The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-04
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.


sionary for a purpose, and Task you to
make the application of it very near
home. l am not disparaging any organ
lied missionary societies in Maine. They
need your money, and [ trust will con-
time to receive generous share. But
the cause for which / plead is the devo-
tion of your own selves to actual mis-
sionary work in your own neighborhoods.
/ venture the statement that there is not
one Of our six hundred societies but what.
by studying lis immediate field could find
some place within TWO miles of it's home
where a corps of workers could sustain a
Sunday school through the summer
months, or a series of eyan2elistic SER
vices. Something of this earnest personal
work was done i'll Boston during the in
spring days of tho great mass meetings.
Some work of this kind will be done in
Houlton during the present session. Why
not take this work home with you-mul-
tiply it by six hundred and make every
society field station, the center of actual
missionary effort
1t is good thing to attend conventions
like this and feel the uplift of contagious
zeal and enthusiasm. 1t is good thing
to hear about the work which others are
doing at home and abroad. But it is d
vastly better thing to take up i'll person
the same kind of work which waits at
our very doors May 1 hope that your
prayerful attention will reveal the practl-
, cal method for each society, and that
willing hearts may use the method IN
aggressive and successful effort for Christ.
In conclusion | thank you for your
patience and for the many expressions of
kindness which have come to me during
the past two years.
May the common cause be prospered till
there is ga church in every hamlet and
Christian Endeayor society in every
church, - and I will add corps of mis-
sionaries in every society
The following is the report of Miss
Emily W. Milliken, the corresponding
secretary:
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
Five years ago when the State conven-
ton was held in Augusta there was
present one delegate from Aroostook
county and he was an object of much
interest as being the sole representative
from the Aroostook wilds. We scarcely
imagined then that the convention of
'95 would be held in the beautiful town
of Houlton, the metropolis of Aroostook
county, and the stronghold of Christian
Endeayor. One year has passed since we
assembled at our last State convention at
Lewiston. You will remember that
we then took for our watchword "Ad-
vance Endeavor,'' and statistics prove
that we have lived and worked and
prayed with this motto on our. minds
and hearts. We may appropriately cele-
brate this third of September us Chris
tian Endeavor Thanksgiving Day, and
sing a grateful Te Deum in view of the
blessings given and received.
Never has there been exhibited such
progress, such activity, such growth in
the history of the State Union.
There have been enrolled this year 1873
new societies, making total of $50 with
a membership CT $4,000 100 members
have united with the church. 70 asso-
ciates have transferred to the active list.
$i550 has been given to missions and
other benevolences, which proves that
Maine Endeayorers do not believe that c.
E. means g -Coppers Exclusively.
Last year the figures We're 63 new socie-
ties, S57 church members, $500 for mis-
sions This shows the gain for 1895 to
be unprecedented.
The different counties divide the mem
herShin as follows: