Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-06
GOING AND GROWING
Annual Address of President Clark to
the Christian Eadeavorers.
WONDERFUL PROGRESS OF TIE SOCIETY
Report Of General Secretary Baer
Accentuates This Fact.
IN ESTIN Ct STATISTICS

DETROIT. Mich. July G.-Any apprehen-
siCns OF light attendance at the interna-
tiOnal Christian Endeavor convention were
dissipated by sunrise today. In the down.
town district all through the earlier morn
ing hours persons not wearing the c. T..
badge were the exception. 1t was estimat-
ed this morning that upward of 10000 ac
credited delegates had arrived, aside from
visitors who are not Endeavorers.
Between and 8 o'clock this morning
most Christian Endeavor roads led to the
Central Presbyterian Church and to the
Light Guard armory. Several hundred vol
unteers for service in the monday evan
gelistic meetings, representing nearly all
the states, gathered at $50 in the former
edifice, proffered their services by cities,
and received assignments to various parts
of the city and general Instructions from
the leader, MIR II. b. Gibbud of Spring
field Mass. Mr.. Gibbud advised the young
people how to act most effectively as tenn
pOrary evangelists. They were told off in
squads, and at noon many factories and
business centers were scenes of their la
bors.
The floor and galleries of the citys larg-
est armory were early filled with bright
faced young people singing familiar hymn
with utmost earnestness. At S:15 the
| mory doors were closed. and after a prayer
by President Clark. the Daily Quiet Hour
OF prayer and meditation enSued, led by
Rev. j. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., of New
York.
Percy s. Foster Leads the Singing.
The day was clear. cool and altogether
ideal when the first real business session of
the convention opened today in Tent En-
deavOr. A sea of 10000 earnest counte-
nances were upturned toward the platform
when the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D. D..
of Detroit called to order. Again the
great tent rang with hymns of praise, led
this time nv Percy = Foster of Washing
ton. The devotional exercises were led by
one of the leaders and founders of the
| Methodist Epworth League, Bishop Ninde
of Detroit
After singing by colored quartet from
Hampton Institute, "FaIner Endeavorer,'
Francis E. Clark, made his annual address.
President Ciark's Annual Message.
The subject of the annual message of
President Francis E. Clark was Going and
Growing"
The biographer of the youth of King
David, said DR.. Clark, tells us in I'd Sam
uel that he went on and grew great and
the Lord of Hosts was with him..
Il like the marginal reading of this pas
sage, David Went Going and Growing.
Going and growing are inseparable. The
boy who does not go does not grow. The
boy who grows is very sure to go. 1t is
not otherwise with a society, church,
movement. The movement that has ceased
to grow will cease to go, and, con-
NerSelF, Wnen II ceases 10 SO-lO De enef-
getic, aggressive, outreaching-it will soon
not only cease to grow, but will dwindle
and fade. The last part of the verse be-
longs with the first. Let us never separate
the two ideas. Because the Lord God of
Hosts was with him-he kept going and
growing. This part, too, We may turn about
and in the reverse find a great deal of
force Because he kept going and growing
the Lord God was with him
Going and growing, he said, had ever been
characteristic of Christian Endeavor. 1t
was born creeping, it soon began to run.
If ever the promise had been fulfilled,
They shall run and not be weary; they
shall walk and not faint it had been to
this organization.