Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-25
FOR HUMANITY
Interesting Speeches At
Ecumenical Conference,
STARVING INDlA'S CRY
Executive Committee Will Hold 4
Meeting to Devise Plans to AID
tS tF9
the Famine Stricken.
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New York, April &.-An appeal to the
Ecumenical conference has been made by
all the Indian missionaries in attendance
for the relief of the starving in India. The
missionaries say:
we desire to add to the testimonials
from many sources already given to the
public by the press, our confirmation found
ed OF personal knowledge and experiences
of the unparalleled and indescribable gray
ity of the present famine situation in India.
A calamity so overwhelming in it's vastness.
SO appalling in the suffering it infiicts ON
millions Of the most helpless OF mankind,
claims the attention., the pity and the suc~
cor of every member OF the family of ma
tions. We, many of us. bear In grateful
memory, as do our Indian brothers and Sis
ters, the relief which American generosity
a prSaas IN India nc snH IN the famine ann ' Of 1ss 81 ino the
far more powerful visitation which the
mysterious Providence Of God has now
turn to the United States for renewed and
enlarged bounty for all that an enaight-
ened, humane and wealthy nation can do
to aid her stricken and starving, her poor
and patient sister.
The executive committee of the confer
ence has practically arranged for q meet
ing On behalf Of the fa1nine-stricken.
"EducationaA Literature as a Means of
a Mesal b T%r Rsv' & y vas nw The Su 3 St Of mi an aa-
airy Of the American beard, Boston, in Com
stantinople. DIR. Dwight said in part:
49, EARCI10tkCG LII the nIlSSAO1 llG1uE U08 re-
discovered the power Of the press. Mission
aries have found new interest in the ability
of books to carry truth to places where oral
argument would be refused hearing, to in
form where time would lack on the part
both speaker and hearer for full ex-
~!anatio and to persist in activity long
from. the memory Hence the conviction
found extensively among missionaries that
the book Is an instrument Of evangelization
second to none in it's effectiveness. From
TINS point Of view all literature may be
called educational. It has the purpose of
making each book a simple but trusty guide
lates., Nothing requisite to the work is
nothing needless is lugged UNI
WIiingly into the book to deform it but the
Christian personality, the high principles
and the love of humanity of the writer cling
q subtle perfume about the Dock and
transfer themselves insensibly to
which the missions must COM
IT school books are to do the work
which they may do as a means of moral
The Place of Education in Missions
": 4. Barber, head master Of Legs school.
mum equipment OF a mission in any land
must include the preaching to the heather.
s sn6 h fnr T., TOT public worship and the
In lands of the east even the first gem
GRAFTON OF the Christians will need more
than the elements of knowledge. The re-
!igion is everywhere spoken against and re-
jected; its votaries, conscious Of power. win
l rave re TO ~ WIN their place by sheer force and
the Christian church must as.
sert ITS value in the national life BY %.
Y1ous intellectual as Wen as moral strength.
1t must have it's natural leaders and fhev-
must be educated. 1t cannot live per1na-
nently by the initiative and t%cminance Of
me ne western este missionary. It will need ma
teachers who will be true Characters. lead,
ers VINO VIII be true thinkers"