Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-04
PLAN A FAVORED MOVEMENT.
Enort on Foot To increase the Mem


# Effort ON Foot To increase the Mem
a brr,h,p Ten Fer Cent. This Year
A Glance At tho Development In
s s Certain Sections.
ss1 Tho worldwide work OF Christian En-.
III deavor IS progressing at this season in a
Al Al remarkable manner The growth in So
81 cietics, as well as IN members. is the
M cause OF wonder in foreign lands as
n well as on the American continent
III Just now the United Society is planning
81 for forward movement that viii! In
~ crease the number of societies and mem
d bars 10 per cent.
81 The following bulletin. Issued by the
n United Society of Christian Endeavor,
d indicate something OF this great work.
q Tho tour OF the leading cities OF the
n United States recently made by quar-
Il tette of the officers of the United Society
81 Of Christian Ende3ror. headed by DR.
81 Clark has Been most gratifying and
IS successful one In all Of the cities, be-
BE ginning with Brooklyn and ending at
81 Buffalo. including two or three IN Can
81 ada. the audiences have been exception
81 ely large and enthusiastic, and some
& five or six thousand dollars have been
Il pledged for the worldwide work Of
Christian Eudeavor. In most OF the cities
Il the meetings we're pronounced the finest
ever held.
t~e1
In CeyIon within the past year, at the
beginning Of which there were but two.
50 Two hundred a1!s forty-hvc dollars have
So been given by the Redlands. Cal. Baptist
Il Enc cavorers for support OF wong Ming.
sgss Chiuarnan converted IN their own mis-
s. sion, who has gone back to emma 10
81 preach to his own people and TO supper.
4 til'eir Chinese Mission School Fifteen or
u twenty Of the Endearorers go every week
81 to teach IN the school
The splendid record OF the CorgTega-
coDal Chinese Endeavorers or san FRAN
b cisco. of whom Rev. ice Gam Is pastor.
4 has been continued this year, and they
have given s1,51s.os for foreign missions,
with but forty active members at present
One Christian Eendeavor society IN
Paris. France, sold and gave away GOO
Il copies OF the church paper. Another
Il Hilled the mission school several times
& with two hundred attendants by dis
u tributing bills and notices. Another So
elety In three months made more than one
{ hundred parish visits; another took the
place OF its pastor for the evening
meeting During the holiday month. an
4 ether has opened q mission room and
svaDgelized a new neighborhood, an
sther went TO a fair in Brittany and In
/ bne week sold four hundred New Iesta-
snents.
Mr.. John Willis Baer has been appoint
u I'd corresponding secretary of the Pres
4 hyterian General Assembly's Committee
VI On Young Peoples Societies, and the
u cnmInittee asks for suggestions from
$tl1 persons interested with 4 view to
y formulating the best plans Tor develop
sing the young people of the Presbyterian
i Church
There have been one hundred and for
ty-five Endeavorers enrolled In the State
prison society of Utah. The officers and
! members of the society hold the posi-
7ions OF greatest trust in the prison, and
are the most reliable men.
/ Splendid work is being done in Eliza
beth, N J., in behalf of the Italians.
11ndeavorers have secured the services
nf consecrated Italian clergyman. and
5hey are strongly experimenting his la
Il hors Hymn-boois have been purchased
and a Christmas entertainment was
given. In a union meeting the Italians
md Americans sang together, each in
their own tongue, but with spirit Of
unity and enthusiasm.
According TO the report Of Rev. Fred
erck Blecher. secretary of the German
National Christian Endeavor Union,
about fifty societies have been added in
Germany during the past year, making
q total OF % societies.
Two hundred and twenty-five dollars
gregational Endeavorers to pay for the
electric lights in their church; besides
this they have kept up q pledge of sI.25
b week to the church.
The quarterly report of the Church
Building Society of the Congregational
Church gives a list of twenty-five
churches that have been built or aided
In building by Christian Endeavor So
cieties. The Missionary League Of the
Reformed Church reports twenty-one
Christian Endeavor churches which have
been built or aided in some Way.
lHfcS tIlSeu Sldlc> "SISiiipS III San
Francisco harbor were boarded recently
by the Endeavorers on their Floating
s1ndeavor steam launch and services
acid. They also hold meetings for the
merchant marine, and men are brought
10 Christ at the rate of three or four a
month. AT a recent service twenty-five
merchant seamen attended, and the in
erest was so great that one of the cap
tsins present testified to his gratitude.
The city of Belfast. Ireland. now has
more Endeavor societies in proportion
10 its population than London, which has
The largest Christian Endeayor union in
shc world.
A Christmas breakfast was given to
aree hundred poor children of the
Scotch Baptist EndeaNorers. Burnley,
Lancashire England In some of the
worst cases the children We're given
lew suits OF clothes.
One hundred and four new names
Nave been enrolled In the prison society
IN the Hopkinsvlie, Ky. State prison, |
snd Bible given to every prisoner who
Sould accept 1t. i
DR. Clark has announced as a forward |
raoVement for Christian Endeavor in all |
the world an effort TO increase the num-
be. or societies and members one-tenth. |
An executive committee has been APP |
pointed In each State province and coun-
" TO push this movement and a number !