The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-12
CHRISTIAN ARMY.


people. IL Is constantly saying by
means of tho pledge, the conservation
meeting, and the leading committees
MAKE OF your religion the first thing In
oil your lives. Place IL before your bust.
ness. before your social pleasures, before
your school, before your amusements
There Is one supreme thing in the world,
and that Is the service of tho Master. ["
This gives Christian Endcavor u right Ia
live. This accounts for its success In tho
past. This guarantees It's success in the
future.
Purity In Politics the Coal
Fourth-But while tho absolute neccs-
sity OF keeping the movement true to
type" as the gardeners would say. Is laid
upon us, necessity no less strenuous is
ours TO wisely follow the late provldential
paths which God has marked out. When,
two years ago at Montreal, the suggestion
was made To you, Endeavorers, that as in
dividuals you had unfulilllcd duties along
the line of Christian citizenship and mis-
sionary enlargement. who would have be-
Neved that your response would have been
30 prompt and generousf How you have
ieaped forward to your duty and your
privileged How tho rapid contagion Of
these ideas has spread from society TO So
ciety, from local union to local union from
city TO country, from state To state and
province and nationl Not death-deal-
ing contagion is this, but blessed inocu-
lation which, please God, will mako for
ever impossible the smallpox of such mu-
nicipal misrule and corruption as we have
known In the past.
To speak first of our efforts for q better
citizenship. IL behooves us TO DO very
modest. 1 make no extravagant claims
for the Christian Endeavor society, but it
Is fair to say the society has had no insig-
niflcant part In the general uprising of
Christian people which has buried Tam.
many under $1,000 white ballots In New
York city, and is now fighting an equally
corrupt foe of another breed in the same
state; which has voted for reform, $4,000
strong in Chicago; which is now engaged
in cleansing the dirty streets and the dirt
Ter politics OF that and other cities; and
which In hundred places has awakened
the civic conscience and purified fetid
political atmosphere.
But the very success OF these movements
for better citizenship and a larger mis-
sionary zeal, unprecedented and unex-
pected as IL has been, brings with It re-
sponsibility for further effort along the
same lines. Grants laconic commentary
on success In arms was. Push things"
Napoleon's tactics were to follow up q
victory; to crowd tho enemy; TO pursue
the flying foo. believe our captain is
sues no other orders to u.s. fellow Christian
Endeavorers. can find no other inter.
probation Of the success he has already
given us. Not as a political party, but in
all political parties, stand for righteous
ness, for honesty, for purity. for good
men and good laws. Do not be content
until corrupt political deal IL as impos-
sible and intolerable as an open cesspool
would be In your parlor. Follow the fly
ing foe. Push things. The sword Of the
Lord and Of Christian Endeavor.
A Tammany in America forever more
impossiblei A missionary board debt for
ever impossiblel These are two OF the re-
sponsibilities Of the future from the sue
cesses OF the past In Christian Endeavor.
Unity Of Purpose CounsciIed.
Fifth-Onoe more, our success In the
past has been the success of united host.
1t could never have been won as a sect, as
a segment Of the hosts of Gods people.
So far as we have been allowed by our su-
periors we represent the undivided evan
gelical young people Of America For this |
spiritual unity Christian Endeavcr stands, |
as well as for the pledge and conservation |
meeting. Thank God, that in every de- |
nomiI tion but one, the world around, |
during the last twelvemonth. this fellow |
ship has been growing broader and more |
complete. "E Pluribus Unum' is our |
motto all around tho world as truly as |
it is the motto OF the United States of |
America. State and provincial pride and |
loyalty are no less intense because of the |
union OF states In the United States, OF
,he provinces In the Dominion of Canada,
against common foes. Denomin ational
oyalty and love are only more marked |
when we are bound together In this alli-
lnce, offensive and defensive, against the
hosts of evil.
In such fellowship only can we go for
ward to the largest victories. But this
fellowship, believe, Is assured.
Then lot us enlarge our boundaries,
christian Endeavorers, not for the sake OF
ne organization but for the sake Of the
enlargement means a larger
cderation, sweeter fellowship, a wider
unity, stronger army to fight against
loary and venerable wrongs. Let us en-
arge our fellowship for no selfish motive,
'ut because the God-given successes of the
'ast show that enlargement means the
pead OF the intense devotional idea for
which Christian Endeavor stands, because
means civic purity, missionary extern
world for Christ I,St us enlarge
ur fellowship because thereby we arc
answering our Lords prayer that they
Ill may be one"
have thought you might grow tired OF
ur old annual motto, and / have tried To
Ind another one as appropriate, but / can
lot do IL. The successes Of the past year
My emphasize IL, for they are all OF
,hrist and Of Christian fraternity; so
must give IL TO you again for
he coming year--the motto which tells of
ne captain and of one fellowship; the
MOTTO which points backward 20 past sue.
csses; the motto which showS the only
Dad 10 future victories; tho motto which
Ills alike OF our leadership and oui
rothcrhood. Here II is. Take it, y Chris.
an Endeayorcrs; take it, and live by II
Or another twelvcmonth. "One Is your
laster, even Christ; and all 20 are
rothrcn."
Frisco In OF.