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 FRANCIS E. CLARK 129 School, the public worship, the mid-week service — the young people deepened that impression. At once they sought the expression of their ideals in practical service. The Christian Endeavor prayer meeting gave opportunity for expressing and deepening the devotional spirit until it sought new outlet in larger service. It has strengthened the hands of student volunteers ; it has contributed money to the support of missions; it has invested its own tremendous influ- ence and enthusiasm in the mission field ; it has organized its societies in every mission land. Bolenge, in the heart of Af- rica, claims the world's largest Christian Endeavor Society. Christian Endeavor has grappled with the problem of mis- sions in the home land, and sought especially to solve those presented by the religious conditions in our large cities. Christian Endeavor has quickened the civic conscience. It has trained young men and women into higher ideals of busi- ness, society, and government. Local unions have conducted successful campaigns for social and municipal betterment. Everywhere the ideals of social service find ready intellectual and practical response in Endeavor circles. Internationally the Society moves forward in a program for world peace. Despite many lapses into barbarism the na- tions have permitted the seed sowing and will in time reap the harvest of international justice and world federation. Throughout its history it has stood uncompromisingly for temperance. At the International Christian Endeavor con- vention, held at Los Angeles in 1913, the great multitude of young people enthusiastically launched the campaign for a saloonless American nation by 1920. The motto, ** Service for all and all for service,'' has ever inspired the Endeavor hosts. This devotional awakening and this unselfish service accom- panied fellowship and fidelity. Intense loyalty to the local diurch, and to the denomination, characterizes the movement. Yet no narrow sectarianism shackles it. With the vision of the prophet it sees the fatherhood of God issue in the brother- hood of man. With representation in one hundred denomina- tions it carries its cooperative work across denominational