The Portland daily press., 1895-07-12
FATHER ENDEAVOR.
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| enance; lsll : AS every plant has root, so
, os1ly Endeayor society has a root. Rather
~ il:'s onfee roots the pledge, the conse-
@ oI1uioh meeting, and a system of commit
Is;y STSn py winch its practical service Tor
~ ~onrlse IS performed. You might as we'll
eApeC1 plant to grow strong and vigor-
3.ls Mi II you hack away at it's roots as an
rniuedyof f society to grow strong without
unose cardinal principles; and yet some
people nave not only pulled up the Society
W iooK at Its roots, but have deliberately
Guy OH one or more of them. They could
N.Y. accepG the experience of ten thousand
oSners, but must lop off one or more OF
un9 roots for the sake of having an or1gl-
nal society, and then they have wondered
Gtso IL mas so soon Withered and died.
Originality in organization is sometimes
gooa thing, but it often costs too much,
as many an Endeavor society can testify
fourth. But while the absolute neces-
sloy 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 later providen-
1lal paths which God has marked out.
Mhen, two years ago, at Montreal, the
suggestion was made to you Endeavorers
Ghat as individuals you had unfulfilled
outles along the lines of Christian Cltl-
zenshlp and missionary enlargement who
y
would have been so prompt and gener-
ous9 How you have leaped forward to
your duty and your privilege How the
rapid contagion of these ideas has spreiad
from society to society, from local un on
20 local union, from city to country, from
State to State, and province and nation
Not a death-dealing contagion is this,
put blessed incubation which, please
GOD, will make forever impossible the
smallpox of such municipal misrule and
corruption as we have known in the past:
May this be lymph, too, which shall
render forever 1nnOcuouS the wasting con-
sumption of Indifference to the spread OF
the Kingdom in all the world
The Endeavor Society is an indignation
meeting against misrule and corruption
which never adjourns. Its true mission,
as of every similar organization, is to
awaken and to keep awake righteous
public sentiment, until organized wicked
ness sinks away abashed and ashamed of
itself. Not as an organized society, but
as well organized individuals. simply be-
cause we are followers of Christ, the
! Righteous let us stand everywhere for
the right. Do not be content until a
| Tammany in America is forever an i'm
possibility. Do not be content until a
corrupt political deal is as impossible and
lntolerable as an open cesspool would be
in your own parlor. Follow the flying
foe. Push things. The sword of the Lord
and OF Christian EndeayOr!
Fifth. Once more our success in the
past has been the success of united host.
1t could never have been won as sect,
as a segment of Gods people. So far as we
have been allowed by our superiors we
represent the undivided evangelical young
people of America. For this spiritual
unity Christian Endeavor stands as well
as for the pledge and the conservation
meeting. Thank God that in every de-
nomination but one, the world around
during the last twelve month this fellow
ship has been growing broader and more
complete. "E Pluribus Unum" is our
motto around all the 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
the Provinces in the Dominion of Canada
against common foes. Denominational
loyalty and love are only marked when
we are bound together in this alliance,
offensive and defensive, against the host
of evil
Secretary Baer announced that the
trustees had unanimously voted to hold
the convention of '97 in San Francisco,
provided satisfactory railroad rate could
be obtained. Evangelist Dwight L.
Moody of Northfeld was the last speaker
He said he hoped the Endeayorers would
believe the whole Bible, that no one who
picked it to pieces could do much
/ Christian work. The portions of it
oftenest criticized We're affirmed and en-
phasized by Christ. He argued against
disbelief in portions difficult to under
stand, against criticism of the Old Testa-
ment as distinguished from the New, and
the denial of the supernatural. Sceptics
had claimed that the Bible was out of
date, but it was never SO largely circu-
lated and read as today He urged En-
deavorers to help place ministers among
churches which were unable to pay for
them.
There were enormous crowds in and
around Tent Williston, many being I'M
able to obtain admission. Treasurer
William Shaw of Boston, presided. Rev.
Teunis S. Hamlin of Washington. d. c.,
spoke ON Washington in '96. President
Clark annual address was read by Rev
York Rev. Russel H. Conwell, d. D.,
LII D., of Philadelphia, was the last
speaker. He discussed the difficulty which
a Christian Endeayor society finds in
putting life and improvement into dead
church. Christian Endeayor was born
for just such purposes No movement had
added more new life to the churches than
Christian Endeayor. The grandest thing
about it was it was non -sectarian. The
4 world wanted, not theology, but men.
The greatest audience of the day
gathered in Tent Endeavor this evening
NOU only was Gne tent crowded., Dut all
around the canvas walls which were
raised, were lines of people. Previous to
| the regular exercises, several hymns were
sung by large chorus and the audience
under the direction of Percy S. Foster, Of
| Washington d. G. Rev. J. ]. Tyler,
D. D., of Cleveland, Ohio, was the pre-
siding officer. W. FL. Pennel1 of Washing
| ton, D. c., told of what the committee
at Washington was doing, which has in
hand arrangements for the next conven-
| tion to be held in the national capital in
| 1896 Prof James Lewis Howe of Wash
ington and Lee University, at Lexington,
| Va. then read the annual address of
President Francis e. Clark. One of the
greatest speeches of the day, by John G.
Woolley of Chicago, on "Church Resolu-
tions vs. Saloon Resolutions" came
next The chairman then made the an
nouncement that the 1897 convention
would be held in San Francisco if sa4is-
factory railroad rates could be secured,
| and the exercises closed.
| Hay Caps.
A Country Gentleman correspondent
writes from North Carolina: My cloth