Show A WONDERFUL SOCIETY something more than eighteen years ago in the elie oily city of oc fintland Pon Pint tand land 2 ale A a pastor had bad become anxious concerning the practical bork ork of the young people in hla his church ile he frit felt thit they ought to pray more and do mole moie and make the taft latant power of their young life more effective in the hurch church life aluch thought and prayer bocie given to tho the subject and at last a pimple tion lion called the young peoples society of Chi endeavor ever of the williston church ot of portland vaa mas the result jt it mas aa on the second day of that this organization mas as enacted and ami that the ural first society of christian un in cleaver va nas launched it I 1 09 as a small organization and it mane lout but little stir the papers of portland did not record the event tile the next morning morn lne nor were the people of the williston church itself acry cry much elih alth the new bation still I 1 he little society lind 00 althin oo till it the germ erm of cr the great christian endeavor I 1 movement nt in fact within it were all the essential features foa tures of nr the present day society socK ty ishad tho the pledge almost in tile exact form that Is today used the two eno classes of mem bia active and a associate co bete cie also provided foi foa and defined zi as today tile the consecration meeting was a feature of that first society and solo cral of the more important com ellich tt alch sin an endeavor society cannot to its voik belonged to tile in williston chuich the missionaries of t the b e adli T e r denominations too ess took look the s seed e ed a across c i 0 tins tile sea nea and PILli ted it in china in india in jihan anti and in T the south sea pea islands germany in lime ime found a use for christian endeavor so and inala soon concluded haq something in it for her ell churches U aches Sult and france have g given I 1 von it a uel cleoine cl coine cOllue though as yet the to number um ber or of societies js Is small hven even spall spain did not turn its back upon this amet aecil I 1 crin idea it Is a fat fact fa t morth orelli noting that eien cen our late unpleasantness aith lah spain though the movement hid had been largely mith ath america and american missionaries yet not a single flo society clety nas aa alv n up arid and there are ur today several more societies sock lies in tile peninsula than there more a year ugo ago moreover some of the of spain are arc eagerly asking it ft a convention tor for the castilian 1 I cannot toe be hold bold on spanish soil in the Y year car 1900 immediately lifter after the groat at in london it a supplementary g convention velch they liopo hope will be attended by many americans america ns in all these counti lea the iho sa same me pledge Is used the constitution in all its es features Is tile same and the met methods cods hods of work t though hough flexible and aid adaptable ap table are sri titell I 1 I 1 all substantially tile the yama same in every clinic clime this 19 a 1 seed that flourishes in soil TI this a Is a plant that liaa has boino tran transplant ng to every quarter of tile the glube globe mole moie than five avo ni lillon copies of the constitution have been tainted pi anted in forty different languages and more than twenty million copies cajoles of the pledge tho the meetings and conventions that I 1 have atteA attended ded in foreign lando landa hao hale pathetic tn in their Inte interest test dal haik khin skinned young Ilin doos young hina N v till hh almond eyes and lon ions queues alert Japa black zulus with kinky hair stalwart and samoans I 1 have seen gathered together for far the so purely religious mith v ith a depth of earnestness alit ami joy in the service of god gild I 1 aich has hah been in the extreme llev hev francis K I 1 clarke president U S C JB in col COI hers weekly |