The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-19
THE WORK IN INDIA AND CHINA.
Committees on Missionary WorL
Abroad Make Their Rnnnrt.

AprOAO wake Their AeDOrtA.
The hall was fairly we'll filed when the
afternoon session began. There was a.
nall hours devotional service, in which
number of prayers were delivered and
scriptural missionary quotations given by
volunteers in the audience. The business
of the afternoon consisted in receiving the
reports of the committees on India and
China, the election of officers anG the hear
ing of addresses on missionary topics. read
by c. B. Newman, w. G. Payne and w.
K. Lloyd Mr.. Newman, VINO is a young
minister of Detroit, and who has acquired
much reputation. was the first speaker. He
spoke on the subject: The Ministers At
tltude to Missions" and handled it we'll
Our attitude as Christian minister's" he
said, toward missions should be one of
deep, intense, abiding interest-interest that
is nowise consumed or exhausted until it
has done all, given all that Is possible for
it to know, do or give, an interest that is
not satisfied until all others within its reach
have been made to know, persuaded to give
and moved to do all that was possible. y
The speaker presented number of motives
for missionary impulse, and in the course
of glowing prophecy of the future of this
country said that at the present ratio of
growth there will be more than 100 900 900
of disciples in 1000 A. d. In closing Mr..
Newman made an earnest plea to the min
listers that they should ali be intensely,
deeply and self-sacrifcingly missionary.
rousing song was sung after Mr.. New
man closed, and w. C. Payne was an
nounced as the second speaker His adj
dress was we'll delivered and was an inter-
esung presentation of its subject: Chill
drens Day and Missions" Mr.. Payne
spoke in part as follows:
we cannot overestimate the place occu-
pleu Dy the Sunday schools in worldwide
CHARACTERIZATION. An ever Increasing army
becoming better organized, Disciplined com,
ppSeu OF persons at the most impression
ilple age, as yet without special direction 70
tnelr liVes. brought under the influence IF
the commanding personality of the Mes
sian IN the luea of Christ for the world.
ana the world for Christ. | believe in the
DrlSht promise of the Sunday schools in
their bearing on the missionary enterprises
OF the church, and believe just as much
that the schools need 10 fill their mace in
the enterprises. The best seed i'm The hest
soil means truitaSe a hundred fold Mis-
sions are doing for the Sunday schools i,ist
what the Sunday schools need to have done
for them. They are transforming the
schools from half secular institutions and
rendering them places of spiritual power.
They make the life of the school evangel
istic; changing the 1feless, formal moral
instructions, so common, TO that which has
as its constant center the conception of tho
sinner and the Savior. They give the
schools a living Christ. out of whom flows
the truth as streams of living water
THE Sunday schools are the training
schools for the church. Though the work
OF the Sunday schools in the cause of mis-
SONS is IN its infancy. the money contrib
uted is by no means an insignificant
amount, but this giving is only a promise
or larger outpouring of money when the
growth of the evangelistic conscience and
character shall have rendered impossible
ignorant opposition or listless lack of inter-
est. me money received through the
schools now and through the schools of to-
morrow does not at all reveal the money
value OF the Sunday schools in missionary
work OF the church. The Sunday schools
are preparing a body Of men and women
who shah be missionary Christians. with