The sun., 1900-04-30

Of ten speakers have got something to say that
one wants to know, something that's OF actual
professional value. That's why the days arc 100
tits the time-limit rule that does that. said
a' a'bright-looking little woman, One can ram
BILE al over the world IL stt.ring Generasfues ray ,.n
In an hours speech. but In strict unit OF Ten
or twenty minutes ono has got 20 say some
thing or else seem foolish There isn't enough
tim. 10 waste any any q Il In orator. "I hav.n,
sicceeded In getting three block. away rom
the Conf~ence at my time except whiie J. on,
going TO and from my hotel And did 80 want
''SHm Moreovsr l,,We d added the little woman. sup
pose none Of us has any reasonable expectation
Of getting back here within eight or ten years.
There wasn / one in the little group Of half n
dozen who had any better expectation OF re-
turn than that
II liz in all respect, an essentially practical
gathering. Missionary work Is to these men
and women profession and they are come to-
gether for the chief purpose OF obtaining by
interchange Of experiences new ideas Tor their
own work, Just as a convention ofphysicians or
scientific men meets with the purpose OF Keep
ing abreast with all that Is newest. IL Is
assumed that each speaker before the Confer
ence has something 70 impart that will be OF
vnlue TO all the others Interested In that par
tic,lar line Of work; that Is. that he or she VIII
have a specialists knowledge in some respect;
and the few who have fallen short of this ideal
have been those who have taken IKE the SPportmai na
wherefore OF their own religious convlc-
tons In the manner Of an experience meet
ns Hs.on AFTER ,hs meetings 0os he Subjects
OF missionary literature and missionary medl-
cal work than on any other subjects On the
and some lively, though always good atured.
discussions have resulted. But there is only one
side TO the medical question and that Is extend
OF the principal speakers at the Conference
stated positively that the greatest advance ever
attained in the field Of foreign missions was
gates are both NJ D. and D. d; and it Is very
noticeable that these are consulted ten times on
the the 3 3. b. iss notable point for the good
spirit Of the Conference that with SO. many
diverse creeds and dosmas on all sides OF almost
versal avoidance, not only In the open meetings.
but also In the private discussions that begin
the minute the crowds file out after the last
speech on each session, OF any doctrnal topic
that might result In unpleasant debate.
Nearly all the delegates who have spent their
lives IN association with unc'vilized peoples
have their work outside the borders OF the
United States except the missionaries TO the
American Indians. but there Is one delegate
whose accounts OF uncivllized life among Amer
lean citizens has caused amazement and inter-
est among the foreign missionaries who have
heard him talk. This Is the Rev " +. Barton,
pastor OF the Oak Park Congregational Church
In Oak Park, Ill whose boyhood and young
manhood were spent In Clay county, Ky. and
who knows well the mouNaineer clement that
played 40 prominent part In the late tragedy
In Kentucky. In group OF foreign mission;
aries whose adopted countries included
Australia. China, India Japan and Corea,
and who were wrapping experiences as your
true missionary loves 10 do, he took occasion TO
describe the habits Of life In some of hemount-
ain regions Of Kentucky where the old Hebraic
law OF an eye for an eve and tooth for tooth
Ia still so potent that Christianity can make but
little progress against it, and where people go
to church twice or three times year II a wan
dering prea cher happens TO come around their
way and they chance 10 hear about IT, never
attending church or any o ther gathering how
ever. without their guns all ready loaded In case
OF trouble. Mr. Barton. who has made u study
Of life In those regions and has written num-
Der OF books about II. gave TO the foreign mis-
sionaries an account Of the region that moved
one Of them to remark fervently that he was
glad the Lord had called him to the compare
lively civilized field Of interior China.