riches of our Father’s love, we expcta deopening of our own spiritual lives, a bap- tism of peace and_power which we devoutly rust vou may enjoy with us. With this sure and steadfast foundation of consecrated and spirit-filled life we wouid be | fratricidal carnage must cea: | vur churches will fire at | eacn other, all the ammunition they have or | for respectability and Poyulis: | coming out from among them. | may not altogether agree with us, we find it quite easy and comforting fo believe aiso that tnere are other godly people besides oOure selves; hence the joy we have in interdenom nationat feliowship. Chrisuzn Endeavor b lieves that in interdenowinational affuirs communion is not only u bigger Lut a beiter word than union: and that if we are able (o have glad interdenominational fel:owsuip in neaven, we ought o be geiting used 10 is on carth, Reading in our Bibles that we may know that we have passed from death unto life be- cause we 1ove tue prethren, we canaot under- stand how we could find ‘out that we were saved if we spent our time and our energiis in interdenominational warfare. One of the Inte’ unhappy war's bravest and devoutest chiettains fell mortaliy wounded by the bul- lets of his own soidiery. Thatit wasa terrible accident, friend and Joe aiike sadly declarea; but upon many a religious battie-fieid have perished other Stonewall Jacksons, Christian leaders in ul._churches siricken down, not by the enemy, but by those who ought o be friends; and not by accident, but deiiberately snd for no better reason than that these | eroes aid not choose to wear the brass but- tons mo.d.d by “our church.” With a white flag, upon which is inscribad, “We be brethrea,” Christian Ecdeavor has rushed upon ihe field and ucclared that this uud hencefortkh an, and not at can get. rFinally, Chrisuan Endeayor, neg- lecting no owner_ duty, wi.l enuoble Christ:an citizenship until clean hands will cast no nn- clean votes for unworthy men and ignoble measures. As members of political parties, we wiil be loyal to our parties so song as they wili be loyal to honor and truth. We wiil stand upon our politicai pariy platform only 50 long as their planks will bear the weight of rigateousness. But, like Faul, we were iree- born, and we veuture to be.icve that we have us many politicai rights end responsibilities as the party bosses who claim their monopoly of the rights and cheir independence of Lhe re- sponsivilities aioresuid. We will stand for political intelligence, in tegrity,independence and industry; and we are rapidiy reaching the conciusion that Demoe- racy should stand for deceucy, Republicanisn for purity; or else we mustcbey the divine injunction by In plainer lish, after we have done our best, if we | cannot clean our parties out, then we should resoiutely undertake (o clean them up. These are some of the iessons waich this school of methods, this Christion Endeayor avention, will teach in San Fraacisco this year and in my own ideal Soutaern eily next yeir. And assuring you of the most prayerful Wish for the larges:suceess and useiuiness of this couvention you will pardon a parting word by way of fuvitation to Nashville in’ 95, Like our feliow-Eudeavorers ol the West, we, the Endeavorers of Dixie, asked for an inter. natlonal couvention beciuse we need it, and because we belicve that uus mightiest of modern religious movements needed just such & spiritual uphft aud strengibeuiug as it couid get nowhere else on eart, California alone excepted of course. “Come away down South in Dixie, to Nushville, '98.” THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. A stir went through the vast throng as “Fatber’’ Clark was introduced and came forward, and the applause which greeted him was continued all through his talk, He said: You can readily perceive why this year T have chosen for the subject of my annual message the theme, “A worid-encircling reli- gious mevement; fow shull it fuifil God's design?” E At the invitation of friends, and in obe. dience to the call of God, as I believe, I have, during the pnst year, been journeying in mauy iands, smong people who speak many tongues. These journevs in behalf ui Christian Endeavor have carried me more than 40,000 miies, to more (han u score of peoples who speak Lear y as wa.y languages. Oue facior I'heve tfouid constant in all these lands; [ bavs found Christian Endeavor principles everywhere the same, Tue same p.edge, the same consccration mecting, the seme general lines of «ffort for the Muster, cailed commistee work. ‘The ute most diversity in unesseniia! details; the ute most similatily of purpose is essential princie ies. P Societies that are as widcly separated in miles and manners a: the Bengalis, who live in the swamps of the Ganges, atd the Ko flir: on the uplnuds of Africa, irom tue Esaeavors ers of the Golden Gate ana the Alameda, have subscribed 1o the same covenant pledge, and, better still, are keeping it. 1 have attended couventions, since last I met you, in the Metropolitan Tabernceleof London end in the Bees of Bengal, in St Andrew’s Hall of Glasgow and 1 th ut capital of the Punjab, among our Irish Eudeavorers in Beifast aud on the sunburnt pains of South- ern India, in crowded Beriin and on the lonely tableinnds of the Transveal, among the Alps of Switzerland and on the vast veldt of the Orange Free State, in sea - girt Stockhoim and in the karoo of South Africa; in lordly Paris and in quiet Welling- ton; in the Cupe of Good Hope. made sacred to ma:y-of you by the life uwi.d labors of Andrew Murray and his associates; and every- where, amid all these diversitics of castom and costume, of manners and methods, of languaze and laws, I have iouud that the Christian Endeavor ideals are substantially the sam-. Moreover, the peoples whom I hsve seen have been of diverse creeds and views of ree 1igious truth. All, to be sure, have acknowl edged the supremacy of Jesus Christ as the very son of God and the only Savior of lost sinners; all have accepted the Bible as the ‘word of God and the HDJ Spirit s the sanctie fier, comforter and gui in sueh soil only glad to exempli{y in address and song and service all the holy rposes and fruits of Christian endeavor. This is a practical men tell us, but there is nothing in all this Christian Endeavor can flour sh. But in mivor particuiars the creeds and forms of church government of these hospita- ble hosis of our society differ as widely ag