The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 1

- fn - GBS cwla®, VOLUME XC-—NO. 50, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901, PRICE FIVE CENTS. REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS MEN OF SAN FRANCISCO. LISTEN TO CHRISTIAN COUNSEL EARNESTLY VOICED BY A LEAGUER AT NOON EXERCISES IN COURTYARD OF THE PALA .?;‘5“\~ Bi:Paine,MD TincoL~, Nea. 000 600504 l;‘ 3 [ EAGUERS ARRIVE FROM DAY TO DAY Large Party From Southern California Un- expectedly Reaches the City to Take Part in the Convention’s Final Meetings ONTRARY to the expectations of the reception committee, a large delegation of Epworth Leaguers arrived in the city from the south The party numbered 200 and was made up of workers San Luis Obispo and intermediate uers came by boat and &t the pier by the ferry recep- from s been recefved that more than dred leaguers who have been de- the southern part of the State on side trips will arrive to-day and take the closing exercises of the con- Arrangements have been made tees for thelr reception and accommodations have been se- t em. s & busy day with the leaguers. y began with early morning prayer of the leading Metho- 9 o'clock there were ntion at the Pavilion ra Theater. There were both these places, as n Temple, in the The interest in el the sessions was most t the noon hour there was a well at- 3 eeting of business men at the tel. Many representative mer- attendance and took exercises active A special miss has been calied for v conference meeting to-day in the rest in the Pavilion airman of the com- mission work in charge. be delivered by Bishop Joyece, Dr. Berry and Dr. Bashford. Dele- gates from every district and chapter are expected to be present. The meeting of the board of control at the Palace Hotel this afternoon is looked forward to with interest by the Minnesota delegates, who are urging that their State be honored with its selection as the meet- ing place for the Epworth convention of 1%02. The chances are excellent that their claims for recognition will be recognized by the board. Thus far no decided contest for the honor has developed. TIMELY TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED Important Themes Eloquently Treated at the Pavilion in the Afternoon. room of the art galler by E. T. Colton, ¢ mittee having Addresses will Fully 7000 Epworth Leaguers attended the afternoon session at the Mechanics® Pa . 0. M. Vesper opened the song service. The Park sisters rendered “The Palms,” and in response to an encore d “The World’s Peace.” E. E. Scott of Vaneouver, B. C., ded and Rev. John Foster of New offered the opening prayer. The for the session was “Forward Movements in the Church.” Rev. 8. R. Hay of Houston, Tex., is not attending the convention, and his place upon the programme was taken by Rev. o Monk \of Knoxville, Tenn. Dr. Monk's subject \was “Systematic Benevo- Tence.” He said in part: I Gon't want any man leading in prayer in my church who gives less than a tenth of his income, provided tyat he has been properly educsted. Common honesty ought to be in the church of God. If\we dor't pay the Lord his tithe we are embesziing. In the courts of Shis land an embezzir is punished. Epworth Leaguers ehall practice it wherever they go. “Results Achieved” was the theme of Rev. J. W. Saunby, B. A., of Medicine Hat, Northwest Territory. He told of the Epworth Leaguers in his territory giving $25,000 annually and having thirty mem- bers in the foreign field. He also spoke of the benefit of the missionary libraries in the societies. Three thousand sets of these have already been sold. Several districts, he said, are raising the whoie conference assessments, Work Before Us. Messrs. Kerby and Turk, who have be- come very popular with the audiences, sang “Redeemed by Love,” after which Rev. W. W. Cooper of Kenosha, Wis., spoke upon “The Work Before Us.” He spoke in part as follows: tithing and teach We should aspire to become the greatest mis- stonary church in the world. We should lead the missionary enterprise rather than remain near the bottom of the list. We are giving only 50 cents per capita per year to send the gospel to two-thirds of the world who have not, as yet, heard of the Savior, while the lit- tle Moravian church is giving over $2 per capita. Our hands are red with crime which was perpetrated early in the history of the League, and we are accessory to the crime so long as we remain silent and do not rise up and wash the stains from the pages of our history. It is a crime before God that we have tied the hands of our millions of youngy people and say they cannot take & collection for other than League purposes. We need