Show OFFICER ER 1 DISCUSSES Rev George T Webb Tells of What Wha B Y P Union Is Doing SPEAKS IN BAPTIST CHURCH ORGANIZATION ORG GROWING IN UNITED STATES TATES Rev T Webb who is general of tho the Baptist Young Peoples JJ t nion of or America is visiting fn In this oit olty y Mr 11 Webb Is I s making malting his annual tour of or l and will leave shortly for Spokane Wash ush to make some somo prelim 1 i ur ar for the th convention the t he that will be held hold there thero next July His Hilt Hi general offices ces and headquarters are at Chicago Speaking of ot the union Mr Webb said The Tho rh t Young Union of Ann was organized in July 1901 1001 It is isA Isa A ft organization which embraces ad ii the thu Sunday school choOl societies and am young 1 1 ople R s associations connected with the i hurch In it comprises the tho same work as other societies of ot its Hind 1 but hut hutsi si oIe ie from this it has a n feature unique with aith ith That is tho the educational i ranch This offers throe three courses of namely bible reading sacred Ut Ht tr und and the conquest missionary nurse uro arp subdivided sub cd into the tIlo junior senior and advanced a courses The advanced course couro hus bus been proscribed in tn tnt tiie t ht outline loading leading to n a Ph p D degree il h v many prominent universities Through ut it the tho united states und and nd Canada this tHin T art of the tho Is la extremely unit ful and hero her are at present iv who ho have taken the courses Tho The Instruct t nn is 18 given by books and correspond in fl e rio books are aro exceedingly instruct h Uc and aid have been baon sent Bent all aU over the thew w orld Union Extends Over Country The Tho fluid covered by the union e c eM call M 1 all aU over tho United States StateR and Can Cani CanIla i Ila 1 There has been a branch of of the organized in South America know I no n lus a th Baptist Young Peoples J 1 thOU Qt QC South America At Jt present ap appeals peals have been boen mane from many miny of bf the t hf oun In i to establish h hIra ra Ira aches II he there hero and the work of doing so soH wil ii H ht tw done dono as 8 soon soan as possible Until i hn the literature of ot the union Is being tut JI there regularly Th ri official lal organ at ot the tho union is a I monthly hI Tha rha Service which is edited h b y V H a well known bible This information re regarding regarding garding study anti and the tho work of the tha th so soMpt sity and also aho articles of general Interest There are liro at ut present who take taka the journal The work of the union is noticeable in ini i th hr hf fact that a good percentage of the Sunday school superintendents of at the tho rose arose aro e to their positions py by y the t o training they received as numbers of Jf the tho union In one largo large city olty there thoro are forty Sun la school superintendents who all aU have em members of the tho union The Tho work is flourishing r nil lI 11 over the tho field flold It Tt is Sa stronger in the middle west than in tim the nr west or the far tar east but is growing strongly In both directions The work in inS S Ut Lake and nd the tho surrounding country fi y exceedingly encouraging and it con oon continues to hold its own with the tho progress going ging on throughout the tho country Convention at Omaha At the tho convention in Omaha there thore was wasa a representation from almost every place that the union has boon been established and andin andin in n all an there were delegates present From ovary every standpoint it was one of the tho most successful conventions convention ever hold held At Atthe Atthe Atthe the meeting the business of the tho union was transacted and reports given but the tho feature was the splendid addresses by bys b s me mo of the distinguished workers The convention nt It Spokane next July will have havo havea havon a n record breaking attendance Mr 1 Webb gave the tho discourse o at the Tir Firt t Baptist yesterday morning fig Hix Hi subject was The Secret of ot Power in i Work Vort He took as his test I c or 01 and nd in part said St Paul describes do the tho church under ih HH figure of if a n body the tho head and sole sote authority being Jesus Christ Every mom mem her iier of tie tiie church is Js a member of that V od and should be under the tho control of oC the tim head h d This normal condition will re ro result suit sult in an nn efficiency and power that will 1 remarkable The text asserts that the thein Rift in whereby the tho spirit is made manifest H hc M given to every man for the tho profit of at atran ran nil God wants to reveal rove 1 himself f to the tha world that cannot see him and Gods Opt one method of or manifestation is through the of or those who are members of oC his body Of the t to church We Vo are ourselves spiritual and are unknown except through the let of the members of oC our 1 No fo o man maii bs over ever seen len his hi best host friend only the body in which his friend rr a hut but through the activities of the members I of his hie body bod directed by the un and person who dwells therein 1 the invisible person parson Is made mado Known So God Goel dwells in his people and andr r e l himself to the tho world by moans mORns i f f the th activities of his members com RIled railed Christians As AA A the hand is III i gifted to perform p a special service the tho eye eyo is differently dl sifted gifted the oar ear tongue and foot each ouch en endowed dowed for some special kind of work in inn n nd for Cor the body bod eo so In the t o church every umber has n a gift sift o ch differing from rv other othar oth r hut but It All nn under the direction of If t one head hod Jesus Christ and in proper proportion tion to the measure m ure in which each anah din dJa di rovers overs his own gift and an uses it tho the church I Jt Jq an Rn effective institution and manifests God to the tho world in a real and effective vav Mr Ir Webb proceeded to point out tho the work of uC it the Baptist Young Youn Peoples union 11 it the development and ad realisation of ot spiritual power He Ho said This TIlls ia hs the tho ho real roal work worl of ot our B Y P PU U The Tho New Now Testament never mentions such n ch a thing thin thinas as the Baptist Young peoples union ant an anfor for that reason some sonic good people look upon the organization with disfavor but did you ever think that here is no such thing as a Baptist church spoken en of in inthe inthe Inthe the New Testament Te either However we wedo wedo wedo do not stumble at the question of a name Ve We We find a New Testament church in the scriptures and in the twentieth century we wo find something Just the same called the Baptist church and receive it as a aNew aNew New Now Testament institution In spite of the new now name namo it bears So while white the Bible never nevor mentions a Baptist D Young Peoples union we do find in the most of the tho activities of tf the tho New Testament church something that in genius and method is i identical with this organization which n these later days has ha a name of ot its own Where do we find this New Testament reference to young peoples work In Pauls letter to Timothy ho exhorts him Let no man despise the youth That is la isa laa Isa a distinct recognition r of ot the value and importance of ot young life Ufe In the work of the churches es He goes on to say sa Give thyself to reading Bonding Beading what The scriptures certainly That corresponds ex cx aoth with the Bible Dible renders readers course of at atthe the He says further Give thyself to doctrine That Is come to know the tho doctrines and principles of o this New Testament church into which you have come como This is the tho exact purpose e of ot our sacred literature course which gives in instruction Instruction to our young people in doctrine and history of Christianity And lastly he says Neglect not the gift that is in thee moaning that the th information re received received and culture gained should be trans translated translated translated into actual and intelligent service That is what we seek to accomplish in our missionary and evangelistic courses The whole purpose Is s to discover dl cover the particular lar gift of every overy young person in tn tim the church and then to so direct its Ita cultivation cultivation tion that every member of tho the church of tomorrow will be bo thoroughly efficient and nd 50 so o tho the whole church become an in institution Institution institution of such power that the spirit within will be manifest to all nil by bythe bythe bythe the use of the gifts which have been upon each |