The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-29
ghe QQhita daily Gayle Saturday gorina areh g. 1890

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men, doing work in outlying communities
that no church would reach. 1t has been
| governed by men chosen from the various
evangelistic churches and noted for their
| interest and ability in the work 1t has
| taken its place in the field solely and only
| to bring the gospel to the neglected child
ren of our own land for whom no one else
had cared The fact that fifty or sixty per
cent of the youth of our land are out of the
/ Sunday school today should be excuse
enough for our work if we had no higher
motive Our work holds the same relation
to these communities that the Y. NJ. c. 4.
does to the young men of our city. The
| society has brought 4.000, 900 children into
Sunday schools and distributed a million
dollars worth of literature. During last
year /, 756 schools were organized contain
ing II PA teachers and scholars.
In the Rocky mountain district 1873
schools were formed, containing 1900
teachers and scholars.
A new feature has been introduced in
our work in the last few years, that Of each
county supporting man to do this work
within its borders. The work is meeting
with great success, and more calls are pre-
scented than can be attended to.
Mr.. A. Beard, secretary of the Wichita
Y. N. C. A, presented an interesting pa
per on "The preparation and equipment
for Christian work. He would consider
the subject under three lights: First
Yield to God that which He has given you:
second-Proclaim Gods word simply and
truly; third-The Lord is the instrument
and the Holy Spirit is the agent. Men are
the most efficient workers who are edu-
Gated in Gods school, and very often that
is not the theological college. 1t is
generally the case now, as with
Moses, Elijah, and the fishermen of old,
that middle aged men are the most sue
cessful in the work We can supplement
our experience to that of others and do
more effective work. God chooses the
weak things to confound the mighty. We
must simply proclaim Gods gospel and
then we can look in Gods face and say, Il
have given them the word" We must
study Gods word ourselves if we wish to
use it effectively.
Words of greeting were received from
various officers of the society, including
vice presidents T. B. Sweet, of Topeka;
Reynolds, of Cannon City; Hensted, Of
Kansas City. Also Secretary Fisher of the
Kansas Y. VI. C. A.
The opening exercises of the afternoon
were conducted by Missionary Wright, of
Larned, Kansas.
a committee or resolutions, consisting
of Missionaries barley, Wright and Cas-
sell, was appointed.
Missionary Armstrong presented paper
upon ministerial Favor and Co-opera-
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discussed. The idea was made
prominent that we must have their CO.
operation and work through them or we
lose many results of our work. We
must make his interests our interests.
We must endeavor TO get them to the out
of the way places. Get acquainted and
visit their schools. Be at preaching
service aud invite their cooperation, stay
with them until they succeed. Missionary
Hall of Burlington, Kan, presented a
paper upon How can we make our schools
more permanent The lack OF perma-
nency is caused by indifference of parents
and people, actual opposition, Sunday
visiting, carelessneSs, Encouragement of
the superintendent, jealousy Of scholars,
and denOminatiOnal reasons. What 10 do:
in work and organization,
care in the selection of officers, con-
centrated workers. Impress upon the
workers that they should run the
school even il the officers are not
there, that they must do the work and
God will give results. Must have Sunday
school on every nice Sunday of the winter
Get more fire into the Sunday schools and |
have more county missionaries. They |
should have a library or some property to |
hold them tOgether-wOrk more with in |,
dividuals. The subject of convention and |
institute work was presented by Frank |
KiZer of Downs, Kan, after which gen |
eral discussion was entered into by all the |
and the afternoon session was |
protracted even beyond the time pro
During the evening session missionaries |
Cassell and barley gave very interesting .
experiences from their missionary expe- /
riences and DIR. Paxson, of the southwest |
district, headquarters at ST. Louis, gave /
4 stirring address that was greatly en-
joyed by all
The Union will meet for morning and af-
-ernoon session today but no evening SEES
sion will be held.