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Photos from the Floating Christian Endeavor

Excerpts from A History of the Floating Societies of the Christian Endeavor by Robert A. Danielson. First Fruits Press: 2014. http://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/8/

"One evening in 1890, at the meeting of a local Christian Endeavor Society at the First Congregational Church in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Antoinette Palmer Jones, the secretary of the local society, met with Madison Edwards, a local man who went on board ships to preach and minister to sailors. They discussed adapting the Christian Endeavor Society pledge and program to meet the unique needs of sailors. Antoinette Jones sent the idea to the Christian Endeavor headquarters in Boston and was given permission from the society to try out this new idea." (pg. 8)

“The first Floating Christian Endeavor Society was established sometime in 1890. Wiseman indicates that the first society was established on the Revenue Cutter Gallatin, although Showalter points to church records, where Antoinette Jones recorded the establishment of a society on May 12, 1890 on the Revenue Cutter Dexter.” (pg. 11)

"In a short span of eleven years, the work had grown tremendously, not due to the work of traditional missionaries or an ordained chaplaincy. It grew because of to the flexibility of a lay-led movement accompanied by the transient nature of the mission field and a genuine passion for Christ in its members. The movement quickly spread internationally as well, with Clark mentioning Floating Christian Endeavor Societies on British and Japanese vessels." (pg. 48)

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  • Group of nine sailors representing Vermont Society of the Floating Societies of Christian Endeavor

    Group of nine sailors representing Vermont Society of the Floating Societies of Christian Endeavor

  • Sailor Alfred Larseu

    Sailor Alfred Larseu

  • Sailor Oscar M. Smube

    Sailor Oscar M. Smube

  • Banner of the Floating Socieities of the Christian Endeavor on the U.S.S. Concord

    Banner of the Floating Socieities of the Christian Endeavor on the U.S.S. Concord

  • Brothers Charles and Arthur Aikins of Medford, Oklahoma.

    Brothers Charles and Arthur Aikins of Medford, Oklahoma.

  • Crew of Revenue Steamship Fish Hawk

    Crew of Revenue Steamship Fish Hawk

  • Earle D. Sims, Writer with the U.S. Navy

    Earle D. Sims, Writer with the U.S. Navy

  • Endeavor Lunch Counter, San Pedro, CA

    Endeavor Lunch Counter, San Pedro, CA

  • Envelope with Floating Socities of Christian Endeavor letter head addressed to Mr Tower, Student Mount, Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts

    Envelope with Floating Socities of Christian Endeavor letter head addressed to Mr Tower, Student Mount, Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts

  • John P. Johnson sailor of U.S.S. Fish Hawk, Oct 16, 1892

    John P. Johnson sailor of U.S.S. Fish Hawk, Oct 16, 1892

  • Jonas White of the U.S.S. Plympia, Jan 1900

    Jonas White of the U.S.S. Plympia, Jan 1900

  • Land-Based Society’s Headquarters in Vallejo, CA

    Land-Based Society’s Headquarters in Vallejo, CA

  • Monument in memory of the vicitims of the disaster of U.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Feb 15 1898. Erected by the citizens of Key West Florida

    Monument in memory of the vicitims of the disaster of U.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Feb 15 1898. Erected by the citizens of Key West Florida

  • Picture of the U.S.N Philadelphia

    Picture of the U.S.N Philadelphia

  • Picture of the U.S.S. Mississippi, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

    Picture of the U.S.S. Mississippi, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

  • Portrait of Sailor taken in San Francisco

    Portrait of Sailor taken in San Francisco

 
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