The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL-NO. 4 b) 7z, > il an“‘c‘ioo Y [i!}lf!',flf:r:i;H!y‘y'\|‘[;1|\rY:lVI34"'xLi!!§Em‘ 00000006 4»7!”( 0 © y of the way \/’/ Endeavorers spend their The to overflow d not hear themes of Chris and there was all big Pa- those churches were the ing, hold hold who delegates at all the churches a thing ay and peculiar to AVOTErs. servi ticed t e convention took oc- on to make a careful study of habits of the non-religious in s City. They marveled at the 1s and the general cus- ying Sunday as a day r pleasure rather than for medta- hat many of those tion Californians crowded the ich by thousands, wandered hrough the Park, and otherwise nt the day in search of pleasure, st of the Endeavorers at- 1 church or spent the day-in meditat THE DAY'S WORK. No sessions were heid in the pavilions morning, but in the afternoon e:ting was held at Woodwa:d’s »ath observance meeting in Me- ons, rge audiences were in both, while t First Congregational Church was overcrowded with women. Secretary E eld a largely attended meeting for boys and girls at the First Presbyterian Church Clark presided at Mechanics’ Pa- where 10,000 people listened to rring addresses. The Police sang “Throw Out the Life ind were heartily encored. ing at Woodward’s Pavilion en only and was undoubtedly t one ever held in this City. adelphia presided. he various Christian Endeavor So- = same thing meda, and Oakland. he pul- towns, as well as in this ed by visiting divines. pits in t City, v — - TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME, /0T programme in shed to-day, after which there will be scme meetings of im- portance in Oakland. for to-day is as follows: The only overflow meeting will be held | in Odd Fellows’ Hall and will be presided over by William Shaw, Treasurer of the | United Society, who will also conduct the | | consecration service. Rev. Matt S. | Hughes, D.D., of Minneapolis will preach the sermon. | For those unabie to obtain admittance | to these three meetings, an op:n-air meet- ing will be held in front of the Mechanics’ | Pavilion and good speakers will be sup- | plied. | Meetings will be held to-night at Me- chanics’ Pavilion, Dr. Clark presiding, and Rev. George F. Pentecost, D.D., cf New York will preach the sermon; con- secration service will be conducted by President Clark and will consist of roll call, responded to by the different State delegations. At Woodward’s Pavilion General Sec- retary presids and Rev. J. Wil- bur Chapman, D.D., of Philadelphia will preach the sermon. Secretary Baer will conduct the consecration meeting wih a | | roll call, but on a different plan from that | pursued at Mechanics’ Pavilion. SESSION. ‘ MECHANICS’ PAVILION—Rev. M. Rholes, D.D., St. Louis, presiding; C. M. T. Parker, San Francisco. musical director. 9:30, praise service; 9:40, de- votional exercises, condu by Rev. W. | H. Scudder, Tacoma; o4s, address, | “The Tenth Legion,” Amos R. Wells, Boston; 10, address, ‘“‘Foreign Mis- | sions,” Rev. J. C. R. Ewing, Lahore, | India ; 10:30, singing; 10:35, address, | ““Systematic and Proportionate Giving | to God,” Rev. J. R. Davies, New York ; | 11:05, singing; 11:10, un:olling the | “Missionary Roll of Honor,” conducted by Right Rev. Edward Rondthaler, ‘ D.D., Salem, N. C.; 11:20, brisf intro- | duction of visiting missionaries from the | field ; 11:30, address, “Home Missions,” Wibur Chapman, D.D., of | Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D.D., Detroit, Mich.; 12, adjournment. WOODWARD’S PAVILION—Presi- cieties had a deluge of visitors, but all j dent F. E. Clark presiding ; A. T. Suth- The programme 0:30, praise service ; 9:45, devotional exercises, con- ducted by Rev. H. Mosser, Reading, Pa.; 9:50, prelude, “Th: World’s Prayer | | Chain,” Miss Lilian S. Mead, Adelaide, S. A.; 10, address, ‘‘City Evangelization | Outside of the Churches,” Rev. Cha les | Roads, D.D., Chester, Pa.; 10:30, sing- ing ; r10:35, address, ‘Deepening the | Spiritual Life Inside Our Churches,” Rev. J. W. Ch+pman, D.D., Pnilndel-, phia; 11:05, presentation of banner to local city union having reported the best ress in the past year in promoting systematic and proportionate giving to God, pressnted by Rev. E. L. House, Attleboro, Mass.; 11:10, singing; 11:25, address, “‘Some Spiritual Returns for | Missionary Investments,”” Rev Thomas O. Crouse, Baltimore ; 12, adjournment. AFTERNOON SESSION. MECHANICS’ PAVILION—Annual junior rally, Rev. J. H. Bomberger, Colum- biana, Ohio, presiding. 