1m and ripened into a harvest.
‘ honor or icy. Spasmodic effort is
‘ log. for in due season we uhall reap if
_ could not remember it. but she had
, in doing good: for i
' mum Christ's words. "(in yo into the
‘ .
mm m
cshuot behold the impressions. the
r: (thud. No true work done for God is
‘ .inivaln. The used you sow shall surely
‘ take root. There is no possibility” of
More lisa‘not God said ' ‘He that
‘ normal. What though you see no r04
. “the! failure. 1 have read of seeds
at cm. the conditions being changed.
. But to stay on the high level. to live
church heard the minister give this
‘ Connecticut."
. sled on through Arabia.
the coast of libido. lint the man who
i Maui-cl were found the uiincl of uni.
m and are ibc soul uncovered before
m
m all painfully
Wlhlyaapcrlauca. human-cl
m can can or that? m can,
Maura spiritual results as in
W till-t m finial. The
soul. the wall riding up .as he
.7 alone oil-stone. The artist aces
More crowing on the canvas as
W writs day by day. But-tho lpiritr
ital builder is, working with invisible
’ is. is mun; a tabrlc whose walls
M can. The spiritual artist is
mfi‘rafly in the unseen. an eye
touches of heautylic mam No. no.
"'Benol:"' for
‘lll dun wagon ‘ ‘ " Success is
you; be not discouraged: that is no
tailing in places where the conditions
woraauehaa to prevent their germin-
mos. There they have lain for years:-
it scorned hardly possible for them to
mu. But even after that long lapse
the warm sunshine and quickenlnx
rain roachlu' them. they germinated.
Chris'tian Endeavorer. the ,seed you
scatter may fall whom it will not
with” germinate. You may watch
inn; andtearfully for its growth. but.
watch in vain. But that effort is not
in Vita. in God's good time the
warmth and light of the Holy Spirit
nhall fall on that long hidden seed and
it shall spring up" and bring.r forth
fruit unto life eternal. This. then. is
the thought that gives inspiration to
enthusiasm and strength to service.
'Ye shall reap if ye faint 'not.’ Silt“
cons is sure. .
"And now. Endeavorers. as we go
down from this transliguratiou follow-
ahip and joy to the cares and tolls of
the year. i covet: for myself and for
you'll/lose inspirational forces. We
shall need them. When alone and our
counted they will be potent forces to
m as ‘stcadfast. immovable. ever
wounding in the work of the Lord.‘
Anti this is the only life that has
Manly or value. it is only by ‘paticnt
recallnuance in well doing' that we win
easy enough and cheap enough. it is
a poor life that never hinge an eagle
glance over into the promised bind.
in the clear upper air. to soar untlrlng
its an angel. to work unresting as
Christ. This is the ‘atrain of life: and
its glory as wall. Constant. patient.
Chrlatllkc effort is the great duty that
is on us. Thou. ‘lioi'us not be army
in well dolng.’ A little girl attending
mat. 'laet us not bowcary in Well do-
im faint not.’ Returning home. fillt‘
caught the idea. ‘llo ‘t you act fired
on don‘t taint
away. by and by yilu'll get your pay.‘ "
IDEAL ENDEAVOR 'WORK.
At fluid o‘clock H. ll. Spwuer. oi
Bull's Bridge. gave a very suggestive
address on "ideal Endeavor Work in
Rural Districts." He introduced his
talk by saying: .“I bring greeting
from 10,500 lllinola Endeavorsra. greet.
lugs to their brothers and sisters in
He look all the aublcctof his dis-
vlllaao over against you." Hi! said:
We find among young would in the
mailer places the idea that there is
nothing to do. That if only they were
faiths city they could find definite
work. An old legend of liid‘lii tells of
the cum of a little farm on tho bunkn
oi the Gnostic. (blamed by the right
of a diamond in the hauda of a nun-
dorlaa' priest. be sold his little from
and with the proceeds started to the
westward. where no had heard the
nucleus stones were found. lie trav-
over into
m. until at last. hobbies: and
hurtbrolisu. bu drowned him-if on
mm his little farm. leading his
(that to water one day. can in the
it thunder of till precious stones
under the farm at the hopeless
my. lid to lllf! young people who
fold that at home there is nothing to
till. i brim the inn-an of untold
iii of opportunity. if they will but
.cyaa.‘ .
