The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-07-11

Seattle, Wash, July 1.-THE TWEEN
ty-third International Christian En-
deavor Convention met in this city
yesterday afternoon in its first ses-
sion. Thousands are present from all
over the world, and the city is crowd
ed. The convention was addressed
by President Francis c. Clark last
night, and the following message
from President Roosevelt was read:
The White House, Washington
My Dear Mr.. Shaw: 1 thank you
for your letter. Thru you l wish to
extend to the International Christian
Endeavor my heartiest good wishes
Let me in particular express my earn
est hope that you will emphasize as
one of the features of your convention
the need that the Endeavorers should
take a first rank in good citizenship.
l am glad you are to endeavor to
fore this meeting.
1t will be pleasure to accept homo
rary membership in your Christian En-
deavor Patriots League, for am sure
that with the general purposes and ef-
forts of that League 1 shall have the
heartiest sympathy, tho of course I
could not commit myself in advance
to agree with all of their views with
out knowing them.
l wish you God-speed in your work
because the Christian Endeavorers
are working for things that are vi
tai to the soul, and 1 believe that they
can do much that is of the very great
est value to the cause of good citizen
ship; for in the last analysis the fun
damental requisite of good citizenship
from the standpoint of the country is
that a man should have the very quail
tiles which make him of real value in
the home, in the church, in all the
higher relationships of life
Faithfully yours
Theodore Roosevelt.
Report of Secretary Shaw.
The biennial report of the general
secretary, William Shaw, shows that
great progress has been made by
Christian Endeavor His report fol
lows:
In presenting this my first report
as General Secretary of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor. can
not help contrasting the present nigh
ty movement of more than sixty-nine
thousand societies and nearly three
and a half million members, in more
than sixty evangelical denominations,
on every continent, its literature
printed in eighty languages. its mani
fold activities touching every depart
ment of life.-business, social, civic.
intellectual, moral and SPIRITUAL with
the little group of forty-eight strug-
Cling societies that were in existence
when 1 Joined the ranks of Christian
Endeavor.
/ rejoice that / have lived to see
Christian enter upon its Sec
ond quarter OF a century larger in
numbers, stronger in organization.
broader in its range of practical acti-
vities, and deeper in spirit than ever
before in its history.
Some Figures.
shall not trouble you with a state.
ment of the the thousands of miles
travelled by your secretary, the tens
of thousands of patient hearers add
ressed, the scores of thousands OF
letters and circulars mailed and the
millions of pages Of printed matter
circulated since our last convention.
My loved and honored predecessor
as General Secretary. Mr.. Won Ogden
vogt, reported at the Baltimore Con
vention 66.772 societies in all the
world. 1t is my privilege to report the
present net enrolment of 69,13S socie
ties, net gain OF 1856 societies. Oi
these 47,761 are Young Peoples, 2,265
are intermediates. 1S.947 are Juniors
and the rest are Floating societies
and other classes. with a total member
ship OF 3. 45e. .s00
From reports received from the SO
cieties I'm this country we learn thai
167 sos members have united with the
churches during the past year. A res
sonable estimate for all the societies
for the two years would ibe 4zs.sss O