The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-07
YEAR OF ENDEAY0R.
DR.. Cornelius M. Brett in
His New Years Address
Urges Increased
Energy.

Here's a New Years address which the
Rev. DR.. Cornelius Brett, President of the
New Jersey Christian Endeavor Union.
has just sent out TO all the societies in the
State. 1t will be read at next Sunday
evenings meetings.
"~Endeaverers of New jersey
AS, your President for the second time
I greet you with a happy New Year.
we are nearing the close of a century
replete with startling events and marked
by majestic progress. The surprises of
the last twelve months would in earlier
times have been sufficient to make a half
century illustrious. What 1899 is to
bring us God only knows. Only this may
we ~prophesy: Our social order gathers
momentum as 1t goes ringing down the
grooves of time And faster, more fur
ious viii life's warfare be ragged as
months. each full of meaning, roll into the
momentous year.
When the time comes for a caravan
to break camp the Shiek throws a stone
for a signal; at once loud murmurs of
preparation salute the dawn, and the
leader on his desert ship sails off into the
wilderness. So may the leaders of our
age, reiterating the call of a Persian poet
nearly a millennium ago, call to the tent
ed host
Awake! for morning in the BOWL of night
Has flung the stone that puts the stars
to flight,
AND 10! The Hunter of the East has
caught
The Sultan's Turret, in a moose of light.
THE legacy Of the past to the present
is a huge bundle of unfinished work. and
a long array of perplexing questions I'M
answered, difficult problems unsolved. but
it includes the largest opportunity which
has ever been laid at the door of conse-
Grated manhood. and an equipment whose
strength and efficiency have been growing
with the centuries.
Il call upon you, young people of New
Jersey, 10000 strong, thinking the same
thoughts, praying the same petitions,
singing the same hymns. to arise in bless
ed remembrance of our vows, and. caught
in that moose of light, follow the Lord
Christ with pledged yet cheerful service.
open wide every window of the soul,
from which eager eyes MAY behold the
Dayspring. Listen for the Divine voice.
speaking in pr~ovidences, which make his
Heavenly Vision.
OH, Ciuitu VI 1Ou, 30 oFWaTd.
The Wilderness the way:
Let not thy footsteps falter
Nor in thy march delay.
Begin, beloved. in the secret recesses
of your own souls to be right with God.
Keep the heart pure the life clean.
Be sincere in every expression Of your
devotion, as you are ambitious for the
higher life.
Be ready for any service within the
range of your ability, and be venture
some in putting vour talents to the
test of usage. Your own church is the
appropriate field of your earliest enter
prises.
Accept with the zest of loving hearts
the fellowship of Endeavor, and give
in sympathy or help at least as much
as you expect to receive. Be, active in
every union of which yoe,- society is a
member: Be loyal to. the State Union,
may help win New Jersey for Christ.
Remember, through all your labors,
that, although you are only one, and, so
far as you can see, one of a small COM
pany, YOU are, in reality, aunt in a
census fast approaching four millions of
souls. Even in our squads and compa-
MES We feel the thrill of a great multi
tude, and the ground trembles beneath
us with the onward march of a conquer
ing host.
"Our commander is the captain of our
salvation, whose drawn excalibar flashes
in the glory of victories assured.
'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be withbyou all.
"Affectionately your President,
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