2:30, praise ser- vice; 2:40, devotional exercises, conducted by Rev. C. C. Poling, Portland, Or.; 2:45, singing by Chinese choir; 2:55, gree:- ings from Mrs. Frances E. Clark, Bos- ton; 3, illus'rated address, topic, “The Song of the Heart,” Rev. R. F. Y. Pierce, Philadelohia; 3:20, exercise by San Fran- cisco Juniors, “TthuniorGardep”; 4, re- ma;ks by President Clark; 4:10, adjourn- ment. WOODWARD’S PAVILION—2:30, praise service; 2:40, d=votional exercises, conducted by Robert J. Caskay, Salt Lake City; 2:43, singing by Chinese quar- tet; 2:50, paper, ‘“The Lookout Commi- tee,” A. E. McDonald, Chicago; 3:05, | paper, “The Prayer-meeting Committee,” { Miss Lillie M. Dieter, Sedalia, Mo.; 3:10, open parliament, “Ways of Working,” John R. Cary, Baltimore; 3:20, paper, | “The Social Committee,” Charles * A. Forse, St. Louis; 3:25, opsn parliament, “Ways of Working,” conducted by W. H. Lewis, Seattle; 3:35, singing; 3:40, | paayer service; 3:45, paper, ‘“‘The Mis- | sionary Committee,”” Miss Frances B. Patterson, Chicago; 3:50, open parlia- | ment, “Ways of Working,” H. N. Lath- rop, Boston; 4, paper, ‘“The Other Com- mittees,” Milas M. Shand, Washington, D. C.; 4:10, open parliament, “Ways of Working,” conducted by Harry A. Kin- porte, New York; 4:20, closing remarks, ““The Source of Al: Power for Service,” Charles T. Studd, London; 4:30, adjourn- ment. CLOSING SESSION. MECHANICS’ PAVILION — Presi- dent Clark presiding; A. M. Benham | s musical director. 7:30, praise service; 7:50, d-votional exercises, conducted by «v. F. E. Mallory, Top¢ka, Kans.; 8:05, sermon, Rev. G. F. Pentecost, L.D., | Yonkers, N, Y.; 8:35, singing; 840, con- secration me=ting, conducted by President | Clark ; 9:30, adjournment. WOODWARD’S PAVILION — Sec- ( retal Baer presiding; J. J. Morris mu- | sical director; 7:30, praise service ; 7:50, devotional exercises, conducted by Rev. |J. V. McCall, Mineral Wells, Tex.; 7:55, anthem by the choir; 8:05, sermon, Rev. J. W. Chapman, D.D., Philade.phia; 8:35, singing ; 8:40, consecration meeting, conducted by Secretary Baer; 9:30, ad- | journment. AT WOODWARD’S. Eminent Speakers Address a Meeting for Men. | Masculine Voices Make the Laage Pavilion Ring. Musical It was rather a somber looking audience that gathered in Woodward’s Pavilion vesterday aiternoon. Even ample decor- ation by means of gay badges came far from making that exclusively masculine congregation look as bright and festive as the summer gowns and happy combina- tions of ribbons, feathers and flowers that constitute impressive features of the mixed gatherin But then it was such a beautiful day that the little birds that have 1l.tted about inside the building ever since Lhe opening day caught something of the convention spirit and ¢airped so merrily that the men couldn’t help sing- ing heartily, so the depressing effect of an unrelieved sea of masculinity soon van- ished. And it was a great meeting. C. E. Livyd, Oakland’s Chief of Police, acted as muical director, and his was a grateful task. “Onward, Christian Sol- diers’ was 'he opening number. = This Lymn is a favorite with the convention for starting the enthuciasm, and the men were not long in catching the spirit of the swinging martial air. From that on the congregation singing, and there was much o! it, wus of a nature to make glad the heart of the most ambitious usical leader. During the song service, R, A. Eiwood, an evangelist of Pniladeiphia, sang the verses of “Saved by Grace,’ and led the congregation in singing the ckorus. Dr. Dawson of Cincinnati opened the devotional exércises with prayer, alter which ‘‘America’” was -sung by the audience, 7o) “tome of us in the East have always heard,” said Rev. J. William Chapman, D.D., of Philadelphia, who presided during the alternoon, ‘‘that San Fran- cisco abounded in two classes of people. ‘We have always been told that San Fran- cisco contained some of the best people in world—and I am certain we have | T l N i KL, found it so. We have also been told that all the bad people were not shut up in New York and Philadelphia. But I wish to say that San Francisco has something we have never found in any city we have been in before. I refer to the Police Glee Club. They are with us to-day and are goinv to sing to us.” The blue-coated singers were almost embarrassea by the ovation, and traly it was a royal welcome which they received. The club never did better than’it did yes- | terday in rendering “Throw Out the Life- Line,” and tne audience tumultuously signuled its appreciation. The club re- sponded with another number, and still another before the audience reluctantly allowed it to leave the plaiform. The club consisted of: First tenors— Joseph F. Redman, T. P. Walsh, W. Symonds, R. F. Graham; second tenor, Marcus Ander-on. First basso~—G. B. Balawin, [ Tuchier, J. L. Nelson, P. C. Peters, L. Rankin, P. H. McGee; secont bu-sos—L. Livingston, T. J. Bailey, M. O. Anderson, W. W. Wilson, O. B. Merrick. A