Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of

In various Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a Congregational minister.

See also: Christian

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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