Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1906 — Endeavor Society’s Great Growth. [ARTICLE]

Endeavor Society’s Great Growth.

February 2 next, will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Young People’s Society ot Christian Endeavor. It will lie commemorated by the nearly 70,000 societies, and by the 3,500,000 members and by numerous Endeavor unions, local, county, state and national. During the last two years forty-"ix states and three provinces of Canada have gained more than 10 pet cent in the number of their societies. Hawrii has gained 116 per cent. Christian Endeavor has gained a foothold in the Philippines. Nearly %000 societies have reported an increase of 25 per cent in local membership. Ten thousand societies have reported a total of $500,000 in gifts to the mission boards of their denominations, to their local churches and co miscellaneous causes.