CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR UNDER MANY SKIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12442, 3 March 1906, Page 13

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR UNDER MANY SKIES.

•fte approacl iin £ twenty-fifth anniereary of the Christian Endeavour , movement jw-ntly prompted Dr. F. E. Tlark i to founder, to contribute to the "British Weekly" eomo cntcrtainra« reminiscences of its work and progress under many skk*. Th© first eocietj , -jjjcJj yeae established in America is to- ' day as vigorous a» ever, but it is now one of 3000 in that country. In Great / gritain more than 8000 branches ere record i ,l tne ft" , National Union, r jjjjg hundreds of others aro in oxist- "' cnoe that arc not yet enrolled at the \alional headquarters. "In the Established Chnrch, as well as in the Free Chiirchee, tho moTement ie making heedway, though more slowly. But tb e "Ohtirch of England Christian En(Joavourer' brint- , * news every month of jjeir ftdditioiis to the ranks of ite societies, and of increasing interest in their iror'k." In Australia tihe movement has , gone ahead "like their own kangaroos, by leaps and jumps." "On a recent visit to the great Island Continent I true pr«ientecf. at a groat Convention jjj jMeiaida, with a small stuffed kangaroo, and was told that this was the typical Christian Endeavour animal, ' vhich ought to be piotured on all thu ' society's ooate of arms, ehould it ever indulge in any. South Auetralia, Vioteria, New South Walcw, and New Zealand'all maintain creditable Christian ' EudsaTOur magazinjoe, and far numbers, genuine enthusiasm, intellectual vigour o f tihe addressee, and deep spiritual ferToar, I have never Been any Conventions that surpassed naif a score that I have attended in the land of the Southern Croae." In China Dr. Clark cud. on a recent visit, no lose than 1500'bliio-bloused ColesUaJe gathered in the Fifth All-China Christian Endeavour Convention in Foodhow. . A stranger oxpericnoo still was met with in Jamaica where a largo church, was crowded with a company of block En<fcavourers, the , secretory of the Jamaica Union and two • American vieitora being tie only nonooloured people present. "The address of Treloome -wae given by one of the blackest of the black brethren, and was characterifftio of his eloquent race— hearty, enthuaiaetio, and genuine. 'We • are very glad,' he said, in ' hie expansive penetration, 'to -welcome our American cousins/ as we English say.'" The remark impressed Dr. Clark as a. beautil furtributo to tihe patriotic feeling of '' the black people.