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. Orville is get
ting his early.—Springfield Republi
can.
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