THE CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION T.H. P. SAILER/ GHAIRMAN,EDI T - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S \ MISSIONARY \MOVEMENT O.GANTZ CHA.PMAH (The Church and Missionary Education ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION UNDER THE DIRECTION OP THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT f OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA PITTSBUBQ, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 10-12, 1908 NEW YORK YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908, BT TOUNO PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA HUNTINGTGN LIBRARY SAN MARINO, CALIF. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY ix OBJECTS FOR INTERCESSION xi OPENING SESSION 1-16 "What Do Ye More than Others?" Mr. John Willis Baer 3 Christ's Ascension Gift. The Rev. James I. Vance 5 EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA AND OTHER COUNTRIES. 17-49 Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada. Mr. C. C. Michener 19 United Conference on Missionary Education in the United King- dom. Mr. Kenneth Maclennan 33 Committee of General Council of Missionaries in Korea. The Rev. J. L. Gerdine 37 United Conference on Work Among Young People in India. The Rev. Arthur H. Ewing 41 Committee for Work Among the Young in China. Mr. Fletcher S. Brockman 45 THE UNITY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD 51-57 The Unity of the Kingdom of God. Bishop Frank W. Warne 53 STEREOPTICON AND MOVING PICTURES 59-63 Stereopticon and Moving Pictures. Mr. S. Earl Taylor and Mr. C. V. Vickrey. 61 THE CALL OF THE MISSION FIELDS 65-104 The North American Continent in the Economy of Grace. Mr. J. E. McAfee 67 South America the Continent of Opportunity. The Rev. James W. Morris 74 Africa at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. The Rev. Wilson S. Naylor 80 A Message from Southern Asia. The Rev. Arthur H. Ewing. .... 88 The Strategic Hour in Eastern Asia. Mr. Fletcher S. Brockman. 94 APPEALS OF ORIENTAL CHRISTIANS 105-117 Korea's Humiliation, Christianity's Call. Mr. Syngman Rhee 107 Christianity the Hope of Japan. The Rev. Takejiro Ishiguro 109 The Evangelization of India. Mr. S. P. Devasahayam Ill Come Over Into China and Help Us. Mr. C. T. Wang 115 THE BIBLE A MISSIONARY BOOK 119-129 The Bible a Missionary Book. The Rev. O. E. Brown 121 SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE AS A POWER IN EVANGELIZATION 131-138 Systematic Benevolence as a Power in Evangelization. The Rev. L. Call Barnes 133 EDUCATION AND PRAYER 139-169 The Place of Missionary Education in the Life of the Church. The Rev. William Douglas Mackenzie 141 The Place of Prayer in the Missionary Enterprise. Mr. Robert E. Speer 153 v yi CONTENTS PAGE THE CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY 171-183 The Consecration Adequate to Victory. Mr. John R. Mott 173 DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 185-285 Canadian Baptist Delegates. The Rev. J. G. Brown, Chairman... 187 Free Baptist Delegates. Mr. Harry S. Myers, Chairman 187 Northern Baptist Delegates. The Rev. John M. Moore, Chairman 188 Work of the Forward Movement The Rev. John M. Moore 189 The Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education 192 Southern Baptist Delegates. The Rev. T. B. Ray, Chairman 194 Baptist Union Meeting. The Rev. J. G. Brown, Chairman 195 The Sunday School and Missions. Mr. L. P. Leavell 197 Some Fundamental Principles. The Rev. Emory W. Hunt 200 Delegates of the Congregational Church. The Rev. William Douglas Mackenzie, Chairman 206 Practical Suggestions Upon the Development of Missionary Inter- est Among Young People 208 Delegates of the Disciples of Christ. The Rev. George B. Ran- shaw, Chairman 210 Delegates of the Free Methodist Church. The Rev. B. Winget, Chairman 212 Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. Marion J. Kline, Chairman 213 The Kind of Men Christ Needs. The Rev. Oliver C. Roth .... 213 Home Mission Work. The Rev. J. Elmer Bittle 215 Woman's Work. Mrs. Kate B. Shaffer 216 The Call of Liberia. The Rev. Will M. Beck 218 The Challenge of Success. The Rev. Victor McCauley 220 Delegates of the Methodist Church in Canada. The Rev. Alex- ander Sutherland, Chairman 223 Delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. A. B. Leonard, Chairman 227 Delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Rev. W. R. Lambuth, Chairman 229 Purpose of the Educational Campaign. The Rev. Ed F. Cook 229 What Can We Do to Carry Out the Purposes of this Movement?. . 231 Good Tidings from Korea. Mrs. J. B. Cobb 233 Reinforcements Needed for Korea. The Rev. J. L. Gerdine. . 235 Methodist Union Meeting. Bishop Frank W. Warne, Chairman.. 237 The Responsibility of the Boards of the Church to the Young People. The Rev. Alexander Sutherland 237 What This Educational Campaign Means to Our Home Mission Work. The Rev. Alpha J. Kynett 240 What This Educational Campaign Means to Our Foreign Work. The Rev. A. B. Leonard 243 The Call to Advance. The Rev. Walter R. Lambuth 246 Delegates of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Rev. A. E. Fletcher, Chairman 251 CONTENTS vii PAGE Delegates of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Bishop of Pittsburg, Chairman 252 Delegates of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, The Rev. R. P. Mackay, Chairman 253 Presbyterian Union Meeting. Mr. Robert E. Speer, Chairman... 255 "Work of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. A. Mr. Joseph E. McAfee 255 Work of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. A. Mr. Robert E. Speer 256 "Work of the Board for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. A. The Rev. E; P. Cowan 257 The Potent Factor in World-wide Evangelism. Mrs. M. J. Gilder- sleeve 258 "Work of the Women's Boards of Foreign Missions. Mrs. John F. Miller 259 Work of the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. The Rev. H. F. Williams 260 Missions in the Sunday School. The Rev. George H. Trull 262 Systematic Study of Missions. Mr. T. H. P. Sailer 263 Delegates of the Reformed Church in America. Mr. H. A. Kin- ports, Chairman 264 Delegates of the Reformed Church in the United States. The Rev. John H. Prugh, Chairman 267 Delegates of the United Brethren Church. Bishop G. M. Mat- thews, Chairman 268 A Large Advance in Foreign Missions. The Rev. S. S. Hough. . . 269 Growth in Foreign Mission Study. The Rev. Edgar Knipp 271 The Study of Home Missions. Miss Lyda B. Wiggim 272 A Message from Sierra Leone. The Rev. W. R. Funk 274 Woman's Board of the United Brethren Church. Mrs. L. H. Leitzel 275 Delegates of the United Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles R. Watson, Chairman 277 "Lift Up Your Eyes and Look Upon the Fields." The Rev. Charles R. Watson 277 Home Mission Study. The Rev. R. A. Hutchison 277 Mission Study Among Women. Mrs. Mary Clokey Porter 278 Mission Study Among Young People. Mr. Earl D. Miller 279 Testimonies Regarding the Value of Mission Study 281 A Threefold Prayer. The Rev. J. K. McClurkin 284 PRAISE, PRAYKB AND PURPOSE 286-287 APPENDIXES 289-299 A. Organization of the Convention 291 B. Statistics of the Convention 292 C. Board of Managers of the Young People's Missionary Move- ment, Subcommittees and Secretaries 295 INDEX 301 PUBLICATIONS 818-315 LIST OF MISSION BOARDS AND CORRESPONDENTS... ... 816-820 ILLTJSTKATIONS PAGE Executive Committee of the Young People's Missionary Move- ment Frontispiece Music Hall and Convention Scenes 9 Rev. J. L. Gerdine, Mr. John Willis Baer, Mr. James I. Vance, Mr. Kenneth Maclennan 19 Pictorial Material: Lantern Slides, Barge Landing at Ellis Island, Indian Fakir on Bed of Spikes 61 Rev. A. H. Ewing, Mr. J. E. McAfee, Mr. F. S. Brockman, Rev. W. S. Naylor, Rev. O. E. Brown 67 Mr. C. T. Wang, Mr. Syngman Rhee, Mr. S. P. Devasahayam, Rev. Takejiro Ishiguro 107 Rev. L. Call Barnes, Mr. John R. Mott, Rev. W. D. Mackenzie, Mr. Robert E. Speer 133 Text Books, Libraries, and Helps for Mission Study 143 Curio Boxes, Library, Manuals, Wall Charts, and Books for the Sunday School 155 Missionary Programs, Series II, for Sunday Schools and Junior Societies 191 Pictorial Material: Post-Cards, Stereographs on China 213 Missionary Exhibit 253 vHi INTRODUCTORY THE First International Convention under the direction of the Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada assembled the leaders in missionary effort of the Home and Foreign Mission Boards and Societies of North America and those to whom the boards look for leadership in the promotion of missionary education in their denominations. The purpose of the Convention was to consider the pressing need for an immediate advance movement in the mission fields at home and abroad; to realize the success of the present campaign of missionary education and the necessity for a more thorough and f ar-reaching educational movement by the mission boards and societies in young men's and women's church clubs, young people's organizations, and the Sunday- schools of the Churches of North America; to pray, and earnestly to resolve to enter with greater consecration upon the campaign of missionary education among the 17,000,000 young men, young women, and Sunday-school members of Canada and the United States. A full statement of the achievements of the Young People's Missionary Movement is found on pages 19-33 of this volume, to which the reader is referred. The addresses in this volume are reported substantially as they were delivered, with emendations by the speakers and editor as seemed necessary in the interest of clearness and usefulness. In all cases introductory remarks by the chairman and prayers offered have been eliminated. In the reports of the denominational meet- ings only the most important addresses and resolutions have been printed. li I. For the pervasive and constant spirit of prayer among the delegates. "Pray without ceasing." 1 Thess. v. 17. II. That in every session of the Convention the presence and power of God may be felt. "There am I in the midst." Matt, xviii. 20. III. That the delegates may receive a wider vision of the world need. "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields." John iv. 35. IV. That each delegate may have a self-sacrificing readiness to meet the issues of the Convention and to devote his Hfo wholly to the service of Christ, either in the mission field or in the home Church. "For Christ also pleased not himself." Rom. xv. 3. V. That each delegate may form, before the adjournment of the Convention, a definite purpose and plan of work for the ensuing year, attempting great things for God and ex- pecting great things from God. "Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?" Jer. xxxii. 27. VI. That the close of the Convention may be the beginning of larger, more prayerful, and more effective effort through- out the Church for the evangelization of the world. "Ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication." 2 Cor. i. 11. xi OPENING SESSION 1 i iflP . M R. JOHN R .Mori' SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE AS 'A POWER IN EVANGELIZATION THE REV. L. CALL BARNES, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS Evangelization is more than proclaiming, it is incarnating. It is getting the good news of God into control of human lives. When the news of the victory in Manila Bay flashed under the sea American blood leaped into world-wide sympathy. Millions were instantly converted from narrowness into wideness of views. It was the awakening of world-consciousness, the next thing to religious conversion, which is the awakening of universal conscious- ness. News which can do such things is potent. In the short ten years since then, the idea germinant in that news has taken pro- found control of American life. Evangelization is accomplished when the good news of the love of God in Jesus Christ is completely reshaping the ideas and the life-policy of individuals and of nations. Systematic benevolence is a power to this end, an almost omnip- otent force, because it is a wide-reaching embodiment of spiritual energy, and because it acts with the reliability of the universal energies. I. SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE IS THE WIDEST-REACHING EMBODIMENT OF SPIRITUAL ENERGY The four-syllable Latin "Benevolence" comes closer to you and me in the two-syllable Anglo-Saxon, "Good-will." Good-will is alive and potent for humanity only when it is embodied. The good-will of God embodied is the key-note of the gospel, sung in the heavens to be born among men. Will, good-will, is the central spiritual fact of the universe. It becomes an actual factor only as it is embodied. Benevolence is but a dream unless it becomes beneficence. Well- doing is the only verification of well-wishing. Here is John Smith. He takes a pen and ink and paper and gives you some embodiment of his good-will, with the marks that you read, "Yours truly, John Smith." But, when he sends you a 133 photograph, you have a more clear and fully outlined embodiment. A Roman Catholic priest who was my neighbor for a time in Mas- sachusetts, when I left that neighborhood, gave me his photograph, writing under it, "Your neighbor, from such a date to such a date; your friend forever." So you see, even in purgatory I shall have a friend on the right side. "Your friend, forever," are words upon which one loves to look. You see something of the embodiment of good-will in an auto- graph and in a photograph, but when you look into the face the living face of John Smith, you see his good-will shining out of his eyes and beaming from his countenance. Even then we do not see him any more than we see God. Both are spirits invisible, known only through their expressions. There are more perfect expressions of John Smith, the spirit, than those just noted. For instance, he is walking along the street and sees a barefooted boy who has been flung on our continent out of the hold of an immigrant ship. The boy stubs his toe and falls, bleeding. John Smith reaches down and lifts him up. Now, you begin to see the good-will of John Smith. It is no longer latent, it becomes potent. There is an instance almost like that in this very city ; an immigrant boy going around on errands here as a telegraph messenger was taken by one of the citizens of this town and started upon a new course. Having run it successfully, for years he has been scattering beneficent millions throughout the world. To lend a hand incarnates good-will. But there is one embodiment of spiritual energy which is uni- versal in meaning and most wide-reaching in effectiveness. John Smith is a shoemaker. He mixes his devotion to ideals with calf- skin and turns out good shoes. Here is a double incarnation of good-will. For one thing, his honest shoes keep human feet from bleeding at the roughness of the earth, keep them warm and com- fortable. For another thing, he gets a five-dollar bill for a pair of those shoes. This is the most concentrated embodiment of his brain, heart, conscience, life-giving. It has wings too. He can send it to Porto Rico, to the Philippine Islands, to any spot on the planet, in order to lift up the fellow whom his hands, otherwise, could never reach. Though but a lowly shoemaker, his spirit efficiently encircles the globe. This is the embodiment of spiritual energy which is most wide-reaching. When the vast spiritual energy of good-will is systematic it be- comes Godlike, for BENEVOLENCE IN EVANGELIZATION 135 II. SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE ACTS WITH GOD-LIKE RELIABILITY James, the brother of Jesus, was a daily close-range witness of the greatest Benevolence ever seen among men. Let him lead us into the very heart of the matter "Every good gift and every per- fect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning." The mightiest forces of God are always systematic forces. Take that utterly measureless force which picks up our huge earth with its many million tons of weight, as you might pick up a little ball of zephyr, and swings it round through the vast spaces of the uni- verse as you might that ball at the end of a string. Instead of being a power for good, this power would be the source of indescribable disaster if it were not systematic. So systematic is gravitation that physicists can tell us in mathematical terms exactly the laws of its working at any distance with any particle, however minute, or how- ever immense in God's creation. This mighty power is "all-mighty" because it is systematic. Were it not systematic, when you go on the street your hat, not only occasionally, when there is a gust of wind, but all the time might as well fly off your head as stay on, and you yourself might fly off into space as likely as to stand. Terra firma would explode. The goodness of God is goodness in pro- portion as it is systematic, so that we can absolutely depend upon its workings. James uses a different expression of the power of God as an example of this principle, namely, Light. He says that every good gift and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, insisting that this radiant energy is absolutely systematic, that there is no variableness in it, not even shadow of turning. The rainbow in the ancient time was a token that light has at the heart of it love on which we can depend. So systematic is the action of light of which God is the Father, that there is not a beam of light ever falls without a rainbow in it. You only need take a piece of three-cornered glass such as might hang on an old-fashioned chan- delier and put it into a ray of light anywhere to discover that the rainbow is there as surely as the beam of light itself. It can be told in mathematical terms how many, how long, how short, how rapid the movements are of the waves of light which make royal pur- ple in the rainbow, and ruby red, each one of the colors having its own law differing from the other and working with absolute, invariable system. You get the same result, if you put your little 136 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION prism in a ray of sunlight from Sirius, that vastly more magnificent sun far away in the sky, or any one of the million suns we call stars. Every one of them sends out light with the glorious rainbow at its heart, for God is light, but God is also love, systematic good- will. Were it not so, were there some rays of light without any rainbow in them, they would not be full white light, you could not trust the light, though your eyes might be dazzled at times and your eyeballs seared as with a beam through a burning-glass. God is a consuming fire, but there is no beam of light from the awful fires of the burning sun that has not in it rainbows, because the good-will of God is without variation, without even a shadow of changing. Systematic good-will is the only good-will which is really good. Haphazard good-will, haphazard benevolence when a gust of feeling sweeps through the soul, otherwise no benevolence, is not good-will. It is not beneficent. It often does positive harm. When we once see that systematic benevolence is the most wide- reaching embodiment of spiritual energy and the most Godlike expression of it, we conclude that our next business as an organiza- tion is to cultivate systematic benevolence. Ours is an educational movement. The great test and sign of advancing culture is sys- tematic instead of spasmodic expression of the soul. The first tool of education is language. Somewhere in the dim past of human evolution emotional ejaculations began to take on systematic mean- ing. So language was born. After countless ages language becomes literature by becoming increasingly systematic. When Homer sang it has acquired rhythmic measure. Roman civilization was not char- acterized, like that of Greece, by artistic expression. In another realm, however, the outstanding mark of Roman civilization was the attainment of systematic control of life. In this case it was military and legal. Systematic good-will is the highest mark of distinctively Chris- tian culture. Savages are not without good feelings. Go to the islands of the sea not yet evangelized, go a thousand miles up the Congo into the dark heart of Africa, and find a group of savages as yet untouched by the good news of the living God, unevangelized, and you will find there impulses of good divinely planted in the mother's breast, many good impulses. The difference, the char- acteristic difference between the gusts of good-will in the savage and the flow of good-will in the civilized Christian is that in the latter it has become systematic. In barbarous people there are magnificent BENEVOLENCE IN EVANGELIZATION 137 energies often running out beneficently, but you never know when these titanic forces will swing around to harm instead of help. Systematic beneficence is a means of highest culture which is open to every follower of Christ. Here is a woman who has been, over the washtub hour after hour, day after day. At the end of a week, when the blessed Sabbath comes, she enters the house of God. It may be only ten dollars, it may be less, that she has been able to win out of the soiled world that way, but if it has been in her heart every day and every hour that the next Sunday morning in the house of worship, with its quiet, with its beauty, with its sweet music, with its hush of the Divine presence, she is to lay ten cents of every dollar on God's altar for humanity, her work every bit of it is made divine. Even the ill-smelling, hot suds offer up in- cense. A regular system of proportionate benevolence lays every stroke of work under tribute to the Most High. Or you may be in a different line of service with net earnings of five thousand dollars at the end of a quarter-year. One thousand of that you put over into the beneficence account. Knowing that you were to do that has been both a stay and a stimulus to you through all the ninety days. You plunge into the work of the next quarter with a feeling that to win by taking unfair advantage of your employees or your customers would be to defeat the very purpose of all that you are doing would be to lift men up with one hand and at the same time to push them down with the other. You are not only stayed from such desperate folly, you are also in- spired literally inspired to do your best, because all that you do is tributary to the good of all mankind. Whatever it may do for the recipient, systematic benevolence is a mighty power in evangelizing the giver. The world cannot be redeemed without it. The Christian cannot be sanctified without it. Instead of following haphazard impulse, the more we learn to make our good-will for humanity systematic the more we shall become civilized, spiritized, Godlike. Millions have been pauperized by haphazard alms-giving, by it the alms-givers themselves are pau- perized, made spiritually unreliable. No campaign of Christian culture is more needed to-day than that of culture in systematic beneficence. Neither the world nor the Church can be saved until Christians are taught that daily beneficence is as sacred a necessity as daily prayer. It was declared in a special message from heaven, "Thy prayers and thine alms are gone up for a memorial before God." Benevolence flows back to the good-will whence it came. Every. 138 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION perfect giving is from God the Father of lights. All the energy of the universe is radiant energy, systematic energy. The sooner all our benevolent energies become systematic and radiant, the sooner we shall be in fact as well as in name the children of God. Systematic expression of good-will is not only the next great step in missionary education, it is the key-note of life everlasting. Waves of sound strike the tympanum of the ear from the roar of a city or from the music of an orchestra. The difference is that in the orchestra systematic harmony has taken the place of haphazard noise. A master mind has turned chaos into cosmos. The meaning of the musical figures of speech about heaven is, that Jesus Christ, the master of souls, has taken the individualistic notes of life and composed them into cooperative, systematic har- mony. In the realm of woe there is selfish wailing and gnashing of teeth; in the kingdom of heaven, both here and forever, there is the music of systematic good- will. EDUCATION AND PRAYER THE PLACE OF MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH THE PLACE OF PBAYEB IN THE MISSIONAEY ENTEBPKISE THE REV. WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, HABTFOBD, CONNECTICUT The word education is spreading gradually over all fields. It is becoming attached to every prevalent human interest. Men realize that even those things which have been done and done suc- cessfully in the past by a kind of instinct of common sense, are re- discovered, are made more efficient than ever when they have become the business of direct study and when all those who are concerned in them share in the fruits of that study. Hence it is that every profession has its school ; hence it is that to-day we have technical education of all kinds, realizing that the man who wants to be a carpenter ought to have an education, broader, deeper, than his forerunners in the carpentering trade enjoyed. We have come to realize that the Church needs very earnestly and very deliberately to undertake the task of religious education and to carry that on over a breadth of field, and with a wisdom of outlook, which must be commensurate with the task of the Church to-day. And now a new phrase has arisen which is beginning to be widely used. Those who have brought it into operation among us are the leaders of the Young People's Missionary Movement. We are now going to have the phrase, "Missionary Education." That too will take its place permanently in the life of the people at large, in the life of the Church of Jesus Christ; and I am asked this morning to speak to you on the subject, a very wide one, but one which at the earliest stages of the Movement we ought to take up, namely, "The Place of Missionary Education in the Life of the Church." I. THE NEED OF MISSIONARY EDUCATION Let me ask you first of all to think of the need of missionary education. When the gospel began to spread from Jerusalem, we do not find that those men had a missionary education; so to-day 141 142 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION those who become Christians in India and China would not dream of having to be educated for missionary labor. The fact is that in those early beginnings, when every man who became united with Christ became separated from many former interests and connec- tions, he became instinctively and necessarily a missionary. He had to explain himself; he had to defend his new position; he had to tell the world around him what power it was that had mas- tered him and cut him off from all the things he had counted dear. Then it was really a matter of supererogation to attempt the task of missionary education. When Christianity spread into Europe, when it began to send out missionaries farther and farther into the North and the West, as well as into the Far East, it sent, for the most part, men who were giving up their homes, seldom taking wife and children with them ; it sent forth these men as the heralds of the new gospel into new regions. As the centuries went on, a very strange thing happened, the significance of which I am pretty sure a good many of you have not yet realized, even although you have read the histories of the schools. It came to pass that there arose a great religion in the east called Mohammedanism which swept over the ancient homes of the Christian religion in western Asia and almost destroyed the Church; which spread through the north coasts of Africa and utterly destroyed it through vast regions there. It even invaded Europe at its southeastern and southwestern corners. Now, when that had taken place, Christianity was shut up within one small continent; shut up between the Atlantic Ocean and the great ocean of Mohammedan enthusiasm and fanaticism. There, for over a thousand years Christianity was hemmed in as the religion of Europe, or rather struggling and striving to become so. In the providence of God, that long delay of a thousand years is being used now to hasten the conversion and salvation of the rest of the world. For you do not convert a people merely by preaching the gospel to all the inhabitants of any land ; you do not discharge the full effect of Christ upon human nature when you have only a few times named his name and told the story of his gospel. To carry Christianity, to carry the whole meaning of Christ, into a new region, means to carry as much of the fruitage of the gospel as you can with the announcement of the gospel. That which was needed was that Christianity should come to be understood up to a certain useful measure in one region of the world ; that there, it should have a certain effect upon the civilization of the peoples. And it was not until Europe and America had absorbed a certain amount of Christianity, had experienced a certain measure of the power of it over their civilized life, that God then opened the doors of the rest of the world. Then it was that Africa unfolded her mystic and mysterious darkness; then it was that the long silent and slumbering East began to move uneasily ; and then it was, when this tumultuous West had broken upon the sleep of the East, and the East was thus stirring and opening its eyes and wondering what the ages had said in their dreams it was then that for the first time the Christian Church realized its real task and the missions of the nineteenth century began. But when the missions of the nineteenth century began, it was inevitable that they should be carried on in an altogether dif- ferent manner from the manner even of the Apostolic Church. It was realized that now it is not a few missionaries, single men, who must be sent out to go through a region founding scattered churches. It was felt that far more than this was the task now laid by God upon the Church. Hence, the Church began to send out families families to settle down and plant not only the mere message of the gospel, but the civilization it carries with it to show to the new old world there what Christianity, what the gospel does. I remember, for I was born in a missionary home in the heart of Africa, I remember the effect produced upon a town of 30,000 heathen people, not by the mere voice of a preacher, but the more wonderful and compelling voice of a Christian home. And that Christian home radiated the light of what? Of Christian civiliza- tion. It began through that home center to lift the world around it far more rapidly than the voice of one isolated man could lift it. But then if those families are to be sustained there, if they are to be sent out, indeed, then it is the whole Church that must be roused to this work. God is not commanding individual men and women merely ; God is commanding the whole Church to under- take the final task of bringing the rest of the world (still the vast majority of men) to the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. This cannot be done without enthusiasm, and an enthusiasm that is to pass right through the ranks of the whole great army of Christ. And no army will possess permanent enthusiasm in the ranks unless they knew what the warfare is about unless their hearts are aflame with an intelligent zeal. Enthusiasm otherwise must be fanaticism, or it may be a passing spasm of meaningless emotion. Enthusiasm that is to be permanent, that is to be really potent upon the history 144 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION of men, must be illumined by intelligence, and it must be sustained by intelligence; an intelligence that looks out upon the world and realizes what each man is in relation to that world, and the measure of God's great work through him upon that world. There lies the need, you see, for education. That is to eay, every private member of every church in Christendom ought to know, not only why and how he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ at all, but what he is called upon to do. He is there, not to pray for his own sal- vation merely, but through that and beyond that to pray and to labor for the salvation of the whole world. It is a magnificent con- ception that is laid before us by the modern situation a vast mass of quiet folk going about their ordinary business, interested in their homes and their cities and their social circles, and yet in all those hearts and minds the quiet, earnest, passionate zeal for the world, and the determination that forth from that family, forth from that one circle, shall go something that counts for the warfare of Christ against the mighty foes of darkness. II. THE METHODS OP MISSIONARY EDUCATION In the second place, what are the methods of education? I think I do not need to speak long on that. You know that when the modern missionary movement first arose, those who were sent out wrote back letters describing their new world and their work in it. The letters were gathered into "chronicles" and "heralds" (and various other interesting titles were used), in order to spread these messages from the frontier of Christ's Army. A few earnest souls here and there took them and eagerly read them, and the pastors, when they were zealous, spoke from them to their people; and Christian parents, when they were wide awake, made their chil- dren read them, to widen their knowledge of the world, and of the kingdom of God in that way. Thus simply missionary education began. But something more systematic has come to be needed. We still depend first of all upon these tidings from the battle-field; for they are of permanent and essential importance to the whole move- ment of missionary education. Missionary reports and magazines must occupy a central place in the work of this Movement. But we need other educational agencies. Much depends upon the pastor. Everywhere throughout the work of the Church, the pastor's personal interest and enthusiasm tells for success. The guidance of the church is put into his hands ; MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN THE CHURCH 145 and its temperament, its special outlook, its special undertakings, will in the vast majority of cases, be found to rise out of the tem- perament and the outlook and the personal interests of the pastor himself. The pastor, then, must be educated educated to under- stand his missionary responsibilities; and when he knows them, he will try to carry them out. I do not think that he ought to be always talking about the need for money. The more he does the thing wisely the less he will need to talk about money. I do not think that he ought to be always piling up statistics. People get very tired of statistics and we are all very suspicious of them anyway. I do not think that he ought to be always dealing merely with historical facts. But I do think that when the pastor of any Christian church knows what he stands there for, there ought to be hardly a sermon preached that is not colored with a world outlook. I do not think he ought ever to preach the gospel to his own people without making their hearts thrill to the message that this is God's word to the world. The universal element in the gospel is that which creates the fervor of the individual heart. It is the love of the Eternal for all men unto all ages which captured and conquered our souls long ago. And it is when the pastor speaks from those heights in a voice that seems to echo the eternal voice, that his people will have their eyes in- stinctively carried out beyond their congregation and parish, beyond their land and nation, to comprehend the fact that they stand there as the trustees of the gospel of Christ for the whole world of men. But when the pastor has done that, he must still try to give information, and he will be instinctively carried on to give informa- tion to his people. I do not know anything more fascinating than to try to tell the people the story of the Church in Madagascar or in China or in some of the various parts of Africa. There is no romance in modern history more remarkable than some of these. The awakening of Japan to civilization is not more wonderful than the awakening of the savages of Uganda to Christianity, where, in twenty-five years, from 600 to 1,000 churches and schools have been established, and a vast, warlike, intrepid people, out of massacre and blood, have been brought into an intelligent comprehension of the gospel of Christ. Tell me anything more dramatic than that in the story of our modern wars. He who knows what the true warfare is, and the clash of the eternal righteousness with eternal wrong on the arena of human history, he knows that there the drama of history takes its intensest and most glorious form. 146 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION But education must not only be carried on by the pastor. Some- thing more thorough must be done. We are awake nowadays to the fact that the whole Church must become a school, and hence we are trying to carry religious education education of a systematic and noble kind appropriately from the cradle right on to maturity. We are trying to get our churches to see, all over the land, that if they are going to make America completely Christian, they must do work in the church comparable to the work in the public schools. For that end they must raise up a race of teachers and raise the forms of teaching in the church in relation to the Christian view of the world, equal in effectiveness to any that are carried on in any other interest whatsoever. And that must be done also for missionary education. But who shall do this work ? I believe that we must here depend upon those who are the permanent guides and inspirers of our churches, namely, the missionary boards and societies. I do not know that any Sunday-school association or society can undertake this alone and effectively. I do not know that any associ- ation of this kind which has gathered us here could do it acceptably for all the denominations. I believe that what we have got to do here in conventions like this, is to arouse and challenge the great missionary boards of all the Churches to create a department of education, and to see to it through that department that methods of education appropriate to their own denominations are evolved and brought home to the conscience of every church and put into the life of all the communities whom they represent. That, I believe to be essential; and I believe that these boards are ready to carry it out. Perhaps one of the greatest and noblest results of this Con- vention may be to help these men of statesmanlike outlook, and often of very great and powerful grasp of mind and will to show- to them that this is the next great step forward in the advancement of the kingdom of Christ, as they live to promote it. HI. THE TOPICS OF MISSIONARY EDUCATION But you will say, "Missionary Education !" Why do you dignify a mere department, a mere little portion of reading, a mere seg- ment of religious interest why do you dignify that with the term "education?" And hence, in the third place, if I am to convince any one of this matter, I ought to speak of the topics of missionary education. MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN THE CHURCH 147 What are the topics with which such a course of training in our churches must be concerned? 1. First, you will recognize that if a man is to be enthusiastic about missionary work, he must recognize that Christianity is es- sentially a missionary religion, and he must feel the compulsion of that fact upon his own conduct. But then he will wake up some day, in the course of his reading, to find out that there have been other missionary religions. He will remember that Mohammedanism is a missionary religion. He will remember that Buddhism is a mis- sionary religion. For the latter began in one little spot in India, as Christianity began in one little spot in western Asia. It spread from India out over China, into Japan, away down south into Cey- lon, and has become the most characteristic religious type of the Orient. And so he will ask himself, "Well, now, what is the differ- ence; what is it that makes any religion a missionary religion? What are those features of it that tend to carry it beyond any one race and into other races ? What is it that drives those who receive it out of their own lands over into strange lands, among strange peoples, to proclaim the message at the heart of this religion?" Now, if a man wants to be an intelligent Christian missionary, he will have to face that question, and it will bring him at last to ask himself, "Now, what is it in Christianity that makes it a mis- sionary religion? Why is it that Christianity could not exist in the world without moving out to conquer the whole world ?" Now that is a question that will suggest a good deal of investi- gation. It means that the missionary student must try to under- stand the religion of which he is a missionary student. It means that he must try to understand what Christianity is in itself. Now, of course, we all in a certain measure know what it is. But if you were challenged to put down in writing what is in your mind con- cerning Christianity, it might not be so easy. "What is it that makes Christianity the final religion in your view ? Why is it that you hold that Christianity must at last sweep every other religion off the face of the earth ? Why is it that Christianity must at last present itself as the one final, absolute matter with which every human soul is concerned ?" These are tremendous questions. Could you answer them ? If you could not answer them, then how much do you believe in Christian missions ? Or how intelligently is your enthusiasm enlightened? It is clear that there would be a great deal to investigate there. But it is of utmost moment to see that this would not be a mere 148 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION study of the dust of dead theologies. It would not be a mere scholar's interest in what people thought long ago. That is part of my work as a Professor of Theology. But when I want to live to-day, when I want to think of my duty to-day as a member of the Church, and as a Christian man, when I want to measure my- self against the responsibilities imposed upon me by the cross of Jesus, through which I was redeemed, when I want to stand con- templating the world, and how I shall answer at God's throne for my part in my life for the world, then I want to know what Chris- tianity is at this hour. To me, the glorious feature of missionary education is that it will compel all our churches to study Christian doctrine, by that meaning the powers of the gospel that are working in the world at this hour, that they will be brought to ask them- selves what is this and this and that feature of it which show them- selves to be truths, to be historical facts, to be invisible spiritual forces, and all so significant and so mighty that they are going to cover the whole world with their influence. It is Christianity as God's great power in the world at this very hour that we want to understand. 2. And, next, that will mean that we must study Christ afresh. I seem to see a certain danger abroad in certain phases of Christian teaching which are necessary but which need to be supplemented. I see a little danger when we take our children back to Palestine, lest they should sing too seriously and too often Mrs. Luke's hymn, that they wish that they could be away back living with Jesus in Palestine and seeing his eyes and hearing his voice long, long ago. There is a little foolish self-contradiction in that little wish which some try to produce in the child's heart. There is something much more mighty to be attained to than that. When we have got our children to know the story of the Gospels, then you and I must get them to realize that that is a description, not merely a Christ who once lived in Palestine, that those Epistles set forth Jesus not merely as he was powerful in the first century over the first disciples. We want our children, we want all our people to know that when they are studying Christ in the New Testament they are studying the Ruler of the world to-day; that they are studying the Epistles and Gospels now, not that they may understand the dim levels of a distant past, but that they may understand him who sits on the throne to-day, King of kings, Lord of lords. And this, that they may know how Christ is reaching down into their own hearts, and MISSIONAKY EDUCATION IN THE CHUKCH 149 how Christ through us is reaching forth over sea and land after all hearts throughout the world. Why ! To be a missionary student is to study Christ conquering the world. It is to study our Savior saving all men. It is to try to understand the heart that opened its mercy to our eyes as it "broods over all hearts and eyes of all mankind. Can you imagine anything that would make the whole Church of Christ sing with a new rapture, and worship with a new devotion, and go out to preach and to serve with a new passion like this deep, persistent, consistent, study by the whole Christian Church, of the Living Christ as he would save, as he would perfect the world for God ? 