River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
Y. P. S. c. E.

Missionary Heroes. Cheerful amid
adversely" Reference: Acts 81:
i 22-26. Leader, Mr.. Spencer.
! From the text we find that Paul
was cheerful although death seemed
to be near, but he took God at his
word and had such a strong inf1u-
ence over the others that they were
all saved. 1t made no difference
what he was called on to do or bear
he did it cheerfully. He was always
trying to encourage and cheer 9TH
ers. This made him cheerful, be-
cause he was thinking of others in
stead of himself.
When the woman touched Christ's
robe in the crowd and was healed
Immediately Christ felt that power
had gone forth from him. This in
cident shows that not even Christ
could work his miracles without
some cost to himself, and no mis-
sionary or Christian worker can
help the world except at cost to
himself at every turn. This pour
ing out of strength is the great
missionary heroism."
Christ once gave as the reason for
his coming to earth that his Joy
might be in men and that they
might be filled full of it. What was
his joy? He told that also, at one
time, when he said that his meat
and his drink was to do the will of
God and finish his work. If we
want the highest JOY we must seek
Christ's joy, and if we want Christ's
joy we must do Christ's work.
Read the lives of the missionary
heroes, as Paul, James Gilmore,
Henry Martyr, and Alexander Mac
kay, and you will be ashamed of
your petty worries and come to see
that the only life worth living, at
home or at the ends of the earth, is
the missionary life.
In Rev. Francis E. Clarks eight
months travels in Europe he trav-
elled about twenty-three thousand |
miles in the interest of the Christian
Endeavor cause and attended two
hundred meetings and conferences.
The journeys have embraced twenty
different countries, namely: Italy, |
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Nor
way, Finland, Russia, Bohemia,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia,
England, Scotland, Wales, France,
Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Swift
zerland. Some of these countries |
he visited more than once. His own
tongue has been translated into nine
teen different tongues by kind and |
gifted interpreters. They really |
made the meetings what they were
except in English.speaking coun-
tries.
Mr.. Clark found that the news of
the Christian Endeavor movement, |
it's purpose, it's principles, and it's
success, had preceded him, and |
that kind friends and earnest ad- |
vocates whom, unaided, he could |
not possibly have found, were raised |
up to supplement his efforts and to |
do work for the cause which he |
could not possibly have accomplish
ed. Through these efforts new
societies have been formed or
strengthened, or the first steps taken
towards their formation in several |
different countries. Secretaries to
give whole or part Of their time to
the work have been found in eight
different countries; Christian En-
deavor literature has been translat-
ed into Italian, Finnish, Portuguese
and Bulgarian for the first time,
while in other languages it has been
much increased. Rev. Clark says,
1t is the genuine principles of the
| Christian Endeavor movement that
are blessed of God and that are
wanted in foreign lands. Christian
Endeavor is wanted because il is
strenuous, earnest program of
| service; because it has a prayer
meeting and pledge to make the
prayer meeting effective; because it
asks some definite Christian work
from every active member and does
not cater to worldly laziness and in
difference; because it is genuinely
religious organization, and makes
it's social and literary side distinctly
secondary to its spiritual aims.
European countries do not want any
fabby, namby-pamby, weakened,
organization that is afraid to de-
mand any service of the young peo-
pie or to appeal in any way to their
heroism."
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