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fct?Nl>AY, JTTLY 11. Locking Forward: “Christian endeavor—l9l!” Address of Rev. Francis E. Clark, I). D., LL. D., President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, at the Twenty-fourth Internatio nal Christian Endeavor Convention at St. Paul. HTvery organisation that has a right U II v« has a mission, clearly perceives its mission, and strives to fulfil its mis sion. Every other is worse than and the decree- has already son© forth, to be aoouer op later oarriea out, “Cut it down why eumbareth it rhe ground?" The mission of the Christian Endeav or sooiety is as plain as the sun in the noonday heavens. It was written in its 3rat constitution; it was perceived by its earliest members; it has been acknowl edged by the ohurohes throughout the world; it has been affirmed and estab lished by the providential history of more than twenty-eight years. That mission ia to be the traifflng sohool of the ohuron. This training is along four great lines: they might be called the “Four Major Courses’’ of Christian Endeavor. 1. The expression of the Christian life in deeds 2. Its expression in words. 3. Us ejqpresslon in loyalty. 4. Its expression in fellowship. The boy woo goes to college indicate* his desire for an education. The courses that lie takes largely determine hTs future life. The boy who joins the Christian Endeavor society indicates his desire for a practical Christian educa tion, and the thoroughness with wmcli he takes its course will largely determin 1 * hi 6 usefulness in the kingdom of God. An those courses in our Christian Ln deavor college in the nature of the case, and by reason of the constitution and requirements- of the human soul, are compulsory because necessary for the building up of a fully rounded, symme trical Christian character; none of them are optional. The first course, the expression of the Christian life in deeds, finds its class rooms in our many committees; the sec ond. expression in words ? is taught in our prayer meeting; the third, the ex pression of the Christian life in loyalitv, is learned in all the multifarious ser vices for the church; and the fourth, the expression of th Christian life in fellow ship. is taught in the ten thousand Christian Endeavor conventions and un ion meetings held every year throught out the world. Service. Confession, Loyalty, Fellowship. Written over all the eight and twen ty years of Christian E..eavor history are those tvoros. Blnzonea across its Sky in every land we read as we look to the future, “By these signs we con quer’.’ Then it is too plain for argument that we are fulfilling our mission as a world embracing movement just to the extent, and only to the extent, to which we es tablish our principles and enlarge our boundaries. To these great ends let us address our selves with renewed energy, devotion, and confidence in t7TS Master’s leader ship during the next two years, before we meet again in biennial convention. We meet on this seventh day of July, 1909. in an all-North-America conclave Canaoa, the United States, Mexico, are together in Bndcavoy convention assem bled. Two years from now, in 1911, God willing, we will meet in another similar convention in some city of this broad continent. In two years Christian Endeavor will ho thirty years old. Then it will have attained the rippr years of early ma turity. , We may well fix our eyes on that data, and make our thirtieth year a land mark in our history. In two years what may not be ac complished? In two years dynasties have risen and fallen. In two years nations have been born or born again, as has Turkey since last we met in International convention. In but little more than two years our Lord Himself began and ended his earth ly ministry. So I propose that we fix our eye on the future, while we labor untiringly in the present, and that wo take for our motto. “Christian Endeavor —1911” Boston citizens have taken for their rally-cry, “Boston, 1915"; and they mean thereby a better, busier, bigger, more beautiful Boston in 1916. We mean by “Christian Endeavor. 193 I,’’ a better, bigger, busier Christian Endeavor move ment in 1911. We mean better prayer meetings, bet ter commiMees, better unions, better conventions; larger societies and more of them; larger unions and more of them; we mean that we rtfia.ll all be busier about the Master’s business. There is great advantage in having a definite ideal, a target, far off perhaps, but yet within sight, at which we can aim; and I further propose that "In real izing our purpose and our motto. “Chris tion Endeavor—l9ll,” we strive for a million new members before 1911; yet, let me repeat, a million new members before 1911. Think what that may mean! Its result s trot oh into and through eternity. A million souls born into the King dom! A rmVon pairs of busy hands set at work for the Master. A million heart’s welded to the church in more loving loyalty! A millien mouths opened in confession! A million lives brought into closer fel lowship with other millions! These, in brief, are some of the mean ings of “Christian Endeavor—l9ll.’’ How to Accomplish It. It remains for us to consider how this can all be accomplished. Again I would be very r definite. As fnere are four gr- i j.i ing world-wide Christian Endeav or college, which I have already indi cated. so there are four gr*at classes in this endeavor college, which w# can amd should enlarge and improve. 1. The Young People’s Society in its active, associate, and honorary member, ship. 2. The Junior Society for the boys and girls. 3. The Intermediate Society, wherever needed, for the youths and maidens. 