Show THE C E E s SOCIETIES An Echo Meeting at the First Presbyterian Church DELEGATES WELCOMED i ON THEIR RETURN PBOJil TECE EST Addresses By President Harry N Tolles and C E Biainard A Stirring Scene at the Nashville I Convention Generals Howard and I Evans On the Same Platform The Christian Endeavor societies of the city held an echo meeting at the First Presbyterian church last evening and listened j list-ened to a report by Harry N Tolles one of the two Utah delegate to the recant National Endeavor convention at JQish I vie A very good programme was ren j t tiered consisting of musical numbers and j addresses B L Corwin president of the j city union welcomed the delegates home I C E Brainard gave out some echoes frm j the Omaha meeting The chef address of the evening was by President Tolles of the state union who I spoke Interestingly of the Nashville convention con-vention After devoting some time to a f description of Nashville and surroundings which he said I completely captivated ttte I i Enfleat orers he spoRp I of tue reception accorded ac-corded the trtnh delegates which was of the bonniest kind Reception committees I commit-tees were stationed far out from the city an sorle each delegation to its desti J nation California with her beautiful flower gardens cannot have all the honor F rt n gnh of buttonholing l their Mowers upon Kn deavorers for Tennessees loyalists l show ere1 copiously their beautiful flowers upon up-on every passing Christian Endeavor I A STIR GNG SCENEr Speaking of the scanes and work of the convention he said I shall have to forego the pleasure on account of the time assigned to me to tell you of the state ant denominational ral les of tho committees ollicers and local union conference ire fact 1 shall nave to contrive myself by describing Jut one of tho many inttrebUiifc scanas Satunlav uften x n meetIng subject sub-ject Our United Country This session 1 presented a scene I shall never forget General O O Howaro toe nero ot oet tysburg with one arm shot away by Confederate bullets stood on the same platform with General Evans whose body was once riddled with Union bullets no less than five of them and both spoke with equal warmth for their common country On the same platform l stood Bishop i Fitzgerald of the Southern Methodist church and Bishop Arnett of the African Methodist Episcopal church a man who was born a slave and they cusped hands to meet in Havana x > n Christmas day to help win Cuba or Christ This was a most ilramatic scene Ah patriotism and Christianity are great healers of the old sores of prejudice The patriotic keynote was sounded over and over again but this was not all nor the best of it for it was Christian patriotism pa-triotism that was always pleaded for not Cuba for the United States but Cuba for Christ I A prominent member of the aCnadlan party said after the meeting was over No pen can describe the exercises of this afternoon The sight that we have seen on that stage beggars description The speakers of the afternoon were Generals O O Howard and T J Morgan for the north add General Clement A Evans and Bishop O P Fitzgerald for the south Tie greetings pf each speaker and the applause accorded them was gen I nine and it would he hard to say which of the four was more cordially and enthusiastically enthu-siastically received I Long before the hour for the opening of the exercises in the Auditorium Endeavor En-deavor the big building was comfortably filled with patriotic End avorers and citizens cit-izens gathered to hear the rendrtitm of a patriotic programme General T5 O Howard of Burlington Vt was the first speaker to appear and cs the distinguished warrior wuKea across the wiQe platform with an empty coat sleeve dancing at his side the great gathering greeted him with tremendous applause In introducing General Clement A Evans D D of Atlanta President Clark t said We have heard from one who shed > his blood on the northern side we will now hear from one who fought on the southern side A beautiful little ceremony cere-mony came up in the introduction of General Gen-eral Evans President Clark in appropriate appro-priate words presented the distinguished southerner with a small piece of the original Old Glory which had been preserved pre-served for man years by the descendants of the man who first gave the stars and stripes that fitting name General Evans accepted the faded piece of bunting in words that thrilled the hearts of everyone every-one of his hearers He then delivered his eloquent address on the subject The Victories of the People of the United States in Peace Just as General Evans closed his address the Pennsylvania delegation dele-gation led by Mr Estey arose and sang Away Down South in Dixie much to the delight of the audience After The Star Spangled Banner was stfliK Bishop O P Fitzgerald of Nashville was Introduced to speak In place of Governor Gov-ernor Robert L Taylor who was unavoidably unavoid-ably absent Bishop Fitzgeralds remarks elicited almost continuous applause He spoke in part as follows I cant make Governor Taylors speech today I he were here he would say something He would say that in the fraternal fra-ternal baptism of this war this nation had been launched through the golden gate of fraternal patriotism upon a Pa cHic ocean of felicity He would say that the American eagle hart dipped one wins in the waters of the Pacific and the other in the waters of the Atlantic and was ready to flop his pinions and prlnkle the naTions with the waters of freedom He ivouid say that the national tunes were Yankee Doodle and Dixie and were being sung from Maine to Texas and from Manila to Cuba and the continent rolling I the glad hosanna round For the special i benefit of Spain we give Hail Columbia This Is something like what Governor I Taylor would say For myself I feel like I repeating my short creed I love every repetng evel body in the world some more than j i others This Includes Spain When she A knows that she has had enough then I i i want to give her rest I hIo 1 This fv not the first warm reception I the south has given visitors from other Ii parts oi our country From Ib60 to 1bS what hath God wrought I is his work t Glory be to his name I Our civil war was not of our own mak I ing It was an inheritance from our fore I I fathers It was put into the federal constitution I con-stitution We will bequpeath peace to our i children and our childrens children to the latest generation With the closo of this I xar with Spain our national unity will be omplete The bloody chasm is not merely mere-ly bridged I is filled up it Is gone qere I aandshaking and the heart throbs on this platform and in this vast assemblage demonstrates the blessed consummation i With the roll of the guns of Dewey i > ampson and Schley mingles the melody jf a nations reunion hymn today It is I thought by some that there are other nations na-tions who sympathize with Spain But I i loubt I am reminded of the old col i red preacher who toward the close of I us sermon said Brutherin and sisters in all your troubles trials and afflictions In dls world theres one place whar youll always find sympathy Here he paused impressively and an old sister asked I Whar In de dictionary was the answer an-swer That is about the only place where Weylfr path on and this his earth successors now could find sym I After a selection by the Fisk jubilee singers General T J Morgan D D LL D of New York City spoke on The New Republic Bishop W B Arnett D D of Wilber I force 0 of the A M E church was introduced t troduced and made a few remarks which were heartily applauded by the audience The service closed a appropriately as i began the audience singing the first verses of America God Save the Queen International Hymn and Blest Be the Tie The melody as sung was as follows My country Us of thee g Sweet land of liberty J Of thee I sing Land where my fathers died Land of the Pilgrims pride From every mountain side Let freedom ring God save our gracious queen Long live our noble queen God save the queen Send her victorious Happy and glorious Long to reign over us God save the queen sve s Two empires by the sear > I Two nations great and free 1 One anthem raise One nice of ancient fame j I t Jf0 Onetongue > o falth we claim One God whose glorious name We love and praise Blest be the tie that binds Our crts in Christian love TJhe fellowship of kindred minds I like to that above |