CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS IN THE A. M. A. CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. BY REV. GEORGE W. MOORE. The first Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the District of Columbia was organized fifteen years ago, in the Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, Washington, D. C. When this Society was organized the place of its location, "Hell's Bottom," was the most notorious section of the national capital. There were seventeen saloons within two squares of our mission and several gambling places were in full blast. There were more cutting and shooting affrays, more police on duty and more subjects for the hospital and station-house than in any other section of the District of Columbia. We have known of three murders in the community in a single night. [Illustration: REV. GEORGE W. MOORE, TENN. GENERAL MISSIONARY.] The Christian Endeavorers of this society aided the pastor in a crusade against these dens of iniquity which resulted in wiping out all of the saloons and gambling places, and the community became one of the best sections of the city. This society has been missionary in its spirit and methods; besides organizing a Junior Endeavor Society and seeking its own development and growth, it has been active in Alley Mission Sunday-schools, Gospel services in hospitals, and temperance work. A large number of students, while receiving their training in the schools and colleges of Washington, became members of the Lincoln Memorial Endeavor Society. They have since gone out as ministers, teachers, physicians, lawyers, business men and home makers, carrying with them the Endeavor spirit throughout the South. The Christian Endeavor movement in many of our churches in the South has felt the impulse of this mother society in Washington. There are now Christian Endeavor Societies in the four Congregational churches under the American Missionary Association in the District of Columbia: Lincoln Memorial, Plymouth, The People's, and University Park Temple. Their pastors, Rev. Messrs, A. P. Miller, A. C. Garner, T. M. Nixon and S. N. Brown are all wide-awake Christian Endeavorers. The Christian Endeavor spirit is felt in all our American Missionary churches in North Carolina from King's Mountain on the West to Beaufort-by-the sea. In the summer of 1898 an active campaign of Christian Endeavor was carried on at Fort Macon, on the Atlantic Coast, among the colored soldiers of the Third North Carolina volunteer regiment. The Field Missionary of the American Missionary Association was aided in this service by Pastor Newkirk, of Beaufort, and other Christian workers. Over two hundred of the colored boys in blue enlisted, under the banner of the Cross, in the army of the Lord.