The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRAN C1SCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1897. 3 1ast much longer. So we are going to this pAnuer to-duy. ve are ¢ in having another I Lo is going overin & Patterson of Toronto. Tuke this doctor (turning and extending the toward Dr. Patterson, who stepped rd (o receive it). We wani you to take i and give it to e Irish Ex i and give them our love, and e hope that they shall present it at Palace in 1900, tor we shall 21l be certain, son responded as foillows: ¢ is no country thatIwonld his banner from 1o Ireland than r Caledonia was in Ireland before d hns stood by 1d Irel s one city thatis worthy of the En- 1s, worthy of any enterprise—that is t.In 1900 she is going 10 have a vessel carry 4000 Endeavorers ncross to oid ) the 1niernational convention. Of her arc nowhere when it ns far s beauly is con- In enterprise Ireland may be that she moves e m e stais where was the brightest star, and erprise v a ugh this istian r en:hus the young of Ireland and wiil be nous again—not for the ,. t that she arii L pre-eut this’ ban h this great conventi ow in Franeisco, Baer announced that i something good to read, and pro- he following telegram: EXECUTIVE MANSTON. ] W ASHINGT D. C., Ju.y 8, 1897.§ wishes for the convention. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. Rev. Dr. W. H Vogler of Indianapolis presented the Junior banner, which goes irom Mexico to Spain, but there was no ore present Lo receive it, so it will be for- warded by the society. Rev. George F. Pentecost pronounced enediction and the opening services ¢ over. we L R NIGHT SESSION. Two Hours of Speech and Song in the Pav light thousand people were at the even- ing session of the convention, gan with a Crandall of ns ( da and nal ex- devot ra Tinker of | , Del. Howard H. Russell, LL.D., of Co- mt n address on the sub- ject Endeavor vs. The Sa- | loon, out the parailel between the great revolutio ments of the | world and 1ne st the-liquor traf lieved that in the twent the liquor- | the triumphs of | nst the s 5 d methods of { showed how | ed by Christian h b | er address was received w. se, a3 he seemed to strike a or n the eat nudience. by Grzce,” was beau- 5s Josephine Patter- i, and elicited )ss of Boston presented reatest local progress in tian citizenship In- g it from Cieve Mr. Un:on re- s, takin an’ of the Incianapol or the ¢ ity. Meyers o of Brooklyn, | bristian Endeavor and s'’in a short address enthusiasm than any | He held up in strong thoxe who shirked the duty of suf e he da | g £ | frage =nd heid him as traitor_who re- | maine y from the polis. Ha called | for a c ot Oon the part of the | ¥ to drive demagogues from ics, and asked that the motto of every er:can shouid be ‘*America for Christ.” THRICE WELCOME o — pitable Expressions Woodward’s Pavilion. at| Speakers From Home and Abroad Assist Opering Exercises. in the Convention’s Owing undoubtedly to the greater dis- | tance of Woodward’s Pavilion the attend- ance there yesterday morning was not as great as at the Mechanics' Favilion. At the hou anced for the beginning of the se Endeavorers had scarcely begun ive. Despite this, however, the day's exercises began promptly on | time. Butin order that the later arrivals might miss nothing of the regular pro- ceedings a half hour was spent in song servic By this e the large edifice was well filied A few min diversion w te the opening hour a ted by a fair-s'zed dele- zation of Chinese, who came marching |’ into the auditc In the coursze of th: morning a number of birds haa gained access through the oven windows and their presence was prettily referred to by Muyor Phelan while delivering tke address of welcome on behalf of Sa Fra sco. He was speaking of the work of the local commit- tee. His tributeto the blithesome warblers was as follows: *The committee have provided every- thing, %o far as I see within the range of my eyves, except possibly the singing birds. Perhaps many of you thouzht it was a provision made for your pleasure by the committee, but I beg to assure you that these California birds, takinz their | enthusiasm from the movement of o peopie toward you, are volunteers’ ty applause greeted the expression his sentiment. Turouzhc the exercises the feathered isitors kept up a merry chirping chorus, which, however, was not at all disturbing s they hovered in the palms and draper- ies which were swinging in midair. The mass ol the audience were members of the -Christian Endeavor societies, as was indicated by their blue and gold badges, but there also many who