The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-11-01
= Christian Endeavor Work.

The subject for EndeaVor meetings
on November 10th is "World Tenn
perance.". Christian Citizenship top
les do not come but few times a
year in the list of C. E. prayer meet
ing topics; therefore it seems as if
we should make special notice of this
for November 10th.
We will quote from an address Civ
en- at Eustis convention, for Central
district, recently, by State Citizenship
Superintendent C. E. Woods, editor
of the Lake Region. Please, readers,
save this news letter and have it read
in your service November 10th.
what the world needs today is
bold, outspokenness for principle.
1t is not enough that we hold prin-
ciples in the quietude of our homes
and discuss them in the services held
by Christian co-workers, C. E. and
others.
We need a belligerent sincerity of
fundamental principles in the mart,
on the board of trade and on the
farm.
The tendency of. men in office and
men in employment is to be subser-
Went for the purpose of their own
advancement. 1t is so easy to yield
a principle to gain an increase in sal
airy, or to win the support of sway
ing party vote.
But thank God, the ranks of the
morally courageous have always
found glad and willing recruits; men
willing to spend and be spent for the
benefit of humanity; willing to be
rebels or boilers and accounted and
treated as such that they might help
gain large victories of freedom for
their fellowmen.
We sometimes think there was
more moral heroism in the days gone
by than there is today. do not be-
lieve it. In this matter of moral her
oism and rebellion against entrench-
ed wrong, we have many fine and no.
BILE examples on every hand. To
these noble hearted souls l would IA
date a tonic that is stimulating,
quickening their fibre and stiffening
to their moral spine.
To such l would come as a cold
shower bath to stimulate the nerves
and muscles to greater tension. Stand
by your truthfulness, stand by your
openness until you teach the burr
ing, crafty, stealthy, sly, evasive
creatures that openness is better than
secrecy, light better than darkness,
truth better than faulsity, candor bet
ter than craft, and an open enemy
better than secret, hypocritical foe.
In civic affairs, the great trying
out place, be willing to suffer for the
general good of mankind, of your
city, state and nation. Why wait
for war to become a hero? Why seek
to die for your country-live for it
and do a thousand times more good.
81 live to learn their story
Whoever suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And to follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd history's pag-
eS
And Times great volume make.
| live
For the cause that lacks assis-
lance,
For the wrong that needs resist
ance,
And the good that l can do!
For the future in the distance.
If all Florida Endeavorers would
live for the good that they might do,
Christian Citizenship history of our .
own corner" of the world will grow
brighter and brighter Let us take
the example of our State Christian
Citizenship leader, Mr.. Woods, in
stronger meaning for the future and
not only do good but be good in every
moral sense, either of the quiet daily
life or if some crisis comes in it. as
come they do in every life, sooner or
later. Let us do our part to make |
World Temperance" a reality in Flo
rida or wherever we have an influ-
ence. GRACE A. TOWNSEND.
October %, 1912.