‘ var writ in rural. diatricni
"id um um claim: First. to
outsiders. mood. to help In
places: third. to marathon the
All thenuhonld be for the ll .
. mtuochuacuav
that-ills ludaavor moiety my be
How of the social life of the
hm“
' ‘toward‘hlaiiortw if
. may one :W
ass-lea which" have pivo-
niicdselosa. accumulators var
sibiiltiea. Simple refreshments might
elaborate todraw away the would or
time of the. facsi- interacted. As. the
acquaintance deepens you used not
fear to bring up each questions actual
vi question. it seems to me. in New
Eu: d. cider drinking.
Cousin; back into this part of the
world. there is no one thin: which
impresses me so strongly as an alien.
lute curas toour country about: as
this. Let no uncertain sound so out
in regard to it. and it will carry in in:
train the thought of even selling an-
ples for the making of older or brandy.
Iliad many uneasy consciences on this
point and also on the remnant to-
bacco. The Christian conscience is
still in exiatence. (live it a chance to
work and it will be heard from. i be-
lieve. in thesodirectlons. To Work up
these meetings. call on the neighbors:
not in your act alone. but on all.
For the second point, let me sun'-
gest the multiplication of meetings in‘
the schoolhouse in those districts
where there is no religious service.
There ought not to he a school district
in Connecticut without at least a
monthly religious service. and the Ens
deavorers of Connecticut can make it
so. The natural result of these will
be another force. the organization of
Sunday schools. .And I believe that in
this lies a tremendous power. largely
unused as yet. if we may reach these
children we can control at least the
future. whatever the present may be.
The visiting our weaker societies at
their meetings with a load of enthus-
iastic young people from some soviet y
which can easily spare them from
their meeting for the time. often
brings great encouragement. ’l‘heae
are simply aliggestlons which you may
work out at your leisure.
goal something which i believe we who
are older often overlookwthc odor-n-
tlou of our successors in the work.
Look into your own moiety and line if
the tendency is not to hold the older
members in positions of responsibility.
Five years M0 or more they were
younger; Today there are others.
young and inexperienced. who should
be taking the places which we held at
that time. No higher possibility lies
before us than that which gives to us
the privilege of educating these young-
or ones to fill our places better than
we have filled them. - No greater umbi—
tion could come into our lives than
that. when for any reason we drop out
of the work. we may stilliive in it
through the lnfluenro and work of
those whom we have lod up. perhaps.
to higher standards than our own.
Through all of these things must
run one tailpipe. one idea: without it
Our work will be vulnwvund that must
be a deeper spiritual life. Into our
own hearts must comm first. a downer
sense of responsibility. a more thor-
ouab casting out of self. a thorn ohm»
info surrender to His will. Without
this our plans must fall. With it mir-
cesa mind cnflw. A doopsr study of
God's word. it more «(instant commun-
ion with Him in the quiet of our man.
try life. a self-surrender which takes
His plan at whatever mid of our alu—
bitlon. will work out in us. limit. the
willingness to do and then lhc power
to do ills will.
in that power our little uolabbor-
hood shall open before us all it wealth
of opportunity. every unsaved mud n
diamond to be gathered up clean from
its earth surroundinga and polished
and fitted‘ln the royal diudom rrrrr i‘i'i'l‘y
wrecked life it possibility for the life»
saver til-bring in. every dlllt'om'li‘oo
meat it place for the hrlmina of
Christ’s million, ovary unhappy home
an opening for the Prince of PNlN‘.
and tlironuli it all we have the glad
morocco. "And. lo. i am with you iii-
wuy‘, even, unto the end."
