Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-11
FELLOWSHIP IS
WEEKS c. f. TOPIC
DR.. Evans Roberts of Milford
Contributes His Thoughts
on the Theme.


ship | John l. II. Written by DIR.
Evans Roberts of Milford
"Thc best thing about Christian I'm
deavor is that it is Christian and that
whatever IL finds to do ~ born OF
Christian impulse 1t therefore has tend
ed To sanctfy all of life's duties and to
bless the lives OF its members. And be-
cause it is Christian it has outrun all
denominational creeds jumped over the
boundaries Of set forms and discovered
tn the religious world the essential one
ness of all christians Of all of Christ
followers II Christian fndeavor should
| end today and if all that could be sad Of
II is that 1t has brought Christss people
closer together. that it released the one
ness of his followers. 50 that better under
| standings have come andfa more sympa-
| thetic attitude towards each other IS
noticeable, il would have been eternally
worth while And when We think that
| over eighty denominations and nearly
| seventy countries have been touched by It's
| wonderful influence We are all the more
! impressed by this statement But we
| are thankful that We are not OnlY not at
' the end Of such a mighty factor III the
| Christian world but really IN Its very youth
| The work has hardly begun nor doth IT
| vet appear what we shall he, nor what We
| shall do in bringing together the spiritual
| ends OF the earth Jesus came ms hight
unto the world and II In that light VIC walk
we have fellowship one with another
| irrespective Of the place where We were
| born and no matter what our most eiier-
ished sectarian ideals may be- Jesus
| ~ the cornradr of US all and We cannot
| associate with him without at the same
| time fellowshpping with hs other DIS
1 NJ I.4Fs frff ii
| more
Next SUNDAYS topic will be written hy
| Rev John Grant Newman. pastor q
| Wvic PRESBYTERIAN Church Of Phlladcl-
| pima Dr Newman has many friends m
| Wilmington. having preached at FIRST
| Presbyterian and Vest Churches and
addressed the open air meetlnts n the
| court house lawn
Our topic this week Is fellowship. and
it is one of the foremost topics 81 the
| great war The most important fellow
ship. however. is our fellowship with God
and God $ people Westminster and many
Of our other churches by thor CHIMES.
are calling us TO prayer each day ~ twelve
O'Clock Tins Is fellowship with Cod.
because it IS through prayer We are drawn
close to Him fndravorers pray for our
bows. that Cod may protect them and
htfI1 lI'NA pun anu otl9ie
There was a great deal OF enthusiasm
shown ut the business meeting on Monday
evening, but il any Of the members think
we can improve our meetings m any way
and hesitate tn tell the executive coInmlt-
tee, then tell the press committee, because
it Is the aim Of the executive TO make the
meetings suit each and every nftnf5er
The Young women III the union arc
getting 10 the place where they are not
tinid about speaking out IN the meetings
and when they do speak they say some-
thing Say, fellows, come on, don
make the president and vlce-prealdent da
all the speaking.
Miss Wilson Of Westminster, suggested
that each society try 70 honor mother
in their local societies and churches On
Mothers Day, making 1t a day Of specla
PRAYER for the mothers and their BOYS
who have gone forth 70 fight. Also 70
have rs many mothers out to the meetings
rs possible. Our vlce-presIdent Voiced
his opinion also, stating that We would
follow ont this suggestion. Therefore
Endcavorers do not neglect 70 pay tribute
to the dearest git God has gwen Us. our
mother.
cur new secretary Of Bethany made The
suggestion that the union honor mother
and also play the part Of one by adopting
one Of the babies &cToSs the water. the
amount required 10 adopt and help keep
one Of the babies beng S36 30. Mr.
Rulph of West stated that he though.
this the best word spoken III the meeting
and was certainly in keeping with The
| suggestion that we honor the mothers
He started the hai rolling by stating
that West would contribute s.. then each
| society contributed 50 and L small voIce
| SAID Flsmcre Junior Society would give
s. and our new society {Hazel Del
also pledged 50 one OF the Young !sldies
| gave Il personal subscription OF s. aud he
union pledged slI When re counted
up We had enough to become the mother
Of two children rather than one surely
| this IN itself wsls worth meeting tor In
fact God promises where two or three are
| gathered together IN Ills uame. lie will
be with them and bless them. Is, lie
blcsScs the gilt aud the glver.
Mail these payments To Allss l.. Dlverty,
1912 " fifth street, or our treasurer
J Clifford Compton, 1910 West Sixth
street
The union Is trying to arrange to hold
patriotic meeting about. June 23. Wont
| each society make arrangements To meet
| with the union on that evening More
detailed information will be gwen later.
Us To the program, etc tut please keep
the date III mind
We are going over there. to Bethany
on June ). the trst Monday IN June
The Senior banner Was Won hv Green
hill Society and the Junior banner was
won by the FIsmere Society Let each
society start in right now and Try I'd
capture the banner next year
After our business meeting the Elsuere
society entertained very royalty They
had . fine musical program One very
interesting item on the program MAS the
singing Of Keep the Home Tires Burning
and Pack up our Troubles IN Your Olt
hit Bag ~ u number OF glrls drcaset
in the Red Cross costume. Another very
pleasing feature was 4 duet by Rev. ano
Mrs. lramer Smith Our Elsmcre
friends certainly have some very talente1
people, and their entire program VA
enjoyed by all after the program re-
freshments were served which were very
acceptable on such warm evening
Volunteers of America.
R., r. Carter from phlt3det