The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, THE TEMPERANCE SALOON. *I started the temyperance saloon about 1a balf, \g reat good. other in num “The piaces. ance bever One of the gest 1 in the East ar ely non-intoxicating. te over the country. some of the ] and more con stitution of rom , comfort, sociability, lig loon s it must go. the If the trate their minds upon “The line of ab! spects. It will show Siate and especiali The unity whi New enthusissm, I know, has intensified. div n the work they have been doing. “So I think 1tis Bish He has be terday. speaking considerably since hi twoand a half years ago,” said Bishop sterday afternocn, while taking a much-needed rest, “‘as an 1 am not connected with it now, and have not been for a year The plan is being carried out in one way or an- usad has been made in large quantities and shipped all eatest things connected with this work is the fact that e manufacturing a beverage which they nced that the only way to settle the saloon question is thing that will furnish all that is good in the saloon, viz., hi, innocent amusement and refreshment, and then Itis substitution and pronibition. The one must pre- iness men and the Christian people generally will concen- itution the result for good would be astonishing. cing of drinking fountains, public utilities ana snch work is along the wion and witl result in a great amount of good. t of this convention will be of the most beneficial nature in many re- the deep interest that these Christian Endeavorers have for their for the Christian people. interest Letween Christians of the same iaith has been empha- h preva.ls between the d.fferent churches represented has been already been imparted to pastors and in- uals of thedifferent churches, They feel that their hands have been strengthened afe to say that the result will be of a most important character.” lows was very much fatigued by his long journey across the country. s arrival and had to fi'l two pulpits yes- However, be was delighted with 1he convention and the preparation for it. and continuous that the | the bumor of the thing | ound the ball, while | m the field with the | the speaker retired f: knowiedge that he h If the old-time P gain installed in this country it will | oue of its most a:dent and enthu- supporters Rev. Robert Johnston if hs speech yester- He is a very ranid | =dit the fact that | ty-miinute speecii nutes, and when he | e promised his | ry io cut his pres- ninuies down to ten, but he 1d the buzzer got there siastic f Londor 1d has to his ed down a th o twenty d on the pln missed his gu | first. Dr. ohnston is an ideal platiorm man, rness intens: | fied by his closely button al coat, and hLis clear-cut, intelle face, with its irame of black hair and beard, was | lightened by the flash of his eye, that told | that he had the blood uf the oid Scotch Covenanters in his veins; nor did his speech disabuse the hea of tbis idea, | for he launched into a eulogy of the | Scotch Eabbatn, and prayed for its return in to! as fervent as they were eloquent. | He suid that the keynote of all society is the family, and he where the begin- ning of Eabbatn g had to be to] mske it a succe he family was the | foundation of both the church and the | ate, and it was only when the family | nd the church coula be relied upon to | keep the Subbath holy that the state had | the power to enforce the Sunday laws. | Without the church tne state and the city | were impotent to enforce laws against | Sab reaking, and as long as the| members of the church set the bad exam- could not e rch mem pect those who were to abstain from Y way he would close every- No one should even walk in the or woods; no one should go to museums or parks; no one should do any labor of any sort, but all should rigidly adhere to the commandment of God and | “Kemember the Sabbath day and keep it | b | thing. fields . Johnston is one of the magnetic talkers of the convention, and he usually succeeds in filling his audience with much of the spirit which seems to belong naturally to him, and while thousands of those present did not_agree with hin to the iull extent of a Puritanical Sabbath, hedrew a most hearty and ready round of applause at the close of his address, as well as numerous punctuations of strong | indorsement of the many pood points he made. pAEERRT e SN WOMEN GIVE THEIR IDEAS An Interesting Meeting Yes- terday Afternoon. Prominent Speakers From Abroad and a Vast Audi- ence. The First Congregational Church held | services for women only yesterday after- | noon. The large edifice was crowded to | the doors and many of the ladies were | forced 1o content themselves with seats in | tue outer