The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-26
MONEY AND MISSIONS
Wealth of the World in the
Hands of Christians.
THE CHARITY OF POVERTY
Rev A. F. Schauffier Gives an Address
on Money and Its Power-A Finan-
cial Crisis Now Threatening
the Missionary Boards.

Cleveland, Ohio, Feb .25.-The Money
Problem in Christian Missions was
discussed at the morning session of the
student volunteer convention to-day.
Chairman Mott presided. Bishop Ninde
of Detroit said the money making
spirit in men, encouraged and rightly
guided. may prove a great power to
reclaim the world. If the statistics of
the wealth in the hands of professed
Christians were known, they would
startle the world. Most of the wealth
of the world is in the hands of Chris
tians. Referring to the small gifts OF
the self-sacrificing poor, the speaker
said: Many charitable works of this
country are carried on by associated
poverty"
Rev A. F. Schauff1er, d. D., vice
president of the New York City Mis-
sionary Tract society, was the next
speaker.
The wise man says Money answer
eth all things This is true. Money is
a wondrous thing. In true sense
money is yourself stored up for future
use. A boy earns $40 per week, when
he is paid and puts the money in his
pocket, he pockets a weeks worth of
himself. Where he shall lose this stored
self is a serious question. In the mat
ter of storing and losing, money is like
electricity. You have your battery
charged you wish to illuminate your
room; you make your proper attach
ments, and 10, the room Is light. But
now you wish power; you change your
attachments, and now the sewing ma
chine flies Again you wish locomo-
ton; you change your attachments and
the trolley car runs. Once more, you
wish inter communication: change your
attachments again and you telegraph
to China. Finally, you wish to kill
.xlz., cka1.t
him in the electric chair. press the but
ton and he is dead. Money is much
like this. 1t is stored power. 1t is
yourself stored up. Where shall you
lose it?
"One man loses himself in pictures
and pays $4,000 for one canvas. An
other man loses himself, as represented
in his money. and 10, hospital rises
to bless mankind. Another let his
stored power go abroad and the mis-
sionary church is the result. Still an
other sets his power loose in riotous
living, and 10, he uses himself to COM
nit suicide. All this shows what a
mysterious and mighty force money is.
1t is simply a device for storing your
own energy and losing it again any
where in the world.
THE Christian believer holds that he
belongs to God: if so. his power belongs
to God, whether stored up in money or
not His last cent is not his. but Gods,
and to God he is responsible for the
way in which he loses this storedup
personal power. Shall it be loosed for
the kingdom of God or for the power of
satan? This is the trying question
which the church should answer and
answer quickly"
The Value of Prayer in Raising
Money" was the subject of Dew. DIR. Fl.
c. Mabie. home secretary of the Ameri-
can Baptist Missionary union. He said:
The problem is how to produce spon-
taneity of giving, the transition of
/ power in the pocket to, spiritual ends.
Donald NJ. Thornton, the fraternal
delegate from England. spoke on the
church missionary unions Of Great Brit
ain. He believed in the faith policy
Miss Mabel Leach. a missionary to Cey-
| lon, thought that all people able to pay
their way should not ask the mission
! for support in foreign fields.
Robert Wilder of the advisory board
| spoke on the student securing his own
| support. The financial crisis now con
fronting the missionary boards makes
it utterly impossible to send out all the
| capable workers ready to go.
+. S. Brockman, young college stu
/ dent volunteer. who has done much &C
! tive work, especially in the South made
a remarkably eloquent appeal to tht
students to raise money by individual
effort.
Three large meetings We're held in the
afternoon. The evangelistic session a.
/ the armory was led by Robert Speer o.
| Boston. At the Y. M. c. A. hail. Prof
/ j. Ross Stevenson of Mccormick Theo
logical seminary, addressed an educa
tional conference, and at the Eucli'
Avenue Baptist church, DR.. William
! Malcolm, the great medical missionar,
I of China, spoke.
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