3. This is not all, for when a man has thus studied Christian- ity, he finds he must also study the world. If he would take the gospel out himself, he must go and live amongst those people; he must learn their language ; he must come to understand their ways, and he must learn to love them in the mass and in the individual ; he must strive to pierce through all his own prejudices and all the crust of prejudice in the hearts and minds of others which they cherish against him. And he must come, by study and prayer and habit of life, to where he can deal heart to heart with every indi- vidual heathen man and woman with whom he comes in contact. Now that is the task of us all. If we are to be missionary students, we ought to know something of the peoples of the world ; that is to say, we ought to study something of their history, something of their civilization, something of their religious life. How do you know they need the gospel ? How do you know they are lost souls ? How do you know that their religion is not leading them up into light ? How do you know that their civilization is unworthy of the best that God would have civilized human beings become ? How do you know these things ? You must get to know them by becoming acquainted with the facts as to these various races. Hence the missionary student will find that he has to study Japan and China and India and Africa. As he studies these great regions of the world, he is being brought closer and closer to the great heart, the common heart of man. And if he sees it in its darkness, he will see it also in its yearning. If he sees it in its brutality, he will see it in its tenderness. If he sees it in its awful ignorance, he will also .see it as it opens, like the flower to the sun, its inherent powers to the sun of God's smile. He will, wherever he goes in this travel- reading which he carries on, find himself brought closer and closer 150 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION into communion with the great Spirit of God that is brooding over the hearts of all men. 4. And then as he thus studies the people, he will come to understand their religions, and when he knows those religions, he will want to give them the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are two extreme ways of speaking of the religions of the world outside of the Christian religion. One of those extreme ways is that which fails to see that in them all there is a genuine yearning for some- thing that is above man, a longing, an effort, however ignorant, often even wicked, an effort on the part of man to lift himself to that Power that is above him. But there is another extreme; and that is the extreme represented in some of our Western cities by suave, turbaned gentlemen or sweet hooded ladies who have come from or. have been in the Orient. There are people in Western lands who have got an enthusiasm for the soft, subtle ways of those slow- moving dignitaries of ancient religions. They have come over to teach us Theosophy under some high-sounding name or other. And thus some are led to say that the people in the East, and even the poor savage races of Africa, should be left alone; that they are going to be saved anyhow ; that our sole business is to discover what there is of light and purity and goodness in these religions. That is also an extreme. The missionary student will try to find every atom of truth in every religion in the world, but he will also try to see what these religions have made of man. And he will not hide from his eyes those awful facts and those things that offend our sense of what is true and pure and kind and full of mercy of which heathendom is full. He will acknowledge and face the facts that these religions have left men in a mist of impurity, in a mist of cruelty, in a mist of deception, in a mist of the horrors of darkness of all kinds. We do indeed have these things in our Christian lands, but the difference is that in the gospel of Christ there is a force that is reacting continually against them, so that in Christendom their darkness of shame is deeply felt, and men work for their destruction. 5. A man who is thus studying missions and the world in the light of the Christian task will ask himself what the history of missions has been. He will try to get books to show him what they were in the first century and in the tenth. There will come out of the past great dim figures whom he desires to see clearly. So- he will want to know about the early missionaries to Germany and to Great Britain, and the first missionaries that went to the East in the Middle Ages, and then about the missionaries of the Protes- MISSIONARY EDUCATION IN THE CHURCH 151 tant Churches, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, who went everywhere. He will want to know about all these. And in getting to know about them, he is grasping the history of the Church on the practical side, he is grasping the history of man on the re- demptive side, the human story as it is molded by Jesus Christ. Now, if you survey those things, I think you will acknowledge that the word "education" is the word that ought to be used. What I have briefly sketched constitutes a large part of a liberal education. If you give me in ten years from this time a man or woman who has gone through that course of study, I will show you a man or woman who every day' reads the newspaper more intelligently than anybody else in the town or in the church. And I will show you a person who knows something about every great country in the world, who knows something about many great personalities in history, who has looked deeply into the undercurrents of life, and who has been learning to measure the forces that work below the surface, that urge and guide all the upward movements of the civil- ized world. I will show you a person who knows humanity more deeply and widely than the average person of their station in society. A wide missionary curriculum is a large part of a liberal education. Missionary education, in fine, will free us from narrowness; it will take us out into vistas of truth, into liberty of thought, into power of action, into clearness of judgment, and into sympathy with God. IV. THE EFFECTS OF MISSIONARY EDUCATION Now, I am touching on the last part of my address, namely, what will be the effects of a missionary education ? On these effects one would like to dwell at length, but as they are prophetic, one will have to speak with bated breath and very briefly. 1. In the first place, I think that the personal faith and the private Christian character of every one who goes through this course of missionary education will be deepened. I don't know any- thing that will commit the Church of Christ more completely to the devotional life, that will take it more often to the throne of God, that will give it more permanently and consistently a sense of the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ, than this habitual confronting of the Church's task in the world. I do not know anything that will make a man ask himself more earnestly whether he knows the mercy of God, than being challenged to carry that mercy to other men. How can we preach who know not what we preach ? How can mercy mean anything on my lips to another, if it has not meant anything in my heart to myself ? How can the cross of redemption be a word potent, as I speak it, for every conscience, if that cross has not come in the very power of God upon my conscience and hroken me down in contrition and raised me up with the immortal hope beating in my heart. Nay, to have every member of our churches challenged to consider himself a messenger of God to the world will compel him to find God for himself more completely, more constantly, with a sense that upon him the powers of the ages have met. There is nothing more gloriously conceived of in all man's glorious dreams than this Christian message that God, through an individual on the cross, redeemed all men; and that each individual of all men is called to stand at that cross, and into his poor heart receive all the wealth of Christ, the Eternal Love of God. But we must face that in both its aspects, if we would taste all its blessing. It is for all and for me. Hence the man who knows that that merciful love is for the world, and that he is commanded to take his share in bringing the world to that cross will, I repeat, find himself more often kneeling there, till all its universal message sink into all the secret places of his own soul. 2. Further, the man who has had this wide and permanent missionary education will find, as it spreads through the churches, that the churches themselves are being drawn together. Out on the field of battle to-day, the various regiments are lining them- selves anew. The leaders of missionary work in China and Japan and India are getting impatient with these divisions of the army at home. They are coming to feel that these restrictions upon their movements- are rendering them ineffective, and that these apparent divisions in sentiment which do not concern the cross and do not concern the Last Judgment day, are weakening the full force of the one message that is in all the hearts about that cross and about that Throne. And back over the ocean there come to us reproaches of our divisions, urging us to union. And what is this Convention ? It is the prophecy of Christendom reunited. What is this Con- vention? It is all the Churches saying, "When we confront the world with the gospel we are one." It is the Church of Christ in America learning to stand shoulder to shoulder; it is the young people at drill; it is the beginning of a conscription of the whole Church claiming every man for the army of Christ. Thus men are finding that whoever else is a soldier of Christ is a brother soldier, a fellow worker, a fellow pilgrim to the great home above. That PEAYEE IN THE MISSIONAEY ENTEEPEISE 153 is going to be increasingly one of the grandest results of missionary education. Thus we are going to become impatient of our denom- inationalism even for home missions. In order to convert America, we must come more closely together and work more closely together, that the whole land and the whole world may know there is one gospel and one brotherhood of Jesus Christ. 3. Then there will be a great effect produced on the world. The nations of the earth are apparently being drawn together by many forces. But people do not realize how deeply it is Christ who is working along all the channels through which we are being drawn toward a sublime unity of which poets could hardly dream, and if they dreamed, could hardly fittingly sing. The world is to become one family. A thousand prejudices start up in our hearts at those words, for you and I, alas, are hardly ready for that vision. And a thousand warring sentiments as to the races and racial problems arise in our minds, and even you and I of the Christ name shrink back and 533% "Is it we who are to stand in that unity?" I ask you to look down this century and on into the next, when the Church of Christ has swept around the world, when all the nations have heard his name, when the cross has become the signal of man's hope to every tribe on the face of the earth, and I ask you to look on to a time beyond that, perhaps, when all governments of the world shall be constrained by this new conscience that Christ is creating in the nations, even among men who disown his redemption. If Christ can conquer the heart of man an age will surely rise when men shall be ashamed of the things which divide them now, and when there shall be a United States of the World, when all men shall know themselves as having come out of the Creator's hand, and passing on to the Bedeemer's kingdom. You and I who are being educated in missionary knowledge, you and I who will try to put missionary education henceforth into the very heart-life of the Church, you and I are doing Christ's work to hasten that great day of God for man. THE PLACE OF PEAYEE IN THE MISSIONAEY ENTEEPEISE MR. EGBERT E. SPEER, NEW YORK CITY There is one scene in the story of Christian missions which ought of itself to suffice to teach us the lessons which we need to learn here this morning, with reference to prayer and missions. It 154 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION is the scene in Chitambo's village in Ilala, in Central Africa, May 4, 1873, when David Livingstone's lifeless body was found by his bedside in the attitude of prayer. That worn frame kneeling there in prayer is all the illustration we ought to need of the place which prayer was meant to fill in the enterprise of missions. " How thank- ful I am," wrote Major Malan years ago, "that David Livingstone wag found on his knees. Does it not tell us whence came the power for his self-denial, his courage, his endurance?" And that kneeling body, there by the bedside in that hut, while the rain dripped from the eaves and his few faithful negro servants wept around the master whose voice they should not hear again, is not only an illustration of the place which prayer should fill in this enterprise, it is an appeal to us to allow prayer to occupy in our lives the same place that it occupied in his. We may be sure that the words written on the great slab over which many of you have stood in the nave of Westminster Abbey, as among the last words of David Livingstone, must have embodied the thought and desire of his heart as he knelt and fell asleep in Ilala : " May heaven's richest blessing rest on every one American, Englishman, Turk who will heal this open sore of the world." And I am sure that if here this morning we could take in all the significance of that kneeling figure there, it would not be necessary to say another word regarding the supremacy of the place which prayer must occupy if the missionary purposes of our Lord Jesus Christ are ever to be fulfilled. For while there are many other needs of which we have heard in this Convention and of which we are still to hear, needs whose importance one would not depreciate by comparison, all our hearts realize that behind all these needs and underlying them is the great and primary need of the faith and practise of prayer. When we have regard to the obstacles needing to be overcome, and the perplexity and intricacy of the problems needing to be solved and the demands for wisdom and tact, as we set about an enterprise that required the Son of God himself for its launching ; when we measure the power of those spiritual forces against which, and not against flesh and blood, as Paul tells us, we wrestle in this conflict, we understand that there is no power in us adequate for these great responsibilities, and save the power of God fight with us, we had best refrain from the encounter. Through prayer is our only hope of victory. And I think one of the blessed things in the missionary enter- prise of our own time is the increasing realization of this truth THt EVANGELIZATION OF THE WORLD IN THIS GENERATION AKD JESUS CAME AND SPAKE UHTOTHEW $**" An POWER Is GIVE* UXTO He IHHEAV0IAIIOII(EARTH,6oYETHEi!f" ?r UPT1ZIMGTHEMIITHE IttHEOf THE famm Of THE SOIM"" HB lot? 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We have only to pick out for ourselves the young men who have already gone out from this generation to which we belong, to realize how they have rediscovered this secret of intercessory prayer in the missionary enterprise: Ion Keith-Falconer, Horace Tracy Pitkin, and Douglas M. Thornton I pick out only three of the leaders who have passed away we realize that the secret of their mis- sionary power over the students and in the efforts of their time lay in their hidden life of prayer. Some of you doubtless read in the British Student Movement's magazine for December Mr. Tat- low's article on Thornton, in which he quoted, in the last para- graph, as well representing the character and spirit of a man who was gone and whom we could not afford to lose, his own judgment of the place of prayer: "I know of nothing that bridges distance, that makes the farthest corner of the world seem near and that shows us more and more of the love of God and the extent of God's blessing so much as this marvelous prayer life." And this Move- ment that has gathered us together here will be more powerful than those gone before, and draw us nearer the goal only in proportion as it shall succeed better than the movements that have preceded it in giving us all a larger faith in the God who hears prayer and a more honest practise of the life of prayer. We do not need, happily, here to-day, to convince ourselves, or to explain to one another, the philosophy of prayer; we do not need to dwell in any general meditation on the place of prayer in the Christian life. We have need only to consider for a little while the place which prayer always has held in efficient missionary serv- ice ; the place which prayer must more largely fill if the great pur- poses of Christ are at last to be fulfilled. The moment we turn to thoughts like these, our minds are drawn resistlessly we would not resist or try to, if we could back across the years to the place 156 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION of prayer in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ himself. We find him praying for the world and bidding his disciples to pray for the world. I have often thought of the significance of the words in the great high-priestly prayer recorded for us in the seventeenth chapter of John: "I pray not for the world." Do those words not imply that the world was the common subject of his prayer and that now on this occasion so extraordinary his prayer would be different: that now he was not to pray primarily for the world? And yet even here, in this great and intimate prayer for his own, he soon passed beyond that immediate company to pray first of all for the larger number who were to believe on him through their word and then for the great multitudes, for the world itself that was to be convinced at last by the unity of those who loved him and who would be one with him and in him. And just as the world was the main subject of his own prayers, so he taught his disciples : "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth." What filled first place in his own life of prayer, he placed first in the prayer he taught his disciples, intending them to learn thereby that the whole world was to be first with them before man and God. And it was by prayer men were to be raised up to work for the world. Well he knew that there were other means by which the laborers were to be gathered to be sent out into his harvest field, but he laid emphasis especially on this : "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest." This was his method of finding missionaries. When further we turn to his own life, we see how prayer was [most intimately connected with true proportions of duty in his mind, and in keeping clear before him always the right missionary perspective. It was after long hours of prayer early in the day that the invitation came to him, and it might easily have been a tempta- tion to him, from the warm-hearted people of Capernaum who be- eought him to abandon the larger mission and settle for the time at least in their community. We could easily duplicate the argument by which they would have sought to hedge in the boundaries of the life of the Son of God. He simply said, "I must preach the good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also ; for therefore was I sent." Prayer safeguarded the universality of his mission. He devoted a large part of the longest prayer on record as his to supplication for the unity of his friends, to the end that the PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 15r whole world might be convinced that the Father sent him to be the Savior of the world. Unity was in his mind a missionary agency, not national but universal. And as we pass back into his own personal experience again, we find that it was by prayer in Gethsemane that he was made ready for the great service of his life, and with prayer when he was reminded of the condition of his mission by the request of the Greeks in the court of the Gen- tiles in the Temple, that he was made ready for the great sacrifice of his life. The lessons on missions and prayer which our Lord's own life and teaching press upon us are confirmed and extended by the experience of the Apostolic Church. Its career began in a prayer room. New converts were at once led into the school of prayer and instinctively took up the prayer life. Prayer was a part of their social life. It became at once an integral part of the life and work of the new congregations. It was the unfailing and always availing resource of the Church in every crisis and emergency. The life of the great missionary apostle illustrates and expands these lessons. He and his converts led a mutual prayer life. He was ever praying for them. "Now we pray to God that ye do no evil." "I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more."" "We ... do not cease to pray . . . that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will ... to walk worthily of the Lord, . . . bearing fruit in every good work." "Night and day praying exceedingly that we may sco you . . . and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith." "We also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, . . . that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you." Paul's Epistles are full of such revealings of his prayer life in behalf of the new Christians in his mission churches. And he was ever desiring their prayers for himself. Prayer to him was a great missionary cooperation. "Helping together on our behalf by your supplication," he writes. Those to whom gifts had been given could best repay through prayer, and in the direction and planning of his own life the prayers of his friends were counted upon as a determining factor. "I beseech you ... that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient . . . and that my ministra- tion . . . may be acceptable, . . . that utterance may be given unto to me ... to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel." "Continue stedfastly in prayer, . . . praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word." "Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified." All lie did and planned was permeated by prayer, and his whole missionary enter- prise was projected upon the power of it. He confirms the lesson which the life of the early Church presses home upon us ; namely, that prayer is the first and the last secret of success, and the funda- mental essential in the service which contemplates supernatural results. And the history of modern missions confirms all the lessons learned from our Lord and from the first disciples. If at the be- ginning our Lord saw no other way of securing the laborers neces- sary for gathering the harvest from the ripened fields, men have found in. the last three generations no better way. It has been the men who were men of prayer whom God has used to call out young men and young women in every generation during the last hundred years into the missionary field. I think of the two men whom I have known, who have perhaps led more men into the missionary enterprise than any others, and I believe the secret of their influence and persuasion was in their secret life of prayer. And the two men who were to the first generation of the nineteenth century what these other two were to the last generation were also mighty to mold men's purposes because they were men of faith and action in prayer. Samuel J. Mills and Gordon Hall disagreed with the Moravian maxim that it was wrong to exhort men to be missionaries. They saw no reason for eliminating the missionary duty from the duties which it is right to press on men, but they knew very well that now, as in our Lord's day, the laborers will only be found and led forth by men who believe in prayer as well as argument. Samuel J. Mills was one of the most powerful Christian figures in the history of the Church in this land, and his power was not more in ceaseless effort than in prayer. "Upon his knees, he fought out all the battles of his life," says his latest biographer. "To his Father he went with all his doubts and difficulties." And it has been with the movements just as it has been with the men. The early Andover Society, the Student Volunteer Movement, all the great organized missionary activities of our time, have found their men just in proportion as they sought for them in the way God designed. The reason for this connection between prayer and the offer of missionary service is not far too seek. Apart from God's action on men in answer to prayer, it is prayer that con- fronts men with the mind and the purposes of God. You cannot kneel down and pray: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 159 in heaven, so on earth," and then shut up your heart against the world sympathies of Christ. I knew of a wealthy father once who had a son whom he was not willing to have go out to the mission field of Africa, where his heart was, but who at last was unable longer to resist when coming home once on one of his vacations his son asked his father whether he would mind praying with him. As they knelt down and said quietly and simply the prayer which our Lord taught his disciples, and came to the second and third petitions, the father's resistance broke. He could not pray "Thy kingdom come" and resist the effort to bring it in. And it is not only with the thought and purposes of God that prayer confronts men; it challenges men to be Christlike. They cannot pray long unless they pray in the spirit of St. Augustine : " Lord, grant that I may never seek to bend the straight to the crooked; that is, thy will to mine, but that I may ever bend the crooked to the straight ; that is, my will to thine, that thy will may be done and thy king- dom come." Just in proportion as to-day we follow the method which our Lord taught us nineteen hundred years ago will we find the men and women needed, if Jesus Christ is to be known to those for whom he died. Not only has the history of modern missions taught us that only by prayer are the laborers to be provided, but by prayer alone it has taught us are the missionaries to be equipped and qualified and sustained. I remember a remark made by the Rev. R. F. Hor- ton in Exeter Hall, London, at the British Student Volunteer Con- vention in 1900. He said, "I think that it is an absolutely unfail- ing fact that the great missionaries have been great athletes in prayer." Whether we recall David Brainerd in his secret devotions as he agonized for his Indians, or William Carey going out in the morning to the old ruined pagoda on the banks of the Ganges for his morning watch, or Adoniram Judson as he prayed in the open air or strode up and down in his room in the long measured stride which led his children to say, "Papa is praying" whether we think of the great saints of the past or the missionaries of the present, it is still true that all of them who have made their mark and done the great work have been men and women who knew how to pray. Consider David Livingstone, who was sometimes criticised for having lost his missionary character. His journals with their con- stant revelation of his life of prayer show that no external change 160 CHUKCH AND MISSIONAKY EDUCATION could imperil that character. Eecall his prayer recorded on Jan- uary 14th, 1856 : "At the confluence of the Loangwa and Zambezi. Thank God for his great mercies thus far. How soon I may be called to stand before him, my righteous Judge, I know not. All hearts are in his hands, and merciful and gracious is the Lord our God. Jesus, grant me resignation to thy will, and entire reliance on thy power- ful hand. On thy word alone I lean. But wilt thou permit me to plead for Africa? This cause is thine. What an impulse will be given to the idea that Africa is not open if I perish now ! See, Lord, how the heathen rise up against me, as they did to thy Son. I commit my way unto thee. I trust also in thee that thou wilt direct my steps. Thou givest wisdom liberally to all who ask thee give it to me, my Father. My family is thine. They are in the best hands. Oh ! be gracious, and all our sins do thou blot out. A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, On thy kind arms I fall. Leave me not, forsake me not. I cast myself and all my cares down, at thy feet ! Thou knowest all I need, for time and for eternity." Or recall the prayer of March 6th, 1859 : "Good Lord, have mercy upon me. Leave me not, nor for- sake me. He has guided well in time past. I commit my way to him for the future. All I have received has come from him. Will he be pleased in mercy to use me for his glory? I have prayed for this, and Jesus himself said, 'Ask, and ye shall receive,' and & host of statements to the same effect. There is a great deal of trifling frivolousness in not trusting in God. Not trusting in him who is truth itself, faithfulness, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever! It is presumption not to trust in him implicitly, and yet this heart is sometimes fearfully guilty of distrust. I am ashamed to think of it. Ay ; but he must put the trusting, loving, childlike spirit in by his grace. Lord, I am thine, truly I am thine take me do what seemeth good in thy sight with me, and give me complete resignation to thy will in all things." His journals are full of such petitions, and the birthdays especially, of the deepest re-devotion. PEAYEK IN THE MISSIONAKY ENTEEPKISE 161 Consider James Chalmers, of whom his associate, Dr. Lawes, tells us, "He was a Christian of the robust, healthy type, with instinc- tive hatred of all cant and sham ; a man of great faith, mighty in prayer, and full of the love of Christ. He realized to a greater degree than most men what it is to live in Christ, and to him his presence was very real and true and constant, and this spiritual power was the secret of his wonderful influence over men and of his success as a missionary." Consider James Gilmour, of whom one of his biographers tells us that, as he moved about in Mongolia, "Morning, noon, and night at least he talked with God. He took everything to God and asked his advice about everything. His prayers were very simple, just like a child talking to mother or father, or friend talking familiarly with friend." He gave up the use of blotters, spending the time which it took the ink to dry in simple, faithful prayer. Whether we look at the early or the modern missionaries, who have served God with power, we find that what Dr. Horton said was true, "They were great athletes of prayer." For this, also, the reason is not hidden. With missionaries, as with all men, prayer is the essential condition of victorious spiritual achievement. The Messiah drew his breath in the fear of the Lord, and thus the missionaries have wrought in his strength who drew their energies from God. Mr. Beach tells of Dr. John Kenneth Mackenzie : " He considered prayer an essential part of his strength. Opium patients and others, as has been stated, were bidden to pray for their double healing, while the Doctor himself never attempted an important operation without special prayer for the needed skill. He believed that every medical missionary should be a faith healer in this sense: 'He should give all the attention possible to his case, use every means he can think of, every agency or drug that he knows of ; but he should also do so in humble dependence upon God for his blessing.' " And Dr. Mackenzie was not the only great medical missionary who was great as a man of prayer. The wife of the late Dr. Cochran, of Persia, wrote recently in a personal letter of him : 162 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION "Prayer was so constant and so natural that one who could come close enough to know his heart could but realize how vital a part of his being prayer was. He conducted morning prayers in Syriac and evening prayers with the family alone, without the servants, in English, in neither of which had he any hackneyed phrases, showing them to be daily expressions of daily varying needs. He had his private devotions as well, and has told me that he made it a practise the first thing when he awoke in the morning to go over all the duties he had before him in the day and pray over them. He prayed as he walked or rode about the city. When any knotty problem came up, JIG matter where, his calm partial preoccupation meant in him prayer, as he has con- fessed to me. He once said, 'I spend very little time on my knees in prayer, but a great deal on my feet/ " Not only have missionaries found prayer the only source of power for the discharge of duty; they have had to depend upon it for conquest over those temptations and spiritual dangers and moral down-pull which are more fearful on the foreign field even than at home. "I feel every day," wrote Mackay of Uganda, "that it is only by prayerful reading of God's own Word that I can in any way succeed in living as a Christian. It is just as hard here (in Uganda) as in Berlin, or anywhere else, to keep in the right path." And even more, if possible, have missionaries found in prayer the only secret of a calm and untroubled spirit and daily readiness for true spiritual service. After the death of the late Dr. Labaree, of Urumia, his children found in his well-worn Bible this slip con- taining the plan of his morning devotions: "1. Reading from Daily Light. 2. Brief meditation on same. 3. Prayer : a. Thanksgiving for the mercies of the night and the morning. b. Confession of dereliction from duty and sense of sin. c. Profession of allegiance and love to God in Christ. d. Supplication : For clear views of the Divine presence. For a clearer apprehension of the Divine will and for entire surrender to that will. For aid to distinguish the rightful order of duties during the day. PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 163 For industry and energy to carry out any appointed duties and for a vivid sense of the cooperation be- tween the Lord Jesus Christ and myself in every place of Christian life and service. For recollectedness through the day. For patience and gentleness with proper firmness in my intercourse with the natives, for abounding charity. For clear, straight conceptions of mission policy, and for wisdom and charity in advocating them among my brethren. For alertness to opportunities for soul winning and Christian effort for individuals. For watchfulness and a resolute will against besetting sins, with constant dependence on the Holy Spirif s aid." In these quiet morning hours alone with God the old white-haired missionary found the secret of the peace and rest of spirit and the preparedness for the day's exactions which enabled him to serve God in fruitful love. Not alone are the workers to come and be equipped by prayer; it is only by prayer that we shall call forth the great energies by which the world is to be evangelized. I believe as earnestly as any man in sending out adequate numbers of missionaries from America, but it is not by these men and women that the world is to be evangelized. If we lay on these men and women the whole work of evangelizing the world, the product will not be worth the outlay. We shall have an anemic and impotent native Church. What we are seeking is to raise up, in all these lands, companies of men and women who will themselves go out and evangelize their neighbors; who will bring back those old days of the Apostolic Church, of which Dr. Mackenzie was speaking, when the fire having been lighted in one man's heart it leaped to the next man's and the next. The primary aim of the missionary enterprise is the raising up in every land of native churches of great bodies of Christians, who will themselves be the agents of the evangelization of those lands. We have to-day in some of these lands men and women enough to accomplish this task, if only the old flames were blazing in their lives and the old devotion uplifting them to duty. But we shall never kindle these native churches to undertake their task until at home the Christian Church is praying for them with new fervor and devotion. Never in the history of modern missions has there heen a consecrated and powerful native church that has not been a praying church. I was reading the other day that very .story of which Dr. Mackenzie was speaking. In his book, Thirty Years in Madagascar, Mr. Matthews tells that what made the Mada- gascar Church strong and self-sustaining, even in the difficult times in 1835, was its life of prayer. It was at the Church praying that the persecutions were aimed and on the Church praying that they fell in vain. And only by prayer will great leaders be raised up in the native churches, and it is for these leaders that we are waiting now in the missionary enterprise. As far as the native churches have had such leaders, during the century that is gone, they had them as men of prayer who were supported by prayer. "I expect to stand up for Christ before the heathen embassy," wrote Neesima in 1872, in Boston. "I think it is a good opportunity for me to speak for Christ. I wish you would make a special prayer for me and also for the embassy." "Prayer for theological students," he writes in his journal on April 7th, 1884, on his way from Japan to Europe. ^'Prayer for the fifth year class," he writes on April 8th. These are but revealings of the secret depths. Five such men, praying and prayed for in each mission field, would bring in a new day. The history of missions has shown also, just as the history of the early Church showed, that only prayer will prepare missionaries and native Christians alike for the fiery tests that must come. The spirit of prayer is the martyr spirit. "With a prayer For him who pierced his body with the spear, For him who tore his temples with the thorns, For him who mocked his thirst with vinegar, The Lord Christ, bleeding, bowed his head and died." "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." If you wish to read the modern parallels, turn, for example, to Miss Miner's China's Boole of t Martyrs and read the story of Mrs. Kao and her daughter, Jessica, and the chapter on Paoting-fu. Beyond the West Gate, as they turned toward the execution ground, the Boxers gave her a moment PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 165 for prayer, and, kneeling among them, as she had done before, she prayed, "Father, forgive these men; they don't understand what they are doing." Then followed brief petitions for her daughter, her husband, and herself, and with a face radiant with peace, Mrs. Kao rose to her feet, and a few minutes later all the trumpets were sounding for her on the other side. The chapter in Miss Miner's book that is full of such tokens of the present power of prayer to strengthen for any sacrifice was closed aptly with a verse of Lyte's hymn: "I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless: Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. Where Is death's sting? -where, grave, thy victory? I triumph still, if thou abide with me." The praying Church cannot be slain. And as by prayer we are to gather our workers and equip them and raise the native churches and kindle the martyr spirit, so by prayer alone will those who carry the enterprise be given the wis- dom and unity needed for their work. Prayer is the only assur- ance of right decision and wise planning. One of James Chalmers' most intimate correspondents at home writes: "To him to live was to pray. He wrote to an anxious friend, 'Do not make plans until you have prayed about it, for you will spoil it all/ " And in one of his letters to his friend, Dr. Ellinwood, Dt. Nevius of China wrote: "God's providence seems to have brought me into very close proximity with apostolic methods. I have often said to myself, 'Christians must be praying for me.' My appeal still is, pray for us." And prayer alone will produce the unity indis- pensable to triumph. It is significant that it was this unity which was the chief burden of our Lord's great prayer. Prayer predis- poses many minds to common purposes. It alone enabled Mills and his associates to bring together the men who established our early missionary organizations. It prepared the Karens for Judson and led Judson to the Karens. It sent the Hottentots looking for a teacher at the same time that it sent Barnabas Shaw to the Hotten- tots. Prayer begets harmony and love. We cannot maintain con- troversies with those for whom we are maintaining intercession. "The only remedy with me," wrote Chinese Gordon to his sister, "is to pray for every one who worries me. It is wonderful what such prayer does. Prayer for others relieves our own burdens. 166 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION One great altitude to be lifted up to by the Holy Ghost is the feeling that the sorrows of others are our own sorrows, inasmuch as we are members of one body." And it is as members of one body that we are to pray that we may be outwardly one, and that the fruits of our unity may be gathered unto God. The promise runs for two or three more richly than it runs for one: "Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Corporate intercessory prayer will make us capable of Christlike action and susceptible to spiritual leading; will give resoluteness with humility and unity with all its world-convincing power. As we think of all that prayer has wrought and can work, very precious does our privilege and very solemn our duty appear. For prayer opens to each one of us the opportunity of making our in- fluence felt to the very ends of the earth. "Though you and I are very little beings," wrote Mills to Elias Cornelius, "we must not rest satisfied till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this ruined world.'' Every one of us ought to desire to have a part in this mighty ministry. I received recently a letter from a friend, who is pastor in a down-town mission church in New York City, where the problems of the evangelization of the city, as crushing and perplexing as any missionary problems in the world, are resting upon him. "Will you let me have," he writes, "a little of your time just a little? I am wanting to help together in the great work of God, much more than I have, by prayer. My tent's place has enlarged. My heart keeps going to so many, and so far. God denied my desire to go into foreign fields and suffer for him, but he lets me be in travail of prayer, and I have a little part in the great work the prayer part. Now, will you help me in this way: I wish to keep in touch with and know fields abroad, for instance, Mrs. Howard Taylor in her books, and especially the one about Pastor Hsi, helps me in the China Inland work. Will you let me know of a book, or books, regarding the 'fields that are white,' which are like Mrs. Taylor's Pastor Hsi. Our Church is dear to me, but I do not especially desire those confined to our Church work. I want to get into more fields. The books you sug- gest will help me. I always hold you daily in my heart in prayer." We can all cooperate and do work in this way by prayer. We can promote spiritual awakenings in far distant lands. We can send PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 167 rest to the tired, and strength to the weak, and courage to the over- burdened. "The weary ones had rest, the sad had Joy That day; I wondered 'how'! A ploughman, singing at his work, had prayed, 'Lord, help them now!' "Away in foreign lands they wondered 'how'! Their single word had power! At home the Christians, two or three, had met, To pray an hour! 'Yes, we are always wondering, wondering 'how/ Because we do not see Some one, unknown, perhaps, and far away, On bended knee!" Missionary prayer is missionary work. It effects results. "My creed leads me to think that prayer is efficacious," said Gilmour, and he cites five great crises in his life which were turned hy prayer. "Prayer," wrote General Armstrong in the memorandum found among his papers after his death, "is the greatest thing in the world. It keeps us near to God. My own prayer has been most weak, wavering, inconstant, yet has been the best thing I have ever done." And his daughter tells us that he spent one tenth of his waking time in prayer. Shall we not fulfil our responsibilities and use these vast powers entrusted to us in behalf of those far away, who are weak because we neglect them and who might be strong if we would bring them strength ? Among the most appealing passages in mis- sionary literature are the prayers of the missionaries for our prayers. In Mrs. Dyer's Life of Mrs. Fuller there is a letter written in the midst of the last great famine, in which Mrs. Fuller pleads: "Pray, pray, pray, dear friends, for India as you have never prayed before ; and pray for us, forget not our need." This was the repeated pe- tition of David Livingstone. Speaking in the Town Hall at Cam- bridge, in 1857, he declared: "All may especially do what every missionary highly prizes viz. Commend the work in their prayers. I hope that those whom I now address will both pray for and help those who are their substi- tutes." 