Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — EPWORTH LEAGUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EPWORTH LEAGUE.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Becond World’s Meeting of the Methodist Young People’s Societies—SunI rise Prayer Meetings on Lookout Mountain—Program Complete. Followers of Christ.

THE second interna* tional conference of the Epworth League is to be held in Chattanooga July 27-30. There are many divisions of the followers of Wesley, but they are essentially one family, differing indeed a tittle in government, but identl-

—cal in doctrine and spirit and even in methods. Of this unity the Epworth League is a striking illustration. Its functions and place in Methodist churches is similar to that of the Christian Endeavor in Congregational and Presbyterian churches. It is the young people’s society of Methodism. The session will begin June 27, 1895, and continue four days. It will embrace the leagues of all of the Methodists in the world. The program is in the hands of the general secretaries of the M. E. Church, the M. E. Church South, and the Canadian Methodist Church. There will

also be department conferences daily for the discussion of the practical work of the league in its several departments. Bishops Joyce, Vincent and Thoburn, of the M. E. Church; Galloway, Hendrix, Fitzgerald and Hargrove, of the M. E. Church South, and Sir McKenzie Bowell, premier of the Dominion of Canada, are on the program. These great leaders,

with many other men of eminence, as well as a large number of the talented and promising young workers of the variou s Methodisms, cannot fail to make*" the discussion of the different topics the highest interests and profit. The mu-f sic will be a feature of the conference. It will be

under the direction Founder of the League, of Prof. Rowland D. Williams, assisted by the Park sisters, of Boston, and a chorus of 500 voioes. An immense chorus of children from the public schools of Chattanooga will also participate. Sunrise prayer "meetings will be held eachmorning in the churches and on Lookout Mountain. Sunday morning will be devoted to sermons by the bishops and visiting ministers in the churches of the city and suburbs. Sunday afternoon there will be mass meetings in the largest churches, addressed by eminent ministers and laymen. The regular conference meetings will be held in the great tent, capable of holding 10,000 people, where the opening sermon will be preached by Bishop Galloway, and the closing sermon and consecration service by Bishop Joyce.

LOOKOUT MOUNT AIK.

REV. DR. CLARK,