were not o fliliated with tke organization. There were two occasions when the er- thusiasm rose to more than the usual lLeight. One of these was when the well-wishing telegram of President Me- {inley was read by Professor Grosse, the chairman of the meeting. Hardly had he concluded its reading when there was a fluttering of handkerchiefs from all parts which be- | rvice directed by E. D. | | of the hall. | presentations !er | ¢ sev, and learn, as only one can learn by | youth behold that immers: dominating purpose to elevate and purify the l lives of its members, and combine and cou- centrate their efforts in every good word and | work until their numbers shail be as the sunas vt the sea and the youth of every land shall be enrolled under its banner. We welcome you to San Francisco because we believe there is a peculiar appropriateness in your assembling here this year. Twoyears ago you gathered in the histeric city of Bos- ton, & great ermy over 55,000 strong. Your hearts were protoundly surred as you visited Piymouth Rock and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hiil and Faneuil Hall, and a new impuise was given you in your loyal and patri- otic purpose 1o be better ciliz:ns and to do more 10 e.evale the stanaard of lccal citizen- hip. A year agd you assembled in the beautiful city of Wasnington, the Nation’: capital, the seat of our Governmen d by the great white monument you reflzcted on the stirring events that marked the country’s history from the days of Bunkes Hiil ond Concord to the present. and you blessed God for the Union of all the States; and by tae halls of legislation, as you sought 10 deepen the spiritual life, you prayed for a purer citizeuship in every section of our vast country. It was fittivg that from there you should the continent, and come to San Fran- iravel, how vast our couniry , and 1n your -ction, desiined in the near future to wield a predomisating ivfluence in the leg'slation and life of the couutry; and by the natural force of emigra- tion fiom the East, to be the hozne for the deve.opment of that type of sturdy, patriotic, loying, religious maunhood fe 1t out in ays to the Wes: from tne firesides of New Eugland, New York and Pennsyly The record of Christian Eundeavor many of the States, along the line of good citi- zenshir, during the pust fow years, nus been such as to be a marked incentive for others 10 follow, and_the compilation and aistribution of the-e records would prove a great stimulus 10 all well-d:rected efforts in this direction. What more inspiring record cou:d be pre- sented than the heroic purpose, the gallant struggle, the hard tought pitiles and the re- cent glorious victory of that faithful band of Buckeye Enceavorers in the city of Toledo? We welcome you to San Francisco; and_his Honor, Mayor Poelan, foremost in every effort in the cau‘e of good government. will voice the city’s welcome: but on behalf of the com- committee, of the great chorus, rank and file of tne members of both unious, to all and to each of whom the great work of preparation has been a labor of love, 1 extend a royal California v.e'come to our homes, to our henrls, to our church houses. to our great Pavilion, where we have sought to provids comfort and pleasure and hospitality. Above all, as a yo active, purely 1eligious or- | ganization, we welcome you for tue great | work yon nave done and tne good we expect | vou 10 do us. This City and State needs a great spiritual | uplitt, and your coming bas teen lou, ed for, when'the presence and power of Almichiy God might Le manilested 1o quicken and give | new lite and lasting zeal aud enthusiasm to | the mem!ers of all young people’s societies | and v nll tue membe:s ot vur churches. |~ We need toget on a higher plane oi spiritual living; we need to be more zealous and out- spokeu in the Master’s service; we need a Souvenirs Sold by the United Soclety. The cloud of linen, Imost hid the andience from view. es, you can applaud, too, if you want | to,” remarked the chairman, and the hint was immediately followed by a burst of bhand-clapping. Rev. W. J. Darby was responsible for the second outbursi. He was performing the duty of presenting the badge banner for the greatest increase in the numbar of societies Guring the past twelve months, Thi« had been held for the rast two years by England, again awarded to that country. in the course | Curistian Endeavor as an_organ zed form of of his remarks paid an_eloquent comp! we had ment to the Queen. *She” he said, H inthe autumn of the same the crown and consummation of all ‘that | PAl Fr;:(“:; lepi