Show EPWORTH LEAGUE SUCCESS Nearly 25000 People in Attendance and All Delegates Wore Gotten Together Once Detroit Mich July 18 Despite the leaden skies today after a hard night of rain more than 1000 onthunlostlc Epworth leaguers were present at the morning watch meeting In the Central M E church which began at 630 oclock Dr Joseph F Berry general secretary of the league led the meeting meet-Ing Between the early meeting and the three conferences that began at 9 oclock the sky cleared somewhat and gave a little promise of more ot tho line weather that has been a feature ot the convention The leaguers this forenoon fore-noon gathered by churches for conferences confer-ences This afternoon there were no general meetings and several of the State delegations seized the opportunity to hold allies i This In the greatest convention we have ever held said Dr Joseph F Berry today The attendance of delegates dele-gates last night was It was stated at headquarters 22500 and It is expected that the number wlll puss 25000 today There were more than 2000 delegates In Auditorium Epworth for the conference confer-ence at the M E church After devotions devo-tions Rev N A Swlckard of Aberdeen S D urged more and better study of the Bible by members of the league and advocated Epworth league reading courses Later In the afternoon a short mass meeting was held In front of the city hall the idea being to get all the delegates dele-gates together once during the convention con-vention |