M
"ii (il'l‘llilli AN!) VlldiAilldl-l.
not. H. ll. Kelsey. of Hartford. ud-
dmaed the convention on "ideal llln‘
dearer Work in (lilies and Villages."
lie said: '
fir. .l. Wilbur Chapman began lliu
address at our Main convention‘ in
Willimautli- a few years and. by col.
iiiia the story of tonic people in the
Wool. who cam in distance to see for
the first time in their lives a locomoo
live and train of can. They wm
afraid of tho locomotivu potentials they
thouabt it was alive. ilii said more
people and church» are afraid of
(Shrinks institavoi- imam: It «can
to be alive.
Now. it It is u tum: alive. so email:
trillion huvlrui ml life in ltm we all
iiuow it iMibrictiaa hudsavor in its
inner lilo will be atlbctauiiitily the
Mine thin: everywhere. whether in
all“ or village. or the usually.
s form. the way and method: in
which that
dimer is itinerant ldoalltlsa. liter!
alum m of
livina thin: adopts lia lite tolls aavb
mutant. You plant a maple true in
tell all. in an upon meadow. and. you
' or. in years. a Whitman-
l-‘or the third thought. may i our;~ '
‘ stands what it is for.
life is. nautical-d. will all
ttona'which surround it.
societymwbich. of course. is a live
one-drill have clothed: of work.
tonne of activity. adluatmoats of its
culmination in a country town which
will differ from the methods and ways
eta society in a city. The methods
and ways in one houuiry town will
differ from those in another country
townmif the conditions of community
and church life ii". different. The
same will be true of the diaercnt
churches in the cities. ' ‘
The first essential thing in say an.
deavor society.“ it approach the ideal
society. lethal it. shall he illuminant!
«that is. through and through——
alive. walla. energetic. ,viuatlnct with
the very life of God. ,
Speaking then of ideal Christian
Endeavor life in cities and villages. I
any first of all that Christian Endan—
vor in city or country must be free
from purely conventional form of
life. We have it simple organisation.
which is adjustable. its heart and
water is the pledge. That pertains
to life. not to the forms in which that
life shall be manifested. Committees.
consecration and other meetings are
suggested only. The form is nothing
unless it in tilled ‘with'life. and ex-
presses life. And in the ideal society
three forms and methods are in every
instance adjusted to meet the condi-
tions df that mine environment.
it is scarcely possible for them to be
nlikc in any two instances. "
So let me say again. that the first
essential in ideal Christian Endeavor
is that the society shall be alive. and
that it shall be free from the con-
alrulut of conventional formuof life:
that it shall live out its own life. and
solve its own problems: do its own
work in its own way under the guid-
ance of the spirit of God.
A second rhurnriorlstir of ideal en—
deavor is that it thoroughly under-
Whlit is the
purpose of thin organization? What
is the purpose of lilo society of which
you who hear me are members?
What is it for? What twita definite
mission and work ‘3 The ideal society
has answered tin-do questions deliri-
iteiy and is dcilniirly setting itself to
do its specific business.
1 think welshuli agree in the definiv
lion 1 shall give of the field and mia~
clan of (‘hristiuu Endeavor. but i
think it very important that We shall
bu clear in our thought about it.
The livid of (‘brlsilan Endeavor is
first of all local. We reach out in
thought and work. including the ends
of the world and thr- peoplc of all nu-
tlouu. but we do this because we are
(,‘brlulluns. not lmruuse we are» Endua~
vors. Notion much emphasis in put.
by the lf‘ilili'l‘li of llilii niovi‘lnont upon
its \t‘lll‘lll-‘d‘lilt‘ depot-labor IN too much
enthusiasm put into the advocacy of
the work of Homo and Foreign Miir
K‘ll‘lllti. lint i‘hrisiinu :iidravor is a
worldwide mowiiwnt to roar" and
Win and train for “inflation llf’i‘t‘lf‘f‘ ilw
mung people of lho lorul rliurrltuu
and roiimimililn-x of all Chrluiomlom.
