Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-08
VETERAN LEADER
POINTS THE WAY
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0RERS IN
CONVENTION
FEATHER ENDEAvoRER" CLARK
is PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
st. Paul Assemblage Hears President
and Secretary in Inspiring Re-
borts and Enthusiastic Pre-
dictions for Future

nights meeting OF the united society
of Christian Endeavor which began its
twenty fourth international convention
here today the delegates were welcomed
at the Auditorium by Governor john
son.
Late this evening the trustees re-
elected President Francis E. Clark.
In his annual message Rev. Francis
e. Clark, president of the United So
ciety took for his subject christian
Endeavor, 1911"
The veteran leader said in part:
Every organization that has a right
to live has a mission, clearly percelVeS
its mission and strives to fulfill its
mission.
''The mission of the Christian En-
deavor society is as plain as the sun in
the monday heavens 1t was written
in its first constitution; 1t was per
ceived by its earliest members; 1t mas
been acknowledged by the churches
throughout the world; it has been al
firmed and established by the proVl-
Dental history of more than twenty
eight years.
''That mission is to be the training
school of the church.
This training is along four great
lines they might be called the tour
major courses of Christian Endeavor-
the expression of the Christian life in
deeds, its expression in words its eX-
preston in loyalty and its expression
in fellowship.
"The boy who goes to college indi-
Gates his desire for an education Ire
courses that he takes largely determine
his future life. The boy who joins the
Christian Endeavor society indicates
his desire for a practical Christian edu-
cation, and the thorOughness with
which he takes its courses will largely
determine his usefulness in the king
dom of God.
"christian EndeaVor, 1911"
1--WE meet on this seventh day of July,
1909 in an all-American conclave.
Canada, the United States, Mexico, are
together in Endeavor convention as
sembled Two years from now, in 1911,
God willing, we will meet in another
similar convention in some city of this
broad continent.
In two years Christian Endeavor
will be thirty years old. Then it will
have attained the ripper years of early
maturity.
1--WE may well fix our eyes on that
date and make our thirtieth year
landmark in our history.
1--WE mean by Christian Endeayor, |
1911" better, bigger, buster Christian
Endeavor movement in 1911
1--WE mean better prayer meetings
better committees, better unions, better
GOHN6lllOilSs lcl SCI SONlSNACS anu AAACt
of them; larger unions and more of
them; we mean that we shall all be
buster about the Masters business.
Here, my friends, are our great
fields for growth and usefulness; the
Young Peoples society in all its i'm
portant classes of membership, active,
associate and honorary; the Junior
society; the intermediate society; the
Senior society.
ITO make our aim still more definite,
let us set our mark for the next two
years at three thousand new Young
Peoples societies; three thousand new
Junior societies; two thousand new
Intermediate societies; two thousand
new Senior societies; ten thousand new
societies in all.
Asks for Volunteers
"Who will join me in this campaign
for more societies and larger societies
and better societies, for larger and
better prayer meetings, for more
Christians and better Christians?
FWho will join me in this campaign
for church and native land, for God
and every land, for Christian EndeaVor
1911 ?"
The biennial report of William Shaw,
new societies, with membership OF
"a 200, had been added to the society
in the last two years. In his report
he said further
"The theme of this great convention
THY Kingdom Come Is the Keynote
of Christian Endeayor.
For two years, or since our Iast
report more than threescOre and ten
thousand societies and three and
half million members have been pray
ing and laboring to that end.
1--WE are here tonight to review IN
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these years
zach year, with the steady multiple
cation of our own and kindred So
cieties. we feel that we have come 10
the end of any great numerical increase
In our fellowship. And still we ma
that we have not yet taken possession
of all the land.
Army Entering Church
1.-THE growth Of our young people IN
spiritual life, which must precede ana
yitalize all real service, is shown by the
large increase in the Comrades of the
Quiet Hour. The number of those who
have covenanted TO spend a few min
ltes each day in quiet communion with
God through prayer and the Word IS
now 4S.561. .-.
that win come to the church of the
future. by reason of the introduction
Of this element into the lives of the
vOuug peOple, who would otherwise p''
overwhelmed by the materialism OF the
day. .-,,...,.
unon the spiritual side of life during
+be mast two years a great army or
youth has passed through the ranks OF
Chrjssian FndeaVor into the church.
"Euually encouraging has been the
steady growth Of the Tenth Legion,
which now numbers 25,77S persons who
have couselr8ted and set apart ar
least lie tenth of their income for the
work of the kingdom i'm all the world.
"When the majority of our church
members take the matter Of giving out
of the realm of the emotions, and make
II a matter Of principle, then, and not
till then, shall We solve the problem
pf adequate financial support for our
church and missionary enterprises.
But more important ana era tifying
than the growth in members is the rec
prd of service rendered by our sOcie-
ties and unions during the past two
years.
1T is impossible even TO name the
Sifferent forms of service undertaken
DIV our societies. They cover the whole
held of social, civic, phianthropic and
religious work.
Genuine Democracy
"The spirit of Christian Endeavor is |
hat of genuine democracy. We believe
n working with others as we'll as for
hem. Glass and caste must go; and
he Christ standard OF service and sac
ifce for the Individual denomination,
ind nation must be accepted.
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