The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901. DELEGATES TO LEAGUE CONVENTION ATTEND PRAISE SERVICES IN THREE PRINCIPAL HOUSES OF WORSHIP S ————— IDELEGATES | | FORIT PLANS | Presiding Elders and| Leaguers Confer on| Missionary Work z HE presid g elders an the r membe: w League nference to s the Church Berry, League, ich they reased ef- Dr. Berry from the ‘he effect that the € specially conse- work. In this en- riod, it is the inten- all available ement tary of the a made a explained the @ e e OPENING SESSIN OF CONENTIN Continued Page Two. “Ole Virginy”; mit it, there is Crackers.”” 1 know there are How many are igers, Buckeyes, Hooslers, Suck- e rest 1 do not know? You are feet may leave, but not our ng of the clans there will be! ¥ hour for reminiscence wn on the programme. nquiries by the old Cali- rd from-— hioned homestead 4 my aream of dreams. Have you all Have you begore strip with an uninvit- 2 ocks and inacce ine @t which the Spaniards flung | ) “‘j \ | Wi General Meeting of! League Delegates to | Be HeldfiTo-Morrowfi | conditions of the missionary work in| e sult of the conference it was de- cided to hold a general meeting of all the delegates interested in missionary work to-morrow morning in the main hall of the Pavilion. The committee appointed is as follows: Colton, Rev N. Frost, Main: Miss Virginia £ chairman; Mr. Wheeler, Rhode L. Thorpe, New York; Rev. J G. R. Lacke, New Hampshire: voonstedt, Omio: William C. H >almer. Indiana; Rev. C. L. Mead, New Jer- ey Sr. Davenport and Addie Wardler, Tili- | noi¢; Rev. M. Keith, Jowa; Miss Alice Haugh, | Michigan; C. W. Jaggard, Kansas; Miss Blanchard, Miss Washington ‘and Miss Maggle | V.. Smith, Montana; Rev. M. Lovejoy, Mr. Don- | iss Bean and Mr. Soafborrow, Alabama; L. Le Fetra (D.C.) and Rev. J. G. Penn, Georgla; A. J. Rich, Wisconsin; Rev. M. | Matthews, West Virginia: Rev. George Barnes, Towa: Rev. J. H. Wood, Washington: Rev ‘ Perry Puce, Missouri, and C. A. Richardson, California. Before its name as an epithet with contumely. you g0 away, go and see where the mountains store up the waters in the snow which make | the deserts to blossom, the corn and wheat and frult to grow, whenever and wherever the ir- | rigating waters flow. 1 worshiped on Easter | morning in a little church over yonder on the | | plain where the people brought from their gar- | dens and banked about the altar and pulplt | | and wall of the building more than a thousand | | calla lilies. Down the valley whose apples were sold for § trees were in bloom. Some person has faith “In_futures” in California. 1 visited a grove in the southern part of the State whose oranges from a single acre netted the owner $500— enough money to build him a house. No man can gather cherries in New England at the | season of Easter, and find other frults as de- | licious in December as in May. Advice to Visiting Leaguers. | If you have been disappointed, go to Hum- boldt County. You will travel 200 or 300 mil on the Pacific Ocean to get there. But it is worth all the cost of the voyage in seasickne: and money to stand for an hour in the un- broken forest a hundred miles long and twelve | miles wide of redwood trees where one can find retirement which is absolute solitude. I went with the woodmen to select the standing tree, the first cut of which made that sixty- foot booth in the corridor over there. I stood beside a single giant which tourists have never vet gone to see, when Byron's tribute to Mont Blanc was instantly paraphrased in my mind: Sequola, monarch of trees, On a throne of mountains and snow They crowned him beside the sea A thousand years ago. Do you care for the rhapsodies, which Oliver ‘Wendell Holmes said “‘sound like fugues played on a big organ which has been struck by light- | ning?”’ Go, then, where you can hear the wind and cataract roar through the mountain canyon. But if_you prefer, take with you the rod and line. Talk about fishing in Maine! 1 would like the Maine delegation to go with me into the northern mountains. Six or seven hundred miles east of Portland, on the Northern Pa- | is an orchard ,000 before the L2wor77y Ay 422’\"5 -+ - VIEW OF EPWORTH LEAGUERS ENTERING A HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN WHICH COMMUNION SERVICES AS A PRELIMINARY TO THE OPENING OF THE GREAT CONVENTION WERE HELD YESTERDAY, TOGETH- ER WITH A GROUP OF PROMINENT CHRISTIAN WORKERS WHOSE HEARTS ARE IN RIGHT PLACE. 3= S — e0USNess. ES PRESIDENT McKINLEY SENDS CHEERING MESSAGE TO LEAGUE CANTON, Ohio, July 16, 19071. R. JOSEPH P. BERRY, International Epworth League Conwvention, San Francisco: I have much pleasure in sending to the International Epworth League Convention assembled at San Francisco my hearty congratulations upon the good work the great body of Christian men and women which it represents has accomplished in the past, and my earnest wish that cven greater success will crown the future efforts of the League. