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Show WC0H1 I COMPLETES II I Declared to Have Been the Most Successful Catherine: Ever Held in Salt Lake. H LAY3IEX ARK AWAKENED TO H REALIZATION ,0F NEEDS Organization for Future Work Undertaken aud Strong Resolution Adopted. Uncommon results are assured from the convention held in Salt Lake City the last three days incident to the great c Laymen's Missionary movement that is sweeping . the conutry. Uncommon will fl be these results for the reason that the meetings have aroused an ' enthusiasm never before experienced. They have been practical meetings. They have been meetings wherein the laymen had the-say. the-say. True, the ministers are, naturallv . the head and front of aiiy religious movements, but. as Bishop Thomas aid, every great movement for the extension of religious life has been carried out by laymen. The convention in Salt Lake has deni onstrated the fact beyond question o doubt that the business men of this city arc not blind to the needs of the Giif-fering Giif-fering millions in the lands remote from these shores, nor yel are thev deaf to the cry that goes up iu the wailing of lhe wretched peoples cf tJic Orient, of Africa and other laud? where the name of Jesus Christ, has never been spoken, and where sin and vice in its most hid-eons hid-eons form constitute the religion of these enslaved multitudes. Needs of the Work. Missionary workers have come lo Salt Lake lo tell the men of the cougre-gations cougre-gations of the churches here the needs of the countless hordes whoso only hope of material and spiritual salvatiou is the spreading of the Word of God These missionary workers know, first jH baud, the misery thaf encompasses these people like a shroud. Some of them have been in Tndin. in China, in Korea for the better part of half a centurv. jH With the limited means and the indif- ferent aud wholly inadequate facilities at their command they have brought into the fold hundreds of thousands. More arc being added each passing hour. Iu Korea, for example, a Christian ad- herent is being added to the total ev- jH erv sixty minutes. Jn India this record is even greater. But in spite of all that has been IH doue aud all that can be done with tlm restrictions that obtain at present, there remain approximately three-quarters of a billion who arc blindly groping in the dark. In this work are enlisted at this tune I.'l.OOO niissi naries. Giving each of these a parish of 25.000, there is pro-vision pro-vision fononlv "2-".000.000. leaving 675-, '000.000 to be provided for if the evan-gelizatiou evan-gelizatiou of the world in this genera-tiou genera-tiou to be accomplished and this is the ultimate aim of the Laymen 's Mis-siouarv Mis-siouarv uiovement. On the basis of these great parishes. 2-t,000 missionaries arc needed. Fiftv millions of dollars is needed, at the lowest calculation. Can these missionaries be furnished: Can this sum of uiouc.v be provided! Can the great enterprise be brought to a consummation within a generation a short time, indeed, for ;o stupeudous a task? The missionary leaders ?ar it can be done. and. what is more to the 1)0 i nt, it will be done. The Practical Side. Means best calculated io do these things have been discussed in the lav-men's lav-men's meeting?. They have beeu dh eused from a viewpoint of the business man. Thev have -beeu brought down to a definite, material basis, and have been tittacked from modern-dav business methods. In saving this, it must' no" be understood that the spiritual side of the question has had no part in the discussion, for. indeed, it has a large part. For (it is well understood that the spiritual is the first essential. In tho course of the convention a definite plan has beeu proposed. It has been accepted. 1 1 is a plan for raising money lo carry out the. evangelisation of the woiid. It is a simple plan. It embraces the idea thai all must give ...,,.il,; ,,.M n I'm,- a 1iln 1,1 cmII fewer much. The wav to brine Ibis about, has been set forth by men woo have proposed if in scores of cities of this eounlrv and Canada. They hae watched r.he results, aud thev have fe't the gratification of hopes realized. Tl 's their testimony that threefold advances have been made iu almost everv citv where lhe plan has been tried. It wi1! be put info effect in Sail Lake., aud. tin-questionably, tin-questionably, snv local ministers aud prominent church Ipynien. it will work out with equal satisfaction here. The stimulation of interest in the missionary movement will lend sliuihhi-tion sliuihhi-tion to lhe interest in local church work, for the two sides are interwoven jl ami are inseparable. That which re-dounds re-dounds to the benefit of the missionary movement inusl of necesjitv redouud also to the benefit of the church, and the whole will redound to the eternal glorv of God. Unity of Action, L'nitv of action has been preached a-these a-these liiecrings.. It has been pointed onr. with a frankness that leaves no doubt about the manner of feeling that ti-.?sepsps these men. that there has been too much denoiniuntiouul selfishness. to much sect, too much creed. The aim of the mnvemcni is uot to break down these ectional line?, but so to modif'." the rigorous restrictions that there will be unitv ef .n-tioti. The single pprposp iu view is to carry Hie gopel of riirit inio places where it is nor. and il mat I... Kill,. ...I.aII,,.. (!,.,( rrr?n.-l 1 I'll r H ried bv a Methodist, a Congregational isl. A Baptist, a Presbyterian. o that the light of Him'who suffereil crn cifixion that mankind might be re- deemed shall reach the people who are in dire neeil of ir. the method so long IH as iL is Christian method matters ... And onlv bv unity of action can this be done, "thaf'has been the nail upon which' everv hiuunier has been laid bv (he speakers who have addreifed the meetings. So well have they driven that The auditors have cused ro thft fullness the necessity for harmonv and The closing day of the convention Continued on Page Tnu. GREAT CONVENTION COMPLETES WORK Continued from Page Ono. was filled with interest from beginning to end. Especially interesting waB the women's mooting in the afternoon. Tho First Methodist church 'was filled to the door at this meeting. The closing session ses-sion at night was alBo attended by an immense throng. Were the sessions to eotinue for another week it is a safe prediction that the church would he crowded at every meeting. 'But the missionary workers who havo visited Salt Lako have urgent business else where, and they are already gone. The next convention will be hold in Boise; indeed, the meetings there havo already begun. Work Is Organi2ed. At tho denominational meetings Wednesday noon prompt and definite action was taken to porpetuatc the work thus auspiciously begun. Strong resolutions wore adopted. The work or organization hns begun, and that it will continue there is no good reason to doubt. At tho meeting. Wednesday foronoon there were addresses on stewardship addresses that called to mind the responsibility re-sponsibility that rests upon oach man. Tn the evening there were interesting accounts from tho Hold. Speakers from India and olsowherc told of the great work that has been done, is doing and will be done. Ministers and laymen tell The Tribune that . tho reflex action of the missionary spirit enrried out will exert a tremendous influence upon local churches, and for that reason, as well aa for many others, they arc mightily pleased with the success thafc has marked the Laymen's. Missionary Movement Move-ment convention. |