Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-31
CABLE AND THE MISSIONS.
HE READS A PAPER BEFORE
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

The Bible Principle Advocated in all
Church -Giving-The Glory Which God
Enables Man to Earn-MissiOnarV and
Educational Work Should bo a Busl-
ness With Every Christian.
MADISON, WIS, Oct. 30.-The largest
assemblage OF the session gathered at the
closing meeting of the American mis-
sionary society last night to listen to the
reading of paper by George w. Gable
entitled "A Disinterested Report.0 Mr..
Cable was very cordially received, and
spoke for one and one-half hours to an
audience highly appreeiative and demon
strative. He began by laying down az
some length the principle which IN his
opinion should be the basis OF all church
giving and missionary effort. The glory
OF the Creator and Preserver OF man lies
in giving rather than receiving. God IL
the great giYer, aud the greatest illustra-
ton OF spiritual truth that the greatest
getting Is giving.
MANS GLORY.
God ever gives man all the glory He can
give him-glves him as much to do as a
noble part in his own and the worlds
elevation and regeneration as human
capacity in its continual expandings can
use. He will not save the whole human
race at once. because he will not rob it Of
that share in the glory Of such work
which, by waiting on 1t, may grow into
the ability to grasp and make its own.
Hence the race has this missionary work
Of its own salvation on its haads.
ALL GOOD DEEDS PART or THE WORK.
Whatever tends to the elevation OF man
can and should be made TO work into the
great plan Of the worlds salvation. Ed
ucatlonal work is missionary work, and
missionary work is every Christians
business. 1t Is not merely something
with which he may concern himself, but
II ls from the true Christian standpoint
his personal affair, Of which his private
business is simply a subsidiary part; and
whoever is here in this assembly In the
right spirit tonight is here looking after
his own business, not his charities.
AUDITING ACCOUNTS.
He is here as one of the board OF ex-
aminers auditing accounts TO know
whether bis agents are handling his in-
terests well or i'll. To such a man the re-
port, not from his own managers. but
nom the outside, ought TO have a special
value. The agent OF a charitable enter
prise might dispense with such a thing,
but mission work does not deserve SO low
view. Mission work is a Christians
business. The principles OF such busl-
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WORK AMONG THE NEGROES.
The speaker then pointed out the great
change that has taken place in the atti-
| ,ude of the Southern people toward the
missionary efforts OF the North among the
| freedmen in the last twenty years. Dis
favor has turned TO favor and contemptlnto
admiration. The South is free to acknOw-
ledge to-day an Indebtedness TO the edu-
cational missionaries OF the Northern
churches which arithmetic can hardly de-
fine or words eXprees-not that the South
ern people had bid him speak, but that
many OF them, some Of them chosen by
the peoples vote TO represent and advance
their public interests, had kindly given
him their written utterance.
PLEA FOR ENLARGEMENT.
Mr. Gable gave his own peculiar view
Of how institutions for technical and in
dustrial training in the South ehould be-
carried on, recommending enlargement
everywhere, but warning the manages
ment not TO let this expansion be at the
expense OF higher intellectual training.
The speaker closed with an earnest ap-
peal TO Northern missionaries to cultivate
the personal amity and social friendship
OF the Southern people, this being. In his
opinion. one Of the points Of vantage
which have been naturally but unf0rtu-.
nately neglected, and which the present
state OF feeling will make 1t easier to oc-
cupy than II has ever been before.