Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17
Work of Endeavor
Societies on the
Sea and in Port
Members of the Floating De-
partment on Warships and
Their Achievements.

What is called the Floating Depart
ment of the Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY. is composed of those members
who are on war vessels, merchant
marine service, or forts on the ATTAIN
tic and Pacific and on the Great
Lakes. On the subject OF Christian
Endeavor work on battleships and
other classes of war vessels A. G.
Fegert, religious editor of the Chicago
Herald, writes as follows:
On many of the warships of all the
nations now engaged in the needless
war for racial and commercial SUI
premaey there are those among the
crews who wear the Christian En-
deavor emblem. Also among the
crews on the battleships of neutral
nations are those who belong or have
belonged to a Floating Christian En-
deavor Society.
What the heavy armored steel
plates are to the boilers, magazines,
and delicate mechanisms of big war
ship Christian Endeavor is to the
character of the members of the
floating societies of Christian En-
deavor. One marine on an American
battleship who was a member of a
Floating Christian Endeavor society
said, II know what the great tempta-
lions are in a soldiers, Sailors or ma
rine's life; but they can keep away
from them IL they look to God for
help"
From the time when the first Float
ing Christian Endeavor Society was
organized on board the revenue cutter
Dexter in 1890 to the present time the
members have been inspired to better
living and higher thinking.
To link the work together around
the world on ships and port with port,
the Worlds Floating Christian En-
deavor Union was organized in 1908,
which Is a constituent part of the
Worlds Christian Endeavor Union.
Miss Antoinette Palmer Jones, of
Falmouth, Mass, who helped to or
ganize the first Floating Christian
Endeavor Society in 1890 Is the presi-
dent.
Speaking of the work on battleships,
Miss Jones recently said: 1.-THE results
of nearly twenty-five years cannot be
tabulated Among the things that
stand out prominently In connection
with the work on battleships are the
following:
THE Floating Society OF Christian
Endeavor on the old u. S. S. Charles
ton was instrumental In founding the
Christian Endeavor Home for Seamen
at Nagasaki, Japan, which has been
OF blessed service since 1895 to sailors
OF many nations.
Members OF the society were on
board the old u. s. S. Maine when
1t was blown up in Havana harbor,
February Is, 1893.
"A Floating Society of Christian
Endeavor went into the battle OF
Manila Bay on Dewey's flagship, the
Olympia, that memorable May L.
Carlton II. Jencks, one of the
martyrs who went down with the
Maine that awful night in February
was the man credited with the es-
tablishing of the Christian Endeavof
Home for Seamen at Nagasaki, ia
pan.
The inspiration which Albert Mar
quardt got as the corresponding Sec
rotary of the Floating Christian En-
deavor Society on Dewey's flagship,
the Olympia, which led in the attack
on Manila, led him to become a mis-
sionary among the miners In Colo
RADIO. He often rides one hundred
miles on his motorcycle on Sunday to
reach his congregation.