168 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION And at Hamilton, he declared, "Remember us in your prayers. Bear us on your spirits when we are far away, for when abroad we often feel as if we were forgot by every one. My entreaty to all the Christians of Hamilton is to pray that grace may be given to us to be faithful to our Savior even unto death." And then, shortly after, he plunged back into Africa again. But by how many of us are those who have followed him forgotten ! Shall not our forgetfulness and negligence come to an end? Shall we not go out now and begin this life of prayer, for ourselves, having done with mere theorizing about it, with mere admiration for the missionaries who have been men of prayer? If we are to be like them, we must have our set times for prayer, and remember missions at these times. We will find it helpful to use the year- books of prayer, published by the various Churches, or, as other devout men have done, pray over a map of the world. In our own homes we should maintain family prayer, morning and evening, and remember missions at the family altar. The whole day should be anade a framework of prayer, in which certain aspects of the daily routine become habitually associated with the privilege and duty of missionary prayer. Thus may we hope in time to come to live in the world-sympathies and purposes of Christ, and to pour the full force of our faith and prayer into the redeeming action of God In Christ upon the world. We do not need to be deterred in this effort by misgivings that we cannot imitate George Miiller or Hudson Taylor. We must rise above and beyond any idea of strain or imitation. Stonewall Jackson and Chinese Gordon were men of prayer, as well as the great mystics in missionary work, whether at home or abroad. We do not need to take up the ministry of prayer with any artificiality of feeling. It will suffice if we enter it as children, "in simple trust like theirs who heard beside the Syrian Sea." "The prayers of the patriarchs were most simple," wrote Gordon, "they took God at his word, that is all." May not we? Such prayer as this on the part of Christians will avail to solve the missionary problem. It will meet the financial difficulties. The men who truly pray for the coming of the kingdom will give for it. And if only a company of such praying men can be raised up, it is an end more to be striven for than the adoption of new finan- cial plans. "We have seen that Arthington is dead," wrote Chal- PRAYER IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE 169 mers, "and has left 250,000 pounds to the London Missionary So- ciety. My fear is, that if it is true the subscriptions will fall off, and so will the prayers." Chalmers knew where the great need lay. And prayer will not only result in the provision of the money ; it will also yield the obedience. The problem of real obedience hangs on the problem of sincere prayer. And it is for such prayer that the God of missions is calling. The prayer that will not merely cry, "Lord! Lord!" but that will also do the things that the Lord has said. The entreaty that enlists for the conflict unto death will prevail. "I should like," said an old writer on mis- sions, "to hear the members of missionary prayer-meetings making this a prominent part of their supplications, that they themselves and others also may be stirred up to desire and act and suffer what they ought, that the heathen may be brought out of darkness into the marvelous light of the gospel." And now at last, why should it not be in our own day ? Why do we need to wait for that vista of two hundred years that has been unveiled to us this morning? Why do we need to wait? Is God's arm shortened, that he cannot save ? Is his power weakened, that he cannot deliver? Can the Lord not make one day as a thousand years, and even in our own time, enable Jesus Christ to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied ? And yet, I suppose, we shall have to wait that he, who has been delayed nineteen cen- turies, will be delayed still, and that we will finish our work here with the great task of Christ still undone. God forbid that any of the shame of it should rest on the hearts of us who are gathered here to-day! God grant that from this hour, whatever else we may do or fail to do, we shall be men and women who live in the secret places with God who are praying by night and by day, the Lord of the harvest to send forth his laborers, and whose life is one long and faithful prayer: "My Father, who art in heaven, hal- lowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done as in heaven, so on earth." Who will make that prayer his life? THE CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY THE CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY ME. JOHN R. MOTT, NEW YORK CITY This convention must have impressed us all with the thought that in this generation the kingdom of Jesus Christ is waging a conflict which is literally world-wide. That conflict on every continent has reached its height. It is thrillingly intense. Talk about crises is certainly overdone in these days, and yet with- out a shadow of doubt the present is the time of times in the conquest of all the continents of the world. This conflict is world-wide; likewise there is to be a world-wide victory. At the time of a great battle with a wide-flung line, for example, a battle like that of Mukden, with a front of 150 miles, a certain division or regiment may feel it is hard pressed. It may actually be hard pressed, but those in touch with the whole battle-line, as the Jap- anese were in that conflict, by means of wireless telegraphy, and various other modern methods of signaling, knew that taking the battle as a whole, victory was assured. Two years ago to-day, I started on a series of journeys that during the period that has since elapsed have taken me to all of the five great continents of the world, and to some of the principal islands of the non-christian world. I come back to-night to say that taking the battle-fields as a whole, beyond question victory is assured, if the present onset be properly supported, and if the present great campaign be adequately sus- tained. But there must be paid a tremendous price if this present conflict in this time of times is to issue in an actual world-wide victory. I need not pause to say that a part of the price must be a higher and truer statesmanship in the kingdom of Jesus Christ, a statesmanship characterized by comprehension of our task, compre- hension of those to whom we go, comprehension of the times and the spirit of the age; a statesmanship characterized by compre- hensiveness, in the sense that it will embrace the whole inhabited earth, in the sense that it will compass our entire generation, in the sense also that it comprehends the whole range of missionary purpose; statesmanlike also in that it shall avail itself of the prin- 173 174 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION" ciples of strategy, as to seizing upon the places that dominate whole regions and nations, laying siege to the races which if overcome for Christ carry with them the reaching more readily of other races, the employment of those methods which, if used, accomplish at the same time larger and more far-reaching results, availing itself likewise of certain times when, if we press the advantage, we may do far more for the kingdom in a short period than in a long stretch of years that follow ; a statesmanlike policy also in the sense that it coordinates the forces and prevents overlapping. Truly, statesmanlike must be the policy if we are to have this campaign result in victory. Another part of the price which must be paid is the develop- ment of the marvelous resources of this Young Peoples' Missionary Movement which has assembled us, of the Student Volunteer Move- ment, and of the Laymen's Missionary Movement. To my mind, it is strikingly significant, and nothing less than highly providential that just as the doors of the entire non-christian world have swung ajar for the first time in the annals of Christianity, God has called into being these three great movements which are essential to each other, as likewise to the regular missionary agencies of the Church of Christ, if this task is to be accomplished. Involved in this, the further price must be paid of projecting and carrying through with undiscourageable enthusiasm, nothing less than that policy outlined in our hearing this morning as to missionary education which, by the way, was outlined with such solid strength that it is capable of sustaining a great structure. Surely, such a policy will command the following of all of our mission boards. The price must also include a far larger offering of money than many have realized. This matter has not been as closely studied in the present day as it should have been. The whole giving of Protestant Christendom needs to be scaled up to a pitch com- mensurate with our unprecedented advantage on all the great battle- fields of the Church. Need I say that the price to be paid for the victory embraces an offering of life of such extent and quality as to startle the Christian Church and to afford to this age the most striking apologetic of the reality of our faith and its conquering power. After our hearts were stirred to the very center this morn- ing, as they seldom if ever have been stirred, by that message from God, need I say that part of the price we pay must be a far more faithful wielding of the irresistible forces of the prayer kingdom? CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY 175 It is futile, yea, worse than folly to think that without this, the very hiding of our power, we will conquer on the world-wide battle- field. And then there is an additional price to be paid, on which we should fix our gaze fearlessly to-night, although it may cost a great deal. That price which shall issue in victory is nothing less than the yielding of ourselves to the absolute sway of Jesus Christ as Lord. This is real consecration, and it is mightier than statescraft. It transcends all strategy. It far surpasses all combinations of men and of movements. It alone gives outlet to such a missionary educational program as we had placed before us. And without an adequate outlet that program would be one of the most dangerous things to project on this continent. This likewise will give our money that power which makes it omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal. This price will raise the offering of lives to the highest possible value, because it means nothing less than releasing through them the superhuman energies of the ascended Christ himself. Moreover, it is this which prompts us to a prayer life such as ap- pealed to us this morning, makes that prayer life genuine, and causes it to issue in reality. As I look about our great assemblage to-night and remind my- self of those present, I say that any person here, unless willing to pay this price of yielding to the matchless sway of Jesus Christ, had better soon resign from any responsible relation to the foreign mis- sionary enterprise, and I say that not without reflection. But we must not contemplate that alternative certainly not in the case of any Christian. Still less in the case of a Christian who is sin- cerely ambitious to be genuine and to make his life count for the kingdom of Christ in these days of all days, when every life related to this enterprise should be counting hour by hour. There come times in every conflict when a certain position seems to be the key to the whole situation. The capture of that position makes certain the victory. You all remember that morning when there was flashed round the world and was reported in our dailies the intel- ligence of the capture of the 203 Meter Hill before Port Arthur. It did not take military critics to predict that in a short time the great citadel of Port Arthur must fall. I say to-night that the key to the position in the conquest of this world is not Mohamme- danism. It is not the benighted tribes in the heart of Africa. It is not Hinduism. It is not the clutch of Confucianism. It is not the insweeping hordes of undesirable population to our own country. 176 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION It is not our great cities or our rural districts. "What is the key position ? The lives of the men and women in Christendom who are responsibly related to the missionary enterprise both in prominent and obscure positions or spheres of activity and influence. This includes all the delegates to this Convention. If Christ wins on the battle-field of our hearts, we will sweep in triumph over all the battle-fields of the non-christian world whether at home or abroad. Let us, therefore, in this last solemn hour shut ourselves in with our own tumultuous hearts and the great Christ who only is able to subjugate them and to send us out with the peace, power, and contagious enthusiasm which issue in victory. If a man is not a Christian, he may debate whether or not he will become a Christian ; but having once become a Christian there is no longer room for discussion as to whether Jesus Christ shall dominate him. Jesus Christ is our Lord. That we are Christians is not sufficient. That we are Christians bent on the evangelization of the world is not sufficient. It is obligatory that we be under the sway of Jesus Christ as Lord, that we be consecrated Christians. This involves the absolute yielding unto God of the lives which hith- erto we may have tried to direct and control. It means the volun- tary offering of ourselves to God to do his will instead of our own. We take the position to-night that Jesus Christ should dom- inate each delegate of this Convention. He should do so because of who he is. The battle will continue to be waged on both sides the Atlantic as to the Person of Jesus Christ ; but the delegates here represent movements and societies which have sounded, and will continue to sound, no uncertain note with reference to the Deity of our Lord. The delegates of this Convention with Charles Lamb would stand were Shakespeare to enter the room ; but we would kneel at the approach of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, the Perfect Pattern ! Yes, and no Unitarian shall more strongly speak of the perfections of that wonderful character than ourselves. Jesus Christ our Savior ! Yes ; for we say to-night with conviction, not born of dog- matism, but with the knowledge each one of us has of the facts, that "neither is there any other name under heaven, . . . among men, wherein we must be saved." But Jesus Christ is likewise Lord. Yet one of the most alarming things is to find so many Christians who have accepted Christ as their Savior, but have not placed themselves under his sway as their Lord. They have tried, as Samuel Ruther- ford would say, to divide Jesus Christ into two parts. They have CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTOEY 177 gladly availed themselves of his saving power, but to render con- stant, steady, and heroic obedience to him, to work out their own salvation, to seek to follow in his steps, this, as Kutherford has quaintly said, is the, stormy north side of Jesus Christ; and they fain would eschew or shift it. But Christ must have his rightful place. If he was what he claimed to be, and if he is what you and I believe him to be, let us be consistent and logical, and give him his rightful place as Lord. There is something inspiring about the fact that the many delegates of this Convention, though we have traveled from all parts of the United States and Canada, from Great Britain, and from many non-christian lands, though we have come out from under the sway of different earthly rulers and forms of government, are able reverently to-night to make the common confession: "I believe in Jesus Christ, his only, Son our Lord." "O Lord and Master of us all, Whate'er our name or sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine!" Jesus Christ should dominate us not only because of who he is, 'but also because of what he has done. By his death on the cross he loosed us from our sins. This cutting out of the sins of a man's life was the most wonderful miracle which Jesus Christ claimed to have performed. We may not understand why, we may not under- stand how, but that there is a necessary connection between the sufferings and death of Christ on the cross and emancipation from the power of sin and the washing away of sin stains there can be no question in the light of the accumulating experience of multi- tudes of conscientious men. In other words, we are not our own, but we are bought with a price. And that death on the cross gave Christ proprietary rights in each Christian in this hall. Therefore it is unfair and dishonest not to give him absolute sway over us. He has the right to us. Purchase gives title. Delivery gives pos- session. Christ has purchased us. Let us give him what he has purchased. Let us hand ourselves over to him. I say by what he has done he has a right to us ; and it is an exceeding belittling of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross that it does not impel us to cast ourselves and all we have quickly at his feet, rather than letting it simply move us to reluctant and abridged and calculating gifts of parts of ourselves or of parts of what we have. Not so was it 178 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION with Zinzendorf. One day, walking along a village street, he went into a little church, and while lingering there had his attention arrested by a painting that set forth the sufferings on the cross of our Savior ; and as his eyes were fixed upon that scene of suffering love he noticed this couplet below: "All this I did for thee. What hast thou done for me?" He was melted. He was subjugated. He rose a changed man. He went out to live that wonderful life, and inaugurated the movement which has planted in all parts of the world the Moravian missions. Because of what Christ did, he has a right to dominate every one of us. Likewise, because of what Christ's sway makes possible in the life of the Christian, he should dominate us. In order to guide us, in order to purify us, in order to transform us, in order to energize us, yes, in order to use us, he must have the right of way with us. For I ask you, how can Jesus Christ guide a man who is not yielded to him? How can he purify a man who has not consciously put himself under his sway ? Still more, how can he transform, how can he energize, and how can he wield? If we want to live lives of liberty, or power, we must be under the sway of that matchless hand. I fancy that the reason why here and there in this Conference there is a delegate who has been fighting a losing battle with his tempta- tions, lies right here that we have not yielded ourselves absolutely to Christ's sway. It is inconceivable that the Christ who conquered death should not lead you in easy triumph over any temptation, if you yield yourself to his irresistible power. In fact, all that we need is found in Christ and through him, if we yield ourselves to him. As St. Francis expressed it, "We renounce everything that we may better possess everything." Or as Nicholas Hermann said, "We give the all for the all." One of the principal perils in this matter of consecration is that we do not make a practical thing of it. This is only tanta- mount to saying that we do not make our consecration actual and real. That is, we do not so order our lives as those should who say, Jesus Christ my Lord. We should not only say, Lord, Lord, but should also do the things which he says. Too often we make this matter of consecration something of the past or of the distant future. We hark back to some time in the past when with the best CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY 179. light we had we did consecrate ourselves, and we dwell on that fact as contrasted with making a diligent effort day hy day to bring ourselves under the sway of Christ. Or we look to some distant time; we vaguely think of a day when we will perform this great act, when we leave college perchance, or when we get out to India then we will hand ourselves over to the mighty working and control of Christ. It will not do to limit consecration to the realm of dis- cussion and theory. It must be translated into fact. The great mission of the Church is to translate the abstract into concrete. What Christ wants is a life of constant response to his commands and wishes. That is consecration! Might we not examine ourselves in the quiet of this night be- fore we go forth from this Convention ? Might we not with great conscientiousness forget those next to us, whom we are touching; remember there is One nearer than hands or feet, and expose our- selves to the scrutiny of the pure and sympathizing eye of Christ ? Let him search us. If we detect any part of ourselves or of our possessions which has not been yielded to his sway, let there be a practical, prompt, and glad yielding to his sovereignty. Wherein should Christ dominate us ? Certainly in our bodies. The body should be allowed to do nothing which is inconsistent with its being the abode of Christ's Spirit. How this conception should revolutionize habits ! We should present these bodies a living sacri- fice, not half alive. We should not come with jaded nerves to render service to our Lord. We are to be careful of our health, yet not too careful that is, not be selfish. I do not forget that while we should not burn the candle at both ends, the candle melts away if it gives out light. It would be unfair in a Convention like this not to remind delegates that the price not a few of us will pay if we accomplish the desires of our Savior will be the price of our lives. It has always been so ; it always will be so. It is well that our con- secration should include it, that this matter should be settled. At what a cost the kingdom is won ! But how gladly should we pay it if it be in the way of his appointment. Are you willing, if it comes in the path of God's appointment, to lay down your life in inland China, or by one of the great lakes in Africa, or on the plains of India ? This mastery of Christ's includes not only our bodies, but like- wise the use of our time. I sometimes think that our time is the most potent talent we possess. Yet I wonder how many of us have the habit month by month, if not oftener, of remorselessly exam- 180 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION ining ourselves with reference to the use of this talent of time. Are we making the best use of it? Or are there spaces of time that are frittered away, and worse, it may be, in face of a crisis like that presented to us in the world to-day. How much some day we will wish we had utilized our time better. Little by little your life is drifting away. May God help you to make it a sacrificial offering ! Who can measure the possibilities even of minutes which are dom- inated by the ascended Christ? The value of our actions and of our silent influence at a given time depends upon the degree of our union with Christ at that time. How this should change the use of time. Then Christ should dominate not only the body and time but our money as well. Our money is so much of ourselves or so much of somebody else. That is, it is stored up personality. It has power greatly to multiply man's opportunities, influence, and fruitfulness. We might solve all the financial problems of foreign missions if a sufficient number of Christians would acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ over their money. We are trustees, and in no sense sole proprietors. We are trustees not simply of a tenth but of all we possess. Christ cannot be called the Lord of a man's life, if he is not at the same time Lord of his substance. I am alarmed by the signs I find on both sides of the Atlantic, not only among the very wealthy, but even among some who would not be called wealthy, of growing luxury and self-indulgence. The only thing that will meet the situation is a heroic call to self-denial. There is no real giving that does not carry with it the giving of self. I think of the Haystack Band of Williams College, with whose consecration began the modern missionary movement of the North American continent. Those students fasted two times each week and gave freely out of their poverty. Their lives of self-sacrifice gave them world-conquering power. Think of William Burns, whose path I discovered in China was a blaze of light. Before he left Scotland, as well as while he was in China, he riveted upon himself the habit of self-denial, so that he consecrated all his substance to the works of Christ. The life of David Hill should also be kept in memory in a Convention like this. How carefully he scrutinized every expenditure. How jealously he used the wealth he inherited for the progress of the kingdom. How simply he lived as to cloth- ing, rooms, and social habits. I find one question in his daily act of self-examination was this: "What acts of self-denial can I do to-day?" Eemember also Raymond Lull, who, when he heard the CONSECRATION ADEQUATE TO VICTOEY 181 -call of Christ, settled this matter once for all. He sold his property, which was not inconsiderable, and gave it to the poor, simply keep- ing a small allowance for his wife and children. He made his dedi- cation to the Lord Jesus Christ: "To thee, Lord God, do I offer myself, my wife, and my children, and all that I possess, that I, myself, and my children, may be thy humble slaves." I do not wonder that his life came with tremendous power against the Mo- hammedan world. The call to consecration is a call to self-denial. What is self-denial to you and me to-day may not be to-morrow. Let us not dream of great acts of self-denial which we will perform at some future time; but rather let us by constantly-reiterated choices between self-indulgence and self-denial, live lives of self- denial. Let us, moreover, give Christ the dominance or mastery of our 'thoughts. The really consecrated Christian is one whose every thought has been brought into captivity to the marvelous obedience of Jesus Christ. That is only other language for saying that a man has the mind of Christ. Can you imagine the mind of Christ enter- taining thoughts like these : Envious thoughts or jealous thoughts ! -Jesus Christ as Lord. Selfish thoughts! Jesus Christ as Lord. Impure or unclean imaginations! Jesus Christ as Lord. Unchar- .itable judgments and unkind feelings concerning others ! Jesu3 Christ as Lord. Certainly not. Let us be thoroughgoing at this point. It may mark the differ- 'ence between a life of mediocrity and a life of holiness. No price is too great to pay to cut out from our mental habits any of these tendencies which do not end in God. And surely I need only to .state that the dominance of Christ involves the mastery of the will. That carries with it the control of our aims, our ambitions, and xmr choices. Yes, consecration is a comprehensive thing. Jesus Christ moves among us and asks for all. He wants all. I say it reverently, and hope it does not jar against you, that we cannot be consecrated in water-tight compartments; that is, we cannot say, Lord, be Master of my mind, but let me do as I wish with my body. We cannot say, Lord, be Master of my money ; but let me settle the question of my life-work. No, Christ will not be played with. He is ^either Lord of all, as has often been said, or not Lord at all. Ho wants us undivided ; and we will be dealing with the fringes of this isubject to-night if we allow the question to linger in any mind that .any mere gifts of time, money, influence, nervous energy, thoughts, and will compass the subject. Christ wants the entire personality, 182 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION in all its relationship, through all time. He wants us not only for all time, but at all times. I like to think of consecration not so much as a great act at the beginning (it is that) ; but likewise a series of acts, a multiplying series of acts from year to year. Christ wants not only a surrendered will. He wants much more, a willing self-surrender, that is a course of life. True consecration is thor- oughgoing. McCheyne, who lived the life of consecration if any one ever did, said, "I ought statedly and solemnly to give my heart to God." Henry Martyn, whose life could be summed up as a re- morseless denial of self, time and time again dedicated himself in language like this : " Once more would I resign this body and soul to the blessed disposal of his holy will." And Thomas a Kempis, that voice that came up from close association with Christ, one day put the question and answered it : "How often must I perform this act of solemn resignation, and in what circumstances is this self thus to be relinquished? . . . Always, yea, every hour, as well in email things as in great." This takes us to the heart of the very deepest lesson of life. Our consecration extends to all places. Surely consecration carries with it that we are at the disposal of Christ wherever we are. Yet a friend of mine said, "Anywhere, Christ, save to China.". But it turned out that God sent him to China. Are you ready to go to India? Remember also that it is consecration to God, and not to a field, not to an occupation. How much better to surrender to our loving Father than to struggle to get to India, or to struggle to stay at home against a reluctant will. Grace is abundantly given for a special act if we have performed the comprehensive act of saying that in everything we will yield to his sway. This matter of consecration is no light thing. It is a summons of our ascended Lord to each one of us to go with Christ to Geth- semane, and if need be to Calvary. I once stated that we needed 40,000 missionaries to evangelize the world. I want to say to-night that it is not necessary to have 40,000 missionaries. One thing is necessary, and that is that every worker who presses to the front, and every Christian who stays at home, be a Christ-conductor. Much is said in every Convention about the greatest need ; but are we not agreed that the one great need is that more of Christ be released? And how is more of Christ to be released? Is it not invariably through unhindered, open, and pure human channels? We recall to-night the words which Moody heard in Britain forty years ago, words which moved him as no other words he ever heard, words CONSECKATION ADEQUATE TO VICTORY 183 which transformed his life. A humble Christian said in his hear- ing: "The world has yet to see what God will do for and through the man who is wholly consecrated to him." "A man," thought Mr. Moody, "not a great man, not a rich man, not an eloquent man, a man. I am a man. It lies with the man whether or not he will or will not make the entire consecration." That is the startling conception in the Old Testament which represents God as looking up and down the earth to find here and there a man whose heart is right, so that he can show himself strong toward that man. Yes. Christ moves among us in this Convention to clothe himself with men and women. I repeat it: he desires to clothe himself with men and women in thig Conference; and what will not take plac& in the fields we represent if we let him do so ? God grant that none of us may sink down into a life of mediocrity when it is possible' for us to rise in newness of life, and henceforth to show forth his excellencies and to manifest his power. May our loving Lord, before whom all idols must fall, actually conquer us, actually sub- ject us! May the constraining memories of his cross, and the lore wherewith he hath loved each one of us, lead us at this hour to hand ourselves over to Christ wholly, irrevocably, and gladly, hence- forth to do his will and not our own ! CANADIAN BAPTIST DELEGATES THE KEV. J. G. BROWN, CHAIRMAN Secretary Baptist Foreign Mission Board Every one present was enthusiastic over the Convention, and ways and means were discussed with a view to imparting to others some of the information, and inspiration, received by those in attendance at the meetings. The task of writing up the Convention for the denominational press, such as the Canadian Baptist, the Maritime Baptist, the Western Outlook, the Canadian Missionary Link, the Visitor, Tidings, the Bulletin, and the Mc- Master University Monthly, was assigned to the different delegates. Arrangements were made to hold a large number of echo meetings in churches and young people's societies and pledges taken for co- operation in securing a strong delegation to the summer confer- ence of the Movement at Whitby, Ontario, in July. Some 250 copies of the report of the Convention as printed in the daily press are to be distributed among pastors and other important leaders in Church work, and more strenuous efforts made to press the organiza- tion of mission study classes and the circulation of literature of the Movement. Altogether a very profitable hour was spent. FREE BAPTIST DELEGATES MR. HARRY S. MYERS, CHAIRMAN 'Assistant Corresponding Secretary General Conference of Free Baptists The meeting was opened with prayer by Professor D. B. Reed, Dean of the Theological Department of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. After mutual introductions, Mr. Harry S. Myers made a statement regarding the educational campaign of the denomination in mission work, covering the points of mission 187 188 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION study, missionary reading, missionary meetings, and then spoke of the need of men and money in denominational home and foreign mission work at the present time. Quotations from the report of the home and foreign mission committees at the last General Conference were made regarding the need of the work. After a half hour of discussion on what the delegates might do to secure the needed men and money, prayer was offered and the meeting adjourned to unite with the other Baptists- NORTHERN BAPTIST DELEGATES THE REV. JOHN M. MOOEE, CHAIBMAN Secretary Young People's Forward Movement of The 'American 'Baptist Missionary Union and The American Ba>ptist Home Mission Society After introductory remarks by the Chairman greetings were brought in behalf of the several societies as follows: AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION THE REV. FRED P. HAGGABD AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY THE REV. HOWARD B. GROSE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY THE REV. R. G. SEYMOUB WOMAN'S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY Miss JULIA H. WEIGHT WOMAN'S BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE WEST Miss CABBIE E. PEKBINE WOMEN'S BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY MRS. JOHN NUVEEN WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY MRS. M. C. REYNOLDS DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 189 WOEK OF THE FORWARD MOVEMENT THE REV. JOHN M. MOORE After this very helpful and inspirational hour that we have spent together, receiving the greetings and hearing of the work and the needs of our missionary societies, we are ready to talk about the things that we can do to secure a generation of Baptist people that will enter these open doors and help take this world for Jesus Christ. And I want to tell you, in just as brief a time as possible, of the work of the Young People's Forward Movement, which, as I have already said, is the connecting link between the Young People's Missionary Movement and the churches and Sunday-schools and young peoples societies of our denomination. MISSION STUDY The first thing we have emphasized in the work of the Move- ment has been mission study. You all know what a mission study class is,-r-a little group of people who sit down for a course of eight weeks with one of these admirable text-books to study seriously the great problems and needs of the missionary enterprise at home and abroad. We have this year perhaps 600 mission study classes enrolled, but we should have at least 500 more as a result of the im- petus given by this great Convention. We are prepared to send suggestions to leaders of mission study classes and in many ways help you to cultivate a group of young people in your own church or Sunday-school or young people's organization. One of the problems we have been studying during the year is the problem of following up the mission study class. We have felt that it is absolutely necessary that we find a way by which to link these lives that have become interested in the world's evangeli- zation, to the great agencies of our denomination through which we are seeking to bring the gospel to all peoples. There are two features of our work that have been adopted as a help in following up mission study. THE FORWARD LEAGUE The Forward League is not a new organization, it has no meet- ings, it has no officers, it has no dues, it is simply an enrolment of Baptist young people whose eyes have been opened to the world's needs, whose ears have been opened to the Lord's call, and who are 190 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION ready, whether they may be missionaries or not, to commit their lives definitely to the work of the world's evangelization. The Stu- dent Volunteer Movement has been a blessing to many in enabling them to commit their lives to the work for which Jesus Christ gave himself, but there are many of us who cannot be foreign missionaries nor home missionaries. Here is the declaration of purpose that you can sign, and I should like, when I reach my office in Boston, to find 500 of these cards that have been signed by young people in this meeting this afternoon. "I purpose definitely, as God shall enable me, to do what I can to hasten the evangelization of all peoples. To this end I will study missions, will endeavor to be a faithful steward of Jesus Christ in the use of my time and money, will seek some definite form of missionary service, will try to interest others in missions and will give myself to earnest and persistent prayer for the coming of the king- dom of God." Without urging Baptist young people to sign this declaration, of purpose, we have an enrolment of not less than 800, and they are well distributed in our churches from Maine to California. What will it mean when 8,000 shall have committed their lives to the missionary enterprise in this definite way, to work in the home- land with the same' earnestness and devotion as the missionaries who are working so sacrificially and so heroically on the field. On the card you will find these words from the Third Epistle of John, which we have taken for our inspiration, "For the sake of the Name they went forth . . . We therefore ought ... to be fel- low-workers for the truth". And this Movement that is taking hold of the young life of this generation has for its high ideal and aim the enlistment and development of a great army of "fellow- workers for the truth." A STREAM OF MONEY We have another plan for following up the mission study class and securing definite, practical results. In the beginning of our work we did nothing about money, we said nothing about money. It has been strictly an educational movement, but we are coming to realize that education is not complete that does not lead to prac- tical expression on the part of those whose minds and hearts have I 1r4 MISSIONARY PROGRAMS SERIES Two FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR SOCIETIES DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 191 been stirred, so the Young People's Forward Movement is present- ing a plan for securing regular, systematic giving to missions. There are many young people who have studied missions or who have not studied missions who want to set apart regularly and systemati- cally something for the great world-wide work of the kingdom. This new plan, announced for the first time this afternoon, is called, "A Stream of Money for Missions". The flow of money into the missionary treasuries is inter- mittent and scant. It ought to he constant and abundant. The way to secure a steady stream of money for missions is suggested in 1 Cor. xvi. 2 : "Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come." When our churches generally adopt this sensible, Scriptural, successful, apostolic plan and pursue it earnestly the financial prob- lem in missions will be solved. In any church, individual members may employ it, adapting it to the existing system in their church. Thousands of Baptist young people will study missions this year. This ought to mean more money for missions immediately. An average of even ten cents a week from these would mean a stream of money sufficient to pay all the expenses of our West China Mission, with its four stations and eighteen missionaries, and to support the entire missionary force of Northern Baptists in Cuba. The Young People's Forward Movement desires to help Baptist young people who are studying missions and those who are not to link their lives by a golden chain to the missionary enterprise, and, therefore, proposes a campaign to secure this stream of money for missions. Only let it be understood it will bear repeating nothing proposed shall be in conflict with the system of missionary finance in any local church. Note these principles : Offerings for missions shall be "laid by" weekly. They shall be distributed from time to time according to ;the wish of the giver. They shall be forwarded to the missionary societies in con- nection with the regular offerings of the church. Baptist young people can easily increase these offerings by a thousand dollars a week. Leaders of mission study classes and officers of young people's societies will be supplied with folders describing fully the details of this plan. 192 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION THE BAPTIST FORWARD MOVEMENT FOR MISSIONARY EDUCATION We come now to what is by far the most interesting and the most important announcement of this afternoon. One of the most significant actions in the history of our missionary societies has just been taken, which it is my pleasure to tell you about to-day. The Young People's Forward Movement of the American Bap- tist Missionary Union and the American Baptist Home Mission Society was inaugurated on January 1, 1907. It grew out of the recent remarkable development of interest in mission study which has been fostered and promoted so effectively during the last five years among young people of all denominations by the Young Peo- ple's Missionary Movement. Cooperation in promoting the study of home and foreign missions has been found so natural and so sensible that it has seemed wise to enlarge the field of cooperation. The Young People's Forward Movement will, therefore, be suc- ceeded on April 1, 1908, by the Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education. The new Movement will represent all the missionary societies of Northern Baptists. The American Baptist Missionary Union The American Baptist Home Mission Society The American Baptist Publication Society The Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society The Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West The Women's Baptist Home Mission Society The Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society Not only has the sphere of cooperation been thus enlarged, but the field of activity of the Forward Movement has likewise been greatly extended. Heretofore its work has been confined largely to the formation of study classes in connection with young people's organizations. The field of activity for the new Movement includes : Sunday Schools Young People's Societies Young Women's Missionary Organizations Mission Bands Institutions of Learning DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 193 In other wards, this Movement stands for a unified and ag- gressive effort of the home and foreign missionary societies of Northern Baptists to capture the rising generation for the mis- sionary enterprise, laying hold of the boys and girls and young people at the responsive period of their lives, and thus securing mis- sionary churches for the enlarged and enlarging opportunities and responsibilities of the immediate future. Its aim, concretely stated, is the promotion of missionary edu- cation among Baptist young people, to the end that the missionary enterprise may receive more generous offerings of life and money. The control of the Movement, subject to the Boards of the con- stituent societies, is vested in a committee of eleven persons, repre- senting all of the societies. Its work will include at least six lines of activity: 1. The suggestion and collation of material for mission study. 2. The promotion of the circulation of this material. 3. The missionary cultivation of the leaders, officers, and teachers of Sunday-schools and of young people's organizations. 4. The development of systematic, generous giving to mis- sions, in Sunday-schools and among young people generally. 5. The promotion of prayer for missions. 6. The promotion among student bodies of mission study, giv- ing, and service. No meeting of the committee has yet been held and it is, therefore, impossible to outline the method of procedure. It will, of course, take time to prepare an adequate literature and secure its circulation. Much material is already available, however, and as rapidly as possible the committee will provide courses of mission study for all grades, will develop methods of systematic giving for Sunday-schools and young people's societies, and inaugurate an aggressive campaign among Baptist students in academies, colleges, universities, and theological seminaries. Mission study courses for juniors and for young people are already available. Material for the monthly missionary meeting is provided by the Conquest Mis- sionary Course of the Baptist Young People's Union of America* RESOLUTIONS r A$ the close of the meeting a committee on resolutions pre- sented the following, which were unanimously adopted : 1. Resolved, That we heartily commend the aims and methods 194 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION of the Young People's Missionary Movement as set forth in this Convention. 2. Resolved, That we express our supreme joy at the co- operative effort of our denominational societies as set forth in the Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education and that we urge the churches to support the movement heartily. 3. Resolved, That we commend the suggestion that every pastor preach on young people and missions on one of the last two Sundays in March, this sermon to he followed by the formation of study classes and the enlistment of young people in systematic giving for missions. 4. Resolved, That we endeavor to form five hundred new classes during the spring months, and that all present pledge our- selves to this end. 5. Resolved, That we recognize in the Forward League large possibilities for the future of our work, and that we ask pastors and workers to talk and urge enrolment in the league. 6. Resolved, That we recommend that the Baptist Young People's Union of America cooperate with the Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education. SOUTHERN BAPTIST DELEGATES THE REV. T. B. RAY, CHAIRMAN Educational Secretary Foreign Mission Board The Southern Baptist denominational rally was a very en- thusiastic meeting. There were not so many present as at many of the other rallies, but some very effective planning was done with reference to future work. There were no formal speeches. The conference method was pursued. Topics such as "How to Follow up the Convention", "What We can do toward Organizing Mis- sion Study Classes", "How may We help Create Interest in Mis- sion Study" and the Southern Conference to be held at Asheville, North Carolina, July 3-12, were discussed. After two hours spent in this conference, the meeting adjourned to unite with the Union Baptist meeting which was held in the main auditorium of the same church. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 195 BAPTIST UNION MEETING CANADIAN BAPTISTS, FREE BAPTISTS, NORTHERN BAPTISTS, AND SOUTHERN BAPTISTS THE KEY. J. G. BROWN, CHAIRMAN 'Secretary Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec MISSIONS IN THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY THE REV. GEORGE T. WEBB General Secretary Baptist Young People's Union of America The Young People's Society that does not give the first place to missionary education does not deserve the name of Christian. It is a matter of great delight to know that the young people's societies in our Baptist churches from East to West are profoundly interested in this missionary problem, and are addressing themselves very earnestly to the question of missionary education. As we stated a moment ago, the Baptist Young People's Union, when it started seventeen years ago, had in mind the question of missionary education. It took some time to launch the enterprise, but when it was started, a comprehensive scheme of missionary edu- cation was presented, covering the entire field of missionary service in the hands of Canadian Baptists, Northern Baptists, and Southern Baptists. There were twelve lessons prepared for each year, and with more or less vigor and energy this work was pressed. In some sections of the country it had a large place, in others it had lees, but the whole country was blessed by this work. A gentleman said to me a little while ago, "If I have been able to accomplish anything in the church to which I belong and in the denomination with which I am affiliated (and he is a Bap- tist), I owe it under God to the Baptist Young People's Union. It has been worth more than any other one agency." That man has recently given himself wholly to the work of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, to press that work to the greatest possible success. This is one of the results, which could be duplicated scores of times all over the country, of tke early educational work of the young people. 