Show AN BY REV W V M PADEN Delivers a Splendid Discourse On Missionary Movement M PURPOSES ARE F OUTLINED CITES SEVERAL TRUTHS WHICH PROVE HIS ARGUMENT Rev Re W M 1 Paden preached at the First presbyterian church Sunday morning on he Missionary movement Ha Ho took ook for his text Let Lot men say among the nations the Lord reigns In part be oue e said eaid Arnold says of Gray Grays a man of great poetic ability but whose poetic output was slight alight He never out His resources In so far as wo we are concerned were burled buried with him There are Chris Christians who never speak out They do not count for what they are worth They Hack flack Often Otten their gifts gUts simply await the touch of the Master A revival of religion may bring forth the treasures of darkness as the spring sun out the flowers Sometimes a v crisis risis may be necessary sary Crises reveal Patriotism heroism affection religious ralth aith Let men men out let them speak out Among hmong the nations The nations then meant the world the heathen heathe world The Jews were to bear bea witness to the Gen Gentiles Gentiles Gentiles tiles we Christians are to speak s ak out to not only those who are next ext door but to the strangers and for not only to those of our own and tand nod and race but to those of all nU lands and ind nd races ra es It If Christianity means any thing hInge it means the universal diffusion of f Christs kind of light and life Did DI He 0 not say I am the light of the world I am come that ye may have life and That hat ye re may have It more abundantly ly ye yo have received freely give ghe In InIs Mils Is was the love of God manifested So o must it continue to be made manifest The rhe light of nature Is not enough Wo heed eed and the world needs the light which i Is s in the face the love which is in the theeart eart of Christ Jesus Let men say among the nations what hat Something Indefinite On the con contrary let It t them then say sat sa the Lord reigns Crown Krown rown Him Lord Lor of all This means the enthronement of God manifest in the It means not that God shall shan rule lover over but In mens This is no nar narrow narow narow row ow provincial program It is not talk labout bout the tho ultimate destiny of America or bf tho the English speaking peoples or even of bf the civilized nations We dare not say sn nY my one or all these powers shall rule ver over and in the world We are not called calledo to o do so But the text says Let men say sayto sayo to o the occidental and oriental the Lord Lordis Js is King and to Him we must bow in lovo love or Ir break Respond to Call This is the rallying call of the Lay nans Missionary movement ment and the way Joen nen are responding to the call indicates that hat the men of Christendom still have haves ears ars s to hear and willingness to devote We hear so much about re religious indifference that some notice of is worth the while We hear much bout the decline of Interest In the Chris Chrls Christian Ian tian church Here are some statistics for 1910 The census shows that the Various churches which bear the Chris Christian Christian Christian tian name in the United States report home Borne ome to thirtyfour and a ahalt halt half millions of members Of these per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps twelve millions are Catholics This leaves a Protestant constituency of millions Last year shows an in increase Increase increase crease of in the Protestant churches church S All the larger church families show how an increase The Unitarians show a V decrease de rease That body bod has only 2793 more members than it had nineteen years ago The he Christian Scientists have given no statistics since 1906 1900 and have probably reached their zenith of increase So we hear that the men have lost In Interest Interest interest terest In the Christian church and ex exaggerated exaggerated reports are floated about their fewness leW ss In our church households Here are the statistics for January Januar 1910 The rhe census shows that of the thirtyfour mil mU millions lions liens who are reported by our Christian 43 per cent are male 67 57 per percent percent perc cent c nt female In the Catholic church the rears are about equally divided The Christian Scientist church shows the lar largest largest largest gest proportion of women about 75 per percent percent perCent cent The next about Go t per cent All the other othel larger denom denominations denomInations show a less than two to one ratio But nut the men are not noi active Well most of f the ministers church officers Sunday Sunda superintendents sup and a fair proportion lion tion of the Sunday school teachers and workers in our devotional meetings are iare men More men teach Sunday school than In the day schools The places plates in women outnumber and outdo the theren ren en is In attendance and missionary en enthusiasm The Lamans Missionary movement is meant to remedy this deficiency It tr ti have been boen suggested by the zeal of Gf the Student Volunteers Their devo deo