New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-05-31
FOUNDER TELLS STORY Of
CHRISTIAN ENDEAYORERS

Alaska, where today the Endeavorers
endure day Of twenty-four hours
without the sun, to 1nvercargill, at the
southern tip of New Zealand, where
they rejoice in twenty-four hours Of
daylight; from America due west across
Asia, across Africa, across Europe,
back to America, though we should
lose and gain again twenty-four hours
In our reckoning of time, we should
not lose sight of our Christian Endeav.
or comrades.
Social Life Then and Now.
"Thirty years ago there were few
social functions arranged distinctly for
the young people. Now the young peo-
pies social Is distinct and almost
universal method Of interesting them
in the life and work Of the church, and
the ingenuity of some hundreds Of
thousands of Christian young people
on the social committees is taxed to
provide wholesome entertainment and
recreation under the auspices Of the
church.
"Thirty years ago we were in the
age Of impression so far as the young
people were concerned. The Sunday
school was managed by the older peo-
pie, as it is now and from its very
nature must always be, for it is the
most valuable of all agencies Of reli.
gious impression. Older people man
aged the temperance society. They con-
trolled the missionary society, they led
the music, they furnished the flowers
for the pulpit when any were seen,
and it was hardly thought fitting for
a boy or young man to pass con-
tribution box or show stranger to q
seat.
"Now we live in the age not only Of
impression, but Of expression, when
young people are taught that the i'm
preston made by teachers and books
is largely lost unless expressed by
them in words and deeds. This is a
fundamental principle Of the new psy-
chology, Of which the Christian En-
deavor society is a practical exemplar.
From PARKWAY Lands.
"Only the other day letter reached
me from distant Marsovan, in the in
terror Of Turkey, telling how the En-
deavorers cultivated their own flower
gardens that their church might be
decorated, and another from India.
telling how the dusky Endeavorers
there beautified the church lawn and
rescued the adjoining graveyard from
the weeds Of neglect.
"Thirty years ago there were Sea-
mems Friend societies, but no work
for sailors by the young people of our
churches. Now there are floating so
cieties Of Christian Endeavor among
the boys on the sea on many ironclads
and merchant vessels, and In conse-
quence an intense interest in them has
been aroused among the boys of the
shore.
Thirty years ago few young people
out of prison gave thought to the
tens of thousands Of young men be-
hind prison bars. Now the thousands
Of prisoners who have been converted
to Christ and organized into societies
through the efforts Of their Endeavor
friends outside appeal most strongly
to the warm hearts of our youth, and
the fact that no prison Endeavorer is
recorded as returning to prison when
once discharged is tribute to the
sincerity of their conversion and to
the sympathy of their friends outside,
who have helped them to forget the
past and to begin q new career.
Thirty years ago there were no
newspapers or magazines devoted to
the religious life of the young people
save few story papers for children,
which were given away in the Sun
day school. Now there are some forty
national and state papers in half asI
many languages, devoted to the work
Of Christian Endeavor alone"