The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Endeavor Headquarters

| tive out on a whirlwind campaign to
 complete fund of $3O000O with which to erect a headquarters building in Boston. The campaign is restricted to Endeavor-
 ers but covers the country from San
 Francisco eastward. The Rev. pr. Fran l cis E. Clark, founder of Christian En- l deavor and ever since it's head, is as- sisting with letters and literature. The | fund. not large one when compared to
 other enterprises has been long in col
 lecting. Endeavor leaders declare that | it must now be completed. Societies
 everywhere are being asked to help
 make up the sum.
 | The proposed new headquarters build I ing is to stand on Beacon Hill, Boston,
 just west of the gilt-domed State House,
 in what was John Hancock's orchard
 before the Revolutionary war. There
 are on 1t now five mansions of the old | Boston type. and into these the Chris | tian Endeavor offices have recently been moved from Fremont Temple. The $300,- l 000 covers both site and building, which later is to be headquarters for both l Christian Endeavor and Worlds Endeav- | or Union.
 1 President Clark of the United Society
 is pointing out that Endeavor headquar- 1 ters will be more than an office build
 ing, in that 1t will be school whose | pupils will be all over the world and 1 from which will be taught Christian ef- l ficiency methods. He also points out l that Christian Endeavor Is strictly re-
 ligious and spiritual in its aim and I work Work on the new headquarters
 and school building is to start the mo-
 ment the fund is in hand.
 Restoring Old Church
 l Descendants of the Pilgrims of 1920 arc
 taking some interest in the restoration
 of old St. Andrews church at Imming- ham. in Lincolnshire, England. Respond | ing to this interest in America the vicar 1 of Immingham, the Rev. w. Miller Reid, I is in this country to give information
 about the old fane and It's rebuilding. | Already it is stated that New England | family, descended from Lincolnshire i Pilgrom stock. has pledged memorial window in which will appear the figure
 of the Rt Rev Dr. Samuel Seabury of l Connecticut, the first American bishop. l It will be recalled that those who were 1 forever to be known as Pilgrims, when l first effecting start from England for 1 Holland were robbed by dishonest ship owner end that on their second at- tempt an honest but timid Dutch ship
 owner. becoming frightened at the ap- proach of enemies from Hull. sailed away with the men of the partys leaving their women and children on shore This shore. from which these future Pilgrims sailed was that of the River Humber, half a mile from old Immingham church. Indeed. 1t was the spire of old St. Andrews that was the last object seen by the departing Pilgrims, and within it's walls the deserted women and Cchildren found shelter.
 An English railway company has now built S15.000,000 docks on this historic spot. and ships leave them for ASSxx part of the world. Almost abandoned since Norman times. old birmingham Church now finds itself surrounded by 8 population of dock laborers, and att tended on Sundays by large congrega- tions of working people. The church is the same that the future Pilgrims saw in 1898. but now in a desperatA shape of i'll repair. The descendants of those who finally landed at Plymouth on Massa- chusetts bay will help English worship in 1t at the present day to put the old church into condition to use again.
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