devotion lion tion said to one man If It we at home were aa as ready to propagate what we claim dalm to believe what a II power we could release for service The organization tailed called the Missionary commIt committee tee was the outcome and this winter for three hays i are being held in seventy of the largest American cities Of the New York convention held In January the Interior says saya Everybody concedes that the dinner at the Astoria was the most spirited occasion of a ban banquet banquet banquet sort which the city has seen in this generation And the mens meeting at atthe atthe atthe the Hippodrome Is deliberately judged to have brought together a bigger count and weight of Influential citizens than ever over met In one place on Manhattan island bland be before before before fore statements have been ven yen ventured ventured concerning the meetings at Wash Washington Washington Washington ington Harrisburg Buffalo and Cleve Clove Cleveland land Men Get Together Now the surprise of these meetings has not been boon that men could be got to together t together gether but that such men could be got together as Christians and to hear about missions the one side of Christian work In which men aro are not supposed to be in interested interested interested Yet the leaders of f this cam campaign campaign campaign have not compromised 1 The movement has been under the entire con control control control of Christian laymen it has been a n movement of ot the laymen In the churches 2 Moreover it has not been a mere so social social social cial philanthropic or moral reform move movement movement ment meat but it has been a definite and dis distinctive distinctive religious purpose 3 Not only has it been religious but it has been positively and aggressively Christian Its motto might be that we have chosen Let men say to all aU the tho nations the Lord Is 19 I King or it might be one of their own The pure gospel and the book that has made us what we are There are aro some great truths which stand standout standout standout out as we think of ot our motto and this movement First No nation or people can climb the upward was without religion Even Carlyle was forced to say A mans re religion religion ligion is the most important factor about him Even the Japanese feel this A Japanese paper says The country feels keenly the necessity of morality and re religion religion ligion Japans case is that of a Chris Christian Christian Christian tian civilization without Christianity She Is aiming at a definite form of or 01 organization without the life lite that organized it Two recent cablegrams from China say sa God has melted China Who Vho will wm mould it anew Changing China needs your unchanging Christ Second cond The rhe religions of the orient are losing their grip As one says sas of In India India India dia In her own religions there Is ia no hope for India and her best minds have renounced them Of course the old re religions religions die hard Idolatry died hard in inthe inthe Inthe the Roman empire But as Professor Cairns has said Though Christianity had to complete its work slowly it did it and did it alone Aud thus there was ended end d a revolution greater than if the idolatries of India China and Japan were one and all to fall fail Third Civilization is sure sura to win in inthe Inthe inthe the world worl And as Mr Lecky has said There is but one example of religion which is not necessarily subverted by civilization civilization and that example Is Christian Christianity ity The conquest was hindered rather than helped by the compromise of Con Constantine Constantine Constantine Individuals ls not nations must be converted Fourth Civilization will not nat carry the burden or stand the test without Christi Christianity Christianity Christianity anity James Janes Bryce is perhaps the great greatest greatest greatest est of living statesmen After his return from India he said that his Journey to India had at least convinced him of this That unless England could succeed in Christianizing Its Indian subjects that empire could not last that nothing else whatever could hold it together Tho The root of life lIf It lt must after all aU be his religious Ideas There is no other way of benefiting mankind at all All else is simply from the outside and has no basis of purpose To quote from another layman this time from Captain Mahan the most statesmanlike and pop popular popular popular ular of modern naval n val authorities The civilization of modern Europe Europa has grown grownup up under the shadow of the cross and everything that Is best In It still breathes the spirit of the crucified And says he there is peril In bringing together the east and the west on the basis of com common common common mon material advantages without this cor correspondence in spiritual Ideas Then he headds headds headds adds that If it this correspondence In spirit spiritual spiritual spiritual ual ideas is to be obtained It must not be beby beby beby by a process of growth but by a II process of conversion |