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YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES
PRAISE GOD!
M , Nov. 20. Praise God for Health. Exod. 15 '23-27.
T., Nov. 21. For prosperity. Ps. 65:1-13.
W., Nov. 22. For harvests. Gen. 8:15-22.
T.. Nov. 23. For friends. Prov. 17:17.
F., Nov. 24. For sanity. 2 Tim. 1:1-7
S.t Nov. 25. For His itoodnes* Ps. 103:1-13.
S., Nov. 26. Topic ? Pariso God! Ps. 145:1-21.
(ThanksnivinK meeting.)
How dor* God tri?A to he praised?
H'Aat Neningi hare xpe to be tahnkful for ? Why"!
How does Thanktffirino imply our dependence and our
ttevcardship?
Praise God for Health, Ex. 15:23
27. For sickness and disease God
provides remedies. He gives us med
icines and doctors to show us how to
use them, when we get sick. Sick
ness is due to the violation of God's
rules of health, either by ourselves
or by others. We may have sickness
or poor health because of what we
do ourselves, or it may come because
of what some one else does. The
mother may, and often does, make
her child sick by giving it improper
food. We can make ourselves sick by
eating improper food, or by eating
too much. Let us thank God that
there is a remedy for us, when we get
sick, if we will make the proper efTort
to And it.
Praise for Prosperity, Ps. 65. The
Psalmist shows that the prosperity
that we enjoy comes to us from God,
and that it is bestowed upon us be
cause of God's concern for us. A
great many people go to God In
prayer, when they are in need, but
forget to praise Him in their times
of prosperity. When the storms are
beating upon them they go to God for
protection, but when the sun is shin
ing they fail to thank God.
Praise for Harvests, Gen. 8:15-22.
When Noah came out of the ark, one
of the first things that he did was to
erect an altar and offer upon it a
sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving
to God for having saved him and his
family. God promised him blessings
of harvests through all the coming
years. When he looks out upon the
fields where his crops are growing,
he is very apt to say, "See what 1
have raised," when he ought to say,
"See what God has given me, and for
which I thank Him most heartily."
So it should be with all of our bless
ings.
Praise for Friends, Prov. 17:17:
No one is to be more pitied than tho
man without a friend. We do not
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usually stop to think what a friend
is worth. God puts people all about
us who will be our friends, if we will
let them. But if we would have
friends, we must show ourselves
friendly. If we will in some unself
ish way show ourselves friendly to
another, he will almost certainly be
come a friend to us. Let us pray for
our friends, that God may bless them,
that we may be better friends, and
thank God for the friends He has given
us.
Praiso for Sanity, 2 Tim. 1:1-7. It
was noticed that an old preacher in
almost every prayer thanked God that
he and his people had sound minds.
Some wondered why he offered this
prayer of thanksgiving so often, until
it was learned that in his younger
days for a time he had lost his mind
and spent some time in an asylum
Can you think of any greater loss
that we could have than that of our
minds? Then let us thank God heart
ily for our sound minds.
Praiso for His Goodness, Ps. 103:
1-13. God's goodness is shown to us
in so many ways. He forgives us for
our sins and heals body and soul.
He redeems our souls and heaps upon
us His loving kindness. He supplies
our necessities. He is just to us In
all of His dealings with us. He
shows us how He wants us to go
and shows us mercy, which is so great
that no one can measure it. He re
moves our sins and shows us the lov
ing sympathy of a gracious Father.
Let us call upon our souls and all
that is within us to praise Him for
all of His goodness.
Prai?e God! Ps. 145. When wo
stop to think about the innumerable
blessings God is continually bestow
ing upon us, we ought to praise Him
continually. At the Thanksgiving sea
son our thoughts are turned toward
God in thanksgiving. But we would
not be satisfied if God's blessings
were bestowed upon us only once a
year. So let us not be satisfied to
thank Him once a year, or once a
week, or once a day; but whenever
we receive a blessing let our hearts
go up to God in praise and thanks
giving at once. We can show our
thankfulness by our prayers, by the
lives that we live, and by the work
we do for God.
SUGGESTED PROGRAM.
The Lord's Prayer.
Hymn: "Come, Thou Almighty King."
Prayer for God's blessing on this
meeting.
Hymn: "We Praise Thee, 0 God, for
the Son of Thy Lovo."
Daily topics assigned to seven.
Hymn.
History of Thanksgiving Day.
Meaning of Thanksgiving Day.
How Ought Thanksgiving Day to Be
Celebrated?
What Has Our Society to Be Thank
ful For?
Call upon individuals to mention some
one thing that tfiey are special
ly thankful for.
Hymn.
Sentence Prayers.
Prayer of Thanksgiving.
SENTENCE PRAYERS.
Father, we pray for Thy blessing
upon our meeting. May it be a help
to every one of us.
O Ood, we thank Thee for the !!*?
that Thou hast given us, and for all
that Thou have given to make our
lives pleasant to us.
We thank Thee, Father, for the
health that Thou hast given us, and
pray that Thou wilt heal any of our
members or friends who are sick.
Father, we thank Thee for the rich
harvests Thou hast given to our coun
try and for all of its prosperity.
O Holy Spirit, we pray Thee that
Thou will teach us to use in the best
way all the blessings we have re
ceived.
O Saviour, we thank Thee above all
for the great blessing of Thy salva
tion, and we pray that as we enjoy
it ourselves, we may learn how to
share it with others.
FIRST CHURCH, LEXINGTON, KY.
The Christian Endeavor Society has
elected and installed the following of
ficers: President, Hughes Hamilton;
Vice-President, Miss Elizabeth Lilly;
Recording Secretary, Miss Helen Mo
Gurk; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Fannie Summers Tarlton; Treasurer.
