The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-27
WITH THE VOLUNTEERS
Need of Work Among the Negroes
of the United States.
A MISSIONARY UPRISING
Ex-Governor Beavers Able Address on
the Responsibility of the Student
Laymen-Dr. Clark Speaks for
the Christian Endeavorers.

nary of Atlanta, Ga, made the first adj
dress at to-days session of the Student
Volunteer convention, his theme being
The Need of Work Among the Colored
People of the United States" He argued
that education of colored people was the
one preventive Of crime by negroes in
the South. He gave statistics showing
the number of colored ministers to be
inadequate and urged that colored men
be educated and sent to Africa as mis-
sionaries.
Rev. X. i. Mckay of Toronto, secre-
tary of the Foreign Missionary society,
delivered an eloquent address upon Tine
Responsibility Resting Upon Minister'S
in View of This Student Uprising" He
spoke of the most successful methods
for advancing foreign mission work.
The Responsibility of Student Lay
men" was the subject OF highly inter-
estng address by Hon James A. Beaver,
ex-governor of Pennsylvania He was
frequently interrupted by applause. He
said in part:
What is the student movement. or
the missionary uprising? AS to its
source. On the divine side il is the
Holy Spirit from whom all movements
like this proceed. On the human side
IL is the Christian college. Have you
thought of the latter-what it has been,
what it is, what it ought to be---of the
pure and wholesome influences which
have emanated from it? 1t Is like Eze-
ltiels river, Everything shall live with
er the river cometh' lis aim, the evan
gelzation of the world in this genera
ton, and this is it's watchword. Is it
practicable? It's object, to multiply the
number of those who study and teach
and preach the word, and through these
to multiply also the hearers and doors
of the word. It's machinery-it is not
new missionary society," it is not an
indie nqDdant Gaplx-
through its organization. it is true, to
stimulate thought and study and pray
ef for and interest in missions. for the
purpose of bringing the young men
and the young women in our colleges
face TO face with the questions OF duty.
So far as sending missionaries to the
unevangellzed is concerned, 1t seems to
work through the missionary agencies
already established in all our eVangeli-
cal churches.
What is our place and what is the
duty which 1t devolYes upon uS2 Get
into hearty sympathy with it. inform
yourself in regard TO 1t, get other peo-
pie in sympathy with it. Pray for il.
Give for it. Labor for it.
Has the time come for it? Is the
world ripe? Open your eyes; the har-
vest is oyer-ripe. If you are not ready
TO put in the sickle, furnish the sickle.
What is the situation at home"
What the significance of the fact that
our exports for the year just closed
were 81 100, 100000? Why is it that we
are the greatest gold-producing coun-
try of the world to-day? What is the
meaning of our unprecented crops?
VIII we bring our 1.-THE or our one
hundredth to Him. one per cent of
our exports would give $l1. 900 for
foreign missions. There is wonderful
significance in these marvellous concur
ring movements and co-incident condi-
tionS.
Are we ready to meet our RESPONSE
bility and to do our duty as we face
this great student missionary uprising
which seeks to evangelize the world in
this generation"
Following a song service. President
Charles Cuthbert Hail. ID. D., of Union
Theological seminary, New York. spoke
most foreefully upon the subject, The
Curriculum of Theological Summaries
in Relation to the Student Volunteer
Movement" President Hall urged the
necessity of sending college-bred men
and women as missionaries to foreign
lands.
The chairman then introduced DIR.
Francis L. Clark, president of the
Christian Endeavor society, saying
that he needed no introduction to any
religious audience in America. DIR.
Clarks subject was THE Responsible
ity Resting Upon Young People"
He said i'm part: Unlike some other
movements in the religious world, the
student movement has not been re-
volt against the church, it has not even
INDUCED in criticisms of the methods
of the church, but has been conducted
from beginning to end in hearty ana
supreme loyalty TO the church, which
ii has recognized both at home and in
its foreign missionary aspects as God :
a Inst L fI.a9 ON
uphuilding should be sought"
Speaking especially of the response
bility of young peoples societies in the
churches toward the missionary upris-
ing among the students he said:
"First-Thcse societies should know
about this missionary uprising, should
understand its breadth and significance
and should appreciate its peculiar rela-
ton To them and their work. If anyone
of MS has ar own brother on the mis-
sion field, what "A new aspect do mis-
sions take on. Everything about this
cause suddenly becomes interesting, Ii
is such personal interest in our brother
missionaries who have gone abroad
that we who remain at home need to
cultivate. The world Will never be con-
Verted until every Christian realizes
that because he is Christian he must
be missionary. He may stay at home.
to be sure. but he must be no less a
missionary than the brother whose
journey he follows To far-off lands.
secondly, the young people at home
cannot fulfill their responsibilities for
the advancement of the kingdom of God
until each one has asked and definitely
settled the question, whether God would
not have him go TO the foreign field.
1T should be asked in view of the
great needs of the uneVangel.zed CONT
nents, of the great d!sproportion between
the number of laborers at home and the
d Yst3tNhgy abroad II should Inc asked
view of the needs of the races dying
, without God and without hope in the
world IL should be asked in view af
I that eloquent map which we so often
see at missionary meetings. black with
the unutterable woe and degradation of
/ the heather world. Let every society
scan its members. Let every society
/ consider itself honored to have Il repre-
sentative among the volunteers. and
then let each feel responsible for the
support Of his own or some other Vulun-
teer I'm the field To which he may be