THIRTY YEARS OF 
 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 
 
 BRIEFLY TOLD 
 AND MORE AT LENGTH 
 
 The Story of the Year 
 
 By 
 
 Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor 
 and the JVorld? s Christian Endeavor Union 
 
 United Society of Christian Endeavor 
 
 BOSTON AND CHICAGO 
 
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 O N the second of February next, the Society 
 of Christian Endeavor will have rounded 
 out thirty years of its life; and it is fitting 
 that in telling the story of the last year of the thirty, 
 we should glance back a little further and note the 
 reasons for gratitude to the Almighty which mark 
 the pathway of these score and a half of years. 
 
 Thirty years ago, a little company of boys and 
 girls, of Portland, Me., together with a goodly num¬ 
 ber of their older brothers and sisters, met at their 
 pastor’s house. They were average young people, in¬ 
 tellectually and spiritually, but they had learned 
 something of the love of Christ, and they had a sincere 
 purpose to do what He would like to have them do. 
 Though they enjoyed each other’s company, they 
 did not come simply for a social good time. Though 
 many of them were school boys and school girls, and 
 enjoyed good literature, they did not come simply 
 for a literary evening. Though cheerful songs en¬ 
 livened the hours that they spent together, they 
 enjoyed something more than a musical evening. 
 There was no secrecy about the meeting, no “ grips ” 
 or passwords or high-sounding offices to stir the ambi¬ 
 tion of these young Christians. The simple truth was 
 that the purpose of their meeting was to formulate 
 
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woman’s section of one of the great auditorium tents, 
 
 FOURTH WORLD’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION, 
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 some plan and devise some organization which might 
 make them more useful in their Master’s service. 
 
 Their pastor had already prepared such a tenta¬ 
 tive plan of action, and presented it to them under 
 the name of the “ Williston Young People’s Society 
 of Christian Endeavor.” The young people naturally 
 demurred at first over some of the provisions of the 
 new constitution. They thought it was asking a good 
 deal of them to promise to attend and take some part 
 in each meeting; but when the pastor pointed out to 
 them that it was not a speech or an essay that was 
 wanted, but an acknowledgment of their discipleship 
 that was involved in the pledge, and that any reason 
 which they could conscientiously give to their Lord 
 for failure to take part in the meetings or do any 
 similar duty was a sufficient excuse, they readily ac¬ 
 cepted this provision, and loyally promised to live up 
 to it. 
 
 That was the humble beginning of the first Society 
 of Christian Endeavor. It made but little stir in the 
 world. The Portland papers did not record it in 
 glowing headlines the next morning, or even mention it 
 in the smallest type. Many of the older church mem¬ 
 bers doubtless for weeks knew little, and cared less, for 
 this new Young People’s Society. It lived and grew 
 amazingly, however,— that is, the pastor and others 
 who looked on it sympathetically were amazed, be¬ 
 cause they had seen other experiments tried in that 
 church for the development of the young life, which 
 lasted but a little time and did but little good. It was 
 apparent that a new element had been introduced 
 
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 into this Young People’s Society,— the heroic ele¬ 
 ment, the element of sincere devotion to Jesus Christ, 
 of high ideals, of willingness to do hard things for His 
 sake. 
 
 The Lookout Committee, the Prayer Meeting 
 Committee, and the Social Committee were provided 
 for that first evening. Others were added later, and 
 gradually the society became a training-school for the 
 church, not only in expressions of devotion to Christ 
 in the prayer meeting, but along a score of other 
 lines of service. Other young people of the com¬ 
 munity were attracted; the spiritual interests of the 
 members were cared for as never before; their literary 
 and social instincts did not suffer; missionary zeal 
 was aroused; temperance sentiment was cultivated; 
 the sick and the poor in the neighborhood were sought 
 out and ministered unto, and it was evident that a 
 new organization, instinct with life, had been intro¬ 
 duced into that church. 
 
 Eight months later, the pastor of another church 
 heard of this Society of Christian Endeavor, and 
 formed one like it. Soon another followed his example, 
 and after a year or two, the numbers increased rapidly, 
 and from that day to this there has scarcely been a 
 halt in the progress and development of the Christian 
 Endeavor movement. 
 
 Within four years it had leaped across the seas 
 and established itself in Hawaii, India, and China. 
 Within seven years it began to attract attention in 
 Great Britain and Australia, where there are now 
 many thousands of societies. It soon after found its 
 way to Germany, to France, to Spain, to Scandinavia, 
 to Russia, to Southeastern Europe. Even the drastic 
 
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 and cruel prohibitions of Hamid II, “ the Assassin/’ 
 then the Sultan of Turkey, could not keep it out of 
 his domain, though the Endeavorers of Turkey could 
 not wear the badge, and though the very name was 
 on the index expur gator ins. 
 
 The islands of the East and the West responded. 
 The little, almost invisible dots on the map of the 
 Pacific Ocean heard of Christian Endeavor, and, by 
 the hundreds, societies were formed in the Island 
 World, until now it is true that a larger proportion 
 of the people of the South Sea Islands are Christian 
 Endeavorers than are found in any other part of the 
 world. 
 
 If it is true of the domains of King George that 
 “ the sun never sets ” upon them, it is doubly true of 
 the societies of Christian Endeavor. In the Occident 
 and the Orient they are equally at home. From the 
 northernmost point of inhabited Alaska, at Point 
 Barrow, down to Invercargill in New Zealand, the 
 most southerly town of any considerable size in the 
 world, Christian Endeavor is found. 
 
 The one society has multiplied itself fully a hun¬ 
 dred thousand times, for there are now nearly 74,000 
 societies upon the roll of the World’s Union, and 
 there are thousands of others that are Christian En¬ 
 deavor in all but name. Some eight years after the 
 founding of the first society, the denominational 
 Epworth League was started, and some thousands of 
 Methodist Societies of Christian Endeavor became 
 purely denominational Leagues. Shortly after this 
 the Baptist Young People’s Union and other de- 
 
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SOME OF THE NATIVE DELEGATES SENT TO THE AGRA CONVENTION BY AMERICAN ENDEAVORERS. 
 THE AMERICAN DELEGATION IN THE FOREGROUND. 
 
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 nominational societies were also organized, but many 
 of them have since come back into the Christian 
 Endeavor fellowship, and have been most warmly 
 received, while the tendency now is altogether to¬ 
 ward the larger interdenominational and international 
 fellowship. 
 
 Such, in brief, is the story of thirty years. It would 
 take volumes to tell it in detail. While there were 
 some scattering and loosely organized young people’s 
 societies, thirty years ago, there were none, so far as 
 I am aware, with a definite pledge for Christian 
 service, and with carefully organized committees to 
 perform definite duties covering the whole range of 
 Christian living. 
 
 Thirty years ago, there was no united organization 
 of young people. Now, almost every nation has its 
 National Christian Endeavor Union. Local unions 
 exist in most of the large cities of the world, and 
 State, district, and county unions and federations of 
 societies bring the young people together every year 
 in thousands of conventions and conferences and in¬ 
 stitutes, where their enthusiasm for Christian service 
 is aroused, and practical methods, proved by experi¬ 
 ence, are taught. 
 
 Thirty years ago, there was no organized effort for 
 young people along missionary lines. Now, there is 
 scarcely a young people’s society without its mission¬ 
 ary committee, no great convention without its mis¬ 
 sionary hour, while many of the distinctive modern 
 missionary movements, like the Student Volunteer, 
 the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, and the various 
 
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 Brotherhoods are largely manned by past or present 
 Endeavorers, who received their first impetus along 
 these lines in a Christian Endeavor meeting. 
 
