The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-07-09
Discussed at Conferences Attended by
$4,000 Delegates at Fifth &zs -
tional Meeting-Seek Membe. 70,
EVERY ONE URGED TO AID
Fourteen Million Killed on Battle
fields During Last Century-Work
of Organization is Praised.
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Chicago, July 9-International
peace was considered in six great
conferences attended by over fifteen
thousand delegates at the Fifth
Worlds Christian Endeavor conven-
ton this morning. Plans were made
for securing 100000 new members
of the Christian Endeavor Peace
Union, suggested in the message from
President Francis e. Clark last night
World peace was the subject of the
address by Rev. John w. Day of Col
umbus, Ohio, in the Coliseum this
morning.
A Message of Peace.
"The message of Jesus Christ to
the world was message of peace %
said Rev. Day. "A few years ago !
stood on Michigan avenue in Chicago
as thousands of the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic marched
by. The empty sleeves-the missing
limbs-the scars and marks all told
their silent stories of the fearful
havoc of war. Then I thought of the
fourteen millions Of lives lost in the
last century upon the battlefield, Of
the billions Of dollars that were
wasted, Of the thousands of mothers
mourning for sons offered upon the
affairs Of national hatred, of wives
left to toll in earth's field alone, CT
fatherless children and broken homes,
of men taken from professional, bust
ness and social walks of life-I Won
dered if the song of the angels in
the night Of the nativity had been
forgotten and if the message of peace
proclaimed by Jesus Christ was myth
ical.
Turning from that scene and the
more modern battlefields of carnage,
to the God of Peace whom we know
is building kingdom of peace,
take courage and am more firmly
fixed in the belief that it is the duty
of every young man and woman at
this crucial period Of the worlds
life to pledge their powers to the God
of Peace to do everything one life
can for the establishment of peace in
the world"
Clark Makes Plea.
At last nights meeting, Francis
E. Clark, president of the Worlds
Fifth and. the International Twenty
seventh convention, pleaded for mis-
sionary work among Christian ma
lions for increased millions as men,
bers of the United Society of Endeav-
orers. He traced the growth of the
organization and went into consid
cradle detail, especially regarding
the growth since the last convention
five years ago at Agra, India.
He emphasized the purpose Of the
Endeavorer-to evangelize the world.
He called upon all Endeavorers as
"millionaires, not of money, but of
numbers" to ching millions, and
achieve millions in continual cru
SADIE for more members"
A Million Converts.
"The state officers, county officers
and local union officers are the gen
erals, colonies and captains who must
conduct the mobilizing and standard
ling of this great peaceful army
of evangelization," said President
Clark. Il would not take your
breath away. I am speaking words
of truth and soberness. Here is what
l ask you to achieve, in the name OF
the Master, and trusting in Him for
strength for the next two years:
"A million converts; million new
Endeavorers; a million new church
members; million new dollars for
missions; million new members OF
the peace union; ten thousand new
societies of Christian Endeavor;
twenty thousand new comrades of the
quiet hour; ten thousand new legion
aries: ten thousand new Christian
Endeavor experts and five thousand
new life-work recruits>
"This is not too large task for
the eager, earnest Endeavorers of the
World. We once before added a mil
lion new members and ten thousand
new societies in two years time.
With all the world enlisted in this
worlds convention we can undertake
this larger program in the two years
to come and with Gods help accom-
plish it,