The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-09
ENDEAVORERS !
 ADJOURNED Sixteenth Annual Con- vention Closes. IT WAS NOTABLE MEETING General Secretary vogt of Society
 Spoke, Three Fine Services Held At Central Church Yesterday-Christian En- deavor Society Meets Next h
 Mobile.

The sixteenth annual convention or the Alabama Christian Endeavor Union. which has been in session at the Gen. traI Presbyterian church for the past three days. closed last night, in what IS said by those interested. to have been one of the most successful con yentions in the history of the Union.
 The two prominent worlds workers who attended and addressed the con- vention were. MT. Won ogden Vogt, or Boston, the general secretary, United Society Christian Endeavor. of the world, and pr. James O. Reavis. of Nashville, coordinate secretary, For eign Missions.
 Yesterday morning at 6:30 o'clock a quiet hour service" was conducted by MT. von Ogden vogt. The service last ed but thirty minutes. but was an es- pecially helpful and inspiring one to those who attended.
 The one hundred and fifty delegates from all over the State and West Florida were visitors to the various Sunday schools of the city.
 Communion services were held at the First Presbyterian Church and at the Central Presbyterian Church, at which service the congregations were unus- ually large.
 Quite a number of new members. both by letter and by profession of faith were received into the two churches.
 Into the First Presbyterian church as result of the excellent series of ser vices conducted by Dr. J. S.~Lyons or Louisville, Ky, during the past week. there were twenty-two members receiv- ed on profession of faith and two by letter.
 At four o'clock yesterday afternoon MT. Vogt addressed the members of the Junior Society, together with a large congregation of the parents and friends of the Juniors" -
 MT Vogt was especially strong in his address as he is deeply interested Tn the Junior" part of the "Endeavor work and believes that there are great possibilities in this especial branch of Christian work.
 The evening service and the last meeting of the Endeavorers was the largest congregation of the convention the auditorium of the Central Church and the Sunday school room being fill ed to their capacity.
 Mr. Vogt, after the devotional exer- cises, took charge of the meeting ana delivered an address in which he touch ed only on the vital principles embod- jed in his topic-"No Impresson With out Expressions," and his strong plea was for the organizing of young people for work, as the church organization is the machine necessary to make church leaders and church workers.
 MT. vogt said he advocated Do "So- cieties." He said aid societies and all those other societies are all right. but the best societies are those where sys- tematic Christian habits are taught, where a boy and a girl arc given a chance to go to work, to do something.
 He said that statistics show that six out of every ten boys who are Sunday school attendants, fail to become church members, and to counteract this deplorable state of affairs, he made strong plea for a better church ma chinery, for a more practical and busi- ness like basis of operation of the church officials, and a better method of dealing with the youth of the church, contending strongly, that the young business men of the church study the business of the church as they would their secular business. That being members is not sufficient-for faith without work is dead.'
 Work of General Omcers.
 MT. Vogt spoke interestingly of the work of the general office at Boston.
 He said that in the past twenty-five years the home office had employed graphers, etc; had sen tout millions of circulars and other miscellaneous Christian Endeavor literature, and had never asked one penny from a mem Der of the association.
 The President. Dr. Clarke. and the Treasurer, MT. Shaw. had with their brains and hands financed the busi% ness affairs of the Union and that any business man who understood could not but acknowledge it a remarkable piece of financial engineering.
 The business of the home office has greatly increased and as Dr. Clarke is away so much and the General Sec retary, MT. Vogt, is practically away from the office all the time one more officer is needed-so the Home office requests that each member of the So- ciety, (and there are 4.500 Societies in the United States) give one penny for each year of the Society, (twenty-fve). this fund to be used for the building of a modest Home for the Union.
 The proceeds from the rents of of- fees and rooms be used to further the work abroad, for new publications and for maintaining one more officer.
 The convention closed with snort conservation service conducted by MT. Vogt, after which 'Mizpah" was sung by the congregation.
 On April 19. 1907. the next annual meeting of the Alabama Christian En- deavor Union will be held in the Gov ernment Street Presbyterian Church at Mobile.