 Thirty years ago, there was no organized effort 
 among young people for good-citizenship or temper¬ 
 ance. Now it would be considered strange indeed if 
 any great convention or gathering of Christian En¬ 
 deavorers forgot to sound the note of Christian citizen¬ 
 ship and civic righteousness. 
 
 Thirty years ago, the thought of the Quiet Hour, 
 of spending a little time in communion with God 
 each day, aside from the more or less formal prayer 
 and Bible-reading, was scarcely ever emphasized for 
 the young. It was supposed that that was an expe¬ 
 rience for the older Christian alone. Now, there are 
 many tens of thousands of Christian Endeavorers 
 who have banded themselves together as Comrades 
 of the Quiet Hour. Thirty years ago, there were no 
 efforts to enlist the young in systematic and propor¬ 
 tionate giving. Now, this great idea, so important to 
 all future missionary interests, is made concrete and 
 definite in the Tenth Legion, to which tens of thou¬ 
 sands of Endeavorers belong. 
 
 In these thirty years, the Society has found its way 
 across the seas and around the world upon many 
 merchant vessels and ships of war. 
 
 It has not been discouraged by prison bars and 
 bolts, but has entered as a blessed influence into a 
 multitude of prisons, contributing its reforming power 
 to the men behind the bars, and giving them hope of 
 a new chance in life when discharged. 
 
 It is well, once in a while, on anniversary occasions, 
 to recall these facts, not with any self-gratulation, or 
 
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 The next World’s Christian Endeavor Convention will be held in Sydney, Australia. 
 
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 for the sake of lauding the Society, but that we may 
 see “what God hath wrought,” and give to Him the 
 praise for His marvellous mercies to the Society of 
 Christian Endeavor. There was little human wisdom 
 in the organization of the movement. Many opposed 
 it, laughed at it, and derided it in the early days, but 
 again it has been shown how 
 
 God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound 
 the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to 
 confound the things which are mighty; 
 
 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, 
 hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to 
 nought things that are: 
 
 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 
 
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 IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
 
 O F all the thirty years past, none has been more distinctly a 
 year “ of the right hand of the Lord ” than the one which, 
 as I write, is drawing to a close. Even in the early days of the 
 movement, when few churches had adopted the Christian En¬ 
 deavor idea, and there was an almost unlimited field for its de¬ 
 velopment, there was probably never a year when more societies 
 were formed than during the past twelve months. 
 
 In America, though 1910 has witnessed no National Conven¬ 
 tion, the year has been distinguished by great State conventions, 
 by enthusiasm for and development of the Increase Campaign, 
 and by the magnificent work of the field secretaries in many of 
 our Commonwealths and Provinces. 
 
 It has been my good fortune to go to more State conventions 
 this year than in any single year in the past, and I can say with¬ 
 out hesitation that, as a rule, they have been larger, more full 
 of genuine spirituality and real enthusiasm, than any that I have 
 attended in these various States in the past. On the Pacific 
 Coast, in the great Interior, in far-eastern New England, in the 
 Sunny South, in progressive Canada, I have attended such con¬ 
 ventions, and every part of the country and every part of the 
 land have shared in the advance. 
 
 The work of the field secretaries has been, for the most part, 
 beyond all praise. Self-sacrificing, devoted, untiring, they have 
 gone into the hard places, they have aroused new enthusiasms, 
 they have taught the fundamental principles of Christian En¬ 
 deavor, they have shown its adaptability to the largest city 
 church and the smallest country community. Above all, it has 
 been demonstrated that a field secretary of the right character 
 and calibre is an invaluable adjunct to the work of any State, 
 whether he be employed for a whole year or for only a fraction 
 of a year. All the States and Provinces are coming to realize this, 
 and are seeking such secretaries, while many of them have found 
 such workers. This means more for the growth and perpetuity 
 
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 of the Christian Endeavor societies throughout the country than 
 any movement of recent years. 
 
 THE GREAT INCREASE CAMPAIGN 
 
 T HE impetus given to the formation of new societies by the 
 Increase Campaign, “ Christian Endeavor, 1911,” proposed 
 at the St. Paul Convention, for a million new members and ten 
 thousand new societies, has been marvellous. The response from 
 all parts of America was prompt and cheering. Many States 
 desired to know at once the quota which should be assigned to 
 them in the numerical increase; even county and city unions 
 desired the same information. The result has been a larger num¬ 
 ber of new societies formed than almost ever in the history of the 
 movement, in the same length of time. It is too early, at this 
 writing, to give exact statistics; indeed, there has been no effort 
 to obtain them. The societies that have been recorded have been 
 simply those that have been reported without any effort to 
 obtain complete figures, which will be obtained next June in 
 season to report at the Atlantic City Convention. 
 
 With these incomplete and partial returns, however, it is 
 known that more than 4,000 new societies have been formed since 
 the Increase Campaign began. This number might be very 
 largely increased and still come within the truth of the actual 
 facts, were they all known. Several States have already nearly, 
 if not quite, gained the number assigned to them as their propor¬ 
 tion. Among these may be mentioned Nebraska, Idaho, Texas, 
 and Virginia. 
 
 It is important, however, that not only new societies should be 
 formed, but that new members should be added to existing soci¬ 
 eties, for there are yet many young people in every community not 
 reached by the energizing and training influences of the society. 
 To reach them, it was proposed that the Increase Campaign 
 should seek for a million new Endeavorers within two years. 
 Along this line of effort, too, it is not possible yet to give com¬ 
 plete statistics, but from a few hundred sample reports which 
 have been received, it is believed that not less than 350,000 new 
 members were added to the ranks of Christian Endeavor, in 
 America alone, during the first year of the Increase Campaign, 
 and it is confidently hoped that, with God’s blessing, a round 
 
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 million may be reported when the hosts gather at Atlantic City, 
 in July, 1911. 
 
 The influence of the Increase Campaign has been felt not only 
 in the addition of new societies and new members to old societies, 
 but in a quickening all along the line. The earnest, faithful effort 
 for new members has aroused the flagging energies of some older 
 Endeavorers. The societies have felt the benefit of the new blood 
 poured into their veins. The unions have been cheered and en¬ 
 couraged by adding a multitude of new societies to their ranks, 
 while these young people, who have never before known the 
 benefit of Christian Endeavor, have learned to pray and to study 
 their Bible, to stand upon their feet and speak in the Master’s 
 name, and to work along the many lines of committee service. 
 A million more who shall be praying Christians and Bible- 
 reading Christians, a million more with missionary zeal and 
 patriotic devotion, a million more who shall be trained along 
 many lines for the church of the future, is the real goal of the 
 Increase Campaign which we call “ Christian Endeavor, 1911.” 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 1910 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR INSTITUTE, 
 SAGAMORE BEACH, MASS. 
 
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 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR INSTITUTES AND SUMMER 
 SCHOOLS 
 
 A NOTHER development of 1910, which is full of hope, is the * 
 - establishment and growth of Summer Schools and Christian 
 Endeavor Institutes, which during the past year have been more 
 successful and prosperous than ever before. This was true of 
 the Massachusetts Christian Endeavor Institute at Sagamore 
 Beach, which was eminently successful, as well as of the longer- 
 established Summer School at Charleston, Me., the Presbyterian 
 Endeavor Assemblies at Winona, Ind., and at Pocono Pines, 
 Penn., and several others that might be mentioned. The Dis¬ 
 trict Secretaries of New York and the County Junior Superin¬ 
 tendents met together for their annual school in Auburn, N. Y., 
 and the results, as always in the past, were particularly helpful 
 to the cause throughout the great Empire State. 
 
 CANADA 
 
 I N Canada during the past year there has been a decided re¬ 
 awakening of the Christian Endeavor spirit. In far western 
 Canada, Christian Endeavor has always been a live force, espe¬ 
 cially in British Columbia and Manitoba. Both of these great 
 Provinces enjoyed exceptionally good conventions this year. 
 