motion was made from the body of the bouse #nd unanimously carried ex- tending a vot~ of thanks to the officers for the entertainment they had iurnished. Rev. Mr. Conkling of Mudison, Wis., then offered a prayer for the police force and municipal officers generally. the Glee Club as an example of what i. was to be 11 the public service and yet acknowledge God. F. A. Jackson, assistant secretary of the Y. M. €. A, :avitea the delegates to visit the ¥. M. €. A, building, and uryxed the men present who resided in this City to join the association. } Rev. Ford C. Otiman of Newark, N. J., was the first speaker of the afternoon. He preceded his remarks with a few nice things about the San Francisco police torce. “My remarks this afternoon,” he said, ‘‘will be uvon the twenty-seventh chapter of Acts, in which the voyage of Paul when he Janded at Malta is spoken of. I took the chapter because I cousider it to be a sort of parable of many a nhuman life. Yoa have doubtless often heard life likened to a sea voyage. I be- lieve that the best picture of a human life is to b found not in something which is afloat, but such a vessel as is described in the first part of this chapter, where the vessel is r.ding at anchor in what is Enown as a fairbaven. I believe the worst thing that can hap- pen to any man is to cast away from his safe anchorage in Jesus Christ. “In this chapter, first of all, you see Paui standing forth when he saw that the -ailing was dangerous, and warning the voyagers that the trip would be with hurt. But the centurion belizved those things that were said by the master and the owner of the ship more than the things that were spoken of by Christ. How | many times do°s it happen in real life that we believe those whose material ad- vantage influences them when Jesus Christ is warning us that a ceriain under- tak:ng isdangerous. g ‘“‘After awhile Paul stood forth and said, *Ye should have hearkened unto me and cut loose from Crete.” Tell me, ye who have served God, did_you ever find any- thing 1s 10 be gained by cutting away from righ-cousness. Tuen Paul said, ‘Be of good cheer, for the Lord Jesus Christ has Stood by me this nirht, and no harm will come uunto you.” Breturen, you can’t get awayv from Jesus Christ, no matter how far away you have arified, God can always find you. When the mariners saw their danger, they commenc d to shoal water and cast out anchors. Itseemsto me that a man cannot live very long in this life without beginning to shoal water, and he will feel tuat his journey is coming to an end. : «J care not who the man is—some day he will cast the lead, and find thirty fath- oms, and then but twenty, and then ten, and he knows he is in danger. Tue time is coming when he will run his ship aground where the great sweiling tide of eternity runs in, and when upon his deathbed he will find his faculties slip- ingaway. What is a man to do when ga tinds his life slipring away, and he finds he has become 8 shipwreck from the faith. I would like at the eventime of my life that it would be as the prophet #aid, ‘And it shall come to pass that it is light.” Let us pray that when the end comes we will all be found at safe an- chorage in our Lord Jesus L.hrisl." A male quartet from Oikiand rendered a selection which was enthusiastically en- cored. The singers were: W. J. Oakes, E. H. Mcuandlish, L.T. Mervin and E. A. Sterman Jr. “How will thou do in the swellin- of Jordan?”’ was the text of Rev. J. Wilber Chapman’s address. “Dr. Ottman spoke cf asea,” he said, “'I will speak of a river. I say 10 you that il you put your faith in Jesus Curist your sins will leave you soon as you come close to him. The River Jordan in the estimation of some people is that it stands jor a peculiar somethine that lies be- tween us and eternity. We say of our de- parted friends that they have gone down the Jordan, that they have passcd over. The River Jordan runs through a rocky country, and when it overflows the in- habitants find refuge in caves. Kemem ber these points in my story. “There are some people who be- lieve that the religion of Jesu$ Christ is only a good thing to die in. They seem to think it a good sort of insurance againstdeath. But re- ligion is more than that. 1t is a good thing to iive bs. The man who is a Christian is a ‘better husband, a betier father, a better citizen. I beli-ve that and you believe that. It is to the people who believe the first way I am going to talk. I want to say that auy man in this audience who has within him a single unforgiven sin has tne seed of death. The worst thing in He cited | ,\ ,u’u % P IR 7 ![;/ { = this world is that little word of three let- ters, and when you spell it, s-i-n, you get the hiss of the