Show PREACH T LAYMEN WORLD i c h jc J a aDR DR MARION D EUBANK Who Vho ko Told Convention of Awakening I of China Chum I I I fAST S 9 I N Nv v Hundreds of Delegates to Mis Missionary MissiOnary MissiOnary Gathering Hear of Work in Fields of Orient from One Well Informed CLERGY AND LAITY IN BIG RELIGIOUS MEET Bishop Thomas Sounds Get Together Slogan for Religionists Reli Religionists Religionists In Evangelization of All of the Races MOVEMENT IS WIDESPREAD PROGRAM Place of meeting First Metho 4 diRt dint church t 8 30 n o m of the wort 4 field by from India 4 Korea Turkey Africa and China 4 1230 P n m and aDl boa bO 4 f of ministers adulate at the Wil VII 4 4 son hotel 4 2 30 p m HOTT to enlist the themen themen t 4 men of the lbs church In the Ibe work of 4 the world 4 4 UiO J 30 p iu Dinner for lor general 4 conference and invited A e t at 4 First Methodist church 4 p II m Korea Menage leDge to f the ill World orld by bT Dr Belier Jones Junee 4 The be Awakening of Asia Ala by bT 4 George Sherwood H ft t t M t 4 MM t H tH H t t t M t t M t H t M t f t t M t t 4 M Four hundred and fifty delegates to th the Lamens Missionary convention listened last night to t the call of the other othel hair half of the world as voiced by hy men who hava hae given many years yeara of their life to the tho cause of Christ in foreign lands The occasion was the banquet at the First Presbyterian church which marked tl the i opening of 0 the convention that is to eon con continue until Wednesday night Never ev in the history of th tim the city wo Wal w there assembled such lIuch a 0 gathering of t f Christian workers worker representatives tit r f many religions that W II so st united in on ona grand grana u of Ui the theo o world word in this generation The lite basement basemen of th the large luge church edifice wa was filled wi w h row after row of ot tables taMes at which were seated time the t e clergy cler and laymen The banquet and meeting following were presided over by hI b Judge M L Bitch f Invocation was offered by Rev Roy W Vi V M U i Paden D D The Significance of the National Cain Calo was the subject tit of the opening address delivered by Bishop Nathaniel S Thomas of Wyoming In SIn this movement all the churches of ot God are banded together for one purpose said the speaker and that purpose is th the promulgation of the gospel of Christ to all the world It Is Gods purposes and not mans with which we should be COIl con concerned corned The reactionary result of our ouri i missionary endeavor is going to give gle us uti not only a more exalted vision of selves but also of the church of God The various religions of the world a m simply Incidents in the time march of God ar and that church which represents the cause of God on earth is something noble some som some something something thing more worth while than anything else in the world Must Get Together With all the churches that are to b be found In the tho country division is III worst divided and confusion contusion Is worst confounded at the present time Sometime and some somehow somehow somehow how we have to get together if Christ would best be served I believe that the tha time is at hand when all the scattered ele ale elements elements 3 ments will be united From among the nations that are now new newin In comparative com or local darkness so far faras faras as the word of God is concerned I believe that many lessons may ma be ia gained Even En Enold old China which has OOS remained the same game dynasty after dynast dynasty gives us a lesson of ot permanence and stability Christians have so 50 much more In Im em Immon emmon mon than they tho have in points of division that the points of division should be laM laId aside for the tho cause of God So I belie that God Is working out His purpose pu ea i year and the time tim is drawing nearer ant nearer that shall ever be fill fUld J with tn j Continued on Page Two PREACH TO LAYMEN WORLDWIDE GOSPEL Continued from Page One glory of ot God as tho the waters cover the earth earthM earthM M 11 D Eubank for many m ny years a mis missionary missionary In China was the next speaker His subject was Men and Missions In part he h said Chinas Awakening Some years ago when I first went to China It was my privilege to visit the theold theold old wall of at China It was a wonderful sight to me for although of a practical turn of ot mind I could not help but dream when I got on top of It That old wall told me a story of at the Isolation of the great empire They had bad built It to keep outsiders from coming in and to keep their own people from going out As I gazed In one direction I saw that a part of ot the tho wall had been torn down and that thata a force torce of at Chinese workmen under the direction of a Chinese engineer were lay layIng layIng laying Ing a line of ot railroad right through mat tSat section of the wall wail The Tha wall wail told the story of the old China but the tho railroad told the story of ot the new China China had awakened and wanted to see what was on the other side At that time I 1 could not help but think of the two missionaries who first went to China and during a period of or eleven elev n years succeeded In converting one poor old Chinaman That was at Fou Chow and when I later went to that place I 1 was astounded at the wonderful changes that had been made There were wern com corn communicant tp In the church and ana over converts That was four tour years ago and at the present time there are about communicants and wd