The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-11-07

! Los Angeles county, Cal, seldom has
! ton; Middlesex county, Mass, had
/ 2,406 at its convention this year. The
! twenty-seventh international and fifth
worlds convention is to be held in
| Chicago July 7-12, 1915.
| Because this work is world wide in
its character the time came when it
! was necessary that some one man
| should give all of his time to the work,
| travelling from state to state, province
| to province and country to country.
There were no funds available for this
work from which to employ worker;
! but Twenty-Five years ago Francis E.
| Clark gave up the pastorate of the
Phillips Congregational church, Bos-
ton, where he had gone from Portland,
and through all these years he has
given himself to this work. without
one penny of salary from the Chris
tian EndeavOr movement Doctor
Clark has earned his own living by
the use of his pen, the books he has
written, and the special articles for
magazines and newspapers. Not only
has Doctor Clark earned his own sal
airy thus, but he has paid practically
all of his own salary, steamship and
hotel bills, as he has Travelled in for
eign countries for Christian Endeavor
Doctor Clark has gone five times
around the world, and many times to
Europe and Great Britain. There is
no country in which he has not trav-
eled and spoken for Christian En-
deavor. 1t is estimated that he has
travelled at least -S25, 900 miles-325, 900
miles of this by water, 435,OOO miles
by rail, and fully $4,000 by wagon
horseback, camel, in jinrikishas, in
| rfian-carried hammocks, etc. He has
addressed at least 100000 people; he
has been in the midst of danger by
land and by sea, in religious riots, in
earthquakes, tornadoes. cyclones, bliz-
yards, shipwreck. train wreck and a
score Of similar catastrophes.
Doctor Clark has been received by
presidents of the United States, of
Panama, Peru, Argentine, Brazil, the
kings of Norway, Sweden, Greece, the
mikado of Japan and scores Of other
celebrities. There is no American citi-
zen who has been more greatly hon
ored, and there is no more modest
citizen anywhere.
Christian Endeavorers have decided
that they wish to build a memorial
for Doctor Clark in appreciation of the
many years OF service for the cause,
and they don't want to wait until he
Is dead to do it. They want to bring
roses to him while he is alive. The
matter was fully considered, and it
seemed to all that the wisest and most
substantial thing to do was to erect
building which should be the inter
national Christian Endeavor headQuar-
tiers. The plan calls for a five-story
building, two stories OF which shall be
used for the Offices of the movement,
and thus save the $4,000 a year that
is now paid in rents for that purpose,
and three stories Of the building to be
rented to provide an income for the
extension Of the movement in this
and other lands. This, with the profits
Of the publishing department, which
has paid all of the expenses of the
work In North America for more than
twenty-five years, will be sufficient to
permanently finance the worldwide
work of this movement.
This headquarters building Is to
cost, when complete, including lot and
furnishings, 100000. One-half of this
amount has been raised, and it is
the purpose Of the society to raise the
last s150,00O by November of this year.
A continent-wide campaign is being or
ganized, and will be waged this fall.
Every former Endeavorer, as well as
present member of the society, will
be urged to have some part in this
matter, which will mean so much to
the worldwide work of this great So
ciety, and will be fitting testimonial
OF their appreciation of the great work