St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-23
SAINT Paul.
TALKED FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Striking and Graphic Lecture by
Rev. DIR. Davis.

There was an enthusiastic and thoroughly
Intelligent audience present last night at the
House of Hope church, where Rev. DR.. Davies.
OF New York, successor of Rev. DR.. Howard
Crosbie at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
church, delivered a striking and graphic lee
ture on the subject of Foreign Missions -
The interest aroused on this phase of mission
airy effort by the recent massacres at Marso-
van and in other Turkish provinces was we'll
Illustrated in the large congregation present
on this occasion, and every word uttered by
Rev. Dr. Davies was listened to with atten-
ton. The individuality of the speaker is by
no means striking, but his earnest and incis-
I've style OF delivery impressed every listener
and there is no doubt that the lecture had
very strong moral effect.
Rev. DR.. Davies began by pointing out the
terrible needs that still exist in the foreign
mission field. and he dilated on the ability of
America and Americans to supply just what
was needed. The conditions now existing, both
in China and India were intolerably wretched,
and it was fully within the power of Gods
people in the United States to remedy this.
Revertlng to the Armenian situation, Rev.
DR.. Davies gave most thrilling recital Of
the wrongs to which this long suffering race
has submitted in the name of Christianity.
From the Turk they have suffered the sword,
hre, ptllage, rapine and murder-all man
ner OF Mucous atrocities, in fact. Still they
were steadfast in the cause of Christ. and
surely worthy of the best effort that Chris
uans the wide world over could devote to
their cause. Did not the Bible preach this
gospel OF foreign missions from Genesis to
Revelations? 1t was the honest duty OF ey-
cry honest Christian and no man dare call
hlmser a Christian that ignored this sacred
injunction.
In the opening of the century there had
been printed 100000, 900 copies of the Word
or God, and each copy contained this message
to man, the observance of which now be-
comes matter of even more than ordinary
import. By the greatest of all books
Rev. DR.. Davis called on his hearers to
mad outlined for them. The authority for
such work was indubitable. Thomas Car
lyle, who spent his life reading and making
books. had said that there never was a book
written that could rank with this model of
simplicity, the Bible. The Bible was not an
intellectual orphan. but the Gospel of Cod
a living creature, thing with power all
Its own: breathed into its pages by the power
or the Holy Ghost. This book came not only
10 redeem men from sin, but as we'll to save
them them from all that tended to sin, and con-
ouct them into the paths OF righteousness.
, wherever the missionary had labored there
the wife and mother and child had felt the
Cpllitlng power of the Gospel-the Gospel of
the cross. In India IL was tacitly admitted
mat the missionaries had identified themselves
win all that was greatest and noblest and
DeSt Tor the redemption of the land.
. ferhaps there were some in the congrega-
tlon VINO would say Il am not interested in
t0reign missions. True. there were mice"
Christians in India. in China and in other
countries-no less in America however than
any OF them. There were spongers in the
church here as well as abrOad-men that
were in the church for what the church could
give IneHl But II the earneStneSS and hon
or OF the missionaries were called into ques-
ton, 1t was easy to point TO hundreds who
had suffered the tortures of the damned in
prosecuting this work for the glory of the
Great Master.
In China said Rev. DIR. Davis, Il know
or a man, missionary who was captured
and beaten by court mob until his back
was mass of shivering and lascerated flesh
An, my friends, ne said when beaten into
the hospital, I am sore without, but there
is great peace within and this man, ere
his wounds were healed, was once more
among the people that had prosecuted him.
busy on the service of his master whose
last command had been Go forth and preach
the gospel to all nations"
To the man who dared say that he was
not interested in foreign missions Rev. DR..
Davis issued a printed injunction:
Il say to you who are not interested in
foreign missions this: That you are not in
terested in that which most interested your
master. This is a duty we must observe.
We must plant His cross on every shore,
preach His gospel to every living creature.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be DONE
Rev. DR.. Davis came here under the aus
pices of the Foreign Missionary Society of
the Presbyterian church. He is one of the
ablest speakers the subject of foreign mis-
sions in the church, and his utterances last
evening were listened to throughout with the
most complete attention.