emaally is best in Christian womanhood,” His | Anxions ieyerl slnteito sl ore CLthls words met with enthusiastic approval. | ereat boty, fcr we have followed with beat. J. Z. Tyler made the presentation of the | jng heartsand bated breath the magnificent junior badge banner for the greatest in- ‘ develobment of this movement and its spread crease in the number of societies during | over the whole world. So. in 1893, we N Pennsyivania | 00ghly wished for you out here; iu 1896 we the past twelve months, held the banner for three years, but was compelled to surrender it this year to Onio. Neither of the banners was at hand, nor was there any properly delemated repre- entative present to recoive them. bad to be made in both cases purely in a metaphorical sen«e. Professor Howard B. Grosse of Boston, who had the honor of presiding over the meeting, has been a member of the board of trusiees since the organizalion of the United Societies in 1884, He was born in New York State in 1851 and entered the University of Chicago in 1869. After th- great fire in that city he became a reporter | on a Chicago paper. He graduated at the | University of Rochester in 1876. Later he became the New York correspondent of | the Chicago Tribune, and left that jour- nal’s service to becoms: one of the edi- tors of the Examiner, the Baptist weekly of New York. In 1883 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Poneh- keepsie. He organized the New York State Union, and for two years was its president, the work under his charge hav- ing an almost unparalleled growth. Later he was cailed 1o tne presidency of the University of South Dakota. He left that ion 1o become a member of the fa y of the new Chicago University in 892. He is now associate editor of the Watchman of Boston, the ablest Baptist journal oi this country. The Welcome song, composed by J. W. Dutton, and sang by the choir to the tune of “Onward, Christian Soldier,”” was the first signal that the convention had commenced. The words had a hospitable ring, and the inspiring mertial music ap- pealed to thedelegates, who joired heart- 1he chorus. It was characteristic of the universal character of the organization that Kev. Soo Hoo m Art, the Chinese clergyman, of this City, was selecied 10 conduct the opening devotional exercises. in which the minister referred to the great gathering of all nationalities and offered a supplication that the convention might be the cause of a great harvest of sculsin tais City and the incentive of a movement to send the gospel to the millions who have never heard of God. The crowd was stil] flowing into the Pavilion and 2 number of selections were sung with increasing volume as the seats filled up. Then Professor H. B. Grosse struck a sharp blow with a gavel and said: “I now declare the sixteenth Interna- tional Christian Endeavor Coavention to be 1n session.” A great cbeer followed the announcement and Professor Grosse encouraged the applause by telling the delegaies he didn’t wish them to be too serious—to smile when they falt like it and to be not afraid 10 show enthusiasm. The presiding officer announced the fol- lowing business committes, to whom all resolutions and all matters of business will ba referred: J. W. Baer, Miles M 1 of Washington, D. C., and C. N it of Minneapolis. J. & Webster, on behalf of the Commit- tee of ‘07, welcomed the delegates to Cali- fornia. He said: THE COMMITTEE’S WELCOME. Not only on behalf of the Committee of 97 and of the soci-ties composing Alameda Coun- ty and Goldea Gate unions, but as the repre- seutative of the 55,000 Eudeavorers in the State ol Cali ornia, wm I privileged to extend 10 you 1he first words of welcome. *Cast thy breid upon Jhc“ul»ls and it shail return after many days.” Culifornia reversed .his injunc- tion, and her waters cast his bread on the land of Endeavor, aud lo, after many days, the re- turn has come in this great convention, the greatest assemb'y California has ever been privileged to welcome, ’ While we gather te-iny in the Queen City of the Pacific—our beloved San Francisco—you have come here on the invitation extended to you in the nameof Caiifornia, and she extends welcome as broad as her domain, as bound- less as her products and as warm as her own sunny skies. We welcome you as the representatives of a great army of over 3,000,000 youthful En- deavorers, mustered within' the church from ail parts of the globe, enlisted in a holy war- fare for the upliftng of maukind and the re- demption of the world to Jesus Christ, welcome you becnuse our people will see u what Ctristian