ball. They swarmed ail over ! and filied every nook and corner in the ! building. They were fringed round the | platform and every step leading to the | pulpit was covered with those anxious to | hear the speakers who had come from the | far East. Toere must have been many of the missing trunks delivered yesierday, | for the andience were all arrayed in the | most becoming of summer. gowns. and | bonnets. l Mrs Frances Claik presided and intro- duced the speakers in their turn. The services opened with a praise service, led by M ss Lida Clinch of Sacramento. Several hymns were sung with a right good will, after which Mrs. Henley san, a sacred solo. Mrs. Clark then sai Ao have been asked by a reporter if it is not expected eventually to make the Chris- tian Endeavor movement a movement en- | reach irely for women. Most decidedly not. There is in this movement work for all to do, the men as well as the;women.” Mrs. lark requested that all who were pro- fessed Christians stand. They did so, and acount was not neces-ary, ior the whole audience were on their fee: at once. After requesting the ladies present whose hats obsiructed the view to remove them, she introduced Mre. Scott F. Hers ey of Bos- ton, who led a short service of praye Dr. Kim Ecada Silva spoke on ‘‘How to Reuch tne Hearts of the Oriental Women.” She said thateverywhere in ihe Orient they will tell you that the salvation ol the land is through women. Butitisa hard thing to reach them, there is a walj of re- serve built around thew, and the only way is to touch the mother-heart. In Japan, where the women are freer than in other Oriental lands, 1t is almost impossible to them. There is 8o much of cere- mony. The women there must be ap- proached as the hunter approaches birds, gently. Once her heart is touched let us see what =hedoes. Take Pundita Ramabai | for instance, look at_the wonderiul work she has beeu doing in India., In China, until the home is changed, until woman is raised to her proper sphere, little can be done. When the mothers of the nations are Christians the power of Christ will come again. . Mrs. Lida J. Clinch then sanga sacred solo, after which Mrs, Clark spoke of the Home and Foreign Missions. Mrs, Vie- toria Eurle Mathews of New York was then introduced and read a most eloquent address on ““The Awakening of the Afro- American Women.” She said in part: Ivhas been the awakening of a race from the nightmar: of 250 years of self-effacement end debusewment. It is not within the power of any one who hzs stood outside of Afro- American life_to adequaiely estimate the ex- tent of the effacement and debasement, and, therefore, of the gracious awakening whieh has quickened into life the siumbering forces and filled with hope and giadness the souls of millions of the womanhood of our land. To the God of love and tenderness and pity and justice we ascribe the fullness of our thanks aud prayers for the transiormation from the death of slavery to the iife of freedom. All the more are we grateful to the moral and Christian forces ot the world, the Christian statesmen and soldiers and scholars who were the divine instruments who made it possible for this womanhood to stand in thisaugust presence to-day. The auction block of brutality hss been changed into the forum of reason, the slave meart has been replaced by the schoolroom sod the chureh. As Istand here to-day clothed in the ger- ments of Christian womanhood, the horrib.e days of slavery, out of which I came, seem as a dream that is told, some horror iucredibie. Indeed, can they have been, and are not? They were; they arc not. This is the sum and substance, the glory and the shame of the taie that I would tell, of the message that I would bring. When we remember that the God who created all things is no respecter of persons, ihat the black child is beioved by him as the white child, we can more easily fix tne re- spousibility’ that rests upon the Christian womanhood of the country tojoin with usin elevating the head, the heart ana the soul of Afro-American womanhood. As the great Frederick Dougless once said, in order to measure tie heights to wbich we have risen we must measure the depths from which we were dragged. It is from this point of observation tha. we mus’ regard ine awak- ening of the Afro-American womanhood of the land, And what is this awakening? What is its distinguishine characterisiic? Pause. | It would seem superfluous 1o 8k or to auswer questious so obvious, but the lamen table | truth is that the womsanhood of the United States and the world knows absolutely noth- ing of the hopes and easpirations, of the jo: and the sorrows, of the wrongs and the needs ol the biack women