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nshed at half price, with an illustrated cover, and special material, whereby cooperating Christian Endeavor edi- tor, which might reach. from 50,00o 10 100000 of our young people every month and put them in training for missionary efficiency. This is, however, but a sin- gle possible method among the many which are being devised.
 Our beloved Secretary Clark, when he was still among us, used to speak in glowing visions of the probability that in a generation or two the world would be evangelical, and the necessity Of so many missionaries from this country removed. It may be so, but I am ln- clined to believe that the indications Of Gods will point toward the permanent stress of missionary effort. Has not God laid upon the dominant races or the world who inherit all good things, the responsibility for the permanent ever-t -be-renewed work of giving the Gospel light and power to those less favored? So long as the world stands this commission may not be revoked
 With girted loin and lighted lamp the church is ever to watch and work for her Lords coming,
 Tt is by no breath,
 Turn of eye, wave of hand, that sal
 Vation joins issue with death.''
 For this work, so utterly beyond the native capacity and faith of the churches there may be a fresh empow- ering of the Spirit, Q new realization of the present leadership and saving pow CT of the risen Christ.
 President Eaton was followed by the Rev. William S. Ament of Pekin, North China, who spoke, in conclusion, as fol- lows:
 We would say that the outlook was never more bright. A new era seems to be dawning for the Celestial empire An official of low rank said to me, in my study, We cannot but believed Thoughtful people are continually con- vinced that what China needs more than railways, more than munitions of war, more even than educational insti- tutions, is a new religion. We are glad to present Christianity to them as en- tirely adequate to their needs. We can point them to transformed homes and lives as evidence that Christianity has lost none of it's pristine vigor. Jesus Christ is as powerful to-day as ever to
 save them from all sin. Isaiah was writing what we know now to be his tory, but which he considered prophe- cy, And these from the land of Sinim Twenty years ago they were coming in units; ten years ago they were coming in squads of ten; now they are coming in hundreds; tomorrow they may be
 coming in thousands. If you do your
 part at this end of the sline we pledge
 ourselves at that end to do our best to
 lead the people out in a pure Christian
 civilization
 What Christ Wants Done for China" was the theme presented by the Rev. J. H. Roberts, a returned missionary. He said:
 What does Christ want done for Chi ma? The question is easily asked To
 answer it, not dogmatically, but rever-
 ently, one must ask tie Lord in prayer, and search the Bible in which God s
 purpose is made known, and study the facts concerning China, to learn its needs.
 China is a large part of the world Its territory and resources are not small. Its population is increasing, and
 although they may be kept out of cer-
 tain parts of the world, they are in the world to stay.
 China is our near neighbor. Start from this place to-day, and, after 8 pleasant trip of twenty-five days, you
 can stand on Chinese soil, where it is | midnight when it is noon here. But Jesus taught that the unfortunate are jrr1,L A,l i, fortunate? She has wandered away so far from God that she has even for gotten His name. She has allowed a cruel mistress called Fashion to pinch | her feet all out of shape. She has been drugged by a so-called Christian na- tion till the poison has entered her l bones. And when foreign nations, who l have wounded her and robbed her. send | her the tidings of a Savior's love, she hesitates to believe, because the words
 come from the lips of foreigners. Who | is unfortunate and pitiable if not Chi 1 na?
 What does Christ want done for | China? All that divine love can do l through human means The will of | the Lord comes to us from the Scrip lures in these words: Who will have l all men to be saved, and to come to the | knowledge of the truth Salvation | first, and knowledge also, for all man.
 kind.
 | "The work is arduous, done in many | distant lands, in strange tongues, some times among savages, under the torrid heat, in malarious regions, among un- sanitary and even hostile peoples. But
 it is a pure work, appealing to our best | motives. It is clean work-a work of pure love, without any room for sel- | fishness; and the more we engage in it | the more we are drawn away from everything bad, and drawn nearer to ! God. It is a work of faith-of trusting God for the means, for the power of l His Spirit and for success. He, in | whose created world no atom nor force
 can perish, has promised that His word shall not return unto Him void. We trust not only in God, but in the American churches, that they will sus- l'tain the work of the board. If all men are to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, then every city and every village must have church and a school-a preacher and Christian teacher. In so vast and populous a country as China the churches and schools must be number | ed by hundreds of thousands. We may leave nine-tenths Of these for the Chi