Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-12
REV. c. M. AFFORDS REMARKS
Before the Christian Endeavor Conven-
ton Now Being Hell d in New York.


Before the Christian Endeavor Conven-
tion Now Being Held in New York.
The following is brief synopsis of
Rev. C. NJ. Affords address, represent
ing the State of West Virginia in the
Missionary Conference of the Interna-
tional Convention Of Christian. En-
deavor at New York on Saturday;
"0ur State Society of Christian En-
deavor is one of the youngest East OF
the Mississippi. The demand for mis-
sionary work in our own State is very
found in the great West.
1--WE have no work to report that is
peculiar to ourselves or different from
that found in other States; but we have
some suggestions which we believe
would, il adopted, give an impetus to
our mission work for years to come.
"The foreign work is the most diff
cult problem in our c. e. mission work.
| If it is independent from the foreign
work of the church, the gathering OF
funds will conflict with the same work
| in the church; and when a G. Z. mission
becomes fully organized it will be diff
cult to tell what denomination it should
enter. If the work is done in connec-
tion with the church boards the Chris
| tian Endeavor Society will get no credit
for the work and will soon become dis
couraged.
tine home Mission work readily re-
solves itself. There are two phases OF
this work which can be best done by
+ the Christian Endeavor Society. lst
| Our City Missions are not as numerous
and successful as they should be.
The church has been carrying on
this work by proxy. 1t secures the Ser
vices of Missionary and literally gives
him the field to himself. The Chris
tian Endeavor Society could man the
field and do the work far better. 1t
would bring more of the people in
touch with the work. A dozen conse-
Grated young men aud women could ac-
complish q far greater work and at less
expense than one salaried mau.
Another phase of the Home Missions,
which opens up wide field Of useful
ness for the Christian Endeavor Society,
is the establishment of c. Z. Hospitals.
Christ taught US by example that the
| healing of the body should 90 hand in
hand with healing OF the soul. We can
take profitable lesson from the Church
of Rome in this direction. Take, for
instance, the prominent cities along the
line OF the Northern Paciic-Fargo,
Bismarck, Helena, Lewistown, Spokane
Falls, Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia,
all growing sisters, in a growing coun-
try. The Catholic Church is rapidly eS-
tablishlng their hospitals and monster
les in these centres, thus gaining the
reputation of being the Church Of good
works.
Their hospitals are the only ones In
these western cities where our young
men can go il injured in accidents, and
they return to the world singing the
praises of the Catholic Church. The
Protestant Church is too conservative
for this work, but the Christian En-
| deavor Society, with its young life,
might enter these large cities of the
west, establish hospitals, man them
with the best medical skill, and young
men and women capable of doing grand
work for Christ. In this way centers
of gospel truth would be created, from
which would radate health for body
| and soul.
CAS- the medical phase of foreign mis-
sion work is becoming the greatest fac
tor of that work, SO the establishment
in our western cities of Protestant Chris
tian hospitals as the centres Of Christian
work, is the key to the outstanding Of
the West.
From the influx OF foreign popuIa-
tions in our great Eastern cities, and
the rapid growth o. the West; city mis-
sionS in the East and medical missions
in the western centres are the stragetic
points in the salvation of America
These centres are the switches which
control our future. The Christian En-
deavor Society ought to be wise and man
the centres of society, so that it can
operate the switches"