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Show HALF TH WW GlfflGII MI Dr. M. I). Euhank Makes a Stirring Stir-ring Appeal for Support of Missionaries. PLEADS FOR WORKERS IN FIELDS OF OPPORTUNITY Tells of Earnest Men Who Labored La-bored Eleven Years Before First Fruit Was Borne. Dr. M. D. Eubank, who has labored in the missionary Hold of China for a great many ycnr3, and who makes use of his skill as a physician to open tho doors of the unenlightened to permit the entrance en-trance of the Christian spirit, spoko at the Laymen's Missionary banquet on "Men and Missions." Dr. Eubnnk told of standing on the great Chinese wall, and, In rollectlon. heard the wall toll the story of how It was builded to keep the Chinese In and the rithor people In the world out, and how It hnd done this for 2000 years. And while ho wns learning the story of the wall, ho looked upon the other side of a valloy and saw a railroad building Its REV. M. D. EUBANK. way through that ancient land, and directly di-rectly through the groat wall at right angles. The railroad was built because the people of China wanted to soe what wns going on in Mongolia. They wore no longer content to live within themselves, them-selves, This, said Dr. Eubank, was symbolic of tho awakening of China. Dr. Eubank told of the early struggles of the missionaries in China. Ho told of two missionaries who had labored eleven years before they had Avon a single convert. A Question Answcrod. "What would you preachers do If you did not get additions to your church In three, seven or ten years?" asked Dr. Eubank. "Move," came tho prompt answer. 'Yes. you would move." continued Dr. Eubank. "But those two men of whom I speak did not movo. It would be inspiring in-spiring to rend the history of those missionaries." mis-sionaries." Then Dr. Eubank told of the spread of Christianity once a beginning was mndc. lie told of 'the women's college, the bovs' school, the printing establishment, whence hundreds or thousands of copies of literature litera-ture pertaining to tho spread of tho gospel are annually distributed, of the church with its 3000 communicants, of the normnl school, whore missionary workers are trained; of tho hospital, where the sick aro treated of all these things that have come to pass In the place where the two missionaries worked for eleven years ere their labor first bore fruit. Millions in tho Dark. Dr. Eubank quoted llgures to show that there are 1,000.000,000 people to whom Christ is not known. Thoro are 13,000 missionaries, mis-sionaries, males and single ladles. He did not take into account tho married women, for they had family cares which precluded their continuous presence at tho front. "Now, gentlomen," he said, "If we give each of these missionaries a parish of 25,000 not too small a parish, vou will agree we will have provided for only 325,000,000. leaving C7n.000.000 for whom we haye mado absolutely no provision. pro-vision. . "Now, let us consider tho money side of the question. In tho last year thero was devoted to evangelizing $23,000,000. Of this tho United States and Canada gave $11,000,000, Great Britain $9,000,000 and the rest of the world, $3,000,000. In other words, the Anglo-Saxon countries gave 85 per cent of the means to carry on the work in tho non-Christian fields. "We ought to have 21s000 missionaries. Can America furnish 24,000 of her young men and women to carry out the purposes pur-poses of God?" Thoro were answers of "Yes, yes." Dr. Eubank told of recently meeting a man in Arkansas of whom ho asked tho question: "If Robert E. Lee wcro to come back to earth and issue a call for 50,000 men for war purposes, would ho got them?" "Yes. and from this stato alono," replied re-plied the man, The same question was propounded to a northern man, who was asked If Lincoln, Lin-coln, were ho to appear again., could bo assured of a response. The northern man said: "Surely, from the stato of Illinois alone." "Thorcfore," exclaimed Dr. Eubank, "if the namo of Lincoln and of Lee can work these things, why cannot the name of tho Living Christ?" Tho Old Speckled Hon. Dr. Eubank declared that a sufficient number of missionaries could bo maintained main-tained with but little effort. Ho told an apt Btory about a Missouri farmor and his wife. "John," said the wife, "you know we have an old speckled hen that won't lay 'ccptln' In the hay loft. 'Pears like she don't want any of the other hens to have any credit for what she does. May I have all tho eggs she lay3 In the hay loft for my missionary work?" "Yes, Susan, you may," replied tho husband. The wife gathered and sold S2 worth of eggs from the old speckled hen In a year, and then she reported to John. "I'vo got S2 for my missionary work, John." "Two dollars and all for missionary work?" asked the surprised John, "Yes; you said I might have all the eggs from tho old speckled hen, didn't you?" "Yes," reluctantly agreed John; "I knew that old Hpcckled hen would break us some day," "Now." declared Dr, Eubank, "don't lot yourself you strong men bo compared with that old speckled hen." Still, he said, tho old speckled hen hadn't dono so had. Dr. Eubank closed with a stirring appeal for tho support of tho foreign missions |