196 CHTJKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION I want to pass over the years, without attempting a critical survey, and call your attention to the newer developments in the direction of missionary education. A year ago or so the mission boards held a conference with the Baptist Young People's Union with a view to making missionary education within our ranks more effective than ever before. It was therefore decided, the societies on one side agreeing and the Union on the other side agreeing (this was not accepted by all the boards of the country, but so far as they felt inclined), that the Union should continue its Conquest Mis- sionary Course as material for the monthly missionary meeting and that the missionary boards and societies, on the other side, should project a broad course of mission study through mission study classes, each being complementary to the other, the conquest missionary meeting doing a first work with the mass of the young people, and the mission study class coming in with those who had a deeper interest, to enlist them in mission study and carry them forward to a clearer knowledge. This is the status of our work. The Baptist boards and the Baptist Young People's Union cooperate in this scheme of mission- ary education, and it is desired by Mr. Moore, Secretary of the Young People's Forward Movement, by Mr. Ray in the South, by Mr. Brown in Canada, and by the officers of the Baptist Young People's Union of America that this shall be clearly understood. At a conference held to-day by some young people one of the ladies said, "We have our teacher, we have our training, now our need is to have the classes." That is the situation to which we have come. By the summer institutes and assemblies, by the study insti- tutes held here and there young people have been trained to take charge of these classes. There are not enough yet, we need more in every city. We need some in cities not yet touched. But to a certain degree this has been accomplished. We are not satisfied, we cannot be satisfied with that. Until every one of these trained teachers has around him a group of young people who want to know, we have not reached the ideal, which is every teacher trained for mission study class work, and every trained teacher supplied Tvith an organized band of young people. Where will they come from ? In our churches there is an indifference to this great ques- tion which is a grief to the heart, but the interested, organized company of young people who come to study missions out of your meetings held month by month, out of your young people's society, give the young people not interested a view, a touch of this great DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 197 work and they will want to know more of it, and thus the mis- sionary meeting will fill the mission study classes year by year. On the other hand, when you have interested the mass of young people in your monthly missionary meetings, how can they go for- ward to greater knowledge and power? The mission study class will meet the opening eyes and hungry hearts of these, and give them the fuller instruction that they require. The conquest month- ly missionary meeting is a failure unless It goes forward and finds its fruition in the mission study class. And the mission study class is a failure unless there is somewhere an agency which will grip the opening mind and turn the thought to that of responsibility in regard to missionary opportunity. Each is essential to the other. They must cooperate to move forward, and they are doing so to our great joy, anticipating the day when our churches will be filled with. an organized membership who know concerning missions and are ready to act. Ms. L. P. LEAVELL Field Secretary Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention We were all greatly impressed the other afternoon, when Mr. Hartshorn, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Interna- tional Sunday School Association, asked how many people attend- ing this Convention were connected definitely with Sunday-school work. I wonder if it was your experience, as it was mine, that you did not see five people that were not standing, which meant that the great missionary forces of this world are identified with the Sunday-schools, and that the place, after all, where a vast amount of missionary education must be done is in the Sunday- school. Let me emphasize the Sunday-school possibility in this great work of winning the world for Jesus Christ. That educational ex- hibit has been worth many times the price of the trip here. If after we have walked through that exhibit and gone back to it, and gone back to it again and again, if, after that, we can't teach mis- sions in our Sunday-schools, surely it is time we were learning how to teach. 198 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION There are four or five things definitely set forth in that exhibit that we can do when we get home. 1. First, let us consider the possibility of the superintendent. There is material there for the special missionary programs to be carried out in the Sunday-school. It is so arranged that any su- perintendent can use it; he can have it in his hands, and you can put it in his way. If he has no vision of the possibility of such things, put in his hands that booklet of programs. These missionary programs are to be carried out in the opening and closing service of the Sunday-school; they are so arranged that the various classes and departments of the school cooperate in carrying them out. They are not to displace the teaching of the lessons. See to it that in your Sunday-school from this time on there is a definite plan for a definite number of real missionary pro- grams, programs that catch the people's eye, that press home upon them definite needs by giving definite facts. Don't exhort, give facts, when people know, they will feel. 2. See that you who are teachers fix in the lives and hearts of Sunday-school scholars the first stone of the foundation for missionary work. Before there is a young people's society in your church there are boys and girls in your Sunday-school, and what that society is will depend on what you prepare it to be through the work in the Sunday-school. Have a definite course of supplemental work. Much of this will be memory work. You know the relation of the supplemental work to the Sunday-school lesson system. You know how much time is to be given to the supplemental work ; so, in the time when the memory is plastic, see to it that there is laid deep down the foundation of missionary interest and knowledge. Drill on the mis- sionary passages and verses ; point out missionary prophecies ; dwell on missionary characters and their achievements. See to it that you, as a Sunday-school worker, are doing your part and it will be a very valuable part and will influence largely the boys and girls who pass through your hands. 3. The next thing is a definite plan of giving, training in giving. Plan with your superintendent to have a definite policy for your school, having each class cooperate. Let each class under- stand for what purpose the money is given. A child came to the teacher and said, "I am sorry that I forgot my penny, but I hope you'll give me a paper just the same." This child thought that the money it brought paid for the paper it received, and wanted to get DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 199 the paper anyway, although it forgot the money ! The teacher of the child went to the superintendent and said, "This thing must be stopped." It was stopped. In that Sunday-school, now, all the money given is used for missionary objects; the Sunday-school is supported out of the church treasury. But the point is this: you as a teacher can see to it that so far as your class is concerned, the thing is done as it should he. Let the students know why they give and where it goes. For this purpose use such leaflets as, "What Can a Dollar Do?" and, "What Can a Dime Do?" 4. If you teach young men and women, you see at once the possibility of an organized class as related to the mission study class. I wish there had been in the Convention at least an hour of discussion of the mission study class, going over it in detail. Let each one get the literature and find out what a mission study class is and how to make it go. You as the teacher will be the best one to lead your class into the study of one or two, if possible, of these helpful study courses. 5. I wonder if you lingered long in the aisle of the exhibit where that great result of manual work is set forth. If not, see to it that you do see what some teachers have done by way of definite teaching to boys and girls. There is no "hit or miss" busi- ness about it, you either teach or you don't; that's all, and the test of your teaching is what sticks. If it sticks the student can express it and you get the expression. Otherwise you don't know' that you have taught. The echo shows just how far your voice has reached. Impression must result in expression. This manual work is the finest "echo," in teaching that we have yet discovered. Learn it. Linger in that exhibit noting the various forms of manual work ; see how it is graded, beginning with the simpler forms by the children and going on to the more elaborate and artistic work of youths. See how little folks have gathered post-cards on Japan; have written the Ten Commandments on two tables of wood ; have gathered and mounted pictures of home life among children of all nations. See how boys and girls have written the story and beauti- fully illustrated the lives of missionaries, how they have made books, filled with information, on all mission lands. And note the splendid information, gathered and illustrated, showing the foreign problems in America ; the city mission work, and the work among the American Indians, and on the frontier. By such plans as these, the Sunday-school teacher will be able to fix in the lives of boys 200 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION and girls a great wealth of missionary instruction, firing the heroic in their natures, and providing them with entertainment for many an hour. Surely, many a pastor and superintendent attending the Con- vention will use to fine advantage the stereopticon and slides, with many a film of moving pictures. The great forward stride that must be made in missions, must be made in the Sunday-schools, possibly, more largely than in any other department of the Church. We can take the world for Christ in one generation, but we must train the generation that is to do the taking. Eaw recruits will fail; the "Old Guard" or the "Tenth Legion" are necessary. So, wherever we are, as superintendent, officer, or teacher, we may have a vital part in training the gener- ation that shall take the world for our Christ. SOME FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES THH REV. EMORY W. HUNT President Denison University There are a few fundamental principles that have been so clearly enunciated in this Convention, that everybody has heard over and over again, but it may be well for us to bring together a cluster of them and when we receive the first chill after we get home, go into the closet and have our talk with God, then get out that page in our note-book where these great structural facts are written and get back to our inspiration, for depend upon it, friends, no emotion is real, no emotion will endure which is not founded upon truth and upon a truth that will bear investigation, after we have gotten away from the Convention and are all alone facing our own responsibility and our own work. Here are some of the structural things which I have caught in the spirit and teach- ing of this meeting and which, it seems to me, we ought to hold. We know them all but I am mentioning these which we will need by and by when we are getting into this characteristic experience. One of them is this, that missions, after all, belong to the essence of Christianity. Put it down in your note-book like that, expand it, hold it up in contrast with the view that is held in so many of our churches, that missions is a sort of a higher degree of DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 201 the Church life which we may take or not, just as we please; that there are Christians and then missionary Christians, and that we do not have to be this higher sort of type unless we want to. This principle which has been enunciated here and over and over again is a flat denial of that proposition. One or the other is true, not both, not both. If missions belong to the essence of Christianity, then as Dr. Gordon phrased it years ago, "The non-missionary Christian is going to be a missing Christian when things are summed up by and by." Now we all know too well the attitude of our churches at home. I talked the other night with a pastor who has recently gone to a new field, and I was not surprised at his anxiety. They had a beautiful plant and modern, most-churchly building, splendid provision for Sunday-school work and for the social classes of the church, and regular contributions were made for missions. The pastor was not expected to preach on the subject. The contribution of that church this last year was something like $25 for foreign missions ; and when, in view of the needs that have developed in our great societies this winter, he was distressed with what his church had done and went before the deacons and trustees to get permission to present the great com- bined causes to the people with special appeal and give them an op- portunity to make a special offering, it was granted. They did not like to deny the new pastor what he had his heart set upon, but gave him permission with that grudging spirit which you under- stand so well and which is but a manifestation of that stolid in- difference that is really more discouraging than the open opposition of the old antimission days. I have some respect for the Baptist church (not much, but some) that says it believes in the principle that "if the Lord is going to convert the heathen, he will do it, young man, without your help and mine," but for the Baptist church that wants the name of being missionary and that shies at a special missionary plea or a special opportunity to give, well, friends it may be part Christian but the Lord only knows where to draw the line in some of these cases. I am glad the responsi- bility does not lie with me, but this principle I have no doubt about, that missions belong to the very essence of Christianity, and that when we ask ourselves, "What is a Christian for?", "What is a church for?", and answer the question by practically saying that it is for the salvation of us, of our children, our family, and the city in which we live, that is not Christian, we know it is not. No 202 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION matter what we say, as Dr. Barnes enunciated the principle for us last night, any theory we propound about these things that is not backed up by benevolence and beneficence is not worth mentioning. The very essence of Christianity is missions, and the next thing I would suggest to put down to look at is, that the missionary spirit is necessary to the understanding of your Bible. From the time Abraham left his own land and went out to another country which God would give to him, down to the close of the canon, it is a missionary book. I tell you, you cannot understand Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, except as you remember that these letters were produced in a missionary atmosphere. You cannot fit them to the atmosphere of a strong established church. These writings were not produced for such an organization, and the characteristic at- mosphere that pervades the New Testament is the atmosphere of the mission field, rather than that of the established church. The whole New Testament, for that matter, is the product of the mis- sionary spirit, placing upon record for those who were farther off and who were not acquainted with these things in their beginnings, the great structural truths of Christianity. The Bible itself can be understood only from the missionary point of view. And the next thing for our encouragement is, that these things are becoming so obvious to our people that our churches are coming to take the missionary enterprise seriously. Here and there have been individuals who have taken it seriously from the beginning. The time has come when we take it for granted that the church as a church is interested in missions. When the time has come that we may assume that all the Baptist churches will be seriously inter- ested in missions, that is a tremendous thing, and it is a new thing. It is not quite here yet, but it is near and coming fast ; and the only reason why the new organization for our churches has not come sooner is because our churches were not ready for such things. But if the time has come, as we believe it has, when our churches are taking the great missionary enterprise seriously as their busi- ness, which must be promoted, it is a new and wonderful thing, and I believe the time has come. "We are realizing what a tremen- dously great business this thing is in which we are engaged. Big business, comprehensive aggregations of capital and organization of forces, how our time has been impressed by the tremendous com- mercial and industrial forces which have been organized ! But when we stop to think that the biggest business on this earth to-day is DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 203 the enterprise of Christian missions on the firing line, the skirmish line of the kingdom of God, war and business belonging together in it, we have realized that it is a business for men that is worthy of the strong, resolute, businesslike brain and heart of man. It is a big business in which we are engaged, and if we could only go back to our homes and open the minds of some of our people just a little way, give them a little glimpse into this tremendous enter- prise, what a great thing it would be. Then, as we do that, it seems to me very important that we should exalt the one supreme Personality in it all. We know who he is. It is not "my church", it is not "my society", it is not "my secretary", it is not "my denomination". I believe what Dr. Seymour says, and he believes what I am saying now, that we do not care anything about a thing being Baptist, any of us, except as it represents Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all, in all, and over all. You and I cannot be content, should we engage in this missionary business for any smaller reason than that it represents him who is King of kings and Lord of lords. And what we want is not that China shall be called Baptist by and by, but that Jesus Christ should be exalted there, and come into his own there, and be recog- nized there, as we recognize him as Lord and King. And yet, I do have an ambition for our churches in this connection. I do love anything that has a right to that name, "'Baptist". I love the name and its associations. I believe in this fundamental principle of the individual's direct responsibility to a spiritual King, and I do believe in following his word in determining how we ought to serve him, and I do believe that our characteristic Baptist principles are best adapted to winning the world for Jesus Christ, because we are empha- sizing and exalting nothing accidental, we are going to these strange lands making no question as to the shape of the vessel in which we carry the water of life, but putting the emphasis on these eternal and changeless things, spiritual character and spiritual life direct from God himself. It is our part to maintain this primacy in effectiveness in carrying the gospel to the whole world. I would like to see the time come when we can comfort each other with the assurance that our churches are doing at least as much, man for man, woman for woman, and child for child, in the extension of the kingdom of God around this earth as any other body of Christians. This is the concern. We know it is not true to-day. At any rate, we need not stop to compare. We know our folks at 204 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION home are not doing what they might do, what they ought to be doing, and we have a closer home interest in it even than that. Foreign missions and home missions are united more closely than we have been thinking, perhaps. Do you know what is the greatest hindrance to the progress of the Church at home? It is because the multitude outside the Church do not take it seriously and do not believe we take it seriously either. The divinity of Christ is a dead issue. We cannot get the people excited about it any more. They never will fight about it again. They are saying that it is settled ; for if there was ever such a being as Jesus Christ, then he must be so much above any man we know anything about, and the world is not interested in the hair-splitting theological defi- nition any more. The question of the divinity of the Christian life is not settled, and whether there is anything in this matter of per- sonal religion and power from on high is not settled. Do you know how it is going to be settled ? In a very practical way, by watch- ing us. There is nothing in this world that impresses this age like giving money. The world stands off and looks on and sees the Christian Church made up of what they call hard-headed busi- ness men and sensible people, sees them actually going without things, going without things for the sake of saving somebody they cannot see. When they see this they say, "These people believe any- way," and will then perhaps say, "It is time we looked the mat- ter up." You know there are two ways of judging dogs. One is the bench show in which the judges go along and note their points. The other way is the field trial. It has been noticed that some of the dogs that were best in the bench show fail when it came to the field trial. There is a dog, fine in the muzzle, that has all of the seven points of perfection, but in the field trial he was gun-shy, or would run oft* on a rabbit trail when he was after birds. Do you know that these are just the complaints, that Christians, show up well in the bench show, in the church and at the communion table, but in the field trial, some of them will shy at a missionary offering. There is a new style of apologetics that this age needs to-day ! There are hungry men and weary men in these months who are saying to themselves, " Oh that I knew where I might find him, I would come even to his seat." Are we giving a clear witness that we know and that we can tell, that we can point the way? Do we want to see the time come when Jesus Christ is enthroned and is over all ? We must surren- DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 205 der ourselves and put him in thai place in our hearts, and we must keep these principles before us day after day until they be- come the dominant, controlling ideals and principles of our living ; and it may be that it will be our privilege to open some other heart and life to these convictions and bring them to adore him too. DELEGATES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH THE REV. WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, CHAIRMAN President Hartford Theological Seminary Minute adopted at the Congregational Rally, held in connection with the First International Convention under the direction of the Young People's Missionary Movement. First of all we would express our gratitude for this great Con- vention held in the interests of missionary education and effort among the young people of the Church. The gathering in Pitts- burg of over 2,000 delegates, the majority of them leaders in young people's work, drawn from the various denominations, is an evidence of an awakening Church on the subject of missionary work at home and abroad. We welcome this new international interdenomina- tional organization as an efficient means for economizing and mak- ing more effective the work of the various denominational boards. Our suggestions for pushing the new movement among Con- gregational churches follow closely the ideas and methods found to be effective in the Church at large. The call to mission study has been the dominant note of this Convention. In the forefront of our recommendations we would urge the importance of such study for the young people of our Congregational churches. The mission study class as a distinct institution apart from other organizations in the church has become a mighty agency in missionary work. We strongly urge the organization of such classes wherever conditions allow. We believe such study is essential for the training of leaders in the local church, without which other lines of missionary effort are liable to lag, and that by such study we can best promote in the rank and file of our numbers an intelligent participation in the work of the denomination. We consider that the Sunday-school presents the best oppor- tunity for training the Church in the work of missions, and we rejoice that the Young People's Missionary Movement and the Sun- day-school boards are providing lesson helps which emphasize the 206 DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 207 essentially missionary nature of the Bible and the supreme place of missionary work in the life of the modern Church. We urge our Congregational Sunday-schools to make use of the special courses on missions which the Congregational Sunday School and Publish- ing Society will provide. For Christian Endeavor societies, young men's and young women's clubs we believe the activities of our Congregational boards in work at home and abroad offer a fruitful field for study and effort, and we urge that all such organizations should do their part in helping our denomination meet its missionary responsi- bilities. We have had the advice of a group of earnest pastors in our Congregational rally and, as expressing their views and as reflecting the general sentiment of the meeting, we would say that in marshal- ing the forces of the Church, especially among the young, in the interests of the missionary operations of the denomination the pas- tor to-day finds his largest opportunity. We firmly believe that our churches cannot expect the divine blessing upon their work in the local community if they neglect participation in the larger interests of the kingdom. We call upon our pastors to take the lead in all these things, and to seek to inspire and organize their churches as essential factors in the world work of Christ. We desire to call attention to the value of the summer confer- ences conducted by the Young People's Missionary Movement at such places as Silver Bay, New York, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Whitby, Ontario, Pertle Springs, Missouri, and Alliance, Ohio. These gatherings have proved as valuable as they are delightful. They are essentially training schools for young people desiring to engage in mission study, in the special class or Sunday-school, and in practical Christian work. A pastor can do a great service to his church and the cause of missions by persuading promising young men and women to attend one of these assemblies. The work of missions at home and abroad has been the chief glory of our Congregational churches in past generations. God has enabled us to be the leaders in the great advancing movements of the last century. If we are to be worthy of this richest of all heri- tages, if we are to maintain our position among the religious forces of America, and if we are to meet the vast responsibilities God has placed upon us as a distinct department in the one great kingdom, we must give ourselves to the work of this generation under the forms of service and organization God is now placing before us, and in the spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers who first brought mis- sionary ideals and institutions to our shores. We who are privileged to be at the First International Convention here and now pledge ourselves anew to Jesus Christ as our Great Leader in the saving of our country and our world, and to the cause of missions. We go to our homes, pledging ourselves to do our utmost in our local churches and in our denominational circles to carry out the recommendations we have expressed. May God make us willing in the day of his power, and bless Congregationalism at home and abroad. PEACTICAL SUGGESTIONS UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSIONARY INTEEEST AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE An interdenominational normal class for training teachers for missionary instruction is recommended. For those who cannot be persuaded to join mission study classes pass around occasionally missionary books or pamphlets to a list of readers indicated on the cover, asking each to pass to the one following. Secure for your city next summer one of the travelogues to be arranged for by the Young People's Missionary Movement. Introduce stereographs in your Sunday-school and in mission study classes. Use picture enlargements illustrating missionary subjects, to be obtained through the mission boards. Have general drill work in the Sunday-school by the superin- tendent on the names and works of our benevolent societies. Use lantern slides in the Sunday-school, darkening the room by curtains. Every church should own a stereopticon. A good way to obtain one is to ask a wealthy friend to advance the money and pay back by installments, charging each organization in the church $5 for the use of the lantern until paid for. In the Sunday-school the first step for rousing missionary in- terest is to organize a missionary committee which should adopt a policy for the year. The value in Sunday-schools of special occasions for missionary inspiration. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 209 Importance of creating in the Sunday-school a missionary at- mosphere by hanging on the walls missionary pictures. Every missionary visiting a church should also speak in the Sunday-school. The value of the Station Plan in the Ameriean Board, as op- posed to contribution to special objects, and as a means of edu- cation. The value in the church of a missionary committee of seven, corresponding to the seven societies, each member looking after the interests of one of the societies. Let each member be a crank on his subject for one year. The pastor is the key to the situation every time, and if he is a missionary man the church will expand in missionary interest. DELEGATES OF THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST THE REV. GEORGE B. RANSHAW, CHAIRMAN" Field Secretary American Christian Missionary Society At the meeting of the Disciples of Christ there was a large attendance and high enthusiasm. Speeches were made upon the different phases of missionary work done by the society and. several foreign missionaries likewise spoke. H. A. Denton, Cen- tennial Secretary for the Home Missionary Society, spoke of the young people's work under that society. He made an appeal for the observance of "Inland Empire Day" in the young people's societies, and urged the young people to support the frontier work in Idaho, Montana, and the two Dakotas. W. R. Warren, Centennial Secretary for the Disciples of Christ, gave an address upon the sig- nificance of the religious awakening among men. Miss Mattie Pounds, of the Women's Missionary Society, spoke upon the young people's work of that board. Howard Weir, of Warren, Ohio, who is under appointment for the foreign field, gave a very interesting address upon mission study, telling of the success of the mission study classes conducted by him in his own church. J. C. Archer, of Newton Falls, Ohio, under appointment as missionary to India stirred the meeting with his address on "Why I go to India". One of the most deeply interesting parts of the program was the ad- dresses of the missionaries present. They were: Miss Kate John- son of Japan, Miss Graybiel of India, and Dr. and Mrs. Royal Dye of Bolenge, Africa. Dr. and Mrs. Dye thrilled all hearts with their wonderful story of the redemption of the cannibals on the Congo. He told how the native evangelists took their lives in their own hands to carry the gospel to the fierce cannibal tribes in the interior. A wonderful work has been wrought at Bolenge. The native church of 400 members supports forty native evangelists of its own. At the close of this inspirational program a conference was held on plans for future work. It was determined to follow up the 210 DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 211 interest kindled by the First International Convention with very practical work in mission study, and along other educational lines. The delegates present will go back to their homes to work for a large attendance at the summer conferences. The Disciples of Christ are especially interested in the new conferences to be held at Alliance, Ohio, and Pertle Springs, Missouri. These points are in centers where the Church is strong and there should be large delegations. It is our purpose to work for the attendance of at least fifty delegates at each of these conferences. We should also have a good delegation at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. One of the effects of the convention was to stir up enthusiasm in regard to the missionary movement among the men. Plans are being laid for an advance movement in this direction. 212 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION DELEGATES OF THE FKEE METHODIST CHURCH THE REV. B. WINGET, CHAIRMAN Secretary General Missionary Board The chairman of the meeting presented the special needs of the work under his charge in India, Japan, China, and in the Dominican Republic of the West Indies. Action was taken calling for a day of fasting and prayer for the work and workers on these different fields, and a committee was appointed to write letters of sympathy and encouragement to the missionaries, because of the special trials through which they had been called to pass, one missionary had recently died in India, and several missionaries on the other fields had returned on account of failing health. Remarks were made by different delegates in regard to the help they had received at the Convention. It had specially im- pressed them with the importance of enlisting the young people of the Church more fully and constantly in missionary work. Quite a strong feeling was manifested by the meeting in favor of- using stereopticon views to increase interest in foreign missionary work, and a committee was appointed to act in this matter. The meeting was full of interest and it was difficult to bring it to a close at 5.00 o'clock. The privileges enjoyed by the dele- gates in attending this Convention doubtless will not only in- crease their interest in missionary work, but will also give them a clearer and more enlarged vision of its extent and importance. DELEGATES OF THE FRIENDS' CHURCH Eight representatives were present, four from the Ohio Yearly meeting, one each from New York, Iowa, Indiana, and New England, the last a student at Earlham College. Though the num- ber was small, the meeting was one of marked power and profit. Notes were compared, methods of work exchanged, and new enter- prises discussed. There appears in Friends' periodicals an account of this Rally, Sfhich closed with a veritable Pentecost, the few returning to their ihome meetings not only spirit-equipped, but insistent for prevailing fprayer, for intelligent study of missions, for unity ol action in efforts to evangelize. Post Cards Stereographs on a China a DELEGATES OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH THE REV. MARION J". KLINE, CHAIRMAN General Secretary Board of Foreign Missions An address of welcome was made by the Rev. Alonzo J. Turkle, pastor of Trinity Church and responded to by the Rev. F. G. Got- wald. THE KIND OF MEN CHRIST NEEDS THE REV. OLIVER C. ROTH Member Board of Foreign Missions Since I have come to this city of sunshine, I have heard many things that reached my heart, I have felt many things that I know will give me inspiration for the future, but I want to confess to you sincerely that never in my life have I felt quite so mean as I do just now. Never in my life have I felt how little our Lutheran Church has been doing. Never in my life have I felt how little the church of which I am pastor is doing, when I think of what she might do. Since I came to this Convention, my Christ whom I selected to preach has been growing larger and larger and I have never had so small a Christ as some Lutherans, but excuse me for saying it, I am afraid there are some of my good friends in the Lutheran ministry who have an idea that the Christ we preach is only able to reach the people who are of the Lutheran faith. I have gotten over that idea long ago. Show me any place in this wide world where the cities are not overchurched and where they need a church, and there the Lutheran Church can plant her- self and draw the people to Christ, and to-day that is the thing to do. We need not look around for a place where we have people who belong to us. We can plant ourselves where people are in 213 214 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION need of us, and there we can preach our Christ and draw the people to him. I have long ago had that experience as I walked along the highway of life, but never were these records so pene- trating as they have become since I came to this Convention. This whole world is longing and waiting for what ? For the messages of the Son of God. We have heard of people who are seeking us to come to them with our Christ. We have heard of people who are waiting for some one to come and repeat the truth to them, and these people are wait- ing for the messages of the Son of God. We have heard a great deal of the Laymen's Missionary Movement within the last month, and there are a great many churches in which they are organizing men's clubs, and men's missionary meetings. Before this movement had taken form in our church we organized a men's missionary society. And I am glad they stand upon that basis. I always have a con- venient engagement when asked to come to a place to organize men's clubs, when they say come to organize a men's missionary society, I go and do what I can for them. Now we have been living in times which, it seems to me, have been set forth by tradition or history in the days of God's people. You know in the time of Deborah what she said. The men said, "You go." She said, "I will go, but the honor will belong to me." We have been living in a time in our Church when we have entrusted the work of missions to the women and the children, but it is shown to the men that they have been forming systems of business and advancing them, and they have said to their wives and sisters, "We'll furnish the money." Since men are to take an ac- tive part now, I ask the question, "What kind of men do we need to carry on this great work of missions throughout the world and speak of this great work in the world?" Do you recall that Saul had a band of men whose hearts God had touched ? When we think how little we have done, we ought to ask forgiveness, and we ought to repent; and, in fact, there is little hope for us unless we do repent. We will not do anything more, but just stop to think and to pray for a while. Let us repent, during this season of Lent, and set ourselves to carry on this great work. The world needs men whose hearts have been touched to see the evil of sin. We need men, Jesus Christ needs men, whose hearts have been touched by the spirit of courage. There are men who are afraid to speak of these things, and there are women too who are afraid to speak and act as they ought. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 215 We need men whose hearts have been touched by God, so that they have a passion for souls, and a love for Jesus Christ. I am waiting and praying for the time when our people will be actuated by their love for souls, and a great love for Jesus Christ. Let us work for this time, let us pray for this time, when righteous- ness shall cover the earth. HOME MISSION WORK THE REV. J. ELMER BITTLE Missionary Superintendent PUtsburg Synod I am sure that this is a very unexpected privilege, that I may have something to say about Home Missions in this great mission- ary movement. The most important factor in the work to-day is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has given to us the message that wo shall all preach that gospel, beginning at Jerusalem. It is not a difficult matter to prove that the greatest preaching of foreign mis- sions is the preaching of home missions. I have been impressed within the last year or two by the sta- tistics of our Church. We heard Dr. Kline say that it was not by accident that this synod had the largest excess in the work of for- eign missions, and that we talked home missions with such earnest- ness that we planted in the hearts of our people a love of foreign missions. Home missions to me is something that in the present time needs to be greatly impressed upon the hearts and minds of our people. Possibly I am somewhat pessimistic, but I do believe that the cause itself is not taking the place that it ought to take. I believe our men and women are learning to love other objects. I read just this morning, from the report of our General Secre- tary, home missions statistics showing that within the last year our Church has failed to raise $12,000 for the cause of home missions that was apportioned. He shows how 41 more churches could have been organized and supported from this deficit. Think of it, of the lost power, of the lost opportunity, think of lost souls, all because 41 churches have failed to be organized and to be drawing the people to our Sunday-school ! Men, are we not just in supposing that within the next year 216 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION a similar condition will be found? The loss is something awful to face. I believe that we, as pastors, must place more emphasis on the work in our homeland. Somewhere I have read that there are eight million unchurched adults of the Lutheran faith in America. Let us perceive, if possible, the enormous loss for Christ of these souls who are Lutherans in this country and who are doing prob- ably nothing for the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. A little more than two million souls have within the last decade made such a record in foreign work, in home work, in educational work of our country, that we have been proud of their result. WOMAN'S WORK MRS. KATE B. SHAFFER Secretary General Executive Committee Woman's Home and For- eign Missionary Society It is always a privilege and a pleasure to come in touch with the great missionary movements of the day. But it is a greater pleasure and a greater privilege to come in touch with those of our own household of faith. And it is a privilege to come into Old Trinity, the home of the Guntur Band, the home of one of our strongest woman's home missionary societies, and the home of one of our strongest missionary churches. It has been a little hard for the women of the Lutheran Church to engage in mission work, but since the work is taken up, it is with all the zeal of any of the Churches. When a new baby comes into a home there is a stir, not only in the home but all the aunts, and cousins, and uncles, and friends are interested. In our home work there is a new baby, and as a result there is a stir from Africa to India. Lutheran Woman's Work is not only for the members of our Woman's Home and For- eign Missionary Societies, but the members of the Lutheran Church. Just recently one of the members of the Reformed Church was congratulating me on the success of our magazine, Lutheran Wom- an's Work, when I told her that within five weeks after the maga- zine was published our subscription list had passed the 10,000 mark. And as I say, when our Lutheran women have taken hold of any- thing, they have done it with all the zeal in their power. The DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 217 women have been looking forward for years to a time when we might have a magazine of our own. We did not hope for more than 10,000 subscribers, but its popularity gives us more than we asked or hoped for. We not only have this woman's magazine to-day, but we have another baby in our Church, and we are just as happy, if not more so, over the Lutheran Church Work as we are over Lutheran 'Woman's Work. I want to say there is no particle of jealousy in my heart in regard to men's missionary societies. I wish that every church had a men's missionary society. The men would help us in every way. Think of the progress we would have if we had all the men of our Church in missionary societies. I \vould much rather see a men's missionary society, because if the men were organized the women would follow. Last Sunday morning as I was going into Sunday- school, I met a Professor of the Ohio Wesleyan University. As we stopped to exchange a few words about the Pittsburg Conven- tion, he said, "We are sending a Hindu student as a delegate to Pittsburg. He is a good fellow, but he has failed to catch the prophetic vision." He said as he left me, "We are praying for him." "Prophetic vision," that word rang through my ears that day, and it has been ringing through my ears ever since. As I sat on the platform yesterday and listened as he told that wonderful story, and pleaded for India, I could not help but feel he had a prophetic vision, and I could not help but think of the people that need some one to pray for them. I know they were praying for him. I know that he was appreciated and remembered by all during the day. Have we a vision of the work in India as it comes to us ? Mr. McCauley will tell you from the depth of his heart and with all the intensity of his soul of the need of men workers, and when we come to our few women missionaries, among fifty millions, with only one person in the India mission speaking the Hindustani language, have we caught a vision of their work ? Are we bearing that work up, or are we carrying it on as we should? And then we come to the great continent of Africa. Are we doing our duty, when we think of those three lone women over there? This prophetic vision, this vision of the fields, should burn into our hearts. We should be willing to sacrifice everything for this great cause. 