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CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 442 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLARK, See also:FRANCIS See also:EDWARD (1851- ) , See also:American See also:clergy-See also:man, was See also:born of New See also:England ancestry at See also:Aylmer, See also:Province of See also:Quebec, See also:Canada, on the 12th of See also:September 1851. He was the son of See also:Charles C. Symmes, but took the name of an See also:uncle, the Rev. E. W. Clark, by whom he was adopted after his See also:father's See also:death in 1853. He graduated at See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 1873 and at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1876, was ordained in the Congregational See also:ministry, and was pastor of the Williston Congregational See also:church at See also:Portland, See also:Maine, from 1876 to 1883, and of the See also:Phillips Congregational church, See also:South See also:Boston, See also:Mass., from 1883 to 1887. On the and of See also:February 1881 he founded at Portland the See also:Young See also:People's Society of See also:Christian Endeavor, which, beginning as a small society in a single New England church, See also:developed into a See also:great interdenominational organization, which in 1908 had 70,761 See also:societies and more than 3,500,000 members scattered throughout the See also:United States, Canada, Great See also:Britain, See also:Australia, South See also:Africa, See also:India, See also:Japan and See also:China. After 1887 he devoted his See also:time entirely to the See also:extension of this See also:work, and was See also:president of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor and of the See also:World's Christian Endeavor See also:Union, and editor of the Christian Endeavor World (originally The See also:Golden See also:Rule). Among his numerous publications are The See also:Children and the Church (1882); Looking Out on See also:Life (1883); Young People's See also:Prayer Meetings (1884); Some Christian Endeavor See also:Saints (1889); World Wide Endeavor (1895); A New Way See also:Round an Old World (Igoo). See his The Young People's Christian Endeavor, where it began, &c. (Boston, 1895) ; Christian Endeavor See also:Manual (Boston, 19o3); and Christian Endeavor in All Lands: See also:Record of Twenty-five Years of Progress (See also:Philadelphia, 1907).

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