The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-25
Written FOR The DEMOCRAT
THE WORLDS NEEDS.
MUCH CHRISTIAN WORK.
Let Us Up And Do.
BY REV. y. II. ID. WILSON.
Let Us Up And Do.


While the work Of Christian Mis-
sions has been very large during the
last century and especially during
ring the last half century In compari-
son to what had been done during the
eighteen centuries which preceded this
the efforts of the church have been and
are disgracefully small in view OF her
need of the world. Let every Christ
ian heart join in praise tor what has
been done but lot each heart search
and see if it has not occasion for tear
full repentance for personal responsible
ity in what has not been done.
The worlds needs What words can
adequately portray this need? Look
around you. How small proportion
OF our own favored land of churches
and open Bibles have found in Christ
their all IN all How stupeadous the
work of reaching the faithless and the
immoral IN Christendom. In this
work 10000 ordained ministers and
many thousands more of Christian
teachers and other consecrated Christ
ian workers, are laborlng with increas-
ing energy and system. But how slow
their progress Outside OF Chrlsten-
dom how vast the harvest and how few
the laborers Less than one third of
the worlds population are nominally
Christians In this number are Prutes-
tants, Romanists, Greeks, Armenians,
Syrians, Malchites, Copts, Abysinians,
and their adherents. The religion of
some of these, though called Christian,
is scarcely to be distinguished from pa
ganism, while of those even in our own
civilized and Protestant land, nearly
every one OF whose inhabitants are
counted .sChristlans," how few have a
saving knowledge OF Christ After
nearly nineteen centuries Of Christian
preaching less than one third of the
worlds inhabitants nominally Christ
ians and vastly smaller proportion
really Christians. But if we are appall
ed when we include in our considera-
we look alone from Africa to Asa? OF
Afrlca's 40 millions, only millions
are nominalIy Christian. Only one
nominal Christian to every 33 heather.
OF Asia's S32 millions, only 191 mil
lions are nominal Christians only l to
43 heather. But with what agony must
he who wept over Jerusalem, look upon
China With nearly one third Of the
world in its bounds, it has less than co.
600 Protestant cOmmunlcants-One
Protestant Christian to 5000 heathen
But not IN "Darkest Africa" nor in
humbled, cringing China is found the
most appalling picture to him who
loves his fellow man, his fellow man
across the seas as we'll as In his own
country this most discourging and de-
pressing sign is the listlessness and sell
fshness of the Christian church. The
Indifference of the great mass OF
s.Christ1ans" to the worlds needs is as
founding. The selfishness with which
tney lavish means on their bodies, and
sometimes souander them on their
lusts and dole out their pittance, their
| widows mites. for the salvation of the
world. is appalling and disgraceful.
Perchance the reader thinks my pen
is wild and my words exaggerated. Let
us see. Christendom sends 5000 mis-
sionaries to preach to over billion dy-
ing in heather darkness, but keeps
l3O 900. more than IA times as many, to
preach to her own people less than hall
in number. The vast Empire OF China
has one minister to 400, 900 population
the Christians of the United States,
support for themselves one for every
700 of population. Is this not disgrace
full selfshness in spiritual things? But
wOrse-Christian United States eXpends
for the salvation of the world beyond
her borders $7,OOO,OOO per annum
her drink bill is $9OO,OOOOOO annual
". Is not this both appalling and dis
graceful? But to come nearer home
MI So,tborD Mofbo6iSt ohurch one