Henry Stephens. The society is do
ing a splendid work for our young
people.
POTOMAC PRESBYTERY CONFER
ENCE.
On Saturday, October 7, there was
held in the Central Presbyterian
Church an all-day conference of the
Young People of Potomac Presbytery.
This was the first conference of the
kind to be held in this Presbytery,
and was most encouraging in every
way. In spite of the rainy weather
there were more than 125 young peo
ple enrolled, eighty-four being from
out of the city. Dr. William Cum
ming. Evangelist of Potomac Presby
tery, who has much at heart the work
among the young people, was greatly
interested in this first conference, and
his presence and help were greatly
appreciated. The program was prin
cipally in the hands or the young peo
ple themselves; and it was an inspir
ration to see the splendid spirit that
prevailed, as evidenced by the several
talks, which showed not only earnest
ness and enthusiasm, but also a famil
iarity with the work of the church
which promises well for the future.
A box luncheon had been brought by
the delegates and was served by the
ladies of the church, who added to
the menu hot coffee, ice cream and
cake. The program was closed by a
very effective presentation by some of
the young people under the direction
of the Secretary of Young People's
Work, of a missionary pageant. The
meeting adjourned about 4 o'clock,
and the feeling seemed to be unani
mous that a conference of this sort
should be an annual feature in the
Presbytery of Potomac.
GREENBRIER PRESBYTERY
YOUNG PEOPIjE'8 CONFERENCE.
Some eighty-six young people repre
senting eleven of the churches of
Greenbrier Presbytery, met in the
Beckley Presbyterian Church Friday,
October 27th, for their third annual
conference. It seemed to be the con
census of opinion that it was a good
conference. The special features of
the program were devotional and mis
sionary programs in charge of cer
tain delegations, conference period#
for the discussion of C. E. and Organ
ized Class Methods, under the direc
tion of Miss Charlotte Persinger, of
Charleston. Bible study lead by Mrs.
R. F. Dunlap, of Hinton, a Home Mis
sion talk by MTss Bess Lapsley, and
a closing address #by Rev. W. W.
Pharr, of Mt. Hope. The evening
session was given over to a model
young people's social at the home of
Mr. McTaggart. Miss Virginia Miller
of Alderson, was elected president;
Hubert Ervin, of Ronceverte, vice
president, and Miss Margaret Cowan,
of Hinton, secretary. Steps were
taken to effect a more efficient or
ganization of th* vonn?r "ponle of tfc*
Presbytery. The conference next year
will go to the Old Stone Church, Lew
isburg.
WEST FLORIDA C. E. CONVENTION.
The West Florida District, Chris
tian Endeavor Convention, has
been in session in the Knox
Church, Jacksonville, with a large at
tendance of delegates and visitor^.
The Convention had as the leading
speaker Mr. Carl Matthews, the secre
tary of Christian Endeavor for Flor
ida, who gave a number of inspiring
lectures. There were a number of
"Life Service" volunteers on the clos
ing evening, Sunday, October 22, and
the delegates left Monday for- .their
homes feeling that it was one of the
best Conventions ever held in the dis
trict.
CENTRA 1/ CHURCH, OKLAHOMA
CITY.
The Young People's work of this
church is very wide awake. Recently
the entire Senior Society adjourned
their own evening meeting and drove
twenty-flve miles into the country, es
tablished a new society near McCloud,
and then held a meeting, as a sort or
model, for them. It is highly grati
fying to find the society filled with
such a missionary spirit. They have
visited other societies for the same
purpose. Their president, H. T. Tu
multy, was elected president of the
Oklahoma District in the C. E. work.
TENNESSEE PROGRESSING.
By C. F. Evans, Southern Secretary,
United Society of Christian
EndeaVor.
With almost 800 registered dele
gates and more than 400 out-of-town
delegates, Tennessee held her twenty
eighth convention in Knoxville, Octo
ber 12th-l 5th, with 500 people pres
ent on the opening nig^t.
The Knoxville Endeavorers pro
vided full free entertainment, caring
for the delegates in private homes for
lodging and breakfast, and served
lunch and dinner in the convention
church.
The convention theme, "In All
Things Christ," was constantly before
the convention in a beautiful trans*
parency immediately over the speak
er's stand. The State colors of purple
and gold were carried out in the dec
orations, which attracted favorable
comments from the entire convention.
The program was unusually well ar
raged, and allowed for five simulta
neous conferences of forty-five minutes
each, in addition to the general work
which was placed before the entire
convention.
Tennessee made an unusual record
in the number of trained leaders who
served in the convention, among
whom were Clarence Hamilton, Field
Secretary of the United 8ociety of
Christian Endeavor; F. L. Fleet, Gen
eral Secretary of Ohio; B. G. Jones,
Field Secretary of Tennessee; F. P.
Wilson, Field Secretary of North Car
olina and Virginia; Miss Mamie Gene
Cole, All-South Junior Field Secretary,
and Southern Secretary Evans. As
sisting these were the State officers.
The devotionals were handled by Dr.
D. A. Dobbs, of Nashville, Tenn.
An outstanding feature of the con
vention was the Junior Conference,
the Junior Convention and the Junior
Demonstration handled by Mrs. M. B.
Carter, State Junior Superintendent,
assisted by Miss Cole. At the Junior
Demonstration on Sunday afternoon
there were more than 500 people pres
ent.
Saturday afternoon the visiting del
elates were taken on a sightseeing
trip around Knoxville, and on Satur
(*?>v nlsrht there were more than 400
seated at th; banquet tables, crowd