 In Ontario, where there has been some lack of interest for a 
 few years past, the forces have come together with new courage 
 and zeal. I had the privilege of attending a memorable rally in 
 Toronto, in October, where fourteen local unions were repre¬ 
 sented, and a Provincial Convention is planned for the late winter 
 or early spring of 1911. From Quebec, too, reports of constant 
 activity are heard. 
 
 MEXICO 
 
 M EXICO reports nearly one hundred and fifty Societies of 
 Christian Endeavor. The great event of the past year was 
 the national celebration in Mexico City in September, when 
 many national organizations met to signalize the One Hundredth 
 Anniversary of Mexican independence. Among these organiza¬ 
 tions was the Mexican Christian Endeavor Union. The meetings 
 were peculiarly interesting and full of hope for the future, and 
 it is expected that, under the lead of President S.Guy Inman and 
 
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MISS ELLA M. WEATHERLEY, LONDON, ENGLAND, PRESIDENT BRITISH 
 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION. 
 
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 Secretary A. R. Salas, great advance will be made in the coming 
 year throughout the Republic. 
 
 GREAT BRITAIN 
 
 I N Great Britain the Christian Endeavor movement has 
 suffered with the temporary decline of the Free Churches, 
 which has been commented upon and mourned by many Chris¬ 
 tian leaders. It has been said that the spiritual life of many of 
 the churches is at a low ebb, and naturally the Christian En¬ 
 deavor movement suffers under such conditions. Word has come 
 from many that the Society has suffered less, in this respect, 
 than other activities of the church. However this may be, the 
 condition of affairs, from the Christian Endeavor standpoint, in 
 Great Britain is by no means discouraging. 
 
 In the long line of faithful presidents of the British Union, 
 Rev. J. Tolefree Parr, the eminent evangelist, was succeeded in 
 June by Miss Ella M. W^atherley, the first lady ever to occupy 
 that exalted position in British Christian Endeavor. Her activi¬ 
 ties have been manifold, and her thorough devotion for many 
 years to the Christian Endeavor ideals, and her eminent abilities 
 in expressing them, have made her beloved by Endeavorers 
 throughout the country. 
 
 The National Convention, held at Whitsuntide in Liverpool, 
 was worthy of its great predecessors, and “ Liverpool, 1910 ” will 
 go down in history as Britain’s “ Hopeful Convention.” In a 
 sense this was a European Convention, for Switzerland, Germany, 
 and Norway were represented by leading Endeavorers. The 
 success of the Convention was practically secured when Mr. 
 W. H. Hope was obtained as Convention Chairman. 
 
 One hundred and fifty-seven new societies were reported as 
 enrolled in the British Union during the year, though several 
 thousand societies in different denominations exist in Great 
 Britain that do not belong to the Union. 
 
 GERMANY 
 
 W HEN we turn to Germany, we find much to encourage us 
 along Christian Endeavor lines. The shadows of the Ber¬ 
 lin riots hung over the German National Convention, held in the 
 capital city in October, we are told, and yet the clouds did not 
 by any means overshadow the Convention, but added new force 
 
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 to at least two of the topics, 11 How to Win the Working Men 
 and Women,” and “ How to Win the Shop Girls.” These topics, 
 together with others, show that German Christian Endeavor is 
 quite up with the times in considering the questions of the day. 
 The motto of the Convention, too, showed the breadth and un¬ 
 selfishness of German Christian Endeavor, for it read, not 
 “ Germany’s Youth for Christ ” but “ Europe’s Youth for 
 Christ.” A greeting was received from the German Empress and 
 other members of the royal family. The Secretary reported 472 
 societies, with 11,000 members. They support three secretarie s 
 and have sent seventeen missionaries to the Marshall and 
 Caroline Islands. Christian Endeavor has no more devoted ad¬ 
 vocate than Rev. Frederich Blecher, the Secretary of the German 
 Union. 
 
 FRANCE 
 
 F RANCE reports a decrease in Christian Endeavor societies, 
 which is explained by the fact that some societies, which 
 were not strictly Christian Endeavor, have changed their name, 
 and no longer belong to the French National Union. It is hoped, 
 however, that these societies may fully adopt the Christian En¬ 
 deavor plans and methods, and come under the helpful influence 
 of the French Union. 
 
 NORWAY 
 
 W HEN we come to Norway, we find one of the most inter¬ 
 esting of Christian Endeavor countries; indeed, the next 
 European National Convention is to be held in Christiania, the 
 capital of Norway. Though considerable opposition has been 
 met, those two good friends of Christian Endeavor, Pastor Meyer 
 and Pastor Klaeboe, report steady and substantial advance in 
 the Land of the Northmen. 
 
 The writer of this remembers his first visit to Norway, some 
 twelve or fifteen years ago, when he found little but scepticism 
 in regard to the value of the society for the conservative churches 
 of Norway. On a later visit, scarcely two years ago, he found 
 that in Christiania and its immediate vicinity there were thirty 
 societies of Christian Endeavor, that King Haakon himself was 
 interested in the new movement, and had given permission to 
 one of the leading pastors of the State Church to travel through¬ 
 out Norway to tell about the value of the new movement. 
 
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REV. T. SAWAYA, SECRETARY JAPAN UNION OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR, 
 AND HIS FAMILY. 
 
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 SWEDEN 
 
 I N Sweden, there are a large number of Young People’s soci¬ 
 eties similar to Christian Endeavor, both in the Free Churches, 
 Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational, and in the Lutheran 
 State Church as well. Many of them, however, do not take the 
 Christian Endeavor name, though they use the topics and are 
 in all essential ways identical with Christian Endeavor. It is 
 hoped that before long they will all come into the ranks of the 
 world-wide fellowship, for no more earnest and devoted Chris¬ 
 tian young people are to be found than those who make up the 
 rank and file of the Swedish churches. 
 
 FINLAND 
 
 F INLAND has for some years had a strong contingent of 
 Christian Endeavor, which each year gains in numbers and 
 in vigor. None deserve more heartily the prayers and sympathy 
 of their American friends, for under the tyrannous rule of Russia, 
 the very national life of the Finns is in danger. 
 
 It is interesting to note that an organized effort to develop 
 Christian Endeavor among the Finns of America has been en¬ 
 couraged during the past year, and Mr. Risle Lappala has been 
 appointed Superintendent of the Finnish Christian Endeavor 
 work. The name of the first American society, in Ashtabula 
 Harbor, O., is “ Kiotto,” which means “ dawn,”—a name hap¬ 
 pily prophetic of the dawn of a larger work among the Finns 
 of America. 
 
 BALTIC PROVINCES OF RUSSIA 
 
 O THER parts of the Russian domain in which Christian 
 Endeavor has found a foothold are in the Baltic Provinces 
 about Riga, where the Lutherans have introduced it into their 
 churches, and in Russian Poland. The Lettish people of Russia 
 have also found help in Christian Endeavor in training their 
 young people for the church of the future. 
 
 HUNGARY 
 
 T HE Endeavorers of Hungary, though comparatively few in 
 numbers, have for years been in the forefront of Christian 
 Endeavor activities under the lead of their beloved President, 
 
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 Dr. Szabo. No societies are more energetic or more self-sacri¬ 
 ficing. The leading centre of Christian Endeavor in Hungary is 
 Budapest, the beautiful capital of the kingdom, and here the 
 Endeavorers have undertaken the great work of maintaining the 
 Bethesda Hospital, which demands the raising of $34,000. Dur¬ 
 ing the past year this little band of Endeavorers has raised 
 
 HOSPITAL, BUDA-PESTH, HUNGARY, ERECTED AND SUPPORTED BY 
 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. 
 
 more than $10,000 to wipe out a debt on the hospital, which they 
 have nearly succeeded in accomplishing. They do not confine 
 their benevolences alone to their home work, but have already 
 sent $110 to the fund for the International Headquarters Build¬ 
 ing in Boston. 
 