serpent away back in | Eden. *‘I want to speak a little aboutdrunken- ness, because 1t is on the 1ncrease. I would to God I could speak the word that would make every man who is approach- ing drunkenness to put away the awtul cup. Ihavearight to-day, not only as a minister, but as a man, to lift a voice against that which is the sin of the dav. Some of you men are drinking just a lit- tle. We had one in Philadelphia. He moved out of a palace into a hovel. After a while word came that his baby had died. He had not clothes to put on it. The neirhbors went in and put the little white things oa it. “‘They took the man in to see the child. The tears ran down his face, but his hands reached down the little one’s dress until be took the shoes from his dead baby’s feet, and while the funeral was vet in preparaiion those little shoes were vawned for drink. It had made che tather worse than a demon. When I heard that story I <aid: ‘Please God, I'li go up and down the iine lifting my voice wherever I can to condemn thisevil.’ “I have a right to cry to every man who is being caught in the passion of gamblingz. | Men, in the name of God stand back; the | avalanche 1s coming! [ *‘Supro-e, men, you should refuse to come to Christin life, and the death hour should come and the water reach to your knees, and then to your neck, and then submerge you. How then would you feel in the swelling of Jordan? “I want to say a word to men who ara in the caveof i.fidelity. My hesr. goes out to the man whno says ‘I can’t believe as youdo, Idon’tknowas I want to, but I would not say a word to take away your nope, if it isa hope.” Somehow I like that man, but Idon’t like the man who sticks his hands in bis vest and says, ‘The oid- fashioned religion was all right once, but we have erown away from it.’ ‘‘Has Gladstone grown away from it? That greatest thinker the world has to- day, who counted it an honor to kneel in the little chapel and read the prayers in | the absence of the rector. I tell the truth when I -av | would rather be the hum- blest peasant with faith in Christ than the greatest infidel the world has ever seen. “The man who is in the cave of morality abhors drunkenness and all these other sins, but there isno morality aside from the faith of Jesus Christ. I look out to- day upon this sea of faces. Some men | here are lost. I would not be true to my ministry if I did not give you an invita- tion to be saved. There is some boy here to-day a slave to his appetite and his pas- sions. I preach to him.’” The speaker called upon all those who | wished him to pray for them to rise, and the audience rose ina body. Dr. Chap- man then closed his address with an in- vocation. | tev. Dr. Case pronounced the benedic- tion. e SABBATH LAWS. Discussion of a Growing Evil at the Big Pa- vilion. A Wide Divergence of Views Ex- pressed by the Various Speakers. The meating at Mechanics’ Pavilion in the interests of the Lora’s day was a suc- cess in every way. Fully 10,000 people were assembled in the auditorium when the serv.ces bagan and not less than 2000 more were on the outside waiting for a chance to get a seat. It was evident that neither the meeting for men at Woodward’s nor the meeting for women at the First Congregational Church took all of either sex. Infact the crowd was 30 great that for the first time there was a complaint that the air was not what it ought to be, and it took all of | Piesident Clark’s pursuasive powers to | prevent a number of people leaving the hall after the first address. There was much divergence of opinion | among the speakers regarding just what they thought to be the proper way to ob- serve the Sabbath, and this dive:rzence ranged all the way from a strict Puritan- ical home-staying to a day in the purks and museums. The last speaker, Rev. Robvert Johnston of London, Canada, rather bad the best of the argument when he said that until the church itself kept the Sabbath holy it could not expect those who were not members to do so. There was quite a theatrical air about the Police Glee Club, in full uniform, which was brought in to entertain the delegates just after there had been a bitter denunciation of theaters. But the audi- ence fully appreciated the *‘Lifeline’’ and applauded so strenuously that the club sang, “'Still, Still With Thee,” and re- ceived compliments from both President Clark and Dr. Sirong, who addressed the meeting upon the subject of “The Civil Sabbatb.”” Just after Miss Kay closed her address on “Woman’s Part in Sunday Observ- ance,” alarge number of people in the back part of the auditorium left their seats and staried for tne door, President Clark called them down, but he received the reply that the air was too bad and they were going where