to dignify the most important work the church has to do by creating a misstonary department. Personal Work for Christ. Rev. R. S. Cantine, D. D., of Los An- geles, - spoke on ‘“Personal Work for Christ.” He sald in part: Gladstone’s greatest work was not in Par- Mament, but that for lost souls. The time for this work is youth. Who ever saw a John Wesley beginning work when his hair was gray. Edward D. Soper, a young layman of Harrisburg, Pa., was the last speaker of the afternoon. His theme was ‘“Young Laymen as Soul Winners.” He sald in part: Soul-winning s absolutely necessary on the part of laymen for thelr own success. A lay- man’s life must be an active life or there s no life at all. Give him a Sunday school class, make him a leader of meetings and keep him busy until he is fitted to personally direct souls to the Savior. The preacher cannot do all the work alone. The young people are afraid of preachers. The ones that can reach the young people, and the only ones that can, are the yaung people themeelves. The session closed with the singing of “Abide With Me,” and a benediction by Dr. Case of this city. Free Car Rides Are Refused. E. C. Gilbert, ex-general secrelary of the Cziifcrnia Christian Endeavor Union, yesterday made a personal visit to the of- ficers of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway and the Market-street system in behalf of the Epworth League committee on transportation. The San Mateo line issued permits for all white- cap ladies to ride free this week. He could secure no favors|from Manager Vining of the Market-street Rallway Company. Resignation of Strong Accepted. WASHINGTON, July 19.—It was official- ly announced at the War Department to- day that the President had accepted the resignation of Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong, quartermaster, United States army, 1o take cffect July 15, ’J\M] o+ - X3 DR. B. L. PAINE OF LINCOLN, NEBR., ADDRESSING THE GATHERING OF BUSINESS MEN AT NOON YES- TERDAY IN THE COURTYARD OF THE PALACE HOTEL. THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE OF MEN PROMg- NENT IN THE WORK OF THE CONVENTION. — g DETROIT WILL PROBABLY BE MEETING PLACE OF NEXT INTERNA ELIABLE information was, secured late last night to the effect that Detroit can have the next convention if the representatives of that city now here desire it. It is understood that a majority of the board of coptrol is against Minneapolis, which has been the only city to make a decisive struggle to secure the convention. - The matter may not be definitely decided for the present, but will be referred to a committee. troit, if that city will accept the profferéd honor. TIONAL EPWORTH CONVENTION This committee will then decide in favor of De- L CE HOTEL EARNEST ADDRESS TO BUSINESS MEN Dr. B. L. Painé of Nebraska Speaks Words of Wisdom to Many Leading Merchants Who Gather in Response to Invitation N the courtyard of the Palace yester- day at noon some fifty business men of San Francisco, many«of them re resentative men of their class, gath- ered in response to the call of the Epworth ¢onvention to take part in religious services to be conducted by Dr. B. L. Paine of Lincoln, Neb. Considerable wealth was represented at the meeting, and all listened with earnestness to the words that were spoken calling upon them to attend to their spiritual as well as ma- terial wants in_this busy, materialistic age. The singing of the league hymn, “When the Roll Is Called,” marked the opening of the meeting. This finished, Dr. Paine requested all present to join with him in singing the national anthem. The mer- chants complied with ready energy and when the grand notes rose upon the still air the balconies above were soon filled with hotel guests, whd occupled their points of vantage in deep silence through- out the exercises. A chorus of fully 100 leaguers then sang “The Child of Sorrow,” after which Dr. Paine addressed the gathering. His meth- od was plain, melike and most con- vincing. He said: [ Eanis COLLEGES AS RESS IS VYING WITH I come from the plains of Nebraska. T. too, am a business man, and I want to say that + never before have I been received with such kindness as In San Francisco. I wish to see the bustness men here. I kmow It fs dicult for them to leave the mart of commerce and finance during working hours, but at this hour of the day, the hour of general relaxation from care and work, men may possibly come to hear us. Religion and business can go hand in hand. It often does, and business men are often truly religious men. When a business man is a churchman and is a deacon or a Sunday school teacher he is more marked than his associates, and