Show SALT lAKERS HEARD Two Residents of Zion Talk to Endeavorers PRISON WORK THEIR THEME Denver Pastor Speaks Upon the Menace of MormonIsm Dr Clark President of the Society Replies to Statements Made by President Berry Denver Colo July 13 Sunrise covenant service In five churches marked the opening of the fifth and last day of the twentyfirst biennial international Inter-national 1 Christian Endeavor convention conven-tion Large audiences attended these early meetings and thousands of En deavorcrs pledged themselves anew to carry on the work which the organization organiza-tion has undertaken Treasurer William Shaw presided at a prisonworkers conference In the Plymouth Congregational church at which addresses were made by Horace H Smith nnd Robert J Jcssup of Salt jake City and others The Field is the World was the topic of the forenoon mass meeting InTent In-Tent Endeavor Under the general head Our Home Problems an address ad-dress was delivered by the Rev T C Smith D D of Denver on The Mormon Mor-mon Menace Rev Dr Francis E Clark president of the U S Society of Christian Endeavor En-deavor today replied to the statement made by Dr Berry of the Epworth League that Union between the different dif-ferent young peoples societies Is impossible Im-possible 1 Dr Berrys remarks woro correctly reported said Dr Clark he must have forgotten that such union had already been accomplished to a very largo degree Tho Christian Endeavor society already unites the 1 young people of twontyHoven denominations In this country and moro than ns many more In foreign countries Several denominations that have distinct young peoples societies of their own also unite In thin interdenominational union movement adding the Interdenominational Interdenomination-al name to their own denominational one Dr Berry says The denominational young peoples society IB as logical as tho denominational church or Sunday school So say I but tho denominational Sunday school Is not called by some other name to make It distinct from other Sunday Sun-day schools nor In It kept out of tho fellowship fel-lowship of other Sunday schools Every Christian Endeavor society Is I a denominational denomina-tional society of the same denomination as the church to which it belongs and belonre nnl Just as loyal to tho church as any can bo I simply adds broadminded fellowship fellow-ship to Its denominational loyalty Tho Christian Endeavor movement IB In this respect on exactly the same basis as the interdenominational ment Sunday school movement move-ment Dr Berry says The Methodist and Baptist denominations would never consent con-sent to have their young people furnished with literature by outside persons But will not the Methodist church allow its young people to rend any moro books or papers besides those Us own denomination denomina-tion publishes No one aaks or expects Methodist young people to give up their denominational publications The Christian Chris-tian Endeavor society docs not forJH UR literature upon any one and docs not expect ex-pect to sell Its publications The petition started at Denver only asks that the young people of all tho local churches of all the denominations bo allowed to have tho freedom for fellowship fellow-ship which most of them now enjoy I will receive hundreds of thousands of signatures sig-natures Endeavorers refuse to believe that what Dr Berry saya will always bo I true and that union with tho Epworth League is utterly impossible Many Ep worth Leaguers have already spoken heartily In favor of the petition In Canadian Can-adian Methodist churches this union has already been largely brought about and Epworth leagues of Christian endeavor enlevor arc found In many of tho Methodist churches of the Dominion The Until 1 meeting of the con cnton arranged ar-ranged for this evening at the big tent wan abandoned and praise meetings were held In some of the principal churches Instead In-stead At tho Central Prcsbjtcrlnn banners I ban-ners mado by Christian Endeavorers In Oriental countries were presented to Stale unions showing as large as 10 per cent Increase In-crease In membership In the past year The first prize went to the Nevada union The other State union receiving banners were Colorado Ohio Utah Louisiana Oregon Alabama Maryland Wisconsin Oklahoma Indian Territory Indiana Mla scull Georgia Alaska Washington West Virginia nnd New Mexico |