Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-11-14
Endeavor Service
for Prisoners and
Fresh Air Homes

The field secretary of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, Karl
Behmann, writing of the work of en-
deavor members in hospitals and
prisons. says that $4,000 men, women
and children in these hospitals Of tho
land are giving service, many are
helped at fresh-air homes, and others
at lighthouses and lightships along
the Atlantic Coast, by gifts of Bibles,
books and magazines. Speaking Of
the service Of endeavorers in prisons,
DR.. e. A. Fredenhagen. of Kansas
City, national superintendent of the
Society for the Friendless, says:
1.-THE Christian Endeavor Society is
successful in penal institutions from
the larger prison to the small jail.
One of the best examples of the Sue
cessful society may be found in the
State penitentiary at Lansing, Kan.
Organized with seventy -eight MEM
bers, 1t has grown to 225 members.
There are strong societies in the
prisons at ST. Cloud, MINI, and Bis
mark, N. ID. The triumph of all is
the success of a society in short
term institution. This is in the mu-
nicipal farm for the Kansas City
misdemeanants, located at Leeds,
Mo. There were eighty conversions in
the first meeting of this society. Men
behind prison bars love their Chris
tiafi Endeavor Society, which they
consider their own, as II is self-gov-
erning."
Endeavorers of Texas, Washington,
California, New Mexico, Alabama,
Tennessee. Georgia, North Carolina
New York and many other States are
doing service for the man behind the
bars-in going to him with the gospel
message, a. word of cheer. wholesome
reading matter and, best of all, a
helping hand as he comes back into
the world to make his place in So
ciety again.
Kentucky leads the world in its
Chistian Endeavor work in prisons.
Under the efficient leadership OF Miss
Georgia Dunn, Mrs. Mary Day and
their associates.
A boy, a feudist from the noun
taips of Kentucky, was sent to the
Frankfort prison. He told Mrs.
Day. the Endeavor worker OF the
prison, quite boastfully, that he
came to prison for helping TO kill
two neighbor boys. and had two
more to KILL When she tried to
reason with him about it he said,
killed four OF my fathers brothers
years ago, and I promised father on
his deathbed to see that this debt
was paid" When this boy was
asked il he could read .or write. he
said, mo, ma'am; don't know
nothing: L amt never had no
chance" He was supplied books
and writing material; his progress
was wonderful; he became most
efficient, faithful worker In the
Christian Endeavor society. ana
after nearly nine years In prison ne
was hardened. He went to an ad-
Joining State, worked all day and
went TO school at night, later TO
college, and finally was ordained
Baptist minister.
IN hosnital service Christian endea-
yor members hold meetings on sun
day afternoons. This includes as well
orphans asylums. soldiers homes
and old peoples homes. Tney write
messages for those too feeble to do
so. and send them souvenir postais
and remember them in other ways.
The Chicago Endeavorers maintain
the most effective hospital work that
Is done. A hospital missionary Is en-
ployed by tho Chicago Christian En-
deavor Union. He gives all of his
time going In and out among the
patients In the hospitals. Beside hos
pital and fresh air work in the SER
vice to the seamen.
There are sturdy, lonely men and
women in at least thirty-hve light
houses and light vessels along our
Atlantic coast line that thank God
for Christian endeavorers VINO re-
member them in their loneliness.
Once a week g. package of news
papers, magazines. books, Bibles, Tes-
'taments, and often cordial letter
find their way to these faithful watch
men who guard the ships that pass
in the night" along our shores; their
lights warn OF the hidden rock and
shoals beneath the dashing waves.