 SWITZERLAND 
 
 I N Switzerland, the work of Christian Endeavor is progressing, 
 both in German and French Switzerland. Geneva is still in 
 the lead, however, and Rev. Ernest Sauvin is the energetic Sec¬ 
 retary of the European Union of Christian Endeavor, and the 
 editor of a tri-lingual paper; for every month there is issued an 
 
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 attractive cyclostyle journal, with this title in English, German, 
 and French: 
 
 Christian Endeavor throughout Europe. 
 
 Jugendbund fur entschiedenes Christenthum in Europa. 
 
 Les Societds d'activity chre'tienne a travers VEurope. 
 
 This little paper gives, in small compass, most valuable infor¬ 
 mation concerning the progress of the work in these different 
 lands. 
 
 SPAIN 
 
 O UR Spanish friends have been greatly rejoiced, of late, by 
 the edict of toleration promulgated by the government at 
 present in power, or at least by the more liberal interpretation 
 of an old edict. This will put Protestantism on a different basis 
 in Spain from what it has been in the past, and will doubtless 
 work to the advantage of Christian Endeavor, which is one of the 
 great hand-maidens of Protestantism in the Iberian Peninsula. 
 
 Seldom has the writer attended a more enthusiastic or delight¬ 
 ful convention than the last Spanish National Convention, held 
 in Barcelona. It was full not only of zeal, but of genuine, intelli¬ 
 gent devotion to the cause of Christ. Many of the delegates had 
 suffered for their faith, but none was ashamed of it. A veteran 
 missionary assured me that since the days of the Visigoths in the 
 6th Century, no such evangelical meetings had been held in 
 Spain. That is significant of the power of Christian Endeavor 
 in this land which so long has been under the domination of a 
 reactionary Romanism. 
 
 ITALY 
 
 I TALY is another preeminently Catholic country, where we 
 cannot expect to find large numbers of Christian Endeavor- 
 ers, but in many of the leading cities we should find at least a 
 few, for there are some eighteen societies in Italy, scattered 
 throughout the Peninsula. One of the most interesting is found 
 in the Waldensian Church in Torre Pellice, where these brave 
 defenders of the faith for so many centuries have had their head¬ 
 quarters. Here one may see a commodious building erected by 
 the Endeavorers and on a marble tablet on the wall the legend, 
 Casa Attivita Cristiano, — House of the Society of Christian En¬ 
 deavor. 
 
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 BULGARIA AND MACEDONIA 
 
 I N Southeastern Europe, the Society flourishes chiefly in 
 Bulgaria and Macedonia, where the missionaries of the 
 American Board have established themselves, and have done 
 for many years a glorious work. In Samakov and Philippopolis, 
 Salonica and Monastir, are there flourishing Endeavor societies, 
 Young People’s and Junior, and it is hoped that the more liberal 
 policy of the new Turkish government will enable the Mace¬ 
 donian societies to increase in numbers and in power. 
 
 TURKEY 
 
 W HEN we cross the Bosphorus, we find some fifty societies 
 in Turkey, though no very recent reports have come from 
 some of them. New hope, however, has come with the advent of 
 the new constitution, and it is expected that Christian Endeavor 
 will do its full share in regenerating this land which now seems 
 so much more ready then ever in the past to admit the gospel 
 to its remotest bounds. 
 
 One of the most interesting facts that has recently come to my 
 knowledge has been the formation of a society of young people 
 in the ancient Gregorian or Armenian Church. This society uses 
 our common topics, and I am assured by a missionary that it is, 
 to all intents and purposes, a Christian Endeavor society. When 
 one considers the intense conservatism of this ancient church, 
 and its unwillingness in the past to adopt new methods of Chris¬ 
 tian nurture or Christian service, we can but hope that this 
 society will be the entering wedge to introduce aggressive Chris¬ 
 tian ideals into the heart of this church, which so long has kept 
 alive the traditions of Christianity amid the darkness and super¬ 
 stition of Mohammedanism. 
 
 EGYPT 
 
 I N our journey around the world for Christian Endeavor, we 
 should find a few societies in Syria and in Palestine; but not 
 until we reach Egypt, eastbound, would we find any large number 
 of societies, after leaving Europe and Turkey. 
 
 In Egypt, however, the Society has taken deep root in the 
 great Mission of the United Presbyterian Church, and is regarded 
 as one of the great evangelistic agencies of the Mission. All up 
 
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 and down the fertile Nile, far into the Soudan, out into the desert 
 on either side, under the shadow of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, 
 wherever this Mission has made its blessed way, are Christian 
 Endeavor societies found. 
 
 A GROUP OF MISSIONARIES AND ENDEAVORERS IN EGYPT. 
 
 The Christian Endeavorers who journeyed last year to India, 
 to attend the World’s Convention at Agra, received a most 
 cordial welcome from the societies of Cairo, and were as sur¬ 
 prised as they were delighted to know that there were now no less 
 than sixty societies in the United Presbyterian Mission alone, 
 
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 though only seventeen had hitherto been recorded by the World’s 
 Union. 
 
 A very striking picture shows a picnic of some Cairo Endeav¬ 
 orers, some in red fezes and others in the picture hats of American 
 young ladies, which was held with the Sphinx and the great 
 Pyramid of Cheops for a background. No picture could more 
 strikingly show how Christian Endeavor has gained a foothold 
 in the land of the Pharaohs. 
 
 INDIA 
 
 O N through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and across the 
 Indian Ocean the Endeavorers sailed, who last year were 
 bound for the Convention at Agra. Their expectations were 
 large, their hopes of a unique and unusual convention were by 
 no means small; and yet it was an experiment to hold a World’s 
 Christian Endeavor Convention in a place so remote from the 
 centres of Christian civilization. It seemed to many a rash and 
 venturesome thing to do. Would the people come? Would the 
 Christians of India arise to the occasion? If the throngs did 
 come, could they be accommodated? Could the language diffi¬ 
 culty be overcome, since scores of vernaculars are spoken? 
 
 All these questions naturally arose, but the faith and courage 
 of the India Endeavorers were equal to the occasion. One by one, 
 the difficulties were overcome. President Herbert Anderson of 
 the Christian Undeavor Union of India, Burma, and Ceylon, and 
 General Secretary Herbert Halliwell, and the other officers and 
 committees, knew no such word as “ Failure.” Their faith and 
 zeal were rewarded, and their largest anticipations more than met. 
 
 Though the story of Agra belongs properly to the year 1909, 
 yet so late in the year did the Convention occur, that it was im¬ 
 possible to more than forecast it in last year’s 11 Story.” Indeed, 
 it was expected, at first, that the Convention would be held in 
 the early days of 1910; but late November of 1909 proving more 
 convenient for those who came from America, the date of the 
 meeting, which was originally planned for this year, was put 
 forward a few weeks. 
 
 I may be permitted here to quote a few paragraphs from the 
 account of the Convention that I wrote upon the spot, when its 
 memories were fresh, and its wonderful scenes were vividly 
 presented to eye and ear. 
 
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 Another wonderfully successful Convention has been added 
 to the long list that has enriched Christian Endeavor history 
 during the last eight and twenty years. In some important re¬ 
 spects “Agra, 1909,” was the most remarkable Christian conven¬ 
 tion ever held in the history of the world. 
 