of ihis country who came up outof the effacement and detasement of American slavery into the dazzling sunlight of freedom. My itiends, call to mind the ren- sations o the prisoner of Chillon s he walked out of the dungeon, where the flower of his | lile had been spent, into the open air, and you will be able to appreciste in some sense our feelings in 1865. When the war drums throbbed no longer, And the battle-flag was furied. Wlat o past wasours! There was no attri- bute of w. hood which bad not been sul- liea—aye, which had not b:en despoi.ed in the crucibie of siavery. Virtue, modesiy, the joys of maternity, even hope of immortality, sll toese were depied this womanhood waen tne voice of Lincoin and the sword of Grant, as the expression of the Christian epinton of the iand, bade them sand forih without let or n I’lelnlruncu as arbiters of their own persons and wiils. The awakening of the Afro-American woman is one of the most promising facts in our Na- tional iife. Tiat wedeserve the active sympa- thy and co-operation of all the female torces of the Republic I think I have sufficiently shown. We nerd them. We have always needed them. We need them in the work of religion, of education, of temperance, of mor- ality, of industrialism; and above ail we need their assistance in Combating the public opinion and laws that degrade our woman- hood because it is black, not white, for of a truth and esa universallaw. An injury toone woman is an injury to all women. Atfter this address, which called forth the warmest expres: Miss Katharine M. spoke on “One Woman’s Power.” said: *“What these women as a body are going to do is very little, but what eaci: individual woman will do will be simply enormous.” Then she spoke of mispiaced enthu iasm and how, if it were all di- rected in one channel, how many good movements it would carry along. She then cited a litile story to show how great ‘‘one woman’s power” was. She said that a little woman had gone into the mount- ains of South Carolina, where there were nothing but hardened men, and after staying there seven years and giving all her time to the ~ervice of God in saving the souls of those people, she had left it in & most hopeful condition. A church had been dedicated, there was a school- house, and the people were in a good con- dition spiritually. *This,” she said, “was tie effect of one woman’s power.” Mrs. George W. Coleman oi Boston fol- lowed, delivering a most interesting ad- dress on “'Our Reasonabie Service.” She said: “‘Our first ressonabls service is to give ourselves to God.. We cannot truly give ourselves to others because we are seif-centered. It is only after we give ourselyes to God that we tind a center out- side of ourseives, We must offer ourselves a living sacrifice to Christ. Our hearts, our souls, every part of us, should be de- voted to his service.” The benediction was then pronounced and the huge audience dismissed. their money refunded or exchanged for re- served seats free of charge. The following bulletin has been issued to the singers: Grove-sireet door wil! open for orches'ra and chorus at 6:30 P. 3. and close at 7:45. There will be 50 chairs in Machinery Hall and mapy benches for use of chorus. Singers will enter chutes at 7:50, stage at 8 to the steps of the “‘Convention March,” and will all be seated by 8:15. Concert wiil begin at 8:20. A. M. BENHaM, Chairman Music Committee. CHILDREN IN PRAYER. Fifteen Hundred Young Christians Gather Together, “Buffer the little childran to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of sucn is the kingdom of heaven.” These words were spoken yesteraay af- ternoon before the brightest and most en- thusiastic meeting since the opening of the convention. It was a meeting of in- nocent chiidren in First United Presby- terian Church, Golden Gate avenue and Polk street. Fifteen hundred children, ranging in age from tiny babies of a few months old up to bright boys and girls of 16 years--boys and girls just ascending the uplands of life—were present and their young voices lifted up gave untold sirengtn bat gentleness to the songs and prayers of praise, Secretary John Willis Baer of Boston, Mass., conducted the meeting. The earnestness of his manner and spesch many tiwes during the meeting | caused the tears of the youthful Chris- | tians to flow, and at times he brightened | tneir smiles when he to!d them of the re- | ward that awaited them 1n a lile to come FLOATING WORK. Superintendent M. C. Turner Calls a Meeting in Oakland. | M. C. Turner, State superintendent of floating work, visited Oailand yesterday and made some pleasing discoveries. Tweniy - five vessels lying in Oskland Creek proved to him that