Endeavor stands for to- loyalty to God, to the church, to the home, to the Stale, to the Nation; & loyalty that will find expression in this convenion gathered jrom ine East and from the Nortl und from the South and from tne West aud from the countries of the world, 10 sing the praises of him who is king of kings, the sreat captain of our salvauion, 1o listen to his lenders A L:berty Bell, Emblem of the Philadelphia City C, F. Union, proclaim h's truth, to receive a new inspira- tion, to reiew our Yows unto him and give practical demoustration of our work. We have bsen anxious for them to see in you the representatives of the greatest move- lace and So the | i “These con- | sisted of respons.ve reading and a prayer, | more thorough consecration to him, and we pray that God may U e your presence to us forth to this more consecrated and effe :tual work. The pleasant duty of expressing to the sitors the hospitable spirit 1n which they were received by the pastors of the Goiden Gate was delegated to Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D., of Oakiand. D: McLean's address, which follows, was appreciatively listened to. DR. McLEAN’S ADDRESS. Mr. Chairman and Christian Endeavorers: I would like to echo some of the words that have been uttered by my predecessor in this order of welcome, We began to hear of the young people’s tonged for you to come; in 1897 we tuirly tasted and preyed jor you,snd we have got | you atlost. [Applause | " We are giad 10 bave you withus. Ihave :n looking about for Some measure of ex- cate 10 you my own i to our coast intional body, but without Ican come 1o it is this: Just seventy-two hours ago, almost to a min- ute, Mr. Chairmau, about 400 miies from here, I wis Innding a four-pouna (rout—four pounds aud & qaarter, to speak exacily. Those En- denvorers who are fishermen o not need 1o be w1d of the thrill 1 telt, but that is nothing to the thrill I feel to-day in coming across the bay on the boat and aiong the crowded thor- oughisres,in reauzing the presence of this great convention. So,I have laid aside my rod, bade a temporary farewell to my Indian comrade, left the glory o1 the woods and the ma nt splendor of Mount Shasta and I If a thou-and fold rewarded. That in is sublime, but less sublime tassemb:y of earnest Christian men and women, gathered here to-day in the e of Endeavorers ifrom a.l parts of the iolden Gate. tstirring events have transpired upon ihe sands here by San Francisco Bay, and I ve tosay g of e significance with that which is witnessed hera in this assemb.y. taking place 1n these ia r days in July. Theretore with heart and soul 1give you weicome, but my weicome is 1o be confined to the past Go.den Gate, I will leave 1o his , the Mayor, the wider welcome {ron and 10 (he Gov- ernor, or his representative, at the other pavilion, the yet bronder welcome from the State. I wiilonly say in passing that when you are looking upon this great State of ours you srs looking upon ultimate America; you are l0ok- ing upon the field that is to contain, genera- il hence, the highest results in American {lization, for, my friends, Josiah Strong is here somewhere, or on the way, and those great vital forces which he describes so well in their tremendous accession of power as stward from the Atlantic coast into the great interior do not expend their en- ergy in thatshort journey; they only get their second breath, ihey only take their second strength, and they pass on with more tre- mendous swing over our mountains, Let me remind you that the star of empire, which for generations has been unrestingly westward, when it arrives here has no further west to go, for geographically and commer- cally the west end is San Francisco, and a new east begins. 5o that the Bethich®m star, which has guided you. resting here, rests in heaven over one of the high places of the world’s tuture destiny. Iam speaking ina 1 seriousness when Isay this, and out of that seriousness comes much of the significanc: of the weicome of the Golden Gate pustorsto this assembly. For,in the first vLcc, tre- mendons responsibilities are 1aid upon our unequal hands, We are with you, Christian Endeaverers, working for the time to come, but our work is distinetly foundation-laying. You will find in one oi the papers of our City of & day or two azo & brief sketch of the religious ‘history of California. Oaly forty. eight yenrs ago last February Protestant Chris. tianity did not own a roa of ground, 1.0t a rood of lumber, not a bunch of shingles—not much as ashingle pail. Whatever there of it was wholly in the air and