500  ADVENT  CHRISTIAN   HISTORY

Eld.  John  Ward  of  Lowell,  was  elected  as  secretary-treas-
urer. Later  the  committee  on  by-laws  met  at  144  Hanover
Street,  Boston,  and  drew  up  a  constitution  which  pro-
vided for  the  organization  of  a  general  Young  People's
Society,  under  the  name  of  Loyal  Workers,  also  another
form  providing  for  local  societies  of  the  same  name.  A
second  Christian  Workers  Cbnvention  was  held  in  June,
1892,  at  Chelsea,  at  which  said  committee  reported  the  two
forms  of  by-laws,  and  after  some  discussion  the  same  were
approved,  and  it  was  ordered  that  five  hundred  copies  of
these  should  be  printed  and  distributed  to  awaken  inter-
est in  the  movement.
Meanwhile  some  of  the  young  people  of  the  church  at
Lowell,  Mass.,  after  consulting  with  Eld.  John  Ward  and
Bro.-  H.  A.  Mitchell  decided  to  organize  in  March,  1892,
a  Young  People's  Society  which  they  called  the  United
Christian  Workers,  but  changed  the  name  to  Loyal  Workers
in  the  fall  after  the  issuance  of  the  above  named  by-laws.
The  Mid- Western  Young  People's  Society  adopted  the
latter  name  in  the  summer  of  1892,  and  soon  after  this  local
young  people's  societies  were  formed  in  several  different
churches,  both  East  and  West.  In  the  spring  of  1893  a
mass  meeting  of  Advent  Christian  young  people  was  called
to  assemble  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  on  May  24,  and  at  this
meeting  the

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of  Loyal  Workers  was  formally  organized,  by-laws  were
adopted  and  the  further  formation  of  locals  was  earnestly
encouraged.
The  previous  organization  of  the  Western  General
Society  was  recognized  by  Eld.  Frank  Burr,  in  opening  the
convention,  and  a  resolution  of  greeting  was  adopted,  to  be
sent  to  the  president  of  said  society.