'i'lio lepwlilv \‘ml'li of every Endeavor
society. and of owry Elitleuv‘oror lit at
home. Our i‘liriuliun oiillgutloua are
world-wide. lim- Endeavor obliga-
linnti are local.
What is your society for? What is
itii lot-oi mission. it iii to quicken and
develop the uplrlttuil life of the young
puoplo of ymir church and congrega—
llon and community. What isyour
specific business as an Endeavor ao-
cioiy‘.‘ You are a religious organize.
tion. not social. The social life of our
societies is a litNlllI to an and. never
an end in itself
And i want to any. aim. that we urn
not an otriiriilon moiety. (‘hoap citv
curaiona arroas the comment are u—
cciicnt things. but I do not believe that
we exist to provide this thing yearly.
even if there iii a mammoth conven-
tion at the rud of it. howavrr cardinal
it may he.
i don‘t luvllvvo iv» have any business
to put three or four millions of the
money the land has entrusted to us
into the ire-aunties of the railmda
yearly. Eighty thousand dollars is a
large sum of money for a law of the
iiindcavorera of (incontinent to pay to
not to and from it deals contention.
file not owes-arr. in order that we
shall do our local work. We are not
a convention uretaty. Our work is not
dolls in conventions. They have their
place and are a anal help to stimulate
seal and to propagate ideas. but our
work it done at home.
What is our woi‘lt‘f Theo are three
classes of mun-opts in every new
nullity: Tilers arc a fair auras-t
christian yum mic in every
church and WW: than are a
larger another til m male who
an (Simmons. bill are nod-winced:
Will. Willi! Willi are N Willy
Now. our work into brim W
thea- caracat ultimatum mars la
fill! ”wMMi M m
nature. M are myriad la .
racial arm enachy the lift tom and by
inseam-opulent. The not mutt ._ 1~
ultimatum" ‘ " toll" condo . "
_ Thus tits ideal Christian ludcavor ,
dim iii a much larger dunner still of ‘
we stand in white hams fields. and
. stand alone In a mm
laid. if we so norms it. » nobody
will. The young people of each troll-v
rich is the field of Christian Endeavor.
and our mission is to develop in the
Christian life and into Christian aor-
vieo.‘ to win into this life 'and» when
this yount titan-and women. An idsal
Christian-Endeavor society is doing
that thin. or is trying to. whether it
be in the city orcouairy.‘ .
Main. the tuna! society is training
workers for the church and the Sun-
day school. Chrlitlia‘hndcavor is not
at alt-end. It is only a method and a
means. i spoakof this because it has
been suggested to ins that there is
need that this be said in Connecticut,
We are not anotlm church. or -.a
church within the church. To Join
the Christian Endeavor society and be
on for social committee is not the end
of Christian obligation as regards the
church. For Christ and for the church
ire. live and labor. if we do not seek
the church's prosperity in every re-
sport We are for from being ideal En-
dearer-era.
The need that emphasis should “be
put on this point is strikingly illus~
tratcd by a fact to which. my attention
was recently called. The fact is this.
that in our Congregational churches
in Connecticut. the membership in our
Sunday schools. as compared with the
membership of the churches. has de-
creased since Christian Endeavor came
into being. »
My attention was rolled to it by our
state secretary. The facts are that in
1897 the membership of the churches
Sunday schools by 2.350. in little the
churches numbered 6,367 more than
the Sunday schoola. The increase in
the membership in the Sunday schools
has been only 2.521 in those nine'yearc,
whereas the churches have increased
6.538. it looks as if the Endeavor ao-
oiety had about-bed in itself the inter-
eat and energy of some of the young
people of our churches which other-
wise would have gone into the Sun—
day school, which before Christian
Endeavor came into being did so into
the Sunday schooh
l was amazed at the facts suggested.
i said i should expect that exactly the
oppositewould have been true.
Friend. in any Endeavor society
which approaches the ideal. there will
be from ita memliorshlp a steady in~
crease of earnest stand—by workers in
the Sunday school. and in other
branches of the church's work. ’
Pray tell what is ondoavor for? Why
tolerate it for a day if it takes tourh—
l‘l’i‘l away from the Sunday iii-hold and
deplefou the Bible clarion. and so
wonkiina the rlmrrh‘n lifr at its most
vital point“?