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 12, 1901. Dr. Joseph P. Berry, International Epworth League Convention, San Francisco: Hearties greetings, and may good luck attend the Epworth League in its efforts for social and civic right- THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 1 WILLIAM McKINLEY. cific Railroad, is a station called Trout Creek, which excites the aspiration of every disciple of Izaak Walton who comes or goes that way. But at the western end of the station is & large white board on which is printed in black letters, “‘Fifty Miles From Hope.” I had never been able to get that notion out of my mind until I was induced by the chairman of your committee to go with him last month to. the Klamath Hot Springs and Shovel Creek. 1 will not speak of myself, but I saw this chair- man come out of the brook—where he had been only forty minutes by the watch—with twenty- two pounds of rainbow trout; three of the fish together welghed ten pounds. Come to Cali- fornia and go a-fishing. You will not all go to the Yosemite, that | large grizzly bear of the Sierras, where the river leaps 2000 feet over the shoulder of the mountain. But you have come to California just when the great valley has been solemnly dedicated by the death of one of Its. worship- ers. How fitting that Joseph Le Conte, high priest of its trees and its rocks, should betake himself thére to lie down and die. You will not take the time, I know, to find all the rapturous welcome California can give you. Go, then, into the gallerfes and see something of the many things the many coun- tles have brought to you in their wonderful exbibit. And please remember that we have the Golden. Gate, and it is over our highways the ransomed of the Lord will return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. No Longer to Be Feared. This great commonwealth is no more only a great mining . camp whose uncertain legends brought border men with profligate characters from the Five Points of New York, the Seven Dials of London and the Botany Bay of the South Seas to make up a population to be dreaded and feared. Nevertheless, there were taken out of the mines in the State last vear nearly thirty millions of dollars. But hetero- geneous as the population is, anarchy has given place to stable government with peace- able control. The population is rapidly chang- ing. They told me in the Southern Pacific rail- road office that 21,000 colonists came into the State between the 1Sth of February and the 20th of April this year. Christian missions will soon have penetrated to the remotest settle- ents. Tiane? the Mesicans then expelled the Span The_Spaniards first drove out the In- | 3 fards; the pioneers the Mexicans; the first set- tlers the ploneers, and the immigrants from the Eastern States with immigrants from abroad are fast taking the place of the first settlers. Nearly one-half of the population is born of foreign parentage or mixed with foreign, and every nationality almost is to be found in the State. There are not more than 2 thousand Spanish people left among us, but there are nearly, or quite, ten thousand Mexi- cans. There are more than fifteen thousand Indlans. There are seventy-five thousand Chj- nese, one-third of whcm are in San Franciscl. The first missionary, who established the Methodist Episcopal Church in this city, and planted it in many of the surrounding towns, is now the venerated Bishop of Africa, Willlam Taylor, who is still living In Palo Alto and ‘whose ‘sun will go down fn a clear sky. The Presbyterians had founded their mission a few months before he came. Both the Methodist and Presbyterian churches have gained greatly ‘on the standing order’” of Roman Catholics whom they found so firmly established here. There were more Presbyterian church organi: tions than Roman Catholic In California, ac- cording to the census of 1890, and there were more than twice as many Methodist as Pres- |COMMUNION AT CHURCH Praise Services at the Many Churches Are Very Well Attended HE preliminary communion serv- ices of the Epworth League were held in the Howard-street and Central M. E. churches and the First Congregational Church yes- terday morning. They were very lightly. attended, not more than six or seven hundred participating in the three combined. Being strictly of a re- ligious nature, the public apparently took little interest in them. The Howard-street Church was taste- fully decorated with red, yellow and white paper festooned around the galleries, ceil ing and organ loft, with Epworth League | flags on the stations. The congregation | began gathering early and fifteen minutes before the hour set for the service began singing familiar songs. Rev. J. A. B. Wil- son took charge and a testimony meeting followed. When Rev. A. C. Crews, general secre- tary of Canada, announced the opening song, “Rock of Ages,” at ten minutes past the hour, the edifice was about half filled. Rev. 