4. The Senior Society for graduate Endeavorers and older members of the ehnr, ii, where the principles learned in the younger societies may be carried out to the end of our days. Yeung Peoplo's Societies. Members of our Young People’s socie ties, let me speak directly to you. You have not reached the limit of your growth bj' any means. You have hitherto concentrated your attention too exclusively upon your ac tive members; the most important ele ment, to be sure, but not the only im portant element in your society. Strive iu th© two years to come for more associate members and more hon orary members, and make both of these classes count for more in your societies; give them something to do; put your associate members on appropriate com mittees; and give the regular meetings to your honorary members to conduct at least two or three fifties a year. You can if you will, on the en large both of these classes by at least fifty per cent, greatly to the advantage and enlargement as well of the active membership of your society. Junior Workers. Junior Workers, you have not by any means reached your furthest boundary, and “Christian Endeavor, 1911,” may menu great things to you. Let’ me suggest as a way of simplify ing the task and multiplying the useful ness of the Junior superintendents that a course of instruction bo prepared for Junior societies, to supplement, not to take the place of, the devotional meet ings, which should never be omitted. Why not devote half an hour each week to the Junior prayer meeting, and an hour to definite instruction in the many lines which build up a well rounded Christian character, and for which instruction tuere is no such place and opportunity as that furnished by the Junior Endeavor society? This instruction might embrace the common doctrines of Christianity, the history of the ehftrch, and the underly ing principles of morality. It might include a.so, in the series of years in which the children remain in a Junior society the specific teaching not only of temperance and missions, now partially provided for, but of good man ners and good health, of kindness and gentleness to man and beast alike, of good citizenship, and even of peace and comity between the nations. It might embrace, in summer ranfbles or auturfin outings, Christian instruc tion about God’s great universe in earth and air and sky. So infinite a variety of subjects comes within the scope of Junior Endeavor, and may lend perpetual interest and vigor to our Junior societies. The United Society during the coming years will strive to be particularly help ful to Junior superintendents along these lines. Intermediate Endeavorers. Intermediate Endeavorers, these com ing twenty-four months may, if you will, double your members. You hold a strategic position In Chris tian Endeavor. You stand between boyhood and man hood, between girlhood and womanhood, “where the brook and river meet.” The years that you influence are the decisive years. Thousands more of our larger churches need this society to bridge the gap between childhood and early maturity. Whoever undertakes this great work for adolescents may well feel that he is helping to save the nation and the church. Senior Endeavor. There is but one more branch of our work to be considered, but that is the most neglected of all the Senior depart ment of Christian Endeavor. Too. long we have allowed our older members to drift away from us fn ac tivity and sympathy; too many of them have felt, that their Christian Endeav or obligations were ended when in creasing cares or duties prevented their regular attendance at our meetings; too few of them have made their Christian Endeavor training count in the prayer meetings and activities of the older church. Let us set ourselves resolutely, dur ing the next two years, to remedy this defect. One way of doing this is by forming Senior societies whose weekly meeting shaa he the weekly prayer meeting of the church, and whose committees shall fill any gaps and till any neglected cor ner in the church garden. “Give me a pou st«V’ a place to stand, said the ancient Grecian sage, “and i will with my lever move the world. The Senior society should afford a pou sto. a standing-ground for all older friends who have had the training of Christian Endeavor, or who believe in its principles; a standing-ground, and a lever as well, with which to serve the church anu move the world. This it may and should do In many churches, and always without taking taking away a single needed member from the Young People’s society. The same person may belong to both Young People's and Senior society when need ed In both. The Midweek Prayer Meeting. How much this might mean to the midweek prayer meeting to mention but one field of activity for the Senior so cie* . The midweek church prayer meeting has fallen upon evil days. It is being given up, or lives at a “poor dying rate,” in many churches, terribly to .their lots. An evangelic*!, non.liturgical church that cannot sustain a weekly prayer meeting already has the *eeds of deaths in itself. The Christian En deavor movement, the child of the pray er meeting, may well make it one of its great objects during the next two yours through the Senior society to rejuvenate and revivify the midweek prayer meet ing. as a quarter of a century ago it rejuvenated the young people's pray<*r meeting. If it should do this, grateful pastors and churches the country over would rise up to call it blessed. Ten Thousand New Societies. Here, then, are our great fields for growth and usefulness; Th© Young Peo ple's Society in all its important classes of membership, active, associate, and honorary; the Junior society; the Inter mediate society; the Senior society. 