the World's Christian Endeavor Union, and
editor of the _Christian Endeavor World_ (originally _The Golden Rule_).
Among his numerous publications are _The Children and the Church_
(1882); _Looking Out on Life_ (1883); _Young People's Prayer Meetings_
(1884); _Some Christian Endeavor Saints_ (1889); _World-Wide Endeavor_
(1895); _A New Way Round an Old World_ (1900).

See his _The Young People's Christian Endeavor, where it began, &c._
(Boston, 1895); _Christian Endeavor Manual_ (Boston, 1903); and
_Christian Endeavor in All Lands: Record of Twenty-five Years of
Progress_ (Philadelphia, 1907).

CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752-1818), American frontier military leader, was
born near Charlottesville, in Albemarle county, Virginia, on the 19th of
November 1752. Early in life he became a land-surveyor; he took part in
Lord Dunmore's War (1774), and in 1775 went as a surveyor for the Ohio
Company to Kentucky (then a district of Virginia), whither he removed
early in 1776. His iron will, strong passions, audacious courage and
magnificent physique soon made him a leader among his frontier
neighbours, by whom in 1776 he was sent as a delegate to the Virginia
legislature. In this capacity he was instrumental in bringing about the
organization of Kentucky as a county of Virginia, and also obtained from
Governor Patrick Henry a supply of powder for the Kentucky settlers.
Convinced that the Indians were instigated and supported in their raids
against the American settlers by British officers stationed in the forts
north of the Ohio river, and that the conquest of those forts would put
an end to the evil, he went on foot to Virginia late in 1777 and
submitted to Governor Henry and his council a plan for offensive
operations. On the 2nd of January 1778 he was commissioned
lieutenant-colonel, received L1200 in depreciated currency, and was
authorized to enlist troops; and by the end of May he was at the falls
of the Ohio (the site of Louisville) with about 175 men. The expedition
proceeded to Fort Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi, in what is now
Illinois. This place and Cahokia, also on the Mississippi, near St
Louis, were defended by small British garrisons, which depended upon the
support of the French _habitants_. The French being willing to accept
the authority of Virginia, both forts were easily taken. Clark gained
the friendship of Father Pierre Gibault, the priest at Kaskaskia, and
through his influence the French at Vin