the field was good for some work. Accordingly he has | started o secure the proper workers and l accommodations jor the floaiing work in Alameda County. | All presidents of laeal societies in Ala- | meda Couniy are requested to meet Mr. | Turner in the Oskland Y. M. C. A. parlors to-morrow afternoon at 0 o'clock. He has mcst important and pleasant news for their consideration. It is now nearly two years since the County Union droppe ! the floating work, and it is now probable that it will b» re- sumed under the most unexpected and | auspicious circumstances. A prominent business man has intimated that under certain cond ns, which entail no finan- cial obligations, the Siate can have a home of their own on the water front. It is much better located than was the old rooms upon Seventh street in West Oak- land. e FOR NASHVILLE. Endeavorers Already Planning to Go Next Year. Arrangements were made Saturday whereby a Christian Endeavorer excur- sion will be run to Nashville, Tenn., next summer under the management of the | President of the Qakland City Union. { It is proposed to make up 2 party who will go to Omaha for the exposition which is to be haid there next year, thence to Nashville for the Chrisiian Endeavor con- Mr. Landrith, the chairman of ttee of arrangements, will be | asked to secure suitable accommodations | for fifty Endeavorers, and the party will be limited to that number, 1t is the intention of the young men who are arranging for this to have the merriest and at the same time the most devout workers in the State with them. They expect to take the vouncest delegatn at this convention, Miss Beth Russell, with | them. -—— CONCERT REPEATED. Reserved Seats for Those Shut Out the Last Time. The Convention chorus will repeat the concert to-morrow evening in Mechanics’ Pavilion. Those who have tickets pur- chased for lust Tuesday evening can hav g if houor, truth and Christian charity were kept uppermost in their bhearts and minds. Mr. Baer first addre<sed the chil- dren and then calied upon Miss Belle P. Mason of San Diego to administer a bless- ing. At the conclusion of Miss Mason’s prayer Rev. Georze F. Pentecos:, D.D., addressed the gathering. The subject of his address was, “My Son, Give Me Thy Heart.” He told the children how 1f they gave their hearts to Christ they would place their entire body, as well as | their souls, in the keeping of the Creator. The children, in response to the min's- ter's plea, all promised to give their hearts to religion and Christianity, and tnen a/l knecled and prayed for strength to carry out their resoives. C. N. Hunt nextspoke to the children. He accepted for the sub- ject of his aadress, “Try and Be Like Je-us.” He told the children of the | Bavior's gentleness an 1 infinite zood, and prayed tuat they might take examnple from the works of the Son of God and live pure Cirristian lives, Mrs. G. L. Hanscom of New Hampton, Ia., then sang a bymn to the children. She aang unaccompanied and with great effect. So intently did the children listen to the words of the singer that had she suddenly ceazed she would have found that the great auditorium of the church was as silent as the stars, notwitustanding the vastness of the audience. Mr. Baer again addressed the gathering | at the conciusion of the hymn and told the children the story of a littie boy who bad given up his life to =ave that of his playmezte, that they might learn the glory of sacrifice, ““Pwo children were playing a game, in a great Ejpiscopal church, known in the western portion of the country as ‘follow the leader,’”’ he said. *The oldest boy, sged 11 vears, was the leader, and he climbed up one of the great pillars leading to a timber stretched across the church thirty teet above. Thelittle boy, who was two vears his junior, follawed. “When the cnildren reached the center of the church the timber began to shake, and the older boy realizing his darger swung under the timber. The younger boy then lost Lis balance, but as he was about to fall he grasped his playmate’s arm, and there the cuiliren bung thirty feet above the floor. The older boy soon became tired holding the double weight imposed upon him, and his little friend saw that tuis was a fact. They called for | help, but no one answered them, and then the hittie boy asked his iriend if he could get back on the timber if relieved of his weight. The older bov #aid that he could, and on hearing this his playmate bid him good-by, released his hold and plunged to ms death. The older bey ihen swung himseli bsck on the timber and his life was saved.” Many of the children in the audience wept during the telling of the story, and at its conclusion the children kneeled in prayer. A blessing was then said, and JULY 12, 1897. the children resurned to their homes de- termined to lead better lives that they may receive a rich reward in the life to come. OAKLAND ENDEAVORERS. Juniors Have Their Day at Devo- tion Across the Bay. OAKLAND, Car., July 11.