 This sounds extravagant, but let me prove it. The Convention 
 was held in the very heart of India, in a city of 200,000 heathen; 
 
 THE TAJ MAHAL, AGRA, INDIA, AND DELEGATES TO THE FOURTH 
 WORLD’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION. 
 
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 The fifty American delegates travelled in the aggregate over a 
 million miles to get there and back. 168 mission stations were 
 represented by 400 missionaries and over 3,000 native converts. 
 
 A hundred native delegates came from Burma, each travelling 
 some 3,000 miles to get to the Convention and home again, with 
 many missionaries from Burma swelling their forces. Ten boys 
 from the Baptist mission of'Assam travelled a still longer dis¬ 
 tance, and, among these ten, seven different languages were 
 spoken. 
 
 Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Sweden, China, 
 Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries were repre¬ 
 sented. In all, 31 different languages were spoken by delegates. 
 The British government of India did an unprecedented thing in 
 furnishing free of charge the vice-regal camp, consisting of more 
 than 300 tents, several of them very large ones, for the use of the 
 Convention. In this camp most of the delegates lived, sleeping, 
 eating, praying, singing, speaking, listening, all in this great 
 compound on one of India’s vast plains, during four of the most 
 memorable days in the history of Christian India. 
 
 Imagine the scene! O that I could picture it to you in the glow¬ 
 ing colors that it deserves! 
 
 Here is the great white city covering acres of ground; three 
 hundred white tents glowing in the tropical sun of midday, or 
 glistening in the palqr beams of the glorious Indian moon. 
 
 Those who remember the white Convention city of “ Detroit, 
 ’99 ” can have some idea of the scene, though Detroit could 
 scarcely boast of one-sixth as many tents on the Convention 
 grounds. 
 
 And the surroundings, how different from the beautiful city 
 between the lakes! 
 
 Here no trim lawns and beautiful modern houses and bustling 
 street-cars; instead, the wide and dusty fields of this “ dry and 
 thirsty land.” But what color, what life, what strange and 
 thrilling scenes on every side! 
 
 There goes a procession of fifty charming brown girls with 
 white saris over their heads. They came from the Punjab, and 
 this is the greatest outing of their lives. Near-by walk some 
 grave white-turbaned pundits. 
 
 Come with me to the back of the great vice-regal camp, and 
 see this throng of hundreds of village Endeavorers of low caste 
 from the Lodiana mission of the Presbyterians, marshalled by 
 those two veteran Endeavorers, Mr. McGaw and Mr. Bandy. 
 They have several tents of their own, and one big one where 300 
 of them sleep. 
 
 They have their drums and their tomtoms and their dances 
 (not promiscuous dances, for there are only boys in this tent, 
 and each one dances without a partner for the pure fun and grace 
 of motion), and mingle plenty of good cheer with their religion. 
 They cook their cakes in a hole in the ground, plastering them 
 on the side of a big sunken pot made red hot by a fire within. 
 
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 A NATIVE DELEGATION AT THE WORLD’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION, AGRA, INDIA. 
 
Stje fetors of t \)t 
 
 Within the compound were hundreds of men’s tents and 
 women’s tents in a different part of the grounds, besides married 
 people’s tents, and exhibition tents, where thousands of pretty 
 and useful articles were for sale, and two huge audience tents, 
 one where English was spoken, while in the other Hindustani 
 was the vernacular. 
 
 Then there were rest tents and hospital tents, and a literature 
 tent, and a photographer’s tent, a great canvas restaurant, and 
 many others which I did not have time to visit. 
 
 But the crowning glory of Agra I have not yet mentioned. 
 
 What is that vast white bubble soaring up into the sky just 
 beyond the camp, some ten minutes’ walk away? 
 
 What are those stately minarets and that wonderful gateway 
 of red sandstone? 
 
 You have already guessed. It is the Taj Mahal, the one abso¬ 
 lutely perfect building in all the world, the despair of all archi¬ 
 tects and builders since, the mighty palace tomb “ designed by 
 Titans, executed by jewellers.” 
 
 There it stands within plain view of the Christian Endeavor 
 camp, an inspiration to every one who has eyes to see; the noble 
 marble walls thick set with precious stones, and wrought with 
 all manner of marble tracery and lace-work as dainty as a 
 lady’s veil, as strong and noble as one of the hills of God. 
 
 To describe fully the Convention would require volumes in¬ 
 stead of paragraphs, but it is not too much to say that it was the 
 greatest representative religious convention of any kind ever 
 held on the soil of India. Its aftermath has been peculiarly 
 happy. The memory of the consecration meeting, in which re¬ 
 sponses were made in thirty-one different languages; of the 
 mighty song service, when the praises of the nations were heard 
 in as many more; the great and inspiring addresses from English 
 and Hindustani alike; the open-air meeting on the hilltop, al¬ 
 most under the shadow of the Taj Mahal, which was held after 
 the Convention closed; — none of these meetings will ever be for¬ 
 gotten by those who were present. 
 
 Under the inspiring leadership of Mr. William Shaw, money 
 was raised for the employment of twenty field secretaries, in 
 the different vernaculars of India, and also money for an 
 Assistant General Secretary, which the enlarged work made 
 necessary. Already the work of expansion, foreshadowed by the 
 Convention, has begun. Though there had been an enormous 
 growth in the number of societies within the last two years, of 
 from 900 to over 1,300, that is but a foretaste of the larger work 
 
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 that Christian Endeavor has to do in India when all these secre¬ 
 taries are equipped and at work. 
 
 At least two most inspiring conventions have since been held, 
 one in Vellore, Southern India, and another in Satara in the 
 Marathi country, while many missionary meetings have re- 
 
 AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS IN INDIA. 
 
 echoed the joyous notes of the great World’s Convention of 
 Christian Endeavor. 
 
 In the meantime, Secretary Halliwell has been taking his 
 well-earned furlough in his homeland, Great Britain; and in¬ 
 stead of resting upon his laurels, he has been journeying from 
 one end of the United Kingdom to the other, arousing such an 
 interest in Christian Endeavor in India as the British Endeavor- 
 ers have never known before. Undoubtedly not only a larger 
 interest but a far larger support may be expected in the years to 
 come from this British campaign of India’s indefatigable Secre¬ 
 tary. 
 
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 BURMA 
 
 S TILL journeying East, we come to Burma, which in u The 
 Story of the Year ” should have a distinct paragraph, though 
 it is part of the Indian Empire and the Indian Christian En¬ 
 deavor Union. This is preeminently the field of the American 
 Baptists, and all up and down the Irrawaddy their blessed work 
 is known. 
 
 Christian Endeavor has gone with them to the remotest 
 bounds of Burma, to the borders of Siam and China. Among 
 people who speak a dozen different languages the Society is found; 
 and when the round-the-world travellers reached Rangoon, in 
 the Baptist College and churches of that city it seemed to them 
 as though another World’s Convention was being held, so large 
 were the numbers and so great the enthusiasm. 
 
 Nearly one hundred Burmese Endeavorers, with twenty of 
 their missionaries, journeyed fifteen hundred miles to the Agra 
 Convention, across sea and land. No wonder that they brought 
 back with them not only new ideas but new inspiration for the 
 work which was already so strong in their beautiful and historic 
 land. 
 
 THE PHILIPPINES 
 
 A S we journey Eastward from India, we soon come to the 
 Philippine Islands, and here, where the Stars and Stripes 
 wave as proudly as over any other American soil, the banners of 
 Christian Endeavor are also seen. The societies are found not 
 only in the churches of white Americans, but in the Filipino 
 churches as well; and our organization, it is hoped, will have not 
 a small part in promoting an intelligent and effective Chris¬ 
 tianity throughout all the islands of the archipelago. 
 