218 CHUBCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION THE CALL OF LIBERIA THE REV. WILL M. BECK Superintendent Muhleriberg Mission, Liberia, Africa Friends, when I say that I am glad to be here to-day and to be in Pittsburg this week, it is not in any stereotyped sense of glad- ness, but it is in a very real sense. If you of the home Church ap- preciate the privileges of such conventions, how much more do we appreciate the privileges, and it is particularly so in the work in the field in which I have been engaged in these years. It is everything given out, nothing taken in. We are glad to gather here, when we can meet with such support. As we look upon the map we notice the encroachment upon the African continent by the great European powers. It means a great deal to us in the work in Africa. We have recently had reason to know that three of the largest European powers are watching to see which is to have control of this one section. We are encouraged, however, as we watch the Liberian government to see that there are indications of improvement. A few years ago we could see nothing but a barren field, but now there seems to be a different outlook. They have a statesman for President. He is serving his third term, and will have four years yet to serve. There is also a movement among some of these European powers that indicates at least a perpetuity of the Liberian government. An attempt has been made to bring about an alliance of the Liberian government with the conditions prevailing. Here- tofore, they have been keeping much away from us, but as the gov- ernment remarked to them, "You must not do that, you must come into closer relations with us." Educationally, religiously, and socially, there is nothing upon which to begin our work. There is no education among the people. Taking the children as we do, we find that they are wonderfully bright. As we put them in the schools to be educated, we find that their minds readily grasp the truths we teach them. Not only in education do they respond readily, but in the industries. They are begging for us to let them learn the trades. I received a letter only a few days ago, begging me from this distance to put a certain boy in one of the shops over there. That young boy wants to learn one of the trades, and his brother writes to me, 6,000 miles away, and begs me to put this boy in. It is surprising to us and ought DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 219 to be cheering, to see what a great change comes over the boys and how readily they learn. We have some boys there that we are very, very proud of. Some of our older ones are preparing for the min- istry. Some of them are proceeding to devote their lives to the work of Jesus Christ. They have given promises to keep away from their old native customs, and to keep away from the native life, and to do all in their power to begin the new life properly. They bring their brothers and their sisters into the missions. They bring in their little cousins, and their little cousins bring in their little cousins, and at the girls' school some years ago all the girls were cousins. It is simply the spirit of going out and getting others. They realize that we are bringing them something better than they have. With- in the last ten years there has been very marked progress, not only in the life of the members of our Church, but in the true expression of the Christian life. The Lutheran conference has been organized and is for the purpose of bringing together all our workers. We organized a conference to talk upon the life, teachings, and death of Christ, and it is wonderful how they appreciate these things. We have a treasurer, and as each church sends out its delegates to these conferences, they bring an offering and lay it down for a gift to the Lord. How shall we use this money? They said, "Let us send it back to open a school," and we are using their money for that purpose. So there is something along educational lines to encourage us. When we think of the low condition from which they are taken, it is surprising to see how well they work and how steadfast they remain. We have teachers a hundred miles away, and when we cannot go back to see them more than once a year, it is wonderful how faithful they continue to be under these conditions. The call that comes to us and to you is strong. Dr. Naylor spoke about some calls coming 200 miles across the country to some missionaries asking for teachers to be placed among them. They have come 100 miles to me. Special messages sent by some Sunday-school asking to send a missionary or a teacher, in order to have schools. A king, some sixty miles back in the country said, "We do not like to send our children so far away. We will give you a hundred children to start with if you come here." They have no preaching of the gospel. They have no knowl- edge of anything but a Supreme Being, and know nothing beyond that. They do not care for the gospel, but they do care for educa- 220 CHUHCH AND MISSIONAKY EDUCATION tion. The gospel goes with every school. The need for schools is great. To establish a native mission school is the essential thing to do. But to establish a native mission school there must be teachers. How important then it is to train our boys. We have the great force of Mohammedanism to contend with. Moham- medanism will soon reach our gates. We meet it now as we go there. Eight years ago we asserted that we must have a new mission house, and we said that we would ask our Church for one. They could not afford it. Since that time we have struggled on. The board has now decided to give us one. I speak for it as I go along. We want it large enough to accommodate a large number. It will take $3,000 to put up a building to meet our requirements. Plans have already been drawn. We will be ready to begin as soon as we get the money. THE CHALLENGE OF SUCCESS THE EEV. VICTOE MCCAULEY Young People's Missionary to India It is a sad and solemn fact that, about nineteen centuries after Christ, two thirds of the human race have not yet learned to believe in Jesus Christ. Out of that two thirds who are unknown to Christ, three and a half times as many as the total population of this great country live in India. The multitude of those who live in India belong to the Hindu faith, and next in order come the Moham- medans. There are several other religions, then comes the Christian religion, which according to the last census numbered one per cent, of the population of India, They claim there are in their land three million gods. With these gods, they have gods of power, mercy, and love. We find that in that land one fifth of the popu- lation, or nearly as many people as there are in the United States, are living on the verge of starvation, and do not get sufficient food and nourishment. We find how most of those people being blest by their gods are living under the curse of poverty, living under the curse of famine and disease, because those that they claim as their gods have no power. There is one god who guards the heaven, and there is one who presides over the destinies of men. The work of our mission is carried on in the Telugu language, DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 221 a language used by more than twenty million people. It is suitable for the kind of people that are in those lands, but there is no word in the Telugu language to express our English word character. This is a time when the people are living under the curse of sin, and the fact that they are cursed with sin stands as an incentive to help them, to make known to tkem the Power that can raise them up and make them what God has made us. Our work, your work, in India has been crowned with success. When I arrived in India, there were eighteen thousand in our mission who were con- verted. When I left, there were thirty-six thousand. You need not remember the number, but you need to remember that the converte'd people were more than doubled in a period of eight years. Thus, while it had taken our mission fifty-six years to gather eighteen, thousand, it only took eight years to gather in the next eighteen thousand. Do not think that there is no value in our word character. When for six thousand years they have not had a word for char- acter, can you expect that in a day, or year, or generation, they can be placed on a plane of equality with us? We do not claim that our labors for them have been in vain. What does it mean, those thirty-six thousand ? It means that they have given up their idols. It means that they have taken advantage of our labors and that we shall teach them of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. It means that they have been brought from the power of idols. It means that they are learning more day by day. So we claim that our work has not been in vain, and that it is now worth while to continue it, because of the success that has crowned your efforts, and our efforts, in India. Because of the work that has lately been done, there is resting upon the Church here at home, an increased responsibility. It is a work by which the lower caste people in India have their faces set toward Christ. They are coming now because your missionaries preached to them, and they have seen what Christianity is. They have seen that their faces are set toward heaven, and they want to know this religion that is doing their people so much good. But has the Church at home measured up to her responsibility? What have the people at home done to merit this success or to take advantage of the golden opportunity ? Out of the twenty-five missions located in South India, our Church directs five. There are only four missions that have more than we have. They are scattered in all India. Ours is one of tho 222 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION great missions in India. Five years ago our missions ranked eight- eenth. One week from to-day we will have in our India missions only five ordained American missionaries, and then instead of rank- ing eighteenth, we will rank twenty-fifth, or just last. There will not be another mission that has as few missionaries as we will have this year. Some of them, as yet, do not have one thousand con- verts under their care, while ours has thirty-six thousand, and not one of these missions has as few missionaries as we have. One of the missions of three thousand members has thirty ordained mis- sionaries to look after its converts. We with thirty-six thousand have five missionaries in the field. I mean by that, five ordained American missionaries. We have been looking for the last teu years for more missionaries who might be prepared to go out, when the missionaries come home to regain lost strength. THE EEV. ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, CHAIRMAN General Secretary Missionary Society WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PROMOTE MISSION'S IN" THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, EPWORTH LEAGUE, AND CHURCH THE REV. LONG. I came down especially for the purpose of getting pointers to take home to work in with our plans, and I have had my vision widened and see the magnitude of the work as I never did before. MR. S. H. MOORE. No one who has a receptive mind and is in sympathy with missionary work can go home and not feel that he has a duty to perform. In Toronto we have arranged for a Sunday-school and Epworth League institute. In this we have taken a step in advance. The Sunday-school, the Epworth League, the Junior League, the Young Ladies* Guild, and the Young Men's Clubs have all or- ganized under the missionary board to advance the missionary in- terests of the Church. THE REV. EZRA FEAR. One thought comes to my mind here. At our last General Con- ference a step forward was taken in our Sunday-school work by ap- pointing a Sunday-school secretary for every district. Last fall we resurrected a Sunday-school convention which had been dead for some time, and made it one of the best district Sunday-school conventions at which I have been for some time. I feel to-day that another step should be taken at our next General Conference in the appointing of a district missionary secretary, into whose hands will be put all the missionary work of the district, somewhat similar to the Sunday-school district secretary. THE REV. S. E. MARSHALL. The importance of the attendance of the pastor at these con- ventions is not appreciated. I have found out that, if the pastor 223 is not able to attend these conventions, nearly all the enthusiasm the other workers get is soon evaporated, but if the pastor takes the lead, he draws out a dozen where others would draw out only one. MR. STONE. I appreciate these missionary pointers we have heard, but the thought has come to me very forcefully, we are suggesting somebody else to be appointed to do the work, but what did we come down here for? We have a personal responsibility in the matter and we are individually missionary secretaries. We are a radiating force,, if we are doing our work, and if we do not do that, this Convention will not be a success. DR. SUTHERLAND. There is need of organization, but let us take care that the whole thing does not run to machinery. The Spirit of the living God must be in the machinery or else it will be nothing but ma- chinery. We need skilled workmen who will assemble the parts of the machine. THE REV. TERRYBERRY. The thought haa occurred to me while sitting here of earlier days when I was a boy on the farm. I remember one day standing by a steam thresher when suddenly some one started the engine going. Some one called out, "Do not start that engine until the belt is on, else you will run great risk of destroying it." This Convention has been a great privilege to us, we have been enthused and inspired beyond measure, and I believe it will be a detriment to us if we do not follow the suggestion which Mr. Stone ihas thrown out regarding making this a personal matter. MR. GUNDY. The thought that has been uppermost in my mind is how to attach the belt and utilize the energy which has been generated at this Convention. We do not know half enough about this business. We do not know what we are talking about. Perhaps the preachers do, but we do not know what we are talking about. If ever there was a people who have resting on their shoulders a responsibility, as far as home missions are concerned, we Cana- dians are the people. Unless we take the responsibility of the vast horde of Europeans and Asiatics, who are pouring into our Do- minion, the result will be disastrous to our country. There is a DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 225 text-book in Dr. Stephenson's office which will give us the informa- tion we require. We want more study to get right down to work. After a Convention of this kind there seems to me to be always a tendency toward reaction. "We go home and it is different, the rest have not been down at the Convention. Let us get down on our knees and ask God to keep the enthusiasm burning within us and let us get to work. QUESTION. Will Dr. Stephenson tell us what that book is? DR. STEPHENSON. It is called Aliens or Americans? We ought to study this book so as to profit by the successes and also mistakes of the Americans in dealing with the immigration question. We hope before long to have a book dealing with this question from a Canadian standpoint which will contain the information which we are after. THE REV. BUEKT. I find that our suggestions this afternoon are relative to the cities and towns. Now we are aware that the large bulk of our membership is in the country charges. How can the appointments in the country circuits be reached? DB. STEPHENSON. Students will be sent out during the summer provided with lan- terns and lantern slides to campaign districts, taking in country ap- pointments and organizing mission education wherever possible. Miss FLEMING. We feel that if Toronto is to be set on fire there is no better place for that fire to be kindled than in Victoria College. We have a prayer-meeting which is held every Thursday morning at 8.00 o'clock. In connection with mission study classes, we decided to start such meetings, and have had a number. ME. SQUIEES. I am thankful for the privilege of attending this Convention. To me it has been an inspiration. Nothing like it has crossed my path; in short, a map of the world has been opened to me and I have seen my Savior closer than ever before. We need the Holy Spirit in our every-day life to help us work out these questions. 226 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION THE REV. LONG. There is one point in connection with this work of which I wish to speak. Mr. Burry put his finger on the very point. I feel that until we can get at the hard-headed farmers we cannot solve this question. We had been hearing this for years, so we started a plan to meet it. We organized the Laymen's Missionary Move- ment. We had a banquet and had the Rev. Manning and the Rev. Keenleyside of London speak. We had over 200 people present. I took hold of the business, and one hundred and fifty men said, we will give $600, and one man said that is not enough. While I am here in Pittsburg there are twelve men on my circuit in Ontario traveling up and down, doing this work. They expect to raise $1,200. THE REV. T. E. E. SHORE. This Convention is an inspiration. Yesterday morning when that panorama was shown of North America, South America, Asia, and Africa, I was overwhelmed as never before. I have been en- thused, away from the rush and crush of the work, more in these three days than perhaps in three weeks before I came. I believe that missionary work will be such as it never was before. THE REV. R. W. WOODSWOETH. I, too, believe that the pastor is really the key to the whole situation. I might give a few instances in regard to the farming community and what can be done through systematic giving to further missionary work. A farmer on a certain circuit where I was speaking on the Christian stewardship question had given the previ- ious year $3, that year he gave $55, and in the past five years he has given $325 to missions alone, an average of $65 a year. A man in the Bay of Quinte Conference, a well-to-do farmer, last year gave for all purposes $20. Within the last few weeks he started tithing. The pastor writes me that his gifts this year will run up to about $200. Systematic and proportionate giving will solve the money problem of missions. DELEGATES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH THE REV. A. B. LEONARD, CHAIRMAN Corresponding Secretary Board of Foreign Missions The delegates of the Methodist Episcopal Church were given the opportunity of hearing leading men of the denomination, who spoke briefly upon subjects of vital importance to the denomina- tional life, and especially as related to the Young People's Mission- ary Department. Bishop Warne conducted the devotions. The Rev. Ward Platt, Assistant Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, told "What the Young People of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church can do to help the Board of Home Mis- sions just now." He explained clearly the special burdens which the division of the Missionary Society as ordered by the last General Conference imposed upon the officers of the new Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, because of the lack of literature and general information concerning home missions throughout the Church. He then explained what plans were being devised for more thoroughly informing the Church, and appealed to the young people to cooperate with the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension in circulating the literature of the Board and the Chris- tian Republic, especially in increasing its paid subscription list. The Rev. Stephen J. Herben, Editor of the Epworth Herald, spoke on the "Dissemination of Missionary Information through the Church Papers." He explained what was being done by the Church boards, and especially emphasized the fact that the large amount of missionary information printed is not merely to fill space but is intended to influence lives, and expressed the hope that, through the agency of the Epworth Herald, and other denomina- tional publications, the vast army of young people might be led to more intelligent, sympathetic, and aggressive missionary effort. The Rev. E. M. Randall, General Secretary of the Epworth League, spoke on "The Epworth League and Missions." He em- phasized the importance of a world vision to the young people of 237 228 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION ihe Church, and gave in outline his idea as to what the young people of the Church ought to do in supporting Christian missions. These addresses were followed by a symposium on "What this Young People's Work Means from the Point of View of the Field Secretaries." Addresses were made by field secretaries, F. H. Sheets, J. B. Trimble, and Homer C. Stuntz. Dr. Sheets told how he had been led to give a large part of his time to the development of young people's work in his division, and in doing this he was accustomed to visit churches, speaking in the pulpit on Sunday morning ; addressing the Sunday-school at its regular session and at that time arranging for a meeting of all the Sunday-school officers in the afternoon, when he presented to ihem plans and methods for introducing missionary instruction into the Sunday-school ; and showed programs, mission study text-books, and other available missionary material. In the evening he ad- dressed the Epworth League and spoke again in the pulpit at night. By this plan of campaign, he was able not only to organize the Sunday-school for missionary effort, but he was also able to pro- mote mission study class work and Christian stewardship. Dr. Trimble explained how, in the prosecution of his work as field secretary, he had become convinced of the importance of mission study work, and had given a large portion of his time to the organization of district institutes with mission study as a leading feature of the program, and the promotion of the mission study campaign throughout his territory. Dr. Stuntz made a strong statement concerning the value of mission study, and stated that wherever he found special interest the explanation of it was that there had been a systematic and successful mission study campaign. DELEGATES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUECH, SOUTH THE REV. W. R. LAMBUTH, CHAIBMAH Secretary Board of Missions PURPOSE OF THE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN THE REV. ED F. COOK 'Secretary Young People's Department of the Board of Missions The purpose of this department of the board of missions which I represent is to make ready the Church of to-morrow for her part in the great work of world-wide evangelization. The General Con- ference defines our business to be the missionary education of the Church through the Sunday-school, the Epworth League, and the schools and colleges of Southern Methodism. How are we going to do this in our time ? How shall we keep pace with the providential movements that indicate God's haste to save the world ? We must educate in the gospel of missions, educate in the history of missions, educate in all that will awaken the Church to see her present-day missionary opportunity. In order to accomplish this we must bring the pastors of Southern Methodism to realize that upon them rests the chief re- sponsibility for the making of a missionary Church. They are, in the highest sense, the leaders of the people. Mr. Mott, in his great- est book says: "The secret of enabling the home Church to press her advantage in the non-christian world is one of leadership. The people do not go beyond their leaders in knowledge and zeal, nor surpass them in consecration and sacrifice. The Christian pastor, minister, rector whatever he may be denominated holds the di- vinely appointed office for inspiring and guiding the thought and activities of the Church. By virtue of his position he can be a mighty force in the world's evangelization." To aid the pastor in meeting his high responsibility, we are filling his hands with a 229 230 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION matchless missionary literature and other materials well adapted to the needs of his people. Next we must bring the Sunday-school superintendents to real- ize that they have the making of the missionary conscience and character of the Church of the future. In their hands, for training, are more than a million of our young people in the formative period of thought and life. By proper instruction in the Word, they can be trained to missionary faith and obedience. Help us to put this manual on "The Sunday School and Missions" into the hands of every superintendent in Southern Methodism. We are ready to fur- nish almost everything that is needed for missionary education in the Sunday-school, from the curio boxes, for object-lesson teaching in the primary grades, to text-books for a postgraduate course for teachers. And then it is up to us, in this campaign of missionary educa- tion, to put a mission study class in every Epworth League. Here is to be found a great company standing upon the threshold of life, with its fulness of opportunity for service. They are eager for knowledge of the great missionary enterprise, and respond to its inspiration with ready enthusiasm. They are waiting to be led. Will you not take to some bright young men and women these an- nouncements of the mission study plans, text-books, and helps ? Interest in mission study is growing with wonderful rapidity. In the courses of 1907-08 we have enrolled nearly 8,000 senior leaguers, and during January and February 30,460 junior leaguers were engaged in the study of lessons from Uganda's White Man of Work. The Student Volunteer Movement is doing a great work in our leading colleges. It is our purpose, in closer affiliation with this Movement, to put mission study into every school and college of the Church. From the schools and colleges will come the men and ;women, who because of training will be the leaders of the Church of to-morrow. We must keep before them missions, the greatest enter- prise of the kingdom. We must keep before them the call to the ministry, missions as a life-work, and the ever-broadening field of usefulness at home. It is our purpose also to deepen the spiritual life of the Church. A knowledge of missions develops the spirit of missions. The spirit of missions is the very spirit of Christ. The love and unselfishness that make the spirit of missions deepen the spiritual life of the Church. This is the universal testimony of study class leaders. 231 Then we purpose to enlarge the liberality of our people. An informed people is a willing people. Teach the people the facts of missions, and they will provide the funds for the extension of the work. Nothing has yielded more in money to the Church than this campaign of missionary education. Help it along. Our op- portunity is great, let us match it with the funds. If ever the Church is brought to answer the challenge of the Student Volunteer Movement in the offer of men, if ever the Church is brought to answer the challenge of the Layman's Missionary Movement in the offer of money, it must come through this great educational campaign of the Young People's Missionary Movement. It is easy enough by agitation to stir a multitude for a season. It is another thing so to educate them in the spirit of the gospel and in the facts of missions as to make permanent in the Church that missionary conviction which guarantees, through faith, liberal- ity, sacrifice, and service, a great missionary success. WHAT CAN WE DO TO CARRY OUT THE PURPOSES OF THIS MOVEMENT? 1 THE REV. FRANK W. BRANDON, Pastor It is my purpose to enter into a deeper study of missions and of the missionary movement, and to continue to see that my church supports the missionaries in foreign fields. I think this responsi- bility placed by the pastor upon the young people or upon the Sunday-school will accomplish more than any other plan I have ever seen. It opens the way to the multiplying of mission study classes,. which I hope to do. Miss ELIZABETH SMITH, Deaconess I have been wondering if I didn't, perhaps, have the youngest mission study class in our Church. It is composed of boys under eleven years of age. We are organized into a boys' club, the Gran- ville Club, and I am getting those boys interested in missions. We know how boys are interested in heroes. They are literally hero worshipers, and I don't see why we can't in Sunday-school get the boys, and the girls too, interested by taking up some hero and or- ganizing themselves into a club or a class, taking his name, and then, using his life as a starting-point, become interested in uni- versal missions. One of the churches in Louisville has borrowed 'Only a few of a score of remarks on this question are printed. the idea from Wesley House, and is going to organize a Granville Club in that Sunday-school. IMiss DAISY DAVIES, Secretary Woman's Foreign Mission Board for Young People's Work I find that it is very easy to touch boys and girls between twelve and sixteen. They have no life plans, and therefore no struggle against an already decided ambition in their lives. Let us give them the ambition to do God's work in God's way, before they form another ambition. It is so much easier to do it in the preventing way, and to win them before the world has laid hold of them. I was in Kussellville, Arkansas, some time ago and found a group of boys there wild with enthusiasm. Feeling the need of something to do, they had themselves organized a club. It was called the "C. M. 0. R. Club." They had debates, and were then discussing municipal ownership. Those boys were talking with the men, and they were having their own debates. I said to my friend, 'What does that name mean?' and she said, "It is a secret name, but I will tell you; they named themselves The Coming Men of Russell ville." If you can make every one of your boys and girls of twelve to sixteen years of age believe that they are the coming men and women in Southern Methodism, in a few years we will have the greatest Church the world has ever seen. THE REV. L. F. BEATY, Assistant Sunday School Editor Measured by its purpose and far-reaching influence, I regard this as the greatest Convention held on this continent in a quarter of a century. Dr. Chappell and I purpose to prepare the teachers of our Sunday-school, as far as possible, properly to lead in the mis- sionary education of the Sunday-school. The trained teacher can solve the problem. THE REV. W. W. SMITH, President Randolph Macon College We have among our girls a fine interest in missions. We shall do more to broaden their missionary interest. A permanent mis- sionary exhibit in all of our large colleges would have a strong edu- cative influence. THE REV. R. M. ARCHIBALD, Conference Missionary Secretary, North Alabama In my campaign of missionary education, I have been pressing the importance of individuals and charges taking the support of missionaries. I am going to keep it up. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 233 MRS. J. B. COBB . Associate Secretary Woman's Foreign Mission Board I have been asked to show some of the curios that I have. I expect to take only a few moments to talk about two incidents that made a deep impression on me in Korea ; but before I begin to talk I thought I would show you this idol. It came from a heathen temple that once stood in the place now occupied by our Church university. The Koreans, you know, are almost without hope as a nation, and so they have turned wonderfully toward the Lord ; and the inci- dent of which I wish to tell you is of the great liberality of the Koreans. The other is of their great eagerness to hear the gospel. When I was at one of the stations in Korea, Dr. Hardy, who has charge of the church, wanted to see how much more money he could raise from the Koreans for the payment of that church. They had already given a great deal those that belonged to the church. The highest wages (I suppose I had better say that, rather than sal- ary) any member in the church receives is $15 a month, the average being $6, so they cannot afford to give very much. But when Dr. Hardy presented the cause and told them he wanted them to show their great love for Christ by giving something more toward the church, it was pathetic and thrilling to see those people give so liber- ally from their poverty; to see the men give, some of them, their watches; and the women take their rings from their fingers. (Mrs. Cobb here exhibited some of the rings to which she referred.) The Korean women wear great, heavy silver rings. And these women took those rings and dropped them into the basket as it went by. And they took the silver ornaments from their hair, and other silver orna- ments, and gave them, so joyfully, so gladly, toward helping pay for their church. And one woman, who had possessed money but who now is poor, came and brought her bridal ornament, a very handsome, rich thing, that is given to a Korean woman when she is married, and she said, "I want to give this that I may have a larger share in paying for the church ; that I may show something of my love for Christ." When I told Bishop Wilson about it, he said, "You and Dr. Hardy ought to have bought all those things." I said, "That is just exactly what we did." And oh, those people are so eager to hear. Those women 234: CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION pressed about us and said, "Can't you come to our church and teach us ?" And when they learned that I had been sent out only to visit them they said, "Tell them to send more preachers and teachers. I come from a village where there is no church nor preacher. I have to walk miles to hear the gospel." The second incident to which I referred is of a similar nature. When I was at the Conference I heard Mr. Collier, one of our preachers of the Conference of Seoul, tell of the many appeals (and it is a common thing), that v/ere made to him to come to villages where some of the members had been out and had heard about this new doctrine, and they wanted to learn of it for themselves. And so Mr. Collier told us of a petition that had been sent from a vil- lage to him. He showed me a copy. This is it the names of the people of the village who sent to ask that the gospel should be preached to them. (Here Mrs. Cobb showed a roll of paper, per- haps twelve feet in length.) What reply did Mr. Collier make? He could not go. The hands of our missionaries are already full. There are many who become probationers in the church that have not been received into the church, because there is no one to in- struct them, and the pastors must be very careful in order to insure that they have had a change of heart before they are taken into the church. And there they come, uninstructed, unbaptized, because there is nobody to carry the gospel to them. So I want to know -what answer we shall make to this mute appeal. I was surprised that this is so common. There are so many appeals made to our pastors that they cannot respond to. What response shall we give? The appeal was made by these people to Mr. Collier. To-day I make it to you. These people are waiting, waiting, waiting for the gospel until some of you carry it to them, or until these preach- ers and these teachers shall go back to their people and find those who are willing to respond to these appeals. Oh, I do beg that there will be a response. What is done for Korea must be done at once. Korea cannot afford to wait. This is Korea's opportunity, and it is America's opportunity also. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 235 HEINFOECEMENTS NEEDED FOE KOREA THE KEY. J. L. GEEDINE Eight Years a Missionary in Korea Our field is different from many mission fields in that we have a limited territory, a limited population, free from many hindrances that obtain elsewhere, such as differences in dialect and fanatical conditions making it difficult for missionaries to live or travel in cer- tain sections. The people are homogeneous, the climate salubrious in any section of Korea. The denominations at work have, from the beginning, worked in the direction of cooperation, until at the present time we may say that there is practically no overlapping of the work of the different denominations in any section of Korea. There may be one or two minor exceptions of small sections; but as viewing the peninsula on the north, south, east, and west, it is practically apportioned among the denominations working there at this time. The field allotted to our own work will average in length from north to south about 250 miles, and in breadth about 150 miles. We have three stations already opened, and purpose, as we now see the situation, to open only one other station. In the last few days in New York City I bought hardware and had it shipped to Korea as the beginning of the houses for that new station. The money for the houses is yet to be provided, but, in order that we need not be delayed, and believing that we shall get the money to build these houses soon, the material necessary has already been purchased. After careful estimate we have felt that, with an addi- tion of ten missionaries from the parent board (and I accept Mrs. Cobb's figures of ten new workers from the Women's Board), we shall be able sufficiently to man that territory allotted to our South- ern Methodist Church in Korea. This will mean reinforcements for the three stations already opened and provision for workers in the new station planned. These stations will put us in close con- tact, that is, reasonably close contact, with all of our territory. It is true, we cannot give a full evangelical training as yet, but one so that the native workers may have a progressive knowledge of the Bible, and be able to lead and teach the people along with the studies that they themselves are prosecuting. But with the number of active workers that we have and are developing, through our train- ing system for the training of our native workers, we feel that we can look after this territory. 236 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION [Mr. Gerdine then delivered a most earnest appeal for rein- forcements, in order that this waiting people might receive the gospel. He pleaded for a liberal offering that the new station might be early established. After this address the chairman asked if any wished to take a share in the support of the missions needed in Korea. The sup- port of ten recruits for this field was promptly pledged.] METHODIST CHURCH IN CANADA, METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH BISHOP FRANK W. WARNE, CHAIRMAN Missionary Bishop for Southern Asia Methodist Episcopal Church THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BOAEDS OF THE CHURCH TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE THE REV. ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND 'General Secretary Missionary Society Methodist Church in Canada I am to speak of "The Responsibility of the Boards of the Church to the Young People." Perhaps I can do that by telling what my own board passed through, how from time to time we tried to solve some questions that came up, and what we gained by ex- perience. Twelve or thirteen years ago, we found ourselves confronting some problems not easy of solution. There was the Student Volun- teer Movement that had done so much and could do more ; but time, which tests all things, revealed a weak spot, or shall I say missing link. Some agency was needed whereby the magnificent enthusiasm of the Student Volunteer Movement might be focused and be made a source of power to the whole Church, especially to the young people's missionary societies. We wanted to connect the Student Volunteer Movement with the young life of the Church. The idea came to some of our young men that it might be possible to utilize the students in the various colleges, whose en- thusiasm had been aroused by the Student Volunteer Movement, and that we might use them, especially among our young people, in cultivating a missionary spirit. And, therefore, there was inaugurated what we called a Student Missionary Campaign. We took the professors into our confidence, and we got a small com- 237 238 CHUECH AND MISSIONAEY EDUCATION mittee, and we said, "Point out to us the most promising young men you can to get the young people to do what we want to have done," and they did it. We sent out bands of these young men, and they at first operated almost entirely among the young people's societies, and we found there was an interest being kindled there that we saw would be useful in the coming time. That is, the idea began to dawn on us that in some phases of Church life we had tremendous forces that had not yet been utilized, and if we could enlist them and secure their cooperation, we could accomplish a great deal for missionary enterprises. This came at a providential juncture, because before this the Epworth League movement had grown with a phenomenal rapidity, and young people's societies were organized throughout the Church, from one boundary to the other. But we found that more than half of these had been or- ganized according to the Christian Endeavor pattern, and less than half had been organized on the Epworth League plan, and this involved another problem, but we didn't make that prominent. But at that time there was great danger of these Epworth Leagues dis- integrating. They had become organized and had gotten their com- mittees, and they were standing and saying, "What next?" Very soon we found out that one literary evening a month or a week was not going to hold the young people steady and give them work to ac- complish for the Church of Christ. So it came into the minds of these young men, chiefly into the mind of Dr. F. C. Stephenson, to give additional life in some way to what was known as the Mis- sionary Department of the Epworth League, but which had a very moribund sort of existence. Our young people took hold of it, per- haps a little hesitatingly at first, but as the thing grew, there arose out of it the young people's forward movement for missions, and we found before very long, in working in this direction, we had struck a vein of magnificent richness on the spiritual side and on the financial side. We found the movement was becoming a great source of spiritual benediction to young people. Well, that is the way it went on. We found we must do some- thing for the young men that were attending college. For the most part they had to work their way through; they hadn't a wealthy friend to put them there, and they had to earn money in the sum- mer to put them back in the college in the autumn. We tried an arrangement whereby we would give them out of the missionary fund, when they worked through the summer, $100 clear at the be- ginning of the autumn. But that was only a kind of slow starva- DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 239 tion for them. Our college authorities were in the habit of making loans to the students, but the result of that was that when they went out after graduating, they went out with a burdensome debt. We said, "We have got to put a stop to this." And the college au- thorities and the missionary authorities conferred together, and we said, "Out of the missionary fund we will provide $100, and the educational fund will furnish $100, and these young men who do this work in the summer will have a clear fund of $200." That is the plan we are working on to-day. These students go out in the field where their services are needed, and their living expenses and traveling expenses are paid, and they have a clear sum when they go back to college. So, as time went on, there was a constant endeavor to keep the spiritual side of the work prominent, and get the young people to pray for missions. That was all right but when we tried to put it in practise, the reply substantially was this: "We pray for missions, but missions are a somewhat indefinite thing." Then we said, "Pray for some particular field." And they said, "So we would, if we knew anything about it." "Then pray for the individ- ual missionaries." "Well, we don't know them." So that brought us to a point that we had to give them something to pray about, and that revealed the fact that for their praying there must be a literature prepared for study. So text-books were prepared and general literature was scattered through the Church. And that served an excellent purpose. Then we saw there was one thing yet needed, and that was, if the young people were to be utilized in the work of missions, we must train them in the direction of the support of missions. We soon made another discovery, that it was not a wise policy to depend on spasmodic efforts in giving. So that developed the idea of sys- tematic giving for the support of missions, and though it took a small form at first, two cents a week or upwards, though it was a small beginning, it grew and grew, and this day it is growing still, and this movement of the young people which at first brought less than $5,000 revenue, brought us last year $55,000 revenue, and as a matter of fact, our young people have contributed enough to sup- port our missionaries in Japan, and China, besides contributing to our work among the Indians, and somewhat to the work among our white population. We worked on these lines of praying and studying and giving, and then, to crown it all, there came our Laymen's Missionary Move- ment, one of the most magnificent signs of the times in a century. But we must make that movement permanent, and to have it per- manent we must have two things. We must have the young blood coming from the young people's societies to take the place of the men who are moving off the field, and we must have a people trained in systematic and proportionate giving. We have a quarterly pub- lication