Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — WILL MEET IN BOSTON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL MEET IN BOSTON

PLANS FOR THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION. Fully Fifty Thousand Members of the Society Will Take Part in the Meeting—Great Increase in Membership During the Past Year. July IO to 15. The Christian Endeavor convention which meets in Boston July 10 to 15 is already arousing a great deal of interest. The committee of arangements has been granted the use of the Boston common for a big\>pen-air meeting of a patriotic nature on July 13. Governor Greenhalge, Dr. Donald McLauren of Detroit, Dr. S. F. Smith, the author of “America,” and several other prominent persons will be

present and speak. Dr. Smith is to write a special hymn for the convention. The singing will be by a choir of 2,000 voices, assisted by an immense orchestra. Fully 50,000 Christian Endeavorers will take part in the meeting, in addition to the outsiders, who will be attracted by the novelty of the occasion. The Endeavorers will march in procession from their meeting place to the common. The meeting on the common will be held in the afternoon, and the morning sessions will be devoted to the general theme, “Our Country.” In two big tents, each of which seats 10,000 people, services of a patriotic nature will be held. A number of prominent men representing all sections of this country and Canada, have been secured to address these meets. A feature of the day will be the presentation to each delegate of a copy of a handsome Illuminated card containing the hymn, “America.” During the last year the increase in the membership of the Christian Endeavor societies of the world has been over 300,000. The officers of the united societies are already assured of a greater attendance at Boston than there was at New York three years ago. The program will include the names of the leading pulpit orators of the United States, among them being T. DeWitt Talmage, John G. Wooley and C. H. Parkhurst.

DR. S. F. SMITH.