The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-04-25
MISSION WORKERS TALK.
Many Attend The EcumenicaI Con
ference i'm Carnegie Hail.

Many Attend the EcumenicaI Com
ference i'm Carnegie Hail.
NEW YORK, April 25.-It would be hard
to fud more interesting audience than
that one which came out today to attend
the EcumenicaI Conference at Carnegie
Hall TO hear what the mission workers
had to say concerning their labors il dis
tant lands. 1t was made up OF residents,
principally. of a hundred towns and cities
IN the United States. but here and there
was one whose dress indicated that he had
come from across the sea, and constant
conversations we're heard carried on in
foreign languages. The men and women
who look after the comfort OF the visitors
and make up the programmes fov tee
meetings. have said that there we're $500
delegates in this city for the great cen
yention. but they add now that there gre
600 or zoe persons here who have come On
their own account, representing no So
ciety or church. merely TO hear and learn.
One might think that the audiences
which attend these meetings would be
made up largely of women. but as a mat
ter OF fact the women form scarcely ma
jo-ity Of those who crowd into carnegie
Hall in the morning and into the various
churches where meetings are held in the
afternoon Today there was an unusually
large number OF men in Carnegie Hall and
plenty Of them looked as If they were no.
accustomed TO attending meetings where
all the interest centred in missionary and
missionaries work
The first speaker Of the regular meeting
Was the Rev. W T. A Barber. head master
OF Leys School. Cambridge England. who
spoke on The Plan Of Education in Chris
tian Missions He declared that many of
the natives who visited mission schools. in
time became Christians and said that mis-
sionaries. 10 be successful, must have
imagination. the power TO put themselves
in the place Of the men and women they
teach. Teachers. he asserted must not
conduct their schools with an air Of con-
descension, but must reach their pupils
through acting as if they ali occupied the
same plane. Continuing, he said that God
tock up the work where men left OF. but
that men should prepare themselves as
best they could. The next speaker was the
Hon. William T. Harris. Commissioner of
Education Of the United States. who took
for his topic The Education Work at Mis-
siOns-" His address was closely followed
and he was loudly applauded when he took
his seat. Mr.. Harris spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Education is term of broad signih-
canoe and will apply TO nearly all that the
missionary undertakes to do Science. the
useful arts. By which nature is conquered
for the service of man. literature history.
and philosophy. all these have a particular
cast given them by the religious doctrine
OF Christianity and you cannot successful
ly teach them 10 people that is bound 10
a heather creed.
"A mere naturereligion does not admit
of science, OF free thought, and of the in
yestigation Of matter and force. for these
are the elements that he worships or
breads as evil demons and he spends his
whole life in trying to propitiate them with
ceremonies and sacrifices. The Christian
theory taught first that God transcends
nature IN that he created by divine w1rL
and that he did all of this for the sake of
man. All time and space is therefore 2
vast cradle for the nurture of individuality
up TO personality.