for the cause, and a full supply of leaflets, and we have a man taking charge of that part of the work and doing it almost without fee or reward, the Eev. Richard Wadsworth ; and wherever you hear his name mentioned, you can safely set it down that he is an apostle of hard cash, and has succeeded more than any man I know in doubling, trebling, and quadrupling our missionary fund. These are a few of the directions in which we are trying to work ; so you will see that as far as the Methodist Church in Canada is concerned, we have no special need of the young people's move- ment just now, for our young people are thoroughly organized already, but we see that the wider movement is bringing in results, and therefore we bid it Godspeed, and will give it all the help and encouragement we can. WHAT THIS EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN MEANS TO OUR HOME MISSION WORK THE REV. ALPHA J. KTNETT Recording Secretary Board of Home Missions and Church Exten- sion of the Methodist Episcopal Church What does this movement of the young people on educational lines mean for home missions ? Friends, it means victory, an abso- lute and complete victory. Those of you that examined the exhibit in the hall, must have been struck with the remarkable richness of the exhibit with reference to the foreign matter and the remarkable fulness of the literature on the one hand, and the absence of exhibit and the scarcity of literature for home missions on the other. And when you listened to the magnificent program which has been pre- pared for us, you must have felt that there was something of the same disparity. And yet I want to say that I believe that in this young people's educational movement lies the great hope of our Church for both foreign and home missions. My own belief is that our own land is God's chosen battle-field, on which will be fought DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 241 out the ultimate fate of Christian morality and civilization. Here, in the midst of this magnificent movement under these two flags, which proffer to downtrodden peoples of many nations life, liberty, and an opportunity for the pursuit of happiness, God has intrenched his Church. It is a land which has been wondrously preserved for Protestant civilization. It was more than mere chance which de- flected the Spanish to South rather than North America. It was more than mere fortune of war which, on the Heights of Abraham at Que- bec, decided that not French papal absolutism, but that English free speech and democracy should control this vast domain. It was more than our diplomacy as Americans which secured, by the Louisiana Purchase, that vast territory out of which we have been carving em- pire States. It was more than a happening which brought us the pos- session of Oregon and the vast Northwest. Here it is that with print- ing-press and schoolhouse on each side, God has intrenched his Church and bids it await the contest, and it is upon us. They are coming across the Atlantic ; they are coming by the million on our western borders which, through the wonders of our modern inven- tion, are so near that those far-off shores of yesterday are our next- door neighbors of to-day where lie lands teeming with hundreds of millions of human beings, lands offering commerce its richest fields, and yet lands where the old, stationary civilization of the East is being brought face to face with the new, progressive civilization of the West. What is to be the outcome? I am not one who looks for ultimate defeat. That morality and civilization which, when poor and despised, defied the keenest attack of Grecian intellect, and the fiercest blow of Eoman power will not meet defeat at the hand of European infidelity or of Asiatic immorality. But just as at Waterloo Wellington stood against the onslaughts of Napoleon, so we must hold America for Christ. Victory here means, humanly speaking, victory at all points. Defeat here at the base-line of supplies and at the very center of missionary endeavor, means, humanly speaking, defeat in all parts of the field. We must hold America for Christ. There was a time, historians tell us, when the battle for the world's supremacy took place in the valley of the Euphrates. There was another time when the struggle for the world's supremacy be- tween Eoman and Carthaginian was decided in the Mediterranean ; and we have scarcely emerged from that era in which our British forefathers, against Hollander and against Frenchman and Span- iard, fought their way until Britain became mistress of the seas. 243 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION To-day as our fleet is in the waters of the Pacific, it is but the recog- nition of the fact that the struggle between faiths and races and civilizations will be largely decided on the bosom of the Pacific. And in that coming struggle God has placed us, with our Can- adian brethren, with immense advantages and corresponding re- sponsibilities. With our seacoast line, with harbors on which can ride the navies of the world under English and American flags, and with that southwestern territory of Hawaii at the crossroads of the sea, the Philippines, the gateway in the golden sea, and with the com- pletion of the Panama Canal, which will make Valparaiso, on the coast of Chile, nearer to New York than it is to San Francisco to- day, that western continent will be largely peopled by those of our own race and kin. And with that comes an opportunity to English and American Protestantism, and with this opportunity a responsi- bility, and one concerning which Methodism will have to assume its share. I wish I had more time. I can only call your attention to this historic fact. There was a time when that theology was dominant which declared that if a man had religion he couldn't know it, and if he knew it he didn't have it ; if he had it he couldn't lose it, and if he lost it he never had it. And it was not until the preaching of our Methodist forefathers that there came the thought that, under God's relations with man, a man might have religion and might know he had it, and affirmed the validity of the truth that is borne out by personal experience, that if a man had it, he must know it, and if he lost it he must have had it. It was not until that became dominant, under whatever name you please, that God an- swered our prayers and battered down the walls of heathenism and threw open the world to the gospel of Jesus Christ. And in this Convention we have learned of those magnificent results. But we must solve, the problems at home. I wish I had time to refer to them. But these problems our young people must study, and to these we as Americans and Canadians must become fully awake. There is the relation of labor and capital only to be set- tled, I believe, when men become aware and convinced of the fact that the religion of Jesus Christ is applicable to modern society, and that it is possible to live by the golden rule, and not by the rule of gold. Then there must come also the settlement of that great liquor question never more violent than now, and never nearer to its final settlement than now. I believe the boys and girls in our DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 243 Epworth Leagues are going to see the dawn of the day when men are going to look with wonder that the organized liquor traffic was tolerated or permitted as long as it has been, just as it is only a generation since men have wondered that ever Christian men per- mitted or tolerated or sanctioned slavery. And then the problem of the city, the problem of that great race in the South, the problem of the vast immigrations that are taking place to our Western continent, problems that come to us in the great influx of people. Oh, what a wonderful task lies before the young men and women of Methodism, to win America for Christ ! And, as through enthusiasm and education, our Church becomes awake to the fact that God has placed in North America the very strategic place for the salvation of the world, will we find the working out of the magnificent work that can be done through educational methods for the boards of home missions. WHAT THIS EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN MEANS TO OUR FOREIGN WORK THE REV. A. B. LEONARD Corresponding Secretary Board of Foreign Missions of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church It is a great thing for one to say, "Myself for Christ." It is a greater thing to say, "My country for Christ." But the greatest thing one can say is "The world for Christ." And it is upon that plan that the Word of God is built from beginning to end. It is a great world book, the only book that gives man information con- cerning a God that loves the human race. That is a fact that heathenism never made known. To take in this vision this world-vision, is the supreme duty of every disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. When he spoke concern- ing this matter he said, "The field is the world." He proclaimed the great truth that God loves the world, and just before cloud- shrouded he mounted the skies, he said, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation." No man shall go beyond me in the matter of interest in home missions. I believe every word that Dr. Kynett has said. The greatest word that can be spoken in favor of home missions will 244 CHUKCH AND MISSIONAEY EDUCATION be endorsed by every true follower of the Lord Jesus. But as young people, we must lift our eyes beyond the country in which we live. We must see our own country, but we must see beyond the lines of our own country, if we are to be the representatives of Jesus Christ. You know human nature is selfish, and it is only when human nature is reconstructed by the power of the gospel that we are able to look beyond self and selfish interests and think of world- wide interests. The man of the world lifts up his eyes and looks upon the field and it is no broader than himself. Whatever he thinks centers in self. If he makes money, it is for self ; if he seeks social position, it is for self ; if he seeks political position, it is for self. I can give you a recipe by which every one of you can backslide if you want to before you leave this house. I wouldn't advise you to follow it, but just resolve now and here you will never think of anybody but yourself ; you will never toil for anybody but for yourself ; you will never pray for anybody but for yourself ; and the moment you take that position, you put yourself out of the kingdom of God. No man can live in the kingdom of God one moment on that basis. We may lift up our eyes and look upon our individual or local churches, and they are interesting and need attention ; but we must see beyond that. We have had a good many people who have limited their vision to their own country, and have been unwilling to see the ends of the whole world. I never was so fortunate as to have a pastoral charge in my life in which there were not a few I am thankful they were not very numerous but a few who said they were not interested in foreign missions. I never had an official board or quarterly conference in which I did not find two or three or half a dozen good brethren who were the watch-dogs of the treas- ury, wonderfully afraid lest the people would be robbed of their money in the interests of the benevolences of the Church, and es- pecially of foreign missions. If I can understand this great movement that has come to us in recent years, it means that in the future we are to have churches in which there will not be one person who will say, "I have no interest in foreign missions," in which there will not be an official board who will stand in the way of collections for foreign missions; and we shall create an atmosphere through this young people's movement that will make our churches at home feel and obey our Lord's last great command to go into all the world and preach the gospel to all of earth's millions. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 245 As I looked out on that vast audience this morning of three thousand people, young people mainly, I said, "Here is a company of young men and young women who in the near future are to be the controlling power of the Churches of America." They represent the young life of the Church, and this young life of the Church is being imbued with the missionary spirit as never before in the history of Protestant Christianity in the United States of America. And it is a promise of a harvest in the future that not one of us can measure now. There is no such thing as measuring the possi- bilities of the Protestant Churches of North America when once thoroughly baptized with this spirit of world-wideness in the propa- gation of the gospel of Christ. Since this movement was set on foot, comparatively a brief time ago, what wonders have been accomplished. In these eight or nine years in which we have been carrying on this great educational missionary campaign, I have lived to see an increase in our annual income, amounting to over $700,000. I have seen the Meth- odist Episcopal Church pass the line of $2,000,000 in its annual contributions to missions, but that is only a beginning. When the atmosphere of our churches is surcharged with this idea of a world- wideness, when these young people in the Sunday-schools and in the Epworth Leagues, come into the congregations with a ruling influence in those congregations, when we come to the full fruitage of this movement, we shall see such an outpouring of money for the evangelization of the world as we have not dreamed of, up to this time. Then it means, for the foreign field, new forces of workers, money first with which to send them out, and then the men and women to go into the field for the purpose of leading the Church in foreign lands. Of course we never expect the time to come when there shall be an effort to evangelize India, China, and Africa by foreign missionaries alone. We do not expect that ; we do not want that. What we want is to have a supply of men and women who shall go out to the foreign fields to be leaders of the host raised up on the foreign field among the native people. That time is already beginning to dawn. We are having in our foreign field a large number of men coming to the front, men of real ability and real power, who are preaching the gospel of Christ, and leading the people as no foreigners can. But for the time being we must have a large number of men and women who are thoroughly prepared to go to the field, for the purpose of being leaders of those whom 246 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION God shall raise up in the foreign fields. We must have picked men and women, men and women who have strength for a campaign against unequal forces, well educated and well trained and thor- oughly consecrated. This great movement means these two things : It means, first of all, missionary enthusiasm and interest at home that shall enlist the whole Church, and double and multiply the resources of the mission hoards for the sending out of the missionaries. It means, in the second place, well-equipped, well-furnished, thoroughly conse- crated men and women, who shall go to the foreign field. THE CALL TO ADVANCE THE REV. WALTER R. LAMBUTH 'Secretary Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South The call to advance is a call of the open door. Drawing a line through the century that has preceded this one, we will find in the year 1850 that almost every mission field now occupied was closed. I refer to Japan, Korea, China, and to a very large extent, India because of the presence and influence of the East India Company, which was antagonistic to missionary work Persia, Arabia, and Africa, and the republics of South America. In the latter not a Bible could be sold, and where agents of the American Bible Society were stoned to death, in several of those republics, since 1850 the doors have been flung wide open. We have now a thousand millions of people occupying these great fields in behalf of which God has answered our prayer, "Thy kingdom come." We have been praying that barriers should be removed. He has removed the barriers, lifted the gates off their hinges, and these doors of opportunity are wide open, and this constitutes the call to advance to-day. Then there is the call of the need of these same fields, a call voiced by the millions occupying these very fields that were closed for so many hundreds of years. And first of all, that phase of need which appeals to us is the inadequacy of the non-christian religions. Take your place, in the heart of China, and you will realize it. Stand upon the backbone of the peninsula of Korea, and you will DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 24? realize it. Go to the religious center of India, to the very citadel- capital of the religious life of India, Benares, where they worship the- monkey and the cow, and where hundreds of thousands are found bathing in the waters of the sacred Ganges, where human parasites; in the persons of 30,000 Brahman priests are eating out the very heart of the people the most religious in the world reaching out for something higher than they know, and yet every advantage of them being taken by their blind leaders. The gross immorality found in Calcutta and Benares helps .us to understand why Gautama swung away from Brahmanism, and why he became an atheist, protesting against a religion which could do no more for the people than this had done. Unfortunately, his followers lapsed into poly- theism; and Buddhism, as we have it to-day in China, Japan, and India, is itself a degenerate form of religious life. These religions are utterly inadequate to save the people. There is not enough truth, to save. What is the other phase of it ? That the gospel of Jesus Christ, is adequate to save the millions of India., China, and other world fields that are now wide open. Take old Brother Kim of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church in Korea. He is on the road to Seoul.. This is only a few years ago. He picks up a string of cash on the road, and returns it to the man who lost it. This man puts-; him in the way of finding a missionary of whom the other had never heard. He accepts Christ, and before long there is an awakened- desire in his heart to impart the gospel to the people of Phyeng yang. He turns his back on the capital and returns to his native- city in the far north. There he is imprisoned, put in the stocks ; he is brought before a magistrate, laid on his face on the ground and beaten with rods because he refuses to renounce Jesus Christ. He eaid, "I cannot renounce him who died to save me." Finally word came from Seoul that he should be released ; then they stoned him on the way home, but still he witnessed for Christ. It is an indica- tion of what Christianity can do in Korea. I stood on the platform of the church in which this man's converts were gathered and saw twelve hundred men and women who believed in Jesus Christ. The- gospel is adequate, and if it can save one man like Kim, it can save Korea and it can save the world. It is the call of the native Church. Singularly enough, there- are three men on this platform who were commissioners representing r the three great Methodist Churches in Japan. There were three others in the commission of six, and in the conference in Told* 248 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION we organized the Methodist Church of Japan with about 12,000 members presenting a united front to heathenism. We elected the Rev. Y. Honda, President of Oyama College, as the first Asiatic Protestant bishop in all the history of missions. The first step the Church took was to organize a missionary society and a man was sent to work among the Japanese in Korea. As a second step, it organized a missionary evangelistic campaign throughout the Jap- anese empire, praying for an addition of 10,000 souls this next year, and with faith in God this new Church in Japan is going forth to conquer. It is the call of a native Church that says, "Help us now to make our fight and we in turn will help you evangelize the millions to the west and north and south of us." It is the call from Korea of 45,000 Methodists; of 50,000 in China, including the converts of the three Methodist Churches represented on this platform to- day ; of 210,000 Methodists in India, who are praying that we will send reinforcements and help them to evangelize their own people. It is the call of the young life of the home Church; because the young life is tremendously optimistic, and their optimism grows out of their faith in God. It is the call of the young people of the Church, because they know how to obey. They believe in the impossible that it can be accomplished and they are ready to obey, giving proof of their obedience by offering themselves for service in these foreign fields. It is a call for trained leadership, which the church so much needs. With over 250,000 volumes of mission study text-books sold in the last two years; 175,000 persons studying missions systematic- ally this year; with probably 200,000 next year, and 6,000 persons trained in summer schools, for the leadership for which there is a call going forth everywhere the call is being answered. There is one fundamental principle underlying this work which should be kept in sight. Mr. Michener well says that the sole reason why the Young People's Missionary Movement exists is to cooperate with the boards in missionary educational work. Let us place great emphasis at this point. In the next place he makes it clear that, while the organ- ization is interdenominational, the use and work of the Movement is denominational. So that from this tremendous dynamo of Chris- tian inspiration there shall run all the wires of denominational effort, faith, liberality, strength, inspiration, and the working power of this Young People's Missionary Movement Therefore of right DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 249 and of necessity we must stand by this Movement, helping these leaders to work out their great ideals. It is a call to the laymen of the Church. The other day I looked into the faces of 1,400 Presbyterian laymen. They resolved, after two days of prayer, without noise, without blare of trumpets, quietly, prayerfully, determinedly, that within the next twelve months they would increase the contribution of their Church to for- eign missions $800,000 in behalf of the evangelization of the world. This is to bring the contribution of the Presbyterian Church from $1,200,000 up to $2,000,000. "When we get two million," they said, "we will advance to three, then to four, then five, and then we intend to reach the six million dollar mark, necessary to main- tain our four thousand missionaries we are going to throw into the field, to reach the 100,000,000 people for whom we are responsible." This is a movement big enough and with inspiration enough for the completion of this world campaign. Thank God these laymen are girding themselves all over the Church, in all of our Methodism, for this task of complete and final evangelization. The world field is open. We can occupy the field, and the world can be evangelized within a generation, if we but employ the forces of the Church wisely for the completion of this great work. It is a call of the heroic missionaries, many of whom have laid down their lives on the field. It is the call of Melville Cox, who said, "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up." It is the call of Isabelle Thoburn who laid down her life in Lucknow. It is the call of Laura Haygood, who came from Atlanta, Georgia, and gave her life for Chinese women; of Bishop Wylie who died in Fu-chou; of dear old Dr. Maclay, who opened the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Japan; and a thousand others equally true. I mention one medical missionary, Dr. Hall, who fell as a martyr in Korea, who unfurled the standard in northern Korea around which there are gathering tens of thousands of Korean inquirers and converts. And lastly, it is the call of God to advance, and it is the call of God in Jesus Christ. "Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide." What is it but the preeminence of Jesus Christ of which we should catch a gleam, in order that we should find in our souls, as we bow before him, the One "chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely?" Oh, as we look upon Jesus Christ, who said of himself, "And I, if I be lifted up ... I will draw all 250 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION men unto myself " shall we not be able to say with that wonder- ful Moravian missionary, "I have but one passion ; it is He" ? Then we shall be able to say with the apostle, as he indited that Epistle to the Romans, as he longed and yearned to extend the gospel in the Roman empire, "I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift." He was ready to offer his life that they might know more of Jesus Christ. "I am not ashamed of the gos- pel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that dbelieveth." And then he said, knowing what might befall him, "I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome." Oh, may God help us to answer the call ! DELEGATES OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH THE REV. A. E. FLETCHER, CHAIRMAN President PUtsburg Conference The rally was largely attended, both by representatives of the local church and by delegates from abroad. The meeting was en- thusiastic. Dr. C. F. Swift, of Beaver Falls, and Prof. Newman, the leader of the Second Church choir, led by the organist of the church, furnished exceptionally fine and inspirational music for the occasion. There were three addresses, the first by the Rev. W. I. Haven, of New York, the son of former Bishop Haven of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The thought of the address was a ringing ap- peal to the intelligence of his auditors on the greatness and the scope of missions. This address was followed by an inspiring and en- thusiastic address by the Rev. F. C. Klein, of Baltimore. Then fol- lowed an address by the Rev. J. H. Lucas, secretary of our Home Mission Board. Dr. Lucas gave a practical turn to the thought of the rally. The theme of both the convention and the rally was a better education. Dr. Lucas drove the question home, What are the missionary workers of the Methodist Protestant Church ready to do respecting the study proposed ? Then and there the question was put to a practical test. The answer was immediate and enthusiastic. The names of more than twenty workers were given to be written down as pledged, when they arrived home, to organize a missionary study class. Then another practical turn was given to the rally by raising between sixty and seventy dollars to complete the sum required to make up the five thousand dollars asked for by Bro. Van Dyke for building homes for our missionaries in Japan. It was a warm, inspiring rally, full of zeal and power and good works. The Meth- odist Protestant rally was for them a fine conclusion to a great con- vention, manifesting its spirit, and giving promise that our Church henceforth will work for missions in a finer spirit and with a broader comprehension and intelligence. 251 DELEGATES OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH THE BISHOP OF PITTSBURG, CHAIRMAN At the meeting of the Episcopalians the Bishop of Pittsburg- made an address, welcoming representatives from Canada and the United States. Other speakers were Messrs. Thorne, Cochran, and Adams, and the Eev. Everett P. Smith, Educational Secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. Plans were discussed and adopted, as embodied in the follow- ing resolutions: Resolved, First, That we hereby record our hearty approval of the opportunity afforded by the work of the Young People's Mis- sionary Movement. Resolved, Second, That the reports of the addresses delivered at the Convention be given the widest circulation in the Church publications. Resolved, Third, That special efforts be made to secure full delegations of Churchmen at the conferences to be held this sum- mer under the direction of the Young People's Missionary Move- ment at Silver Bay, New York, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Al- liance, Ohio. Resolved, Further, That these resolutions be sent to our Church Diocesan publication and local Pittsburg papers, and for publica- tion in the press of Canada. DELEGATES OP THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA THE REV. R. P. MACKAY, CHAIRMAN 'Secretary Foreign Mission Committee The Canadian Presbyterian delegates discussed methods of developing missionary education. The practical result of the meet- ing was the passing of the following resolutions and the determina- tion of the gathering to exert every effort in order to secure their being carried out : 1. Resolved, That this meeting of Presbyterian delegates to the First International Convention under the direction of the Young People's Missionary Movement respectfully recommend the Assembly's Committee on Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Sab- bath Schools, and Young People's Societies, to consider the question of holding Conferences in each Synod of the Presbyteries' Conveners of these four departments, to discuss the question of missionary education, with a view to arriving at some thoroughgoing policy thereon. 2. Resolved, That the Presbyterian delegates from the Synod of Toronto and Kingston present at this Convention recommend that the Presbyteries' Conveners on Home Missions, Foreign Mis- sions, Sabbath Schools, and Young People's Societies, be called to- gether on the morning of the day upon which the Synod opens, in order to spend the forenoon and afternoon discussing a policy of missionary education. That President William Douglas Mackenzie of Hartford Theological Seminary be invited to deliver before the Synod his address on "The Place of Missionary Education in the Life of the Church." 3. Resolved, That we respectfully request the Assembly's Home and Foreign Mission Committees to consider the question : Has not the time arrived for the establishment of an Educational Department (jointly or separately) and the appointment of an. Educational Secretary? 4. Resolved, That we suggest to the various Synods and Pres- 253 254 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION byteries the holding of Missionary Institutes throughout the whole Church. 5. Resolved, That the General Assembly's Committee on Sab- bath Schools be requested to consider: (a) the giving of a diploma in connection with mission study in the Sabbath-schools; (b) the addition of a handbook on missions to those already used in the Teacher Training Course. 6. Resolved, That the Rev. R. P. Mackay be requested to write a text-book on his recent tour of mission lands, laying special stress on our own work, the volume to be issued similar to the Forward Mission Study Courses and to be accompanied by a handbook of Suggestion to Leaders. PRESBYTERIAN UNION MEETING 1 PRESBYTERIAN CHUECH IN U. S. A. AND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN U. S. MR. ROBERT E. SPEER, CHAIRMAN Secretary Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. A. WORK OF THE BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN U. S. A. MR. JOSEPH E. MCAFEE The Board of Home Missions, through some of its departments, is serving the whole Church without territorial distinction. The Department of Church and Labor is helping all the churches every- where to reach out to the people and to be reached by the people. The Department of Church and Immigration is supplying literature and inspiring local churches to undertake a work which constitutes a local problem always. In twenty-four synods and other missionary presbyteries the work is supported by the agencies of the Board of Home Missions. These include thirty-one of the largest and neediest states and terri- tories. These are the sections of the country filling up most rapidly. Porto Rico and Cuba are home mission territory under the direction of the board. There are already sixteen thousand Protes- tants in the islands. Demands are pouring in for the establish- ment of new stations. Villages willing to do all they can are plead- ing for chapels. Each missionary preaches every day in the week. A native ministry is being developed. The board must provide this fiscal year for the support in whole or in part of about two thousand two hundred and fifty mis- sionaries and missionary workers. One Western presbytery has fifty-three towns with no Presby- 'Only condensed reports of the addresses of this meeting are given. 255 256 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION terian or Congregational churches or other provision for those nat- urally affiliating with such. Texas has towns and cities of more than one thousand popula- tion each, a large proportion not claimed hy any Church. The Cumberland reunion imposes special obligations. The South, in almost every city, town, and hamlet, is taking on new life. People are migrating in large numbers to the South. The former Cumberland Church had two thousand churches in the South. Any one can see how large these facts spell the word respon- sibility for the reunited Presbyterian Church. WORK OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN U. S. A. MB. ROBERT E. SPEER The Board of Foreign Missions was organized in 1837. In the first year it reported four missions, six missionaries, no native workers, ten communicants, and fifty scholars, with an income of about $34,000. Now, it has in round numbers, twenty-eight mis- sions, nine hundred missionaries, 3,200 native agents, 70,000 com- municants, 37,000 scholars in schools, and an income of a million and a quarter. Its missions are in Africa, India, China, Japan, Siam, Korea, the Philippines, Persia,' Syria, Mexico, Guatemala, and South America, The Board is composed of twenty-three mem- bers and has four secretaries and six assistant secretaries, and a treasurer. The treasurer is Mr. Dwight H. Day, 156 Fifth Ave- nue, New York City. To the Board of Foreign Missions the Church has committed all its responsibilities toward the evangelization of the one hun- dred millions of souls, who, as far as we can see, will not hear the gospel unless they hear it through our Church. These people are Mohammedans, Confucianists, Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus, Fetish worshipers, and nominal Christians. The Board seeks to make the gospel known to them, not only by a great army of preachers, but also by 1,145 schools and colleges, thousands of Sunday-schools with 83,452 scholars, 7 printing-presses issuing more than 130 mil- lion pages a year, 115 hospitals and dispensaries treating 426,000 patients a year. There are also theological seminaries containing nearly 300 students. Hospital buildings, churches, manses, mis- DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 257 sionary residences, school and college buildings must all be provided also. In these and many other ways the Church is seeking to fulfil through the board her mission to the five score millions to whom she has been sent. WORK OF THE BOARD FOR FREEDMEN OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TL S. A. THE REV. E. P. COWAN If I had time I would like to call attention to the relation of each of our benevolent boards to the other boards of the Church, and show how distinct the work of each board is, and yet how they all work together for a common end the hastening of the coming of the kingdom of God in the world. While no one board would willingly do anything to take one single dollar from any of the other boards, yet each board does all it can to increase its own re- sources, under the conviction that the Church at large does not in any year give half as much as the work demands. I would not unduly magnify the greatness of the negro prob- lem, but I believe it to be much greater than it now appears to many minds that have not given it a serious thought. To re- member that there are now nearly ten million negroes in this land and that they doubled in number during the first thirty-three years after their emancipation, suggests the tremendous fact that at the same rate of increase there will be in the next hundred years as many negroes in this land as there are white people now. However complex and difficult may be the problems growing out of the pres- ence in this land of ten million people separated from the rest of the inhabitants by color, custom, and law the giving to them of the gospel and a Christian education will not only not complicate these problems ; but most certainly will aid in their final and satis- factory solution. Our Church is doing but a part of this great work that is laid on the Christian conscience of this land, but the small amount of money furnished our board each year with which to maintain its one hundred and fifteen schools, with their fourteen thousand pupils, and three hundred and sixty churches, ministered to by their two hundred and twenty preachers of the gospel is most convincing evidence that the rank and file of the Presbyterian Church do not begin to realize the greatness of their opportunity or the seriousness of their responsibility in connection with the redemp- tion of this race from ignorance and superstition and sin. One illustration will suffice. Only yesterday we received at the rooms of the board the annual collection of a large and influen- tial church of over seven hundred members, which bears the honored name of First Presbyterian Church in one of our large cities, and the amount of this annual offering was exactly one dollar and eighty-five cents. THE POTENT FACTOK IN WOELD-WIDE EVANGELISM MRS. M. J. GlLDERSLEEVE Associate Secretary Woman's Board of Home Missions The potent factor in world-wide evangelism is America Chris- tianized. The more rapid the evangelization of America, the more rapid the evangelization of the world. America is the base of sup- plies for world-wide missions. The future progress of foreign mis- sions largely depends on the resources and loyal support of the home base. Is this great Presbyterian Church awake to the fact that "the fate of the twentieth century in no small measure depends upon the kind of citizens developed on this continent" ? True, we have public schools which are a mighty force in de- veloping our youth. But President Eoosevelt made a terse state- ment when he said : "Education is not sufficient in itself we must cultivate the mind. With education of the mind must go that spiritual training which will make us turn the trained intellect to good account. A man whose intellect has been educated, while at the same time his moral education has been neglected, is all the more dangerous to the community because of the exceptional additional power which he has acquired." The helpless, the ignorant, the Christless in this great wide world must hear of the evangel, if the "Go ye" is obeyed by the followers of him whose great, loving heart craves the worship of all his children. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 259 WORK OF THE WOMEN'S BOARDS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS MRS. JOHN F. MILLER The foreign missionary work done by the women of the Pres- byterian Church is not directed by one general board; but, in order to divide this great task most of it being done gratuitously it is distributed over seven different districts, resulting in seven boards, with headquarters in some central city. These boards are equal in authority, and representatives from each form what is called the Central Committee, which meets an- nually to discuss matters of common interest. There is, however, but one literary organ, our Woman's Work, known to us all as an invaluable tool for work. Over Sea and Land is our Junior magazine published in the interest of both home and foreign missions. All the boards publish most valuable leaflets containing infor- mation regarding the fields and their work, hints and helps to auxiliaries, and many biographies of inspiring lives. For twenty-five cents sent to the board a letter from a mis- sionary will be sent monthly. Another precious bond that links us very closely to our repre- sentatives on foreign fields is the Year Book of Prayer, issued yearly and containing the names of all our missionaries and stations, that they may be daily remembered in prayer. And how can we say enough of those splendid annual reports furnished by our boards, which furnish much of the very best ma- terial to be obtained in preparation for the various monthly mission- ary meetings of all branches of any church? And notwithstanding all this notable work done by our boards, they are sometimes criticised and the fear is expressed that only a small percentage of the money given will reach the field. In trying to allay some such fear, as also, that the work of the women's boards was superfluous, the president of the Philadelphia board sent to one of the secretaries of the board of the General Assembly the following question : " Can this work of the women be done by the General Board at little or no expense?" To this he replied, in part, in this manner, though not permitted space to quote all verbatim: "The women's boards and societies have an organization well- 260 CHUKCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION nigh perfect, and we consider their work not only the most efficiently done, but the most economically done, nearly all of it being unpaid work. They are able to raise the enormous sum which they assume (about $400,000 yearly) by the parent society laying a distinct obligation on each individual society ; and it, in turn, on each indi- vidual member. "If the Assembly's board should have to do this work, it would cost us four, five, and possibly six times as much as it does to-day and would not be anything like as well done. "I make bold to say that the most efficient, the most economi- cal, the most self-sacrificing work in the cause of foreign missions, not excepting the missionaries on the field, is done by the women in our various boards and societies, who give all their time, their strength, their prestige, and their money so freely for their suffer- ing sisters in non-christian lands." This generous testimonial is highly esteemed as recognizing, not only our effort to raise money, but the higher principles in- volved in this labor of love. WORK OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN U. S. THE REV. H. F. WILLIAMS" Editor The Missionary Mr. Williams presented the work of his board. He referred especially to the fraternal feeling existing between the missionaries of the Southern and Northern Presbyterian Churches in China and other fields. MISSIONARY MEETINGS ME. VON OGDEN VOGT Secretary Young People's Department of the Board of Home Missions Let us not despise the much maligned missionary meeting. Remember that most of the boys and girls and young people learn very little about missions, except through some sort of missionary meeting. 261 How many of you have ever attended in your church a mis- sionary meeting that was a little bit underprepared ? The first point is to use all the interesting material ready for you. For ex- ample, every time the Christian Endeavor topic relates to home mis- sions the home board issues a free and special program on that sub- ject. The foreign board also will furnish you material. Study the catalogues of both boards, as to maps, charts, pictures, and other material. How many ever attended a missionary debate in your own church? Not so many hands. A suggestion for the rest of you. Get one or two older young people to support some such question as this: "Resolved, that the mission board officers should be turned out for not raising enough money to meet the needs." Get some of the younger members to take the negative. Here would be a capital chance to display the need as well as the practical organization and methods of the boards. How many ever had a missionary meeting about the field that your own church supports ? Good. Some of you know what definite and intimate impressions that makes. A very good reason for hav- ing a field of your own. We have enormously enjoyed and profited by the pictures thrown upon the screen at this Convention. How many have had a stereopticon lecture in your church on the subject of missions? Both the home and foreign boards can supply several lectures and the pictures. The fees are nominal and the pictures fascinating. Try it right away in your church. How many have had in your church impersonations of mis- sionaries and people? Two hands. Excellent. Why not? It is one of the most engrossingly interesting as well as instructive meth- ods of missionary education. Let an older boys' club or a. circle of girls prepare the presentation of a missionary scene once in a while, and all the boys and girls will want to join those clubs. Display a little tea party in a Japanese garden without conversation, or Marcus Whitman with his Bible and the American flag among the Indians in the wilds of Oregon. If you are able to work out espe- cially successful scenes and dialogues, have them published for the benefit of others. How many ever attended a missionary prayer-meeting in your church? All these other methods of meetings may be interesting and should be used, but why not sometimes devote an hour to a 262 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION public missionary prayer-meeting with nothing but a few hymns of praise and many prayers for the fields and the workers? MISSIONS IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THE REV. GEORGE H. TRULL Sunday School Secretary Board of Foreign Missions It is quite unnecessary in this audience to consider the reasons for missions in the Sunday-school. We are concerned not so much with the question "Why?", but rather with "What?" and "How?" In answering these questions let us note three things. I. A Definite Policy, or the program defined. II. The Necessary Equipment, or the available material. III. The Necessary Organization, or the missionary com- mittee. I. A Definite Policy. This is fourfold, as follows : 1. Systematic, graded instruction. 2. Definite, daily prayer. 3. Proportionate and systematic giving. 