The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Uplift and Outlook for Youth.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic for May 10:
why I Believe in Christian En-
deavor. Ill Tim. 1:1:14.
CBY WILLIAM r. ELLIS.)


cause it believes in youth. 1t is
young peoples opportunity. Because
it is for youth, of youth and by youth,
it has proved the old truth, which has
to be learned afreSh every decade,
that youth is strong and capable. AS
we grow older there is a tendency to
disparage the young Yet it is the
young who see visions, who Slay the
giants of evil, and who dare go up
against all odds for truths sake. The
conquering armies of earth have been
armies of youth. 1t needs the fire OF
the audacity of enthusiasm to right
immemoria1 wrongs, and to glimpse
the new day of humanity's welfare in
the supremacy of Christ. Only youth
dauntleSS, confident, high-Souled
youth, would dare assume the loft
obligations of the Christian Endeavor
pledge.
c. E. stands for Christian En-
thusiasm' and "Conquests Expected
and Christ Enthroned."
Whatever a great Master commands
that a great loyalty promises.
believe in Christian Endeavor be-
cause Christian EndeaVorl believes in
Christ. The more 1 see of life. the
closer / get to our days perp1exities
and problems, the clearer becomes my
conviction that the remedy for all the
needs of our time is one and simple.
namely, the person and power and
purpose of Jesus Christ the only
Teacher who can expound the TWEEN
tieth century's riddles; the only Leader
who can command the allegiance of
all the classes; and the only Redeem
who can save men from their
selfishness and their sins Christian
Endeavor links life to Christ. 1t ac-
claims Him Master, and it relies upon
His power. This great allegiance of
Christian Endeavor to its great Lord
is the sufficient explanation of the
movements great success.
When righteousness and religion be-
come a habit of life. the power of
Endeavor trains young people in the
regular obServanceS of private and
public workship. and in systematic
service of great objective.
I believe in Christian Endeavor be-
cause Christian Endeavor believes in
the Church. If we were to credit some
of the current magazine articles we
should suppose that the Church had
collapsed. and fit for nothing but the
junk heap. While the administration
of the Church is far from perfect, the
Church herself is the most widely-dis-
tr1buted, most far-reaching, and most
beneficent institution on earth. In the
Church one finds the most perfect
fraternity, the tenderest service of hu-
man needs the highest ideals and the
sincerest devotion TO the cause and
character of God. There is profound
reaSonableness in the principle which
writes on the Christian Endeavor ban
ner For the Church.
Endeavor is good. but Christian En-
deavor is better. The first word sup
plies the inspiration and the motive
power for the second. If one asks the
why OF Christian Endeavor, the an
swer is in the words of Paul. THE love
or Christ conStraineth me-
A potent school of international, in
terracial and Neutrality-suspicious.
brotherhood is Christian Endeavor,
with its members scattered all over
the earth To accentuate a young
persons identity Christian En-
deavorer is 10 stress the fact that he
is citizen of the world.
/ believe in Christian Endeavor be-
cause Christian Endeavor believe in
the Bible 1t pledges its members to
daily study of the book that Informs
and inspires and transforms. The
place and potency of the Scriptures in
our new and turbulent lines is COM
ing to be somewhat of a hobby with
me. For only therein do I find an
adequate life program Ind an ade-
quate motive power for the making
over of the social order. Most of the