3/20 Sad though this night's happening will be, I feel that it will but draw you more closely to me." The I.P.H.held its convention that night in San Francisco.* This convention had been called to consider public immorality and the remedy for it. He was very nervous as he sat on the platform, and I could see the high tension he was under. By his side were Bishop Dickinson; H.H.Jones, the head of the ethical department in the University of California; Mrs.W.W.Hurd, the great charity organizer; Philip Ward, the equally great philanthropist; and several lesser luminaries in the field of morality and charity. Bishop Morehouse arose and abruptly began: * It took but a few minutes to cross by ferry from Berkeley to San Francisco. |