An ideal t‘liritdiau society slmuld
menu a l‘lllll‘t’ll with at loiiut o ui‘-ll~
manned Sunday srbool.‘ Devoted. (‘iilll-
potent teachers mulm it good Sunday
lil'lliilll. if Christian Endeavor duos
not produce tourlirrii it is not doing
its business. if it so absorbs energy
and life as to take trachors away from
the Sunday school it bi in that respect
a failure. it iii the living for itself.
not for the church. though it pronouns
in live for flhrlui.
As to Christian Endeavor life in
onion. I wish only to say this: That
lllt‘lii' societies in city churches have u
pm-uliur and large opportunity. There
are crowd» of young winds in the
villain. There are initially it number.
often a large numbrr. of young would.
either strangers in iho city or «but-ch.
not on my thioa to rrarli and win
them. A land litany of them. how»
ever. Want to be reached and won. at
live. wide-awake Endeavor aocicly. ia-
tolit upon dolly: its specific work. will
dad a way to [at at then people. cilia
or than an invitation from the pulpit
to attend a prayer meeting.
Iarh society niuiit devia- ini own
plans and set itself to solve its own
protocols. The individual members
must personally act them-circa at the
work in hand in tubal! of the young
mic or the woumtion. Wherever
this is douaa (team of siliceous bi ua~
tallilialy cars. The earnest ones will
not be drawn away to become lum-
yiitsd in flilm which undermine that
spiritual life. The lulu earnest cad
undeveloped will be ouichcaed ln do.
airs and onto growth in tin» christian
life. The mam to the church and
to the lord trill bit won. local lu-
dcavur la titeiam towns and villus
mobilise the» tutors.
to maintain lat; inc W are
marlin or in: mm barium minty.
whatever it my be locum.
Wilt. dim trill in autism: up
m at spirituality is lie when.
“will.“ «mun-
m sal- cw
MN MW,
,W‘flm m , . is
im- moral. it'irac
* cinema has been
lull It
, would do." “won in Hi.
vldull church and maturation or pa.
exceeded the total membership in the.
W With! lilo In this ’ ,
2mm" ,. W W of
w _
main. is. trim a...
ataxia." “Mira
ia the item. is the
Accordion to the hackle: of Jesus
christ. This is what will cars the
‘ world." ‘
The other revival does not conflict
with this: but it contusion; with it;
and i do not hesitate to aay‘that it is
more needed to save the church from.
(lead conventionaliam. and powerless
endeavor. and to save society and the
world from sin. This is the revival
of Apostolic Christianity on the side
of the inner life. The great centers
or this movement are Kcawick in Ena-
land and Northileld in Andria. it
says. “Chflatian get right with God."
"Christian. know that the blood of
Jesus Christ oleunaea from all slu.‘
‘Kaow that God in the person of the
Holy Spirit baa come to dwell in you.
has come to fill the heart and life. He
has cleansed. and that you thus clean»
sad and filled have power to live con-
sistently. to do as Jesus would do. to
live according to his teachings and to
accomplish in your service all that
God would do'through you."
That lathe most important message
from the word of God to the Chris.
tiuns of America at this time. That
is the moat important message to the
Christian Endeavorers of (‘onnecticut
at this time. .
Endeavor means try, and we try and
try and try. We do and do and do.
and how much of it is simply motion.
it is powerless: there is no result.
We Weary and oftentimes cease trying
and the society has to be reorganized.
What is wanting? . This deeper,
this real spiritual life. which all may
possess. and which when possessed
enables us both to be and to do spon-
taneously and lathe power of God. all
We now try to he and to do.
_ Second. an honest membership.
Honest with the pledge. Taking it
not as a form. hilt a genuinely honest
thing. it is kept honestly. The
members are honest in prayer. Thoy
think before they prey. The know
what they have prayed for whoa they
burr finished. they never express
thanksgiving for forms sake. our unit
for what they do not honestly want.
