A convention to discuss the Sunday question was held in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21, 22. Meetings were held in two churches, morning, noon, and night. Among the speakers were such men as Dr. Duryea, Joseph Cook, Leonard W. Bacon, Judge Strong of the United States Supreme Court, Russell Sturges, Esq., Wm. E. Dodge, Esq., and others.
The Boston Sunday Herald of Oct. 19, in an article giving notice of the meeting, said: “The Sunday question is again coming to the front. It lifts up its head as often as men think seriously of the points in which traditional religious views come in contact with current social life.” In another place it is remarked that the speakers had “evidently been chosen to represent the sentiments of evangelical Christians, in the discussion of the Sunday question,” and “to present the traditional view of religious New England people in a fashion that admits of neither answer nor appeal.”
In a notice of the same meeting, The Christian Union of Oct. 15 said: “This question is now recognized as one of the most important and pressing questions of the day, and it will be discussed in all its bearings by representative ministers and laymen.”
DRILL IN ELOCUTION.
Arrangements are being made with Prof. S. S. Hamill, the distinguished elocutionist of Chicago, to secure his services during two weeks, at least, of the Biblical Institute. He will spend two hours each day with the ministers during his stay.
His drill will no doubt be just what our preaching brethren should have to aid them in their efforts to cultivate an easy style of delivery, and to correct habits of speaking that are proving ruinous to the voice. Prof. Hamill is a practical teacher, and will not fail to give the best satisfaction. The expense to each member of the class will be but a trifle. Indeed, this instruction will of itself prove of sufficient benefit to pay for all the expenses and sacrifice of attending the Biblical Institute.
COMMITTEE.
STIMME DER WAHRHEIT.
By H. N.
A REQUEST.
We request those of our German brethren who are able to do so, to send us some good but short articles for the December number of the Stimme der Wahrheit. We will try to make this number still more interesting than either of the previous ones have been. Shall we have the aid of all our German brethren?
Since our last report, the subscription list has increased to almost fifteen hundred subscribers.
H. N.
NOTICE
By J. Fargo
At the Conference held at Lyons, Mich., some applications for means to apply on meeting-houses were referred to the Michigan Conference Committee. To all those concerned we would say, It is expected that the committee will all be together at the time of the coming General Conference, at which time these matters will be decided. J. FARGO.
A REQUEST.
By Milton C. Wilcox
Will all who have become full members of the New York Health and Temperance Association, please send their names and addresses to the State secretary, Miss Isadore L. Green, Sacket's Harbor, N. Y. Some of the pledges taken at the camp-meeting are unintelligible. We hope all who have become full members will send without delay. A full member is one who has signed one of the three pledges, and paid to the Association twenty-five cents. All those expecting certificates will please forward at once.
All those holding funds belonging to the New York Health and Temperance Association will please send them at once to the same address. Milton C. Wilcox, Pres.