1 To make our aim still more definite, let us set our mark for the next two years at Three thousand new Young People’s societies. Three thousands new Junior societies. Two thousand new Intermediate so cieties. Two thousand new Senior Societies. Ten thousand new societies in all. But it is equally important that the existing societies should be strengthen ed and enlarged. So far these, too, let us set up a vol untary standard which we will all try to reach. Thera are few churches where intel ligent, consecrated effort could not in crease the total number of local En deavorers by fifty per cent., counting the possible additions to he obtained through the associate, active, and hon orary membership of the Young People’s society, and through the formation and enlargement of Intermediate and Senior societies. This, allowing a reasonable percentage for deaths and removals, would give us more fhan vur million now members; indeed, it would mean a million net increase. This, then, is the reasonable, attain able ideal I set before you. We do not forget that North America is not the only continent in which Christian Endeavor has obtained a firm foothold: so into our friendly rivalry for larger and better things we will Invite our brothers and sisters of all lands; and when wo meet for our World’s conven tion in India next November in the his toric city of Agra, I will repeat those suggestions, and will ask Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia to join in one motto and one aim in this two years’ campaign. How shall we signalize this advance If God gives us the courage and per sistence to make it, as I believe He will? I would suggest three ways. L By weekly or monthly reports of the progress of the campaign in The Christian Endeavor World and other Christian Endeavor papers and publica t ions. 2. By a special “Christian Endeavor, 1011.’’ meeting of thanksgiving and re joicing at our convention two years hence. 3. By a souvenir certificate or diplo ma. worthy of a. place on the chapel wall for every society that within two years increases the present number of Its P!n deavorers In any or all of the societies T have suggested by at least fifty per cent. Not Merely a Numerical Increase. I hope that hy 1911 o«r new Interna tional Headquarters will be well on Its way to completion, a worthy monument to a great undertaking and another land mark for “Christian Endeavor— l9ll.” Rememher, I beg of you, that I am not pleading merely for a numerical Increase. I have suggested an aim and a motto, a souvenir , and a meeting of jubilant praise at the end of our campaign, sim ply to make definite and concrete a mighty, concerted, continent-wide and world-wide endeavor for the advance ment of our Master’s kingdom, for the upbuilding of hf« cause for the reviving of the social prayer-service of the church for the fulfillment of Hts petition ror unity. We can do It If we will; we must do It If we can. It la no mean or paltry or selfish atm that we have before us. It is important if religion is important. It is worthy If to geek the souls of men is a worthy quost. In it we are encouraged by Ilis prom ise “I am with you." In it we are In spired by His command to 11s os well as to the children of Isreal, “Speak unto the children of Christian Endeavor, that they go forward." We hove had our Increase Campaign before. It added thousands of societies to our ranks and hundreds of thousands to our membership, “Christian Endeavor, 1911,” brings it down to date, yes two years ahead of date; brings it to every society, and not simply to our unions; gives every on© of us a part in it, and extends it throughout the world. Who will join ma In this campaign fo r more societies and larger societies and better societies, for larger and bet ter prayer meetings, for more Christian and better Christians? Who will join me in this campaign for church and native land, Ood and every land, for “Christian Endeavor— l9ll.“ JUBT NOISEB. “Look here!” shouted the ira'te farmer. “What are yeou doing: fish ing in my lake when it’s posted?” “Aw, go on!” sneered the tough city lad. “Make a noise like a hoop and roll away.” The farmer took out his knife and cut off a section of birch. “Sonny,” be said solemnly, “I reck on yeou’d be better making a noise like a locomotive for the next few minifies.” “Like a locomotive, old cloverseed’ Why?” “Because yeou are going to bo switched." And the next moment the yells that emanated from the clump of bushes made a nofse like a Sioux Indian on the warpath. “HOODOO” OF THE AEROPLAINIST Orville Wright's “hoodoo” is getting to be talked about. Wilbur has thua far been the lucky one, having no ac cidents to mar his record as a navi gator of 'the air. But every aero planist must sooner or later have bis share of misfortune. 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Extra Special Tomorrow Only 25 Hammered Brass Jardinieres, worth from $3.50 to $4.50 Each $2.50 LEE <& WELLS CO. I Oc TABLE Decorated Bowls Plates Cups and Saucers “ Vases Bisque Figures “ Pitchers “ Pickles " Olives Spooners Creams “ Salads Nappies “ Brush Vases Mustards “ Sugars " Fern Dishes “ Mugs " Oatmeals And scores of other pieces that are worth from I A 15c to 30c, Choice...| Extra Special 100 Dozen Blue and White Japanese Kohri Tea Cups and Saucers 10c EACH 25c TABLE Decorated Salads “ Cake Plates “ Butter Dishes Sugar Dishes “ Pitchers Plates “ Figures “ Vases “ Bakers “ Sauce Boats Gravy Dishes “ Pickles * Olives n * Cups and Saucers “ Shaving Mugs “ Spittoons u ivieai uiMies u Bon Bons And many other pieces that must be seen to be appreciated. Worth from 35c to O|7 ~ 75c. Choice £o\J Extra Special 250 Dozen White Genuine China Salad Plates 60c DOZEN 810 BROAD STREET PAGE SEVEN