converts This Ill Is IsIs is quite a difference between the time the first missionaries worked in that part of the empire Movement Is la Great With regard to this great Missionary movement I 1 say there is nothing like it In 1 history The motto of ot this movement Is the evangelization of the world in this generation What does that mean It means that the time has h s come when the Christian churches have come to see that the will of our Lord should be obeyed Prior to this time we have not believed in fact tact would have thought that it was pretty much of a adream adream adream dream in preaching the gospel to the world in this generation It means m ans that we must take this gospel of Jesus Christ and plant It In all nooks and corners of the world must plant missions nur nurses s straining training schools and hospitals These are some of the figures that face us In this great work In the tion world there is a population In round numbers of one billion people We have today in the various fields mission missionaries missionaries missionaries aries Giving to each of these a parish parishof of people to evangelize wo we today have only provided for out of at atthe the billion leaving the sum total t t l of ot m 67 people for tor which no provision has been made Out of given for tor missionary work last year the United States and Canada gave and Great Britain gave If there Is to be an in increase increase increase crease It must come from the American people largely For missionary work Ih America last year we spent about While I think that this was per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps expended all right still I think there could have been a readjustment by which It could have been made to go further We Ve are only asking that we 8 should have one missionary for every 25 people Wo We believe that if Sf he is prop properly properly properly erly equipped he can evangelize that number In the territory occupied o by the American missionaries there are tonight about people How many mis missionaries missionaries ought we to have In that dis die district district dietrict We ought to have which In round numbers would cost an additional If It a call should be made for volun volunteers volunteers t rs by the shade of the departed Lin Lincoln coin coln or In the south by the shade of the departed Robert E Lee how many volunteers do you think would respond Armies Annies of men would answer the call Now men of America if this be the case that the memory of the Lincoln should call caU forth an army what Is the reason that the risen Christ should not call can forth such an army anny Following the speech by Dr Eubank the congregation united in singing On Onward Onward Onward ward Christian Soldiers Story of Japanese Boy BoyThe BoyThe BoyThe The Call Cail of ot the World was waa wa the subject of an eloquent closing address given by George Sherwood Ed Eddy Edd Eddy dy d for thirteen years a missionary in India Mr dr lr Eddy has maintained himself in India during all that time at his own expense from an income derived from a successful business which he engaged In before bet ore he took up missionary work He said In part When an American fleet knocked at atthe atthe atthe the door of the Orient many year years ago there was a little Japanese boy NIsI Niso by name who longed to go to the coun country country country try from which the th big ships came He stole aboard a vessel as a stowaway and after a voyage in which he endured the tho cuffs cutts and kicks ot of the crew he landed at Boston There a merchant put him through college After he had graduated he ho went to his native land and andi i founded a big university whose stu students students students dents have changed the history of ot Japan That all nil the money spent In missionary work abroad Is not lost but comes back many fold foldS Is shown by the fact that recently a big contract for worth of railroad supplies was given to Amer American American Amerlean ican lean firms finns although the money had been English sources The Jap Japanese Japanese anese engineers on the work had been taught In American schools and they were really r ally Yankees In ideas Ide s sIn In India there Is ia a great awakening In one place shortly before I left I saw one congregation of 1000 iW native Christians Christiana many b o or whom had walked five ten or fifteen miles to hear the word of ot God Christianity means more than you can possibly Imagine to these na natives natives tives of India The time was not long longao ago ao that they were serfs of the soil oll they could be purchased like so many cat cattle cattle cattie tle tie along with the land 3 for a man and 2 for tor a woman When I saw the changes that had occurred as the result of Chris Christian Christian Christian tian teachings I felt like saying Praise God GodIn GodIn GodIn In closing his remarks the speaker made a comparison of the cost of ot for tor foreign eign missions with the amount of money spent in America each year for automo automobile automobile automobile bile tires candy cigars and chewing gum gumIn gumIn In each case the tue figure tigers given for the lat latter latter latter ter articles was wa greatly in excess of the amount spent for tor wor While is spent for foreign missions minions is spent for chewing gum alone Other comparisons showed a still greater difference He flo lI made a personal ers nal appeal to all aU those present pre nt to do all they could to assist In the foreign missionary work workS S |