They are houost in word and deed in
all their life.
God always blesses an honor! man.
The ideal Endeavor society is compos-
od of lioucut‘members who always ro—
Jolca in the favor of the Lord.
'fbird. Genuine consecration.
A consecration that can be repeated
once a month is always a sham. if is
not gi‘llllllif‘. it cannot be. because real
mnsrrration cannot be repeated. Wh t
is onro given to God is not ours to
give again. if we have once conse-
rrutmi oil to God, we have nothing to
m-onsrcrale.
in an ideal sorioiy there is granitic
l'uillif‘i‘rllilfifl which is never repeated.
own in form. '
Fourth. Consistent living.
That it: the winning force in the
rhurrhoy. That in the thing which
ends argument and persuades to faith
A native of indie tells me that educat-
ml lilndmis. are little moved by the
solves run priurh. power to live even
up to their own teaching is what they
lack. Missionaries who livo the Kos—
pol impress them. Before such they
bow down and say. ”Tril me how to
mamas this power to live as you do."
tiles is like the powder in a rifle; it
makes preaching and testimony irre-
sistible. lion fall down before it.
i-lOl‘lil WON Til t‘HltlB'l‘
The ideal Endeavor minty has a
livr prayer meeting and most enrol-
ll‘iil tun-lulu. ll express” an explosive-
ly happy life. and. l do not any “inn,"
and int numbers are frequently ve-
rrnltvd by those Willi to faith in Jeans
and in it sharing of their Christian
or lmlaoly nttachrd. drifter» from JOY-
churvii to church. who are on the ideal i’brlatiun Endeavor. then.
tritium of every moat-caution. ii is whether in a city. villago or tho coun-
try. is first of rill alive; it also known
what it is for. it. does not live for it-
self; it has an earnest. an honest. it
rolim'ratud. u maulstout mumbcruhlp,
whore llvtui win both renown and re-
t‘fllllll for Christ and for the i-burvii.
The next address was given by Rev.
John t‘uivin (Millard. of liollsbury.
Tho subject was "Niuelyaninc Per
Heat." and the text. "but till no on to
perfection."
secretary liner also made a short ad—
dress.
Vli'l‘lliulin' flhlllilon.
The third annual reunion of the
Voter-tin auscultation of the datum of
the (iiiuueetirui iihrialiaa Endeavor
union was held immediately after the
close of the afterum minis of you
larder. in the (lentil-ill club. The“
were forty-three present. of whom
twentywiicvbu were numbers and the
not invited Qua-ta The sum of tile
mm was J. Willis liner. tho accre-
tary of lilo bolted Item (ilirlaiiaa
Wm misty.
mmmwdvrnadmmrt
aftllatrmeruuuivsammm
WWW [W Wily nor «in
_ Wilmer! “W?
my . i‘lil
mownm~mmuo
preaching of mlsuionnrlos.1‘hey llli'llr ‘
Real (‘hrlallan living in our rommun- .
m t cutie». oi iii-am is. called ‘
‘1
the snorted i...
cobbled Top Cont: :
Ill town. . ’ Pith ».
flaws. if u can
inside an outside, a... -
they re as near Topsail... pciicctiou as
have reached. _ . .
Not so costly as you’d suppose from their ..
some of them are as low as $7.50.
coats. too. and well made. Bettor'at fill.
the marks of custom made in the 815. hid
$20 Top Coats. 'Tailorish touches hi"
line. Li ht. shades of covert cloth;
shades; b ack. gray and brown for plot"
Why shouldn't your boy have a Top '
as lllsl‘lll'llcl’? Nobby little Top‘ Coats
at Meigs Comer. Everything for your '.
but shoes,
vistas R ..
BRlDGEPORT, Conn.
pen Monday..Ffldiiy’ ,
Saturday Evenings.
WC Sci! ‘
Pajamas. $1.2; to $6.
House Coats. go; to NO
Bath Ruben. :5; to 310.;‘0
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