The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.


One is overpowered with awe as he
attempts to conceive of the results
that would follow q general obedience
of Christ's commands about unselnsh-
ness. Imagine what would happen in
your own home, in your church,
every member were not to please him.
self. Consider the tremendous pow
er that this one Christian EndeaVor
Society would WELD to say nothing
of the worldwide movement, If only
each Individual Endeavorer were to
commence to be unselhsh, and to lose
his life in Christlike sacrifice! me
world has never seen such wonderful
times as would follow The greatest
revival of the ages would be upon us.
The pledge very distinctly enjoins,
| in certain specific clauses, as We'll as
| deavorers should be actively loyal to
their own church If you are not a
better church member because you are
| a Christian Endeayorer you have not
kept your pledge.
The pledge applies to each Christian
Endeavor society as whole, as wen
as to it's individual members. What
| has the whatever" meant TO you as d
society? Has it set you to using good
literature more, or to visiting the sick,
or to holding meetings WITH the pris-
oners, or to sending comfort to the
hospitals or to the carrying of the
gospel to the unchurched of your
neighborhood, or to making com1ort
bags for the sailors, or to canvass1ng
the neighborhood in behalf of your
church and pastor, or to providing
ushers for the church services, or to
taking up aggressively the supJect OF
home and foreign missions, or 10 IN
augurating demonstrat1onai sluo 1IS1s N N
or out of your prayer meeting There
are a score of such services into whlch
YOU should be thrust by the pledge
impeIling "whatever."
The IsraeIites were very prompt and
Lord hath spoken will we do Bu'
they did not do it. Not many days
after the utterance of this mlgntS
vow the children of Israel were MAX
ing unto themselves golden calf. Ii
like manner are Endeavorers In danger
of turning from their covenant to DIS
obedience and worldliness.
The motto of the Christian Endeav.
or Society is the declaration o.
Christ: mot to be ministered unto
| but to minister" We run over th'
words blithely and with much salts
faction. But have we of the Christian
| Endeavor host learned the meaning o.
| this tremendous Watchword? Conceive
/ if you can, of more than three million
| of young persons putting into pract1c'
| the teaching of self-surrender and ser
vice! The power exerted would b
| greater than the power of all tn
preaching of all the worlds pulpits
| The whole earth would be sweetene'
and purified and made more divine
Best of all, thousands, aye millions, o
people would be led to the foot of tn
III cross wherein Jesus Christ completes
his sacrifice of self-surrender.
II Full benches of a Christian Endeav
III or prayer meeting. and empty pew
II at a church prayer meeting betoke
II a society that is not full of the tru
III Christian Endeavor spirit.
II We may serve Christ by serving tn
II church. 1t is possible for US to ru
III too far afield in search of work fo
III the Master when right at hand in GU
II own churches there are pressing an
III important duties awaiting us. Their
III is something radically wrong with tn
III Christian Endeavor principles of til
- young person who is active and prom