Friendly Endeavor, August 1926
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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 8-1926 Friendly Endeavor, August 1926 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, August 1926" (1926). Friendly Endeavor. 62. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/62 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Friendly Endeavor V o l u m e 5 , N u m b e r 8 . PORTLAND, OREGON. August, 1926. LAST CALL FORj, TWIN ROCKS REMEMBER!! SOME SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE WHO EXPECT TO ATTEND THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR You are planning to go to Conference, TWIN ROCKS conference August 2 to 9. You need the Conference TOPICS FOR AUGUST and the Conference needs you. It is the Inasmuch as we have been asked to place for spiritual fellowship, joint effort serve again in the capacity of Father and in work and play, and wholesome fun. Mother to the young people, it seems By BELL G. BADLEY. Soul and body will feel better at the end appropriate that wa should offer a few of the Conference if you come and enter suggestions to those who expect to attend into it whole-heartedly. the conference, because both the spiritaal To send $5.00 to Worth Coulsen, if you and recreational benefits to be derived August 8, 1926. haven't already. This is to insure your from the conference will depend largely Topic: "What Books Have I Found entertainment when you arrive. His upon the manner in whicla we conduct Worth While? Why?" address is Scotts Mills, Oregon. Be sure ourselves while there. If we wish the -^osh. 1:1-9. to send it in the next mail if you wish to conference to be a real success, let us, "If you have ever tried to select the board with the Conference Club. before going to Twin Rocks, give careful ten volumes that you would take with There is plenty of room for camping if consideration to. our plans, remembering you if youi were going to be ivrecked on you cannot board with the club. that this is to be a Jconference of Chris a desert island," says Asa Don Dickinson Wouldn't it be better to come and camp tian young people. There are no other in his Guide to Daily Reading, you know here, and get a spiritual feast as well as young people in this world who have so alreadv the difficulties that are met. The a p h y s i c a l r e s t , t h a n t o g o e l s e w h e r e , good a right to get genuine profit and books that yVu would take this ye^ are where the fellowship of God's people is real pleasure out of such a conference not the ones you would lacking. a s t h o s e w h o a r c C h r i s t i a n s a n d o n year, nor the ones you the same To h a v e y o u r s t u n t r e a d y f o r s t u n t their way to heaven; but we must care year. And they would "ot be the same night. fully conduct ourselves in a way which if you were to be there ten J ' , To have a Conference song, written is consistent with our profession. To they would if you were to be theie only and learned. fail in this vill spoil the occasion, botli ten months. Tt would take me so long To bring top bedding, knife, fork, f o r o t h e r s a n d f o r o u r s e l v e s . spoon and plate, and any other con Wa most earnestly reque.st that in all to choose' said one pert reader, that I veniences you may desire. matters of dress and conduct, that we should miss the boat and not get To pray that God's hand of blessing hold to a high standard of Christian wrecked'." may be upon the Conference in a very modesty. The fact that this partakes of "For whatever things wntten manifest way, and upon every individual the nature of an outing, does not indicate aforetime were written for ohr^leaming. present. license to be lacking in Christian mod To leave all your troubles at home. esty, nor coarse in general conduct. You won't need them at Conference. Those who wish to go into the surf or "The first time I read an excdlent They will wait until you get home. lake, are requested to wear bathing suits book, it is to me just as if I had gmned To bring all the smiles you have, for which are as little exposing as may be a new friend; when I read o^er a book 1 they will help you to get acquainted and possible to be had; and to throw coats have perused before, it^ resembles the make you happier all the time. o r b l a n k e t s a r o u n d t h e m s e l v e s w h i l e g o meeting with an old^meVer Goldsmith. Everybody Come and Have a REAL ing to and from tha water. All persons Vacation. are requested to change bathing suits "Books are the food of o®! and hiking suits, and to put on regulation light of old age; the ojnament of pros T H E F I R S T M E A L clothing, as soon as they return to the perity; the refuge and comfort of ad conference grounds. Please be con versity; a deliglit at At Conference will be served on Monday siderate. hindrance abroad; companions at nigM^ evening. Tuesday evening will be the Young people are requested not to go companions in traveling and^m^me get-to-gether meeting, and Wednesday hiking at any time nor to the beach after country." evening the first Evangelistic service. night, except by permission. This re que.st is not made bscause of lack of con "We are as liable to be cormped by fidence, but in the interest of safety and b o o k s a s b y NOTICE! good order. companion^s^^_^ Fillding. It is preferable that no dogs, par We forgot to mention this in the folder. ticularly large ones, should be brought Be sure to bring a knife, fork, spoon, cup to the conference; but, in case any be "It does not matter how o^any'Jiut and plate in addition to the things how good, books you have." —Seneca. brought, their owners are requested to mentioned in the folder. If you can, tie them up at night, outside their tents; bring utensils of this kind that you can and to othei-wise prevent them from an "Life being very short, and the quiet donate to the Conference. This will help noying other persons. hours of it few, we ought to waste none cut down expenses and will not work a We are expecting an exceptionally of them in reading valueless books,;^ and hardship on any of us. profitable and enjoyable conference; and, valuable books ^ould, in a ,, that it may be so, we tnist that every one comt.,, be «,hi„ the reach of evejone. ATTENTION! BOISE VALLEY C. E.'S. will come, in the spirit ot prayer, and with hearts open to the truth. The annual conference for Boise Yours, with much interest in the young "There is no business; no avocation Valley Quarter of Christian Endeavorers people of Oregon Yearly Meeting. whatever, which will not permit a man, will be held at Boise, August 20, 21 and FATHER AND MOTHER COPE. who has the inclination, to give a httle 22. Let's all turn out for these meetings time every day and enjoy a feast off good things. A Do right if the heavens fall; but splendid program of speaking, music and t h e r e i s n o d a n g e r o f t h e i r f a l l i n g . conference discussions is being planned "No book that will not improve by re f o r t h i s o c c a s i o n . A l l A b o a r d f o r t h e Candor will lose you some friends, but peated readings ^l-iwes Capital City for Idaho's Conference. not as many as deceit. "When reading for something besides "Ekonomy is of itself a great revenue." "A man who cannot mind liis own "By their patience and perseverance Twin Rocks Conference is a subject SUNNYSIDK pastime, get into the habit of referring —Cicero. business is not to be trusted "with the God's children are truly known from that is occupying the thought and at when necessary to dictionary, encyclo K i n g s . " — S a v i l l e . hypocrites and dissemblers." tention of some of our members and a pedia and atlas." Augustine.