The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-08
Years Progress OF
Christian EndedVor

From Secretary John Willis Baer's sta
tistical Report, Read Yesterday at
Nashville.
I'm IT'S native land Christian En-
| deavor still moves forward. There
III are now, within the borders OF the
Ii United States, 4l222 societies'
Pennsylvania with 36I9 societies
New York with 1,41i Iowa with l,SoS'
and Michigan with 1072, are the states
at the head of the procession, and in the
order named. These figures do not IN
clude the Junior. intermediate and oth-
er societies. SO far as we know. RUS
sia is the only country In the world
without its Christian Endeavor society.
England has 4647; Canada, 1856; Aus
tralia 2,2Si; Scotland. 535; India, 483;
Wales, 33l; ireland. 213; China. 1872; At
rca no. The total enrolment from
without the United States is lilo So
cieties. The increase In south AFRICA,
India, China, Germany and throughout
Great Britain has been large. The con-
stitution for local Christian Endeavor
societies has been translated and print
ed in thirty-seven different languages.
The total enrolment of Worldwide
Christian Endeavor is 5i,l9l societies
with an individual membership or more
than three and one-quarter millions.
%
The Junior societies continue to In
Il
fourteen thousand societies In the world.
One thousand of these are to be found
in foreign lands. OF those In the United
States we mention Pennsylvania 1,o35,
New York's, 1891. Illinois, 1,O46, ONO
992 Indiana's. 500. California's and lowas,
$50, Massachusetts, 525, as being in the
list of states each with an enrolment OF
more than five hundred Junior societies.
Last year we reported 366 intermediate
societies. This year the total has more
than doubled; we have now 7J9 lnterme-
diate societies. California leads the
states, having 90; Pennsylvania has s6;
Ohio, SO; Illinois, Sc; New York, ~; In
diana, 80; Michigan and Massachusetts
each, Sc. The growth of the lnterme-
| diate societies bids fair to rival the
| thrifty life and progress of the Junior
societies. You will be Interested to
know that there are II societies In the
United States army and in volunteers
| camps, 1l9 societies in the United States
navy. and on board merchant ships
| Christian Endeavor thrives in out-of-the-
way and unexpected places. There are
| societies in prisons, schools of reform
| warehouses;, almshouses, asylums, IN
| stitutions for the blind and for the deaf.
| schools and colleges; among car drivers,
| policemen, travelling men. life savers on
the coast lighthouse employees, in large
factories. ETC., to the number of nearly
| two hundred.
| In England the Baptsts stand first In
| Christian Endeavor; in Australia the
| Wesleyan Methodists and in Canada the
| Methodists. In the United States the
| Presbyterians lead. with 5605 Young
| Peoples societies and 3109 Junior; the
| Congregationalists are next, with 4,16J
Young Peoples societies and 2,469 junior;
then follows the Disciples of Christ, with
3,26S Young Peoples societies and l,4SJ
junior; the Baptists. 2,629 Young Peo'
pies societies and 1,130 Junior; the Metho-
dist Protestants, 1.095 Young People
and 364 junior: the Cumberland Presby-
terians $50 Young Peoples and Ala jun
ior: the Lutherans, S9l Young Peoples
and 800 juniors and so on until more
than thirty different evangelical denom
nations have been listed.
| Nine thousand societies in making theii
| annual reports mention the money thai
| they have sent directly to their own de
nominational missionary boards, and the
amount is s19S000. These same nint
| thousand societies have given for othel
benevolences s225,OOO making a total fol
these societies of $4,000. l have
reserved for the last the best of my
| statistics. During the past year 276s
| juniors have become members of thu
church. From the intermediate societies
Isis have joined their home churches
| and 1856, $50 from the Young Peoples so
cieties, making a total reinforcement o
| church membership during the yea
amounting to 22j,7T
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