it was fresher. In order that the next .P“hr' Rev. W. H. G. Temple of Seattle, mighs not be inter- rupted by theexodus President Clark called for music, and in ready and apt response | a slight sound from the bazzer. Mr. Husband announced ‘‘Speed Away,” amid the laughter of those who *‘caught on.” Mr. Temple had considerable to say on *‘Modern Forms of Saboath Desecration,” and was very vigorous in bisdenunciation | of what he termed tue prime evils in this direction. Hegave a paraphrase of Shakes- peare’s “Seven Agescf Man from a Chris- tian standpoint, which in a manner belied his denunciation of actors and people of the stage. The presence of sixteen policemen on | the platform just before the address of | Dr. Josiah Strong of New York on “The Civil Sabbath” affcrded that gentieman a ood odject lesson, and he began his ad- dress by saying that if all cities had such men on their forces the Sunday laws would be much better enforced ever where. After this tribute the doctor « tined the difference beiween the divine and the human Sabbath, and showed how most of the arguments for and a. t Sunday laws were based upon wrong premises, and said that most of those who argued began with a wrong basis of at- tack on and defense of Sabbath iaws. He said that Sabbath laws were not based on the divine leature, but were the result of physical necessity of the individual. He denied the rigot of any man to work on the Sabbath, even if he desired o, because he said those who did not wish to work on that day_had the rizht of pro- tection in their business, and if they did not worly and some other man did he would draw away all of the Sabb. keeper’s custom. The man who des: torest on the Sabbath should be tected from the competition of the m. who preferred to chase after the dollar. He said the trouble with the average American was that he was in too much of a burry all the time, and illustrated this by a story of a missionary iriend of his who went up the street in Constantinople, and as he bhurried along be passed group after gronp of men, and as he camo apreast of them they called out something to bim in their own tongue. He finally came to believe that they were offended with him and were appiying an epithet, and asked a friend who was with him what they meant. The reply was that they were exhorting him to *'go slow.” A Bohemian who came over to America said that his first experience in this coun- try—it even began as he was going down the gangway of the steamer—was the constant cry to him to “‘burry up.” This was the characteristic of the American who is always sorry that he was not boru twins, in order that he might crowd iwo days work into one. It was this spirit that was responsible for much of the Sab- bath-breaking in a mercantile way. He believed in the prohibition of cer- tain amusemen:s on Sunday, Notfrom a divine standpoint, but because they were immoral, and immorality was a menace to the safety of the State. Just as igno- rance was a danger to the State and the State had the right to enforce her educa- tioral laws, =0 it had the right to enforce prohibitory laws against any amusement that had a tendency 10 make people im- | moral. The amusing feature of the address of Dr. Stron - came from behind the speaker, for he oversteppe. his time and there w The do tor was apparently deaf to admoni- tions, for he continued to talk. Then the buzzer became more insistent, but it had no effect. Louder came the buzz, until 1t souned like the whirr of the tail of an anery rattlesnake. The doctor was un- KEW TO-DAY. ‘What a great quan. tity of work a ““good housekeeper ”? to do! here ar so many little time- and-strength -taking chores that have no names. And it must all be done whether the housekeeper feels like it or not. This is true of men’s work too, but men’s manual labor is never so complicated @ as housekeeping. In Bl come way or other “the world’s work must be done.” This iron-clad rule is &7 | harder on women o than it is on men. A man can’t be as sick as a woman. As 2 man’s org 1 is si strouger, it follows that his ailments are less complicated. He is not subject to the chances and changes, physiologically, that come to the average woman. If a woman is in good health there is no more healthful employment than house- work. Generally speaking, there is no hap- pier woman in the world than the one who 1s well and busy all day long “making home” for dear ones who depend upon her. But how difierent when every breath is pain, every step torture ! This state of Lealth, in nine cases out of ten comes from derangements of the delicate, feminine or- gans of generation. The family doctor in- quires first concerning these. 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