The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-01
ST. ANDREWS YOUNG MEN.
Special Services for the Brotherhood
Held in the Church Of the Good Shep.
herd-.Offieers Elected.

herd Officers Elected.
A large number attended the spe-
cial service of the Brotherhood Of st.
Andrew, last night at the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Green Ridge, where
the rector, Rev. f. S. Ballentine, made
an eloquent address upon the pro-
ceedings of the convention of the bro
therhood, recently held at Washington.
After reading several reports and eX-
tracts, the reverend gentleman said:
Let US go back and compare the
ideas and work of the brotherhood now,
with the ideas and work with which it
began. There are some who know and
could tell Of that beginning from their
personal part in It, but as 1t has come
to me, it Is that the Gospel story of
ST. Andrew was so masterfully i'm
pressed upon the mind and soul of
class of Bible students, that it fired
them with an ambition to follow in
his very steps, to do st. Andrews very
work, In st. Andrews very way. st.
Andrew had found Christ and had a
brother who had not found Him. He
| went after that brother and brought
him to Christ. He did not ask Others
1t was the apostle; now it is only the
individual. He was not seeking many
but one. He was not watching for any
| one he might meet but with all power
of an absolutely single purpose, he
| passed all others and found Simon
| laid hold of him with loves strong
personal grasp and brought him to
| the Messiah.
Let II Held Firmly.
This, If l mistake not, Is the root
| idea of the Brotherhood of st. Andrew.
Let it hold firmly to the last. 1t Is he,
whom you, dear brethren, men Of or
binary occupation and duties, have set
before you as a pattern of unofficial,
privileged, personal, single-hearted and
unobtrusive work.
IF the seeking Of souls, one by one,
| Is an essential part of the life and idea
of this brotherhood. so the singleness'
the personal individuality of the seeker
seems to have been made just as i'm
portant. Your idea was not to bring
|
Of an organization, not to send the men
after one but to send one man after
| one. You were not to work by meet
ings, by addresses, by printed appeals,
or by the power of numbers, but the
messenger of love was to be carried
with directness of single hearted per-
sonal sympathy.
"The one sought was to feel, not that
society was trying to reach him, but
| that there was one warm, earnest, single
heart, which was in love trying to get
near him and which cared for him. The
brotherhood is only to hold you to-
gether, to cheer and encourage the
members. l charge you to be zealously
true to this IDEAL Let the brotherhood
help and strengthen you individually
you have a mighty mission to win the
young men OF the land for Christ and
His church. You are only beginning tC
touch it, you are but in the shallow
waters of your first efforts. Launch
out into the deep and let down your
nets into the draught."
New Officers Chosen.
At the conclusion of the service the
members adjourned to the parish room
where the annual meeting was held anG
the officers elected for the new year.
The officers chosen were: director
George L. Parsons, reelected; vice d.
rector, James Atkinson; secretary, Ben
jamin Parsons; treasurer, Frank A
| Metcalfe.