4. Effort to secure missionary recruits. This policy should be adopted by every Presbyterian Sunday-school in the land that desires a share in world-wide evangelization. II. The Necessary Equipment. To make the policy effective in its various particulars, material is a necessity. This is now available and may be secured through correspondence with the Sunday-school departments of the Boards of Home and Foreign Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. III. The Necessary Organization. No policy however good is auto- matic. It requires back of it consecrated flesh and blood and brains, hence the need of a committee composed of the very best available people in the church. Because of the far-reaching possibilities of missions in the Sunday-school, such people should be relieved from other obligations, if necessary, that they may serve on the mission- ary committee of the Sunday-school. Correspondence on any of the above topics is invited by the Boards of Home and Foreign Missions. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 263. SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF MISSIONS MR. T. H. P. SAILER Educational Secretary Board of Foreign Missions At West Point we have young men studying tactics and strat- egy and all that relates to the art of warfare. But it is not enough when these men go into actual battle that they should understand the general theory and practise. They must then know in addition everything possible about the topography of the battle-field, the strong and weak points of the enemy, the methods that have been found most successful in fighting such a foe under such conditions. There must be plenty of particular information. In the same way, it is not enough for us to know our Bibles, and Christianity as it exists in our own circles. We must know the fields on which the home and foreign missionary forces operate, we must understand thoroughly the people whom we are trying to win, their outlook and impulses, and the methods that have been found most effective in organizing them to help themselves. If the home and foreign missionary campaign is a matter that concerns the whole Church, then the whole Church should keep itself in- formed about this latter class of facts. This is the main argument for the systematic study of missions. We need an outlook that is not only broad, but vivid ; that deals with things that are most significant and shows them in their im- portant relationships. We need regular and frequent impressions in order that the material may be well assimilated ; we need plenty of opportunity for expression and discussion; and all this should take place in an atmosphere of social freedom. These advantages are provided by the mission study class. This is not a patent method. Success is not inevitable. There is scope for the greatest ability in this work ; but the most impor- tant thing is more than mere ability, it is spiritual power. If we can start the present and future leaders of the Church studying home and foreign missions in the right spirit, the other problems of this great work will solve themselves. ME. H. A. KINPORTS, CHAIRMAN Secretary Department of Young People's Work of the Missionary Boards The program was somewhat informal, but the place of honor on it was given to the three foreign missionaries who were present, the Kev. Albert Oltmans of Japan, the Eev. J. E. Moerdyke of Arabia, and Professor Martin N. Wyckoff of Japan. Each of these spoke briefly, telling of the great encouragement they found for the progress of the work in foreign lands, in the great movement among the young people of the churches, of which the First International Missionary Convention was an expression. Mrs. Edith H. Allen, Corresponding Secretary of the Women's Executive Committee, Board of Domestic Missions, spoke of the power of the young people for service. Especially had she been im- pressed with the spiritual power made manifest in the Convention. Prayer for missions was urged in order that on the foreign field and in the home field we may bring to pass the things for which we long. Foreign and home missions, Mrs. Allen said, have to stand to- gether. Education of the young people along both lines is needed, and not only are they to be taught of the work, but of their respon- sibility for it. In learning of African missions they must also learn of the deplorable conditions among the colored people of the South, and in learning of mission work in other lands, they must also learn of the needs among the millions of aliens who are an- nually pouring into this country from other lands. Miss Olivia H. Lawrence, Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, said that although the number present at the rally seemed small, it should not be forgotten that there were present more than double the number whom our Lord sent out to preach his Gospel, and who turned the world upside down. If each one present would but realize his or her individual responsi- bility and "push his pound" there was no limit to possible accom- plishment of work for the Master. Miss Lawrence called attention 264, DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 265 to the need of young women for Reformed Church missions in China, Japan, Arabia, and India, and to the women's conference to be held at Northfield in the coming summer. She urged that every church send at least one representative to the conference. Mr. W. T. Demarest, Office Secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions, said that the Reformed Church should be thankful for the First International Missionary Convention, if for no other reason than that it afforded the present opportunity for leaders in both domestic and foreign mission work to meet together, forget administrative divisions, and just talk missions. The work on the foreign field, he said, cannot exist without the home work, because the only factor in the strength of a denomination lies in its home churches. By domestic missions the Church must be extended and aided in order that they may in turn support all the missions of the denomination. The churches which have been aided by the Domestic Board in years past, and which are now entirely self- sustaining, Mr. Demarest said, are now returning annually for all the benevolences of the denomination an amount equal to twenty per cent, of the total sum received by them for support in the days when they were young and weak. The Rev. J. Brownlee Voorhees, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions, said that the note of inspiration had often been sounded through the churches, but the note of infor- mation had never been so clearly sounded as now. The mission program calls for the upbuilding of the native Church, at home and abroad. God is bringing to this land many of the natives of other countries. Many of them return to their foreign homes, and if the Churches of America realize and perform their duty to these people, they will go, when they return to former homes, as our mis- sionaries, carrying the gospel of Christ. The Master is needed everywhere, in our own and in every other land. The Rev. P. H. Milliken of Philadelphia said that the Young People's Missionary Movement, born of the desire of the young people of the churches for information about missions, was but one of the expressions of a tendency of the times. It is a day of educa- tion, of enlightenment. People are demanding knowledge and it is the duty of the Churches to supply it in order that the missionary work of the Churches may be intelligently carried forward by those who will soon have to undertake the leadership which older ones must lay down. Among the others who took part, each saying a few words of suggestion or encouragement, were Miss Holmquist, Miss 266 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Stoutenberg, and Miss Bussing of New York, the Rev. G. W. Water- muelder of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Rev. G. Flikkema of Clymer, N. Y., the Rev. W. L. Sahler of Germantown, N. Y., Mr. Dosler of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Rev. Edward Dawson of West Ho- boken, N. J., Mr. Harder of Philmont, N. Y., the Rev. Burton J. Hotalling of Selkirk, N. Y., and the Rev. John Hart of Neshanic, N. J. DELEGATES OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES THE REV. JOHN H. PBUGH, CHAIRMAN Pastor Grace Reformed Church Three whole hours were spent in a free discussion of the- educational aim and method of this missionary movement, rec- ognizing the principle that information is the key to interest, and that the mission study class is the solution of the problem. Three facts were brought out clearly: (1) That the systematic study of missions is a necessity for the Church of to-day; (2) That a bare beginning has been made in our own Church, but that excellent results have already followed from such study; (3) That no new machinery is needed, but that this plan of study is adapted to every congregation. The Rev. Allen R. Bartholomew, Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, presided the first hour; the Rev. D. N. Souders, Home Missionary Superintendent, the second hour, and the Rev. William E. Lampe, Sendai, Japan, the third hour. The Rev. C. Noss, of the Theological Seminary at Lancaster, Pa., spoke on "China"; the Rev. Allen K. Faust, Sendai, Japan, on "Japan"; Miss Sadie Lea Weidner, of Sendai, Japan, on "The Condition of Heathen Women"; the Rev. A. C. Whitmer, Home Missionary Superintendent, on "Our Cities and Missions", and the Rev. Paul S. Leinbach on "Aliens and our Nation". The Rev. J. L. Lem- berger spoke on "The Sunday School and the Mission Study Class"; the Rev. E. S. Bromer, on "Mission Study in the Congregation"; Mrs. C. K. Staudt, special Secretary of Mission Study Classwork, spoke on "Young People's Societies and the Mission Study Class"; the Rev. U C. Gutelius spoke on "Men and Missions"; and the Rev. Lewis Robb on "The Need of Mission Study in Congregational Mis- sionary Societies". All the speakers were enthusiastic in lauding the First International Convention, and in pledging their hearty co- operation in the systematic study of missionary fields and methods. 267 DELEGATES OF THE UNITED BEETHEEN CHUECH BISHOP G. M. MATHEWS, CHAIRMAN OUTLOOK FOE HOME MISSIONS THE EEV. C. WHITNEY General Secretary Home Missionary Society The outlook is encouraging because of increased interest in our "work. More sermons have been preached in the last thirty days on home missions than for thirty years before. More people have studied the needs of home missions in the last two years than have in a hundred years before. We commenced work with 68 men and 5,800 members. Now we have 120 men, as home missionaries and evangelists, with about 9,000 members, and have entered sixteen centers. We have six general departments developed from only two First, home missions proper. Second, the literary department, which embraces the publication of matter in our periodicals, tracts, and other issues. Third, the educational department, which looks after the organization of mission study classes, in which we are leading the world in proportion to our number, among either for- eign or home missionary societies. Fourth, the women's auxiliary societies. The work in this department is being constantly pushed forward. We have between thirty and forty organizations in one Conference at this time, the East Ohio. Fifth, the evangelistic department. We have had great demands for this work, more calls than we have been able to fill. There are nearly a thousand con- versions to this date as the result of the evangelistic labors. Sixth,. alien work, two workers now in the field. It is a fact worthy of note how God is blessing the home mis- sion field. Especially in our Church is this to be noted. If the same proportion of accessions had obtained throughout the entire denomination as had been in our home mission fields, the Church would have reported last year 65,000 accessions. The home mifl- 268 DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 269 sion fields are doing heroic work in helping themselves, they paid last year toward the support of their pastors as much as the entire denomination put into our treasury by way of assessment. They also paid about $30,000 on church buildings. This chart shows 68,000,000 of the unchurched, represented by the dark portion, with only 20,000,000 of nominal Church mem- bers in the Protestant evangelical Churches, with an average of only about one in ten of these who have interest enough in the Church to attend the mid-week prayer-meeting. Bishop Castle has told of his experience in Oregon where he had entered homes in which the families were being reared, and neither parents nor children had ever had the privilege of listening to a gospel sermon. The Eev. A. J. Springtun is the only preacher in the county in which he is located in Colorado, where there are 15,000 people to look after. There are 250,000 Poles in Chicago with only one Protestant church, 125,000 Bohemians with five churches, 125,000 Italians with three churches, or half a million with only nine churches, an average of one church to every 55,000 people. Like conditions ex- ist in other cities. Why not help to evangelize the world by the converted immi- grant who comes to our shores? If only one in ten of the 16 per cent, that return abroad were led to Christ, and then went back, we would send out a host of foreign missionaries of over 20,000 annually. These persons have not to learn the language nor meet the prejudices of a foreigner, but can go directly to the work of saving their own people. We must give attention to home missions in order to save our own Church. Great numbers go from us and into other denomina- tions and many lapse in their Christian experience because the church of their choice is not found in the city to which they go. A LAKGE ADVANCE IN FOREIGN MISSIONS THE REV. S. S. HOUGH General Secretary Foreign Missionary Society The world's needs and opportunities have been brought very near to us during the last few days by messengers of God from many lands. I have been thinking, during the last twenty-four 270 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION hours, of the multitudes seen by Jesus Christ that are in some way seeking for the light and grace which he alone can give. What a sight it would be to see the world this day as the Son of God must see it! I have been thinking also of the clear vision of Andrew who was the first to discover how a boy could cooperate with Christ in feeding a multitude. The Young People's Missionary Movement is the Andrew of our day, discovering the relation of the Christian young people to Christ in feeding the great multitudes, the world round, with the Bread of Life. A WORD ABOUT OUR WORK ABROAD In Japan, West Africa, and Porto Rico, we have greatly in- creased the number of our missionary workers and have multiplied by three our equipment in Church buildings, missionary residences, and school buildings during the last three years. Possibly the work of most far-reaching importance was the completion and dedication on January 11, 1908, of the Albert Academy, Freetown, Africa, at a cost of $20,000. This school is but three years old, and has already an enrolment of 138. But concerning the "Dark Conti- nent" we shall have a message from Dr. Funk who has recently returned from a visit to that field. You will want to know what I saw in Porto Rico during the last two months. I found the island a field ripe for Christian workers. Probably eight hundred thousand of the one million inhabitants of Porto Rico live in rural districts. It is said that only one in ten of these can read or write, and three fourths of the children of school age are now deprived of the advantages of public schools because of a want of teachers and school buildings. The people in the main are extremely poor and needy. In 1900, when I first visited the Island, we had no organized church and no property. During my visit in January I found twelve organized churches, five hundred and fifty-seven members, nine native pastors, and thirty-two preaching-places with excellent Church property valued at $22,000. The native Christians are eager to learn, and are in the main loyal and faithful. At least seventy-five per cent, of the Church members in Porto Rico attend the mid-week prayer-meeting and the Christian Endeavor meeting. Viewing our work as a whole we find that to provide one missionary to every twenty-five thousand persons in our foreign DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 271 fields and to furnish the necessary buildings and equipment, we shall need a fourfold increase in our gifts from America. The fact that our Church has doubled its gifts to foreign missions during the last three years when not more than one half of our people were actively enlisted, should cause us to aim at such large under- takings at this time as shall call into active service all our member- ship. Let our motto be, "Christ first, then go forward." GROWTH IN FOREIGN MISSION STUDY THE REV. J. EDGAR KNIPP Young People's Secretary Foreign Missionary Society It is gratifying to see so many delegates from our denomination enrolled in this Convention. This large representation is natural, for our Church has been closely identified with the Young People's Missionary Movement from its beginning. The aggressive campaign for the organization of foreign mis- sion study classes in our denomination began in the fall of 1905. Since that time we have enrolled at our office 535 classes with a membership of 7,563. The present year is the best year that we have experienced in foreign mission study. In addition to hundreds of our women who are studying Christus Redemptor this year, we have enrolled since September 1, 1907, 190 foreign mission study classes with 3,016 members. Of these classes the majority have been studying The Uplift of China, that interesting, eye-opening book, written by Dr. Arthur H. Smith. A large number of classes have been organ- ized for the boys and girls for the study of Uganda's White Man of Work, which we were told the other day by Mr. Maclennan keeps the British boys from their games because it is so interesting. Reports recently received from a number of our Sunday-schools show that in this department also a vision of the world and its needs is being secured. Some schools observe a quarterly missionary day, others take a monthly offering, and hi a few a certain percentage of the offering every Sunday is given to foreign missions. With this training in giving to missions, definite information regarding the actual conditions abroad is being imparted. This introduction of missionary training into many of our Sunday-schools is a most 272 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION encouraging sign, for from them will come very largely the members of the future Church. On the whole, the outlook is good for permeating our whole denomination with a missionary spirit. But as you think of the local church and the conference from which you come to this con- vention, are you not impressed with the fact that, " There remaineth yet much land to be possessed" in the home churches, before every member has a quiet, earnest, passionate zeal for the redemption of the whole world? This will require a thorough, persistent cam- paign of missionary education. For this work we must have more leaders. One way to secure them is by sending more delegates to the summer conferences held under the direction of the Young People's Missionary Movement. Another way is through a normal mission study class in the local church. This latter plan was just tried with splendid success at the Summit Street Church, Dayton, Ohio. In organizing their mission study class last fall the members were told that they would be expected to lead a class later in The Uplift of China. On that condition ten members were secured. Toward the close of their course they quietly began to invite others to study China. After the holidays the matter was presented publicly, and as a result one hundred and fifty members were enrolled in ten different classes. What we as delegates need to do is to be true to the vision we have secured at this Convention. By passing it on to the rank and file in our local churches we shall hasten the day when not only one in forty-five will be studying missions, (as we report this year), but every member of the denomination will be acquainted with the mighty works of God in all parts of the world. THE STUDY OF HOME MISSIONS Miss LYDA B. WIGGIM Educational Secretary Home Missionary Society The Home Missionary Society came in touch with the Young People's Missionary Movement, in January, 1906. Up to that time as far as I know no class had ever been organized in the United Brethren Church for the study of home missions. When the doors of the Home Missionary Society, as a separate society, opened three DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 273 years ago this coming July, there was not a scrap of home mission literature to be found. Nothing had ever been prepared. Home mission study is now 27 months old, and at this date there have been organized 574 classes with 7,137 members. During this pe- riod nearly ten thousand books have been bought. Since September 1st, 1907, 227 classes have been organized with a membership of 2,900 : 4,500 books have been bought during this time. While these figures look well they do not show all the results, as may be seen by the following instance. As a result of the study of Aliens or Americans? our society was led to do definite work for the aliens, funds for this work being provided by the anniversary offering of our young peoples' societies in May last. The collection at this date amounts to over $1,600. We have two workers now in the field. The Eev. Paul N. Palmer is working among the Scan- dinavians of Wisconsin under the direction of Miss Ida Richards. Miss Nellie Gilbert is working at Oakland, California, under the direction of the Eev. M. E. Drury. As has been emphasized at this Convention, the linking of prayer and missions has been encouraged. The educational secre- tary has prepared prayer cards, both for last year and this to ac- company the text-books. These have been supplied to every member of a class so that we have a band of "praying missionaries" all over the Church for our work. The splendid outcome of last year's study was attributed as much to the united, concentrated prayers of our classes as to the study of the book itself. The Bishop's booklets on "The Need and Opportunity of Home Missions" last year and "The Need and Opportunity of City Evangelization" this year, were also sent to every member of a class. They are arranged for supplemental study to be used in connection with the text-book. The home mission text-book of the Young People's Missionary Movement next year is entitled The Frontier, by the Eev. E. T. Tomlinson, but we think we have a book to offer which will interest you more, a book entitled, Heroes of the Cross in America in the United Brethren Church, prepared by Bishop Weekly and the Eev. Off. H. Fout, Bishop Weekly giving the history of the work west of the Mississippi and Dr. Fout east of the Mississippi. It will be arranged as a complete text-book. The helps for leaders will also be prepared and furnished. Every church and society will want to study this book. It will be the same price as the books furnished by the Movement, viz., 50 cents cloth, 35 cents paper, postage extra. The Junior text-book will also be on the frontier and is entitled 274 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION "The Pioneers" written by Miss Kathrine C. Crowell, the author of the Junior text-books. We are glad to report a very encouraging feature of mission study during the past year, and that is more classes organized in one church. There is a pastor here to-day who has organized sixteen classes in his church, all studying at the same time The Challenge of the City. The number enrolled is nearly two hundred. This pastor who carries the banner for the largest number of classes studying missions in one church is the Rev. C. W. Brewbaker, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, There is no better way to kindle the fires of missionary zeal, for enthusiasm must come out of intelli- gence and intelligence must be sustained by the study of missions. A MESSAGE FROM SIERRA LEONE THE REV. W. R. FUNK Publishing Agent United Brethren in Christ I count it a great privilege on this occasion, to utter my first word in reference to Africa and its work, before a representative congregation such as this gathered from my own Church in a great international missionary rally near my birthplace. The steppings of God are now heard in all parts of the world. We all agree as to the need of the homeland, but I could wish that Africa were as America is, even with all our faults, weaknesses, and needs. As I return to-day, I plead not simply for Africa, but for the whole world. Africa is one of the greatest continents of the world, with a stretch of land that we in America can hardly realize. The African negro is an intelligent individual in every sense of the word. He has what the American negro does not have. He has the initiative on his side. He thinks for himself; he acts for himself; he is absolutely independent, just a little too independent for his own good, sometimes. For permanent results you can well afford to spend money on this race over in Africa. I am persuaded that there is an opportunity before our Church in the Africa mission that would astonish each one of us to-day, if we could only realize it. Of the condition of the people I could say much. Two evils I will mention, superstition and polygamy. Superstition is so strong in Africa that if a chief cut or broke a little stick DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 275 in a peculiar way and set it up along the roadside, not a na- tive in that chieftaincy could be hired for love or money to pass that stick. Thus they protect their crops of rice and nuts. Fear of the devil controls them. They are devil worshipers. Their gods are devils and this is where their awful condition manifests itself. I visited many chiefs and subchiefs, and I found every one of them philosophers. They could not use words of English, but I had an interpreter, and found them ready for me on any subject within the circle of their lives. I said to myself, "Here is ground for the seed of truth." I found out another thing about them. They have a memory as long as the ages. There is not a written language in Sierra Leone. All things have been handed down to them by tradition. There is a will in the Africans, a will power that is simply wonderful, and if turned in the right direction, will develop them into strong characters. I have faith to believe that Africa will take its place among the great countries of the earth. I rejoice to tell you that there is permanency in our missionary work in West Africa. All of the people look to us to be the chief factors in evangelizing the interior of that protectorate. We have already splendid missionary leaders on the field. Our territory is unlimited in its vastness as you go east. It was a great privilege to go beyond the present bounds of our work and open up new stations where the gospel had never yet been preached. If the United Brethren Church will meet the call that comes from this field we can double our work in Sierra Leone in three years. WOMAN'S BOARD OF THE UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH MRS. L. H. LEITZEL Woman's Missionary Association Branch, Allegheny Conference I voice the sentiment of the speakers before, in saying that I am glad to be living to-day, because this is the blessed day of op- portunity. The Woman's Board of the United Brethren Church, born in prayer, supported by the offerings of the women and children, stands before you to-day with hearts going out in glad thanksgiving, because of the triumphant words of Dr. Funk, telling us that we have seen the great need of the foreign field, that we have gathered 376 CHUKCH AND MISSIONAKY EDUCATION together the children there, and that we have made possible Chris- tian homes. We have turned with help toward China also. We have believed that China is the vastest opportunity ever placed upon the shoulders of the Christian Church. Because of our vision of the need in China, the women of the United Brethren Church have founded a home to gather in the little children who would die often by the side of the banks of the rivers. It is our purpose to preserve their lives, to train them in the Christian faith, and make them missionaries among their own people, who have no hope in the life that now is, nor in the life that is to come. Now, just a closing word about mission study. For twenty-five years the women have emphasized this phase of the work which is now gathering such great momentum. DELEGATES OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHTJKCH THE REV. CHAELES R. WATSON, CHAIRMAN Secretary Board of Foreign Missions "LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK UPON THE FIELDS" THE REV. CHAELES R. WATSON Have you examined the three passages of the Gospels where our Lord refers specially to the ingathering of the harvest? In his first reference to the matter in John iv. 35, Christ does not bid his disciples to go ; he does not even tell them to pray. He tells them to look: "Lift up your eyes and look." It is the first need. Men are not ready to give or to go or to pray, until they have looked out upon the need. The Young People's Missionary Movement and this great Convention are seeking to bring the Church of Christ to obey her Lord's first command, which is to look. Missionary edu- cation is the great need of the hour, and it is the theme of this meeting. We shall hear from those who are related to this great move- ment of missionary education, and as they speak we shall be led into every department of the Church, for every department and sphere of the Church needs to be made acquainted with missions, the juniors, the Sabbath-school, the young people's society, the men of the church and the women of the church. And various agencies are and should be promoting this knowledge of missions In every church, the pastor, the Sabbath-school superintendent, the women's missionary society, the mission study class leader. Neither shall we distinguish here between home and foreign mis- sions. The command is, "Lift up your eyes and look on the -fields." HOME MISSION STUDY THE REV. R. A. HUTCHISON Secretary Board of Home Missions The problem of missionary education is a many-sided problem even in so far as it relates to missions in America. There are the 277 278 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION conditions and needs of the Indians, of the Mormons, of our kins- men in the southern mountains, and of the aliens who are coming by millions to our shores. There is room for a whole year of careful study for the proper appreciation of this many-sided problem. The Church itself also affords a worthy object of study, as it stretches over the vast territory of the United States. The eleven synods of the United Presbyterian Church of North America are equivalent to eleven great countries. Would it not be well to have a school in each synod for the study of the work in that territory ? An admirable handbook for such study would be " Our Country and Our Church" which was issued two years ago by the boards oper- ating in America. The leaflet "Christian Missions in our Homes and Home Land", now in use in the Sabbath-schools, presents many vital facts of this sort. In a few weeks, beginning with the first Sabbath in April and continuing through the second Sabbath of May, a six weeks' course of study is to be launched in the young people's societies of our Church for the study of home missions. The text-book selected is, Heroes of the Cross in America, which gives a clear conception of the progress of the Church and of the gospel in our land along the great highways of American colonization. MISSION STUDY AMONG WOMEN MRS. MARY CLOKEY PORTER Thank Offering Secretary Women's General Missionary Society The story of the beginnings, the progress, and the results, of the systematic study of missions by the women of the Church is a long story but a most interesting one. The Committee on the United Study of Missions had its genesis in the Ecumenical Missionary Con- ference in New York in 1900, when a committee representing five of the larger missionary boards was appointed to devise methods to bring this about. The result was the beginning of the publication of leaflets and books to meet this need, beginning with a leaflet, "Christian Missions in the Nineteenth Century," and resulting in the publication of a regular series of mission text-books the United Study of Mission courses of which, in three years, no less than 120,000 volumes were circulated and studied. In this enterprise no DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 279 less than forty-five mission boards became interested, resulting in a very wide-spread information. This movement among the women had its origin and development simultaneously with the Young People's Missionary Movement, and for a time the courses of study ran somewhat parallel, but of late they have drifted apart. The development of mission study among the missionary so- cieties has wrought a great revolution among them. It has solved the problem of the monthly missionary meeting. Whereas often it was a great perplexity how to make these interesting and profitable, this question has been effectually answered where the systematic study of missions has been introduced and carried forward. Instead of puzzling their brains as to how to dole out an hour's program, the time has often to be extended, and sometimes semimonthly meetings are found necessary. Many a woman whose voice was never heard in the meetings before, is now glad of the opportunity to tell of what she has learned. The great work done by the women of our Church in providing literature describing all departments of its work calls for more ex- tended description than is possible here. If any one is in need of such literature, a letter to Mrs. J. A. Crawford, Literature Secre- tary, or a visit to the Board Rooms at 209 Ninth Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, will bring all needed help. MISSION STUDY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE MR. EARL D. MILLER Educational Department Board of Foreign Missions Some twenty-seven mission boards now have special secretaries who devote their whole time and energy to missionary education. The rapid development of this work in our own denomination is indeed surprising. One department of the work is the cultivation of the Sabbath- school. During the past five years five different missionary pro- grams have been issued for use in the Sabbath-schools. Each pro- gram has marked an advance upon that preceding it, both in educa- tional scope and in the number of those taking up the study of missions. The results also have been most gratifying. In 1902 the amount contributed to foreign missions by the Sabbath-schools of our Church was about $6,000, and the average yearly advance in 280 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION such contributions during a preceding period of ten years was only $200. By the cultivation of this field, however, the contributions were advanced in five years from $6,000 to $14,000. The last two courses of study used by the Sabbath-schools were "Sudan Relief Expedition, No. 1," and "Sudan Relief Expedition, No. 2." The former was taken up by 28,000 scholars in 225 schools. The latter course enlisted 33,000 scholars in 300 schools. Another method of education is the stereopticon lecture. One such lecture course has been prepared describing conditions and methods of missionary work in the Sudan. About 100 slides go with the printed lecture and these are rented to congregations or schools at the nominal cost of $2, and cost of transportation. Still another method of increasing missionary interest and mis- sionary knowledge is a Reading Contest, now under way, in which special recognition is to be given to those who make the best record in the reading of missionary books. Encouraging reports have al- ready been received from this experiment, and final results are watched for with interest. Within the sphere of the Young People's Christian Union, mis- sionary education has been pushed and within five years three courses of study have been completed. These missionary studies displace for a given period the regular prayer-meeting topics. The first course gave the young people a survey of our three foreign fields and involved one study each month. A small handbook re- ferring to missionary books was issued for this course. The second course of study was biographical and the text-book issued and used was In the King's Service. Twenty-five hundred copies of this book were sold. In this course, there were six studies that were taken up on six consecutive Sabbaths, and the lives of three missionaries to Egypt and of three to India were brought before the young people of the Church. The third course, which was followed last spring, had for the text-book, Egypt and the Christian Crusade. Some three thousand five hundred copies of the book were sold and the societies followed this course of study quite generally throughout the Church. Thirty-one presbyteries are reported as having taken up sys- tematic mission study. In a number of presbyteries a presbyterial committee has been appointed to give added impetus to the work. One feature of the work of these committees, in some instances, is to organize and conduct normal classes in the spring, for the purpose of preparing leaders for mission study classes to be organized in the fall. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 281 The Missionary Conference held at New Wilmington, Pennsyl- vania, has proved to be a powerful agency for deepening missionary interest and for training those who may assume leadership in mis- sionary education. Two such conferences have already been held with an attendance of from two to three hundred, and the third promises to be more largely attended still. It is scheduled for Au- gust 14-23, 1908. The growth of the mission study class movement in the United Presbyterian Church may be inferred from the fact that in 1905-06 there were only some 50 classes organized with about 600 members, while the next year, 1906-07, there were 135 classes with about 1,700 members. The figures for this year are far from complete, but al- ready 100 classes are reported with 1,200 members. The appeals of our missions, made a few years ago, call for one missionary for every 25,000 of the population committed to us for evangelization. This calls for one out of every three hundred of our Sabbath-school scholars. To meet this need abroad and to give to the Church a deep realization of her responsibility is the aim and object of this campaign of missionary education. TESTIMONIES EEGAEDING THE VALUE OF MISSION" STUDY THE REV. A. THEO. SMITH, Pastor Atlantic 'Avenue Church, Mo Keesport, Pennsylvania. I may add my word of testimony from a pastor's point of view as to the value of the mission study movement in the development of a congregation's life. I went to the New Wilmington Conference last summer thinking it possible to organize one study group in my congregation. I came away from that conference hoping that I might be able to organize as many as four. As a matter of actual experience I have seen eight organized and successfully carried through one of these the class for the training of leaders of other classes. I have found these studies valuable in discovering and de- veloping unused talent hitherto latent; in promoting Christian fel- lowship; in stimulating liberality; in increasing and rendering more effective personal efforts at soul winning; in deepening the spirit of prayer ; and in helping the pastor in his life and work, by giving him an enlarged vision. 282 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Miss EMMA SCOTT, Student New Wilmington College. I can speak of what mission study will do in a college. During the past year, four mission study classes have been organized at New Wilmington. Two were on Africa, one on India, and one on China, One of the groups takes only half a chapter for a single lesson, devoting part of the time to the study of the work of our own Church. One method pursued in these groups was to have a debate, as to the relative value of different forms of missionary ef- fort, evangelistic, educational, medical, and industrial. Some of the members of the groups were natives of foreign lands, and these added much interest by sketching lives of young people in those lands, and giving other information concerning customs and condi- tions. These classes have quickened the spiritual life and deepened the missionary interest of the college. THE REV. F. M. SPENCER, President Cooper College. We have in Cooper College mission study classes which are maintaining and deepening the missionary interest of our students. THE REV. J. C. HAMILTON", Pastor Washington, Pennsylvania. From the point of view of the man who realizes the great op- portunity for missionary education in the Church, rather than from the point of view of any adequate attainment in the matter, I wish to endorse what has been said by saying that in my congregation we have just organized five mission study classes. And that is only a start. MRS. E. M. HILL, Foreign Secretary Women's General Missionary Society. There are many who plead lack of time and preoccupation with household duties as an excuse for not taking up mission study. But I want to tell all such that not only can time be found by even the busiest of housekeepers for such work, but that there is ample re- ward for the investment of time in such mission study work. THE REV. R. J. LOVE, Pastor Good Hope Mission, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mission study is good for the mission church. I can testify to a remarkable increase in the contributions to missions by the Sabbath-school because of mission study. DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 283 Miss ANNA A. MILLIGAN, Chairman Missionary Department Penn- sylvania State Christian Endeavor Union. Mission study ought to be pushed by every Christian Endeavor Union in the country. If you want to know what can be done, visit the Philadelphia Union. This union has a missionary committee which has developed departments of work such as these: Organiza- tion and Conference, Literature, Mission Study, Libraries and Reading, Christian Stewardship, and the Student Volunteer Union. This work is the most systematic and effective in the country. What has been done in Philadelphia may be done in every county union and in every presbytery through its presbyterial committee. MRS. J. C. ALTER, W omen's General Missionary Society. First let me lay emphasis on the great needs of our homeland. These must not be neglected lest the Master say to us "This ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone." I wish to bear testimony to the helpfulness of the summer con- ferences at New Wilmington. The one held this last summer left its impression on the town and on the student life of the college. The prayer conference, which followed the regular conference, and which lasted for two days, lifted us to the greatest spiritual heights. Indeed words cannot describe the transformations which have been wrought by these summer conferences in opening up to many God's Word and the world's need and the power and privilege of prayer. THE REV. T. G. BOYCE, 'Associate Reformed 'Synod. We are becoming increasingly impressed by the greatness of the obligations resting upon the Church, in view of the many wide- open doors, and especially with the contrast between our great com- mission and our means for carrying it out. When a child's burden is too heavy for it, there are two ways of meeting the difficulty. The one is by lightening his burden and the other is to use means to increase his strength. The burden laid upon the Church seems too heavy for it to bear, but there is unlimited strength within our reach if we will but avail ourselves of it. We are the servants of the King; let us ask him for gifts worthy of the King, and the strength of the Church will become adequate to meet the obligations resting upon it. 284 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION A THREEFOLD PRAYER THE REV. J. K. 'Pastor Shadyside United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Inspiring visions have been granted us of the world-wide field which lies before the whole Church. To none of the denominations, however, has God given a more inspiring vision than he has to the United Presbyterian Church, when we look across the seas to the work which he has permitted us to undertake. In the whole range of missionary operations there is nothing more stimulating or in- spiring than the work among the sixteen millions whom God has called us to evangelize, in India, Egypt, and the Sudan. I suggest to you this afternoon a threefold prayer, which has been in my own heart and mind. 1. Open thou my heart to see thy love. Not to talk about the love of God, but to get a heart's experience of it, a true heart's experience that God loves me. Recently there came to my home a working man. He had lived a rough life in his time. Just now his boy was wandering somewhere away from home. He told of his fatherly solicitude for his wandering boy. He told me that every night he leaves the side-door of his house open so that if his boy should return he would find an easy entrance to his home. Then he went on to say that his anxiety for his boy had made him. understand something of God's anxiety for him ; had explained to him how God too must be waiting his return. His father's heart had been open to feel the love of his Heavenly Father. 2. Open thou my ears that I may hear thy call. I know not where it will lead me but I need not be afraid to follow it. A young student of superior gifts came to me to tell me of his purpose to go to India. He was a man eminently endowed with musical tal- ents. He had an ear only for the music of this world. Then there came the call to him, "Must I go empty-handed?" And he de- termined to give his life to India. Only two and a half years was he permitted to labor in that field and then God called him home. Yet in that service there came such music to his soul as he could have found nowhere else. On his dying bed he said, "I am almost on the threshold of the home country. It is so sweet to lay the burden down at Jesus' feet." 3. 