fully one-th of this brief period passed before people seri- ously thought ot planting those things which make for the highestin Califoruia. The East was home and the highest hope or expectation that men had was the making of their pile and by and by returning home to enjoy and spend it. So our coustructive period is a very much shorter one than even the brief period of our occupation here. We are, therefore, only in the foundation period, but neverthe. Jess laying foundations for great things that are to be. But, my friends. it gives us new courage when' we rea jze by tie preseace of such gathering as th.s tie mighty forces of prayer and sympathy and work and love that we have benind us, and it gives us greater as.ur- apce in those visions oi the fuure when we comprehend—as we cannot, except by ocular demonstration—the incarnation of Christian. itvin onr own and oiber lands; it gives us hopes of the recruits we are to receive by and by, those Who are 10 be co-workers with us and oar successes in this work. Therefore it gives us great giadness 10 £ce you here to-day, We ask of you Lo look upon’our foundations; we ask of you to leave your sympathy, your pravers, your love and your uidying interest hnere. In our greatdistance from the vast centers of Caristian pbilanthropy we realize some- {imes our moral end philanthropic provin- cialism, and that the great heart-beats, in reaching these far ex:remities, have expended agrest deal of their forces. We are glad, for once, to nave the great heart of Christinnity, 0 70'spenk, Jaid in our very hands. It brings us into & comprehension of the power of that Christiauity, and we can understand bettor the feeling of the Aposile Johin as he leaned upon the breast of Jesus. and we have a new futerpretation of the omnijotence of faith and love and spiritual power. We are glad to be re-enforced, nnd we are glad 1o have vou stand upon these Western walis of the Ameri- can continent, and we know that you wik cosi your thoughls across the great waters beyond, 10 meet the great work that is reach- ing out'to Chr stinn Endeavor. When you go out to our CLiff House, or when you stand at Cypress Point down at Monterey, and turn your eyes westward, I beg of you, dear friends, do not jorget that there are more. gnifice i ment of this generation, an organization un- der nuo contol Lut that of ihe ind vidual chureh, yet bound together by the inaividoal ties of Chrittian fellowship and & controlling, important obj cts than our sea!s and our pel'- cans; that there are things of more importance than'all the interests of ¢ mmerce, and tbat you are looking out upon the great highway i § NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. R R e A A A e e A A e e A A AN e The Demonstrating Power of Price To the Christian Endecavorers and all visitors alike : Our Bureaw of information is placed at your disposal. Com- petent men, who are in charde of it, will give yow full infor- mation abouwt the ins and outs of the city free of charge. We want yow to be at home with ws while yow are in our city. Coupled to Articles of Merit! We presume we’ll have occasion to remember Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as long as our great howse will be in existence, for never in its ex- istence have so many people passed, through its doors, never have so many people taken advantage of any specia’ sale, never have we had so many of Frisco’s most stylish dressers in our doors as we had Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It simply does to show yow that the people are alive to all occasions when snaps of such magnitude present themselves asthe one we now call your ® attention to. @@@@@@@@ [C.CCOCO00I0000TO00) You have but to aze into our big corner window and yow'll see a very pretty and stylish Single-Breasted Swit We won’t tell youw what we sold these We're cleaning howse now ; our Men’s Department feels the fierce work of the brooms more se- verely than the other departments. Suffize to say that these remarkably clever Suits are marked 30 exhibited there. Suwits for before. Glance further into our corner window and yow'll see some very handsome Blue and Black Cheviot Suwits, dood enowgh for any occasion, good enowgh for all dress-up ocasions, remarkably nice Suwits, neat, Senteel, gentlee manly Swits. . Youw'll find these marked 40 (600000000 000000 0000] TROUSERS FOR MEXN; right clever goods; at - - - WE HAVE SOME RIGHT CLEVER WORSTED 85¢c 8SAN FRANCISCO'S MOST POPULAR HOUSE, TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS, EIGHT FLOORS, 9, 11, 13 and 15 Kearny Street.