—To-day has been observed as ‘‘Endeavor Sunday” in all the churches in Alameda County. Nearly every pulpit was occupied by a visiting pastor, and the tbheme of nearly every discourse was value of the big con- vention. The decorations of the churches were very elaborate and in some instances showed that a large amount of work had been done. At the First M. E. Church the floral effects and the neat arrange- ment of great numbers of “C. E.” flags were remarkably tasteful. The Tentb-auenue Baptist Church also shows that Eendeavorers do not hesitate 10 make great efforts to show how sincere is the weicome to the State’s guests. At many other churches—notably the First Presbyterian and First Congregationai— some very handsome decorating was done. The feature of the day was the great rally of the Junior Endeavorers at the First M. E. Church this afternoon. The organ and choir were perfect bowers of flowers and forestry and all around the galleries pretty C. E. bear flags were ar- ranged. Long before 4 o’clock, the hour set for the commencement of the service, Junior Endezvor societies, wiih their banners, gathered at the church from ail parts of the county. The young folks were agog with expectation to tee and hear the national Junior organizer of the United Society, Jos=vh N. Doipn. 3 P Organizer Doiph gave a very interesting address. He dwelton the value of junior societies as paving the way toward the senior societies and gave -ome history of the wonderful growth of the movement among the young folks. Robert Cairns and others spoke a few words. A ALAMEDA SERVICES. ALAMEDA, Car., July 11.—The pulpits of several of the Alameda churches were occupied to-day by clergymen from East- ern cities in aitendance on the Christian Endeavor Convention. Rev. C. A. Young of Chicago preached at tne Christian Church this eveninez., At the Park-street M. E. Church Rev. H. H. Sharpe of Day- ton, Ohio, occupied th= pilpit in the morning and Rev. F. W.Swengel of Balti- more in the evening. Rev. George K. Burns of Philadelphia was at the Chest- nut-street M. E. Church in the morning and Rev. R. W. Brokard of Springfi=ld, Mass., in the evening. Carion j. B. Rich- ardson, D.D.,LL.D., of London, Ontario, preached this morning at Cbrist Church, Episcopal. At the Santa Clara-avenue M. E. Church tbe preachers were Rev. W. Linacrworth of Pottstown, Pa., and Rev. George W. Burns of Ph:ladelphia. At the First Presbverian Church Rev. A. H. Holshaw of Runsas and Rev. James M. Dickinson of Brooklyn. N. Y., spoke, and at the United Presbyierian were Rev. W. E. Davis ot New Jersey and Rev. J. H. Gibson of Iowa. CITY HALL CONCERT. A Grand Musical Treat Has Been Provided for {the Delegates To-Night. A large bandstand has been erected in the cenfer of thedome of the new City Hall for the accommodation of the musi- cians and speakers who will participate in the dedicatory exercises this afternoon and evening. Mayor Phelan will deliver the address, accepting the dome on behalf of the City and some of the other new City ball Commissioners may make a few remarks. The following is gramme: John Marquardt, “Queen of Sheba” (Gou- nod); overture, “Festival” (Weber), closing wita the anthem “America”; “Ave Maria.” for orchestra and harp (schubert), arranged for his orchestra by John Marquirdt; waliz on themes from *Hansel and Gretel” (Humper- dinek); grana opera fantasie, ‘‘Lobengrin’ (Wagiier); (a) “The Lost Chord,’” (b) “Graceful Dunce” (Sullivan); grand opera fantssie, “Martha” (Flotow); “The Nightless Land” (Pinsut); “Sounds From the Metropolitan Opera_teason” (Beyer), potpourri; it opeus with the march from Meyerbeer’s “L2 Pro- hete,” followed by intermezzo from *Caval- eria Rusticana,” by Mascrgni; ballet music jrom Moszkowski’s opera “Boabdil’’; “Even- ing Star” song from Wagner’s “Tannhauser,” march “Nibelungen’’; intermezzo from Leon- cavailo's “I Pagiaccl” and final overture, “Tell,” by Rossini; grand medley of Ameri- can sirs (Moses). Evening, July 12,1897, 8 o'clock—Corona- tion march irom “Die “olkunger’ (Kretsch- mer); overiure, “Mignon” (Thomas); (a) *Ave Maria” (Bach-Gounod) [This 10W InOSL PopL- 1ar composition is constructed upon an organ prelude by the great Germen composer, J. S. Bach, played here by the harp. A happy in- spiration of the composer of “Faust’ gave us the piaintive air, and the resnitof this com- bination is most impressive]; (b) “Spring Song’’ (Mandelss