The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-11

cation society stood for .hr-e things
J. The old Rookie basis 81 al bc3}s
When / say Oh Boos ur
precious took. use the term yc1
do when you SAP 2 dear frt,.d ~ .re
back and say Hello. oh fellow lt
IS THE book shat Str.sts III roots dog 2
lrto the tasis Of thing ana ~afs o.r
thoughts u to Heaven Ken lee ST.:
BOOK FRS. Men are WORKING 1ui
have been .n al aecs, ara Fl ~.l stand
The society stands .or The rola s
~ the Bible.
Or. eymou ss.G that ratH.ta+. as
the fact hat Is vas 2 noNei-rca. : sEc.
the sale Of The Bible last year eas tIs.t IS.
ct than the combined sales q tie .t.-n
roet popular novels
The best selling took Is ms N,e
Is the Bible. and II VAS never b wH,A
read in the history Of the World
today.
81 The society stands for the raprodae
ton Of The Bible
There j. no way 10 save souls but
through the Word u God There IS ua
way 10 reach the people with tie Word
hut in their own tongue and this makes
\ translation necessary Already the Bible
has been translated in-o 400 dinerent
languages and dialects and there are
/ o6t languages and dialects lu The world
So YOU can see what Is still before us
The speaker impressed upoa his hear
trs the Importance Il sending inc ir..-Fl
Word into the homes of the land 1Ir-
ing The past year the colpor-cr5 re said
had gone into 1000 homes and left thn
Bible. In addition TO this an effort i5
being made to put gospel wagons ID every
state and in some sections good WorN
S being done With lie GOSPEL railroad
car.
And thcn what shan ] say of The work.
among the children. Oh. the harvest is
ripe. ara so abundant. In this countrs
there are .. 600. .oGa children. 0I these.
only 1l.0co. eco are IN the S1nday school
This leaves 1000. 900 out OF the schools
IS it not time to 50 to work.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LITERATURE.
Or. evmou was followed by Dr. ] NJ.
Frost. of Nashville. Tenn. who made a
repor Of the work of the sunday School
Board CT tbs southern Baptist coayen-
ton.
Or. Frost began by saying that he
doubted if in all the world therc was a
section in which religious people were
confronted with such grave responsible
ties as are ROW offered 10 the people q
The South.
There are reported in the South 81
BAPTIST Sunday Schools. and this year the
convention IS furnishing literature 10 s..
600 Of them. The work is growing ant
We are, from a business standpoint. 500
: bctter off than we were last year a. tn:
time
DR.. Frost called the attention Of tn
pastors to the fact that the matter Q
Sunday School literature WAS largely il
their hands, and that they could accom-
plish a great work by this means if the.
would only exert themselves.
During the past year the Sunda.
school Board has given away 1900
Bibles. and in helping in this work Mort
Carolina has been in the very forefront
FOREIGN MISSION WORK.
The Foreign Mission committee, com
rosed of G.. ". Greene. G. T. Watkins
j. ". Jones. J. y. Parker. ". T.. Fry
T. u. Hackney and J. -. Love, no
brought in its report. which was read b
: it's chairman, Mr.. Greene.
This report showed that last yer ther
were more than 1890 conversions IN Bar
; It's, foreign mission territory.
q The work in Mexico has recovered frol
the Universities OF recent years and IS pre-
crossing.
a IN Brazil many converts ere now bein
made.
III ltdl!, where III. IdS lOI has 1dbcIt
I long and faithfully, a new missionar
q with his wife has just taken up II
; work.
? In Africa, where Rev. c.. G. Newton an
his wife and daughter gave up their live
the work still goes or.
In Japan the gospel is being faitl
fully preached and abundantly blessed.
The year 1890 was a great one for mi;
sions in China. over 500 converts heir
made. This year there has been trouble
and war, but even amid this there hay
been 30 converts reported by our BaI
list missionaries in the last three month
The church has enlarged its contrib
lions for other purposes, but in Mort
? Carolina the increase for foreign mission
has been small. The need is for large
gifts and more systematic efforts in b.
: half of the foreign mission work.
It MISSIONARY SITUATION IN CHINA
When he had finished reading the aboN
= report, Mr.. Greene, who recently II
turned from mission work in China, spol
especially concerning the Wort, in =;
country.
First he referred 70 the objection
urged 20 foreign missions and receI
discouragement in the prosecution Of mi:
sion work.
~ snail we give the work up ~" ASK"
We have touched five continents-Chin
Africa, Italy, Mexico and Prazil. Sha
We surrender them"
The speaker said all this discourage
ment had come from the trouble in chin
and he argued that ii would TO FOOLS
10 surrender five countries because
trouble in one.
e And even in China. he added, there
something to say On the other side.
&c The missionaries aid not cause Il
= trouble there, as has been ALLEGED.
= was rot an uprising against The mission
aries alone. II was an uprising again
al the Western people. as they call 1
an uprising. If you please, agains We.
tern civilization, a shutting of the doc
i, in the face of progress 1t was an efot
10 keep China just whore she has bee
for the past 1000 years.
70 the past century civilization h
n been knocking at the doors Of China. b'
Il along with the opening door came Il
y land grabber. tho carpct-bagger and II
i opium war. and a clash Of the Egropea
powers over its control
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