Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-06-13
FOR the GOOD OF ALL.
Highest Motives Aimed at by United
Society Of Christian Endeavor.
Membership Embraces People
of All Nations.
Fellowship Increased In All Denominations
Except Methodist Episcopal

BOSTON, June l3.-The United Society
ef Christian Endeavor, which Is the gen.
oral body that has directed the growth OF
Christian Endeavor in all the world. held
its annual meeting yesterday at the Offices
IN this city. The old officers were elected
% follows: President, Rev. Francis K.
CLARK. DID,; treasurer and clerk, William
Shaw .9uditor, Frank H. Kidder.
DIR. Clark's report was as follows: In
submitting my report for the society year
just closed h0ve only good news to re-
o9rd aQQ the abundant blessing Of God to
rejoice Ia. our tellQwship has increased
~ the world around 81 meyer before In
al the IA years Of our history. Ia almost
every land and ip every clims the societies
haYe increased ''by leaps and bounds"
The junior societies have fully shared In
the general blessing and have made an
even mors marvellous advance than the
Young Peoples societies. The floating
societies and other special Developments Of
the kind have taken q strong hold Of the
affections and Che interest Of the Endeavor
public. The spate conventions have been,
q rule, far larger and more productive
-cf spiritual results than ever before, and
the local unions have
In many new countries, notably in Ger
many, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and
Holland, the work has been started. The
constitution has been translated into
number of additional languages In many
lands.
The interests of the great cause of Chris
tian cit senship and Of missions have been
advanced everywhere, and these efforts
constitute some of the most cheering and
important forward steps Of the year.
While the Christian Endeavor society
never has, and never will, / believe, ally
itself with any political party, yet In the
triumph of righteousness at the polls, In
the aid given toward the overthrow Of cor
ruption and moral evil In some Of our
towns and cities, in the clearing Of the
civil atmosphere in the volunteering of
hundreds of young men and women for
the foreign mission fields, in the contrib
ntipg by Endeavorers of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars to the UNCONVENTIONAL
boards Is the practical outcome Of these
great movements seen.
Our British and Australian brethren
have shared with rs In this general pros
perity, and conventions Of great power
have been reported not only from Eng
land, Scotland and Wales, bat from Japan
and China, while Francs, Jamaica, eouth
Africa and other countries have shared
In similar convention blessings. In every
In the world, with the single
exception of the Methodist Episcopal de-
In the United States (north
and south). has
Our Fellowship Increased
and the attitude Of the denominations
was never SO favorable to the movement
- today.
More fully than ever, believe, are the
real functions x the united society and
of the state unions understood and OBJ
served. They can, especially through
their yearly conventions, suggest, stimu-
Late, inspire; bat it Is for the local socie-
ties and the local unions, as being In close
with the local churches, TO
sarry ont these plans as best they may
not at the dictation Of any united society
or state union, but as their divinely-
guided wisdom and local circumstances
may demand.
Ithas become increasingly clear that state
and national unions are simply bureaus of
and channels Of Information,
whose chief duties are to circulate the lit
crature Of the movement, to multiply so
ciettes wherever they properly can, and to
hold annual mass meetings for the spirit
ual stimulus of Endeavorers and En-
deavor societies.
To carry out these ideas, and these ideas
only, in the united society Of which you
have chosen me the president, shall be my
constant aim and purpose, and to this end
pledge myself to strive to secure an IN
selfish, economical, efficient administra-
ton Of the affairs of the united society
wherein the cause we love shall be the sole