hn); grand opera f “Carmen’’ (Bizet); intermezzo from *I P liscel” (Leoucavailo); *“The Beautiful Biue Danube” (Strauss); grand opera fantasie, “Tannhauser” (Wagner)— Piigrim choru evening star, march of the singers to t the musical pro- War tburg and finale; harp solo fantasie, “Th> er- Last Rose of Summer” (irranged by the Mme. Alexaudra Breitschuck-) ; (@) Intermezzo from *Cavalleria Rus (Mascagni), (o) Wedding procession the opera ‘Feramors” (Rubinsteiu); from % potpourri, “Americans Abroad” (Loesch). The Board of Superviso’s has ordered a number of arc lights placed in the upper dome above the stained glass which covers SOME OF THE SCENES AT YESTERDAY’S CHURCH SERVICES, HOW “THE CALL” MET THE PILGRIMS. Every day during last week the Christian Endeavor pilgrims lanqing from their cars at the Oakland pier would look westward across the noble sunlit bay at the City of the Golden Gate as she lay on the waves of her rolling hills. Of all the landmarks of the Pacific seaboard metropolis there was one which they first sought. Soon the objact of their search would lift itself in view—a fair white dome showing cloud-like against the blue of the sky. High above ali other structures it towered, a splendid fabric of steel and stone, just as it had been described to them at the far Eastern beginning of their journey. While speeding westward over the leagues of continent they they knew it at once. It was the great CALL building, and had read THE CALL and in their minds that jonrnal and its home was a part of the beautiful City at their journey’s end, a part of the great gathering to which they were hastening. Last Sunday morning a week ago Edward F. Winfield, an employe of THE CALL, reached Ogden with thousands of copies of that journal and began distribut- ing them free to the sunset-bound pilgrims. Every train that ;swept into that city was faithfully boarded by Mr. Winfield and his assistants and a paper placed in the hands ot each traveler. It was the Christian Endeavor edition with interesting matter excellently illustrated, pertaining to the coming great international conven- tion. “We had to rustle night and day,”’ said Mr. Winfield, for the trains were piling in three deep every hour, and the pilgrims were asking for THE CALL. It was the only San Francisco paper to be had, .and they wanted to know in advance something of their reception when they reached the Golden Gate. By a little judicious diplo- macy we enlisted those ogres of the Pullmans, the porters, into our service and our papers were scattered through the sleeping-cars with a liberal hand. “We carefully distributed our thousands of CALLS until the last train of Chris- tian End=avorers passed Ogden ; then boarded a westbound special for home, When we came down the Sacramento Valley, nearing the journey’s end, we could still see the CALLS circulating among the passengers, and when our train struck the bay shore they were looking from the car windows for the great white-domed building over in the City across the blue water. Distributing those papers to the travelers was the most enjoyable employment | was ever engaged in.” To catch the people coming by the Sunset route J. Coyle was dispatched to Bakersfield, where he boarded the trains at that point and supplied all the End=a- vorers with THE CALL. Consequently every visitor to the State was a reader of this journalbefore he'reached San Erancisco. Thi is the reason why the pilgrims coming down on the Oakland pier sought the object that marked their journey’s close—the fair white dome showing cloudlike against the blue of the sky in the City of the Golden Gate. the inner dome, eighty feet from the floor of the rotunda. The lower dome will be il- luminated with hundreds of incandescent lights. All the entrances from City Hall ave- nue and the City Hall proper will be open. Those 1n charge of the affair request visitors to keep to the right in order to prevent a crush. MOTHERS CONFER. A mothers’ meeting in connection with the convention was held at the headquar- ters of the Women’s Christiap Temper- ance Union, 132 McAllister street, yester- day afternoon. with ladies and much interest was mani- fested 1n the proceedings. The rooms were crowded The meeting was called chiefly to hear an address by the Rev. Eugenie St. John of Kansas City. ordained preacher of the gospel and has traveled over eight countries delivering " | addresses on science and religion, the proper training of children and other This lady is a regularly helgful subjects. During the next two months she will make a tour of the State and on her return to this City will be asxed to address another mothers’ meet- ing. In her address yesterday