The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-07
FOUNDER CLARK.
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Paradise of the Pacific but think the
title understated the matter. 1t is not
only the Paradise of the Pacific, but
of the Atlantic and the Pacific, ana of
the whole world. 1 have never seen Il
| more beautiful place. This afternoon
| l was driven to the Pail and to the
| beach, and 1 want to say that you
| should be good people, and extra good
juniors in such place as this. And
| I suppose they are, DR.. Kincaid.
| L have. peculiar appreciation of
| this place and my visit today. This is
| one of the first experiment stations in
the world of the Christian Endeavor
movement. While societies We're first
starting in few cities of America, one
was started here, the first outside of
the United States. for this was not
then part of the United States
Mr.. Clark told of a conference a good
many years back when serious cousid-
Grafton had been given to project to
send Mr. Ward, the secretary of the
Christian Endeavor Society. to Homo
lulu to encourage the local society, as
it was believed that if the society could
be made to grow in Hawaii, its sue
cess in other countries would be GER
tain. This had not been necessary,
however, and the little seed planted
here had grown to great proportions
and was now shown by the great gath
ering in Central Union church.
Mr.. Clark gave an outline of the
work he proposed to do on this trip.
From Honolulu he goes to New Zea-
land, then to Australia and back to
England to attend the big convention
in London on May 20. He told also /
of the growth of the Christian En- |
deavor all over the world. California |
has $40 societies, in America there |
are two or three million members. In |
any large city you will receive the J
right hand of fellowship from some |
society. In London there are 700 !
societies. and Mr. Clark told of the !
great meetings in the Metropolitan
Tabernacle, Mr.. Surgeons church. |
and also in Birmingham, which he had |
attended. when we are all doing
the best we cam" said Mr.. Clark,
then the problem of the day may be
solved. The Christian Endeavor So
ciety is a movement to utilize all the
forces of the church, to make work
for all, the boy and the girl, the bash
full and the diffdent. and even the
ignorant"
The audience was next carried by
the speaker to meetings he had attend
ed in Paris, in South Africa before the
late Boer war. in Spain, Portugal, Ger
many, Finland, st. Petersburg, Poland
and Bohemia. He gave an interest,"
ing piece of news in his allusion to
Germany, saying that only recently
he had received a letter from the Ger
man Christian Endeavor Offering to
pay the expenses of an American mis-
in the Caroline Islands, be-
cause of the reported action of the
German government in warning upon
the missionaries there. A missionary
is to be sent out by the Board of For
eign Missions, which body, the speaker
said had done such wondrous things
for the Sandwich Islands,
Even in Turkey. Christian Endeavor-
ers are to be found, although they do
not wear the ribbon or call themselves
societies. "A brotherhood is tabu in
Turkey and the Christian Endeavor
would be blotted out by the unspeak-
able Turk" said Mr.. Clark. ''It is
just what the Unspeakable Turk does
mt want, that the Christian people do
want Visits to India, Japan and
China were also described, and Mr.
Clark exhibited banners presented to
of China and India.
Mr. Clark said that Christian en-
deavor was not the work of any BODY
of men or any one man, but it was
the work of God by which He saw an
opportunity to send His message
around the world
In closing Mr.. Clark said that he
wanted the Endeavorers to remember
three things. Loyalty to Christ is
1rst, to support the Sunday school. the
pastor. to do whatever He would like
is to do. Second was the service for /.
everyone, to help the work of God, and
he Christian Endeavors, to be in the
service of Christ and in the
fellowship of Christian peo-
You viii not M called unoy to | !,
erve as a martyr said he in conclu-
ion, after referring to the missionaries