The Portland daily press., 1893-07-07

some think that the great decision will
| practically be made before men date
| their letters January /, 1900; from the
| dry baked plains of Southern India, from
| the jungles of Northern India, from
wretched Mohammedan cursed Egypt,
| Syria and Turkey, from sunny italy,
from awakening Spain, from the pleas
| ant land Of France, from all comes the
| cry of unconscious need and want. If
| the needs on the one little provincs of
| Macedonia could appeal so loudly to the
| Apostle of old, in what thunder tones
! should all these countries speak to you
| Christian Endeavorers.
| would bring you their message; I
would interpret their cry, 'sCome over
and help us; come over and help us?'' If
| you cannot go you can send. You must
| go or send. Money is as much needed
as men and women, perhaps more, just
! now, for the recent great missionary re-
vival has touched the hearts of conse-
Grated young people more than it has
| touched the pocketbooks of the average
| Christian.
| May it not be the glad mission of the
Christian Endeavor Society to introduce
a new era of benevolence,
not to perpetaute the grudging
dole that has been wrung from
tight fists Sin the past, meagre Of
fering that will never evangelize the
world; but to bring in an era of porpor-
| tionate and systematic giving as God
| hath prospered us.
Who will join me this year in a pledge
of proportionate giving, of at least one
tenth of what God may give us?
| III. One more definite, tangible, all
| important purpose L would present to
| Md fcr hn
| largement and cementing of our inter-
denominational, international fellow
ship. Could there be a more appropri-
| ate year for this than when, for the first
time, our convention is held in sister
country, outside the limits of the United
| States?
Ours has spiritual union. 1t seeks
no organic unity; it demands no uniform
| ity of creed or polity; it sneers at no
conscientious differences of opinion; it
insists, first of all, ON the utmost loyalty
| of each society to its own church and de-
nomination. 1t is a union in service;
there is the ''Endeavor;;" it is a union of
spirit and fidelity to the one Master;
there is the Christian" It is expressed
| by our name "Christian Endeavor,' -
which is the only guarantee Of our prin-
ciples, the only outward and visible tok-
0u VI Ul0 luWdTu duu spiritual
This has indeed been an auspicious
year for our worldwide fellowship. 1
bring you, my friends, the greetings
from your fellow Endeavorers in all
| lands. l rejoice to be the personal
bearer of personal greetings from per
| sonal friends to personal friends. The
| first vessel that saw in Australian
| waters was steam launch bearing two
penants the stars and stripes and the Y.
P. S. C. E. flag, That flag waved for
you; that international greetings was for
| you.
AS we sailed away from Brisbane,
| after speaking to more than seventy au-
diences of Endeavorers during six busy
and happy weeks in that vast island con-
tinent, the last sound that greeted our
ears was the same song that we heard
/ floating from the San Francisco docks,
"God be with you till we meeting again. =
| The song was for you as well as for us
| who heard it.
| | bring you greetings from the Chris
tian Endeavorers of Japan, from Yoko-
hama, and Tokyo from Kyoto and Kobe,
from Osaka and Okayama. In all these
| cities and many others are young hearts
linked to yours by the supreme tie of
Christian service. From the Endeavor
society of the stately Christian univer-
sity, the Doshisha of Kyoto, and alike
from the humble society of little orphan
boys that holds its meetings in the re-
generated Buddhist temple Of Okayama.
I bring you greeting.
China's Endeavorers greet you today.
From the Society of the South Gate
Church of Shanghai, where the Juniors
meet in another old heather temple,
from the printers society of the mission
| press, from the "drum-and-rouse-u
Endeavor society of Foochow. from the
Christian girls and boys of Canton, where
Mr.. Fulton works, / am the bearer OF
good tidings.
India's Endeavorers greet you. They
speak many tongues-Tamil and Telugu
and Bengali and Hindi and Hindostanee
and Marathi; but in all of these tongues
they tell of one purpose, Of one pledge
of one motto, of one fellowship.
Syrian and Turkish Endeavorers greet
you. They are persecuted and hindered
their name, even, is under the ban; ano
their meetings are broken up and theiI
organization in many places forbidden
by tyrannical rulers; but their hearts are
not chilled, nor their purpose cooled
nor their love to Christ subdued, moi
their fellowship with you sundered by
the prosecutions that they endure.
Black-eyed Spanish Endeavorers greet
you. The land from which Columbus
sailed is linked by another tie, the tie OF
Christian Endeavor. in this anniversary
year, to the land that Columbus discov.
cred.
! French Endeavorers greet you. World
ly Paris is not so worldly that nine &C
tive, spiritually-minded Endeavor socie.
ties cannot flourish there as well as in
PhiladeInhia or Toronto.
English, Scotch and Irish Endeayorers
greet you. Within year our societies
have increased from less than three hun
dred to nearly seven hundred in the
United Kingdom.
One of the divisions of the Methodist
denomination in Great Britain has just
led the way by adopting and approving
Christian Endeavor, pure and simple, as
its young peoples organization. And
this leads me to say that interdenomina-
tionally in all parts of the world, as well
as internationally has our cause advanced
during the year past as never before.
regret to say that in my own land, alone
of all the lands that [ have visited il