afternoon she spoke of the home and the proper train- ing of children, dividing her subject into two heads—promptnessin obedience in the whole life and how to give them occupa- tion. The lady spoke eloguently and was list- ened to with the closest attention through- out. Inconcluding she averred that the American home was not to-day typical of what the true American home should be. It was not up to the standard of the typi- cal Canadian home of to-day. The moth- ers were in a large measure responsible for it. “We live in the greatest country under the sun,” said the speaker, ‘‘but to keep up our grand form of republican govern- ment we have to be in the future a stronger race than we are to-day. One of the chief essentials to tnat end is to eu- force promptness in obedience in our chiidren.” Aiter the meeting adjourned the ladies versonally thanked Mrs. 8t. John for her able discourse and wished her godspeed in her philanthropic mission. FOR THE MULTITUDE. BERKELEY, Car, July 11.—Berkeley, through James L. Barker, will contribute 1000 sandwiches and twenty cakes toward the stock of provisions to be dealt out to the Christian Endeavorers at their feast sn the shores of Lake Merritt next Tues- ay. — SPIRITUAL LIFE. A Quiet Hour at Calvary Pres- byterian Church. At Calvary Presbyterian Church, corner of Geary and Powell streets, a ‘‘quiet hour” service was held in the evening from 4:30 to5:30. It wasa beautiful ob- servance in the close of a busy Sunday and in the sweet Sabbath calm several hundred Cnristian Endeavorers gathered in the church for silent worship. The services were conducted by Mr. Charles T. Studd of London and the hymns by D. M. Lawrence of this City. Mr. Studd’s topic was, “Deepening the Spiritnal Life,"” an eloquent exhortation to the Christian to pass into the inner walks of righteous- ness. He counseled them to throw away I besetting worldliness and with Christ as a pure example go steadily forward in a deeper spiritual life. that suff-ring will come a rich and a ripe experience that will litt the soul upward to that place of holiness hid with Christ in God. At the close of the sermon the congrega- tion sang, y life, my love I give to thee,” and with the sveaker the people bowed in a silent prayerful consecration to a deeper spiritual ife. It was, indeed, a quiet hour of religious devotion. CHINA MISSIONS. A London University Man and His Foreign Work. Charles T. Studd, the eloquent and scholarly young Christian KEndeavorer from London who conducied the “‘Quiet Hour’’ services at Cslvary Presbyterian Church yesterday late in the afternoon, is an English university man who a short time ago returned from Nort ern China. He is one of a hand of young men of Lon- don who entered the missionary field pay- ing all of their own expenses. They sailed for China in 1884 and for ten weary years remained at their posts of lsborin the interior of that benightea land. They were successful in their noble work, and many mission stations now flourishing in the Flowery Kingdom crowned ti.eir efforts. The young piigrim missionary is one of the most able and [ most_enthusiastic laborers in the Chris- tian Enaeavor ranks, and many who lis- tened to his words in the ‘‘quiet hour” service weére deeply affected by his zseal. S IN HAYES VALLEY. Early Meetings and Sermons Well Attended. Egrly morning prayer meeting was held in the new Wesminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Page and Webster sireets, yesterday, conducted by J. C. Rouser of the First Baptist Chu:ch, Aus- tin, Ill. The subject of the services were “Prayers for the Churcncs and Pastors.” The forenoon sermon was preached by Rev. Edwin Klock of Norwien, N. Y., and the evening sermon by Rev. Mr. Ricks of William=port, N. J. The building was crowded during all the services. The early morning prayer meeting at West Side Christian Cnurch, corner of Bush and Devisadero streets, was led by John R. Clements of Binghamtan, N. Y., and the evening sermon was preached by Rev. M. M. Binford of Richmond, Ind. The services were ali well attended and the sermons altentively listened to. GRACE M. E. CHURCH. Early Morning Prayer-Meeting and Two Services., The Sunday services at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Twenty-first and Capp streets, began with an early morning vprayer-meeting at 6:30, con- ducted by Mr. Jacobs of Philadelpnia, as- sisted by the pastor, Mr. Beard. Not- withstanding the hour the church was weil tilled and a large number took part in the exercises. At thell o’clock forenoon services over Continued on Eighth Page. Attention Christian ¥ndeavorers—Yel- lowstone Park Trin. 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