'Mr. Wilson followed with , and the audience sang “Alas. and v Savior bleed and did my Sovereign Mr. Crews then said: “I am not sorry that there is not a crowd here this morning. I like this quiet hour with a few faithful ones. We will have plenty of big meetings with great * The Preliminary Work Begins by Leading Officials of League enthusiasm. This service is commemor- able. It is not restricted to any denom- ination. Any members from other churches are cordially invited to partici- pate with us in_this service.” The Rev. G. W. Kerby and the Rev. G. R. Turk of Canada rendered “I Shall Know Him"” as a_duet with much feeling, after which Dr. Beard made the confes- sion, and the communion was adminis- tered by the Revs. Goodsell, Beard and Shore. At the Central Methodist Episcopal Church Dr. John J. Tigert of Nashville, Tenn., presided. The entrance to the church was tastefully decorated in paper and two large American flags. Streamers were suspended from the choir loft, and on the organ pipes hung an Epworth League badge in colors. The Rev. W. P. Thirkield, Rev. T. A. Monk, Rev. J. Young and Rev. Van Anda assisted in the service, which was simlar to the one at the Howard-street church. Dr. Tigert making a few earnest remarks on the pur- pose of the gathering. Simple yet impressive were the services held at the First Congregational Church. here was no sermon or extended musical programme, but only the presentation of the solemn ritual service of the Methodist Episcopal church. Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, president of the Epworth League, of- ficiated, and numbers of delegates attend- ed the service ir the hope of hearing him preach, but in this they were disappointed. In opening the services Bishop Joyce of- fered a fervent prayer for the success of the great convention and that the delib- erations might be guided by the divine spirit. In conclusion he inv Epworth Leaguers, all the Method! all the pecple of other denominati Were present to partake of the sacr of communion. Almosts 1000 advanced in turn to the chancel rail and kneeling de- voutly, in accordance with the custom of the Methodist church, received the sacra- ment of the last supper. In the services and in administering the sacrament Bishop Joyce was directly as- sisted by the following clergymen: Rev. Dr. W. S. Matthew, presiding elder at Sacramento; Rev. Dr. 8. G. Dale, presid- ing elder of the Napa district; Rav. Dr. John Kirby, presiding elder at San Jos. Rev. Dr. W. A. Spencer of Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. J. H. Williams of Napa, Rev. Dr. Clodius Spencer of Kansas City, Rev Dr. C. M. Griffin of Iowa, Rev. Dr. J. B. Green of Los Angeles, Rev. C. B. Mitchell of Minneapolis and Rev. Dr. Thomas Fil- ben of this city. L e e n byterlan. There were 13,934 Presbyterian com- municants; 36,874 Methodist. The total poula- tion of ‘the Roman Catholics was 157,346, or about one-eighth of the population of the State. The population of the Methodists was 129,059, These figures will be greatly modified when the census which was recently taken is re- ported. In the Eyes of the World. California is neither at the world's end, where it costs a fortune to go, nor hidden from the world's view, so that nothing can be seen of what it may say or do. It Is more in the | eye of all the people to-day than any other political State east or west, morth or south, the earth over. “Westward_the course of empire takes its way.” The first great drama was acted upon | the waters of the Mediterranean; for 400 years | the play has been upon the Aflantic Ocean: | time_“'shall close the drama with the day” on the Pacific. California has the vantage ground of the world. The lines of our latitude when stretched across the continent include the At- lantic coast from Boston to Charleston. We may hope some day to have the character and culture of the one with the pride of ancestry and socfal distinction of the other. If the lines still further cross the Atlantic Ocean and go on to the 3 en to lie in the pain, Italy, _the Mediterranean coasts and the Holy Land. With the Japanese stream and Alask: our coast, the trade w west, and the mountains the storms from the Fast, we have the climate of both the temperate and torrid zones. But what shall it profit us if we gain the whole world and are profligate with our privileges? The throne of righteousness is the throne of em- pire. Righteousness tendeth to life. Right- eousness exalteth a nation. _California needs nothing so much to-day as the controlling in- fluence of more righteous men and women. Now that you are all here, you can do nothing better for us than to stay. What a crusade it would be for 30,00 Christian young men and women to build their altars over against our worship of Mammon and the god of this world. If you will think of it and stay, we will make your welcome life-long. It js more to be de- sired than gold. Yea, than much fine g Continued on Page Nine.