'Open my lips that I may speak thy love. There is no- DENOMINATIONAL MEETINGS 285 natural talent that God is so willing to bless as the lips when they are fully consecrated to his service. When Mr. Moody began his; labors, he was a very imperfect speaker. One night in Exeter Hall, London, he faced a great assembly, in which there were representa- tives of the royal family, members of parliament, and others of high standing. While trying to read a section of the fourth chapter of Luke, he stumbled repeatedly over the word Eliseus. At last, being unable to pronounce it, he lifted his voice to heaven in prayer, "Lord, use these stumbling lips to speak thy message to this people." And there followed one of the greatest sermons of his life. PBAISE, PRAYER, AND PURPOSE Topics for Thanksgiving, Intercession, and Resolution, sugges- tive for delegates returning from the Convention. PRAISE 1 For the manifestation of the presence and power of God in the sessions. 2 For the Christian hospitality and fellowship of the people of Pittsburg. 3 For the achievements and possibilities of the Young People's Missionary Movement. 4 For the enlarged and comprehensive plans which the Mis- sion boards and societies are adopting in the missionary education of the Church. 5 For the larger vision of Christ in the world, that has come to us during the Convention sessions. 6 For the privilege of living at such a time and of working for such a cause. "I myself will awake right early, and will give thanks" PRAYER 1 That the delegates may return to their homes in safety and in the power of the Holy Spirit. 2 That the spiritual vision and ideas here received may be communicated to others. 3 That the Convention may mark the beginning of a new era in the missionary devotion and activities of the Church. 4 That the officers and leaders of the Young People's Mis- sionary Movement may yield themselves to the continued guidance and power of the Holy Spirit in the work committed to them. 5 That the members and secretaries of mission boards, editors of the religious papers, and pastors may be given spiritual vision 287 and power in guiding the forces of the Church to meet the needs of the non-christian world. 6 That the Holy Spirit may be poured out abundantly on all missionaries and native Christians. "The Lord is rich unto all that call upon him" PURPOSE 1 To set aside a portion of each day, preferably at the begin- ning, for systematic devotional study of the Bible. 2 To enter with Christ into a life of definite prayer and intercession for the coming of his Kingdom. 3 To so study missions that I may the more intelligently work for the evangelization of the world. 4 To hold all that God gives me as his steward, and to use it in such a way that his Kingdom may come most speedily. 5 To make obedience to Christ's last command to evangelize the whole world the commanding purpose of my life, yielding my- self to the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit. for larger and wider service than I have yet known. "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your spiritual service" APPENDIXES A. ORGANIZATION OF THE CONVENTION B. STATISTICS OF THE CONVENTION <3. BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONABT MOVEMENT AND SUBCOMMITTEES APPENDIX A ORGANIZATION OF THE CONVENTION Chairman John Willis Baer General Secretary C. C. Michener ( Harry S. Myers Registration Committee -J W. A. Brown [ R. E. Diffendorfer Business Committee Fred P. Haggard, Chairman Committee to Promote Prayer C. V. Vickrey, Chairman C. M. Keeler ~ i P. J. Gilbert Convention Quartet J ~ ,, , ,. ^ P. H. Metcalf B. W. Peck Pianist Miss Bessie Trawick Educational Exhibit Miss Bessie H. Brooks, Director Press Committee C. H. Fahs, Chairman Editor of Report Morris W. Ehnes (E. L. Allen J. E. Fuller R. E. Fuller C. T. Fullwood Committee on Ushers W. W. Fry, Chairman Transportation Committee Harry S. Myers, Chairman Chairman of Simultaneous Meet- ( , T , T . , rnj nM TT H \ C. V. Vickrey ings, Old City Hall j 291 Chairman Secretary-Treasurer Executive Secretary, S. Jarvis Adams Joseph Buffington A. P. Burchfield James W. Brown H. E. Carmack C. E. E. Childers W. A. Cornelius S. W. Cunningham. Daniel Dorchester C. A. Edsall E. W. Grange George W. Guthrie W. W. Fry , Joseph E. Paull Marcellin C. Adams , Edmund D. Soper Ralph W. Harbison. H. J. Heinz Albert Home Durbin Home James W. Kinnear J. T. McCrory J. C. McDowell J. L. Moore George M. Paden W. S. Power J. H. Prugh J. Frank Eobinson Edward Bynearsoni John G. Slayter Frank W. Sneed J. W. Sproull W. A. Stanton Benjamin Thaw Alonzo J. Turkle John UpdegrafE W. S. Van Dyke Graham C. Wells H. C. Westervelt J. A. Young Samuel Young APPENDIX B STATISTICS OF THE CONVENTION CLASSIFICATION OF DELEGATES BY DENOMINATION 1 Advent Christian ........: 2 African Methodist Episcopal .. .- 6 Baptist (Canada) . 8 Baptist (Colored) .1 4 Baptist (North) > 309 Baptist (South) Christian Connection Church of the Covenant Church of England in Canada. Church of God , Congregational Congregational ( Canada ) 9 1 1 a i 56 1 1 In many cases delegates did not distinguish their denomination clearly on the application blanks, so there may be errors in this list. APPENDIX B. 293 Disciples of Christ ,..,... .... 93 Evangelical Association ...-.-. ., 27 Evangelical Lutheran .-.-... ....... . . ... ...- 60 Free Baptist . . . ...... -.<.v.v.v.-... . . ... ., .1. ... ...;.., 10 Free Methodist .. ... ., 15 Friends ............ .,.....-.,.... .. ... , ; 9 German Baptist ................. 11 German Evangelical Synod ., 4 German Lutheran .<.-.. 2 German Methodist .......... ...-.: 5 Methodist Church (Canada) ,.. 66 Methodist Episcopal (North) ., ., 315 Methodist Episcopal ( South) ; . 71 Methodist Protestant . . 31 Presbyterian Church in Canada ., 34 Presbyterian Church in the TJ. S 7 Presbyterian Church in the IT. S. A. . . . . ., , 326 Primitive Methodist .*, 1 Protestant Episcopal .1 19 Eeformed Church in America. ... 24 Eeformed Church in the U. S 40 Eeformed Presbyterian. 16 Seventh-Day Adventist ,.....: 5 United Brethren ..,. .,. . 130 United Evangelical , 5 United Presbyterian ., 159 Universalist 4 Denomination not designated. 180 Total Eegistration 2,071 Number of Denominations , 39 Total Attendance ..,.., 3,900 CLASSIFICATION" OF DELEGATES BY STATES AND COUNTBIES Arkansas . 5 Connecticut ....., S Delaware -.1 1 District of Columbia , ,. , ; 10 Illinois i 48 Indiana 13 294 CHUECH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Hampshire Nebraska New Jersey New York Oklahoma Ohio Pennsylvania .'.'.'.'... 1,295 Ehode Island 2 South Dakota 1 South Carolina 5 Texas 2 Tennessee 15 Vermont . -. . w. 2 Virginia 15 Wisconsin 1 West Virginia 34 Washington 1 Canada 125 Africa 4 Assam 1 Arabia 2 China 4 Great Britain 1 India 17 Italy 1 Japan 7 Korea . : 1 Total 2,071 APPENDIX C 295 THE PERSONNEL OP THE CONVENTION Pastors 656 Missionaries 76 Mission board secretaries 73 Editors of religious periodicals 27 Superintendents of -local Sunday-schools 68 Teachers in local Sunday-schools 151 Local church officers 55 Local young people's society leaders : 176 District and state young people's society leaders 55 College and seminary presidents and professors 18 Mission board officers and members 30 Officers in local church women's societies 61 District and general officers in women's societies 53 Young Men's Christian Association secretaries 8 Young Women's Christian Association secretaries 19 Students in theological seminaries outside Pittsburg 39 District and state church leaders 32 General church officers . 10 General Sunday-school officers 14 General officers of other organizations 12 Secretaries of the Young People's Missionary Movement. . . 8 Not designated 430 Total 2,071 APPENDIX C SECRETARIES OF MISSION BOARDS BAPTIST The Rev. J. G. Brown, Toronto, Canada. Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. The Eev. Howard B. Grose, New York. American Baptist Home Mission Society. 296 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION The Rev. F. P. Haggard, Boston, Mass. American Baptist Mis sionary Union. Mr. Harry S. Myers, Hillsdale, Mich. General Conference of Free Baptists. The Rev. T. B. Ray, Richmond, Va. Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. CHURCH OF ENGLAND Canon Tucker, Toronto, Canada. The Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada. CONGREGATIONAL The Rev. W. T. Gunn, Toronto, Canada. Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society. Mr. Harry Wade Hicks, Boston, Mass. American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions. DISCIPLES OF CHRIST The Rev. Stephen J. Corey, Cincinnati, Ohio. Foreign Christian Missionary Society. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN The Rev. Marion J. Kline, Baltimore, Md. Board of Foreign Mis- sions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. METHODIST The Rev. Ed F. Cook, Nashville, Tenn. Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Rev. F. C. Stephenson, Toronto, Canada. Missionary Society of the Methodist Church in Canada. Mr. S. Earl Taylor, New York. Board of Foreign Missions and Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. PRESBYTERIAN .The Rev. R. P. Mackay, Toronto, Canada. Presbyterian Church in Canada, Foreign Mission Committee. Mr. T. H. P. Sailer, New York. Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. APPENDIX C 297 Mr. Von Ogden Vogt, New York. Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the TL S. A. The Kev. H. F. Williams, Nashville, Tenn. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U. S. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL Mr. John W. Wood, New York. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the TJ. S. A. UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST The Rev. S. S. Hough, Dayton, Ohio. Foreign Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN The Rev. C. K. Watson, Philadelphia, Pa. Board of Foreign Mis- sions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. LAYMEN Mr. Marcellin C. Adams, Pittsburg, Pa. Director, Best Manu- facturing Co. Mr. William F. Cochran, Jr., Baltimore, Md. Capitalist. Mr. James S. Cushman, New York. Manager, Cushman & Denison Manufacturing Co. Mr. A. A, Fowler, New York. Rogers, Brown & Co. Mr. William 0. Gantz, New York. Attorney. Mr. Eldon B. Keith, Boston, Mass. Walkover Shoe Co. Mr. W. S. Leslie, Montreal, Canada. A. C. Leslie & Co., Ltd. Mr. L. P. Moore, Chicago, 111. Benjamin Moore & Co. Mr. Joseph R. Paull, Pittsburg, Pa. Vice-president, Bank of Pittsburg. Mr. A. L. Phillips, Richmond, Va. Mr. Howard Platt, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Merchant. Mr. William J. Schieffelin, New York. Schieffelin & Co. Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, New York. President, Carnegie Trust Co., and ex-Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Laird H. Simons, Philadelphia, Pa. Simons, Arner & Co. Mr. Francis Louis Slade, New York. Banker. Mr. Ezra H. Stevens, Hartford, Conn. Trustee. Mr. Samuel Thome, Jr., New York. Attorney. Mr. Luther D. Wishard, New York. Red Fir Lumber Co. Mr. George H. Wood, Toronto, Canada. Wood, Gundy & Co. SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE S. Earl Taylor, Chairman S. S. Hough Laird H. Simons Harry S. Myers F. C. Stephenson Joseph B. Paull John W. Wood A. L. Phillips E. P. Mackay Leslie M. Shaw George H. Wood Howard Platt PUBLICATION AND OFFICE DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE William 0. Gantz, Chairman Marcellin C. Adams Stephen J. Corey J. G. Brown Samuel Thome, Jr. Charles B. Watson FIELD DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE F. P. Haggard, Chairman J. G. Brown Luther D. Wishard Ed F. Cook S. Earl Taylor Marcellin C. Adams William J. Schieffelin L. P. Moore Ezra H. Stevens Laird H. Simons William F. Cochran, Jr. Von Ogden Vogt A. A. Fowler EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE T. H. P. Sailer, Chairman Howard B. Grose Charles E. Watson T. B. Ray John W. Wood S. Earl Taylor E. P. Mackay H. F. Williams FINANCE DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE James S. Cushman, Chairman William F. Cochran, Jr. Samuel Thome, Jr. W. S. 'Leslie Leslie M. Shaw Francis Louis Slade Luther D. Wishard A. A. Fowler APPENDIX C 299 SYSTEMATIC GIVING DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE John W. Wood, Chairman W. T. Gunn Marion J. Kline Eldon B. Keith William J. Schieffelin Ezra H. Stevens SECRETARIES C. C. Michener, General Secretary Charles V. Vickrey R. E. Diffendorfer Morris W. Ehnes William A. Brown C. M. Keeler Harry S. Myers Edmund D. Soper F. W. Anderson INDEX INDEX Abraham's self-will, 14 Abyssinian Church, 85 Advance, The Call to, 246 Africa at the dawn of the twen- tieth century, 80-88; Christian- ized sections of, 83; Early Churches of, 85; European pow- ers in, 218; Lutheran work in, 218-220; the wish for education, 220; United Brethren work in, 274 Albert Academy, Freetown, Africa, 270 Aliens or Americans? 26, 225, 273 Aligarh, Mohammedan institution at, 93 Allahabad, Committee meets in, 43; Picture taken at, 61; Inci- dents in, 93 Allen, Mrs. Edith H., 264 Alliance, O., Conference, 207, 211 Alter, Mrs. J. C., 283 American Baptist Home Mission Society, 188 American Baptist Missionary Union, 19, 188 American Baptist Publication So- , ciety, 188 Anglican Church, 77 Angoni, The, transformed, 83 Archibald, Rev. R. M., 232 Armstrong, General, quoted, 167 Asia, A message from Southern, 88-94; The strategic hour in Eastern, 94-104 Asiatic nations and European im- pact, 95 Badley, Brenton T., 43 Baer, Mr. John Willis. Address on "What Do Ye More than Oth- ers?" 3-5: Law and love, 4; con- secration, 5 Baptist, Church in England, Work in, 35; Forward Movement for Missionary Education, 192; Un- ion Meeting, 195-205 Barnes, Rev. L. Call. Address on "Systematic Benevolence as a Power in Evangelization," 133- 138: Embodied good-will, 133, 134 ; systematic benevolence, 135- 137 Barriers removed in foreign work, 246 Bartholomew, Rev. Allen R., 267 Barton, Rev. James L., 113 Basutoland, 82 Bay of Quinte incident, A, 226 Beach Mr., quoted, 161 Beatty, Rev. L. F., 232 Bechuanaland, 83 Beck, Rev. Will M., 218 Benares, 61, 93 Bengal. 89 Bengali convert, A, 45 Besant, Mrs., College at Benares, 93 Bible, The, 8, 99. 148; A mission- ary book, 25, 121-129, 202 Bihari Lall, B. A., 93 Biographical sketches, 24 Bittle, Rev. J. E. Address on Home Mission Work, 215 Boggs, Rev. Wheeler, 44 Bohemians in Chicago, 269 Boxer war, Effect of, 99 Boyce, Rev. T. G., 283 Brainerd, David, 159 Brandon, Rev. F. W., 231 Brazil, 75-79 ; Romanism in, 76, 79 Brewbaker, Rev. C. W., 274 British Student Movement, 155 Brockman, Mr. Fletcher S. Ad- dress on "Committee for Work Among the Young in China," 45-49: Natives to evangelize the nation, 45; interest shown by students, 47; comparative progress, 48; the missionary spirit needed, 46-49; centen- ary conference in Shanghai, 49. Address on "The Strategic Hour in Eastern Asia," 94-104: Politi- cal importance of the Pacific Ocean, 95; Western ideals and industrial revolution, 96; for- eign trade, educational changes, 97, 98; problems, God a strate- gist, 99; successes, 100-104 Bromer, Rev. E. S., 267 Brown, Dr. Arthur J., 24 Brown, Rev. J. G., Chairman, 187, 195 Brown, Rev. O. E. Address on "The Bible a Missionary Book," 121-129: The missionary, 303 304 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION 121, 122; the Bible, 122, 123; Is- rael's ordeal, 123; God's sover- eignty, 124; infinite love, 125; Paul's great principle, 126; John's, 127; unity, 128; results of Bible study, 129 Buddhism, 100, 247; a missionary religion, 147 Surges, Rev. R., 44 Burns, William, 180 Burry, Rev., 235, 236 Bussing, Miss, 266 Calcutta University, 45 Caldwell, Bishop, 112 Cambridge, Livingstone at, 167 Campbell, Rev. R. J., referred to, 12 Canada, Racial conditions in, 224 Canadian Baptist delegates, 187 Canadian Methodist Church, The, 19 Carey, William, 112, 159 Caste and a national spirit in In- ma, 90 Castle, Bishop, in Oregon, 269 Catholicity, A too broad, 12 Cawnpur, Convention in, 43 Challenge of Success, The, 220 Challenge of the City, The, 26, 274 Chalmers, James, of New Guinea, 34, 161, 165, 169 "Character," The word, 211 Chih-li's Viceroy, 100 China, Call for help from, 115-117; coal and iron, 96; committee for work among the young in, 45-49 ; educational changes in, 97; likin tax, 97; literati, 98, 103; mis- sionaries, 102; railways, 96 "China, Talks on," 36 "China, The Call of," 36 China's Book of Martyrs, 164 Chinese Gordon, quoted, 165, 168 Chinese self-restraint, 95 Christ. See Jesus Christ "Christian Missions in our Homes and Homeland," 278 Christianity, A Chinese history of, 100 Christianity's influence in India, 112, 113 Christ's holiest hour, 15 Christus Redemptor, 271 Church of England work, 35 Classes in foreign lands for mis- sion study, 26 "C. M. O. R. Club, The," 232 Cobb, Mrs. J. B. Address, "Good Tidings from Korea," 233, 234 Cochran, Dr., of Persia, 161 Coffins for false religions, 55, 56 Colelingam, Rev. J. P., 44 Collier, Mr., in Korea, 234 Comforter, The. See The Holy Spirit Common school education in Ja- pan, 109 Conferences, The use of summer, 27 Congo savages, their good im- pulses, 36 Congregational Church delegates, 206 Congregational Church in. Japan, The, 110 Consecration adequate to victory, The, 173-183 Convictions, The need of positive, 12 Cook, Rev. Ed F. Address on "The Purpose of the Educational Cam- paign," 229-231 Coptic Church, 85 Corinth, Paul in, 126 Cornelius, Elias, 166 Cosmic civilization, A, 98 Courses of study, 24 Cowan, Rev. E. P., 257 Cox, Melville B., 87 Crane, The electric, 13 Crawford, Mrs. J. A.. 279 Crowell, Miss Kathrine C., 274 Datta, Dr., "Village Life in India," 36 Davies, Miss Daisy, 232 Dawson, Rev. Edward, 266 Day, Mrs., 87 Day, Mr. Dwight H., 256 Daybreak in the Dark Continent, 26 Demarest, Mr. W. T., 265 Deputation plan, 28, 29 Devasahayam, Mr. S. P. Address on "The Evangelization of In- dia," 111-114: The problem of India, a nation without Christ, 111, 112; union of denomina- tions, 113; how to evangelize In- dia, 114 Devil as a strategist, The, 99 Disciples of Christ, Delegates of the, 210 Dosler, Mr., 266 Drury, Rev. M. R., 273 Dutch Reformed Church Building, Meeting held in the, 20 Dyer, Mrs., 167 East India Company, The, 246 INDEX 305 Editorial Association, The Sunday School, 29 Educational campaign, The pur- pose of the, 229 Egypt ana the Christian Crusade, 280 Ellinwood, Dr., referred to, 165 Ellis Island, Picture of, 61 Empress Dowager, The, 98; contri- bution from the, 102 England and America on the Pa- cific, 95 Enthusiasm, A common, 15 Epworth Herald, The, 227 Epworth League, The, 42, 227, 228, 230, 238 Evangelical Lutheran Church, Del- egates of the, 213 Evangelism, The potent factor in world-wide, 258 Evangelization by native workers, 245 Ewing, Rev. Arthur H. Address on "United Conference on Work Among Young People in India," 41-45: Zeal of the Church essen- tial to success, 42, 45; India's languages, 43; conventions in Cawnpur, Lucknow, Fatehpur, Allahabad, 43; conversion of No- lin Chander Mukerji, 45. Ad- dress on "A Message from South- ern Asia," 88-94: The kingdom coming, 88-90; a menace, 91; our duty, 92; educational missions, 93; brother men, 94 Executive Committee of Foreign Missions in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., 260 Fahs, Mrs.. 36 Fakir, Picture of old Indian, 61 Farrington, Sophronia, 87 Farquhar, Rev. J. N., 44, 45 Fatehpur, Conference in, 43 Faust, Rev. Allen K., 267 Fear, Rev. Ezra, 223 Field secretaries, The, 228 Flemming, Miss, 225 Fletcher, Rev. A. E., 251 Flikkema, Rev. G., 266 Foreign Mission Study, Growth in, 271 Foreign mission work of the Pres- byterian Church, 256-260 Foreign Missionary Enterprise, 24 Foreign work, What this campaign means to our, 243 Forward Movement, Baptist, for missionary education, 189, 190; Methodist Church in Can- ada, 19, 237-240; United Breth- ren Church, 268-276; Young Peo- ple's Missionary Movement, 19- 33 Fout, Rev. H. H., 273 France on the Pacific, 95 Free Baptist delegates, 187 Free churches in England, The, 36 Free Methodist Church, Delegates of, 212 Freedmen, Work for the, 257 Friends' Church, Delegates of, 212 Frontier, The, 24 Funk, Rev. W. R., 274 Fuller, Life of Mrs., 167 Gaekwar of Baroda, The, 112, 113 Gairdner, Rev. W. H. T., 36 Gautama's protest, 247 Gerdine, Rev. J. L. Address on "Committee of General Council of Missionaries in Korea," 37-41. Address on "Reinforcements Needed for Korea," 235, 236 Germany on the Pacific, 95 Ghat at Benares, Picture of the, 61 Gilbert, Miss Nellie, 273 Gildersleeve, Mrs. M. J., 258 Gilmour, James, in Mongolia, 161, 167 Gordon, Dr. A. J., quoted, 201 Gotswald, Rev. T. G., 213 Graham, Rev. John A., 44 Grant, Mr. W. Henry, 19 Granville Club, The, 231 Grose, Rev. Howard B., 188 Gulick, The Growth of the King- dom of God, 47 Gundy, Mr., 224 Gutelius, Rev. U. C., 267 Haggard, Rev. Fred P., 188 Hall, Dr., 249 Hall, Dr. Charles Cuthbert, 93 Hall, Gordon, 158 Hallowell, Rev. H., 44 Hamilton, Livingstone at, 168 Hamilton, Rev. J. C., 282 Hannington, Bishop, 87 Harder, Mr., 266 Hardy, Dr., in Korea, 233 Hart, Rev. John, 266 Hartshorn, Mr. William N., 30, 197 Hartzell, Bishop, 83 Haven, W. I., 251 Haygood, Laura, 249 Herben, Rev. S. J., 227 Hermann, Nicholas, 178 "Hermit Nation, The/' 96 306 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Heroes of the Cross in America, 278; in the United Brethren Church, 273 Hicks, Mr. Harry Wade, 34 Hill, David, 180 Hill, Mrs. E. M., 282 Hindu faith, The, 220 Hinduism leavened with Christian- ity, 112 Holmquist, Miss, 266 Holy Spirit, Mission of the, 11-15 Home Mission Study, 24, 277 "Home Mission Work." Address by Rev. Elmer J. Bittle, 215; "What this Educational Cam- paign Means to Our." Address by Rev. Alpha J. Kynett, 240 Home Missions, Outlook for United Brethren Church, 268, 269; Work of the Board of, in the Presby- terian Church, U. S. A., 255 Homer's rhythm, 136 Honda, Bishop Y., 248 Hongkong, The Island of, 97 Horton, Rev. R. F., quoted, 159, 161 Hotaling, Rev. Burton J., 266 Hough, Rev. S. S., 269 In the King's Service, 280 India, The Christian Conquest of, 26 India, Conference on work among young people in, 41-45 ; Evangeli- zation of, 111-114; Some condi- tions in the Lutheran work in, 220-222 Inspiration from giving, 137 Institutes, Some results of, 27, 28 Iron deposits of Central China, 96 Ishiguro, Rev. Takejiro. Address on "Christianity the Hope of Ja- pan," 109-111: Heathen condi- tions and modern education in- compatible, 109; recent religious growth, 110; personal experi- ence, 111 Italians in Chicago, The, 269 Jackson, Stonewall, 168 Japan, Commodore Perry's visit to, 71; Foreign trade of, 97; Home for Methodist Protestant Mis- sionaries in, 251; Hope of, 109- 111; Methodist Church of, 248; Protestant Episcopal Church in, 110; Soul hunger in, 101 Jefferson's ideas prevalent in the East, 96 Jesus Christ, as King, 3-5, 53, 56, 122-128, 173-183; condition of the world if deprived of, 7-9 John's contribution to missions, 127, 128 Jones, Rev. J. P., 44 Judson, Adoniram, 159, 165 Kalighat, A sacrifice at, 62 Kao, Mrs., and her daughter, 164 Keith-Falconer, Ion, 155 Keenleyside, Rev., 226 Kelman, Miss, 37 Kim, a Korean martyr, 247 Kind of men Christ needs, 213 King David's surrender, 14 Kinports, Mr. H. A., Chairman, 264 Kioto, Baptisms in, 110 Kipling, Rudyard, quoted and re- ferred to, 59, 94, 96 Klein, Rev. F. C., 251 Kline, Rev. Marion J., 213 Knipp, Rev. J. Edgar, 271 Korea, Call of Christianity in, 107- 109 ; Committee of General Coun- cil of Missionaries in, 37-41; good tidings from, 233, 234; na- tive converts in, 108; needs of Church in, 39; opportunity, 107; reinforcements required, 235; results, 101, 102; song of boys, 41; swift railway transit, 96; women's gifts in, 233 Kynett, Rev. Alpha J. Address on "What This Educational Cam- paign Means to Our Home Mis- sion Work," 240-243: God's bat- tle-field, 240; the liquor question, 242, 243 Labaree, Dr., plan of morning de- votions, 162 Ladies, Meeting of Indian, 113 Lake Geneva, Wis., Conference, 207, 211 Leinbach, Rev. Paul S., 267 Leitzel, Mrs. L. H., 275 Lemberger, Rev. J. L., 267 Leonard, Rev. A. B., 227. Address on "What This Educational Campaign Means to Our Foreign Work," 243-246 Liberia, The call of, 218-220 "Lift up your eyes and look upon the fields," 277 Liquor question, The, 242 Literati, New attitude of the Chi- nese, 103 Livingstone, David, 34, 47; death at Ilala, 154; his prayer, 160, 167 Livingstone, Mrs., grave on the Zambezi, 87 Long, Rev. Mr., 223, 226 INDEX 307 Louisville, The Granville Club in, 232 Love, Rev. R. J., 282 Lucas, Rev. J. N., 251 Lambuth, Rev. Walter R., 229. Ad- dress on "The Call to Advance," 246-250: The East India Com- pany, closed and open doors, 246; story of Brother Kim of Korea, 247; call to laymen, 249 Lampe, Rev. William E., 267 Languages of South America, 79 Lantern slides, and similar mate- rial, 31, 225 Lawes, Dr., quoted, 161 Lawrence, Miss Olivia H., 264 Laws, Dr., 87 Laymen's Missionary Movement, The, 231, 239 Leaders, Training for, 27 Leaflets and booklets, Mission, 199, 273, 278 Leavell, Mr. L. P. Address on "The Sunday School and Missions," 197 Legge in China, 102 Lucknow, Committee meets in, 43 Luebo, Africa, on Kassai River, 82 Lull, Raymond, 181 Luther's coat of arms, 125 MacFadyen, Professor, 45 MacLaurin, Miss Ella D., 19 Mackay of Uganda, 34, 162 Mackay, Rev. R. P., 253, 254 Mackenzie, Bishop, 87 Mackenzie, John Kenneth, 161 Mackenzie, Rev. William Doug- las. Address on "The Place of Missionary Education in the Life of the Church," 141-153: Need of missionary education, 141-144; methods, 144-146; top- ics, 146-151; effects, 151-153. Ad- dress as Chairman of delegates of the Congregational Church, 206-208; referred to, 253 Maclay, Dr., 249 Maclennan, Mr. Kenneth. Address on "United Conference on Mis- sionary Education in the United Kingdom," 33-37; referred to, 271 Malan, Major, quoted, 154 Manning, Rev., 226 Mansell, Rev. H. T., 44 Marshall, Rev. S. E., 223 Martyn, Henry, 182 Mason, Rev. A. DeWitt, referred to, 19 Matthews, Bishop G. M., 268 Matthews, Mr., on the Madagascar Church, 164 McAfee, Mr. J. E. Address on "The North American Continent in the Economy of Grace," 67-73: Physical Equipment, 67, 68; crowded cities, 69 ; God's scheme, 70; democracy of the Spirit, 70; Japan, Cuba, 71; Canada, Mex- ico, emigrants as missionaries, 72. Address on the work of Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, 255 McCauley, Rev. Victor, 220 McCheyne, quoted, 182 McClurkin, Rev. J. K., 284 Medhurst in China, 102 Medical college at Pekin, 102 Methodist Church in Canada, Dele- gates of, 223-226, 237 Methodist Episcopal Church, Dele- gates of, 227, 228, 237 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Delegates of, 229-237 Methodist Protestant Church, Dele- gates of, 251 Methodist Union Meeting, 237-248 Michener, Mr. C. C., 19, 36, 38, 248 Miller, Mr. Earl D., 279 Miller, Mrs. John F.,.259 Milligan, Miss Anna A., 283 Milliken, Rev. P. H., 265 Mills, Samuel J., 158, 165, 166 Milne in China, 102 Miner, Miss, 164 Mission field, a stimulus, 38; pic- tures and deputations, 28; schools in China, 116 Mission study, Growth of, 24; in- fluence of, 26; lack of leaders, 27; results of study classes, 32; the call to study, 206; women as pioneers, 278 Missionaries, Indirect work of, 38 Missionary education, Defining the place of, 141-153. See also Mac- kenzie, President William Doug- las; in the Sunday School, 262; in the Young People's Society, 195; plans in the United King- dom, 33-37 Missionary interest among young people, 208 ; literature needed in Korea, 39, 40; meetings, 260-262; pictures first shown, 61; spirit, 32; stories, Madagascar, China, Africa, 145; success guaranteed, 11 ; superintendents appointed, 30 Moerdyke, Rev. J. E., 264 Moffat, Robert, 34, 47 308 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Mohammedan lands, Mr. Gaird- ner's book on, 36 Mohammedan World, The, 24 Mohammedanism, in Africa, 86 ; in India, 93, 220; restriction of Christianity in Europe, 142 Moody, Mr., quoted, 183 Moore, Mr. S. H., 223 Moore, Rev. John M. Address on "Work of the Forward Move- ment," 189-193. Chairman of Northern Baptist Meeting, 188 Moravian maxim, 158; missions, origin of, 178 "Morning Calm," 107 Morris, Rev. James W. Address on "South America the Conti- nent of Opportunity," 74-79: An unoccupied country, 74; the ne- glected continent, 76; Brazil, 75, 76; Church of Rome, 76; other Churches, 77, 78; languages spo- ken, 79; the only opposition, 79 Morrison in China, 102 Mosque at Delhi, India, picture re- ferred to, 61 Mott, Mr. John R. Address on "The Consecration Adequate to Victory," 173-183: The conflict, the price, 173, 174; the key po- sition, 175; domination by Christ, 176-183: Referred to, 31, 103, 229 Movement, The. See Young Peo- ple's Missionary Movement Mukden, The battle of, 173 Mukerji, Nolin Chander, 45 Miiller, George, 168 Myers, Mr. Harry S., Chairman, 187 Nagpur, College at, 45 Native evangelists, 245 Naylor, Rev. Wilson S. Address on "Africa at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century," 80-88 : Christian civilization and Afri- can conditions contrasted, 80; paganism, 80, 81; a lost, neglect- ed, responsive people, 81, 82, 83; instances of, 83, 84; Mohamme- danism a peril, 86; characteris- tics, 87; English volunteers, 88 "Need and Opportunity of Home Missions," 273; "of City Evan- gelization," 273 Neesima, quoted, 164 Nevius, Dr., of China, quoted, 165 Newman, Professor, 251 North American continent in the economy of grace, 67-73 Northern Baptist Meeting, 188 Noss, Rev. O., 267 Nubian Church, 85 Nuveen, Mrs. John. 188 Okuma, Count, quoted, 101 Olthaus, Rev. Albert, 264 Osaka chimneys, 96; trade, 97 "Our Country and Our Church," 278 Pacific Ocean, now surpassing the Atlantic in political importance, 94; Anglo-Saxon nations' strateg- ic positions on, 95 Palmer, Rev. Paul N., 273 Paoting-fu in the Boxer war, 164 Pastor Hsi, 166 Paton, John G., referred to, 34 Peking, Hospital work in, 62, 63; Medical college in, 102 Penfield, Rev. Thornton B., 19 Perrine, Miss Carrie E., 188 Perry, Commodore, in Japan, 71 Pertle Springs, Mo., Conference in, 207, 211 Philippine Islands, 96, 104 Pictures, Missionary, and pictorial material, 30, 31, 61, 225 Pilak, baptized East Indian, 91 Pilgrim Fathers, The, 208 Pittsburg, place of the convention, 4; Protestant Episcopal Bishop of, 252 Platt, Rev. Ward, 227 Poles in Chicago, The, 269 Porter, Mrs. Mary Clokey. Address on "Mission Study Among Wom- en," 278, 279 Porto Rico, Conditions in, 270 Practical suggestions upon the de- velopment of missionary inter- est among young people, 208, 209 Praise, Prayer, and Purpose, 286, 287 Prayer, 286; A threefold, 284; in the missionary enterprise, 153- 169 Presbyterian Building, Meeting held in the, 20 Presbyterian Church, Boards of Home and Foreign Missions of the, 19, 255-260; proposed con- tributions, 249 Presbyterian Church in Canada, The, 253; resolutions passed by the delegates, 253, 254 Presbyterian progress in Japan, 110 Presbyterian Union Meeting, 255- 263; Presbyterian Church in U. S. A., 255-260; Presbyterian Church in U. S., 260-263 Price of victory, The, 173-176 INDEX 309 Protestant Episcopal Church, Meet- ing of delegates, 252; progress in Japan, 110 Prugh, Rev. John H., Chairman, 267 Purpose of the Educational Cam- paign, The, 229 Quelpart, Island of, 40 Ramyead Das, Indian fakir, 62 Randall, Rev. E. M., 227 Ranshaw, Rev. George B. Address as Chairman of delegates of Dis- ciples of Christ, 210 Ray, Rev. T. B., 194, 196 Reformed Church in America, 19; Meeting of delegates, 264-266 Reformed Church in the United States, Meeting of delegates, 267 Reynolds, Mrs. M. C., 188 Rhee, Mr. Syngman. Address on "Korea's Humiliation, Christian- ity's Call," 107-109: Korean pe- culiarities, 107; Christ their only Savior, 108; wonderful progress, 108, 109 Richards, Miss Ida, 273 Ringletaube, W. T., 112 Robb, Rev. Lewis, 267 Roman civilization, 136 Romanism in South America, 77, 79 Rome, Paul in, 127 Roosevelt's peace work referred to, 71, 72 Roth, Rev. O. C. Address on "The Kind of Men Christ Needs," 213, 214 Russellville, Ark., Club in, 232 Russo-Japanese war, 95, 116 Rutherford, Samuel, 176 Sahler, Rev. W. L., 266 Sailer, Mr. T. H. P. Address on "Systematic Study of Missions," 263 Samaj, Bramo, Arya, Prarthana, 112 San Bernardino gold, The, 15 Scott, Miss Emma, 282 Scottish missionaries, Some prom- inent, 34 Seward, Wm. H., referred to, 94 Seymour, Rev. R. G., 188 Shaffer, Mrs. Kate B., 216 Shanghai, Centenary Conference held in, 49; Commercial activity at, 97 Shaw, Barnabas, 165 Sheets, F. H., 228 Shore, Rev. T. E. E., 226 Sierra Leone, A message from, 274 Silver Bay Conference, 20, 27, 30, 34, 207 Sin, The awful thing about, 14 Smith, Miss Elizabeth, 231 Smith, Rev. A. Theo., 281 Smith, Rev. W. W., 232 Souders, Rev. D. N., 267 South America the continent of opportunity, 74-79 Southern Baptist delegates, Meet- ing of, 194 Speer, Mr. Robert E., 24. Address on "The Place of Prayer in the Missionary Enterprise," 153-169: Its importance, 154; Christ's pray- er, 156; Paul's prayer life, 157; Livingstone, 160, 167; the mar- tyr spirit, 164; prayers and sub- scriptions, 169. Chairman of Presbyterian Union Meeting and statement of work of Foreign Board, 255-257 Spencer, Rev. F. M., 282 Springtun, Rev. A. J., 269 Squires, Mr., 225 St. Francis, quoted, 178 Staudt, Mrs. C. K., 267 Stephenson, Dr. F. C., 19, 225, 238 Stereopticon and moving pictures, 61-63 ; heathen practises, 61 ; con- trasts, 62; hospital scene in Pe- king, 63 Stone, Mr., 224 Stoutenberg, Miss, 266 Strategists, The devil and God contrasted, 99 Student Missionary Campaign, The, 19 Student Volunteer Missionary Union, The, 36 Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, The, 20, 26, 31, 230; work in China, 48, 49 Study Courses, Mission, 24, 25 Study, The call to Mission, 206 Stuntz, Rev. H. C., 228 Success, The challenge of, 220, 222 Summer conferences, The value of, 207 Sunday-school and missions, The, 29, 30; address on, 187-200; man- ual on, 230 Sunday-school, Missions in the, 223, 262 Sutherland, Rev. Alexander, 223, 224. Address on "The Responsi- bility of the Boards of the Church to the Young People," 237-240 Swift, Dr. C. F., 251 310 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION Systematic benevolence as a pow- er in evangelization, 133-138 Systematic study of missions, 263 "Talks on China," 36 Taylor, Bishop, 85, 112 Taylor, J. Hudson, 168 Taylor, Mrs. Howard, 166 Taylor, Mr. S. Earl, 20; stereopti- con and moving pictures, 61-63 Telugu language, 220, 221 Terryberry, Rev. Mr., 224 Text-books, Production and sale of, 25; world-wide use of, 26 Tientsin, The walls of, 97 Time as a talent, 179 Titles of text-books, 26 The Frontier, 273 "The Pioneers," 274 "The Sunday School and Mis- sions," Manual on, 230 Thirty Years in Madagascar, 164 Thoburn, Isabella, 249 Thomas a Kempis, quoted, 182 Thornton, Douglas M., 155 Threefold prayer, A, 284 Tokio, Chinese students in, 101 Tomlinson, Dr. B. T., 24, 273 Topeka, Kan., The institute held at, 28 Toronto, Convention held in, 20 Treasure promised by Christ, 15- Trimble, J. B., 228 Trull, Rev. George H. Address on "Missions in the Sunday School," 262 Turkle, Rev. Alonzo J., 213 Typewriter, King Bonny and the, 84 Uganda, 83, 87; pictures of King and Cathedral, 62 Uganda's White Man of Work, 26, 36, 230, 271 Umtali, 83 Union Medical College at Peking, 102 United Brethren Church, Meeting of delegates, 268-276; large ad- vance in foreign missions, 269- 271 United Conference on Missionary Education in the United King- dom, Greetings from the, 33, 35 United Conference on Work Among Young People in India, 41-45 United Free Church of Scotland, 35, 45 United Presbyterian Church, Meet- ing of delegates, 277-285 United Society of Christian En- deavor, 42, 43 Unity of the Kingdom of God, The, 33, 53-57 Uplift of China, The, 26, 36, 271, 272 Urumia, Dr. Labaree of, 162 Uses of films and lantern slides, 63 Van Dyke, Brother, 251 Vance, Rev. James I. Address on "Christ's Ascension Gift," 6-16: The promise, 5; the gift, 6, 10; the Holy Spirit's ministry, 7, 10; birthday of hope, 8; the Com- forter, 11; tolerance, 12; Christ's proof of love, 13; surrender, 14; power of vision, 15, 16 Vickrey, Mr. C. V. Stereopticon and moving pictures, 61-63 Victoria College, 225 Victory, The consecration ade- quate to, 173-183 Vogt, Mr. Von Ogden. Address on "Missionary Meetings," 260-262 Voorhees, Rev. J. Brownlee, 265 Wang, Mr. C. T. Address, "Come Over Into China and Help Us," 115-117: New movements in China, 115; their causes, 116; native leaders needed, 117 Warne, Bishop F. W. Address on "The Unity of the Kingdom of God," 53-57: To result from Christ's teachings, his life, his death, 54; illustrative incident, 54; ascension, 55, 56; infinite love, 57. Chairman of Methodist Union Meeting, 237; conducts devotions, 227 Washington a hero in the East, 96 Watermuelder, Rev. G. W., 266 Watson, Rev. Charles R. Address as Chairman, 277 Webb. Rev. George T., 195 Weekly, Bishop, 273 Weidner, Miss S. L., 267 Wesleyan Methodist Church, 35 "What Do Ye More Than Others?" 3-5 Whitby, Ontario, Conference, 207 Whitmer, Rev. A. C., 267 Whitney, Rev. C. Address on "Outlook for Home Missions," 268 Wlggim, Miss Lyda B. Address on "The Study of Home Missions," 272-274 Williams, Rev. H. F., 260 Williams, Wells, in China, 102 INDEX 311 Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 188 Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission- ary Society, 188; of the West, 188 Woman's Board of the United Brethren Church, 275, 276 Woman's work, 216 Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, 188 Women's Boards of Foreign Mis- sions of the Presbyterian Church, 259, 260 Woodsworth, Rev. R. W., 226 Work of the Board of Home Mis- sions of the Presbyterian Church in U. S. A., 255; of the Board of Foreign Missions, 256; of the Board for Freedmen, 257 ; of the Women's Boards of Foreign Mis- sions, 259 Work of the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Pres- byterian Church in U. S., 260 Work of the Forward Movement, 189 World-wide evangelism, The potent factor in, 258 Wright, Miss Julia H., 188 Wylie, Bishop, 249 Yang-tzu's traffic, The, 97 Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations in India, 42, 43 Young People's Forward Move- ment of Canadian Methodist Church, 19; of the American Baptist Missionary Union, 192 Young People's Missionary Move- ment of the U. S. and Canada, 20, 21, 34, 44, 141, 174, 189, 192, 206, 207, 231, 248, 270, 279, 286; Report of the Board of Man- agers of, 19-33; history, 19; in- corporation, 20 ; organization : Field, Editorial, Sunday School, Publication and Office, Systemat- ic Giving Departments, 21, 22; fundamental principles of the movement, 23 ; field of the move- ment, 23; growth of mission study, 24; courses of study, 24; economy in production of text- books, 25; sales of text-books, 25 ; world-wide use of books, 26 ; influence of mission study, 26; training leaders, summer confer- ences and institutes, 27; deputa- tions, 28; Sunday-school and missions, 29; foreign deputation and pictures, 30; cooperation with the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 31; propaganda of mission boards, 32; results in gifts of life, 32; outlook, 33 Yuan Shih-k'ai, history of Chris- tianity circulated, 100 Yiin-nan, request for Bibles, 100 Zeal in the Church essential, 42 Zinzendorf, referred to, 178 Zulu welcome, A, 83 Zwemer, Dr. Samuel M., 24 PUBLICATIONS THE FOEWAED MISSION STUDY TEXT-BOOKS Retail Price Cloth Paper Aliens or Americans? 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Per copy 50 Sunday School and Missions Address of President John Franklin Goucher. . 05 PUBLICATIONS 315 PICTORIAL MATERIAL Retail Price Lantern Slides Plain, each $ .40 Lantern Slides Colored, each 1.10 China Stereographs, set of 16 views 75 Stereoscope 75 Japan Picture Cards (per set of 12) 20 Post-cards, home and foreign (per set of 12) .25 MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS Retail Price Report of Pittsburg Convention $1.25 Young People's Missionary Movement: Cloth 50 Paper 25 Young People and the World's Evangelization 10 The Missionary Meeting in a Young People's Society 10 Missionary Institute : Essentials in Preparation and Conduct. . .10 LIST OP MISSION BOAEDS AND CORRESPONDENTS Revised to April First, 1908 Inasmuch as the publishing business of the Yov.ng People's Missionary Movement is conducted in behalf of the Foreign and Home Mission Boards and Societies of the United States and Can- ada, the Movement conducts no retail business, but directs all orders to the Mission Boards. Orders for literature on foreign and home missions should be addressed to the secretaries representing those organizations, who are prepared to furnish special helps to leaders of mission study classes and to other missionary workers. If the address of the secretary of the foreign or home mission board or society of your denomination is not included below, orders may be sent to the Young People's Missionary Movement, but in no case will the Movement fill orders from persons who belong to the Churches indicated in the list. All persons ordering directly from the Young People's Missionary Movement are required to indicate their denomination when ordering. ADVENT CHRISTIAN American Advent Mission Society, Rev. Fim Murra, Secretary. Educational Department, 160 Warren Street, Boston, Mass. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN Young People's Christian Union, Rev. R. E. Hough, Charlotte, North Carolina. BAPTIST (NORTH) Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education, Rev. John M. Moore, Secretary, Box 41, Boston, Mass. BAPTIST (SOUTH) Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Rev. T. B. Ray, 1103 Main Street, Richmond, Va. (Correspondence concerning both foreign and home missions.) 316 MISSION BOARDS AND CORRESPONDENTS 317 BAPTIST (COLORED) Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, Rev. L. G. Jordan, 726 West Walnut Street, Louisville, Ky. BRETHREN The Brethren General Missionary and Tract Committee, Rev. Galen B. Royer, Elgin, 111. CHRISTIAN The Mission Board of the Christian Church ; Foreign Mission Sec- retary, Rev. M. T. Morrill; Home Mission Secretary, Rev. 0. W. Powers, C. P. A. Building, Dayton, Ohio. - CONGREGATIONAL American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Mr. Harry Wade Hicks, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. The Congregational Home Missionary Society, Rev. H. C. Herring, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. DISCIPLES OF CHRIST Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Rev. S. J. Corey, Secretary, Box 884, Cincinnati, Ohio. The American Christian Missionary Society, Young People's De- partment, Rev. H. A. Denton, Y. M. C. A. Building, Cincin- nati, Ohio. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association, Rev. L. H. Seager, 1903 Woodland Ave., S. E., Cleveland, Ohio. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rev. Marion J. Kline, 21 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md. Board of Home Missions of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rev. A. Stewart Hartman, 914 North Car- rollton Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 318 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION FREE BAPTIST General Conference of Free Baptists, Rev. H. M. Ford, Hillsdale, Mich, FRIENDS American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, Rev. Charles E. Tebbetts, General Secretary, Richmond, Ind. METHODIST EPISCOPAL (NORTH) Young People's Missionary Department of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. (Representing the Board of Foreign Missions and the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension.) METHODIST EPISCOPAL ( SOUTH) Young People's Department of the Board of Missions of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, Rev. Ed F. Cook, 810 Broad- way, Nashville, Tenn. (Correspondence concerning both for- eign and home missions.) METHODIST PROTESTANT Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. T. J. Ogburn, Greensboro, N. C. Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. J. H. Lucas, Sec'y-Treas., Adrian, Mich. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A., Rev. Everett P. Smith, 281 Fourth Ave., New York City. PRESBYTERIAN (NORTH) Educational Department, The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., Dr. T. H. P. Sailfer, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., Mr. Von Ogden Vogt, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. MISSION BOAEDS AND CORRESPONDENTS 319 PRESBYTERIAN ( SOUTH) Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the TJ. S., Rev. H. F. Williams, Chamber Commerce Building, Nashville, Tenn. General Assembly's Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., Rev. S. L. Morris, Drawer H, Atlanta, Ga. REFORMED CHURCH IN" AMERICA Department of Young People's Work of the Missionary Boards of the Reformed Church in America, Mr. H. A. Kinports, 25 East 22d Street, New York City. REFORMED CHURCH IN THE U. S. Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, Rev. Allen R. Bartholomew, Reformed Church Bld'g, 15th and Race Sts., Phila., Pa. UNITED BRETHREN Foreign Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ, Rev. J. Edgar Knipp, 1003 U. B. Building, Dayton, Ohio. Educational Department, Home Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ, Miss Lyda B. Wiggim, 904 U. B. Building, Dayton, Ohio. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN Mission Study Department of the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, 200 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. CANADIAN BOARDS BAPTIST The Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, Rev. J. G. Brown, 27 Richmond Street, West, Toronto, Ont. 320 CHURCH AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION CHUECH OF ENGLAND The Missionary Society of the Church of England, Rev. Canon Tucker, 43 Confederation Life Building, Toronto, Ont. CONGREGATIONAL Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society, Miss Effie Janneson, 105 McPherson Avenue, Toronto, Ont. METHODIST Young People's Forward Movement Department of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Canada, Rev. F. C. Stephen- son, 33 Richmond Street, West, Toronto, Ont. PRESBYTERIAN Presbyterian Church in Canada, Foreign Mission Committee, Rev. R. P. Mackay, 89 Confederation Life Building, Toronto, Ont. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY SAN MARINO, CALIF. 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