that is why there is made so muech talk when a business man Who is zealous In church work goes astray. But how small the percent- age of such cases. Love is the foundation of all felizion, and with love many things can be done. The speaker urged his hearers to pause in their struggle for wealth and commer- cial supremacy and give heed to the wel- fare of their souls. At the close of his remarks the leaguers sang again and the audience was dismissed with a benedic- tion. Another meeting will be held at the same place at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. Sev- eral addresses by well-known league mem- bers will be delivered. AN EDUCATOR Dr. James M. Buckley, a Religious Editor, Delivers an Interesting Address. At the morning meeting of the dele- gates to the Epworth League Convention in Mechanics’ Pavillon the chief address was made by Dr. James M. Buckley, the editor of the New York Christian Advo- cate. The topic he chose was “Ths Church and the Newspaper.” He handled the subject in lively manner, saying in part: Long ago it was sald that the world is gov- erned by three boxes—the cartridge box, the ballot box and the band box—force, vVotes, women. But now a foprth must be added— the mail box, loaded by the countless products of the printing press. To-day the newspaper competes with semi- naries, colleges and universities as an edu- cator; with courts as a detector, exposer and punisher of crime; with fashion as a regulator of manners and with the church as a modifier of morals. Through its advertisements and re- perts of transactions and markets, from the price of garden truck to the plans achieve- ments of the cosmopolitan financlers of the exchanges and bourses, it is the chief reliance of commerce. It can also mullify the acts of legislatures and the decisions of courts by creating a sentiment inimical to their enforce- ment, and it even assumes to elect presidents, to dethrone kings, to decldre war and to eriti- clze and direct the movements of armies and navies. The editorfal “we” is annex of unknown value in an equation neve ‘worked out. The phrase ‘in these columns” is in popular effect a kind of equivalent of “by virtue of my au-: thority as king.” The fact that editorials are unsigned divests thelr authors ef fear and the combination of its representatives in arguing and clamoring for the liberty of the press often protects them from the operation of the law of libel. What no individual could say without danger of his liberty or his life the press con- stantly says of governments, dignitaries, in- stitutions, soclety and citizens; hence nothing 18 50 much flattered and feared as the press. Of trade, professional, literary and scientifia Journals and of magazines, the grade of which ‘was never so high as now, there is neither time nor occasion to speak. The topic restricts us to the relations of the church and the news- paper. Readers of the Daily Press. Every reader is better or worse in knowl- edge, morals and religion than he would be without the daily press. Most daily papers are allled with one political party and those who take but ome rely on it for facts concerning measures, leaders and candidates. Independent Ppapers, when not personal organs; usually agres with one particular party with much regu- larity. In free countrles literature, science, manufacture, commerce, agriculture, art and politics are inseparably united. Hencs the power for good or evil of the newspaper over the man who reads it or admits it to his home is incalculable. A newspaper in general consists of editorfals, edited departments, contributions, advertise- ments and that heterogeneous combination of facts, rumors, guesses and predictions classi- fled under the head of news. Newspapers may be roughly divided into strata. The lowest stratum prefers or Is will- Ing to serve moral carrion to the people rather than to purvey to them things pure and sweet. Every large city and many populous towns have one or more practically the organs of the classes who maintain themselves by some kind of villainy, such as the saloon Interest, the sambling interest, the prize-fighting Interest and the keepers of places where women descend to the*level of the most degraded man, who is sure there to find his mate, and the forms of political or police protection which are hand and glove with one or all of these abomina- tions, - Such papers revel In divorces, domestic scandals, elaborate details of suicides, murders, fights, trials and executions, and delight In tearing to pleces the reputation of families previously respected and in bringing to public notice all the ancestors and collateral relatives