 CHINA 
 
 T HE Philippine Islands lie at the very door of China, and a 
 few days’ sail brings one to the great British city of Hong 
 Kong, with its hundreds of thousands of yellow British subjects, 
 while up the Pearl River a hundred miles further is the purely 
 Chinese city of Canton. 
 
 Mighty are the rivers of this great empire, vast its territory, 
 almost innumerable its inhabitants. Here, too, if I am not a 
 false prophet, Christian Endeavor will have some of its largest 
 
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 future triumphs. It seems to be adapted to the genius of the 
 Chinese mind. They have been used to guilds and societies of 
 various kinds for unnumbered generations. The methods and 
 ideals of Christian Endeavor seem to attract them, when they 
 
 MR. AND MRS. E. A. STROTHER, SECRETARIES EOR CHINA, ON RIGHT, 
 REAR ROW, WITH HIGH-CLASS CHINESE FAMILY. 
 
 are understood, and the societies under the efficient lead of Rev. 
 and Mrs. Edgar E. Strother, the joint Secretaries for China, are 
 multiplying rapidly in many parts of the empire. 
 
 Foochow has long been a chief centre of Christian Endeavor in 
 China. Here the first society, outside of America, was estab¬ 
 lished in 1884, by Rev. George H. Hubbard. The Fukien Prov¬ 
 ince is still a stronghold of the movement, but North China and 
 
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 South China alike, and West China as well, are now heartily 
 adopting the Christian Endeavor idea. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Strother have tactfully interested the China 
 Inland Mission, which is doing so great a work in this kingdom’s 
 evangelization, also the Church of England missionaries. The 
 literature of the movement is being increased in the Chinese 
 language, and the expectation of a great National Christian 
 Endeavor Convention in Peking in 1911, I believe will not be 
 disappointed. 
 
 JAPAN 
 
 TN no country in the world did the Endeavor pilgrims receive 
 a heartier welcome on their journey around the world than 
 in the land of the Rising Sun. In every large city which they 
 visited, special meetings were held in their honor, and the En¬ 
 deavor Unions of Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, and 
 Sendai, each one seemed to outdo the other in the cordiality 
 of their welcome and in their tribute to the power and value of 
 Christian Endeavor. 
 
 Secretary Tatsu Sawaya is very evidently the right man in the 
 right place. Energetic, tactful, thoroughly evangelistic, he has 
 
 WELCOME OF THE AMERICAN TOURISTS AND ENDEAVORERS, 
 TOKYO, JAPAN, I91O. 
 
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 won a host of new friends every year to the cause of Christian 
 Endeavor, for in this society he learned to know and to serve 
 Christ, having come up through the Junior and Young People’s 
 societies to the honored place in the movement which he now 
 occupies. 
 
 It is interesting to note that at the National Convention, held 
 in Sendai in the early part of the year, while the American pil¬ 
 grims were in Japan, even the jinrikisha men carried the “ C. E ” 
 monogram upon their lanterns, as they trundled the visitors 
 about the streets. 
 
 It also should be recorded, perhaps, that the Emperor of 
 Japan received the President of the United Society of Christian 
 Endeavor in a private audience, an honor which is very rarely 
 accorded, and which was by no means a personal honor, but 
 indicated the good will of the Emperor toward America and 
 toward the Christian institution represented by his visitor. It 
 was felt by the missionaries and the Christian Endeavorers of 
 Japan that such a recognition of a Christian organization would 
 be of real value to them, as I have been told it has since proved 
 to be. 
 
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 AUSTRALIA 
 
 T HE Island World alone remains to be considered in the 1910 
 Story of Christian Endeavor. Australia, whether it may be 
 considered continent or island, has long held a foremost place 
 among the nations of the world in its hospitality to our move¬ 
 ment. Strong State Unions exist in at least five of the six Com¬ 
 monwealths of the United States of Australia. Every year great 
 conventions are held in these States, and the National Austra¬ 
 lasian Convention, which was this year held in Brisbane, Queens¬ 
 land, was a marked event in the religious world. 
 
 In the City Tabernacle of that city a tablet has recently been 
 unveiled to declare to future generations that in this church the 
 first Society of Christian Endeavor in Australia was started. 
 The pastor of the church is Rev. James Mursell, for many years 
 prominent in Christian Endeavor circles, not only in Australia 
 but in London and Edinburgh. 
 
 While many deserve special praise for the work of the past 
 
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 year, none has exceeded in zeal and devotion Mr. J. B. Spencer, 
 of Sydney, the President of the New South Wales Union and 
 Treasurer of the Australasian Union. His interest in the pro¬ 
 posed International Headquarters Building has been surpassed 
 by few even in America, and over $1,000 through his solicitation 
 have been obtained and forwarded for this purpose. 
 
 Melbourne and Adelaide are also chief centres of Christian 
 Endeavor interest, and the three papers published in Australia 
 tell every month of the prosperity of the good work. 
 
 NEW ZEALAND 
 
 T N New Zealand, the general union is not so prosperous, per- 
 haps, as in Australia, but there are many good societies and 
 local unions, where the young people of these wonderful islands 
 of the South Seas are definitely trained for the service of Christ 
 in their respective churches. 
 
 OTHER ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH SEAS 
 
 A S has been said before, some of the islands of the South Seas, 
 though looking like minute specks on the map, in propor¬ 
 tion to their population exceed all others in the number of their 
 
 JUNIOR CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY, ULGUNDALIE ISLAND. 
 
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 Endeavor societies. It is said that in the Marshall Islands one 
 person in every six is a Christian Endeavorer. The Ellis, the 
 » Caroline, the Samoan, and the Fiji are all dotted with Endeavor 
 societies. 
 
 The Society, and indeed all Christian work, sustained a great 
 loss during the past year in the death of Rev. J. E. Newell, the 
 * first promoter of Christian Endeavor in Samoa, and its ardent 
 advocate, not only in his vast parish, the many islands of the 
 South Seas, but in Great Britain as well, when on furlough in the 
 home country. Nor was he a stranger in America, where he was 
 greatly beloved. 
 
 In the Samoan Islands there are now seventeen German En¬ 
 deavor missionaries, sent out and supported, in part, by the 
 societies of Germany. Thus Europe and America and the far 
 remote Islands of the Sea are bound together by the “ chain of 
 love,” which we call Christian Endeavor. 
 
 HAWAII 
 
 W HEN we come to Hawaii, we find that in all the islands of 
 the group are many Christian Endeavor societies. The 
 growth during the last three or four years has been remarkable, 
 though for many years the Society has been known in these fair 
 islands. 
 
 Thousands of people came together to greet the American 
 Endeavorers last January on their journey around the world. 
 Not only was the island of Oahu, in which the city of Honolulu is 
 located, represented in these gatherings, but Hawaii, Kauai, and 
 Maui also had large delegations. No part of their journey did 
 these world-girdling Endeavorers enjoy more than the days they 
 spent in hospitable Hawaii. 
 
 A feature of Hawaiian Endeavor is the number of national¬ 
 ities represented in the Society. Not only white Americans and 
 brown Americans, but Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Portuguese 
 all have societies of their own, or sometimes join in mixed soci¬ 
 eties, and find an equal blessing in their cosmopolitan work. 
 
 THE ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN 
 
 W HILE referring to the Islands of the Sea, it will not do to 
 omit the good work which is being done in Cuba, Porto 
 Rico, Trinidad, the Bahamas, and the Windward Islands, and 
 
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HOW THE HONOLULU ENDEAVORERS WELCOMED THE AMERICAN DELEGATES ON THEIR WAY HOME FROM THE 
 
 AGRA CONVENTION. 
 
