Show arif D I 1 1 first I 1 A LARGE attendance noted methodists from dif ferent parts of the globe utah appointments Ap ointments aspeci JS IS botne to tax ENQUIRER CLEVELAND 0 0 june juna 29 19 2 the tha first international onal convention of the epworth league opens at music hall today lt it is ia composed of representatives from the methodist episcopal church throughout the world the methodist church of canada the methodist episcopal church of the south and the wesleyan 1 methodist Methodi jt it church of england among those of national deputat o i who will take part dart in the deliberations are laish bishop 0 A W wilson of the curch U south son tb president Pre aident bradford P raymobd Ravi nond of the wesleyan Wea leyan university hugh price hushes hu ches of loudon london bishop james thoburn Tho buna ef cf indiana mrs jaue dan ban leofi oft robinson of Ten tennesse ex cx gov arnor will cumback Uba plain 01 0 mccabe beshur henry wwarren bishop caries carfes 11 fowler anil and hou flou I 1 L li duriay Muri ay oi of clearfield ald pa at the opening open ilig exercises the address ot welcome was waa delivered by gov GOT mckiniry mckin 1 1 ou on behalf of the state fully full ten thousand 1 delegates are ara in zhe the city and more are arriving on every train the epworth lealdus is ia like the christian endeavor society it a great international internal ional organization of young mn men and young women ong engaged gazed in evangelical work but unlike the endeavor it is confined to onn ona great relious denini den m nation the methodist church the tha league is ia but four years old yet it has baa come coma two thousand societies and a lahip of more than a million and a half it unifies all methodism as the la endeavor aneka s to unite all the different branches brancheau bran chea of toa the Matho diat church and in the con convention ventin that assembled today not only every state in the union but bat also fifteen foreign nations are also represented 1 the discussions cus of the convention will relate to social educational charitable temper ance and missionary mi m conary work of the league there la s a tong rang fea linc taking any tt ti it t not pro belong tu to taiti chuna i lint but it is probable that some emphatic declaration will be b 0 made concer concerning nim the opening of I 1 the worlds fair on bunday some 0 ot of the delegates on the ground tire me in favor of declaring a boycott on the tha enterprise but there are ara others that argue that ethla would not bf good volica the rhe general sentiment is in that flint ns as a na national tonal enter priola no personal per Der sympathies against the th fair should he be allowed to make a 11 |