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 especially in Jamaica, where for many years Christian Endeavor 
 has been one of the strong forces of evangelical work. There 
 are few places in the world where larger audiences can be gath¬ 
 ered for a Christian Endeavor meeting than in Kingston, or 
 Spanish Town, and other centres of Jamaica. 
 
 COSTA RICA AND PANAMA 
 
 A NEAR neighbor of these West India Islands is Costa Rica, 
 from which we constantly hear encouraging news of the 
 progress of the movement. In Panama also are several good 
 societies of Christian Endeavor. 
 
 ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 
 
 W HEN we cross the Atlantic and draw near the African 
 shore we find some good societies in the Methodist 
 Episcopal mission of Madeira. A little further in our journey and 
 Gibraltar would be reached and here, too, in the world’s great 
 rock fortress, both in the Church of England cathedral and in 
 the Presbyterian church we should find flourishing Christian 
 Endeavor societies. 
 
 SOUTH AMERICA 
 
 F ROM South America comparatively little has this year been 
 heard as to the progress of the societies. We can only hope 
 that “ no news is good news,” and that the many societies of 
 Brazil and the few that are found in Chile, Argentina and Peru 
 are holding on their way, and working heartily for “ Christ and 
 the Church.” 
 
 SOUTH AFRICA 
 
 I N South Africa there are both an English Christian Endeavor 
 Union and a Dutch Union, the latter of which is by far the 
 stronger. Recent advices from South Africa report that the 
 Dutch Union is flourishing greatly, and was never so strong and 
 vigorous as to-day; indeed, that it has touched the high-water 
 mark of success in numbers and vigor during 1910. 
 
 The same cannot be said, perhaps, of the English Union in 
 South Africa, for various causes have conspired to prevent the 
 growth of some societies. However, many English-speaking soci¬ 
 eties are doing good work, and under the leadership of the be- 
 
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 loved and devoted Andrew Murray, larger things are expected of 
 them in the future for the evangelization of Africa. 
 
 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA AND THE CONGO 
 
 G OOD news has recently been received of societies started 
 by missionaries of the American Board in West Central 
 Africa, especially at Ociliso, where Mr. and Mrs. Neipp are 
 particularly active in the good work. The same blessed re¬ 
 sults follow the introduction of the societies as in the Congo 
 Country and other parts of Africa, where flourishing Endeavor 
 societies have existed for several years in the Baptist and other 
 missions. Some Endeavorers have suffered mutilation and loss 
 of arms or hands, under the cruel orders of old King Leopold’s 
 tyrants. A fine steamer called the “ Endeavor ” and built by 
 Endeavorers, plies the waters of the Congo, in the interests of the 
 Baptist mission. 
 
 PERSIA 
 
 S PECIFIC mention has not hitherto been made of two or 
 three countries in which Christian Endeavor is established, 
 because fresh and authentic news, for various reasons, has not 
 recently been received from them. I have every reason to sup¬ 
 pose, however, that in Persia, in spite of the distracted political 
 condition of the country, the societies are moving on the even 
 tenor of their way, and doing good work, as they have for many 
 years past. 
 
 MADAGASCAR 
 
 M ADAGASCAR, too, has been a stronghold of Christian 
 Endeavor for many years, and though the French occu¬ 
 pation for a time disturbed the societies, and reduced their 
 number, yet the earnest devotion of the old Endeavorers has not 
 waned, while new recruits have been added to their ranks. 
 
 KOREA 
 
 I N Korea, many of the churches are practically organized on 
 a Christian Endeavor basis, each church member promising 
 to do certain specific and definite duties as a condition of church 
 membership. The missionaries have not, on that account, felt 
 the need of the Society, as in other lands, but it is believed that 
 the younger generation of Christians will need the training of 
 
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 Christian Endeavor, and the Secretary of the Japanese Union has 
 recently crossed the Straits to the former Hermit Nation, which 
 « has now come under the tutelage of Japan, for the purpose of 
 seeing what more can be done for the establishment of the En¬ 
 deavor movement in that interesting country. 
 
 THE QUIET HOUR AND TENTH LEGION 
 
 D URING the last year the work of the Quiet Hour and of 
 the Tenth Legion has gone on steadily and successfully. 
 Instead of waning, the interest in these two subsidiary organiza¬ 
 tions of Christian Endeavor seems to increase as the years go by, 
 and large numbers of new Comrades and new Legionaries have 
 been added during the year past. 
 
 California still leads, with over 12,000 members of the Quiet 
 Hour and over 4,000 belonging to the Tenth Legion. Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, Illinois, and Massachusetts are near together in the total 
 number of their Quiet Hour Comrades, while of these three 
 States, Pennsylvania leads in the Tenth Legion, with New York 
 a close second, followed by Illinois and Ohio. 
 
 The total number of Comrades of the Quiet Hour is 55,154, 
 and of the Tenth Legion 26,963. It must not be thought that 
 this is the full number of those who are keeping the Quiet Hour, 
 or giving proportionately or systematically. Doubtless there are 
 tens of thousands of other Endeavorers who though not enrolled, 
 are practising “ the presence of God ” each day in the Quiet 
 Hour, and are giving, as God hath prospered them, systemat¬ 
 ically and proportionately to His service. 
 
 AMONG THE SAILORS 
 
 I N many respects this has been a prosperous year for the 
 Floating Societies of Christian Endeavor. More interest than 
 ever has been developed among the Endeavorers on shore in their 
 brothers on the sea. Especially is this true in Great Britain, 
 where Floating Endeavor was naturally a prominent feature in 
 the National Convention in Liverpool. In London also the cause 
 is strong. 
 
 In America there are many centres of Floating work in our 
 great seaports, and Miss Antoinette P. Jones keeps in touch 
 with a large number of the sailor Endeavorers on the sea. 
 
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A RECEPTION TO THE FLOATING CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS OF THE U.S.S. WEST VIRGINIA BY THE ENDEAVORERS OF HONOLULU. 
 
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 The Christian Endeavor Seamen’s Home in Nagasaki, Japan, 
 is still doing a good work wherever there are English-speaking 
 * sailors or soldiers to be reached. 
 
 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR BEHIND THE BARS 
 
 G OOD reports are constantly being received from many 
 Prison societies. We learn not only of thousands of prison¬ 
 ers who take an interest in the organization and an active part 
 in its services, but also hear from chaplains and wardens of the 
 excellent effect that these societies have on prison discipline and 
 the development of hope and courage among the prisoners. 
 
 The prisons of Kentucky, perhaps, lead in this work, as they 
 have for some years past, but there are many societies from which 
 excellent reports come. The most recent report from the Ken¬ 
 tucky State prison at Frankfort tells us that, out of 600 white 
 prisoners, 250 are Christian Endeavorers, over a hundred hav¬ 
 ing been recently added to the Society. Many Endeavorers, 
 too, are interested in helping the prisoners when they are dis¬ 
 charged, and in seeing that they get “ a square deal ” for a new 
 start in life. 
 
 THE SENIOR SOCIETY 
 
 A N interesting development of the past year has been the 
 renewed interest in the Senior Society of Christian En¬ 
 deavor. Though there are not as yet many Senior societies fully 
 organized, some have already been formed that will pioneer the 
 way for others. The idea of this society is not to form an organ¬ 
 ization with separate weekly meetings, but to enlist former En¬ 
 deavorers, who for any reason can no longer belong to the Young 
 People’s society, in the midweek prayer meeting of the church, 
 and to bring to its support many older people who have never 
 been Endeavorers. 
 
 It is believed that such a society would greatly strengthen the 
 midweek service, which in some places is sadly decadent, would 
 help the pastor along many lines of church activity in which he 
 needs an organized band of older people, and would develop the 
 spiritual life of the church members through the prayer meeting, 
 as the Young People’s society has rejuvenated the young people’s 
 prayer meeting in tens of thousands of churches. 
 
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 A FORWARD LOOK 
 
 I T may not be out of place, as we close this necessarily brief 
 review, to take a glance into the future. No one can foretell 
 the “ Story of 1911,” but we can at least see some objects to 
 strive for, which, with God’s blessing, we believe will be attained 
 in the coming year. * 
 
 One of the greatest conventions in the history of the move¬ 
 ment I believe will be held in Atlantic City, in July of 1911, from 
 the 6th to the 12th of the month. Preparations are well in hand 
 to receive the throng of tens of thousands of Endeavorers, 
 while some of the most eminent speakers in the country have 
 already signified their intention of being there to present the 
 great religious and civic causes for which Christian Endeavor 
 stands. 
 
 At this meeting the Increase Campaign, “ Christian Endeavor, 
 1911,” will culminate. We shall find whether we have attained 
 the million new members and ten thousand new societies for 
 which we have striven for the two past years. Whether we shall 
 fully attain these large results or not, I believe that in any event 
 we shall not come far short of them. The effort has been well 
 worth all it has cost, in the new enthusiasms that have been 
 aroused, and the new spirit which has been infused into tens of 
 thousands of Christian Endeavor societies and millions of Chris¬ 
 tian Endeavor hearts. 
 
 It is hoped and believed, too, that within the next year the 
 first sod will be turned for the foundations of the new Interna¬ 
 tional Headquarters Building in Boston — a building which 
 will give an abiding home to the movement, and which will 
 greatly aid it financially in spreading the news of Christian En¬ 
 deavor throughout the world. 
 
 ALOHA-NUI 
 
 A S in imagination I have journeyed around the world once 
 more, to tell of the progress of the Society during the twelve 
 months past, I seem to hear the cordial and kindly greetings of 
 my Endeavor friends in every land. This greeting I would pass 
 over to all who read this booklet, for though spoken in many 
 tongues, the thought is always the same,— the thought of Chris- 
 
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 tian fellowship, unity in the service of Christ, love for all those 
 who are doing His will in every land. 
 
 In Hawaii, the words that one would hear a dozen times a day 
 would be “Aloha-nui,” which, literally translated, means, “ Love 
 to you very much.” This shall be the last word of the “ Story of 
 Christian Endeavor 1910 ” to all Endeavorers the world around, 
 in large churches and small churches, in remote, non-Christian 
 lands as well as in the centres of Christian civilization, in country 
 and city, in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and the 
 Islands of the Sea, to all of you,—“Aloha-nui,”—'“ Love to you 
 very much.” 
 
 HEADQUARTERS BUILDING 
 The Last Call 
 
 D EFINITE plans are under way for a final nation-wide 
 campaign this spring to complete the fund for the Inter¬ 
 national Headquarters Building. 
 
 Are you going to have your part in it? 
 
 If you have one of the Dime Building Banks in your posses¬ 
 sion will you not fill it, and send it in to the United Society at 
 once? 
 
 If you have made a pledge to the Building Fund, and it is 
 due, will you not remit at once? 
 
 If you have let this opportunity to express your appreciation 
 of what Christian Endeavor means to you pass unheeded here¬ 
 tofore, will you not send in your contribution, or a generous 
 pledge payable within two years, now? 
 
 Help us to be able to announce at the Atlantic City Conven¬ 
 tion that the fund is completed. 
 
 A MATTER OF BUSINESS 
 
 Tj'OR more than twenty years the United Society of Christian 
 -I- Endeavor has been self-supporting, and has carried on its 
 large and important work entirely from the proceeds of its pub¬ 
 lishing department. In addition to this, it has contributed largely 
 to the extension of Christian Endeavor in the world-wide field, 
 With its limited resources it was not able to assume the finan¬ 
 cial responsibility for promoting Christian Endeavor in mission 
 
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fetorp of ttjf f^eat 
 
 lands, so the World’s Christian Endeavor Union was compelled 
 to call upon the societies, and generous friends of the movement, 
 to help in this fruitful work. 
 
 No more genuine and helpful missionary work is being done 
 to-day than that which Christian Endeavor is doing in providing 
 a training-school for the native converts who are to become the 
 self-sustaining and self-supporting members of the church of the 
 future. 
 
 Here is an opportunity for you and your society to help 
 pass on the blessing that Christian Endeavor has been to you 
 to others less favored. Will you help? 
 
 Perhaps there are those among the readers of this booklet who 
 would like to remember this work for the needy in other lands in 
 their wills. 
 
 For the convenience of such we print a form of bequest. 
 
 Form of Bequest 
 
 I give and bequeath to the World’s Christian Endeavor 
 Union, to be paid by my executors to the Treasurer of said 
 
 Union, the sum of $-, the same to be applied to the 
 
 general uses and purposes of said Union, under the direction of ♦ 
 its Board of Trustees. 
 
 SOME STATISTICS 
 
 The year 1910 has been one of the most fruitful in all the his¬ 
 tory of our Christian Endeavor movement. Although the off 
 year for our convention, with no special effort made to gather 
 complete statistics, more than 4,000 new societies have been 
 reported at headquarters. The total enrolment is now more 
 than 74,000 societies, with a membership of more than three and 
 three-quarter millions, in more than eighty denominations, and 
 in every country in the world. 
 
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3U )t ^»tor^ of ti)t 
 
 TREASURER’S REPORT 
 
 Report of William Shaw, Treasurer of the World’s Christian 
 Endeavor Union, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1910. 
 
 WORLD’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION 
 
 Receipts 
 
 * Balance from 1909 . $273.55 
 
 Contributions from individuals, societies, and unions 6,630.82 
 British National Council, for work in India. 974.50 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Grants for Christian Endeavor Work: 
 
 $7,878.87 
 
 (This money is expended under the direction of the missionaries 
 of the different evangelical denominations and the native workers, 
 through the National Christian Endeavor Unions of the several 
 
 countries.) 
 
 Bulgaria. $35.00 
 
 European Christian Endeavor Union . 150.00 
 
 France . 200.00 
 
 Hungary. 200.00 
 
 India, Burma, and Ceylon . 2,974.50 
 
 China . 2,000.00 
 
 Italy . 100.00 
 
 Japan . 1,000.00 
 
 Spain. 200.00 
 
 Refund. 2.50 
 
 Clerk and Stenographer. 450.00 
 
 Literature and Printing . 204.52 
 
 Postage. 42.00 
 
 Sundries. 43.05 
 
 Total expenditures . $7,601.57 
 
 Balance in bank . 277.30 
 
 $7,878.87 
 
 Boston, Dec. 12, 1910. 
 
 Finding the foregoing accounts of William Shaw, Treasurer of 
 the World’s Christian Endeavor Union, correctly cast and with 
 proper vouchers on hand, with the requisite balance on deposit 
 in the Federal Trust Company of this city, I hereby acknowledge 
 the same. 
 
 GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Auditor. 
 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS 
 
 UNITED SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR 
 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. 
 
 President 
 
 Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 General Secretary 
 
 Mr. William Shaw 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Mr. Hiram N. Lathrop 
 
 Editorial Secretary 
 
 Prof. Amos R. Wells 
 
 Inter-State Field Secretary 
 
 Mr. Karl Lehmann 
 
 The Board of Trustees represents all the denominations p*c 
 portionately, and all the States and Provinces. 
 
 WORLD’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION 
 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. 
 
 President 
 
 Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Honorary Secretary 
 Pres. John Willis Baer, LL.D. 
 
 Office Secretary and Treasurer 
 
 Mr. William Shaw 
 
 The Board of Trustees includes representatives of organized 
 Christian Endeavor in all lands. 
 
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